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RockGolf
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."

Posted - 11/08/2007 : 16:06:40

They had a forum for people to tell about movies they walked out of. From hundreds of submissions, 27 were selected for today's Photo Gallery front page feature, and my submission was included as the dead last of 27 used on the website, or the grand climax. Take yer pick.

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20158993_26,00.html

(It's a true story. Happened on opening night, which may have been the only night this film had a substantial audience. Varsity Theatre, Toronto.)

So what movie have you walked out of?

Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"

Posted - 11/08/2007 : 16:10:28

Very funny/worrying!

Never walked out of one. Have fallen asleep from time to time.

Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"

Posted - 11/08/2007 : 18:13:01

The movie might suck but I do like a lot of the SPLHCB soundtrack.

Don't think I've ever voluntarily left a film... I might have been dragged out by friends or a date once or twice. I don't even turn off DVDs that suck except on very rare occasions. One recent exception was something called Shortbus.

ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"

Posted - 11/09/2007 : 07:41:19

BWAHAHAHA! Good one Rocky!

I didn't actually "walk out" on it, but when I took my boys to see Fantasia, I had to take them out during Night on Bald Mountain as the little one got scared.

But I did walk out on Anastasia (the animated one with Meg Ryan doing her voice). I got so disgusted at one point, I left my kids in the theater and went into the lobby to wait, coming back in just as the credits began to roll so I could take them home.

And to this day I regret not walking out on The Slipper and The Rose - but it was sort of like seeing a train wreck, you don't want to look but you can't help yourself. As they say, there's 127 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

Edited by - ChocolateLady on 11/09/2007 08:03:10

Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"

Posted - 11/09/2007 : 09:01:40

Remembered I have actually walked out of loads of films - but not through not liking them. If I arrive late, I go back and see the beginning of a film later.

demonic
"Cinemaniac"

Posted - 11/09/2007 : 16:11:54

I'd never walk out of a movie - even if I'm hating it with my whole being - I'll watch it for the experience of hating it. It's just as valid as totally loving a movie. Also - you just never know if your opinion might change in the final reel.

I've just thought of something. I did walk out of The Exorcist because the spinal injection bit made me feel woozy and wanted to get some water, but I went straight back in again.

MguyXXVI
"X marks the spot"

Posted - 11/09/2007 : 16:53:26

I tend to react the same way as dem8nic (aka "demonic"), though as I grow older, and as my movie experience branches into the DVD set, I find myself stopping or falling asleep on DVDs.

Yes, Ch'Ed, I too found "Shortbus" essentially retarded.

GHcool
"Forever a curious character."

Posted - 11/09/2007 : 19:41:35

The only movie I walked out of was Scary Movie.

damalc
"last watched: Sausage Party"

Posted - 11/09/2007 : 20:09:51

i walked out of "Natural Born Killers." it was just too-everything. too loud. too bizarre. too bloody.
however, my movie tastes have changed since '94, and i quite enjoy it now. i think seeing on the big screen was just too much of a sensory assault, compared to the television at home.
i almost left "Fight Club," which seemed to be just gratuitous violence, until ... well, you know. i don't mind violence in a film, but it just didn't seem to be going anywhere.
does skipping part of a dvd count? after a few minutes of the rape in "Irreversible," i had to go to the next chapter.

TitanPa
"Here four more"

Posted - 11/09/2007 : 22:37:08

I started this topic a long time ago. Only movie I waslked out of was 'Howards End'. It bored us to death.

randall
"I like to watch."

Posted - 11/10/2007 : 02:57:14

Walking out?

Once I was a "secret shopper" for a movie theater company in the Deep South. I had to note whether they tore my ticket properly, gave me the smile, did me right at the concession counter -- and give them a heads-up by estimating the audience just before the feature began [by walking up the aisle and getting as good a count as I could]. They paid me by both *paying me*, and by returning any money I'd spent on their behalf. Nice gig...

...so I can definitively tell you that when BLUE VELVET played, more than half of the admittedly meager audience walked out before Dennis Hopper's first scene was done. Not me, though. I thought it was fantastic, while I chewed on free popcorn.

demonic
"Cinemaniac"

Posted - 11/10/2007 : 17:21:48

That reminds me of the year I worked in a one screen arts cinema basically doing everything bar load the reels and run the film - it would considered a very bad day indeed if we didn't have a slew of "disgusted" walkouts during Todd Solondz's "Happiness". Of course, it's a brilliant film.