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[spin-off from abandoned books thread] what movies have you walked out on before they finished?

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

only one i can remember is the pillow book though i had to struggle to stay for existenz because i was so bored.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sex and Zen. Unwatchable tripe.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't think of any movies in theaters, but I have walked out on plays a few times, mostly due to boredom.

― rosemary, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think I've ever walked out of a cinema before the end of a film. I often take a newspaper in with me. should I get bored. books: not so good since flickering light can be off putting for non- articulated [you know] reading.

― richard john gillanders, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never walked out on any. When I was a teen, my friends and I *tried* to get ourselves kicked out of Caddyshack II (there was hardly anyone in the theater anyway), and almost did. Other than that, the closest I've come was Godard's "Nouvelle Vague", which is pure artsy-French- movie torture. I would say literally 1/3 of the audience had walked out by its end, it was just complete nonsense.

― Joe, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would have walked outta Fassbinder's Marriage of Maria Braun, had viewing it not been for academic credits (needed to graduate undergrad). Complete, pretentious and utter crap.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would have walked out of Grey Gardens but I had the brains to sit in the very middle of the theater, and it was too crowded for me to leave pissing a lot of people off. What a total piece of utter amoral shit that movie is. The rub? Nearly every gay cineaste I know adores it. If they want see old people say cute things and make asses out of themselves, I say they outta check out Cocoon.

I also should've walked out of Sullivan's Travels; not because it was bad or anything, but because I was in the midst of a deep slough of depression and a wacky Depression-era movie w/chain gangs just wasn't never was gonna make me feel any better.

― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A Knight's Tale.

I also walked out of The Man Who Wasn't There because I kept falling asleep.

― Arthur, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Scream'.

― stevo, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The first ten minutes are the best part of that one, anyway.

Me and a buddy got chucked out of "Cook Thief Wife Lover" because I wasn't old enough. It was a blessing in disguise.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish I walked out of that movie about that stupid asshoel who thought she was too fat

― mike hanle y, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm No Angel: Paul Hogan low point in a career of low points. What I was doing in there in the first place I cannot imagine.

― Pete, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've fallen asleep during the Pelican Brief on two separate occasions. Both times friends had rented it. I kind of want to see it properly just for closure.

― dave k, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i should have walked out on Summer of Sam, the last hour or so of that was excruciating. but i don't think i've ever actually walked out on a movie. i fainted at Shallow Grave and had to go out for a bit (cos i am a violence wuss) but returned to watch the film. videos on the other hand - WHAT POSSESSED ME to ever start, let alone finish, watching Meet Joe Black?????

― katie, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I walked out on Billy Bathgate cos I'd got my train times wrong and was going to miss it otherwise and wait for ages. Billy Bathgate wasnt really worth an extra hour on a station platform so I binned it.

I'm much more into abandoning films before I go and see them i.e. never leaving the pre-film pub.

― Tom, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry that Paul Hogan film was Almost An Angel - he robbed a bank dressed as Rod Stewart in it managing to combine feeble jhoke with p.poor impression. We're No Angels (De Niro and Penn) = poor.

― Pete, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I walked out of Twister, as I got really bored with that. My sister stayed in the cinema and she was sick all over the place.

― Chris Lyons, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being John Malkovic

― toraneko, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll not leave anything I've paid for. Unless it only cost a pound. No, the only thing I can recall walking out of is Coldplay's set at Glastonbury in 99. Like, before all the hype. Yes, I am cool and discerning. It was so dull it was offensive.

― alix, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It might have been 2000. When did I move to london? What year is it?

― alix, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never walked out of a cinema (well not until the end of a film) but almost did during Last Action Hero. A lot of Skittles were thrown at the screen though. I didn't like it.

― Jonnie, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shooting Fish. Turly dire. Only got through the first half hour.

― jel, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(that was on video)...Never walked out of a cinema...

