Have You Ever Walked Out Of A Movie

Three guesses as to why.

The Color Purple

Red Dragon

The Green Mile

..I could go on.

The Spice Girls movie. I lasted about 25 minutes.

The first Harry Potter film. I'm not cut out for kids' entertainment.

The English patient . I lasted about halfway through , then decided I didn't care if the whole fucking lot of them died .

The Lemon Sisters.

Sunset

A Fine Mess

Todd Haynes' "Poison"

The first one was "10." So hetero, I couldn't stand one more minute of it.

I stop watching, or do major fast-forwarding through, DVDs and other video formats about 25% of the time. If I like an actor, I try to see as many of his movies as possible, lots of which suck. I may love you, Jake and Topher and Billy, but not enough to sit through some of your less interesting pics.

Rocky Horror Picture Show - Walked out as Meatloaf was firing up his hog, had enough of the boring, dumb film (I've since become a fan).

La Grande Bellezza - Walked about about 35 min into the film, thought it was a bad Fellini wannabe (it's become one of my favorite films).

There should be another thread about the films you've thrown caution to the wind, persevered and sat through rather than followed your gut instinct screaming piece of shit, leave NOW. And after going the distance with the film and realizing just what a piece of shit it was, wanting the completely wasted 90 or so minutes of your life back.

I walked out of [italic]Blade[/italic] because I had to poop.

the first Star Wars sequel (or prequel?), the one with Jar Jar or WTF it was called...

Forest Gump. I walked out of 2 different showings, actually. The first time, I walked out as soon as that stupid leaf landed during the opening credits. I knew it was going to be miserable so I left. But, then everyone was going on and on about what a great movie it was so I tried again. The 2nd time I made it to the part where Forest apparently invented the "Have a Nice Day" smiley face and walked out again. Worst piece of shit movie ever made.

I just felt the film lost its way after Dawson's 18th load and I didn't need to see the rest of his weekend.

The sequel to The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons. The Spike Lee-directed Miracle at St. Anna. Wanted to walk out of The Last Vampire Hunter starring Vin Diesel a few months ago, but I was on a date. Same for the horror movie Annabelle. Pure Shite, but most all modern horror movies are....

JOHNNY HANDSOME. I thought it was boring as hell. MARS ATTACKS- a homeless man had been to the 3 prior screenings and fucking grabbed my shoulder during a scare moment (probably SJP). The management told me of his viewings, and were making no effort to make him leave.

I am going to overrule the OPs rule: I was sent to review TWILIGHT for our gay weekly. I honestly had no idea what I was walking into. I was probably one of half a dozen men, including Taylor Lautner, who was there with his handler. He told me he didn't want to be there, while we waited in line. I said I didn't either. I thought "what a pretty guy, and such white teeth!" Vampires sparkling and playing baseball. I laughed out loud inappropriately, and removed myself as I was impeding the moment of a lifetime for the audience, and because it sucked, sexy young men or no.

Six Days Seven Nights with Harrison Ford and Anne Heche. They just screamed at each other for the first twenty minutes of the movie, so I walked out.

God, yes, R6. It was so fucking dull. Of course, as gorgeous as most of his films are, they all leave me cold.

r11 I judge baby boomers so harshly for reasons like Forrest Gump. I loved Forrest Gump as a kid, but watching as an adult made it clear just how bad that movie is. How did so called level-headed adults love it so much?

I was forced to go into Zero Dark Thirty with a date. I got about 25 minutes into it before I stood up and loudly exclaimed, 'What a horseshit piece of propaganda!'

the whole movie was a lie. But of course, the zombie moron idiotic fuckhead 'Mericans thought it was great to be lied to. See: Mark Mark's propaganda bullshit about the smoke bombs at the Boston Marathon. Gotta solidify the bullshit in the minds of drone 'Mericans, even though it has been proven to be a complete hoax.

I was happy to walk out of Purple Rain. Two friends who were with me walked out too, and we all said later we would have left before we did but we thought our friends might be enjoying that piece of trash.

I'm generally picky about the movies I see, but it was a hot summer day and the air conditioning was nice.

Wild Wild West. I loved the TV show as a kid. I knew the movie was going to be a Will smith star vehicle, but I didn't know it was going to be so incredibly ridiculous. Walked out of it about an hour in.

In 1979 I walked out of Caligula. I had no idea when I went in how disgustingly perverted it was, and I am a huge fan of mainstream porn.

I frequently stop watching movies at home after 15 or 20 minutes. The last one I stopped watching was The Danish Girl. My God it was boring, right up there with The English Patient which is probably the most boring movie ever made.

Trainspotting - because I couldn't understand what they were saying

Honeysuckle Rose and The Paper - because they were just so bad

A Clockwork Orange - because of the rape scene

Runaway Bride. I still think it's one of the worst movies ever made.

Henry&June I went by myself. I tried to watch it I really did but I got so bored like the last 20 minutes I got up and left.

Agree with R23 about Runaway Bride. I got dragged to that one by my sister, who was sobbing loudly at the ending. It doesn't help that I hate Richard Gere.

Dumb and Dumber. I knew it was going to be a stupid comedy. I like stupid comedies and I have a really thick skin when it comes to bad movies, but I just could not handle it that day.

The Reece Witherspoon version of The Importance of Being Earnest. Just boring and vapid.

LINCOLN and not because I knew the ending. It was because, like many films by Spielberg, it was BORRRRRRING!

I was only seven years old at the time, but my parents decided to bring me and my sister to a showing of "The Last Emperor." I literally thought I was going to expire during the film because it was so boring. I remember lying down the ground (which must have been horribly dirty - why did they let me do that?) until finally my mother said that my sister and I could go wait in the lobby and color until the movie was finished.

Irreversible - worst rape scene ever, made The Accused look like a picnic.

Sherlock - RDJ and ritchie butchering everything Homes was about.

After a string of movies i should have walked out of (Moonlight & Valentino, The thin red line, Unbearable lightness of being, Shakespeare in love, the Pledge) I decided to change my resilient ways and started to walk out of unbearable films.

Yes, one time with a group of friends deciding on a movie I did NOT want to see. I literally said "anyone BUT that one", so of course my asshole friends decided they wanted to see that one. It was just as awful as expected, so after 10 minutes I walked out.

Another time was while watching a horror movie. I hate watching horror movies, it scares me. Halfway through the movie I was scared half to death, even though I was literally closing my eyes, you could still hear the creepy ass sounds. I couldn't take it anymore and had to leave.

i walked out of the island of dr. Marro back in the 90's. too stupid to watch.

I'm cheap. I paid a dollar to see the "Beverly Hillbillies" movie at a, of course, "a dollar" theatre. I was in misery and it wasn't worth a dollar, but I stayed.

There was a Palestinian movie playing at the Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH, an old that had just been brought back to its original glory. We were primarily going to see the theater, and that just happened to be the film they were showing. I had a boyfriend who told me stories about being captured and beaten by the Israelis and I just couldn't take seeing it in person. I just got up and ran and didn't even tell my friend that I was leaving, but it just got to me.

R4 I completely agree about THE ENGLISH PATIENT. I fell asleep about an hour in, woke up and the damn thing was still going on, so I left.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. I got talked into going with a bunch of people one night (dinner at Marin Joe's was the enticement for me, well, that and Brad Pitt). I should've known better as I am really squeamish when it comes to blood. I lasted about 30 minutes and spent the remaining hour and a half in the lobby, waiting for my friends. Unfortunately we had all driven up to Marin in one car so I was stuck. Luckily we had killed time at Book Passage so I had a new book to read.

Ken Russell's VALENTINO - unspeakably stupid.

"The Reece Witherspoon version of The Importance of Being Earnest. Just boring and vapid." I watched this one at home, but it was one of the worst films from a Wilde play ever. Anyone who can make a version of EARNEST that doesn't elicit a single laugh is truly incompetent. Witherspoon was the least of the problems - Judi Dench managed to make Lady Bracknell into nothing more than a nasty bitch.

R32 It is MOREAU. It's been around since 1896 with that spelling. Yes, it matters to me.

was too much trouble to name the films, R31?

Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge". What a hysterical, cloying, twee piece of shit.

R29 Why did they let me do that? Why did your parents let you lay down on the floor? Too bad they never let you lay down in front of a steam roller you stupid piece of shit.

Three Amigos. The worst.

Although Soul Man was probably even shittier but I saw it twice because we couldn't agree on a movie.

"As Good As It Gets." I thought it was boring, and I hated all of the characters. I still can't look at Helen Hunt without feeling a bit of rage.

I walked out of American Beauty. Still don't know how the film ends. Don't care.

At the time, people thought I was insane for not appreciating an Academy Award winning film.

R40, well the floor was carpeted and we were in the front row. And I was seven years old and tired. And I already questioned, years later, why they allowed me to lie down on the ground.

