Leaving a movie early

Anakin.S

I was just wondering if anyone has left a movie early?
If you have, can you really comment on the movie that you have not seen in its entirety?
Is all you can say ‘I didn’t understand the film so I left’ or ‘I didn’t read a review beforehand and I wish I had of’

Basq

I left 'U-571' early and I can say without a shadow of a doubt, the first hour of the film was fecking horrible.

If it improves, fair fecks to it.. but I was bored to tears for the first hour.

Chad ghostal

I'm sure a lot of boardsies would disagree with me, but I left 'A Nightmare Before Christmas' early, hated it..

I hate musicals, with two exceptions ('Dancer in the dark' - musical was part of the story. 'Blues brothers' - cause it's the blues brothers.) I thought this would be different, it was not..great design/animation, painful to listen to.

SoupyNorman

CARS, a truly terrible movie. Even for kids.

Would have walked out of AVATAR if not for the girlfriend liking it

That_Guy

I left 10,000 BC early. Utter rubbish tbh. It's the only film I've ever left early. If I'm paying the guts of 7 or 8 euro for a ticket then I'll normally stay but 10,000 BC took the biscuit. Dreadful stuff considering the other films that Roland Emmerich has made.

Karl Hungus

No, can't say I've ever left a movie early.

pixelburp

I don't see the point; sure you may not be enjoying the movie at all on any level - Gamer would be a recent example for me - but damnit I lasted this long & paid enough for the ticket, I may as well stay.

2ygb4cmqetsjhx

I am gonna be shot for this. I left 300 after 20 minutes because I just had no ****ing interest after seeing the first scene!

Pushtrak

I had heard great things about Wall-E, but I left after about half an hour. Had better things to do that day than wondering, "does it actually get good?"

Otis Driftwood

Shepard Hollow Bifocal wrote: »

I am gonna be shot for this. I left 300 after 20 minutes because I just had no ****ing interest after seeing the first scene!

Shot for what?

300 is a load of bollocks.


I cant understand why people would walk out of a movie.Seriously,you have to have some idea what you are in for when you pay admission.EG 10,000 BC,what were you expecting?

IvySlayer

No matter how bad it was, I never left it. I paid for it, I'll see it the whole way through.

marwelie

Pushtrak wrote: »

I had heard great things about Wall-E, but I left after about half an hour. Had better things to do that day than wondering, "does it actually get good?"

Big mistake! With the honorable exception of Toy Story its the best Pixar movie, the first half hour is amazing and it gets better as it goes on. IMO of course

Who_owns_this?

I left Goodburger early.
Remember Keenan and Kel? It was them - in a movie.
Worst thing is though, a few years later after a heavy night, I watched the entire thing on tv. Didn't have the energy to change the channel.

razorblunt

I normally only go to the cinema for films that I really want to see, was dragged along to Elisabethtown and if it wasn't for the fact it was a late night showing and needed the lift home I would have walked.

I take gambles on dvd releases and itunes downloads but very rarely turn them off, Burn After Reading and Death Proof being the exceptions!

Should have made the above clearer.

Galvasean

No discussion of illegal downloads. Thanks.

Galvasean

Shepard Hollow Bifocal wrote: »

I am gonna be shot for this. I left 300 after 20 minutes because I just had no ****ing interest after seeing the first scene!

Surely the trailer would have put you off, no?

I always stick it out to the bitter end in the cinema. I have wanted to leave on several occasions but stuck it out so nobody could say, "How can you say its crap when you havent seen it all?"

Jay P

I've never left a movie early, though that's because I've never seen any particularly bad ones in the cinema.
None that I can remember anyway...I've never been massively into movies anyway.

senordingdong

Nor have I.

Have sat through some tripe as a result, but I always prefer to see things through to the end I guess.

qwertplaywert

Was very very close to walking out on Avatar after about half an hour, due to a blinding headache caused by the 3-d, but I stuck it out and it relented after a while.

razorblunt

Galvasean wrote: »

No discussion of illegal downloads. Thanks.

I meant i tunes, the video rentals should have said dvd rentals.

Reg'stoy

Left Patriot Games after Sean Bean's Orish accent finally got to me, saw it a couple of years later on Tv and put the decision to leave in my top ten.

