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

[BladeOfFire]

Yes this is coming from a Star Wars fan. But Episode I was not a very good movie. I enjoy watching it and the part with Darth Maul dueling Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, but that's really it.

 

[williamjm]

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.

You were lucky, you missed the worst part of the film.

I think I've been fairly lucky, I've never disliked a movie at the cinema so much that I've been tempted to walk out of it (although I've seen plenty of films on TV I've stopped watching), although there have been a few when I've been checking my watch during the film a bit. The nearest was when I went to see Star Trek : Nemesis and there was a fire alarm mid-way through the film so we had to leave. We were eventually let back in, but although I was curious enough about the ending to watch the rest of the film, if they hadn't let us back in and I had to go to another screening to see how the film ended I'm not sure I could have sat through the first part of the film again.

The most walk-outs I've ever seen was for a free preview screening of Solaris (the George Clooney version) where there were a few hundred people at the start of the film and at least half of them had walked out by the end.

 

[Barney]

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...

I too saw that film on a transatlantic flight. I was slipping in and out of a gin and tonic fugue and noticed nothing apart from occasional glimpses of the lovely Scarlet Jo.

I walked out on As Good As It Gets. Ten minutes in I was shifting uncomfortably in my seat. When I was on the verge of crying with frustration and boredom I walked, and went to the pub with my companion. We got drunk and had a much better time than we would have done in the movie theatre.
Sometimes you just have to cut your losses!

 

[spaceseed]

I just recently walked out on "Be Kind, Rewind". Painfully bad.

 

[Aniri]

I think I walked out on Pulp Fiction in the theatre due to some gory scenes (weak stomach), but that's it. I'll tell you though, if I had been to the movies to watch Dragon Wars, I would have definitely walked out on THAT one!

 

[Montero]

Well, I made the mistake of going to watch the Ewok spin-off from Star Wars without realising it was really, really, meant for children. Left after about ten minutes.

Then there was "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" which a friend and I gave up on part way through. Also an art house thing about a tramp that was terribly repetitive. Reached a point where we just looked at each other, got up and left.

Haven't been to the cinema since watching Star Trek The Return of Spock, which at the time I really enjoyed.

Nothing like video and now DVD. The sofa is really comfortable, snacks are on hand, don't have to find parking, don't have to drive back late at night, don't get stuck behind someone tall, don't have to put up with bored French exchange students yacking in the row behind me and I CAN (one positive thought here ) pause whenever I want to finish laughing properly, rewind to catch whatever they said that I couldn't hear the first time due to background music etc etc

 

[chopper]

I'm not a huge fan of horror, though tinker round the edges: the night I saw Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in the end I decided I wasn't in the mood so walked out, though I saw it at another showing.

we walked out of that one too. it really was dire.

amazingly, we sat through the entire terrible length of Body of Evidence (aka Body of Madonna), the audience laughing all the way to the credits, nicely warmed up by our loud pisstakes of the Cliffhanger trailer that had shown beforehand (Cliffhanger? Coathanger - there is nothing he cannot do with a piece of wire.....etc....

 

[kyektulu]

Loads... I the ones that spring to mind are The Grudge, Jurassic Park 3, Shallow Hal and The Mummy 2.

 

[Vladd67]

I remember a few people walking out of Mars attacks in the first half hour while a host of unpleasant characters were being introduced, missing seeing them get killed in interesting ways.

 

[kaelcarp]

I remember a few people walking out of Mars attacks in the first half hour while a host of unpleasant characters were being introduced, missing seeing them get killed in interesting ways.

It was around the time that Mars Attacks came out that I started thinking that maybe Tim Burton had lost his skills. Thankfully he seems to have made a nice comeback from that time.

 

[Steve Jordan]

When we were kids, if you went to a movie and it sucked, you ended up doing an MST3K routine on it until it was time to leave. I saw plenty of bad movies, but only two that I should have walked out on: The Incredible Melting Man, and Conan the Barbarian.

Since then, I've been a lot more discerning when going to the theatre... and though I've seen a few movies that weren't as good as I expected, I've seen none that I wanted to walk out on.

On the other hand, there have been a few VHS tapes and DVDs I've rented, that I did not watch through to the end!

 

[Paul Alabaster]

Lady Killers with Tom Hanks was a bit of snore fest for me - but the utimate was The Return - I have NEVER been sooooo bored in all my life whilst watching a movie. I did not leave, I just mentally turned into a zombie!

I was hoping to see One Missed Call, but after some bad reviews, I think I better avoid it!

 

[TK-421]

I remember alot of people walking out on Natural Born Killers because of the violence, etc.

I have never walked out of a movie because well movies are so expensive these days and I go seldomly. I have stopped watching movies I rented, though. Borat being the last one. That was supposed to be funny?

 

[Happy Joe]

I left one once; a totally non memorable Italian swords and sorcery flic... asked for my money back and they didn't even argue...

Enjoy!

 

[Ash59]

Phantom Menace (+ the last two. serves me right i suppose)
The Haunting ( with Liam Neeson)
Planet of the Apes (Remake)
Event Horizon
Sphere
2010
Highlander
Braveheart
And loads more that i cant think of just at the mo'.

 

[Ash59]

Well, I made the mistake of going to watch the Ewok spin-off from Star Wars without realising it was really, really, meant for children. Left after about ten minutes.

Then there was "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" which a friend and I gave up on part way through. Also an art house thing about a tramp that was terribly repetitive. Reached a point where we just looked at each other, got up and left.

Haven't been to the cinema since watching Star Trek The Return of Spock, which at the time I really enjoyed.

Nothing like video and now DVD. The sofa is really comfortable, snacks are on hand, don't have to find parking, don't have to drive back late at night, don't get stuck behind someone tall, don't have to put up with bored French exchange students yacking in the row behind me and I CAN (one positive thought here ) pause whenever I want to finish laughing properly, rewind to catch whatever they said that I couldn't hear the first time due to background music etc etc

You thought The Cook...(etc) was repetitive??? Moron!!

 

[Jimmy Magnusson]

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

Dreadful movie, I was so falling asleep.

Better to fall asleep than walk out of it I say!

 

[zoran]

I walked out on "Original Sin". That's the only one so far. I think "Spawn" was even worse movie, but I was with a girlfriend so we were making out most of the film. That made it bearable. And I haven't walked out on "Pret-a-Porter" only because I was with girlfriend (different one), and it was freezing outside and we didn't have other place to go.

 

[TorrnT]

Steve Jordan:Conan the Barbarian.

Awww I love that film, Conan the destroyer was a disappointment.
Only walked out once, (Got 2 complimentary tickets for my time being wasted) the projectionist got drunk and must have fallen asleep, as we all watched the picture freeze then melt, 10 mins later amid shouting at the back, I got up, went and complained at the kiosk, 3 mins later I received 2 tickets.
Later in the week in my local, the barman told me the projectionist had left his pub steaming, earlier that day.

 

[Omphalos]

Funny Farm, with Chevy Chase. It was a awful.