Your anger seems very out of sync with my story. You sound like you haven't been fucked yet in 2016, frankly.

"How Do You Know," this bullshit James L. Brooks movie with Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, owen Wilson and Jack Nicholson. Just the most incredibly ridiculous movie with stupid, horrible characters.

R38, the first one was a lame ass Norwegian movie. I never watch Norwegian movies because they're all awful, and this was too.

The second one was The Conjuring. It was too scary for me.

R44, my parents used to take us to drive-in movies. It wasn't unusual for us to fall asleep, depending on what we were watching. We were in our own car, not lying on a filthy movie theater floor.

Seven year old children are not movie critics. Anything above the level of Finding Nemo is not likely to hold their attention.

I still don't get what you're trying to say, R44/R47. That my parents were awful for letting us lie down on the floor? It was a brand-new theater and they must've thought, whatever. It was the 80s and they generally let us do what we wanted.

"Seven year old children are not movie critics." Um, who said they were and what does that have to do with anything?

You really sound like an epic cunt.

[quote]Why did your parents let you lay down on the floor? Too bad they never let you lay down in front of a steam roller you stupid piece of shit.

Oh, Dear. No lie.

Annie Hall Pulp Fiction John Cassavetes's Faces An Unmarried Woman Nashville Birdman

Nashville, R50? You have zero taste.

An Unmarried Woman, R50? You have minus-zero taste.

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, the original. I think I lasted about half an hour. I thought it was stupid and not remotely funny, though I realize I was in the minority. I told some friends I didn't laugh once and walked out, and they said my mistake was going to see it alone, rather than with a group or with at least one friend. But there are plenty of movies I've seen alone that I thought were hilarious. Needless to say, I have not seen and will not see the sequel.

You know - only once (I'm quite the movie buff; saw TONS of movies when lived in NYC and SF; big SF Film Festival-goer - all that is gone from me now, alas.) Early 2000's, maybe? Was a film; I forget the name of it, sorry - Ashley Judd played a woman who overcomes hard knocks, raises herself up - think she got good reviews for it - NOT a blockbuster; a "small" film. THe type of film I usually liked, BUT: Dear God in Heaven; was worse than watching paint dry. I was even with my second-best friend (platonic; no hook-ups); HE chose to stay; we parted the film amicably; neither held it against the other. I just could NOT stand another minute.

I love R11!! I've been waiting since that fucking film came out and ALL my fucking friends - even usually critical ones - LOVED it. Now, I didn't even SEEN the damn thing; was turned off during previews (while at another film) of the goddamn retarded-voice. Sorry; know I'll burn in hell. Just had NO interest in a film about someone "simple". None.

R48 My point exactly. That cunt makes it sound like he is a robot you can program. Let us program our stupid kid not to lie on a floor in a theater. Even a 7 year old turd has free will. If someone tells you to let them shoot their hiv-filled spooge into your skanky cunt hole do you later say: why did he shoot his hiv-filled spooge into my cunt hole! Free will fucker. Look it up.

R17, I don't know! (see my happy response to R11, and R55). I'm a boomer (yes; so OLD)and I REFUSED to see the damn thing. I'd like to round up fellow boomers myself and ask then, WHY? WHY? WHY?

MAYBE a part of it was Tom Hanks? Sally Field? THe former MUCH more than the latter?

Woody Allen's Celebrity: a snoozefest. The last opus of the Lord of the Rings: I hate action movies and was bored out of my mind. R38, hopefully not Oslo, August 31st, my favorite movie ever. American Beauty is also right at the top of my favorite movies. But then again: I do NOT like action movies.

Star Wars.

R31, re your first paragraph: WHICH movie? I won't be able to sleep tonight; I swear - please tell us!

Dune. Literally yelling WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?

Howard the Duck. Same reaction.

Caligula. As Roger Ebert said the worst piece of shit EVER.

Vanilla Sky. Hated both Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz since.

Couldn't sit through more than 15 minutes of Dream a Little Dream with that icon Corey Feldman without wanting to vomit. The whole Michael Jackson thing was jarring to say the least.

When Kevin Costner drank his own piss (no folks this was definitely NOT a water sports video!) at the beginning of Waterworld, I left. I STILL can't tell you anything else about that rancid movie.

STAY AWAY FROM XANADU AT ALL COSTS! Where to start with this mess? Buy the soundtrack, skip this monstrosity. ONJ. Terrible. Gene Kelly. Horrific and CANNOT be unseen. Michael Beck (WHO?) was NEVER seen again. Horrible special effects and a script that is extremely tone deaf. Walked out at the Suspended in Time part and never looked back.

Lenny (1974). After what felt like torture listening to Valerie Perrine inanely giggling, I walked out.

I walked out of a film festival offering, Fucked in the Face (2000). It was not worth the time to watch it.

R54, are you talking about RUBY IN PARADISE? That was from 1993, but it sounds like the film you were describing. It's one of the few films where Judd got largely good reviews.

Sorry, but R50 should not be allowed IN a movie theatre. Some of those films were BRILLIANT, you moron.

R54 here. THANK you, R54, That's the title I meant. Yes, I think she did get good reviews and I actually usually like here, but SNOOZE - plot, direction; PACE - too slow for me.

Pulp Fiction

[quote]You really sound like an epic cunt.

I am, R48. I can't tell you how happy it makes me. Being nice all the time is a bitch.

(R18) Did you go on a second date after your attack of Tourrettes?

Poltergeist 2. Horrid.

I have never walked out of a movie; I keep thinking/hoping the movie will get better as it goes on. Never does. That's why I rarely go to movies anymore unless it's a sure thing. Just catch them on demand and turn them off if they suck.

R56 sounds deranged. Do the people who run your halfway house know that you didn't make lunch checks today?

Poltergeist 3. Why was that shit even made?

It ended Nancy Allen's career.

Oh and that Heather girl actually died. So I guess there's that.

The remake of The Fog. Tom Welling is pretty, but he didn't make me want to stick around past the 50 minute mark. Thankfully, everyone has forgotten about it and it's been in the $3 Big Lots bin for years now.

Someone in the cast died from each of the Poltergeist films.

Grumpy Old Men. It was a bad time in my life, and I wasn't in the mood. I've since seen it on cable and thought it was fairly funny.

Some shitty movie called When In Rome. Left after 20 minutes.

The Green Lantern with Ryan Reynolds. It got 30 minutes.

The last installment of Jurassic Park. Talk about fucking a concept to death.

Grease II. one of the most god awful films ever made. Ditto Madonnas Swept Away. Wertmuller should have shot Madonna for that re do.

Marky Marks Planet of the Apes. Ugh.

R73 The original The Fog is also horrible, but its a campfest complete with Janet Leigh & DL fave, the monster-titted Adrienne Barbeau.

With you all the way, r11 and r17--Gump is astoundingly grating, cloying, and contrived. Hanks should have won an award for the most affected and annoying rendition of disability ever performed. This was the same year that he trotted out Rita Wilson as his Kinsey zero badge at every promotional or awards event for Philadelphia. That was enough to put me in the un-fan camp.

"Less Than Zero"

I was with friends and we ended up in two groups sitting in two different rows. We all ended up leaving at the exact same time.

It was a Sophia Coppola movie about the intimate life of a movie star and his daughter. I think one of the Fanning girls played the daughter. One of the scenes focused on cars driving around a track for minutes on end. I don't know how long I lasted but it was completely boring.

I walked out of 1996's The Fan starring Robert DeNiro as an obsessed stalker (are there any other kind?) Just totally unpleasant claptrap and I stood up, said loudly This sucks (I was in a 42nd street grindhouse, so outspoken opinions were the norm) and left...

Bruno--WTF was Cohen thinking?? I wanted to hurl all of the items from the concession stand at the screen before I walked out.

Cohen? Pedo Jew. He ain't funny, he's insane.

[quote]Sherlock - RDJ and ritchie butchering everything Homes was about.

Completely agree with this. I'd have walked out too but I was in a plane over the Atlantic when I saw (the first half) of it.

Crash with James Spader. I kep waiting for something to happen

Waterworld, that awful Kevin Costner movie. I walked out after the first 45 or so minutes, which felt like three hours. It was the worst piece of shit I've ever seen in a theater.

Congo

Hail, Caesar!

Probably multiple times, but the only one I can remember is walking out of Sixteen Candles for excessive use of the word "fag."

Jupiter Ascending - God awful piece of shit

Australia - boring as hell

But on the other hand I did enjoy Mars Attacks

Cardinal Knowledge. I thought it was a religious picture!

