Poll
Question:
Have you ever walked out on a movie?
Option 1: Never
votes: 19
Option 2: Only exceptionally (1-3 times)
votes: 19
Option 3: Several times (4-8)
votes: 1
Option 4: All the time, movies suck (9+)
votes: 1
Option 5: I don't go to the movies
votes: 3
Option 6: Only the ones with Jaron in them
votes: 1
Was having this discussion earlier today. I realized I have never left a theater before the movie's end, and I have seen several stinkers.
First, I admit that I'm the kind of person that MUST know how a story ends, no matter how shitty, derivative or lame it is. I *need* that closure. When I watch a bad film on the telly sometimes I allow myself to google the ending so I can tune out in peace, but I don't do that for films in theaters. Also, there's always the faint chance that the movie could have some redeeming quality that I might miss if I leave; and indeed, it has happened a few times that shitty movies have improved towards the end.
What about you?
Hopeless completionist.
Sometimes, I even finish TV series on Netflix I don't particularly like. :lol:
Not in the theater. Of course, I quit on Netflix/tv/even rental movies after 10-20 minutes all the time.
Yes. But in my defense, it was Tomb Raider.
South Park movie, The Matrix, The Village.
No. Never walked out. Too much of an effort to go to a theatre, these days, I'm not going to leave.
AT home it's a different story. Hell I've quit movies with only 10-15 minutes left. "Do I really care how this ends? Nah, not really."
When I saw Fellowship of the Ring, I was fucking tanked on Wild Turkey and Coke. Not the regular 100 proof, but the 112 proof Rare Breed version of the Turkey. I didn't know it only covered a portion of the LotR story. When it ended, I was initially very pissed. Yelled the movie was shit, cussing Jackson and such. All the pencil necked geeks in the theater had dumbfounded looks on their face, but didn't say shit. Next day I found out it was the first of three. Oh well.
Quote from: 11B4V on April 04, 2016, 07:29:01 PM
When I saw Fellowship of the Ring, I was fucking tanked on Wild Turkey and Coke. Not the regular 100 proof, but the 112 proof Rare Breed version of the Turkey. I didn't know it only covered a portion of the LotR story. When it ended, I was initially very pissed. Yelled the movie was shit, cussing Jackson and such. All the pencil necked geeks in the theater had dumbfounded looks on their face, but didn't say shit. Next day I found out it was the first of three. Oh well.
That's awesome. :lol:
I am usually a completionist. I was very tempted to walk out of Battlefield Earth, but stayed until it ended. I deeply regret that decision and has since walked out of several movies.
I don't care what other people say. Battlefield Earth is still the worst movie that I have seen.
Not that I remember.
Ringmaster (1998), granted it was free to watch as I was working at theater, but yeah it was really bad.
Quote from: 11B4V on April 04, 2016, 07:29:01 PM
When I saw Fellowship of the Ring, I was fucking tanked on Wild Turkey and Coke. Not the regular 100 proof, but the 112 proof Rare Breed version of the Turkey. I didn't know it only covered a portion of the LotR story. When it ended, I was initially very pissed. Yelled the movie was shit, cussing Jackson and such. All the pencil necked geeks in the theater had dumbfounded looks on their face, but didn't say shit. Next day I found out it was the first of three. Oh well.
That's how I imagine you pretty much every day.
2 that I can remember.
The first was with the entire family. I am rather certain the movie was Krull (1983), but either way part way through my dad had had enough and just dragged everyone out. I don't remember anything about the movie but didn't think it was THAT bad.
The other was my buddy and I and we walked out of White Nights with Gregory Hines and Baryshnikov. I have no idea why we would have gone to see a movie about ballet dancing at 16 years old (and I am 99.99% sure that I had no input in what movie we were seeing) but we barely made it through the opening credits before leaving. Maybe we just needed an excuse to get out of the house(s) for the night and thought our parents might check our pockets for ticket stubs; doesn't sound right but makes more sense than us thinking that would be a good way to spend 2 hours.
EDIT: Oh and another time we had to leave the drive-in because my friend's fuck-buddy go too drunk and had to go home. If her roommate/best friend wasn't so insistent on taking care of the drunk-ass my sexual partner count would have definitely taken an uptick that night. :mad:
Only once: in 1982, when I was 12, Mom took us to go see Beastmaster. Like 7 minutes in, during the scene when the witch was forcing the woman into labor and transferring the fetus to a cow.
Nope, that was more than enough for me and my 9 year old sister. :lol: Refund, please.
Any other time, I'll just go to sleep.
I walked out on the second matrix movie and the second Star Wars prequel. I am sure I would have walked out of the third Alien movie and the third Terminator movie, but I was wise enough never to walk into those.
