People who walk out of a movie...

Skinfull

People are walking out of the cinema...is this new or did I just not notice it before?

Even if a movie is realy bad I tend to stay till the end because well, A) I paid money, I usually have popcorn to eat and C) I gotta see how much worse its gonna get.

Went to see Descent 2 in the IFI for the horrorfest and 2 sets of 2 people walked out, one after just 30 mins the other after about an hour.
During the Thing screening in the Screen a week ago one guy walked out after 40 or so minutes. This isnt a new movie! He knew what he was gonna get surely!

Gamer, Halloween 2, Inglorious Basterds, Funny People, Julie and Julia, Sunshine Cleaning...all these movies I caught during the summer and people walked out...whats goin on?

User45701

Blues Brothers 2000 is one of the few movies i have turned off.

Walked out of the cinema? I think i did once - oh and i did really want to do that whole peter griffin thing from family guy - Where he just stands up throws him arms in the air shouts "DONE!" and then leaves - i really wanted to do that during JJ trek but was there with mates and i would have just ended up boozing in the cineworld bar by myself.

A film would have to be very bad for me to leave. I think i turned off universal soldier 2 as well

gaz wac

I can see their point...Clockwork Orange....wanted to go in the first 15 mins....wasted....."has to get better, let wait a while longer"......we waited another 20 -25 mins......walked out ( with my popcorn )...the way i look at it, there's 40 mins ill never get back...could have gone to play bowling instead !!!

folan

have never walked out of a film, but have really wanted to occasionally! fair play to those who do though, its money you wont get back but at least you wont spend your time!

Kyri

I don't think I'd ever go to a movie and walk out personally.

I tend to choose my movies though alot better now then when I was younger because of that. Used to have a UGC Cinema Card when i was in college and we would go watch anything between classes if it was pants though we made it fun at least.

Nowadays though I've seen the same as the OP'er and I've seen people walk outta movies that I thought where really good to though so?

The only one i can vouch for that had a legit reason was BadSanta when a granny walked out with 2 Small kids we couldn't stop laughing at that though. I think the whole cinema was like WTF this aint no kids movie. She had waited with them till the bit where he is in the dressing Room to so I'm not sure how all there that granny was to have waited that long lol.

niallon

I nearly left At World's End, mainly due to the intermission providing the perfect point at which to do so. We were all too convinced that it would pick up though and stayed...shouldn't have though...

][cEMAN**

I've never walked out, but i've wanted to before - Pearl Harbour....ugh....

The only reason I wouldn't walk out is because i'd be there with people. Usually films I go to see on my own are ones I really want to see, rather than ones I go to see for the sake of seeing on a boring day.

The way i'd look at it is, i'd switch off a DVD if I really wasn't finding it entertaining. Why waste my time in a dark theatre?

Schism

I don't think I've actually walked out on a film, well not that I remember anyway. I do remember a few though that were close calls, Open Water anyone?

Personally it would have to be pretty damn bad for me to walk out, I'd sit through all the films the OP listed.

Also, what are the chances some of them were going to the toilet end you just didn't notice them come back? Some of the films you listed are quite good and I can't see why people would dislike them to such an extent that they'd walk out, just makes me wonder.

Skinfull

Well Gamer was a terrible blight on humanity but the ending was funny as!!
there people who walked out of Descent 2 and Inglorious basters were sitting near me so I would have noticed if they came back.
I nearly walked out of 8mm but I hung in there for shame. Hated that movie.

I wouldn't equate switching off a DVD to walking out of a cinema though. I think a DVD needs to work harder to reel you in where as the cinema has kinda got you already...it just needs to keep you there.

TheDoc

Was waiting for my misses to get outa work so went into the cinema to see one of those " epic, superhero ****e" movies, you know the ones that rip of other films.

Forget its name, but it was mainly spoofs on narnia.

I lasted about 60 minutes before I was leaving.

Fair play to the screen attendant, who noticed me leaving and asked what the matter was, and when I explained, he arranged for me to get a voucher.

Quality service from the swords cinema.

I think I was tempted a good few times, and heres one.

Me and my mates went to see Inglorious Bastards in liffey valley and at what we now refer to as

"Hitler Brappage"

We were laughing so hard it may have been annoying for others, i was crying with laughter.

A large portion of the cinema started leaving , not due to us, but one couple did stop and say " if you find this sort of cinema amusing, I'm glad I'm leaving, because I just cannot be assosiated with your sick type"

lolz

MikeC101

Skinfull wrote: »

I think a DVD needs to work harder to reel you in where as the cinema has kinda got you already...it just needs to keep you there.

