The Blair Witch Project. ... Stupid!

Jodi-

Have never walked out but should have--Purple Rain.

I did--Pee Wee's Big Adventure (back in the 80's). Was so mad that my husband talked me into seeing this movie in the first place and then having to pay to sit through it. After 30 minutes, I told him you can stay, I'm out of here.

I did once. Not because of the movie being played, but because of the previews of a coming attraction. The movie was some kids show, don't even remember which one, I had taken my two oldest and a couple neighbor kids. When the previews came on it was for some film and on the screen a woman was standing by a bed where a guy was laying watching her. When she started to unbutton her blouse, I thought now the picture will cut to some other scene....no, she continued unbuttoning and took off her blouse to full frontal nudity. I grabbed my kids and the neighbor kids,stormed out to the lobby an demanded to see the person in charge, I asked him where in that theater full of kids, was there anyone who would be coming to see that adult film. He said it was a mistake, but I said the damage was done and i wanted my money back and I would be reporting this to the police, which I did, but I don't think anything came of it. We never went back to that theater, but be sure, I told the parents at the next PTA meeting about it.

yes, but was with my parents and they didn't realize what the movie was...

i once wished i had, the movie was so bad... but i was actually at the studio screening room and felt it would have been rude to leave....later, the person who worked for studio said it would have been perfectly ok to leave...

Two...Ishtar because it was so bad and Face/Off because it was too disturbing. I wish we had walked out of The Piano. No amount of brain bleach will ever clear away the terrible image of Harvey Keitel nude. Ugh!

Thank goodness for home theatre systems. I may not get to see movies as early, but I love being able to face forward, pause and delete when I so desire. I also don't get my ears blown out unless I want to.

Good for you, Dotmom.

Mom drove us out of a drive in when I was a kid. There were four or five different screens and she accidentally pulled into A Clockwork Orange instead of the movie we should have been seeing. That had to be forty years ago and I've still never forgotten some of that ...

I walked out of Prince of Tides. Last time I set foot in a movie theater too ...

none that I can remember...a few I wish I had of...I like my home theatre setup too Ang...There's not a movie I can't wait for a few months after they come out!

The Buddy Holly Story starring Gary Busey. The movie was fine,and it was Gary Busey when he was just an actor/musician, not a nutcase, but the sound was horrible. Can't enjoy a movie about Rock N Roll if you can't hear the sings.

I can't remember the name of the movie, but it was a Nicolas Cage movie sometime in the 1980s. It was THE stupidest movie, and I just couldn't stand to watch it. All I remember about it was a girl in skin-tight orange pants and Cage's character was always "doing the deed" with her...anywhere, everywhere, all the time.

Blech.

LMAO Can't remember walking out. But heck there is sooooooooo much I can't remember.

I have a long list of 'should have walked out' movies, but the only one I've really ever walked out of was one with Bruce Willis titled The Whole 9 Yards (I think). Really stupid movie. Usually when hubby and I are watching a movie I really don't like or find disgusting, HE does like it so I stay for his sake.
I also remember some awful movies with Nicolas Cage, he's very handsome though, so that kinda made up for it LOL.

Its been at least 16 years since I've been to a movie. I probably have walked out when I was young, I can't remember.

My father and I walked out of "2001: A Space Odyssey". We hated it.

Good for you, Dotmom.

In the early 70's I left a movie that had Jane Fonda in it as soon as I saw her name in the opening credits. I didn't know she was in the movie when friends decided that was the movie we were going to see. I can't remember what the title was but I would not support anything with her involved star or not. To this day I have not watched any movie Jane Fonda is in and will probably never watch one. I even turn off anything she is in on the Television.
In 1980 I walked out of the Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel movie "Saturn 3" in the first 5 minutes. First sceene Farrah nude (not Harvey thank goodness) was not the problem I had with the movie. Dark, really bad loud music and first action was a robot mutilating a little dog. SO NOT my kind of movie. Both times I asked for a reimbursement of my funds both times the theaters gave my money back with no problem.

LIL

The only one I recall was so long ago that there were double features. We'd gone to see "The Yellow Rolls Royce". The second feature was a total waste called "The Warlord". DH has always referred to it as "The Floorboard".