― jel, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Urghhh, Shooting Fish. Horrible film, but I somehow managed to watch it until the end. I don't think I've ever walked out on a film before it finished. Which is a bit odd given the number of bands I've walked out on.

― RickyT, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Last Action Hero = much under-rated though. Arnie was due a panning, and unjustly received one for last action hero. films after that WERE shite tho. closest i came to walking out = fite club. sorry, but that's how it is.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

blimey i throughly enjoyed every movie mentioned so far (except the hogan one which i seem to have missed chiz chiz)

tadeusz: i wd rather watch every fassbinder film in a row w/o leaving my seat for franks in foyer than listen to a single zappa song evah again

― mark s, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even Shooting Fish?

― RickyT, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

possibly i am confusing "have somewhere on video as-yet unseen" with "thoroughly enjoyed"

― mark s, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Walked out of "The Principal" starring Jim Belushi, fifteen minutes into it, because it was very bad, and not bad enough to amuse. Walked out of Lars van Trier's "Dancer in the Dark", because my wife had fled a few minutes before. Shortly thereafter, I had my revenge on Roger Ebert's web site (link unfortunately expired).

"Die Ehe von Maria Braun" is one of my favorite movies.

― Colin Meeder, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Walked out of "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer", and "Fellini's Satyricon".

"Grey Gardens" is amazing, IMHO.

And surely we've done this topic before.

― Sean, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only film I've walked out of is Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev at the university film society. I felt really bad cause a lot of people had already given up on it and I didn't want to be a philistine but my eyes kept closing and there were three hours still to go and all that seemed to be happening was some medieval peasants were watching a balloon or something and the seat was one of those really uncomfortable polypropylene chairs and I just couldn't do it.

― N., Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i walked out of celebration twice because it made me feel phyiscally uncomfortable .

― anthony, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What an amazing movie though. The only Dogme film I've liked.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You GAVE UP on ANDREI RUBLEV?!? Doh. The payoff is all at the end!!

― Josh, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I *wish* I'd walked out of both Darren Aranofsky's efforts; physically oppressive, like being beaten senseless round the head for two hours with a blunt instrument to no discernible end. Pi = 'numbers, paranoid psychosis, they're all jumbled up; they make you go mad and they hurt you'; REquiem = 'addictions, they're all the same really; they make you go mad and they hurt you'.

― Ellie, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow, I thought both of Aranofsky's were brilliant.

― Sean, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know, people do. I think of it more in terms of me not getting something than him getting it wrong. But whatever it is, I really don't see it.

― Ellie, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I lasted ten minutes of Shooting Fish. Man on a bike!

I'm walking out on this thread now.

― Tom, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the problem with pi is that it relies on the viewer not knowing anything about maths to ground a (fairly silly) conspiracy theory: but if there's ONE KIND OF KNOWLEDGE IN ALL THE HALLS OF ACADEME that *isn't* prey to conspiracy theory, it's mathematics. OK plenty of people don't understand much of it, but it really really isn't because dorky guys with slide-rules in their pockets have been hiding something from them.

― mark s, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How would you know mark?

Never walked out of a movie as I'm far too parsimonious to do so. Did fall asleep a few minutes into Round midnight (which was being shown around midnight).

― Billy Dods, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I rarely walk out; I often fall asleep. I was once poked in the ribs by an irate art movie lover when I began to snore during an NFT showing of 'Gertrud', Carl Dreyer's magnificently soporific final flick.

― Andrew L, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only time I've ever walked out during a film was TONIGHT when I went to see Va Savoir but it was so BORING that we left. We lasted about an hour and three quarters but even then the ending was nowhere in sight (for all I know, all the other people in the cinema ARE STILL THERE).

― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Caligula" & "Parasite 3-D".

― , Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

Yesterday I bought Dancer in The Dark on DVD having enjoyed it at the cinema. As soon as it got to the point when they're fighting over the gun, I stood up, with no warning, and switched it off. I was holding the remote control, yet I stood up, walked over to the player and hit stop. After 2 hours rest and skipping forward a bit, I'm currently stuck with Catharine Deneuve visiting her in prison, and I don't fancy any more.