I was somewhat tempted to walk out on Avatar once I realized that they were going to follow the script of Pocahontas right to the end, but by then I had realized that all the talented artists had done the critters and the crap artists got stuck doing characters, and I was amused by the sudden shifts in the quality of the CGI. I had to see how far that went. In the end, I found that element of the movie to be redeeming enough that I was glad I stayed.
I Spy with Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy. I might have walked out of Anchorman when I saw it in the theater because everyone I was with was too tanked to finish it. I worked at a theater for 5 years and saw both of those for free. There were definitely movies I wish I had walked out of/never walked into. Taking turns picking movies in a group setting can lead to terrible results. :lol:
Quote from: grumbler on April 04, 2016, 08:47:49 PM
I walked out on the second matrix movie and the second Star Wars prequel. I am sure I would have walked out of the third Alien movie and the third Terminator movie, but I was wise enough never to walk into those.
I was somewhat tempted to walk out on Avatar once I realized that they were going to follow the script of Pocahontas right to the end, but by then I had realized that all the talented artists had done the critters and the crap artists got stuck doing characters, and I was amused by the sudden shifts in the quality of the CGI. I had to see how far that went. In the end, I found that element of the movie to be redeeming enough that I was glad I stayed.
I found the Avatar movie derivative, trite, and dull (extremely well done derivative, trite, and dull; yeah that thing's possible), and I entertained myself looking for bad CGI on the background. Some of the work on the wilderness is really shoddy.
The movie where I saw the most walkouts was South Park (I loved the film myself). It happened that the property wasn't still very known in Spain when the film came out, and a lot of parents thought "animated film = take the children to it" with hilarious consequences. I thought those were really lazy parents though, even if you don't bother researching what are you taking your children to, there's a rating system for a reason.
A couple of times, mostly in Germany when the cinephile club announced an original version screening yet delivered a German-dubbed print. Rosenknop, Rosenknop: nein, nein, nein! That's Citizen Kane's early words auf Deutsch. :lol:
Little Miss Sunshine and The Avengers 2.
We walked out of the Hitchikers' Guide to Galaxy movie. My wife and I didn't understand what was going on and didn't find it funny.
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on April 05, 2016, 01:57:40 AM
I Spy with Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy. I might have walked out of Anchorman when I saw it in the theater because everyone I was with was too tanked to finish it. I worked at a theater for 5 years and saw both of those for free. There were definitely movies I wish I had walked out of/never walked into. Taking turns picking movies in a group setting can lead to terrible results. :lol:
I hope you're not including Anchorman as one to never see.
I am not sure - maybe once. But then I rarely go to a cinema - the ads at the beginning drive me nuts since I always forget not to be on time - prefer watching movies at home.
I did walk out of a play or opera performance once or twice, though.
I walked out of a play once, but that was because it started later than announced and I had to absolutely be at another place before it had ended.
The play was sucky, anyway.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 05, 2016, 02:23:19 AM
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on April 05, 2016, 01:57:40 AM
I Spy with Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy. I might have walked out of Anchorman when I saw it in the theater because everyone I was with was too tanked to finish it. I worked at a theater for 5 years and saw both of those for free. There were definitely movies I wish I had walked out of/never walked into. Taking turns picking movies in a group setting can lead to terrible results. :lol:
I hope you're not including Anchorman as one to never see.
It's grown on me, but I don't love it nearly as much as a lot of my friends do. The same goes for
Step Brothers and
Zoolander.
I'm sure I did once. When I was with a large group of friends. But can't for the life of me remember what.
I can only remember once, when I walked out of the worse movie ever made : Traffic.
No. I came closest during Event Horizon but I was trapped in the middle of a row. I had to leave to throw up during 2010, but not due to the film.
I remember actually falling asleep during a movie once. It was a week night in January and I was very tired after work. I was also on a date and it was Avatar. I think I slept through the middle of the movie.
Never. The closest I've ever come to walking out was during The Amazing Spider-Man. If I wasn't with a group, I may have.
Quote from: Grey Fox on April 05, 2016, 07:44:10 AM
I can only remember once, when I walked out of the worse movie ever made : Traffic.
You've led a charmed life.
Quote from: Queequeg on April 05, 2016, 02:05:59 AM
Little Miss Sunshine and The Avengers 2.
Little Miss Sunshine was hilarious. :D
Never walked out. If I'm there I might as well see the crap through.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 04, 2016, 06:38:46 PM
Hopeless completionist.
Sometimes, I even finish TV series on Netflix I don't particularly like. :lol:
yeah, same here.
Snake Eyes is the only movie I ever just up and walked out of....
Not that I remember but then I very rarely see movies and when I do it is one I am really excited to see.
As a small kid I made my entire family leave the E.T. screening. I only vaguely remember it. All that remains is the sensation that I really, really disliked it.