I can remember at least twice (there's probably more). I walked out of a screening of "Mr. Jealousy" (Noah Baumbach film with Eric Stoltz from '97)--I hated it so much I asked the box office for my money back--first time ever doing that, and since it was less than 10 minutes in, they refunded me without much fuss. There is a reason Eric Stoltz is not a success--he is usually a terrible actor--and there was something so...callow.. about his looks that I find cringe-worthy (he is actually better looking recently). Now that I realize it was a Baumbach film (whom I knew little about then), I understand. He makes a lot of really hateable movies.

The other one I remember was "The Darjeeling Limited" by Wes Anderson. I am an off again/on again fan of Anderson's movies (loved Rushmore and Grand Budapest Hotel), but this one just made me want to puke, so again I left and asked for my money back. Jonathan Schwartzman has a certain weird charm but sometimes he is really loathesome, as in this film.

[quote]"How Do You Know," this bullshit James L. Brooks movie with Witherspoon, Paul Rudd,

No gay would ever walk out on that D-R-EEEEEEEE-meee Paul Rudd.

The second Lord of the Rings, whatever that sequel was called. The first one bored me to tears, but I thought I would give it another shot. It was so bloody dull that I couldn't take one minute more of it. And people really like that crap?!?

The Star Wars that was the 4th to be released. Whatever it was called. Evita. The film by that guy who was married to Bjork.

Add me to the list of those who hated Forrest Gump. Awful, awful movie.

And every time I think of Hanks getting an Oscar for that POS, it reminds me of how bogus those awards are. Didn't Hanks go ballistic at one of the Oscar ceremonies when they used the Gump music for his into? Serves him right. He should have to use that as his theme song.

I have to disagree about Congo, however, although I don't expect others to share my opinion. It is a guilty pleasure of mine. And I love the ending (spoilers follow) where Laura Linney grabs up the weapon, jams in the diamond needed to operate it, and fires on the mutant apes attacking them. So unlike Laura Linney that I love it.

I walked out of the exorcist back in january of 1974. I am glad I did because the minute i hit the lobby a massive shit pain rocked my whole body. had to down-load.

Lulu's Talking Ass. Couldn't understand a thing it was saying...

I walked out of 'Cloverfield' .......... it was the first time that the found footage shooting of a movie actually made me feel nauseous.

Falling Down-because it was a piece of shit. Unbearable.

Fred Forrest, Babs Hershey, & Tuesday Weld all gave TdFPs in falling over

R60, the Norwegian movie's name is Pionér. It was incredibly boring, like all Norwegian movies. And as I said, the horror movie was The Conjuring.

How about movies you wished you'd walked out of but didn't because you kept thinking they were bound to get better?

Mamma Mia

Slumdog Millionaire (I kept asking myself, "what am I missing here?")

Lost in Translation (Lost on me!)

Breaking the Waves and one other Lars Von Trier movie. I will never go to any movie of his ever again.

I've walked out of GET SHORTY, MAGNOLIA, CRASH, and TREE OF LIFE

The reason? I was bored.

Avatar- stupidest movie ever. Now I hear there's gonna be four more....

R104 does not respect the cock.

Hard to call this a movie, as it was just a collection of random footage during rehearsals. I was with a few friends and we all just said - fuck it.

Walked out on "Eyes Wide Shut" because... I.. got.. tired.. of every actor... talking... like... THIS! Too much faux intensity. Went next door to "American Pie" instead.

Got some reason I can't recall my bf and I went to the movies early one Saturday morning. Everything playing was for kids. The only vaguely non kid movie was Mr Deeds. We lasted 15 minutes. It was so excruciatingly bad not even the kids were laughing. Truely, truely awful piece of shit.

The only other movies I hated as much were Speed 2, which I suffered through because I was on a date, and the beyond dreadful Forest Gump.

I SHOULD have walked out on ....."Orca", AKA "Orca, the Killer Whale".

Since the movie starred Richard Harris, I couldn't believe that it wouldn't get any better.

I was sooooo wrong.

"It was a Sophia Coppola movie about the intimate life of a movie star and his daughter. I think one of the Fanning girls played the daughter."

That was SOMEWHERE, and I couldn't get past 25 minutes of it on TV. It was actually more dull than LOST IN TRANSLATION. Sofia Coppola is the queen of Movies That Don't Really Go Anywhere.

Analyze This

I walked out of beloved when those men milked that black woman.

Maverick

I got through two of Mel Gibson's smug line readings and Jodie's bad acting and thought, "I just can't."

Rocky Horror Picture Show

It was like watching community theater.

I wanted to walk about of "The Artist" but I thought my friend really was enjoying it. Afterwards, I found out he wanted to leave, too, but stayed for me.

I GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU VERY WELL - Carly Simon

In the early 80's in NYC...me and my straight friend used to watch kung fu movies together. One day me and him got into porno theater with fake ids . I was struggling with my sexuality. I was in denial about being gay. It was a straight porno film... Big 10ft tall hairy 70's pussy was on the screen... it was the most repulsive thing I ever saw in my life. I was thinking I will have to fuck that some day. A pussy?? A slimy hairy clammy pussy?? Then it hit me that I was REALLY GAY... I had a panic attack and ran into the bathroom. I tried to come back and watch the film with my friend but I said I gotta go and he laughed. He stayed, I ran out and was having an anxiety attack all the way home. He later said the film was good and I missed out. 70's pussies were scary hairy....

I'M NOT IN LOVE - 10cc

Another time in NYC walked out of a gay porno film because they accidentally had a straight porno showing. Guys were yelling what the fuck?

Jane Campion's In The Cut with Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh. I kept thinking I had better things to do so I left, went home and did laundry.

The only other one I think I walked out on was Lawrence Kasdan's I Love You To Death with Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman and River Phoenix. I just thought it was terribly uninteresting.

Oh, the other I can think of was Poltergeist II: The Other Side. Ten minutes in I could tell it was complete and total rubbish.

Lastly, a revival Theo Angelopoulos' The Suspended Step of The Stork with Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau. It was so pretentious and self-regarding it seemed to descend into self-parody. My then partner and I started laughing uncontrollably and thought it best if we left. Still ranks as one of the best decisions I've ever made.

R114 Is a black frau from the 1950s. Good fucking grief most of Hollywood has sucked for decades so why suffer through shit. I never see movies anymore and don't miss it at all.

I took a straight friend with me to see XANADU. He walked out and left me there. I stayed. That was 36 years and about twenty viewings ago.

Can't recall the title, but it featured Cary elwes as a serial killer who collected women, Ashley Judd as his recent acquisition, and Morgan freeman as the surly but lovable detective hunting them down.

Technically, I was ejected because I had slipped in with a flask of bushmills and I kept mocking Morgan freeman (one of my favorite actors) with his catchphrase:

This guy's a collector!

If I pay I stay, I don't care how crap it is. The Darjeeling Limited is a great movie btw R92. Try some non Hollywood movies R120. Although given that you're psychic - you don't go to movies but you know they are crap - you can probably use your remote viewing superpower.

[quote]—Nobody Else Left. Must Have Been A Gay Audience...

I had a lot of friends that owed me favors

Sofia Coppola is an atrocious hack. Really the worst case of nepotism in the history of movies. Lens is Billy Wilder compared to that dago hipsterette!

[quote]If I pay, I stay. I don't care how crap it is.

I have a friend like you. I don't understand it.

Oh, R119, I thought I Love You to Death was good. Joan Plowright, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves, Kevin, Tracey, River and all the rest. Great dark humor.

I BADLY wanted to walk out of "Krampus" - but I was trying to hook up w/ the guy I saw it with.

Plenty of times:

Dracula, Dead and Loving It (I could've watched Steven Weber and Amy Yasbeck be unfunny on TV for free)

Tadpole (indie crap with Sigourney Weaver as a rich cougar)

Wet Hot American Summer (I've tried watching it since and I cannot understand what is supposedly so funny about this one)

Anchorman (again, I've tried watching it over the years and cannot understand what is supposed to be so funny)

American Me (homophobic Edward James Olmos' film with more prison rape than 6 seasons of OZ)

The Royal Tenenbaums (booooring unlikeable characters talk and talk and talk and talk and talk. Waste of a great cast.)

I've never walked out of a movie but I've fallen asleep a few times in a theater. At least during Harry Potter 2 (I loved films 3-8 in the series though), during Titanic and almost during The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, now that is one shitty movie. I have however stopped watching countless movies at home because the just suck. Avatar was one, I really tried to like it since I love Cameron's earlier stuff, but it wasn't until the third attempt that I finally managed to finish it without falling asleep in front of my tv.

Some of the films mentioned here are great. John Carpenter's The Fog is awesome. The English Patient seems to getting lot of flak but I loved it, not that I don't see its flaws. I did read the book first and it is gorgeously written, and of course Ralph Fiennes was so bloody sexy in it.

One True Thing. I realized I wasn't a frau.

I walked out of Xanadu and I was only 9 yrs old at he time.

You people who walked out of Xanadu should be flogged and your ballet pumps burned!