I think that's a very good take on it, and I'd agree with you. I'm far more likely to switch off a DVD, because it doesn't feel like I've invested as much in it. Also
there's always the option to watch the rest of it at a later time.

Add to that the fact that I tend to at least check Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB for movies I see in the cinema, but I'm less likely to do it for a DVD rental / purchase.

It's interesting you note the walkouts at the IFI Horrorfest - I saw a fair bit of that, but along with it a hell of a lot of people in groups (bigger than I'd tend to see at a regular cinema outing) who thought they were hilarious shouting comments / complaints at the screen during the movies.

xmcp

Walked out of Batman and Robin back in 1997 (?) when I was 12. Proud of that one.

mikemac

xmcp wrote: »

Walked out of Batman and Robin back in 1997 (?) when I was 12. Proud of that one.

I read somewhere and it's probably untrue, if you meet George Clooney and tell him how bad the film was, he'll personally refund your admission fee

axer

gaz wac wrote: »

I can see their point...Clockwork Orange....wanted to go in the first 15 mins....wasted....."has to get better, let wait a while longer"......we waited another 20 -25 mins......walked out ( with my popcorn )...the way i look at it, there's 40 mins ill never get back...could have gone to play bowling instead !!!

What a great movie that is. How could you not watch it all?

TheDoc wrote: »

Me and my mates went to see Inglorious Bastards in liffey valley and at what we now refer to as

"Hitler Brappage"

We were laughing so hard it may have been annoying for others, i was crying with laughter.

A large portion of the cinema started leaving , not due to us, but one couple did stop and say " if you find this sort of cinema amusing, I'm glad I'm leaving, because I just cannot be assosiated with your sick type"

lolz

Was it the gore or something that got to them? Shamefully I have only watched half of it so far - the other half tonight.


I think I would walk out of a film if it were like "Shoot 'em up" or something like that. I have never done it yet and it would have to be a very very bad movie for me to do it.

Usually I will check reviews on IMDB before I go and will watch anything rated 7/10 or over. That 7/10 benchmark has served me well so far (except for "Shoot 'em up" which in my opinion is the worst movie I have ever attempted to watch).

Do people really spend 10 euro to see a movie without reading up on it first (reviews, ratings etc)?

irishultra

a guy walked out of mesrine killer instinct after about 20 minutes. the film was definetly not boring so i can only presume his lack of french and disdain for subtitles was the reason he left. however surely he knew this before going in?

Jabcity

Kyri wrote: »

I don't think I'd ever go to a movie and walk out personally. .

You obviously never paid 9.50 to see the remake of The Producers. That's 2 n a half hours of my life I'll never get back.

beans

There's no accounting for some people - I know a guy who will routinely skip on fast-forward through portions of movies that are all dialogue, until he gets to the UMSPLOSIONS :rolleyes:

In fairness to him, he did watch all of 7 Samurai with me one night. I'm sure he wanted to get up and leave during that one

Personally, I always stick with a movie until the end, just on the off-chance that it'll say something. If only to put the rest of it into perspective. Notable exception being 'Eraserhead', that's still paused at 25 minutes in until I get my bull****-protective goggles back from the shop... but then, I think I would have stayed were it a cinema showing. Hmm...

Galvasean

mikemac wrote: »

I read somewhere and it's probably untrue, if you meet George Clooney and tell him how bad the film was, he'll personally refund your admission fee

It's actually true. He has given people their money back. Great PR when you think about it considering his vast fortune and how few people have actually went through the trouble to find him and demand their $6.

Never walked out of a film myself. Felt VERY tempted during Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (had there been an interval I may well ahve), perhaps moreso than any movie.
I stick it to the end so when I rip in to teh movie later people can't say "Well you havent seen it all so STFU"

Driver 8

I never understand people walking out at what seems to be things that are obvious about the movie, like the three or four people who walked out of Brokeback during the first sex scene

Richard Dower

Never walked out on a film, but came VERY close with Transformers.

Richard Dower

Driver 8 wrote: »

I never understand people walking out at what seems to be things that are obvious about the movie, like the three or four people who walked out of Brokeback during the first sex scene

Nobody wants to see gay sex...unless it's hot faux lesbo action, they aren't real lesbians though, straight girls who just do it to turn on guys....so it's acceptable.

Driver 8

My point is that a cursory glance at any review or plot synopsis would've prepared them for what to expect from the film. Oh well

Valmont

I walked out on Any Given Sunday but I was quite young at the time and wanted to go skateboarding. I'm usually selective about what I go and see in the cinema anyway.

