Walking out of films

Driver 8

What films have you ever walked out of and why?

Personally, I've yet to (eternal optimist!) but I came very closely during Romance and Cigarettes. Terrible, interminable, and unfunny.

Galvasean

There have been quite a few times when I was seriously tempted, but I always resist purely so I can criticize the film in depth at a later point.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

lord of the rings 3, and some piece of **** about a guy on an island who won the lottery... or had to pretend he won the lotter.

there was some scene where he was riding a motorbike down the island naked I think.. we all left soon after.

Vokes

Im baffled at people walking out of films

Surely it makes sense to do a little quick research beforehand and maybe read some (spoiler-free) reviews to see if the film is something they might like.

Driver 8

You've never been let down by a film that either didn't live your expectations and/or got great reviews but turned out to be terrible?

Vokes

Sure, have been let down plemty of times. But not so much that'll I walk out of film midway through it.

Can people who walk out early, request their ticket refunded ?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

don't think so

at lotr 3 at the intermission, I was thinking to myself 'jesus I hate this ****ing film, but I've paid for it.. so I have to stick around or else it will be a waste of money'

then I stopped myself for a second, thought about that.. said goodbye to my friends and walked out.

Driver 8

But like I said, what was the reason? What about it prompted you to walk out?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Mordeth wrote:

jesus I hate this ****ing film

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Driver 8

No, I got that

I was looking for specifics

And by the way, it's the third part of a trilogy- Were you pleased with the other two, or just dragged along?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

loved the first one, second one bored the absolute **** out of me but it never occured to me to just walk out.

specifics? I don't remember, i just remember I hated it.

garrfunkel

I came very close to leaving 28 weeks later and stayed only so I could bitch more about it once it was over. I loved the first movie and so presumed the second would be just as good. Sadly I was very much mistaken.

Chardee MacDennis

wanted to leave during pirates of the caribean II and my friends wouldnt let me leave. what a pile of tripe, not even Keira Knightley could keep me interested and i think she is amazing looking but she was such a stroppy cow in it..

highlydebased

Pirates of the Carribean and Lord of the Rings. Couldnt stand them. Sending me to sleep they were.

Some friends and myself were tempted to walk out of Norbit. It was a stupid film.....cept there were a few travellers in the same screen who made the film funny lol

Bubs101

The hulk. I always think there's something very dignified about making a scene walking out of a ****e film while everyone else stays just because they've paid

Driver 8

About six people walked out of Brokeback when I saw it, during the first sex scene. Did they not expect it or something?

_Kaiser_

I've yet to walk out of a film, but I have to say I'm relieved to see I'm not the only one who thinks the LOTR films are hyped up, boring shyte!

I mean, I tried really hard to watch the first one after my friends kept telling me how "great" it was (at least I had plenty of chances to try with the amount of times it was repeated on Sky), but I kept switching off out of boredom about an hour or so into it.

Since then I have seen the whole series (well most of it) but my opinion hasn't changed.

astro51

Babel, pure sh1te.

film_gonzo

Neon-Circles wrote: »

Some friends and myself were tempted to walk out of Norbit. It was a stupid film.....'cept there were a few travellers in the same screen who made the film funny lol

What in the name of simian Jesus possessed you to walk INTO 'Norbit'. That film had bilge written all over it from the get go.

Bubs101 wrote: »

The hulk. I always think there's something very dignified about making a scene walking out of a ****e film while everyone else stays just because they've paid

What's dignified about making a scene while you leave?! If you aren't enjoying the movie, fair enough, leave but do it quietly and with the least amount of disturbance as you can. Just because you aren't enjoying the movie doesn't mean that somebody else in the audience isn't. Making a scene ain't dignified, respecting your fellow audience members is.

Sorry to get all preachy with that statement but if everybody treated their fellow audience members with respect then the cinema would be a much more enjoyable experience.

AAAAnnnyways, back on topic. I was sorely tempted to walk out of ' Shoot 'Em Up' after about 40mins. It was dire. Nothing meritable at all about that flick. The only thing thats topped me was I was flanked on either side by about 5 people each and didn't wanna cause a disturbance.