My bf and I walked out of one of the Harry Potter movies. The movie had no fucking plot.

I remember double bills of Xanadu with this gem.

Groundhog Day.

Whichever Batman movie featured Arnold as "Mr. Freeze." It was so bad that I refuse to even look it up.

The Piano. I couldn't keep my eyes open.

I have never seen so many people walk out of a film as I did as a budding cinephile watching Peter Greenaway's The Thief the Cook His Wife and Her Lover. They started leaving after the opening scene (man assaulted and smeared with dog excrement) and dozens more left throughout the film (during the stabbed with a fork in the face dinner scene and the tryst in the back of a rotting meat truck crawling with maggots scene) that by the climactic cannibal scene there was hardly anyone left in the the theater! Helen Mirren in a fabulous coutoure gown standing over the lovingly prepared corpse of her lover holding a handgun to the head of a murdering gangster imploring "Try the cock." This was downtown NYC 1990. I was mesmerized but others not so much obviously LOL. Guess they were expecting A Room With a View or something LOL

Yes. A friend and I walked out of Picture Perfect, a dreadful 1997 rom-com starring Jennifer Aniston and Jay Mohr. We were openly mocking it in the theater. Some guy with either his wife or his girlfriend was laughing at our running commentary about how shitty the movie was. I finally told my friend I couldn't take watching the steaming turd any longer, so we got up the leave. The guy who was laughing at our comments said, "Oh shit, they're leaving! They were the only good thing about this movie." His wife/girlfriend did not look amused.

Another friend and I walked out of She's Gotta Have It by Spike Lee. Just a dreadful piece of shit. I like some of Spike Lee's other movies, but this one sucked. As we got up to leave, several other people got up and followed. Apparently the theater emptied out shortly after we left.

That retarded one where Shia LeBeef had the ankle monitoring bracelet and saw a murder or something. It was so fucking boring I left about 45 minutes into it. And that other stupid one where Travolta rode a Harley with other has beens. I stayed through that one only because it was like 95 degrees out. I turned on my iPod about a half hour into that one.

Red Sonja..with Brigitte Neilson and Schwarzenegger. I was 9.

Passion of the Christ , a film by Mel Gibson. Tickets were free, still walked.

Original Paranormal Experiment. When the ouija board caught fire , I walked out. So dumb. Waited outside for friends and ended up hooking up in parking lot.

Left "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban about halfway through. It seemed endless, and I was nodding off. Waiting in the lobby for my friends was more interesting.

Pacific Rim - I made it about 30 minutes. What a shitfest.

Reality Bites - and i was the target audience for the movie - couldn't stand it - so predictable and cliche

I saw that snoozefest too, r122. It was called "Kiss the Girls." Ugh.

r141, the Shia LaBoeuf crapfest was "Disturbia." Just awful, awful, awful.

I saw sextette in 1978. Loved it.

Had no idea Forest Gump was so unpopular with so many.

I saw Rocky Horror at a midnight audience participation showing otherwise would have walked on that pos.

Don't Dream It, Be It!!!

r139: Well, I saw it (The Cook, the Thief, etc.) in LA, so I wasn't in your theater, but when it became obvious somewhere toward the end what the final "course" of the film would be, I decided I didn't need to see it and left. Peter Greenaway, always an "interesting" director...Not a film to recommend to your vegetarian friends.

It was supposed to be vile and horrifying-it was an indictment of Thatcher's England! Granted, i was just becoming politicized and certainly didn't know much about Old Blighty even though my parents are from a former British colony.

The first Harry Potter, Waterworld

[bold] Synecdoche, New York [/bold] with Phillip Seymour Hoffman was the most boring, pretentious piece of shit I've ever tried watching at the films. I made it 45 minutes but should have bolted a half hour earlier.

^^^^^And of course CANCER-MOUTH Roger Ebert thought it was "the best film of the 2000 decade." Boy, I think that cancer was really eating his brain by that point.

Eyes wide shut. Fucking horrible.

I walked out of Gangs of New York and Wrekmeister Harmonies. I can be patient and sit though anything, even slow experimental art films, but I think I was in a sad and unhappy mood at the time, and they just seemed like tedious bullshit.

Did I say "chocolates"?

The Village.

SPOILER ALERT!

When Oscar winner Adrien Brody(!!!) STABS multiple Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix(!!!) for what seems like 3.5 hours in real time, I literally crawled out of the theater screaming WHY???

M Night Shebagalanga REALLY needs to STOP making movies. Didn't even bother with any of his other films released since 2004.

Oh and Ron Howard's daughter is one of THE worst actresses EVER! Jurassic World confirms this.

RIVER'S EDGE - Keanu Reeves, Crispin Clover, Dennis Hopper, 1986. I remember it was a packed house, Friday or Saturday night. The gratuitous slow pannning shots, up & down the naked dead girl's body for what seemed like the first 10 minutes of the film , did me in. It was too disturbing, I didn't like it. I blame myself. I should have *known* that it was going to be too disturbing & weird for my tastes, with Dennis Hopper in cast, but my friends really wanted to see it, so......

Within 15 minutes, I left -- told my friends I would see them back at the dorms. It's only movie that I've ever actually walked out of. I came REALLY close with MERMAIDS, but didn't, hoping it would get better. In retrospect, I should have walked out of that one.

I did once RUN out of movie theater, in sheer terror. EARTHQUAKE, in Sensurround! I was 8 or 9 years old. I somehow convinced my mother to take me, against her better judgement -- the 1971 Sylmar quake had scared the shit out of me. We all laugh at the cheesey visual effects now, but man....the Sensurround made it feel like the seats were sliding, downslope, toward the screen! Half-way through the quake, I got up and ran out of the theater -- outside to the sidewalk -- with my hands over my ears, screaming my head off. Mom & I still l laugh about that.

Earthquake gave me a headache.

But the reason l actually walked out was Victoria Principal's atrocious acting.

I knew l was gay at 11 years old yelling at screen BITCH PLEASE! I swear to God. I didn't stick around for everybody else to die.

I saw the thief, cook, lover etc with my Mom when I was in college. Mom had a warped sense of humor. She also took me to see Scarface when I was in high school. Very good mother-daughter bonding, lol. Good memories! Mom is mid 80's and sliding into dementia, but those are some of the things I remember very fondly...

SEX AND THE CITY (the first one)- about 15 minutes in. The Fraus were overwhelming and obnoxious.

Gangs of New York (and I had eve snuck in booze to help with the experience)

Another person who walked out of Henry and June. Also walked out of A Touch of Class and Seems Like Old Times.

Seems Like Old Times is hysterical. Now I have to get my feet scraped.

R129 - you weren't properly prepared for WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER. I knew Mike when he was at NYU before he transferred to Brown. Knowing his sense of humor and my sense of humor, I smoked a copious amount of weed with my BF before seeing that movie. Being stoned made it funny. I'm sure Mike and the State guys thought it was funny when they were stone cold sober. It just wasn't in my wheelhouse. I'm not Jewish and never went to summer camp.

I sat through a lot of really bad movies, but only walked out of two - Blue Velvet and Snowpiecer.

You were wise to walk out of Picture Perfect. At the climax, Aniston goes up to Mohr as he is photographing a wedding and begins making this passionate speech, professing hre love for him. She's also disrupting the wedding. Instead of being pissed and having them both thrown out, the bride, at the altar while this is taking place, leads the guests in a round of applause for the starcrossed duo. Just the stupidest thing ever.

The Avengers (with Ralph Fiennes)

Carol, with Cate Blanchett - what a drag

Several terrible comedies:

Weird al: UHF

Rodney dangerfield: ladybugs

Paul Rodriguez: a million to Juan

Chris Farley: Beverly Hills ninja

Adam sandler: Jack & Jill

Dave chapelle: half baked

Lots of movies I wanted to walk out on, but the only one I ever did was In Good Company starring Topher Grace. It wasn't necessarily the worst movie I've ever seen, but I'd just been fired (from a crap job, but I was still upset about it, my first and so far only firing) and really needed a good, funny movie to lift my spirits. The thing is a painfully unfunny tryhard. I could tell what parts were supposed to be funny, but they always fell flat. It was aggressively mediocre; this was when I started to dislike Topher Grace.

I've walked out of two.

The first was The Truth About Cats and Dogs. It starred Jeanine Garofalo and Uma Thurman. I was 12 and saw it with a group of friends at our town's $1 theatre. We didn't really want to see it, but it was the only thing playing. I lasted until either a phone sex part or a masturbation part (can't remember) and then I said I'd had enough and would be waiting in the lobby. Romance/love/sappy movies were not for me.

The second was the Hobbit Part II. I saw the first, didn't enjoy it other than the Gollum part, but decided to see the second anyway. I made it until the scene with the barrels in the river and realized I wasn't enjoying it at all and would be happier not watching that shit. So I left.