As an adult I've only walked out of Armageddon. I think I lasted until they decide to send drilling specialists to space instead of teaching astronauts how to drill a rock. :bleeding:
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Quote from: Iormlund on April 05, 2016, 12:07:02 PM
As an adult I've only walked out of Armageddon. I think I lasted until they decide to send drilling specialists to space instead of teaching astronauts how to drill a rock. :bleeding:
It is the whole message of Michael Bay artistic vision that machismo >>> competence :P
I can only think of one-- Weekend at Bernie's. The previews were hilarious but were played on TV non-stop six months prior, and happened to contain all the funny scenes. There was nothing left for us to see.
I have a couple friends who probably walk out of 1/3 of all movies they see. They practically brag about it.
I can remember that I was in a movie once and the film broke somehow. They said they would fix it within 30 minutes and continue or we could get our money back. As the film sucked, I took my money back and left. Other than that I can't think of walking out of a movie. I often quit watching movies on TV, in airplanes or on Netflix though.
The most interesting thing I learned from this thread is that Grumbler watched Pocahontas right to the end.
"High Fidelity". :Embarrass:
No, but the biopic made of my life story, walked out on me. :(
The only one I ever paid full price for and walked out on was "Show Me Love," and that was because I had a previous commitment. I saw it at a film festival. I knew I was going to be cutting it close, and when they had speakers get up that shot my schedule. It was a good film; if teenage lesbians are your thing. ;)
In college I walked out at a bunch at the dollar theater thinking, "I could be studying rather than watching this crap."
Quote from: Iormlund on April 05, 2016, 12:07:02 PM
As an adult I've only walked out of Armageddon. I think I lasted until they decide to send drilling specialists to space instead of teaching astronauts how to drill a rock. :bleeding:
I thought Armageddon was hilarious; but I probably would have been angry if I had paid $9 to see it rather than renting it from the library.
Only one: First Knight.
Because I was with a friend, I stayed to the end of Angels and Demons. I made that friend vow he owed me a mute, artsy Croatian movie to make it up.
Quote from: Oexmelin on April 05, 2016, 03:33:52 PM
Only one: First Knight.
Because I was with a friend, I stayed to the end of Angels and Demons. I made that friend vow he owed me a mute, artsy Croatian movie to make it up.
But he welched on the deal and instead introduced you to a loud, earthy Croatian make up artist ?
Quote from: Oexmelin on April 05, 2016, 03:33:52 PM
Only one: First Knight.
Because I was with a friend, I stayed to the end of Angels and Demons. I made that friend vow he owed me a mute, artsy Croatian movie to make it up.
He took you to see
Prvi Vitez? Or
Anđeli i Demoni? ;)
Quote from: Savonarola on April 05, 2016, 01:55:52 PMIt was a good film; if teenage lesbians are your thing. ;)
God no, that's disgusting. Sicko.
PS...is it on DVD?
Oh, I remember walking out of a movie with a date. It didn't have much to do with the movie though :perv:
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on April 05, 2016, 01:57:40 AM
I Spy with Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy.
Oh, come now...arguably the first cinematic reference to "Evildoers" post-9/11 was worth it alone.
Quote from: Savonarola on April 05, 2016, 01:55:52 PM
"Show Me Love,"
That title loses a lot in translation.
Quote from: Razgovory on April 05, 2016, 06:10:15 PM
Oh, I remember walking out of a movie with a date. It didn't have much to do with the movie though :perv:
Wow Raz. I had no idea.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on April 05, 2016, 06:24:45 PM
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on April 05, 2016, 01:57:40 AM
I Spy with Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy.
Oh, come now...arguably the first cinematic reference to "Evildoers" post-9/11 was worth it alone.
It's fuzzy at this point. There may have been some drinking with friends beforehand. Either way, what I do remember was terrible.
I almost never see movies in theater anymore, so no need to walk out.
Last movie I saw was the new Star Wars, and before that, I think it was the Days of Future Past X-Men movie.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 05, 2016, 06:28:51 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on April 05, 2016, 01:55:52 PM
"Show Me Love,"
That title loses a lot in translation.
:lol:
Yeah, they couldn't put up Fucking Åmål on the marquee in the United States (well, not without attracting a considerably different crowd...)
I walked out of 'Step Up'
We almost walked out of 'Dungeons & Dragons', but then this kid who couldn't have been older than 9 started giving critical commentary out loud that was so funny that we stayed for the rest of it.
Quote from: Valmy on April 05, 2016, 06:28:57 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 05, 2016, 06:10:15 PM
Oh, I remember walking out of a movie with a date. It didn't have much to do with the movie though :perv:
Wow Raz. I had no idea.
What? I have a life outside of Languish.
Quote from: Razgovory on April 06, 2016, 08:02:25 PM
What? I have a life outside of Languish.
When was this date?
Never walked out of a movie; closest I ever came was the original Paranormal Activity at the local drive-in. That's one of two times I left a movie actually wishing I could go back and reclaim the time I wasted watching that movie (the other was Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones).