Friday Movie Discussion: Movies you walked out of

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:56 am

Inspired by AB's (unexplained) utter hatred for Biloxi Blues, here's the thread where we talk about movies we paid hard money to go see, only to say "fuck it. Sunk fucking cost."

Mine was Hannibal. I didn't particalarly like it watching it, but in that last sequence with Ray Liotta, I got up, said to M-Tel loud enough for everyone to hear "Ok, that's it. Someone eating their own brain is where I draw the line. I'll see you outside." and left and waited in the lobby.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:01 am

I think it was just wrong place wrong time. I saw it with my mother and we both were bored to tears so we left. That was when we went to movies all the time (the theater was within walking distance in my hometown) so we didn't feel like wasting time when there were better things to be doing. WE probably lasted 45 minutes and it may indeed have redeemed itself.

One I wanted to walk out on but didn't was "Midnight in the Garden of Good And Evil". Saw that with a group of friends during college and thought it blew goats.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:01 am

The Happening

Begins and ends with that piece of shit. I remember getting up and saying "No, that's stupid. You will have no more of my time Mr. Shamalamadingdong."

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:03 am

I have never walked out of a movie, but the closest I came was Juno.

Post by **Sabo** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:06 am

Diner.

I didn't see it in a theater, but I rented it once and quit about halfway through. That movie was so bad it's made me hate everything Paul Reiser has ever done in his career.

ETA: I saw Juno in a theater with my wife. If I had seen it solo I would've walked out on it, too. I couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to think a teenager dumb enough to get knocked up would be that witty.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:11 am

Natural Born Killers

Post by **brian** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:12 am

The second Matrix movie. I actually quite liked the first one, but walked out halfway through the second one and obviously(?) never saw the third one.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:13 am

govmentchedda wrote:Natural Born Killers

I fired this up on Netflix about a year ago. Lasted about 25 minutes. I just didn't get it.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:13 am

I so rarely go to movies that I never really gamble, but when I was in high school I walked out of Encino Man (it was playing at the $1.50 theater).

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:30 am

The English Patient, and this was right before the Seinfeld episode came out so it was even more funny to us. I still don't know how it ends but I remember thinking the same thing..."Would everyone just fucking die so this movie can be over?"

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:34 am

Jerloma wrote:The English Patient, and this was right before the Seinfeld episode came out so it was even more funny to us. I still don't know how it ends but I remember thinking the same thing..."Would everyone just fucking die so this movie can be over?"

Was Sack Lunch playing in an adjoining theater?

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:35 am

Driven

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:42 am

Brontoburglar wrote:Driven

I can see walking out of Driven. I stuck through the whole thing on Netflix, but I don't feel good about it.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:49 am

By Driven, do you mean Drive? Because I know that one is really divisive.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:01 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote:By Driven, do you mean Drive? Because I know that one is really divisive.

Whichever one has dreamy Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:11 pm

govmentchedda wrote:
Johnny Carwash wrote:By Driven, do you mean Drive? Because I know that one is really divisive.
Whichever one has dreamy Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan.

Wow. Thought that was a good movie.

Definitely don't see Only God Forgives.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:12 pm

I thoguht Drive was excellent.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:19 pm

Drive does a number of stylistic things that people who call movies "film" (singular) love to gush over, but other things about it are simplistic and sort of dumb.

Plus it wasn't helped by being marketed as a high-action thriller with a bunch of car chases, which it really wasn't, and that may have messed with people's expectations.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:20 pm

Drive was awesome. Driven is the only movie I've walked out of.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:21 pm

Tree of Life.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:24 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote:Tree of Life.

That was pretty terrible. I rented it, watched it all but definitely was not fully vested in it.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:32 pm

Christina Hendricks were in Drive? Maybe I'll need to see that sooner rather than later.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:33 pm

L-Jam3 wrote:Christina Hendricks were in Drive? Maybe I'll need to see that sooner rather than later.