Dante

Miami Vice is the only film I've ever left early...I genuinely didn't have a breeze what the **** was going on after roughly an hour. I would have left 2012 early aswell if I wasn't with my mates.

Ridley

Who_owns_this? wrote: »

I left Goodburger early.
Remember Keenan and Kel? It was them - in a movie.
Worst thing is though, a few years later after a heavy night, I watched the entire thing on tv. Didn't have the energy to change the channel.

Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order?

IvySlayer wrote: »

No matter how bad it was, I never left it. I paid for it, I'll see it the whole way through.

Few films I haven't sat all the way through, and I can usually wait for them on DVD/TV but that's my take as well. If I've paid to watch a movie, I'm going to watch it. Then moan.

Galvasean

DaaaaaaaaaaN wrote: »

Miami Vice is the only film I've ever left early...

I nearly did too. Only for the fact that I was with friends who were loving it. Bored me to tears. Similarly, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and Deathproof had me come pretty close.

Agricola

I should have walked out in Dude Wheres My Car. Godawful shíte.

Never went to a film that I hated so much I walked out on. I read reviews and know what Im getting into before I go to the cinema normally. Ive rarely been to a film that I didnt expressly want to go see. The few times I have, Ive been with friends who were liking it, or we were all just filling time, so i stuck it out.

J.S. Pill

I left Pineapple express after half an hour.

I wanted to leave pirates of the Caribbean 2 but I needed a lift home from one of my mates. I decided to catch up on some sleep while I was in there instead.

There are perfectly good explanations for me being at those movies in the first place, honest.

gav240

left the hours after half an hour. i also fell asleep during wall-e but the kids loved it

Hank_Jones

Never left a film, Terminator Salvation is the closest that I have come to leaving a film though.

Fell asleep watching Up and Pandorum though, don't regret falling asleep either, Pandorum was atrocious and Up was quite meh, I find Pixar very overrated.

L31mr0d

never left a film early. Although I've fallen asleep in a few, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle being one and Batman and Robin being another.

I came close to walking out of Eight Legged Freaks, but as I begin to move in my seat I always get that horrible feeling that as soon as I walk out the movie will turn around and I'll hear cheers or laughter behind me just as I leave.

I'll usually stick it out till the end to see if it can turn it around in the last act.

Klingon Hamlet

Never have although I came very close when I went to see Southland Tales. What an utter shambles of a film that was!

mdwexford

Ive never walked out of a film in the cinema.

I have turned off a couple of films on tv or dvd though, Southland Tales being my most recent one actually.

me-skywalker

I left Aeon Flux early!

lucianot

I felt asleep watching "Seven" and at home watching "Funny people", what a waste of time.

krudler

lucianot wrote: »

I felt asleep watching "Seven" and at home watching "Funny people", what a waste of time.

Your loss mate

I came so close to walking out of Batman and Robin, but we decided to treat it like a comedy instead and just laughed at everything, funny thing was most people in the cinema were doing the same after a while, as opposed to the horrified silence at the abortion of a movie unfolding in front of us for the first hour or so.

I'd normally never walk out of a movie, I left The Departed after a half hour because i wasnt feeling well that day, but i went to see the rest of it a few days later, but usually any movie i go see I'll have watched a trailer or read a few reviews for, if it seems like my thing chances are I'll like it

bonerm

krudler wrote: »

Your loss mate

I came so close to walking out of Batman and Robin, but we decided to treat it like a comedy instead and just laughed at everything, funny thing was most people in the cinema were doing the same after a while, as opposed to the horrified silence at the abortion of a movie unfolding in front of us for the first hour or so.

Huge Batfan here but I couldn't even muster the willpower to go to that one. To the casual observer everything seemed promising enough prior to release. Schumachers previous effort had been decent enough. Cast had babes Thurman & Silverstone, Arnie with a pun-tastic hammy-performance and the Smashing Pumpkins were doing the theme tune. But at the time George Clooney was just in media overdrive and the idea of spending 2 hours watching a movie with him in it smugging it up just made me want to be physically sick.

I'm glad I didn't go out to sit thru that hell on earth.

Algernon

I walked out of a Arnie movie that was some kind of Christmas thingy, but I snuck into it so I guess I had nothing to lose.

I would have left Avatar, only that I kept expecting the 'good bit' to arrive.

It never did...

eiretrailer

I usually avoid reading reviews before watching a movie therefore I would like to see the end fo the movie and to get my own impression at the end. honestly, lately there are more movies that I have thought about quit watching before the end.

Keano

I have only ever walked out of one movie before it was over. The remake of The Producers. Pure and utter crap.

genericguy

first one i ever walked out of was dreamcatcher. my god i haven't got a single word to describe how shyte that movie is. then there was some musical with matthew broderick in it, about 5 years ago. i've buried it so deep in my subconscious that i can't even remember the name.

Keano

genericguy wrote: »

first one i ever walked out of was dreamcatcher. my god i haven't got a single word to describe how shyte that movie is. then there was some musical with matthew broderick in it, about 5 years ago. i've buried it so deep in my subconscious that i can't even remember the name.

My post will remind you :pac:

The Producers

genericguy

Keano A Legend wrote: »

My post will remind you :pac:

The Producers

thanks, you are now my enemy.

Josey Wales

mdwexford wrote: »

I have turned off a couple of films on tv or dvd though, Southland Tales being my most recent one actually.

I also switched off Southland Tales way before the end.

lynski

WOW i cannot BELIEVE no one has mentioned Alexander! we walked out after about and hr and a half and only lasted that long because hubbie was asleep and i didn't want to wake him, i would have left after about 40 minutes. what unmitigated ****e.
I had a leave phenomenon(?) a john travolta movie because i was too drunk to understand it and there was star trek episodes on the small screens in the cafe (in the virgin cinema in dublin) - cue one very unimpressed date!
First walk out ever was during the interval at godfather 3, my mom had to wake me up to go out for the interval and figured i would not want to go back in.

chin_grin

Never walked out. Although I came close on two counts.

The latest Indiana Jones and the R*ping of Another Nazi-incorporated Storyline, and Inglorious Basterds. Actually in Indiana Jones 4 I fell asleep twice, and nearly went in Basterds.

norrie rugger

lynski wrote: »

WOW i cannot BELIEVE no one has mentioned Alexander! we walked out after about and hr and a half and only lasted that long because hubbie was asleep and i didn't want to wake him, i would have left after about 40 minutes. what unmitigated ****e.
I had a leave phenomenon(?) a john travolta movie because i was too drunk to understand it and there was star trek episodes on the small screens in the cafe (in the virgin cinema in dublin) - cue one very unimpressed date!First walk out ever was during the interval at godfather 3, my mom had to wake me up to go out for the interval and figured i would not want to go back in.

I would have been very impressed ha

faceman

Ive only ever come close to walking out of a movie twice:

Titanic and Existenz.

Happy Monday

I fell asleep during the road - that long, long road.
But didn't walk out - woke up before the end.

SeekUp

IvySlayer wrote: »

No matter how bad it was, I never left it. I paid for it, I'll see it the whole way through.

Hear hear!

I'm usually 90% sure I'll like the movie before I go to see it . . . or at least find it interesting. So by the time I finally get around to going out to see it, you'd better believe that I'm getting my money's worth out of my ticket! And if I'm watching it on the big screen in the first place (rather than waiting for it to come out for private home viewing a month or two later), I'm even that much more intent on seeing it.

Haven't walked out on a musical/play, either (for the same reason)!

Algernon

Can we double this thread as 'Falling asleep in a movie', too?

How do people manage to get to sleep with the noise?

kraggy

As far as I can recall, I have only left one film early and that was Sin City. I lasted for most of the film but got so pissed off with it, I left about 20 mins from the end.

Normally, I'd be of the mindset that the product is something that unwinds over the 2 hours or whatever and that it should be given its full chance. But I couldn't take any more of Sin City. Hadn't happened before, hasn't happened since.

BopNiblets

Only once, Bed Of Roses (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115644/), with my brother and his friends for a birthday trip and some of them were underage for the film we wanted to see, so we went to this instead and left pretty soon, ha.