Films you turned off before the end or walked out of.

KenSwee

I have on a few occasions, walked out of a cinema or turned off a film if it is so bad or I cannot give it any more of my time, never to return to it. Now I'm not talking about rubbish that is on Syfy; We all know that you get what you pay for when you watch Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus. I'm talking about a film that is considered a mainstream issue or critically acclaimed.

There have been lots of reasons but most of the times I did this when the following occurred.

1. Gratuitous or unnecessary violence.
2. Gratuitous or unnecessary sexual or gender exploitation.
3. Ridiculous plot.
4. Atrocious acting.

Some examples were;

Death Race (2)
What dreams may come(3&4)
Doom(3&4)
Alien Resurrection(3&4)

Has anybody ever walked out or switched off and never went back?

dan1895

Tree of life was the only film I've ever walked out of in the cinema. There are plenty I've turned off, mainly Hostel type movies.

testicle

Walked out of Star Trek Generations way back when

bigfeller

Judge Dredd

charlietheminxx

Shame.

markc1184

The only film I've ever considered walking out of was I Am Legend. I really don't get what some see in that film.

KenSwee

dan1895 wrote: »

Tree of life was the only film I've ever walked out of in the cinema. There are plenty I've turned off, mainly Hostel type movies.

Couldn't agree more. Thoses Hostel type films are just horror porn made by scriptwriters and directors brought up on a diet of Playstation, Red Bull and smut.

bigfeller wrote: »

Judge Dredd

" I arm the lawwwr!!!"
God it was awful but I had t watch it till the end

o1s1n

Ah here now, Death Race 2000 is a great bit of tongue in cheek exploitation. That bit where Stallone rolls up, takes out a machine gun and opens fire on the crowd is brilliant.

Only film I ever walked out on in the cinema was Pitch Black.

There have been plenty I've wanted to, but generally try to stick it out until the end. To my detriment.

Sleepy

I've yet to actually walk out of a cinema but I've given up on plenty of movies. Most recent one I can think of that I'd had high hopes for was Syriana. It just bored me to tears...

Closest I ever came was Vantage Point. Each time you thought the story was progressing, then it's another *fecking* rewind back...

T'was annoying.

nbar12

Renaissance (2006). I went to see this with a girl on a first date, we went midday and there was nothing else on so we went for this. I can't even tell you what it was about but it was the biggest heap of sh1te I have ever come across. It was awkward enough being with this girl but this movie just made it 10 times worse.

It has 6.7 stars on IMDB which is incredible, it really is. It deserves -6.7

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386741/

KenSwee

o1s1n wrote: »

Ah here now, Death Race 2000 is a great bit of tongue in cheek exploitation. That bit where Stallone rolls up, takes out a machine gun and opens fire on the crowd is brilliant.

Only film I ever walked out on in the cinema was Pitch Black.

There have been plenty I've wanted to, but generally try to stick it out until the end. To my detriment.

The first one was very funny, I'm talking about the farce directed by the grammar school arse, Paula Anderson.

Ardent

Last film I turned off (after just 15 minutes) was Project X. Utter sh*te.

Hunchback

dan1895 wrote: »

Tree of life was the only film I've ever walked out of in the cinema. There are plenty I've turned off, mainly Hostel type movies.

dear god, how i wish i had walked out of this godawful film when i saw it in the cinema, BUT NO i hung in there to the bitter end to see if it would redeem itself.

this film demonstrates the true subjectivity of film watching to me, because it was a 5 star reviewed film by the irish times, and i think entertainment.ie, but it was a steaming pile of bum-fungus :mad:

Hunchback

i did, however, flounce out of 'battleship' recently.

some nice special effects, but the script was toe-curlingly, eye wateringly bad.

Q_Ball

Capote.

I literally (not even figuratively!) fell asleep during it, only to wake up and find out nothing had happened. Not sure how long I slept for, but it wasn't long enough!

ziedth

I have never walked out of the cinema but I came within inches of it during Indy 4. I have turned off quite a few films most recently the darkest hour (christ it's an awful film) but generally I'd try to stick it out til the end.

old hippy

Never. No matter how bad I think it is, there's always hope for redemption in the final reel. Which never happens. I do remember seeing quite a few walking out of the cinema during Scorsese's masterpiece "Goodfellas" but they were mostly older folk, possibly expecting some kind of comedy... like that film "Wiseguys" with Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster...