1. The Piano
2. Stage production of A Chorus Line - depressing and the music was all sharps and flats.
3. The Joy Luck Club - would have left but was with others.
4. Stage Production of Riverdance - couldn't leave because I was at a work function. Got a HUGE case of the hysterical giggles with my friend Sara and still laugh when I think of it.

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I walked out of Jurassic Park III. Loved the first two but couldn't stand the third one. The theater was uncomfotable too and my neck hurt!
Joann

THE BLUE LAGOON

A movie hoot from my DH: The first day he and his fellow recuits were let off base during basic training *everybody* went to the movies. The theater was filled with these guys. The movie was "Spartacus" with Kirk Douglas.

In the movie the camera pulls back to show a column of Roman soldiers in battle gear marching to confront the rebel gladiators. They are marching, marching, then the soldier in charge signals them to HALT!

A voice in the theater bellows, "Road guards OUT," and the whole audience erupts in gales of laughter -- no doubt spoiling the dramatic mood of the picture.

We left a movie about Patty Hearst once because my friend found it too graphic. We left "The Boy who Could Fly" because my DH and a friend thought it was boring.

My husband has also left a live country variety show in Arkansas because he thought it was stupid. Those tickets were over $20. each, so I wish we had asked for our money back.

I'm pretty fussy about which movies I will see in a theater. I don't go more than about once every couple of years.

But I did walk out on Scary Movie, LOL. My 16 y-o son and a few friends REALLY wanted to see it, and of course, it was R rated. An adult had to be there. All the parents discussed it, and I drew the short straw, LOL.

I bought the tickets, hoped for the best, and had a book in my purse. I lasted 10 minutes. It was so stupid...but totally aimed at the 15-17 year old male. They loved it. And really they'd heard all those words before - sometimes from me.

I just took my book out to the lobby, and enjoyed some popcorn.

When we pay $12.50 to see a movie, you don't leave the theater. You make sure the movie you're going to see is something you know you're going to like. :-) Saw two movies this month: Pirates of the Carribean (pt3, or 4.... lost count) and The Hangover II. Loved them both!

I would have walked out on The Ring, but again: for $12.50 a ticket, I'm sticking around until the horrible end. And it was horrible!

My Launderete (sp?), in the early 80s. A friend of mine wanted to see this movie and we both left after 15 or 20 minutes.

Speaking of movies, we just got back from watching Super 8. Good movie, although, it was pretty predictable.

In the 70'S my husband and I saw there was going to be a disney movie at the theater. It was FANTASIA. It was one dumb movie. If I want to pay to see dancing flowers I will stay home. We walked out and asked for our money back. A few years later we went to the move DEATH RACE 2000 The first one there was another movie with that name a few years ago. Anyway it was really stupid it was about a race from New York to California. The contestants got points for killing people by hitting them with the car. You got more points if it was a person in a wheelchair or an elderly person or a child. Just what I want to watch. NOT!!!!

Popeye, with Robin Williams. Normally, I love any movie he is in, but this one was horrible. We didn't think to ask for our money back. (Were young adults at the time, and didn't know you could do that.)

Austin Powers/video
Heavy Metal
Resident Evil II/we had free tickets
Billy Elliot/video

"A Beautiful Mind" with Robin Williams. I think that's the name of it. Really boring!

Yes.

La Grande Bouffe, a French movie about people who had decided to commit suicide by overeating.

We left when some of them started throwing up.

Ew.

Zoolander with Ben Stiller. It was so stupid.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou with Bill Murray ~ another incredibly stupid movie.
I'm sure I am one of the few people that HATED Napolean Dynamite. I would have left but my husband and daughter wouldn't.

I LOVE "The Whole 9 Yards!" Who knew Bruce Willis could do comedy?

Never have but I don't go to a movie unless it is rated three or more stars. Most all the movies I see, I like. Hated The American with George Clooney last year and did not like Eat Pray Love. I should have left both. We see a movie a month on average.

Yes, the WWII/Guadalcanal movie, The Thin Red Line. It was just too upsetting. I have watched many war movies and wasn't expecting to be so affected.

