What movie(s) have you walked/nearly walked out of?

[KansDem]

I've sat through some real dogs, but, for me, two come to mind that I nearly walked out of...

"Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

and

"Harold and Maude"

(Remember, this is all from memory as I saw them in the theater when they first came out and not since)

I don't think "Ferris" knew what kind of a movie it wanted to be. As I recall, it started out as a satire--Ferris looks at the audience and poses a multiple-choice question, in essence making the audience part of the movie--but then winds up a melodrama (no more interaction with the audience(?))--Ferris's friend shoves his dad's classic car down a ravine, then whines about him not loving him (???) What's that all about? I was already growing wearisome with the "adults are stupid, kids are savvy" plot (popular in 1980s TeeVee shows) then we have this whiner go off on his dad. I thought "**** you kid and grow up! And how are you going to pay for your dad's car?"

I thought Jeffrey Jones was wasted in this one...

As for "Harold and Maude"...:eyes: Give me a break! The "jokes" were lame and the premise shallow: Two individuals, with no visible means of income but having all the money they want/need just the same, go romping about town--he's wealthy and she's, well, I don't know but she has a nice home as I recall. Yet, both are proclaiming "free to be" but not bound to the responsibilities of a job or anything else for that matter. Yeah, yeah, give me all the money I want/need and I too can go prancing about claiming to be "free."

These are good examples of why we pay before we enter the theater.

edited to tone down criticism

[YankeyMCC]

1. Superman Returns

To be fair I probably wouldn't have come so close to walking out if I hadn't skipped out on other things I needed to get done to go see it. I kept thinking "I shouldn't have played hooky for this."

Titanic I would've like to walk out of but my wife wouldn't let me.

[KansDem]

2. It's hard to walk out after you've paid the price...

There have been several movies I would have walked out of if I hadn't paid the admission price already. The two cited here were ones I came very close to walking out of several times but kept remembering the $$$...

If they were freebies, I'd been long gone...

[YankeyMCC]

4. So true n/t

[Phillycat]

3. Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan

It was a first date (!) and there was just nothing playing that either of us wanted to see. I left the final decision up to him and he sort of shrugged and picked Friday the 13th. (I think maybe he thought I would snuggle up to him if it was scary.)

After about 30 minutes of the most execrable garbage I've ever seen committed to celluloid, we simultaneously looked at each other and said, "You want to go?" It was like being released from prison when we stepped out of the theater...

[jobycom]

6. That's one I never bothered walking into in the first place!

:rofl:

[KansDem]

10. LOL! I missed that one and it sounds like I didn't miss anything...

I think maybe he thought I would snuggle up to him if it was scary.

This might sound corny, but I did something similar 20 years ago. I was interested in this woman and wanted to ask her out. I came up with the idea that we could go roller skating. It was our first date and I knew that at some point during the evening, the rink would have a "couples only" skate in which hand-holding was expected. Well, I asked, she accepted, and we held hands during the "couples only" skate.

And that woman is now my wife! :loveya:

So some devious plans do work out...:evilgrin:

[Phillycat]

12. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

What a sweet story. :D

[jobycom]

5. Ditto on "Ferris Buehler's Day Off." I would have left LOTR, but

I was almost unconscious soon after it started. That's just me, though. I like stories, and am bored by FX, so the movie was the reverse of what I like in films.

But, Ferris Buehler:

Yeah, people claim it was brilliant. It was brilliant in the way a Britney Spears video is brilliant, though without the charm. It was written by a focus group trying to work every teenage formulaic "defy authority" cliche possible into the script, much the way kids cereal commercials do. The lead character was a dull bully, the plot was too serious to be a good farce and too farcical to be believable, and the ending was idiotic. Okay, repressed kid terrified of his father destroys a priceless one-of-a-kind vehicle beloved by the father, and this gives him the courage to calmly face dad. Yeah. I bought that. Then I went out and voted for Reagan and purchased some Cocoa Puffs on the way home because that screaming bird was so appealing to me. Dull, predictable, formulaic in the extreme, and the worst of the worst of Hollywood's pandering to dumb teenage audiences.

That's my review. Yeah, others consider it the best film ever made. But they are just wrong!

[Rude Horner]

7. "The Stuff" and the new "Dukes of Hazzard"

"The Stuff" was a horrible horror movie back in the 80's, I believe. My wife and I left after 20 minutes or so.

"The Dukes of Hazzard" we didn't walk out of. We were at the drive-in, so we drove out. :D

[Ravenseye]

8. Cool World / The Firm

I didn't walk out of Cool World, which to me is the worst movie ever made. I kept thinking...I should just leave this movie sucks. Yet I didn't. I sat through it. Now whenever I hate a movie and I'm in the theater it has to pass the Cool World test. If it's not as bad as Cool World, I can't walk out of it, otherwise I give validation to that shitty ass movie abomination.

One time that I got close though was watching The Firm with Tom Cruise. Hated it. Wasn't connected. I was bored out of my mind. My girlfriend at the time and I would have left, but we were in the middle of a row and had a bunch of people on both sides.

I wish I had walked out on Cool World. It's made me sit through countless other films since it.

[calico1]

9. "Summer of Sam" n/t

[WCGreen]

11. Best Friends...

Christine Lhatti, Ted Danson and Mary Tyler Moore....

It was a tragedy and I started laughing so hard, I had to leave....

Armageddon was so freakin' jingoistic that at one point I left up and yelled out god fuckin' bless America....

Then I just heckled the movie...

[noonwitch]

13. Debbie Does Dallas 2

My friends took me on my birthday, after we consumed a fair amount of vodka. When I was at WMU in K-zoo, there was a theater next to campus that showed porno flicks on the weekends.

It was disgusting and stupid. I walked out and went home.

[Inspired]

14. The Last House on the Left

I walked out because it scared the bejeezus out of me. I almost walked out of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the same reason.

As far as lame movies...I had a hard time sitting through Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia and Vanilla Sky. All 3 had Tom Cruise in them. Hmmm....

[ThomCat]

15. Batman and Robin

[seemunkee]

16. Chicago

My wife knows better than to EVER try to get me to watch a musical again.

[Strawman]

17. Thought about walking out of King Kong

If I had been alone, I may have.

[Deja Q]

18. Star Trek Nemesis

[Missy Vixen]

19. Reservoir Dogs

Let's just say that I don't consider Quentin Tarantino the premier auteur of American film.

Julie

[usedtobesick]

20. Tailor of Panama- worse movie ever

I didn't make it out in time to "walk out" I just sat in stunned silence staring at my SO who was also stunned by the horror that we actually sat thru the movie...

[samsingh]

21. new batch of Star Wars movies

[ALago1]

22. I just walked out of Prairie Home Companion

I wouldn't even say it was a "bad" movie. I just really wasn't interested in the characters and it seemed to be aimed for a demographic that I wasn't a part of.

[auburngrad82]

23. Blue Velvet

It literally hurt to watch it. I had to leave.

[njdemocrat106]

24. I didn't walk out of "Batman Returns"...

but I fell asleep during it. I haven't bothered seeing any subsequent Batman movies because of that incident.