Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
Yes! Battlefield Earth.
I stayed for the whole movie because I couldn’t believe how bad it was.To me battlefield earth falls under the "so bad it begins to loop back around into Cheesey fun" category.
I especially love how what are essentially cave men find F16 fighter jets from the past and not only do the jets and old fuel work, but the cave men know how to start them and fly them effectively.
L Ron really outdid himself on that gem.
really outdid himself
You should see what he saved for the non-fiction section.
It really was something.
That movie suffers from the source material being fucking ridiculously long and weird. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is like 1000 pages or so. Also it's L Ron Hubbard so the book is just weird and creepy at times.
They used to get paid by the word back then.
I watched the trailer and it looked so good. I was really waiting for it for a half year or so. You can imagine my disappointment.
mAn aNiMaL!!1
one of the people walking out was me.
I've watched that movie at least four times since it's on the RiffTrax twitch channel rotation. Even with some great riffs, it's such a slog, but at least we got a running "blow the dome!" joke out of it.
I saw the South Park Bigger, Longer, and Uncut movie in theaters as a kid. I lived in a small town adjacent to a small city, and there weren't many other people in the theater. During the scene where the boys are watching the Terrace and Phillip movie and the theater-goers walk out, so did everyone else in our real life theater. It was surreal. We had a great time watching the rest of the movie by ourselves.
I can't imagine not loving every second of that movie. I still sing Uncle Fucker to myself.
Around the time the movie was released I worked over nights stocking at a Toys R Us. As soon as the store closed I would connect my discman to the PA system and we would listen to music all night. One day we were working later than usual because of Christmas, no one told us the store had actually opened and Uncle Fucker was playing over the PA.
I think that was their intention lol
My dumbass father liked eragon, I couldn’t even give it a fair shot as a movie bc I was too caught up in how they absolutely butchered the storyline of the books.
So I went and saw it on a weekend with a buddy just because we liked seeing movies. We went into it with no idea what it was about besides "epic dragon movie". I watched so many fans of the book get up angrily about 35 minutes in and storm out.
We talked to one of the theatre employees and they said that they had never received so many refund requests for a bad film before Eragon.
Out of curiosity, what was wrong with it? I never read the books, and watched it years later on late night cable, and it seemed ok. Typical pre-teen bland fantasy. Perfectly fine on enough weed
They tried to blend all the books together and fucked everything up so bad a second movie is impossible.
Just a couple things I remember:
Galbatorix, the king and one of the last dragon riders, constantly claims he wants "his stone" back. That "stone" is a dragon egg and he should know this better than anyone.
Urgals, which in the books are basically orcs, are literally just humans with helmets.
They gave Durza, the villain of book 1, Shruikan, Glabatorox's dragon. Which was then promptly defeated. Thing is, when dragons die, their rider is likely to die as well(galby is a special case, his original dragon died already). This is especially problematic because {MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD} Galbatorixs final plan is to breed his dragon with the lead characters dragon to bring back the dragon race he destroyed. Also, Galbatorix's dragon would have most likely the strongest remaining dragon heart ("eldunari") which are the source of galbatorix's powers.
Tl;Dr: it's not worth finishing the series because the entire rest of the plot would make no sense. The book series is literally my favorite series with >10000 series read.
It’s been so long, I just remember that they generally cut a ton of major elements of the story and completely changed the end bc they had no intention of ever making a sequel, at least not one remotely based off of the books. I remember being excited to see certain things happen, and they just… didn’t.
How has nobody mentioned the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender movie? I saw it as a kid and even I wanted to leave.
A live-action Avatar movie? I'd heard there was a live-action series, but there's definitely no ATLA movie.
It's like when people say there's a Highlander 2.
Apparently that was a hit in the UK because they call everyone benders in it.
Barnyard. My daughter and I used to go see EVERY kids movie when she was between 5 and 12 yrs. Let me tell you, I have learned to enjoy some shitastic movies. Then came Barnyard. 30 minutes in, it was so bad, I leaned over to my (then 6 years old) daughter and said "Sweetie, do you like this movie?" She looked at me with the most serious face and just said "No".
The Dark Tower. Was so embarrassed that I brought my wife thinking someone could possibly take 8 books and boil them down to 95 minutes that I made us leave a half hour in. It trivialized everything about the books in the worst way possible.
Also, Nacho Libre. Just couldn't do it. I don't ding JB for it at all but really bad.