Magic Eight Ball

Skinfull wrote: »

During the Thing screening in the Screen a week ago one guy walked out after 40 or so minutes.

Whoever he is, he deserves to be shot!!

mikemac

Valmont wrote: »

I walked out on Any Given Sunday but I was quite young at the time and wanted to go skateboarding.

Have you watched it since?

MagicMarker

I wanted to walk out of the 2nd LOTR. But I was with a mate so couldn't.

I'm sure I have walked out once or twice, but I've kinda buried those memories to where I'll never find them again.

Valmont

mikemac wrote: »

Have you watched it since?

Yes, a few times actually. It's a grand film.

delbertgrady

When Cineworld showed The Blues Brothers recently, a group of four or five people left during the Palace Hotel Ballroom sequence. I can only assume that they had to get their last bus or something, 'cos most people going to those reissues are fans of the film, and even if they hadn't seen it before, that's way too far into it to finally decide you don't like it. Only the car chase is left.
Two women sat beside me at Trainspotting and got up and left as soon as Renton climbed into the toilet, which, if memory serves, is less than ten minutes into it.

It's one thing leaving a film if you hate it, but I really don't understand people going to a random film just because it happens to be on at a time that suits them, and then getting indignant because it transpires to be subtitled.

I remember years ago going to see 8 Women, and a load of people had clearly just gone to see it because Die Another Day was sold out, and hadn't a clue what it was about, or that it was in French. Cue several walk-outs.
A similar thing happened at a screening of The Page Turner. About four coffee-morning women sat in front of me, and I could tell they just turned up at the cinema and took a chance at whatever was on. Sure enough, once the titles started, they began to suspect it was in French, and once the dialogue started and the subtitles appeared, they were up and gone.

Despite enduring some absolute garbage over the years, I've never walked out of anything, but I've come very close during several of the Surprise Films at the Dublin Film Festival. I know you pays your money and you takes your chances, but they better not screw that up in 2010.

foxyboxer

Films I've wanted to (but didn't) walk out on include

Blair Witch 2
Men in Black 2 *shudder*
Mission Impossible 2 *a Tom Cruise vanity exercise*

that's about it really. :rolleyes:

Flash86

I've only ever walked out of Pearl Harbour. But was mainly because I didn't like the girl I was with.

johnny_adidas

i would never have walked out of movies in the past but in the last few years i have walked out of a couple - boogeyman, role models (due to the absolute tripe that they were) and most recently Up as our little lad was terrified of the bad guy's dogs [in all cases it had been free admission though]

Penn

I walked out halfway through 'What Just Happened' with Robert De Niro and Bruce Willis. I'd normally never walk out of the cinema, but my God that was just an awful awful film.

Worst bit?

He goes to his ex-wife's place, and while there, he finds a mens sock. A red golf type sock, which he steals. Later, he's stopped at some traffic lights, and he sees a guy he knows (possibly a work collegue or something, I forget) dressed in golf gear. The guy then realises he has to tie his shoelaces, and lifts his foot up to reveal he's wearing...... yellow golf socks. De Niro then takes the red sock out of his glove compartment, and sees that they're similar... APART FROM THE FACT THAT THEY ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COLOURS. They're typical golf socks. My father has loads of them. I think I probably even used to own a few pairs. Doesn't mean I'm ****ing De Niro's ex-wife.

I was hating the film before that, but after that, I wanted to leave. I stayed for maybe another 10-15 minutes, but the rest of the people I was with wanted to leave too.

Apolloyon

The only movie I have ever been close to walking out from was 'Very Bad things'. A name that truly lived up to its name! The only reason I didn't leave was not due to some saving grace from the movie itself but because I was in Barcelona and there was torrential rainfall outside. It was a narrow line between enduring the film or swimming back to my apartment!

monkeypants

Skinfull wrote: »

I gotta see how much worse its gonna get.

I know what you mean. Some movies are so bad that they become entertainment once again.

Galvasean

foxyboxer wrote: »

Blair Witch 2
Men in Black 2
Mission Impossible 2

I see a pattern...

gaz wac

Galvasean wrote: »

I see a pattern...