I really tried to give Lord of the Rings a chance, because it was so hyped and I had friends who loved it, but I walked out after an hour because I just couldn't get into it at all. I've never seen any of the other films in the franchise either.

Evita- Madonna was just awful! She was so desperate to be taken seriously as an actress, but she just didn't have the talent. She needed to stick to music.

Message in a Bottle- still in high school and wanted to make out with the guy I was seeing at the time so we would frequently go to this dollar theater that was always deserted when we wanted some privacy. FFS, we weren't even there for the movie but the dialogue and acting was so bad we had to get out of there! We ended up blowing each other in the parking lot of the mall, so it wasn't a total loss.

Hail Caesar a couple weeks ago...It was insufferable. Left after....20 minutes or so? Maybe 30.

I practically lived in movie theaters through my late teens and twenties, I'd often see a couple films a week, but the only one I ever walked out of was THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY. Damon was fine, but Minghella's overblown, revisionist take on the material annoyed the hell out of me & halfway through I just said fuck it. I took it as a sign to stop going to so many movies - ticket prices were getting too expensive anyway.

I walked out of Xanandu but I went in a cripple. It was a miracle!

I would've walked out of Evita but I was on a plane, back when the whole cabin watched one film together.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, I was in high school and somebody recommended it to me. The only movie I have walked out of.

Superbad. It was super bad.

I ran out of Jaws the Revenge! What the FUCK was l thinking? I thought Michael Caine, what could go wrong?

That's what I get for thinking! Remember he skipped WINNING his first Oscar to film this monstrosity! When Bruce decided to chase down Mrs. Brody, l thought WOW! THIS IS THE BIGGEST LOAD OF BULLSHIT EVER! I'm surprised Caine survived this. NO ONE ELSE DID.

Crash was interesting. I watched it in New York and it's the only film I ever saw where only men walked out. About a third of the audience walked out, all of them men. They probably thought they could see some hot sex scenes and were disappointed it was an 'artistic' film. Still interesting, that none of the women felt 'offended'.

English Patient and a movie with Nicole Kidman. Don't recall the name. She was a local weather reporter who had her husband killed.

Beverly Hills Cop

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Robert Altman's "Prêt-à-Porter"

A huge let-down. Tedious unfunny pretentious crap with not a single likable character.

Didn't Seinfeld do an episode where they all hated The English Patient?

I was 6 years old when I walked out of Xanadu My mom drove me straight to Target where we bought the soundtrack on cassette.

i later bought xanadu on VHS and loved it.

The Nutcracker. My sister took me to see An American Tale, but it was sold out, so we went to see The Nutcracker instead. It was so god damned boring, we left after about 20 minutes or so.

R183 - OMG - Most of Robert Altman's films were groanworthy... He had a few gems, but for the most part, awful awful shit films.

"Funny Games"

Basically because I knew what the gory ending was going to be, and the film taunts the audience to watch to the end. Blech...

I loved Funny Games, lol. I'm surprised at how many people get so bent out of shape over that movie. The director was purposefully fucking with you the whole time.

Swept Away with Madonna

Elizabethtown. Worst piss of crap ever.

Bravo, r183 and r188. Just be super careful in your USC film class.

Lord of the Rings.

I loved the books as a child. But found the movies childish.

Gump is a great and enjoyable movie. You cumdrinking brainwashed cunts probably watched American Terrorist (ooopsie, American Sniper) and didn't walk out. Hey, Americans shooting kids based on lies is great! He's a patriot! That terrorist piece of shit is where he belongs: in a grave with a hole where his head used to be.

Superbad is awesome. Cumdrinkers don't like it because it talks about boy/girl sex.

I walked out of Arthur because it was stupid and pointless and Liza Minelli needs to have her face replaced with something that looks human.

Funny R180, I noticed a lot of dudes walking out during Crash too. Especially during the scene with James Spader and Elias Koteas.

Pride & Prejudice with that ridiculous non-actor girl with the quivery upperlip. The idiotic director had attempted to "make it real" by grunging up the interior of the Bennett home, and giving the girls the manners of slatterns. (Of course this was thought 'cool' and praised.) I only waited to see Judy Dench, but walked out during her performance when I realised she was phoning it in. Truly monumentally awful.

Nice try, r195--actually all four of the films you mention are shit, but they don't reach the likely levels of excrement in your brain and soul. Take your trolling epithets to some site that appreciates the amazing cleverness and class and lost semantics of "cumdrinking brainwashed cunts".

You're calling us "cumdrinkers" in defense of a movie where Tom Hanks does a nude scene and a female junkie breeder slut dies of AIDS?

Just for you, r195...

my big fat greek wedding

I finally realized what my old acting teacher meant when she said I was doing 'schtick' in glass

the windex people should have sued

Pulp Fiction - couldn't handle the slapstick violence and loath Willis

r197: And Pride and Prejudice was WAY better than Joe Wright's version of Anna Karenina also with the lip quiverer (mouth purser maybe?), Keira K. Just HORRENDOUSLY BAD movie. I think I did not walk out but only because I was with someone. She was a really terrible actress (except in her very first film, Bend it Like Beckham) until her non-lead in The Imitation Game, where I think they must have cut all the scenes where she does all the annoying mouth business and she was well cast with the Cumberbatch.

[quote] Hanks should have won an award for the most affected and annoying rendition of disability ever performed.

Not while I'm alive.

NOW do you bitches understand why blocking people is a good thing??

I mean, really.

Would you ever want to interact with R195 again in your life? Would that interaction be beneficial to you in any way?

'loathe' - dang it and despise, too

The remake of Planet of the Apes starring Mark Wahlberg, which is now forgotten, and rightfully so. They took a sci-fi classic and just shit all over it. I walked out less than halfway through.

BTW I thought Marky Mark was terribly miscast because he was playing one of the human characters and not one of the apes.

bump - he'd make a great ape

I left after one hour of a movie that had Cameron Diaz, Amy Brenneman, Ally McBeal... because I realised it wasn't going to get any better. Can't remember the title. This was around 2002.

Oh, I get it. You only like movies with naked men in them! And Hanks is 'fugly' so you don't like his movies.

People love me here because I speak the truth. You DO drink cum, right?

Superbad was great, and so was Gump. Now go back to jacking off to Bieber's glistening butthole.

Only two movies so far:

Pirates of the Caribbean (the first one of the series)

Team America: World Police

Somehow I expected a film "by the creators of South Park" to be really funny, which was not the case at all. Also, the weather was fantastic outside, so I left.

Walked out of Johnny Depp's Willie Wonka movie. Depp was too creepy.

And a Julianne Moore, Ralph Fiennes film. End of the Affair? Dull to the extreme.

Yes...one of those Transformer movies. I knew ahead of time I would hate it. Why I actually paid to see it is anybody's guess. I'll stick mostly to foreign films.

Endless Love. Probably the most ridiculous movie EVER. I'm surprised Spader, Cruise and Shields even have careers. Hewitt literally dropped off the face of the earth. When he started the fire, l started for the exit!

Speaking of which, Firestarter. The moment I saw Heather Locklear, l walked.

East of Eden. Rosie O'Donnell AND Dan Aykroyd in leather CANNOT be unseen! EVER! What the Hell was l thinking?

Bolero. Bo Derek in anything should've kept me away. The penis gouging should've kept me away. BUT NO! I ran as fast as l could once the rancid sex scenes started.

[quote]Pulp Fiction - couldn't handle the slapstick violence

'slapstick violence', how I love that term, is Tarantino's hallmark. The teenage boys and film students that are his audience drink it all up.

"Garden State"

I just didn't give a shit so I got up and left.

Also left ten minutes into The Darjeeling Limited. I did not care about this story, did not care about the characters.

Grand Budapest Hotel I loved, but I'm not about to see any other movie by this director.

Peter Greenaway: walked out of two of his movies, The Cook + something about Rembrandt, criminal use of the otherwise very shaggable Eva Birthistle.

Pillow Book I watched and enjoyed, must have been McGregor looking lovely.

I never watched American Sniper, r195. I'm a bit more discerning in my tastes.

[QUOTE]East of Eden. Rosie O'Donnell AND Dan Aykroyd in leather CANNOT be unseen! EVER! What the Hell was l thinking?

You're thinking of Exit to Eden.

I walked out of "The Competition" with Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving in 1980. It was honestly one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It popped up recently on TCM (being introduced by a nun of all people and not Robert Osbourne or Ben Mankiewicz) and I thought about maybe watching it to see if my memory was right. But I just couldn't. Richard Dreyfuss is wearing a cap askew for the entire movie and I just wanted to punch him in the stomach. And Amy Irving's voice is the stuff that nightmares are made of.