There are bad adaptations, and then there's the Dark Tower, which was akin to a full palm-open slap to the fans while desperately hoping they could maybe appeal to some movie goers that were unfamiliar with the books, which it failed to do spectacularly.
They could've had a motherfucking FRANCHISE
Nacho Libre is easily one of my favorite movies of all time, and I specifically avoided watching it because Jack Black was doing just terrible shit at the time. Now, my closest and oldest friends and I quote it at each other all these years later. I am truly sorry you didn't like it!
Son of the mask. I don't know what I was thinking.
Who doesn't want to see a poorly trained child actor try and fill Jim Carrey's shoes?
Oh! Oh! I know the answer! It's me! Me!
I think the creepy CGI baby weirded me out
There's also an Ace Ventura movie starring a child actor...
Didn't even know it existed..
I wish I could say the same.
Watched a ton of people exit Battlefield Earth. Two granny aged women sitting near me walked out of Wolf of Wall Street once Jonah Hill pulled his dick out (in the film, not in the theater)
For my parents, their walk out because it was terrible movie was Pulp Fiction
...Yeah I don't listen to them for movie recommendations
That movie Wanted where Jolie curve balls bullets and Freeman reads the future by means of textile production
Great movie, despite the ridiculousness
I loved that movie... Reminded me of shoot-em-up around the same era
It's worth it when you get to the end and hear Morgan Freeman utter the line "Will someone, PLEASE! Shoot this motherfucker!"
The really surprising bit is that it's based on a comic where the characters aren't assassins, they're super-villains.
As much as I hate the toxic POS that is Mark Millar, he did write a good comic book there. Shame about the shitty film.
I loved that movie when I was 14
That one is not bad if you go in knowing that it's just fucking ridiculous. It's great for a bad b-movie night.
I went in knowing it from the comics and was not amused. Even worse than Snyder making Rorschach the good guy in Watchmen. Even misunderstanding/deliberate sabotage of everything from the source is better than just ignoring the best part of the plot.
How the hell do you take a setting where the supervillains won and end up with "some dudes just curve bullets bro"
I didn't even like the comics but that was just lame
I loved Wanted, that movie captured what it was like to work in a hive office environment with an equally horrific boss everyone pretended to like, also great action flick that bordered on a superhero movie.
Bruh, YOU can’t curve bullets, don’t bring the rest of us down with you. I for one have been breaking the laws of physics for years
While not a bad movie, I saw a guy get up and leave after loudly giving an unhinged rant during Detective Pikachu
Reason: A line from the title character about "How can you NOT believe in Climate Change at this point?"
Same genius nearly got his ass beat by a members of a mostly black audience when he complained about Miles Morales being black during a Spider-Man preview in front of Black Panther
I didn't walk out of the Avatar movie, but most people did. Halfway through someone opened the door to the theater and yelled in, "avatar sucks!" Normally I'd be a bit put out by such a disturbance, but in this case it was actually the most enjoyable and funniest part of the movie. (Last Airbender just in case)
I was escorted out of a movie once.
The movie was called Quarantine. I don't remember if there were, but I don't remember any warnings before going to see the movie or when the movie started. So anyways there's a lot of flashing in the movie and I had multiple seizures.
I went to a free screening of Mixed Nuts in college. I was one of many people who walked out, and I think Steve Martin himself wouldn’t blame me.
I saw Brokeback Mountain when it first came out, and during the first homosexual scene I saw several angry boyfriends dragging their dates out of the theater. I feel like every one of them had a ball cap on.
We didn’t walk out of Ultraviolet, but when we left, the whole theater staff was there to see our reaction to how bad it was. They told me I owed my date dinner.
Not really related but one time I went to a movie showing and no one else was there. Two individuals came in at separate times and sat on both sides of me right next to me and I was so uncomfortable at this situation I left. In hindsight it was a horror movie and maybe they were too nervous to see it alone but it's often on my mind.
I just scrolled through 200+ comments and did not see Cloverfield. I really can't say anything about the storyline itself as this was one I physically could not sit through. In addition to others who ended their suffering before us, I and 2 family members all experienced severe motion sickness within the first half hour and had to walk out. Didn't think it was worth throwing up over.
I watched an elderly couple walk out of The Aristocrats. It just added to the whole experience. But on top of that, the movie started with Morgan Freeman narrating some bullshit about cold weather. Some penguins appeared on screen and everyone collectively realized they had accidentally started playing fucking March of the Penguins!