Oh my gosh - I was going to post about The Piano, and just saw that a couple of you already did! That was absolutely my most memorable awful movie. Holey moley.

I didn't walk out, though - can't remember why. I guess I just kept waiting for it to get better! I should've walked out on that one, for sure.

As far as not leaving a movie when you've paid big bucks for it, I figure that if I spent that much money and just have no interest in what I'm seeing, it'd be better to leave and at least reclaim some of my time than sit there and waste it.

I'll have to remember that :-)

I thought about leaving Midnight Express, not because it was bad but because it was so disturbing, but I seriously was afraid that I would pass out if I stood up. Now, I think that's a great movie - I'm glad I didn't leave, but boy, does that stick with you.

To answer the question, no - I've never walked out of a movie.

When I was young I had a similar experience to dotmom's. Only I was the kid. Went to the movies with a friend and her mom, I was probably in Jr High. I don't remember anything about the movie at all except that it was some B teen beach movie. Probably a lot of risque language and innuendo. We stayed about 20 min and the mom said, we're going. I'm pretty sure we got our money back. I have no idea who the friend was, what the movie was, what we did afterward. Just remember leaving.

I also walked out of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou with Bill Murray ~ another incredibly stupid movie like angela. But that one was one I didn't pay for. I admit, I snuck into it after having seen some other movie.

The last movie I saw in a theatre was Man of the Year, Robin Williams, 2006. Had to look it up to remember the name. We used to get free tickets to previews and that was one of those so we didn't pay. I was already not thrilled with the whole movie theatre experience anymore but hey, free! The sound was screwed up and it was too low. Twenty minutes into the film, they finally decided to fix it. So they stopped the film and we waited for like 10 more minutes and then... they started the whole thing over again. INCLUDING PREVIEWS!! We sat through that whole thing for a very dumb movie. I swore I would never go back to the theatre!

I have a big screen and surround sound at home now and when I don't like a movie, I pop it out of the dvd. And I get my movies for free from the library. Yes, new releases. I don't mind waiting to see them. And I can pause when I want and eat what I want and don't have to pay $4 for 25c worth of popcorn.

I ran out and had my first panic attack. The movie was Steel Magnolia and I had no idea what it was about. I went with my hub, mother-in-law, and daughter. She was diagnosed at age 6 with insulin dependant diabetes. I don't know how I sat thru as much as I did but finally at the cemetery scene when Sally Fields starts screaming "whyyyyyyyy?" I couldn't take any more. My heart was pounding and all I could do was run out and started bawling my head off. My best friend told me that it ended so much better so one day we went back and watched it together. I've seen it several times since then but it shook me to the core at the time. DD is now 36 and doing well with her diabetes.

"A Beautiful Mind" was with Russell Crowe about John Nash, the mathematician that battled paranoid schizophrenia and ultimately won a Nobel Peace prize. I think you must be thinking of some other movie, because Robin Williams wasn't in this one.

"Fantasia" - one of my favorites. I saw it as a child and it opened up a whole new world of classical music for me.

"The Life Aquatic" - this was one of the worst movies I've ever partially seen. It was so bad I walked out of my own living room!

Cant rem4ember a movie but technically walked out of (Changed channels) of this yrars Tony awards never saw such a disgusting opening and Master of Cer, What a shame for a once great entertainment IMHO

John Nash won the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences - not the Peace prize.

I can't really recall if I have walked out because I thought the movie was bad, but I have left and asked for compensation (in the form of a future movie ticket) when the sound or picture got screwy (once, they turned on the bright lights when they were trying to fix things -- can you imagine how startling to our eyes that was!).

But I have to say this: In the cases of movies just not being as good as I thought they were going to be, I've never walked out and asked for my money back. Everybody's opinion is different -- and there are plenty of movie reviews out there to help you decide if you want to take the gamble, esp considering the high cost of theater tickets. In a restaurant, if your dinner comes out undercooked, overcooked, overly salted, you'd send it back, of course, to have them make it correctly, but if you just didn't care for it in general, because it didn't match your expectations, would you ask for your money back? What about a book you've purchased from a bookstore, a book that in the end you thought lacked creativity or suspense? Would you return the book and tell the store that the writer was terrible? But asking for money back if you thought the movie was just stupid? That's how I see the 'walk out of the movie and ask for your money back' position.