[quote]Bolero. Bo Derek in anything should've kept me away. The penis gouging should've kept me away. BUT NO! I ran as fast as l could once the rancid sex scenes started.

That was the first movie I walked out in the middle of. I like your renaming it "Bolero." No one in this movie was a "10."

Mamma Mia is one I should have walked out of. It put me off Meryl Streep forever. What self-respecting cunt would have turned in such an amateurish performance - hated the whole piece of garbage.

Good thing I stayed until the end, because the only decent moment was in the credits: Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård and Colin Firth in those outfits. Still, a short video would have sufficed.

I would've walked out of these two movies if I hadn't been with others who wanted to stay:

Twilight (second or third installment - don't know because I didn't care at all. )

Parental Guidance starring Bette Midler and Billy Crystal. Awful--simply awful.

What would have possessed someone to see a movie with Billy Crystal and Bette Midler?

THE THIN RED LINE. I generally don't care for war movies, but I had thoroughly enjoyed SAVING PRIVATE BENJAMIN, so when the former came out a few months later, I was eager to watch it. Bad idea. Total snoozefest. Mind you, I wasn't even aware of Malick in early 1999, so I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I've since learned to eschew his films, especially after THE NEW WORLD and THE TREE OF LIFE. So boring!

[QUOTE]SAVING PRIVATE BENJAMIN

Ha! Nice.

[quote] What would have possessed someone to see a movie with Billy Crystal and Bette Midler?

Being someone's grandma or unmarried gay uncle.

[quote]'slapstick violence', how I love that term, is Tarantino's hallmark. The teenage boys and film students that are his audience drink it all up.

The Three Stooges did it better.

R226 d'oh! I meant SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. :-P

The Legend of Bagger Vance

R225 Terrence Malick reminds me of this excerpt of a song from the musical NINE:

The trouble with Continil he's the king of mediocrities,

A second-rate director who believes that he is Socrates.

He never makes a movie or a picture or a flick

He makes a film -get it?- a film

A typical Italian with his auto and biography,

A mixture of Catholicism, pasta, and pornography,

A superficial, womanizing, moderately charming Latin fraud.

And what are his movies about?

Just beauty, truth, death, youth, love, life, anguish, angst.

Thanks to him we have boredom at the movies.

Once I got free tickets to see Danny DeVito in "Death to Smoochie" and it literally bored me to tears about 30 minutes into it and my friends and split.

It was literally the worst movie ever.

I turned off [italic]Mixed Nuts[/italic] when I rented it on videotape. Did all the comedians of the 1970s and 1980s get together in 1990 and agree to make five bad movies for every good one they make? Because this was one of Steve Martin's worst. Not funny at all. I made it to the end of the almost-as-awful [italic]Cops and Robertsons[/italic] with Chevy Chase and Jack Palance that same year, but this? Nope.

R231: Maury Yeston is lucky that Gilbert & Sullivan's works had fallen into the public domain by then.

MAMMA MIA! was truly a piece of shite in every department. I stayed till the end, but only out of morbid curiosity.

You'd think people would be embarrassed to tell us they walked out on films that are generally considered great, just because those films weren't to their limited taste (for example, THE ARTIST), as opposed to the countless films that are generally considered to be garbage (numerous examples already cited).

R234 how do you mean?

[quote]I walked out of Xanadu and I was only 9 yrs old at he time.

And I hate you for it. Yes, I hate you.

R233, my sister and I are probably the only two on this planet who like Mixed Nuts. I think Liev Schrieber is hilarious in it as a drag queen and I love Madeline Kahn. I think some of it is so bad that it becomes good.

R238 why do you love Kahn?

Kate & Leopold, starring Meg Ryan and DL fave Hugh Jackman. The movie was more painful than all the bad plastic surgery Meg Ryan underwent -- more painful than if she had done all of it at once AND without the anesthesia. It was that painful.

[quote]how do you mean?

Sing the lyrics in R231 to the melody of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General".

The fact that a lyric scans with the melody or rhythm of another song is not plagiarism or copyright infringement, you dolt.

You're the dolt, R242, if you can't see the suspicious similarities.

I see the similarities, you know-nothing, but it still counts as an hommage rather than a theft. Not even one verbal phrase in the Yeston lyric is repeated from G&S, only the cadence and rhythm of the lyrics. You must be a failed lyricist speaking from envy rather than knowledge.

"Gladiator." Don't care that it won best picture. It sucked. I almost walked out of another best picture, "The Deer Hunter" after what I thought was the worst first hour of a picture ever, but then it moved out of PA to Vietnam and it got a lot better.

[quote]why do you love Kahn?

Because she's hysterically funny. The ONLY person that would hate Kahn is the person in the same scene with her and they only hate her 'cause she stole the scene from them.

"Homage" is nothing more than a French euphemism for "theft," R244. And learn to spell it correctly before you call others know-nothings.

R246 who are you referring to?

R241 why should I sing this?

Mrs White stole many scenes in Clue

[quote]"Homage" is nothing more than a French euphemism for "theft," [R244]. And learn to spell it correctly before you call others know-nothings.

Actually, "hommage" is the correct spelling of the word in French, and it's also the correct spelling when using the phrase "an hommage to....." in English. "Pay homage to..." is correct, "an homage to...." is incorrect.

So, do you think the Stephen Sondheim-Mary Rodgers songs "The Boy From..." is a theft of "The Girl from Ipanema," or an hommage to it? You really have no idea what you are talking about, do you?

Into the Woods. M should've been slapped for even thinking about doing this trainwreck.

The kids were VERY annoying. So was Chris Pizza Face Pine.

I walked as soon as that horrid troll Corden tried to sing. Fat fuck.

The Bonfire of the Vanities. I REALLY hated Bruce and Melanie after this. Was Morgan Freeman in this? I couldn't tell you. I walked before he showed up.

The Last Action Hero. Schwarzenegger's career should've ended right there. Tina Turner? What the Hell? Another one with a very annoying child.

R252, don't bother us with more. Your CAPS, use of "fuck" in every other sentence, your endless question marks (???) tell us that you are an utter bore with nothing to say.

The only movie I walked out of was the one where Jen Aniston played the hooker/porn star and the leading man plays the cameraman in her porno. Jen was even more revolting than usual in the scene where she is filmed with "a dick in every orifice". I eventually walked out when one of the other characters in the film complimented Jen on her lovely hair and the camera zoomed in on her trimmed bush. I think I may have vomited in the theater before running out.

i saw clue on logo not too long ago. it was awful. i cannot imagine being in a movie theater having to watch that shit with other people around me.

r246

Well it ain't the Aga Kahn

[quote][R38], the first one was a lame ass Norwegian movie. I never watch Norwegian movies because they're all awful, and this was too.

Untrue -- Trollhunter is a great little picture.

I would watch every film mentioned in this thread TWICE rather than watch the utter piece of shit that was....

JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL.

A bird flying around set to the "poetry" of Rod McKuen! AUUGGHHH!!

I keep hearing on DL how Chris Pine has acne scars, yet I've never seen them. Not even in candid shots.

I walked out of Gladiator, too! I thought it was stupid, boring, and a waste of my time. Compared to the comic book movies they make now, it would probably seem powerful and sophisticated. The first movie I walked out on was 1900 - and that was after giving it a chance for what seemed like hours. A friend and I both found it to be unpleasantly gross, corny, and pretentious. We decided to walk out into a frightening rain storm rather than spend another second in the theater. I also walked out on Zcreation starring Peter O'Toole and Mariel Hemmingway and some movie that was so boring I don't even remember the Title, much less the plot.

[quote]The kids were VERY annoying. So was Chris Pizza Face Pine. I walked as soon as that horrid troll Corden tried to sing. Fat fuck.

If you walked out of WOODS as soon as Corden sang, you did not see Chris Pine on screen. The Baker sings for about half an hour before the Princes appear.

The trailers silly r261. I only went to see that travesty to see if Emily could actually sing.

Which you could have told from the trailers, you big liar.

You could tell Chris Pine was annoying just from the trailer?

R262 Pine's appearance in the trailer was very fleeting. Just a quick flash of his name and a two-second shot of him. And you can't see his pockmarks or whatever you guys are bitching about.

I have never seen pockmarks on Chris Pine, his skin is normal. The pockmark thing is another DL fantasy.

I turned off the TV on 1900. What a fucking boring movie. No surprise when it comes to Bertolucci.

Ecks and Sever is officially the worst movie of all time.

R267 but you missed that chick jacking off DeNiro and Depardieu in full view or that other chick jacking off Burt Lancaster or those pre-pubescent boys comparing their erect penises...

[quote]What would have possessed someone to see a movie with Billy Crystal and Bette Midler? Being someone's grandma or unmarried gay uncle.

I'M an unmarried gay uncle and even I wouldn't have seen that piece of shit.