That said, as above, seeing the entire movie gave me more cannon fodder for slating it when arguing with my friends. So swings and roundabouts people!

keefg

I haven't walked out of a cinema yet, I have been very tempted but for reasons other than a poor movie.

The behaviour of some people in cinema's is just infuriating.

Mobile phones....TURN THEM OFF
Chatting.........SHUT UP
Noisy Eating / packaging.........

And a new one (for me anyway) was last week in Naas watching Stardust (new De Nero film) was a woman a few rows back with a baby!! I am not talking about a toddler or younger child.....I mean a brand new shiny baby who cried like ***k for about 30 mins

What was the mother thinking bringing a baby that young to the cinema?:mad::mad::mad:

walt0r

x-men 3, thought about a few others, had to leave Munich half-way through because a woman made me

Galvasean

I have come close a few times. Pirates3 and DeathProof are two recent examples. Glad I stayed for the end of Death Proof, the car chase was good but good God did it drag before that. Unfortunately for Pirates3 it had no such redeeming scene.

senordingdong

I've never walked out of a film.

Even if I really hate the film, I feel like I have to see it through.
Like a rash or something.

BopNiblets

BED. OF. ROSES.

It was my brothers birthday and some of his friends were too young to see whatever we had originally planned to go to, and there was apparently nothing else on.

MagicMarker

LOTR 2.... Almost left but my friend didn't want to leave.. I thought it was utter shoite

Karl Hungus

keefg wrote: »

And a new one (for me anyway) was last week in Naas watching Stardust (new De Nero film) was a woman a few rows back with a baby!! I am not talking about a toddler or younger child.....I mean a brand new shiny baby who cried like ***k for about 30 mins

What was the mother thinking bringing a baby that young to the cinema?:mad::mad::mad:

Same thing happened to me during the Passion of the Christ. It takes a very ignorant and inconsiderate person to bring their baby into a film, and it's inconsiderate not only to the movie patrons but to the baby as well, the kind of noise levels in a cinema could be damaging to developing ears.

Basq

U-571 - only film i ever walked out on!

Atrocious!

dogbert_the_dog

Troy, annoyed me so much I couldn't do the usual fall asleep until the film's over trick

senordingdong

Ohhh...I did fall asleep at Michael Clayton though....

pauldeehan

I've never walked out on a flick, mostly because I've read a few reviews to know what to avoid. I have stayed through some crap because I was there with friends.

qwertplaywert

Walked out on 1408 recently, mainly because of I was bored out of my brain. I paid a good bit of money[8 euro] to be entertained and I wasn't. That for me is justifacation to walk out.

Also walked out on Click last year for not really boredom, more so excruiatinly bad acting and the awful writing.

Dont be at yourself

Rules of Attraction remains the only film I have ever walked out on.

Peyton Manning

Never walked out of a film but have been tempted by the following:

Pirates of the Carribean 2
Spiderman 3
The Avengers
Assault on Precinct 13
Blair Witch Project

Although I did have to leave during Four Brothers because I got a text saying the house alarm was going off.

On a side note, I remember once when I went to see Final Destination 2 that a gay couple in front of us got up and left after

the guy was killed when the ladder fell through his eye

. Although Im not certain, Im willing to bet theyve never seen the August Underground movies

cork*girl

walked out of pirates of the carribean 3, fantastic four and was very tempted to walk out of the wind that shakes the barley. fell asleep in fantastic four (before walking out) and identity

Photi

The passion of the jebus. Akin to sitting through an interminable sermon during a 1950's Irish mass.