All around a night well spent
Antman and the Wasp : Quantumania
Probably could have pushed through on the TV, but on the big screen it was an embarrassment. There was so little care taken in the CGI (noted that this was a COVID film)
I'm with you on that one, absolute garbage.
It was so hard to watch, even just on the TV as background noise. It took my wife and I 3 different attempts in the same day to try and watch it, and we never spent more than 10 minutes on the couch before we got up and started doing something else. My wife has a much higher tolerance for the more recent mediocre MCU movies, but even she wasn't able to watch it.
Asteroid City
It is Wes Anderson's movie. Really out there even for him.
I quite liked it. But a couple sitting in the same row first started shifting in their seats. Fake laughing at weird moments. Then whispering. 5 mins later they walked out with an obvious fuck this i dont care strut.
No one else left, but you could feel others were considering it.Bruno, what a crappy movie
We don't talk about Bruno
No, no, no, no.
I'm pretty sure that's a different Bruno
Is that why I don't know what it is?
LOL yes! As soon as the urethra spoke, one third of the audience left. Yeah it's a bad movie but I loved how the audience squirmed.
I think the first people left after the scene where the camera POV enters the urethra
I felt like the real prank was on me for having paid money to watch it
Bruno was okay, but I think in the UK we knew about the character from the skits he did for Da Ali G Show, and people wanted to give it a fair go because when Borat came out few people really cared about the Borat character.
Yes! Came to say this. I think we left at the meat spin part.
Zoolander 2. I should've walked out with them.
I'm kind of happy I didn't know they made a second Zoolander. I love the first one and it'd break my heart to see them try and capture lightning in a bottle twice.
Keep it that way. It was painful to sit through, and it takes a lot for me to actively dislike a piece of media. Even when it's things that are widely considered to be bad I tend to just feel indifference.
Remember: Comedy is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of Zoolander.
The cow commercial alone was worth watching it for. One of the best bits in both movies. Sadly, the only funny part of the sequel.
TIL there is a second movie
My dad and I walked out of Paul Blart Mall Cop about 20-30 minutes in. No idea what possessed us to go in the first place lol
Your dad left because Paul Blart awoke some feelings in him and he was afraid that if he stayed, he would have fallen in love with Paul Blart
It's called Blart Heart and it's a very powerful love affliction that Kevin James traps Dad's into.
Yeah, yeah. We all feel that way, all the time!
In “Mother” there were a couple of Manc women at the back who were either in there to see J Law or thought it’d be a regular horror movie to watch after the pub. They kept reacting to the movie throughout - at first because it was boring, and then with incredulity at what was happening onscreen. They’d only had enough though by the baby cannibalism scene.
I literally fell asleep and started snoring during "At Eternity's Gate", the one where the Willem Dafoe looking up meme is taken from. It was so boring... My girlfriend poked me in the ribs and I woke up to people around me laughing at me.
Wow, I never knew Jimmy from Downton Abbey was in Eragon. Goddamn, and Jeremy Irons and Djimon Hounsou? This movie was stacked and yet it failed so hard. Bad writing or what?
From what I've gathered they essentially betrayed every single principle, lesson, and character development that the books explored beautifully.
Think M Night's "The Last Airbender" compared to the original Cartoon or Dragon Ball Evolution compared to the Anime.
Stacked is right! I just looked up the cast, and it's wild to see some of these names. I didn't know John Malkovich was in it?? I didn't pay any attention to this flick when it came out... I just heard it was ass and filed it under "Nah" in my head. Yeah, looks like the script was just unsalvageable.
Along with directing, I imagine? You eliminate casting and there's not much left that can absolutely ruin a movie.
I wish that I had walked out of D-War /Dragon Wars back in 2007. That movie was such a piece of shit that I begrudge the minutes of my life that I'll never get back. There's like five cool minutes of some wyverns flying around fighting helicopters and the rest isn't just bad, it's boring. Go watch Reign of Fire instead and see Matthew McConaughey get absolutely unhinged. Definitely the superior trashy dragon movie.
Robocop. When the bad guys kills Murphy a lot of people walked out the theater. Was enough for them. I keep watching the movie, I was 13-14 at the time, and quite enjoying the film. Animatronics was nice back then and the plot, where a guy die working and someone bring him back to keep working, was ok.