You know what R269, I think I didn't, even... When those scenes came up, I was like: that's it?? This is what this movie is about? The pre-pubescent boys I don't remember, and Burt Lancaster I had forgotten but now it definitely rings a bell... I knew I'd seen a movie where he was worried about his "manhood", of course it had to be this one... Embarrassing perm on Depardieu's notoriously flat hair.

R271 why embarrassing?

Because what's the point of perming your hair????

I didn't walk out of ZODIAC, but felt they should have given me my money back. What a hack.

R274 who?

New Waterford Girl '- filmed in Nova Scotia . I a saw it in Ottawa (Canada) as I was missing Nova Scotia.

It was the most uninspired piece of junk I've ever seen.. For the record, this was the first time I'd ever walked out on a film. I was 40 years. Piece of cap and worthless waste of time. The director and distributors passed it off as "Art". Pure cap

^^^^correction.."crap" replaces cap..

I took my niece to see Ice Age. She was about 3-4 years-old and whispered she had to poop. As we walked to the bathroom, she told me she was faking, the movie was dumb, and we left.

A couple years later, we left The Cat in the Hat because we were both terrified of Mike Myers in that costume with that voice.

Besides those two: Forrest Gump, Braveheart...there must be more...I won't stay if I don't like it.

Just this past weekend, a friend and I walked out of "The Boss." It was awful, not a single laugh.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with Johnny Depp. Only movie I ever walked out on. Beyond dreadful.

r195 Too bad your micropenis is even incapable of producing significant amounts of cum for your pet dog to have to swallow after snapffing you off you pointless doo-rag

Blackhat- was shite.

I've never walked out of a movie, but I should have.

The remake of "The Island of Dr. Moreau" starring Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando. Terrible movie.

"Moonrise Kingdom." I hated the damn thing; a "fairy tale" about two mentally disturbed children who run away together. It was dull, unfunny; all the characters seemed to be in some stage of depression and they all spoke in deadpan, monotone voices, even the children. I later discovered it was a Wes Anderson movie, a typical one. It made me vow NEVER to see another Wes Anderson movie again.

Howard the Duck. AWFUL! STILL trying to figure out how Tim Robbins' career survived this horrible movie. Walked about half way through.

Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band. Rolling my while listening to George Burns "sing". After Earth, Wind and Fire, l was outta there.

The Thing. When the stomach opened with gigantic teeth(!), l thought OK that's enough of that disgusting nonsense. And l LOVED Halloween! John Carpenter how could you?

I thought Moonrise Kingdom was hilarious. Seriously.

What do you think is funny, r283?

Double Jeopardy with Ashley Judd.

When she was outrunning a Jeep in sand dunes on the beach.

Hudson Hawk. OMG.

Eyes Wide Shut. With my mother.... I tried to talk her out of it but she thought she wanted to see it.

[quote]Howard the Duck. AWFUL! STILL trying to figure out how Tim Robbins' career survived this horrible movie. Walked about half way through.

Funny thing is R284, as a kid I probably saw that movie at least (no lie) 30 times on VHS. If I saw it now I'd probably think it was horrible. I wanted big hair like Lea Thompson. Yes, the gay was already strong inside me.

Hudson Hawk. I blocked that mess from memory.

The Blair Witch Project.

I think I made it 20-30 minutes in, until they were apparently terrified by finding twigs tied into some horrifying shape. What a piece of shit film! I was forced to watch it on video since then by an ex, and was delighted I had left the theater before the female lead began her let-the-snot-flowing-begin blubbering scenes.

This POS film was truly the cinematic example of "The Emperor's New Clothing." I mean, in the face of millions of adoring fans and glowing reviews, nobody had the nerve to stand up and say "this shit isn't scary! WTF are you people smoking?"

[quote]I later discovered it was a Wes Anderson movie, a typical one. It made me vow NEVER to see another Wes Anderson movie again.

Wes Anderson doesn't make movies. He shits, smears it on a screen and everyone hails him as a genius.

I said it now and I said it then r291 but Blair witch sucked. It's the least scary film I've ever seen and I'm so easily frightened I jumped out of my skin during Scream.

[quote]When she was outrunning a Jeep in sand dunes on the beach.

R286 what about it?

R293 maybe BLAIR WITCH's 'scariness' was too cerebral for you. You said yourself that you easily jump at things that go bump in the night, so maybe you prefer that type of horror, with loud sounds and things jumping at you. But BLAIR WITCH is not that kind of horror. It's a more sophisticated kind. It doesn't rely on gore or cheap thrill effects; it's strictly intellectual.

I saw Blair Witch in the theater, and I was scared shitless. It was the creeping horror and the anticipation that something awful was going to happen that got to me.

Superbad was super bad. Bruno was terrible.

Yentl! Horrible. Cringe worthy. Walked as soon as Mandy started pawing Amy. WAIT! The former Mrs. Spielberg was actually nominated for this crap? Oh and Barbra is one FUGLY dude! ALL the songs were shit.

I enjoyed Blair witch for the portrayal of the psychological breakdown of a group in a survival situation.

Maxie. An abortion of a film that only a rank amateur could have considered worthy of her so called "talents".

THe last film I walked out of was The Patriot. I walked out of Braveheart too - Gibson, you fucking arsewipe, I'm Scottish, I know our history. We're *taught* it in school. And I fucking know that William fucking Wallace was not born in the Highlands of Scotland, you bellend. I also know that he never fucked the Queen because she was three years old when Wallace copped it.

The last film I was kicked out of, mind you, was Battlefield Earth. The staff at Odeon Renfrew Street didn't take too kindly to my friends and I shrieking "MARY!!" every time we copped a glimpse of Revolta's codpiece...

My parents walked out of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" in 1966. My uncle and aunt were with them, and my uncle told the people in line for the next show how horrible the movie was and over half of them left.

R298 I have an even bigger scoop for you.: Amy Irving received both Oscar and Razzie nods for YENTL.

[quote]Lewinsky has complained about how her notoriety has ruined her life for decades. So bringing her up as a punchline in an opposition candidate's rally is "being with her"? Bullshit. It's harrassment. Hillary didn't fuck her anyway. Leave her the fuck alone.

What i find amusing is that both POCAHONTAS and BRAVEHEART were released in the summer of 1995, but only the former got criticized for playing fast and loose with the historical facts. A lot of critics wrote off POCAHONTAS, because they said it misrepresented history. Well, so did BRABEHEART, but it was lauded left and right and went on to get 10 Oscar nomination and won 5, including Picture and Director.

So how come POCAHONTAS was skewered by critics for its historical inaccuracy but BRAVEHEART got a pass?

Probably because POCAHONTAS is a very well known story in North America, but none of the dim witted critics gave a shit about Scottish history.

My post was aimed at R301's first paragraph. I dont' know why it didn't copy/paste properly.;

Same as R299. What's scary ain't the witches, it's the group themselves, how everyone turns on one another. Just the general paranoia of a small group in stressful circumstances. Doesn't really matter what the circumstances are. The problems (trust, lack thereof) are there from the beginning, they just get worse.

R306 - R301 here...

I think you can say that Pocahontas (Poke-a-what-now? How rude!) got away with it because it was an animated film from Disney and Disney, let's be honest, isn't renowned for historical accuracy. The one thing Braveheart really, really fucked up on was how Wallace was portrayed until relatively recently: he was a genocidal maniac. Until 1995, Scottish people were more likely to hold up Robert the Bruce or Rob Roy as someone to admire from Scottish history - Rob Roy McGregor was more accurate a figure to base folklore on, given he's relatively recent in our history (he died in 1734, unlike Wallace, who died in 1305). Hell, if people really, *really* wanted a fascinating figure from Scottish history, you could always take the life story of William Thomson, first Baron Kelvin - the guy was a bloody genius (ignoring the fact that he was at the University of Glasgow aged ten, which wasn't unusual at the time, given the University would give primary schooling to capable pupils).

I would LOVE to walk out on a movie, OP!

I walked out of Z for Zachariah with Chris Pine, Margot Robbie and Chewatel Elijefor . And I was watching it at home on cable.

'Breaking the Waves'

Oliver Stone's Alexander. I walked out halfway through. It was just too painful to watch.

The only Star Wars movie l walked out in the middle was of course that rancid The Phantom Menace. It should've been called The Star Wars Menace 2 Society.

That horrible, annoying child couldn't act worth shit. Probably THE worst performance by Liam Neeson.

When he started with MiniClorox shit, l was ghost. Who the fuck cares what that annoying shit was made out of! I wasn't far enough into this trainwreck for the Jar Jar Binks Step n Fetch It Show.

Black Mass with Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulgur. How could you make a movie about a notorious gangster/killer and have it be so boring? And Depp looked absolutely ridiculous with his skull cap and makeup as Bulger.

