I've only walked out on one film in my life and that was "Chasing Amy".
I went with my good friend Chris and about 1/2 hour into it I leaned over to him (always have to have that empty seat separating us...it's a guy thing) and whispered to him that I thought it sucked.
He agreed.
We managed to stagger through most of it until Ben Affleck's character decides he wants to have a hetero/homo menage a tois. (I think I spelled that right)
I myself am straight although I do have a few gay male and female friends whom I trust and respect so I'm not new to that kind of thing. Homosexuality plays a big part in this movie but it wasn't that.
I just couldn't put my finger on it.
I leaned over to him and whispered "let's get the hell out of here."
He again agreed.
We walked out.
All through the parking lot and as we were getting into the car and even as we were buckled in on our way to wherever it was we were going (I don't remember) we exchanged b***hing and complaints about the film and how we had wasted our money and had felt that we had been ripped off.
I am a big fan of most of anything Kevin Smith puts out although at that time I was having serious doubts..
I guess I had the wrong mindset going in all along.
I was expecting "Clerks" or "Mallrats" and what I got was something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!
To tell you the truth I have watched this film on video since and actually liked it better the second time around.
It wasn't bad at all.
A second viewing CAN change your perspective!
My question for all of you is this:
Have you ever walked out on a movie and if so, which one was it and why did you walk out on it?
How many times I've walked out on a film: Once
Which film: Johnny Mneumonic
Why: Have you seen it? If you have, you'll understand why I walked out.
Never ever. I go to the movies to spend my time, so usually I have nothing better to do than watch the damn movie, even if it is a bad one. Not that I haven't though of doing it several times. Probably the time the need was more urgent was when watching "Dean Koontz's Phantoms". I found it terribly slow and boring.
I walked out on Mrs. Doubtfire. It was the most insulting thing I'd ever seen.
I didn't even walk out on "Scary Movie 2" and "Blair Witch 2". I consider myself a hero!
I've never walked out on a movie. I rarely see movies in theaters so when I do, it's for particular reason. A movie I especially want to see in the theater.
Yup, I walked out of Pearl Harbour. Its not that I was really offended or anything silly like that but the film was so BAD and I was BORED OUT OF MY DAMN SKULL. I never knew the Americans got revenge by sending 4 guys with handguns to the east to take out the entire Japanese army themselves.
I always refuse to walk out on a movie but Jeepers Creepers had me practically pulling my eyeballs out of their sockets to end the suffering.
With regards to Pearl Harbor - the Dolittle Raid did actually happen in WWII. I don't recall the movie attempting to portray that the Americans took over Japan with the Dolittle Raid. It was a morale booster.
My beef with the movie is that they tried to cram that ending (which was a separate event in itself) so that the viewers wouldn't go home in "defeat". Totally ruined it IMO.
i walked out on the Bone Collector, & it was a free viewing (ha ha!). i think the movie just absolutely bored me, it had no gore in it, the plot was totally predictable and lacked any kind of tension. i'm a big fan if films that probe the dark side of the human psyche like "Seven" & "Henry: Portrait of Sereal Killer." but i just felt the bone collector was such a typical psycho-on-the-loose-sereal-killer film that are made a dime of dozen it lacked anything in it that could make it pack some punches. plus it looked the director totally went out of his/her way to make Angelena Jolie look like s**t. by the way does anyone wanna buy a mini-Bone Collector poster?
Never walked out of a theatre. Usually, if I'm going to pay $12 to see a movie, it's one I really want to see. Even if it's a disappoitment, it's never so bad I'd want to leave. Besides, I'd want to see the whole thing, even if it was bad. If anything, I could formulate a better complaint.
Still, I have turned off a couple of rented movies. Most notable was Silence of the Hams. Somebody without a sense of humour thought it would be easy to make an Airplane!-style poof of thrillers. Looked like they got a bunch of fifth-graders to write the gags. I shut it off after about 15 minutes. Nobody complained.
I've also left a drive-in during Wrongfully Accused, a Leslie Neilsen spoof of Fugitive-type movies, written by the same bunch of fifth-graders. Of course, it was the last movie of an all-night long-weekend quadruple feature. We decided it wasn't worth losing any more sleep and left.
I think that problem with this movie is that it tried to change gears from comedy into something like a romantic tragedy. The abrupt shifting of gears was, to say the least, not smooth. I finished watching it, but am not proud of that fact.