Maybe I'm being like Selma and cheating the ending (ie not letting it end the way it ends), but whatever, I cannot watch this film.

― Graham, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Was there anyone there for you to warn. Was this all involuntary action? I am very, very confused.

― Pete, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kind of involuntary. I wasn't feelish squeemish before, but suddenly halfway through a scene I decided to switch it off. I don't understand either.

― Graham, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's the point where my wife split the scene, too.

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

I just did this with Shopgirl, which I was really looking forward to. I just started fastforwarding it. I just didn't care how it ended.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Also I can't believe it's been 4 years since anybody walked out of movie. Is there another thread?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

everybody has netflix these days.

Probably the last one I got up and walked out of was the last Lord of the Rings. I was falling asleep.

abandoned on netflix - moulin rouge! horrible. Maria full of grace, really good I'm sure but I wasn't in the mood.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever walked out of a movie, but if I hadn't been on a date, I probably would've done it with Dancer in the Dark. It made my teeth cringe.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

your poor teeth!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Only cinema walkout -- Jurassic Park 2

I hit the Eject button on both Moulin Rouge and Dancer in the Dark about ten minutes in.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

I walked out on that awful Beatles' inspired musical with Paul Nicholas in it. I can't remember the name of it now. I went with my boyfriend at the time and it was a late night Saturday night show, everyone thought it was some kind of proper Beatles film and EVERYONE walked out. The cinema staff held their hands up and said they didn't know what it was when they booked it. They gave us free tickets to use another day.

I wish I'd walked out on Armaggedon. Oh, and Highlander II.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I always always always finish a film, even if I have to fall asleep multiple times to get through it.

I should add that I never never never fall asleep during movies without the aid of severe sleep deprivation... it's happened a couple times though, most shamefully during Viridiana.

I think the last time I walked out on a movie was the Kubelka incident. Before that, Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

I turned off the seatback TV 45 seconds or less into Big Fish on Virgin Airlines. I couldn't take Ewan's accent.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Big Fish, fell asleep in that one and was better off I think.

Two Ewan movies, and I love him!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

A German gay/trans film, Agnes and His Brothers (which is about to get released in the US), at MoMA last year. Before that, a free screening of Love and a .45 a decade or so back.

Pretty frequent on DVDs I get from the library, most recently Pirates of the Caribbean.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Indecent proposal, was dire!
Was I 1st date (her choice), I said “this is rubbish, shall we go for a drink instead?). we did and we stayed together til I dumped her 3.5 years later.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't make it through The Night Porter/Il Portier de Notte, which makes total sense if you know what it is about. (Was this movie ever in theaters even? I had a friend who was obsessed with Dirk Bogarde and wanted me to watch this. NO!) I made it through Farewell, My Concubine, but the horror of Chinese opera will never be forgotten by my poor ears.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

I had to watch Night Porter for a "Holocaust in Film and Literature." We also watched all 6 hours of Shoah.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

To this date, the only movie I've walked out on was Punch Drunk Love

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's very empowering to stop watching a film and never return. But I rarely, if ever, do it. I did it with the .avi of Skidoo very recently, though.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 27 October 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

I would have walked out of The Postman (Kevin Costner version) were it not for the fact that I was only in the theatre to see it because I was an extra in it and was hoping to catch a glimpse of myself and those whom I worked with.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

I turned off Moulin Rouge about 5 minutes into it when I realized the whole movie would be like that. It was cable rather than a rental so no money was lost (not a real "walk-out").

And during Fassbinder's Bolweisser I got very sleepy and went from trying to stay awake and follow the movie to trying to get just close enough to sleep that I wouldn't snore, drool, or fall out of the seat. This is kind of a mental walk-out.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 27 October 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

I walked out on that awful Beatles' inspired musical with Paul Nicholas in it.

Sgt. Pepper? with the bee gees? I understand walking out on it, but i don't understand not remembering the bee gees were in it and remembering paul nicholas. or not knowing what it was!

I don't remember the last time I walked out of something in the theater, it was probably because I was drunk though. I stop watching stuff all the time. most recently some terrible noah wyle unfunny thing about environmentalists.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 28 October 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's very empowering to stop watching a film and never return. But I rarely, if ever, do it. I did it with the .avi of Skidoo very recently, though.

I also did this recently with "Skidoo." I was psyched to see it for the longest time. The memory of failing to complete it's viewing will probably keep me from tracking down a copy of "End of the Road" though.

― theodore (herbert hebert), Saturday, 28 October 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sgt. Pepper? with the bee gees? I understand walking out on it, but i don't understand not remembering the bee gees were in it and remembering paul nicholas. or not knowing what it was!

I didn't have to remember the Bee Gees were in it. They hadn't turned up by the time we all walked out. We all walked out after about two songs. I had never heard of the film, and it was only on for one late night showing, so there was just an ad in the paper and the letters over the door of the cinema, no posters or anything. The people in the cinema didn't even seem to know what it was.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 28 October 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil for me. Me and the girl I was with looked at each other at the same time (about 25 minutes in) and agreed we didn't give a shit about what was going on. The one and only instance for me afaik.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 28 October 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

Me, never (I'm more the "I paid, so I'm staying" type), but a friend of mine went to the Val Kilmer Doors movie (long time ago, yeah), and halfway the movie she got up out of her chair, yelled "F*CK JIM MORRISON!" and left.

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 28 October 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

I walked out of The Doors too! Dreadful! I also walked out of Schindler's List because it wasn't, um, fun, and I walked out of A Simple Plan because of excruciating anxiety. I recognized it as a good movie, but things were clearly going to go from bad to worse, so fuck it.
I just want to have fun at the movies, y'know? I'm a shallow person.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 28 October 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

I also walked out of Schindler's List because it wasn't, um, fun

So what were your preconceptions of the movie?

― Huey in Melbourne (Huey in Melbourne), Sunday, 29 October 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

They drugged me and blindfolded me, and when I came to I was in a darkened movie theater.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 29 October 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

I very nearly walked out of the interminable Taiwanese arthouse picture Three Times, but my friend was enjoying it, the pretentious fucker.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Sunday, 29 October 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

The Art of War
Space Cowboys
Loser

fell asleep during:
Hollow Man

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 29 October 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

(I didn’t, but I really should have. The person I was with disappeared a couple times to smoke. Jesus, that was painful on so many levels, even though it featured a bunch of actors I like.)

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 30 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

--Ready to Wear (or Pret-a Porter), Robert Altman's terrible movie

--Parasite (3D horror movie, the world's first look at Demi Moore.)

--The Lawnmower Man (just awful)

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Cannonball Run 2. It seems like there have been others, but I often succumb to the trainwreck nature.

I would have walked out of Sin City but I was there with someone else (who seemed to enjoy it).

― patita (patita), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Little Women at the Hampstead Everyman (second part of a double bill with the Orson Welles Jane Eyre) and Cold Mountain!

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Do DVD rentals count? I stopped Napoleon Dynamite halfway through, because not only did I not care about any of the characters, they didn't amuse me in any way, shape, or form. Definitely a case of "Wow, I'm totally not seeing what all the critics, fans, and friends who recommended this to me saw."

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

you're not the only one, trust me.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

my only walk-out: "400 Blows"
I booed "Fifth Element" and "American Beauty"

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Walk The Zzzzz.

― Huey in Melbourne (Huey in Melbourne), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Matrix Reloazzzzzz.

― Huey in Melbourne (Huey in Melbourne), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

"Lost Highway" is the only one where I've actually done it. Plenty more I've wanted to but have been with too many people.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

I so nearly walked out of a film for the second time in my life about 10 mins from the end of Trust The Man, when a mediocre movie became a truly dire one.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

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