No one mentioned this garbage ? Dragon Ball Evolution (2009), ,
i did the error to watch Eragon until the end though,
I should finish the Tetralogy though ,😅
I remember David Cronenberg once saying in an interview that when Crash screened at Cannes, there were times you couldn’t hear the movie over the sound of people storming out.
Just a few weeks ago: Madame Web.
I was at one too. but it wasnt cause the movie was terrible, it was cause the projectionist was.. Movie was horribly out of focus, and about 7 feet too far to the left, and down too low that you could only see the top half of the film.
Tiny little shithole theatre refused refunds for it, too. It comes as no shock that it was bulldozed a few years later.
Godzilla 2000, it was the worst most boring piece of shit I've ever experienced.
Bonus, In the name of the King. I didn't walk out because one of my friends was being stubborn, but another friend and I spent 1/3 of the movie wandering around the theatre cause we just needed breaks.
I don't even hate Uwe Boll, we saw House of the Dead and enjoyed it, even if ironically.
There was a movie I saw with my gf at the time, I want to say it was Alexander (2004) but I think it was something else. Alexander was pretty bad. The theater was empty so instead of leaving she gave me a handy, so not all was lost.
It might have been The New World (2005).
Edit: it was The New World. Also I came into a Panda Express bag, not 100% sure why we had it or how we got it in. I guess we finished up our lunch in the theater. Wanted to elaborate so nobody thought I just came on the back of the seat in front of me or something. I'm not a barbarian.
Theatre handy j's are a special treat not everyone gets to sample in life.
Not a terrible movie by any means but Doctor Sleep. Poor elderly folks just weren't prepared for certain events
Doctor Sleep surprised me with how good it was, I was fully prepared for a let down, but I ended up really enjoying it
Hmm, are we talking like Clockwork Orange level events?
I've never heard of this movie before? Would you personally recommend watching it for any particular reason?
It's a sequel to the shining. It's pretty good but not amazing.
I don't remember what would gave scared folks out, but probably something about the... you know what, enjoy.
It has some disturbing (not sexual) stuff with kids. Some people can't stomach that. Otherwise, it's a pretty tame pseudo-horror film.
I once took my grandfather, a retired commander of the Land Army, to watch a leftist comedy. While I liked it, he was somewhat uncomfortable, but we watched it till the end.
A couple months later, he wanted to take me to watch a documentary on the life on a wooden ship over months, maintained for historical conservation. I'm not going to say it was the biggest turd I had ever seen in my entire life, but it was a serious contender, but nonetheless I had committed myself to watch it till the end because my grandpa did the same effort for me. In the end, it was him who asked me to leave early because he was bored.
The nutty professor 2
I can only think of one. The original movie of The Barnyard. It's a kids movie, of course, and it was never going to be great, but kids were asking to leave that movie. That's impressive.
Tree of Life (2011)
I was into weird movies at the time, and still am, so I went alone to some small theater that was showing it. A few people walked out in the middle of the movie because after a full hour, nothing noteworthy actually happened. At the end of the movie when the lights went on (and still nothing actually happened the whole movie) everyone who was still there looked around in confusion and just started leaving. I had no answers either.
Idk if this counts but me and a friend of mine went to go see the movie Skyline and no one walked out because no one else was there in the first place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lol. A friend of mine and I went to see Meet the Spartans. We were the only ones to walk out because we were the only ones there...
That happened to me with the Mario movie. I was the only one in the theatre for that particular time
Freddy Got Fingered. One of the only movies I've ever walked out on
Daddy would you like some sausage, daddy would you like some sausages?
I like that movie in a "holy shit can't believe this ever got made" way, but never considered there were people that took a trip and paid money to see it.
I'm so sorry some marketer convinced you it was worth your hard earned bucks.
Eh, I like it. You kinda know what you're getting when you see a Tom Green movie, but if you went into it expecting anything remotely good then I can understand why you'd be horrified.
My mom and I walked out of Jurassic Park 3 and into Artificial Intelligence and we weren't the only ones. To this day, I haven't seen all of either film, but after seeing Jurassic World maybe I was too harsh on JP3. I remember quite liking what I saw of AI. I should rewatch it from the start.
I think AI is a pretty good movie. It's of its time but its still a good watch
Fitting first example - I once rented Eragon on DVD, and turned it off after at most 15 minutes because it was so bad. Don't think even serving a life sentence I could become bored enough to reconsider watching that...