They all have B in the title

monkeypants

gaz wac wrote: »

They all have B in the title

Hollywood's lack of imagination. Or simply assuming that if Movie B has the same title as Movie A, it'll pull in the same cash.

speedboatchase

I came very close to walking out of Terminator Salvation after 20 mins but I literally had no other plans and was the middle of the day so I stuck it out. It got even worse though

Loopz

I left the cinema in 1993 at Jurassic Park. Terrified ......i was 9.
There might be a repeat on the 27th when I go see Paranormal Activity.
I believe it's sh*t the pants, scary!

Galvasean

Loopz wrote: »

I left the cinema in 1993 at Jurassic Park.

Banned :mad:

Loopz wrote:

Terrified ......i was 9.

unbanned

niallon

Now that I think of it I left the cinema a few times! Anyone remember the CGI pre film ad UCI used to show where you flew through different movie scenes? Dunno how best to describe it! At one point there was a giant shark came up from the bottom corner and attempted to nab ya, always scared the crap out of me!

Kooli

irishultra wrote: »

a guy walked out of mesrine killer instinct after about 20 minutes. the film was definetly not boring so i can only presume his lack of french and disdain for subtitles was the reason he left. however surely he knew this before going in?

That's a funny conclusion to draw!

That movie is one of only two I have ever walked out of. It was just too violent and disgusting for me - I just didn't see the point of it, it felt gratuitous, and I have waaaaay better things to be doing with my time.

I used to sit through anything. Now I think I've become a lot less tolerant of stuff I don't want to sit through, and wouldn't think it was a huge deal to leave and do something else. It may be a waste of money if I leave, but the way I see it it's a waste of money if I stay.

Roar

i walked out of my fifth viewing of Attack of the Clones, cause I'd forgotten I was supposed to meet the missus for lunch. Ended up being about 45 minutes late.. She wasn't amused.

Managed to convince her to go see it again after lunch though :P

Theta

I have never walked out of a movie ever. Ill watch the worst movies all the way to the end so I can actually give an informed opinion and say yes it was bad.

I did however turn The Truman Show off half way through my first watch of it on VHS. I watched it the second time though.

Galvasean

Roar wrote: »

i walked out of my fifth viewing of Attack of the Clones, cause I'd forgotten I was supposed to meet the missus for lunch. Ended up being about 45 minutes late.. She wasn't amused.

Managed to convince her to go see it again after lunch though :P

She better have dumped you. Being late AND taking her to see that trash.

Josey Wales

axer wrote: »

Do people really spend 10 euro to see a movie without reading up on it first (reviews, ratings etc)?

I never read reviews of movies before I see them. I find that the vast majority of critics can't seem to write a movie without spoiling some aspect of the film. I'd rather go and be surprised and make up my own mind.

I do like to read reviews though when I have seen a film to see how my opinion lines up against the film critics.

axer

Josey Wales wrote: »

I never read reviews of movies before I see them. I find that the vast majority of critics can't seem to write a movie without spoiling some aspect of the film. I'd rather go and be surprised and make up my own mind.

I do like to read reviews though when I have seen a film to see how my opinion lines up against the film critics.

I generally look at the rating only and if the film sounds dodgy then I will quickly scan one or two reviews from users on imdb. I just hate paying 10 euro to see a really bad movie when there is usually at least one good movie out at any given time.

Theta

Josey Wales wrote: »

I never read reviews of movies before I see them. I find that the vast majority of critics can't seem to write a movie without spoiling some aspect of the film. I'd rather go and be surprised and make up my own mind.

I do like to read reviews though when I have seen a film to see how my opinion lines up against the film critics.

Same here. Most critics will slam most movies for no reason other then they want to seem as if they have a higher opinion then the general public.

Galvasean

Galvasean wrote: »

She better have dumped you. Being late AND taking her to see that trash.

The op more than likely had to contend with some han solo for the next few nights.

*I've all ready got my coat

FearDark

Been to 100's of movies in my life, seen some stinkers I tell you but only ever walked out of one.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, ****ing ****ing absolutely cuntingly what a load of **** horse ****. It was walk out of it or start a riot.

Skinfull

Trevor Coulahan wrote: »

Whoever he is, he deserves to be shot!!

Shhhhh...

you know nothing!

2 people walked out of the 12.30 viewing of 2012 today...then with about 10 mins to go till the end 2 completely different people came in and sat down...with full popcorn! LOL
Wrong Screen? Covert CIA operation?

FearDark wrote: »

Been to 100's of movies in my life, seen some stinkers I tell you but only ever walked out of one.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, ****ing ****ing absolutely cuntingly what a load of **** horse ****. It was walk out of it or start a riot.

Oh man that was bad...so painful too! I stayed til the bitter end though. And boy was it bitter!