Don't get your hopes up.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:11 pm

If we're counting rentals, I have a few. I used to have this thing where I'd try to watch a movie I wasn't enjoying until its conclusion, on the principle that I couldn't make a good faith assessment unless I had seen the whole thing. A few years ago I finally said fuck it, I'm not going to live forever, and I don't need to waste life watching a movie I'm 99% sure I'm going to dislike.

Movies that have gotten the premature termination treatment include:

-The Hangover: Mentioned this here before. Got about 15 min in, wasn't funny, dislikeable characters.

-The Descendants: May be the most jarring disappointment I've ever experienced with a movie, as Alexander Payne is one of my favorite directors and his previous entry, Sideways, is maybe my favorite of the 21st century so far. The actors other than Clooney come across like amateurs, and the writing is staggeringly bad--yet inexplicably this won an Oscar for best screenplay. People walking up and awkwardly spitting out plot points poorly disguised as conversational dialogue. Also helped to formulate my burgeoning theory that people from Hawaii are secretly the biggest assholes in the union.

-The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (English remake): I saw the original Swedish movies and thought they were OK, but nowhere near as good as the praise they got. I usually like David Fincher, so thought I'd give the remake a shot. Just assumed that an English adaptation would have the setting moved to an English-speaking country, but nope--still takes place in Sweden, with British/American actors talking in fake Swedish accents. Just an odd, odd decision. Gave it about 10 minutes before deciding I wasn't interested in sitting thorough it.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:39 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote:People walking up and awkwardly spitting out plot points poorly disguised as conversational dialogue.

This is one of my biggest movie pet peeves.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:41 pm

Yeah, especially when darth vader fucks it all up.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 2:17 pm

If we are talking videos, I have no idea, but a lot. Only really walked out on one movie, but there re a lot I should have. In college, we went to the movies and disagreed about what to see. I wanted to see Contact, but others wanted to see Nothing to Lose, the buddy comedy where Martin Lawrence carjacks Tim Robbins who is in the middle of a nervous breakdown and kidnaps Martin. Hilarity most certainly did not ensue. Contact started 20 minutes later, so we went into Nothing to Lose and walked out to see Contact, which blew our fucking minds.

vandwagon · Post by **vandwagon** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 3:54 pm

I wanted to walk out of A.I., but I needed a ride home and it was at a one screen theater. Man, that movie sucked.

As for rentals, I gave up on Bonfire of the Vanities about 10 minutes in after really enjoying the book.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 4:03 pm

vandwagon wrote:I wanted to walk out of A.I., but I needed a ride home and it was at a one screen theater. Man, that movie sucked.

As for rentals, I gave up on Bonfire of the Vanities about 10 minutes in after really enjoying the book.

I turned off AI.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 2:36 pm

I walked out of "St Elmo's Fire"....after the scene where Rob Lowe and his band are playing and he has a big fight with his ex-wife in the street....I turned to my friend and said, loudly, "BLAAAAAH"...and we left...

cerrano · Post by **cerrano** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:31 am

"to die for" got the walk-out treatment. it was a delicate situation because i was with a group of people, one of whom was a girl with whom i was enamored at the time. the movie was so bad, i decided she wasn't worth another hour.

TheHumanComa · Post by **TheHumanComa** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 11:16 am

I didn't walk out of it but Battlefield Earth. It was filmed in Montreal and I just happened to sit behind the guy in charge of props and he brought his whole family to watch it with him and even brought along a prop gun with him. I listened to him tell them all how amazing it was to work on the film and how proud he was and then sat and watched as the whole theater booed when the credits rolled. Poor guy. I could see his pride diminish as the movie dragged on. I think the only reason i stayed for the whole movie was because I didn't want to hurt his feelings.

bfj · Post by **bfj** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:44 pm

Nothing in Common with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason.