I was half tempted to walk out of "Malice" and "The First Wives Club" both dire films, IMHO...

f3qh5g0z6vc7ob

I've walked out and never looked back but did have to hang around and wait for my friends, on Titanic, it was awful!

I also very nearly walked out on a recent movie but because I liked all the previous I stayed, the movie, which may cause me to get kicked out of here was Batman!!! It was painfully predictable and the cheesy lines......

DrumSteve

The only film I ever actually turned off (and been incredibly offended by) is "I don't know how she does it" with SJP. The GF and I got about a hlaf hour into it and couldn't hack it anymore.

There are so many things wrong with this film, I don't know where to begin.

kingtiger

walked out of Indy IV

last one I remember turning off was Righteous Kill, think it was when I saw Pacino on the Harley giving advice to De Niro who was playing baseball

Basq

Only two instances spring to mind:

Watching AvP on DVD. Absolute dreck of the highest order... how it spawned a franchise I have no idea!

Watched U-571 in the cinema years ago and thought it was horrid. I've never walked out of a movie in the cinema since!

DipStick McSwindler

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Theta

I have never walked out of a cinema and I always avoid turning a film off because I think I cant really judge it until i have watched it until the end.

The only time I ever have turned a movie off was The Truman Show, I dont know what it is about that movie but it does my head in. I have seen the whole thing in parts but I can never watch it in one sitting.

m.mac

Collateral with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx is the one that I can think of. Rubbish film. Turned it off and never went near it again. Also still have never finished Hannah.

I am pie

IrishFeeney92 wrote: »

Only realistic thing about the film was Rihanna getting a right hook

What did you expect re: Battleship. i find it hard to understand why someone would shell out and flounce out disappointed because?....you were expectign a good script? Good characters?

Mystified to be honest.

DipStick McSwindler

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Theta

IrishFeeney92 wrote: »

I havnt seen the film. wouldnt waste my time with it to be honest. Liam Neeson is a highly overated Actor and films seem to be rated as good simply because hes in them. Its just a joke I Knicked of Sickipedia :P

It isnt the worst, its an action movie what more do you want. I got what I expected when I saw it, I actually expected it to be worse than what it was.

Kurz

I walked out of Inception. It had such great reviews and everyone was raving about it. After sitting through the opening 15-20 minutes of silly jumping out windows while firing guns I had just had enough. It felt like the movie was going to just be more Bond/Bourne nonsense. I've been told since that it's not like that the whole way though but I've seen enough.

old hippy

Kurz wrote: »

I walked out of Inception. It had such great reviews and everyone was raving about it. After sitting through the opening 15-20 minutes of silly jumping out windows while firing guns I had just had enough. It felt like the movie was going to just be more Bond/Bourne nonsense. I've been told since that it's not like that the whole way though but I've seen enough.

What a damn, tragic waste

Theta

Kurz wrote: »

I walked out of Inception. It had such great reviews and everyone was raving about it. After sitting through the opening 15-20 minutes of silly jumping out windows while firing guns I had just had enough. It felt like the movie was going to just be more Bond/Bourne nonsense. I've been told since that it's not like that the whole way though but I've seen enough.

This is why I never walk out of movies, I have been turned around so many times the further I get into the movie.

kevohmsford

G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

krudler

Kurz wrote: »

I walked out of Inception. It had such great reviews and everyone was raving about it. After sitting through the opening 15-20 minutes of silly jumping out windows while firing guns I had just had enough. It felt like the movie was going to just be more Bond/Bourne nonsense. I've been told since that it's not like that the whole way though but I've seen enough.

I'm struggling to think where anyone jumps out a window while firing a gun in Inception.

Theta

krudler wrote: »

I'm struggling to think where anyone jumps out a window while firing a gun in Inception.

At the raid in Saitos mind at the start he jumps out of a few windows i think.

im invisible

nbar12 wrote: »

Renaissance (2006). I went to see this with a girl on a first date, we went midday and there was nothing else on so we went for this. I can't even tell you what it was about...

you're doing it right

...but it was the biggest heap of sh1te I have ever come across. It was awkward enough being with this girl but this movie just made it 10 times worse.

It has 6.7 stars on IMDB which is incredible, it really is. It deserves -6.7

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386741/

you're doing it wrong

Sugarlumps

Harsh Times, three of us walked.

FortuneChip

I had to walk out of Spiderman 3. I didn't even care that I was watching it on an airplane.

Sleepy

kevohmsford wrote: »

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Really?

It was far from perfect but I thought that was a fairly decent adaptation of the book. Admittedly the book is a hundred times better but it's one of those things that would be impossible to adapt perfectly.

ViveLaVie

How anyone could walk out of Inception baffles me...

I walked out of Apocalypto, not because I didn't think it was good, but because I nearly got sick watching him eat the boar testicles at the start. Properly actually sick, I could feel the vomit rising in my throat!

I also walked out of The Wicker Man.

I've turned off numerous films, mainly just because I know they are not going to appeal to me, no matter how good they are. Examples: The Royal Tenenbaums and Burn After Reading. I just don't like that kind of humour.

I turned off Transformers. It is crap! I couldn't stick it, not even for Shia Le Boeuf.

Lord of the Rings Return of the king. I saw all i needed to see.

dricko_lim

10,000 BC - garbage

not more to be said really

decmanning

walked out of reign of fire, worst film i have ever seen, also i may be alone here but i also nearly walked out of Ted at the weekend, got great reviews and although ted is a great character i was just not that into it, the main reason for this was that all the funny bits were shown in the trailer so when you saw them in the film they just were not as funny, apart from these funny moments there might have been 1 or 2 other funny monents, apart from this it was quiet dull and cheesy towards the end, only reason i stayed was to drool over Mila Kunis, ashton kutcher you lucky man

ThisRegard

One of the Star War remakes, probably the first as I don't remember seeing any of the other 2.

And I fell alseep during Shakespeare in Love.

lynski

Alexander! other half fell asleep so i let him have a nap for 30 mins then when he stirred i said 'come on there is over an hr left to go in this ****e.'

Raekwon

I feel asleep half way through "Wrath of the Titans". I woke up near the end and just left. Truly awful film from what I can remember.

Funglegunk

I had to turn off The Expendables. Utter rubbish, even with my expectations already set fairly low before seeing it.

mikemac1

Scott Pilgrim vs the World


It has a following and I've read positive posts on boards but I walked out, what the hell was that trash

At the start I thought the sound was broken as there was noise over them talking

I left when they started dancing and I learned

Scott learns that he must defeat Ramona's "seven evil exes", who are coming to kill him.

Tries far too hard to be clever, it isn't

MrMojoRisin

I walked out of the following films:

• Stranger Than Fiction (starring Will Ferrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal).

Why - a mere 10 minutes into it, I was bored sh*tless and felt it wasn't going anywhere.

• P.S., I Love You (in case anyone is wondering, I was dragged along to this by a girl).

Why - found the whole thing contrived and corny, and I nearly spat out my Coke when I heard Gerard Butler do an Irish accent.


* Mamma Mia! (again, I ended up going to see this, no thanks to a girl).

Why - the acting was crap and the whole lot of them breaking into song every 5 minutes was doing my head in.


* The Invention Of Lying (starring Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner).

Why - I thought the plot was dopey and the acting was rubbish. I also felt uncomfortable with the way Garner's character was so brutally bitchy to Gervais' character (even though, yeah, Gervais in real life is a bit of a prat) throughout the 20-odd minutes I managed to sit there watching it.


* Transformers 2

Why - I saw about half of this, and the only reason I lasted that long was because of Megan Fox being onscreen. Otherwise, I thought the film was a heap of sh!te and I couldn't, for the life of me, follow it at all.


* Just Married (starring Ashton Kutcher and the late Brittany Murphy).

Why - this was on TV a while ago and I changed the channel after stomaching a good 40 minutes of absolutely atrocious acting and fake-happy, loved-up people. Awful film.

That's all the walk-outs I can think of at this moment in time. I think there were a few others as well.

jebuz

The Fountain - gave it a good hour and I couldn't tell you what it is about

wendell borton

Never walked out myself but every time i've gone to a sacha baron cohen film there seems to be a proportionally higher amount of walkers compared to other films.

Antar Bolaeisk

jebuz wrote: »

The Fountain - gave it a good hour and I couldn't tell you what it is about

Don't beat yourself up over it, everyone who has watched it in it's entirety couldn't tell you what it's about either

The only film I ever walked out of was Pearl Harbor, I don't know what I was expecting but it certainly wasn't the romance film it turned out to be.

I generally research the films I go to see before hand so that I know I'm not going to be wasting my time.