Has anybody ever left the theater in the middle of a movie because it was so bad?

[KJ Pixie]

Okay, so I was just dragged to see "Fool's Gold" because a friend of mine was dying to see Matthew Mcconaughey walking around half-naked a beach. I'm not much of a fan of him, but I eventually gave in to the excessive whining I knew I would not escape otherwise. I'm sure there's somebody out there that will disagree, but that movie was downright horrible. After 25 minutes, I began to wonder if the 'Gold' being sought after was a plot line and the 'Fools' were anybody who bought a ticket. Needless to say, I was able to convince my friend to jump ship (no pun intended) and do something else. That was probably a good decision because I would feel like an empty, hollow shell if I stayed to watch the whole thing.

While sitting here, I just realized that this was one of the only two movies that I've ever walked out of. With that in mind, what other movies have people been forced to walk out of to keep their sanity?

 

[Foxbat]

There are some films that I've watched in the comfort of my own home that have been so bad I've been tempted to storm out of my own house.

In reality though, the only film I've actually walked out on was Highlander 2

 

[Ragnar]

I left 15 minutes before the end of Tim Burton's woeful Planet of the Apes remake. I left mainly because I was desperate for a pee but couldn't be bothered to go back in afterwards.

 

[Morpheus42]

Ok, every week I try to go to the sneak preview. Never know what plays, till it starts.
Last year I walked out after a few minutes.
There was this short intro that was not to my taste at all, and after seeing the title 'Hills have eyes 2' , I walked out.
(Had seen part of the first.. that was more than enough)

I guess that does not qualify as "in the middle"

 

[Overread]

Never walked out, but then I am rather picky with going in the first place so I tend to only see the better films in the cinema, the rest get seen on DVD. If I were in such a film I might be convinced to turn off my brain - or just site there and hord the popcorn till the end (well about half way through)

 

[Simian]

The Island of Dr. Moreau. If the film had consisted of nothing more than Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer urinating on H.G. Wells' grave for 90 minutes it still wouldn't have been as insulting to his memory.

 

[iansales]

It used to be the practice to visit the cinema whenever you wanted. If you walked in on the middle of a film, you just stayed for the next showing and watched the bit you'd missed. Then you left.

When Hitchcock released Psycho, he wanted to keep the fact that Janet Leigh, the heroine, was killed off halfway through. So cinemas were told to lock their doors once the film had started. Cinema-goers had to turn up at the start of the film, and leave at the end. That one film pretty much changed the way people go to the cinema.

 

[Tillane]

Walked out after half an hour of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Life, I decided, is just too short to waste on such rubbish.

 

[Joel007]

I walked out of Confidence. I found it incredibly dull and uninteresting.

 

[ravenus]

I WISH I had walked out of Ghostworld...sadly all the hype my friends gave it made me sit wondering if things would suddenly turn around...nope. It was crap all the way through.

 

[The Ace]

Woody Allen's 'Broadway Danny Rose,' a steaming pile of doggydo.

 

[Connavar]

Gladly i have never watched a movie that bad in the cinema.

Only movies i thought about leaving was.

X-men 3, The Village.

 

[iansales]

Woody Allen's 'Broadway Danny Rose,' a steaming pile of doggydo.

I wish I could have walked out of Woody Allen's Scoop. Unfortunately, I was in a plane somewhere over the Atlantic at the time...

 

[Lucien21]

The last film I walked out on was Pirates of the Caribbean 2.

Dreadful movie, I was so falling asleep.

 

[Brigitte]

There are some films that I've watched in the comfort of my own home that have been so bad I've been tempted to storm out of my own house.

Yeah, that's the way I felt when my roommate brought Spiderman 3 home on DVD. Unfortunately, I had seen it in theaters, and can thoroughly identify with KJ Pixie feeling like an empty, hollow shell afterwards.

 

[GOLLUM]

I lead a boring life! I've never had the excitmenet of walking out of a film. Most movies I see are on DVD and then I can fast forward trough the dull bits or switch off.

 

[Quokka]

FEAR was with friends and so didn't walk out but I was a smoker at the time and although I was never one to worry about not smoking it was a handy excuse to take a few breaks.

 

[littlemissattitude]

I've only walked out of a theatre twice, both in 1977. I don't know, but I'd guess that it was just because I saw so many movies that summer - I think I averaged three films a week all that summer. The ones I walked out of were The White Buffalo and Sorcerer.

Later on, I would have walked out of The Mask, but I was with a friend and he really wanted to see it, for no good reason that I've ever been able to figure out.

 

[Cayal]

With the costs of going to the movies these day I can't afford to leave mid way.

 

[Connavar]

Its not the cost for me but that the movies are worth go to the cinema for these days are so rare thanks to unoriginal hollywood, CGI action feast crap that dominate.

The ones you go see are movies you are sure about.

Like I AM Legend,No Country for Old Men,There will be blood that are on show here this month for example.