(Not referring to the examples like Dotmom's or when the ratings trick you into thinking that any language is OK for young kids.)

I don't recall ever walking out but then again, it seems I only go to see animated movies any more...But I do have a real problem with the language being used in most of the movies and for that reason, I just don't go....I'm not a prude by any means, but I honestly don't think we need to hear those words in ever sentence.....

Like Pammyfaye I have asked for return passes for bad sound/picture quality. I have also been given return passes (doubled) when I have walked out due to unruly patrons.

I also agree with Pammyfaye about asking for a refund just because the movie doesn't suit one's taste. These days it is not hard to find trailers and reviews before you go. People have to take responsibility for their own decisions. Expecting a refund is sadly just another statement on the sense of entitlement run rampant today.

I love some of these movies you all have walked out of, including Pee Wee's Big Adventure! hahaha! I loved The Blair Witch Project, A Clockwork Orange, 2001; A Space Odyssey, Zoolander, and Life Aquatic (I love every single Wes Anderson movie, but I understand he isn't everyone's cup of tea!).

I have never walked out of a movie. Even if I hated it...I paid for it so I'm going to sit through it. I've turned some off at home if they are really boring.

Jamie, are you thinking of What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams? I really liked that one too, although it was pretty depressing.

Only two that I recall leaving very early from.

One was directed by John Cassavantes, & starred his wife, Gena Rowlands. I think it may have been "Woman Under The Influence". Thought it boring at the time (early 1970ties). Maybe I'd like it now, though maybe not.

The other was "Magnolia" with a good cast...Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore. Something about Los Angeles rich people/celebs. However, I see it garnered an "8" at IMDB, so I must have been wrong.

Sure did - "Carrie". Went to another screen and saw "Tootsie", which is one of my all time favorites :-)

Haven't ever walked out of a theatre, but I quickly thought of two that I should have ditched, gone home and read a good book instead! LOL

Sharkey's Machine with, I think, Burt Reynolds. It was just senseless violence, killing, blood running down a staircase, etc. It was useless, in my opinion.

The other one? I think the title was Heartland with Kathy Bates. It was the darkest, dreariest, saddest movie I've ever seen. My friend and I finally just started laughing at how awful it was. When you thought it couldn't get any worse, they all started starving and butchered the family cow, etc.! LOL It was a piece of work, I tell ya.

I once went to a movie when I was a kid that if my parents had known what it was they would have dragged me out of their by the hair on my head. Don't remember the name of it but it was about Jewish women who were punished and had their heads shaved for "consorting" with German soldiers. I remember wondering what the word consorting meant and then getting the idea from the movie! LOL I'd love to see it now but have no idea what the name of it was.

Hitchhiking Across the Galaxy, a couple years ago.
As we were walking out, the owner happened to be in the lobby. We wouldn't have said anyu everp0

Only once. Dances with wolves. Didn't last very long before we looked at each other and said outtahere. Too ticked off to ask for a different movie or refund.

* Posted by minnie_tx (My Page) on
Thu, Jun 16, 11 at 11:55

Cant rem4ember a movie but technically walked out of (Changed channels) of this yrars Tony awards never saw such a disgusting opening and Master of Cer, What a shame for a once great entertainment IMHO.

Minnie are you talking about Sunday night and Neil Patrick Harris doing the "It's Not Just for Gays Anymore!" opening number? Why do you think it was disgusting? What make you think Neil's entertainment capability has diminished?
I loved it. The showmanship, the choreography, the audience participation was just so much fun and lively. It was just hysterical and I have never enjoyed an opening number for the Tony Awards as much. Everyone in the audience, (gay, straight, young, old and every ethnicity) was smiling and laughing. The costume changes done during the number were fantastic. I just don't understand how can anyone have on three entire layers of costume and not look FAT?
Neil Patrick Harris is still a wonderful entertainer and I don't believe he has lost any of his Greatness, I think from his "Doogie Howser MD" days he has only improved and will be a top performer in many ways in the future.

LIL