A lot of otherwise good comedies have been ruined because somebody felt it necessary to give them a serious side. Not that it's a bad idea, but too often there is, as you said, an abrupt shifting of gears.
I have walked out on "X" (an anime), "The Sixth Sense", and "Signs."
I wanted to walk out on "Reign of Fire" but I kept thinking, "Something good will happen at the end. Something good will happen at the end." Nope, nothing good happened.
"Something good will happen at the end. Something good will happen at the end." Nope, nothing good happened.
Sure it did, it ended :)
I alked out on Wrongfully Accusedafter about fifteen minutes. The filmmakers didn't even try. One thought ran through my head: "What if I died right now, and the last thing I did was watch Wronfully Accused?". I had to go home and watch a bunch of good movies, STAT.
There was this one day that me and my buddy were the only people in the entire multiplex...and no one was around at all, so we stayed in there for like, 5 hours and kept bouncing back and forth from movie to movie....We saw parts of "Unbreakable," "Dude, where's my car," "Rugrats in Paris," and anything else that was playing around that time. In all, about 7 movies. We hated everything. Nothing there held our attention, so i guess you could say I walked out on 7 movies in the same day!
Yep, you see Leslie Neilsen, and you think of the Naked Gun movies. Wrongfully Accused is certainly nowhere near as good.
The problem is when somebody looks at the success of movies like Airplane! and the Naked Gun, and thinks it would be easy to duplicate that without really understanding it. Not much budget, not much effort, just string together a lot of silly gags and throw in a couple of funny actors people will know. It's not that easy, as movies like Wrongfully Accused have demonstrated. Filmmakers who can pull of a successful spoof do not get the credit they deserve.
Yep, you see Leslie Neilsen, and you think of the Naked Gun movies.
Actually, I usually think of "Police Squad" and "Airplane"
Filmmakers who can pull of a successful spoof do not get the credit they deserve.
Agreed. Look at Mel Brooks :) I loved "Young Frankenstein" and "SpaceBalls". "Robin Hood: Men In Tights" and "Dracula: Dead And Loving It" are ok, but don't nearly measure up. He's *good* at doing spoofs and even his are hit-and-miss
Shows my lack of historical knowledge. But it was still extremely tacked on simply to please certain people. Drew out a movie that was already too long as it was.
Yep. Gotta know how the real thing works, before ya can do a good parody.
....Even if the regular audiance does not know quite whats wrong, the poorly constructed parody will fall on its own face.
....One reason : Inconsistancy of Concept.
....Its hard to define. An example from my own life might help. When i wrote Gary Burbank at 700 WLW, Gary liked my oddball sence of humor, but when i first started writeing, i noticed something.
....When i wrote a letter, it was from "The columbus State Home for the Reality Impared", My gags were based on the characters and events at the home.
....At first, my stuff was scattershot, and changed directions too fast for Gary to keep up with, and i could throw him, by changing gags too fast.
....So, i decided to adopt a consistancy of joke, as it were.
....I'd take one idea, say "Olaf Bluetooth's Vikeing funeral on the Ohio river" , and stick with images consistant with that basic premise. You know...A double headed ax settling disputes over the bar tab.... The torch lit, make shift floating funeral barge/mobile fountain, the water spray provided by beer and a bunch of loons in vikeing regalia with full bladders....the chase by the water patrol under the clayway baily bridge...the pilliging and looting of a floating casino. You know, that sort of stuff.
....In short, keep the story going to its Illogical conclusion.
....Pick an idea, with commonly available imagery, and take it to the unexpected direction, clashing it with normal expectation.
....I hope that makes sense. If not, remember...i'm reality Impared!
Sorry Flange.
You lost me somewhere there.
Snicker. I stayed because the dragons were cool. I almost, but didn't, walk out on War of the Roses. Gawd what a pile of crap that was. Doing a black comedy isn't easy, but this movie was just mean and particularly unfunny.
I walked out on "Howard the Duck" -- I simply couldn't endure it any longer, even though people told me there was a cool monster at the end. No monster could have been cool enough to justify sitting there any longer . . .
I walked out on "The Valachi Papers", with Charles Bronson. This film gives new meaning to the overworked catchphrase, "gratuituous violence." Don't just shoot a guy. Shoot him, cut his throat, chop off his fingers, and disembowel him -- then you REALLY start to mess him up. And every single scene was like that . . .