I never saw people walk out of a terrible movie in the theater except myself, when my girlfriend, my roommates and I walked out of Johnny Mnemonic. After hearing about the dolphin, I think we made the right move.
Also, I have a people walking out of a good movie story: My dad was a film historian and also wrote movie reviews. The Last Temptation of Christ had just come out. It was only showing in a handful of theaters in the country. We drove up to Chicago to see it. There was a crowd of Christians protesting outside behind a barrier and there was a metal detector and bag search, which was totally unprecedented. While watching the movie, every so often some Christian would get angry and storm out.
I was only 11 at the time (my parents had no idea what was an appropriate movie for a child), so I didn't remember the movie at all when I re-watched it as an adult. But it's not like Scorsese is a bad filmmaker, so of course it was a good movie.
Phenomenon (1996) with John Travolta.
We were with a group and some of the group wanted to see it, despite doubts by some of us. So we went anyways, figured even if it's bad, it's a shared experience. The movie was kinda meh, boring and forgettable, but not bad per se. However it is a looooooong movie, after about an hour about half of the group wanted to leave. Multiple people had already walked out of the theater at that point. By the time 90 minutes rolled around even the people who really wanted to see the movie said they wanted to leave. We were one of the last to leave, most people had walked out at that point. The theater apologized and gave everyone a voucher for another movie.
It wasn't even the good kind of bad where it turns into campy or corny or anything like that. It was just boring AF and maybe more of a TV movie than an actual theater experience.
Unpopular opinion, but I left Oppenheimer at the 40 minutes mark. The main character was so unlikable, the movie pretentious, and I hated there was some kind of trial going on, but I had no context. So I left and did something better with my time.
I am so glad I waited for streaming on this one. It was fine, but way longer than it needed to be and convuluted as hell. I am glad to not be alone. That movie sniffs its own farts.
Yeah I thought it was pretentious as hell. Par for the course from Christopher Nolan, making movies with 'deep meaning' feels that really aren't that deep actually.
He just has to overcomplicate things with some timeline fuckery. every. single. movie.
- Memento: timeline is backwards
- Inception: time runs at different rates in the real world vs the dream
- Dunkirk: 3 timelines running at different speeds (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week)
- Interstellar: time looping back on itself + time running at a different rate due to black hole fuckery
- TENET: yeah ...
- Oppenheimer: constant jump cuts between different periods in Oppenheimer's story
Mind you, some of those are good movies and I can tolerate some of the timeline fuckery, but it's really becoming a gimmick.
Same. I stopped after about 20 minutes. I love science and know the history, so the art part ended up feeling waaaay too pretentious being dragged out for extra seconds in every damn scene. No wonder the movie's so long when they're wanking every scene...
This movie sucked. If they told it in sequential order this movie would have bombed. Showing the scenes out of order made it more interesting than it had any right be
Classic Nolan trick: perplex your audience with non-linear story telling and loud blaring audio contrasted by whisper dialogue to sell the illusion of depth and tapestry....
I’m with you to a point. There were many points in the movie where I turned to my wife and asked “I thought we were building a bomb?” I’ll say that it wasn’t a terrible movie but I think I would have enjoyed a documentary on Oppenheimer or the development of the bomb rather than a biopic where the director needs to make art.
Might make more sense if you read the book.
I actually like that they didn't dumb it down
I didn't see this in the theater, but if I had...
Showgirls. It was kind of a big deal when it was new because there was so much nudity and one of the stars had been in a very wholesome sitcom as a young actor. I was young enough that even though I'd heard it was awful I kinda wanted to see all that nudity, I thought how bad could it be? It was so terrible. So very terrible. The nudity couldn't begin to make up for how terrible it was.
Emoji movie. Only parents with kids remained.
I think that anyone going into it should have expected exactly what they got.
I actually didn't hate it! But I know it wasn't critically good.
My girlfriend loves that movie and is trying to get me to watch it.
ಠ_ಠ
I sense future issues.
Quite a few times, and I've also left a bunch.
We'd have sneak peak movie nights in my local cinema on Wednesday at 10 PM for like 5 bucks, and regular showings would start from Thursday. You never knew which movie you got to see, sometimes it was a blockbuster, sometimes it was bust. That was the appeal of it though.
Occasionally they'd screen some otherwise straight to DVD movie just so that the publisher could advertise with "limited theatrical release" instead. Those were almost universally shit, and most people would leave within the first 10-20 minutes.
Edit: I'm afraid I don't really remember many titles, but one that stuck was Elephant Heart, some family drama about a neglected kid from a troubled family in Germany who was fighting his way out of the "ghetto" by joining a boxing club and turning professional. The dialogues and acting were incredibly terrible.
Spice World
But the Spice Girls are hot as. I was watching Spice Girls one-handed for most of the movie until the ushers kicked me out of the theatre
Easy there Paul Reubens.
Wait, too soon. I’ll see myself out.
I left the theatre for House of the Dead, along with my friend, who demanded a refund.
Saw an old couple walk out after the opening credits of Swiss Army Man lol
Dude, where's my car?
We saw it after we went to see the shaft movie and got free passes because film burned - it really did that! - at a quiet point with palmieri. We lost the 5 slow minutes in that film.
We saw it on free passes and I still wanted my money back; but I sat through every minute and hated it instead because the tickets were still ours and formerly-poor kids don't waste stuff like that.
The bubble bunch, marching to the beat
I was really close leaving the cinema twice in my life. First time was the movie "2012". Second time the First "Hobbit" Movie
Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd.
Hear me out. I love Sweeney Todd but these people didn't know it was a musical. About 15 minutes in one guy said "Are they going to sing the whole time?!". More than a few people got up and left and I honestly had never seen that before.
I guess the marketing for it at the time just completely left out that it was a musical.
A Rough Draft, a Russian movie based on a Russian book. The book is quite good, but the movie... Let's say I didn't see people leaving the theater, because I left it first.
The Nun. Imagine a horror movie where the pitch is "nothing happens for 2 hours"
Nothing happened? That was the thing where they were demon assassins, with swords and stuff, right?
Edit: oh, that was “Warrior Nun”
Nothing happened? That was the film where those kids were shrunk down by their mad scientist father and were subsequently attacked by giant ants?
Edit: oh that was "Honey I Shrunk The Kids"
I saw Young Einstein on opening weekend...for some reason. No one left the theater but there were only about 4 of us in there to begin with.
Going back a bit, but that old Bruce Willis 'classic' Hudson Hawk. The projector film broke about an hour in, and everyone cheered and about half the people in the cinema took the opportunity to walk out, never to return.
Ha. I really like that movie. Yeah it's bad but I don't think it ever took itself seriously.
It’s not even that bad, it just has an abrupt tone shift to “wacky slapstick” that pretty much comes from nowhere and I can understand why people might not enjoy that.
Legends of the Fall
X-Men 3 The Last Stand
I think I got like 45 minutes into it and left. No way I was going to sit through another hour of that.
Honey with Jessica alba. Like 6 of us walked out and got our money back
As in love as I was with Jessica Alba as a teen, I never actually saw that movie because I heard it was awful.
It was literally the worst movie I’ve ever seen. But…yeah, Jessica alba was like the dream woman, especially when I was a young teen. Woof
How do you get your money back?
I was young at the time, but we were walking out at he workers there stopped us and asked what was wrong. But I think if you show them your ticket and the movie is like half over and tell them there was an issue, they seem more than prepared to give your money back.
Then again, this was early 2000s. So maybe the now-more-struggling theaters are more strict about it, but I’m sure depending on the theater.
The people in front of me walked out during Argylle. It was far too long.
Dr. Doolittle. The Eddie Murphy travesty. Bonus: it was a first date, too. We ended up staying together for almost four years. Shared trauma I guess.
Didn't walk out, but wish I had: the first Wonder Woman movie with Gal Gadot. They managed to make a Wonder Woman movie that was more about her boyfriend than Wonder Woman. Wtf.
I saw Epic Movie in theaters and it's the worst movie I've ever seen. Nobody walked out but they should have.
Not a movie, but when I was dating my wife, our college had "The Fantasticks" musical that came to town. The production was so terrible I would guess that 1/3 of the audience left at intermission. This was a professional traveling group and it had to be obvious to them that so many people didn't return for the second half.
Dumb and Dumber To
Came to find Dumb and Dumberer
No, Dumb and Dumberer is not the same as Dumb and Dumber To (2). The latter is actually the "true" sequel, as it actually stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, and is singlehandedly the most painful and cringey movie I've ever had the displeasure of sitting most of the way through. The humor went way, way too hard into "gross out" territory. I walked out when they had the scene of Jeff Daniels having his memories broadcast and show a dog licking peanut butter off his junk to a TED talk audience.
I like stupid humor, and I can do gross-out and cringe just fine. I love stuff like the "Scary Movie" franchise, so it's not like I'm above enjoying dumb humor, but JFC that movie just had some of the meanest and cringiest humor I've seen and it was just way too much for me to bear.
My dad and I walked out of Clockers. Too violent.
I've only ever walked out of one movie and funny enough I genuinely can't remember which one. I think it was the exorcism of Emily rose but that doesn't feel right. Either way we sat in the theater for an hour and not even a single jump scare or anything other than some lady running around gathering a story from different churches or something. Got super board so our group left. It wasn't even one of those movies that's so bad it's worth joking about.
My wife thinks it may have been the nun. She says the women's mother was also part of the story some how
Date Movie. It only took one for me to swear off Friedberg and Setzer
The Spirit.
Saw it in theaters and left half way through.
Oh yeah, that one was so fucking cringe...
This city needs me... She cries out to me.
Also Wtf was up with Sam Jackson's character talking about eggs constantly?
I... really like that movie
"The Transporter Refueled". Living in a smaller city in Northern Canada with three screens... We had a Tuesday night cheap movie night group that would go to whatever was playing, then to the pub afterwards. Small city -- something to do. We had seen a lot of bad movies as a result, but this was the worst. At the end of the movie, everyone had left except our small group. We're masochists, apparently.
I love shitty C tier action movies. Great way to pass the time.
Breakfast for Champions. Almost everyone left the cinema. We also didn't make it to the end. Terrible movie...
I Love Trouble (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0110093/) They were driving out of a drive-in.
my friends walked out of inherent vice. but i stayed
This is an oldie, Raising Arizona. I was a kid that didn't know better and was easily entertained, people were getting up to leave and even my mother wanted to, poor lady had to SUFFER thru it.
What? Raising Arizona is a classic, and was even generally well liked at the time
I've never heard bad things about it, but I've also never seen it. This thread is giving me a small list of stuff to check out to see if it's truly bad or not.
Raising Arizona is one of my favorite films.
Went to an outdoor screening of La Dolce Vita. Some friends that came with us left about halfway through. I know it’s supposed to be a classic but it just didn’t land for me at all.
Dracula Untold. I don't know why I thought it might be good but the first quarter or so that I stayed awake through just seemed like he needed marriage counseling or something.
I know this isn’t going to be popular but I walked out of Inglorious Bastards. I felt like it was so boring and the long bits of dialog just seemed to drag on forever.
Lol I think the pure dialogue scenes in this movie are some of Tarantino's best work. The opener with Christoph Waltz in the French farmers house has always been one of my favorite bits of cinema.
I definitely went into it thinking it was going to be a lot more of Brad Pitt and co. killing Nazis though, for sure.
My previous roommate started this up. Even though I'd already seen it and knew what was going to happen, that scene played and I remembered how good and suspenseful it was. Got totally sucked in again...
Tried watching this at home and turned it off. It felt like really long scenes that had nothing to do with each other
It all comes together later. Plus, they kill a lot of Nazis, which is always a bonus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kull_the_Conqueror
Only movie I walked out of. I wasn't the only one.
Krippendorfs Tribe.
Ringer -- coincidentally also Jeremy Irons.
My mother and I walked out of Death Becomes Her. She loved the cast but couldn't enjoy the movie.
Probably didn't help that it was only a couple of months after her mom died.
But I watched the whole thing on cable years later and still questioned what the fuck they thought they were thinking with that script.
oh wow, that's a classic, though I can understand why your mom didn't enjoy a movie about living beyond death after her mother just passed
Awww. I understand her reaction completely.
But, personally I loved it and will probably watch it again soon now that I remembered it exists.
The only time I've ever experienced this was with Skinamarink, had two different people walk out of it. I completely understand why people don't like it, but I was in the 50% of people who saw it that it totally worked for. It got under my skin in a way no other horror movie has (even amongst some really good ones that I really loved/was scared by!), and it was the first one in a while that scared me as an adult. For a long time after seeing it, I hated walking around my house at night for any reason.
The Favourite.
For the life of me I cannot understand what I was meant to take from this film. It was art, sure, but not art that resonated with me.
Alvin and the chipmunks
Not a theater walkout, but... We just tried to watch "Legend" with Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, and directed by Ridley Scott. It was so jarring, shockingly bad we couldn't last past the 15 minute mark. The writing, the acting, the direction, the music (with bombastic synth stabs), and really terrible editorial/audio fx choices. Also, there is so many feathers just floating around. Honestly, I love b-movie fantasies (Krulletc) but this thing takes itself so seriously and is so cringingly bad we just couldn't get through it.
Seeing Tim Curry as the devil is so worth it though
I feel you on the start. It felt way too serious at cliche fantasy to seem good. I was just looking to pass the time, though, and kept watching. I ended up loving the movie by the end.
Mostly because Tim Curry as the devil, but it definitely has that 80's live movie magic going on. If the movie itself gets boring, there's enough in the costumes and sets and the whole craft of it all to keep someone busy.
My friends and I walked out on that like 30 minutes in ... then it came through in the cheap seats 2nd run theater and we tried it again. Walked out after 35 minutes. Fool me twice? Lol
There are a silly amount of very different cuts of this film. I watched the UK tv cut (I think at least) years ago on film4, I finished it and I liked it. I didn't understand where the online ridicule came from. Sure it was campy, but not anymore than other 80's fantasy movies like Time Bandits. The probable answer: I watched a good cut.
If you read how the USA theatrical release got butchered by the studio ... It was a recipe for disaster. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0089469/alternateversions/
I love this movie. It’s of a genre from this period like The Keep and The Hunger. I might even throw in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness into that list. There’s just something about the pace and visuals of these movies that I really like.
For me it was Lincoln and The Hate U Give. I gave the movies a chance but 30 mins in I just wasn't feeling them. I think for THUG it was a secret showing at a cinema and I'd gone in with the expectation of an action/comedy movie so may not have been in the right frame of mind.
Tangentially: I once saw Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter since the film I wanted to see was sold out. Holy shit, I've never been so impressed by a film. Sometimes having zero expectations really does boost the enjoyability.
I am looking forward to my first movie to walk out on, nothing so far. If I had to pick, I think I’d walk out on a musical type movie
Dragon it just sucked Meet the Robinsons.....It doesn't get good till the last 30 or so minutes. But it's a tough spot to get their.
Still better than the book.
I walked out of the first lord of the rings an hour and a Half in when it was still character building. I mentioned to my gf at the time and she said it'll prob be 3 years before the second part and 6+ for the third. And no, obviously I never read The books.
I hate watching series waiting a week between cliffhangers... Couldn't care less to wait years.. Still haven't caught up.
I've been to movies so terrible I left!
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
https://youtu.be/vhidWw1yWR8A Passage to India
https://youtu.be/UxaPT6UbdAEHackers
https://youtu.be/Rn2cf_wJ4f4Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
https://youtu.be/frdj1zb9sMYRogue One is easily the best Star Wars movie since the original trilogy.
but that's not a high bar.
A lot of these Star Wars stories, especially the newer ones, focus far too much on the actions of a few "destiny" babies whose achievements you basically never doubt because of the golden carpet rolled out for them wherever they go. They're stories designed around hero roles to appeal to the narcissist in all of us, classic Disney princess style.
Rogue One and Andor made me believe in people again. The actions of a few counted, sure, but it was the actions of the many that drove the story forward and was by far the most inspiring thing to come out of the entire series.
It's not even a good movie, much less a good Star Wars movie.
There are longer absolute takedowns of it, but I like this one:
I understand the first three, but I have to fundamentally disagree with you as much as humanly possible on Rogue One being terrible. I absolutely respect your right and and opinion to think so, but for me it's one of the best representations of what Star Wars should be in the space fiction genre.
What was it about Rogue One that bothered you so much that you couldn't finish?
Cardboard characters, plot holes, and going against everything the original trilogy stood for.
It got on my bad side when they introduced Cassian by having him murder a completely innocent person, something the Empire would do.
Then, later in the film, when it's his fucking job to assassinate a legitimate military target, he gets all sweaty and - OH - JUST... CAN'T... PULL... THE... TRIGGER... No explanation, no character development... just because... That was when I walked out.
The real reason of course, is more complicated. The original writer/director fucked things up so colossally he was actually removed from the picture and a new guy was brought in to re-write and re-shoot. Cassian's change in tone was because of the two different creators.