Fantasia

Dragonheart with Dennis Quaid and the voice of Sean Connery

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 11:08 pm

While we did not actually walk out of it, I asked my wife if we could walk out of "American Hustle" about 25 minutes before it ended (although I wasn't happy with it about 90 seconds into it). She wanted to see how they wrapped it up with the big con.

Just shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche....

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 11:58 pm

DSafetyGuy wrote:While we did not actually walk out of it, I asked my wife if we could walk out of "American Hustle" about 25 minutes before it ended (although I wasn't happy with it about 90 seconds into it). She wanted to see how they wrapped it up with the big con.

Just shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche....

I avoided that one - son and wife rated it "meh" and David Russell's previous movie - "Silver Linings Playbook" - started well before dissolving into a puddle of cliche and nonsense. And if not for Christian Bale, "The Fighter" would have been turned off about half way through.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sun Nov 30, 2014 11:22 am

DSafetyGuy wrote:While we did not actually walk out of it, I asked my wife if we could walk out of "American Hustle" about 25 minutes before it ended (although I wasn't happy with it about 90 seconds into it). She wanted to see how they wrapped it up with the big con.

Just shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche....

Fwiw, I enjoyed American Hustle.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:37 pm

sancarlos wrote:
DSafetyGuy wrote:While we did not actually walk out of it, I asked my wife if we could walk out of "American Hustle" about 25 minutes before it ended (although I wasn't happy with it about 90 seconds into it). She wanted to see how they wrapped it up with the big con.

Just shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche....
Fwiw, I enjoyed American Hustle.

A great many people did, including all of those in the theater who laughed the first time they showed Bale, fixing his hideous hairpiece. That moment was the first time I thought the movie was going to suck. (I have a theory that is not completely fleshed out, but it revolves around audiences giving movies set in the 70's and 80's a lower bar to clear because everyone (everything?) looks so ridiculous, or at least clothing and hairstyles do.)

To be completely fair, Bale was great in "American Hustle". It is unfair for me not to mention that.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sun Nov 30, 2014 6:39 pm

DSafetyGuy wrote:
sancarlos wrote:
DSafetyGuy wrote:While we did not actually walk out of it, I asked my wife if we could walk out of "American Hustle" about 25 minutes before it ended (although I wasn't happy with it about 90 seconds into it). She wanted to see how they wrapped it up with the big con.

Just shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche....
Fwiw, I enjoyed American Hustle.
A great many people did, including all of those in the theater who laughed the first time they showed Bale, fixing his hideous hairpiece. That moment was the first time I thought the movie was going to suck. (I have a theory that is not completely fleshed out, but it revolves around audiences giving movies set in the 70's and 80's a lower bar to clear because everyone (everything?) looks so ridiculous, or at least clothing and hairstyles do.)

To be completely fair, Bale was great in "American Hustle". It is unfair for me not to mention that.

I do think it was flawed and over praised for what it was, but I thought Bradley Cooper was great in it, too.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sun Nov 30, 2014 7:47 pm

sancarlos wrote:
DSafetyGuy wrote:
sancarlos wrote:
DSafetyGuy wrote:While we did not actually walk out of it, I asked my wife if we could walk out of "American Hustle" about 25 minutes before it ended (although I wasn't happy with it about 90 seconds into it). She wanted to see how they wrapped it up with the big con.

Just shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche after shit movie cliche....
Fwiw, I enjoyed American Hustle.
A great many people did, including all of those in the theater who laughed the first time they showed Bale, fixing his hideous hairpiece. That moment was the first time I thought the movie was going to suck. (I have a theory that is not completely fleshed out, but it revolves around audiences giving movies set in the 70's and 80's a lower bar to clear because everyone (everything?) looks so ridiculous, or at least clothing and hairstyles do.)

To be completely fair, Bale was great in "American Hustle". It is unfair for me not to mention that.
I do think it was flawed and over praised for what it was, but I thought Bradley Cooper was great in it, too.

I thought his character was a complete cliche, but I did find his imitation of Louis CK to be great.