Oops! I actually liked "Reign of Fire"! Silly me . . .
I walked out on "Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom", because there was a glitch in the sound & the management wouldn't correct it. Got my money back on that one . . .
peter johnson
I've never walked out of a movie. Usually, I only go to see ones I'm pretty sure I'll like. I got to see several for free too when my friend used to work at a local theater and had free passes to everything.
Chasing Amy is a great movie, but I dont think I'd ever be able to watch it again. It's too depressing.
I walked out of For a Few Dollars More. It was an awesome movie until the film started to f**k up, and began playing backwards and upside down. It was really depressing, because i was enjoying it. I went home and rented it.
Usually I'll reluctantly sit through it and get my money back.
Did walk out on:
"Pulse"
Wish I had walked out on
"Scary movie"
"Dr. T and the Women"
"Vanilla Sky"
Gotten refunds on numerous films. ;-)
The Doolittle raid did happen... but it was flown by experienced B-25 pilots, not fighter pilots who were hot for revenge after Pearl Harbor. Other than the needless romantic subplot, that was my problem with the movie. Ben Affleck flies with the Eagle Squadrons, was one of the two guys to get off the ground on December 7, AND flew the Doolittle raid. So what's in store for the sequel? He drops paratroops on D-Day, leads the hit squad against Yamamoto's transport, and then pilots the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima?? Maybe in the 3rd movie he'll fly U-2s over Russia, lead the Berlin Airlift, and get shot down over Vietnam where he can teach John McCain to love and forgive his captors.
: )
I walk out of movies all the time. Last one I think was Sum of All Fears. Others I recall are Lost in Space, JFK, Dances With Wolves...
Basically if I find myself waiting for the movie to end, I usually leave. Watching something you don't enjoy is a waste of time. I may ask for my money back (you'd be surprised how quickly they'll give it back to get you out of there), but not if it was a movie where I really should have known better. Sum of All Fears? I felt I had no right asking for a refund for a Clancy movie I knowingly paid to see. Shame on me.
I came very close to walking out on Titanic. I figured though, I paid 8 bucks to see this, Im watching this f**ker sink.
Howard the Duck. I just walked out. Couldn't watch it.
I agree PEARL HARBOR was an insult to the US and a solid contender for the worst movie ever made. It should be reviewed on this site.
Akira Tubo wrote:
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> I have walked out on "X" (an anime), "The Sixth Sense", and
> "Signs."
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> I wanted to walk out on "Reign of Fire" but I kept thinking,
> "Something good will happen at the end. Something good will
> happen at the end." Nope, nothing good happened.
You have gotta be kidding.
I agree PEARL HARBOR was an insult to the US and a solid contender for the worst movie ever made. It should be reviewed on this site.
Andrew tends not to review big blockbuster movies. He tends more to the genre, cult, and just plain cheesy movies.
Liz ("And You Call Yourself A Scientist) is more apt to cast a withering eye, and review, at a mainstream, popular movie (both good and bad)
It takes a lot of hurt to make me walk.
Only time walking out of a single feature: I was so bored I trotted out on "Night Shadows" (AKA "Mutant") right after the little kid gets taken by the zombies in the men's room. (I'm not sure, but I think that might be in the last fifteen minutes, too.) Still, the zombie-mutant-transformation scene (in which a guy loudly and sloppily turns from "normal" into an acid-blooded murder-happy zombo AS THE DOCTOR IS DESCRIBING THE SYMPTOMS, IN SEQUENCE, three feet away without noticing it) is a scream.
Double-features shouldn't count, but after "Nine To Five," I was damned if I was going to make it past the first five minutes of "Cannonball Run 2." Ergh, my skin just crawled. And I made it through a "Congo/Judge Dredd" double-bill with glee.
Close call, my "friend" made me stay: "Deep Rising." After the halfway point, we were (quietly) urging the movie to get it over with. ("And the annoying sidekick everyone thinks is dead shows up...NOW. ...NOW. Aw, come on. And he shows up...NOW. There he is! Finally! ...END, you piece of s***!! END!!")
SIde note--Movies I have seen people fall asleep during: "Chariots of Fire" (perfectly understandable); "Batman Forever" (snored loudly, too--turned out he was on medication and had to be asked to leave); "The Phantom Menace" (during the freaking Pod Race, that's how exciting THAT was).
"Deep Rising."
Ahh..had a great line, though "If the cash is there, we do not care"