what was the last film you walked out of and why?

The other one was a preview of Extreme Ops because the villain was played by Klaus Löwitsch and I couldn't stand to see him play his last role in such a shitty movie.

Russia/France, 1998, 35mm, black and white, 137 minutes.
Russian with English subtitles.

I remember seeing Home Alone in the theater and some dude was yelling "Fuck you!" to Macaulay Culkin every few minutes. Eventually he left.

I rented Sudden Manhatten. The most irratating aspect of that film was Adrienne Shelly's voice over narration while she looks into the mirror. Her voice added absolutely nothing to the scene. The movie itself had potential to be good. I hate shrill, unneccesary(Sex and the City style) v.o.'s.

I really really wanted to walk out of The Core. I was hoping it would be ironically enjoyable but it wasn't imaginative enough to even work on that level.

On the other hand, I fall asleep during 10-20% of all movies I see.

I've given up on movies on my own teev though. Rented Say Anything thinking "Its John Cusack, it must be good" (it wasn't), and for reasons I'm still confused over, I was very bored with Ghost World and only watched about 20 mins of it. And I enjoyed the comic! Whats that all about?

Oh guys guys, I couldn't disagree with you more. but hey, healthy debate, what it's all about...

Re:Rules Of Attraction. This isn't meant personally towards theodore or anyone that enjoyed the film, but I just found myself depressed that such a film/script could find favour with anyone with taste, a sense of humour, and a brain. (Yes, I know that reads very "personal", but really, I mean no harm!). My problems with the film:

a)The humour in this film is one I can only attribute to someone who enjoys talking in silly voices and making their cat do bong hits. I've read the book twice, and really enjoyed it, but now I'm wondering if I was delusional. "Dark" or just "dumb" has nothing whatsoever to do with it. It seems like the intention was to make the audience believe they were getting American Pie, all the while actually giving them Heathers, but Rules Of Attraction doesn't come close to matching either of those on any count. I know I'm going to come off sounding like a holier-than-thou prude here (and trust me, I'm SO not), but I found the "blackly comic" treatment of suicide and violence towards women physically sickening. Ditto for the any of the painfully unfunny scene where two gay guys jump around to George Michael in their underpants - there was nothing about this film that wasn't totally old-hat or seen-it-coming-for-the-last-five-minutes predictable. The audience were erupting in hysterics around me, and I just felt like I had been beamed down from planet Zog. Why is it that I have no real truck with Harmony Korine or Gaspar Noe, but I found this movie genuinely offensive? I actually felt like the film had just taken my money, pantsed me, punched me full in the face, and sped off laughing "ha ha!" in a Nelson-From-The-Simpsons voice.

b)The supposed "subversion" of the teen/college genre by the use of familiar actors/tropes - How can anything be subverted when everything is so shallow? Just casting Dawson (whatever his name is) and making him do drugs and have casual sex does not mean you are turning the genre on it's head or fucking with people's pre-conceptions. It just makes you a stultifyingly obvious wannabe-provocateur.

c)The playing scenes backwards. See my last comment above. Sub film student, style-crazy WANK.

d)Shannyn Sossamon's haircut. A real giveaway, this. A total ad-man's fantasy of a "kooky cool" haircut. These people are idiots.

In closing, then. I never went to an American college, so maybe there a billion insights here that are lost on me. My suspicion is that this film is made for and by people who are exactly like it's protagonists. God help them all.

(Anger over general content, attitude and execution of film, not the tragic excising of James Van Der Beek buggery scene.)

(i wz 15) (i had a crush on a guy called dave, he wz one of the cool kids)

yeah that's horrible. a friend of mine really wanted to take me to see lord of the rings but both of us have been busy at separate times. I have a feeling i would hate that movie but I don't think i'd ever walk out esp if afriend was there.

I wish I'd walked out of the amazingly boring Andy Warhol I saw once.

I wanted to walk out of Waterworld, which is in my estimation one of if not the worst movie ever to come out of Hollywood, but I stayed like a deer caught in the headlights.

The second movie I walked out of was some unrated gay-bondage/bath-house movie that I inadvertantly took a girl on a date to because I misread the date that the theatre was changing movies. I think we were expecting North By Northwest (we noticed that we were the only heterosexual couple in attendance which seemed a little odd but I didn't think much of it until the credits started). The guy that sold us our ticket was rightly laughing his ass off as we sheepishly asked if we could get tickets for the next night's show. I am reminded of this everytime I see that scene in Taxi Driver where Travis takes Cybill Shepard's character to a "dirty movie."

I don't think I would walk out of a movie now, no matter what. A lot of people left Requiem For A Dream, The Blair Witch Project, Gerry, and a few other movies I enjoyed, but I prefer the person who leaves to someone who stays and then makes a lot of noise arguing with their kids/siblings/spouse/the screen/etc.

And I wish I'd walked out of AI.

Seeing Wild Zero in Japanese with German subtitles was a bit confusing, even though most of it involved killing zombies and Guitar Wolf screaming "ROCK 'N' ROLL!!" and wasn't too hard to comprehend. But what going on with that girl with the ambiguous gender?

The only movie I recall walking out of voluntarily was The Principal with Jim Belushi -- as soon as the Evil Negro Gangleader was introduced, I was gone. I would have left Flowers in the Attic, but my then girlfriend wanted to see the brother and sister get it on (they didn't).

then i thought about mcdonalds and pubs and crabs and stuff and the film ended

Summer of Love - terrible film. Felt like I had a pretty good idea how it would end and then realised I didn't care. Waited for friends in pub next door.

Oxford Murders - terrible film and idiotic lol Oxford audience. Made it through 15 minutes. Found manager, told him some shit about the print being poor, got refund.

Saving Private Ryan - first 30 minutes too intense for my tiny little mind. Returned after five minutes.

The Exorcist - felt extremely ill during the scene early on where she has an injection in her neck (have phobia). Returned after five minutes.

Most enjoyable time seeing people walk out of a theater was "Fight Club", opening night. I saw it in a theater in the really nice part of the city, and when Pitt and Norton started bashing in the headlights of cars, people in the audience started getting squeamish. By the time it got to people sabotaging airplane flight instructions and setting pigeons to shit on Mercedes, many were leaving in disgust. It seemed like one third of the crowd left, one third stayed because they were just in shock, and the other third thought it was fucking great and were laughing their asses off.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Thursday, May 1, 2003 4:17 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hahaha, five years ago.

I left The Aristocrats at intermission, at my gf's urging. She's not a prude, but the schtick was getting old as hell.

walked out of the bank job after 10 minutes and into... vantage point

fail

I don't know if I've ever walked out of a film. I always force myself to finish it. I did turn off M. Hulot's Holiday when I tried to watch it, but I was like 17.

I think the third Pirates of the Caribbean was the only one, and leaving wasn't my idea.

I don't think I've ever done this.

Almost walked out of Transformers

'summer of love' is good.

i mean 'my summer of love', if that's what u mean.

i enjoy walking out of movies - i feel the power

i walked out of a dvd of 'meatballs' lately.

I sat through all of Simon Birch, and then asked for my money back because it was so offensively bad. I got a free ticket out of it. Never done that before or since.

only once - first lord of the rings, in time to get a full refund

^ i fell asleep during that, woke up at the end, not knowing how long i was asleep for, when they were going to "finally start the journey," so I got ready for the story to actually start, then the movie ended.

I've only walked out of 2 movies in my life. One was American Beauty - I went to see it with my parents. We left after Annette Bening notices that Kevin Spacey is masturbating next to her in bed.

The other was Cloverfield, which made my girlfriend run out and throw up in the bathroom. She couldn't handle all the jerky movements. We got a refund, then noticed a couple of piles of vomit in the parking lot, one with a Cloverfield ticket stub next to it.

man, i need to see cloverfield

400 Blows - it sucked.

^haha

some really bad comedy at the Toronto film fest, '03

i have never walked out of a movie. when i was a kid i went to see the "car 54, where are you?" movie starring buster poindexter with my dad and sister at the movie theater on the american embassy compound in new delhi and we were the only people there. my dad and sister left after about half an hour but i stayed because i was bored

i tried to walk out of silent light - not because i hated it just cause i was all set - but i was w/5 people and we couldnt come to a consensus

who the fuck goes to see this silly movie w/5 people

this happened 2 days ago fyi^

on film festivals i walk out on a regular basis. cant remember which was the last one.
the first ever i walkedout was "Demonoid, Messenger of Death".
i bought the dvd lately. out of sentimental reasons. havent watched it yet.

first lord of the rings, cuz it sucked

in time to get a full refund

My husband mentioned to me today that he wished we'd have walked out of "I Saw The Devil," which we watched last night. I agreed. Why didn't we say anything to each other at the time?

(500) Days of Summer because I misguidedly planned seeing that and Fish Tank in one night, at different cinemas - I realised I was probably going to miss the latter, so I walked out to guarantee a ticket there. Thought 500 Days was pretty cringe, although I'd like to see it all the way through at some point in my life..

Only ever walked out of one film - Pineapple Express. I'd just started dating my current girlfriend. It got to a point where he was crying into a phone about some shit and we hadn't laughed through hardly any of the film. She said "shall we just go?" and I nodded.

aw what

maybe it's not really a first date movie. more of a lads'n'beer thing, but I've never been tempted to retrial it.

i dunno, when my gf saw franco was in it i didnt need to do much convincing, but we both enjoyed it anyway luckily enough

(500) Days of Summer because I misguidedly planned seeing that and Fish Tank in one night, at different cinemas - I realised I was probably going to miss the latter, so I walked out to guarantee a ticket there. Thought 500 Days was pretty cringe, although I'd like to see it all the way through at some point in my life..

"ooh, fish tank?, really? we just sold the last ticket! i'm sorry. yeah. but, hey, you know, we're also playing 500 days of summer."

i remember it crossing my mind to leave slumdog millionaire, like i had the clear thought that if i was watching this on tv id turn it off, but i stayed

Easy A. Just seemed like a tired rehash, although Emma Stone was as good the hype.

as the hype

Never

i remember people walking out of "Pink Flamingoes"

I guess that is another question-at what films do you remember the most other people walking out? If they are bored or disgusted it's better than if they just think the movie's bad.

Walked out of Bringing Out the Dead, partially because my friend was on a full on smack detox and i could smell the flop sweat from the seat next to me, but mostly because it was a horrible horrible piece of shit.

left 300 twice to have smoke breaks and be irritated by how shitty it was but kept going back because there werent any decent bars open in the area and my friends refused to leave

THIS. IS. SPARTA!

pressed eject on 'the russians are coming, the russians are coming'. insufficient lols.

pretty sure the 1960s was the worst era for comedy in human history

yeah there's a lot in that. im planning to see it again but 'what's new pussycat' is another film i've spat out.

TRAC, TRAC was super slow, mostly. the guy who was in 'catch 22' later -- he was ok. but it wasn't funny enough.

think u got a bunch of people revelling in their "new found" freedom to be "outrageous" and "political" plus a collapsing studio system desperately trying to reach the hip audience but really everybody much closer to a 50s mentality in loon pants, maybe for the first time a real obsession with trying to be cool, everything just comes out yuck, reminds me of the Simpsons(?) spoof of Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller as hippies, this is the decade that got hung-up on taste and taste is the absolute enemy of art & lulz

Nutty Professor ftw.

a lot of the 60s comedies i kinda like are still sort of supercilious -- 'nothing but the best', e.g.

i do like 'strangelove ' though, which i guess is what TRAC, TRAC was trying to replicate

Actually Bedazzled is probably the only funny 60s film after 1963.

was gonna excuse Strangelove cos it's meaner and darker, and totally forgot Bedazzled which is likewise

pretty sure the 1960s was the worst era for comedy in human history

you're probably right. i can only think of a handful i like -- 'a shot in the dark,' a couple of dick lester's films, 'playtime' if that counts.

the last film i walked out of was a screening of 8 1/2, but only cause i was feeling sick (for unrelated reasons).

The dawson creek guy had a movie called Jersey Boys or something. I don't remember who made me start to watch that movie but I'm sure I walked out within 15 minutes.

this is SORT of the thread for this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs

lol Alamo Drafthouse otm

http://drafthouse.com/blog/entry/tim_league_responds_to_the_viral_dont_talk_craziness

i think yer man has a bit of a nerve here saying that follow up comments have been mean spirited. it seemed mean in the first place to put an anonymous caller's message up and flag up all her mis-spellings etc. i thought she seemed pretty articulate there considering she's angry and if someone took my money, threw me out of a cinema with no refund and then uploaded my anon call to the net *just because i took my silent phone out* i'd sue their ass.

are you quoting a comment

haha "I'd sue their ass". I'm sure the girl is having trouble finding lawyers in the Magnited States of America.

personally I think movie texters should get death penalty. just imo.