Conor108

walt0r wrote: »

had to leave Munich half-way through because a woman made me

Do elaborate:D

Driver 8

Golda Meir telling him he was back on?

orestes

Walked out of Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

I LOVE the book, and had such high hopes for the film, but t'was utter sheite. Didn't feel too bad though since I got the tickets for free, but was still pretty disappointed by the flick

the_porn_baby

Million Dollar Hotel - I'm a big movie fan and try my very best to see every film through. I left this one with about 10 minutes to go. Absolute pompous drivel.

eth0_

keefg wrote: »

And a new one (for me anyway) was last week in Naas watching Stardust (new De Nero film) was a woman a few rows back with a baby!! I am not talking about a toddler or younger child.....I mean a brand new shiny baby who cried like ***k for about 30 mins

That's disgraceful. Unfair to the baby - their hearing is very sensitive and the cinema is LOUD - not to mention the people in the cinema who've paid a tenner to see a film without some baby screaming for half an hour.

Did you report it to a manager? I'm sure they would have asked her to leave.

Jesus Wept

garrfunkel wrote: »

I came very close to leaving 28 weeks later and stayed only so I could bitch more about it once it was over. I loved the first movie and so presumed the second would be just as good. Sadly I was very much mistaken.

+1


Walked out of The Matrix.

40 minutes of people looking quizicle and saying 'WHAT IS THE MATRIX!?'

Fúckkk off I don't care!

faceman

ive wanted to walk out of a few films but 3 really stick out in my mind. The only reason i havent is so i can moan about the full film as opposed to the portion i watched!!!

* Existenz - sorry david but i didnt like it at all. It was all over the place.
* Titanic - awful awful awful
* Batman and Robin - the less said the better but it was a free screening

Reg'stoy

I walked out of 'Patriot Games', horrible Irish accents even worse acting. I finally decided to leave when I was disapointed that the mother and daughter weren't "gone" as Sean Bean put it.
Years later I sat thru the movie on TV and couldn't believe that it had gone from bloodly awful to nearly breaking the telly with remote.

The Bollox

never walked out but I was very tempted on at least two occations:

LOTR 2 - I sat there for 3 hours, dying of thirst (the splash machines were fúcked) saying to myself "what does anyone see in this shíte" when the Ents came along I said "ah here" and stopped fighting the sleep

Mr. Woodcock - saw this a few weeks ago as a bit of a surprise. I went to the cinema on the understanding that we were going to see Superbad. complete and utter drivel

Tusky

13 ghosts - dreadful
Narnia - bad but not walk-out bad...but I walked out anyway
War - a few weeks ago, only watched about 45 minutes, TERRIBLE

ixus

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Rules of Attraction remains the only film I have ever walked out on.

Eh, what was it about it that made you walk? Quiet liked it myself...

Fell asleep through the majority of South Park and have never felt the need to watch it again...

badbrian

Wanted to walk out on but didn't:
Titanic (went with girfriend but expected to like)
Shakespeare in Love (went with girlfriend but expected to like)
Castaway (dragged girlfriend along to so by far the most disappointing)

And I always read reviews before I go.

irishthump

I have never actually walked out of a movie. Somehow I think you have more of a God-given right to bitch about a film when you have sat through to the bitter end!

Mind you, I came very close to walking out during Kill Bill Vol.1, utter sh*te.

And on a side note, when I went to see Pulp Fiction after it was first released, about 7-8 people DID get up and leave. Biggest mass exodus from a movie I have ever seen.

skywalker

The Mummy returns.
Crucible.
Black hawk down.

Jip

Black Hawk Down is a great film !

Fell asleep for most of Shakespeare in Love and was tempted to walk out of the remake of The Hills have Eyes because some of the scenes got very disturbing, for me anyway any gore etc in films never really bothers me, I think it was pyshological more than anything else.

wysel2003

myself and a few lads went to see Black Sheep the other week for the laugh thinking it would be in the same vein as shawn of the dead.

we stayed to the end but i've never seen so many ppl walk out of a film in my whole life, and ive been to the cinema weekly for nearly a decade. the cinema was full at the start but about 30 ppl remained when the lights went up at the end.

we had to restrain one of the lads from leaving cos we wanted him to sit through it for the craic but let him go midway through it as it was torture.

another one that sticks out is Paradise Lost, one of the lads is a bit squemish and actually had his hood over his face for most of it and left when the gore really kicked in.