"A Beautiful Mind" Russell Crowe cast as a genius was hilarious. It couldn't have been funnier if they'd cast Chris Farley. And he's a big genius because Adam Smith was wrong, which any ten-year old with a brain had known all along? Far from being persecuted he was coddled and made too much of. The fact that he was an inspiration to Barbara Bush should tell you something.

R315 WTF are you on about?

I fell asleep during Black Mass.

Slept through all Lord of the Rings with my ex. I couldn't even be polite.

The Star Wars where Padme dies, my a/c was out or I would have left.

[quote]Disney, let's be honest, isn't renowned for historical accuracy.

They don't exactly lie; they're just selective in telling the truth.

The Lion King

Not because of the movie; but because I farted too loud, it smelled bad, and I got embarrassed.

[quote]Until 1995, Scottish people were more likely to hold up Robert the Bruce or Rob Roy as someone to admire from Scottish history - Rob Roy McGregor was more accurate a figure to base folklore on, given he's relatively recent in our history (he died in 1734, unlike Wallace, who died in 1305).

There was a Rob Roy film released in 1995, a month before BRAVEHEART, actually. It starred Liam Neeson, as the title character, and Jessica Lange and Tim Roth. Granted, it was not the huge hit BRAVEHEART was, which got 10 Oscar nominations, but ROB ROY still managed a supporting nod for Roth.

R301/R305/R308 are you Scottish?

"Crash"

"Gandhi" at Intermission

Apollo 11

I mean 13. Try to forget.

There were two different movies named "Crash", the Oscar winner over Brokeback Mountain, and the cerebral, sensual, pornographic film about people getting off sexually during car crashes starring the Koteas actor everyone loves.

[quote]Disney, let's be honest, isn't renowned for historical accuracy.

[quote]They don't exactly lie; they're just selective in telling the truth.

They lied through their teeth when they hired us.

I've fallen asleep in a ton but the only one I recall walking out on was the Richard Gere remake of Breathless. Just horrible.

"I thought Moonrise Kingdom was hilarious. Seriously."

Seriously? Nobody laughed at the screening I went to. Why would they? What was funny about it? Nothing. It was just boring and dumb and twee as hell, like all Wes Anderson movies are.

Years and years back, "The Sailor who Fell From Grace with the Sea." Some super hot sex scenes featuring Kris Kristofferson but midway through, there's a grotesque scene where the psychotic schoolboys trap, drug and dissect a cat.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull OR as l like to call it Spielberg, Ford, Blanchett and Allen sitting around doing Crystal that Shia sold them.

What a bunch of bullshit! The motorcycle scene in the library sent me literally running out of the theater. But wait! They're going to make another one!

Shia's shit must be the fucking bomb!

Only one in 50 years. "Blue Velvet". I was on a first date, and he turned to me after about 45 minutes and said, "I'm leaving", so we did. I was deeply bored but since I never had left a movie before the end went back to see it. It was not worth seeing the rest of. When "Twin Peaks" came on tv, I forced myself to watch the premier two-hour tv movie, and loved it. To me, it was everything "Blue Velvet" was trying up to be, but wasn't.

We never had a second date. He wasn't nearly good looking enough for that dialogue.

R332 people back then walked out of movies in the middle of them? Huh. I thought it was a recent thing.

You gotta give "Blue Velvet" another try, R332. One of the few movies I would stand up and suggest that for, it's too great to miss. And if you are still bored by where it goes, then I will apologize but I seriously doubt that will be a problem. One of the greatest films ever made and sexy as hell too.

Well, I think The Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom were hilarious and the movie audiences seemed to agree. I saw both of in the theater.

I don't understand the point of criticizing a fiction film for historical inaccuracy. It's not a documentary. Criticize Braveheart for the pedestrian directing instead.

R336 Gibson won the Oscar for Best Director.

Yeah, he only won for being a famous actor. The Academy loves it when actors direct.

R338 do you lack reading comprehension skills? I said he won the Oscar for directing BRAVEHEART, not for his acting. He wasn't even nominated for Best Actor.

Oh, the irony, R339

W&W r340

Cast Away

The movie that didn't know how to end.

I was into it up to the return home. Then endless maudlin dialogue. On and on and on mopey and dreary.

I left about 20 minutes before the end. By that point I just didn't give a shit.

"Well, I think The Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom were hilarious and the movie audiences seemed to agree. I saw both of in the theater."

The movie audience I saw MK with didn't agree. Wes Seaton's movies aren't "hilarious." You're very weird. No wonder you like Wes Anderson movies.

I loved The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Grand Budapest Hotel. I liked Life Aquatic and Rushmore. But, I thought Moonrise Kingdom was terrible. It wasn't even a little funny or charming. Better luck next time, Anderson

R344 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL was his next time.

Out Of Africa. I had been looking forward to seeing it, it had a good cast, but it was truly unbearable. If I only had 5 minutes to live, I'd probably watch that garbage again since it would make it seem like forever.

R346 what didn't you like about it?

Thanks r345. Then he did do better next time. Good.

I actually don't mind slow paced, contemplative filmmaking, e.g. "L'Avventura" is one of my favorite movies but Out Of Africa was just so vacuous, dressed up in pretty cinematography which was supposed to distract the viewer from noticing that the proverbial emperor had no clothes, not to mention that everyone in it seemed to be on autopilot. It had neither the emotional nor the intellectual gravitas it was aiming for.

Well, it won 7 Oscars, including for Best Picture, so...

R349, there is not a single Emperor mentioned in all of the Book of Proverbs. Stay away from senseless metaphores/similes.

[quote]The Blair Witch Project.

Ha! R291, I ended up seeing Blair Witch in a make-shift campus theatre, in the woods where there were zero lights what so ever. (You walked through the woods, you entered a dark building and went to the hall where it was being shown.) It didn't scare me but it did freak me out on the way out. I think with something like that it's about atmosphere as well.

I got a bunch of friends to watch, "Insidious" which I thought was scary up until the last 15 minutes. They didn't think it was scary, until I turned out the lights and made them stop talking. Then, they got it.

Buck never would have WALKED out of a movie!

The ridiculous thing about Cast Away was that "Wilson" the volley ball was nothing more than a plot device so that Hanks could talk to something other than himself. The hack screenwriter couldn't manage to make Hank's scenes on the island interesting in any organic way, so he created a character out of nothing. Much like Disney has talking animals and shell fish.

OH blow it out your ass, R354.

The Immigrants about a thousand years ago. Gratuitous vomiting shipboard.

I walked out of "Quills" very near the end. It wasn't a bad film, but I just couldn't take any more of the violence, for some reason.

R357 so you missed Kate Winslet being raped and killed by that retard?

Ha @ R358 that was the bit I walked out in the middle of. Does he dump her in a big wooden tank full of water or something? I had just had enough of the violence by then.

BLAIR WITCH is all about suspense building and fear of the unknown -- the most primal fear of all. I don't think people dislike it because they're unintelligent. I think they dislike it because they're unimaginative.

[quote]I got a bunch of friends to watch, "Insidious" which I thought was scary up until the last 15 minutes.

Now see that follows up my point above perfectly. Insidious is just terrifying when the paranormal presence is unknown. As soon as they bring the exposition team in at the end to explain the living shit out of everything, the movie is immediately defanged and becomes trite.

Was tempted to walk out of "Caligula," as did many other patrons, but hell, I paid $5, twice the normal movie price at the time, and I was going to get the full quotient of extreme sex alternated with extreme violence in barfworthy intervals.

Boxing Helena. Julian Sands should not make films.

I'm sorry R311, but Breaking the Waves is heartbreaking and beautiful. But, i agree about Elizabethtown--stuck with all of it anyway.

When my brother and I saw Alien 3 a woman stood up after about half an hour, exclaimed "I didn't know there would be ALIENS in this movie!" and flounced out of the cinema. Fucking weird.

Till this day I've only walked out of 1 film

Live Free or Die Hard

I don't know why I liked DH 1-3 and even saw 5.

And I've stayed and watched:

Natural Born Killers

Waterworld

Forrest Gump

Spice World

Bratz

The Lizzie McGuire Movie

I Know Who Killed Me

Alien vs Predator

So I have a pretty high tolerance/threshold for bad films.

Holmes & Watson. Walked out within 7 minutes. Went to the movie theater bar while my friends sat through that shit.

I walked out on going to the movies at all after Brokeback Mountain. I can't take gay movies in which the tire iron wins. Annie Proulx needs to be strung up.

I didn't go to a movie theatre again until Manchester by the Sea. Now I go fairly often, which for me means maybe once a month. This year, however, there's been precious little to see that isn't a concert movie of some sort (Ronstadt / Laurel Canyon / Pavarotti). The only movie I remember seeing so far in 2019 is Once upon a Time in Hollywood. I hope it wins everything, but I have yet to see The Irishman.

R367, I keep calling it "bareback mountain" by accident.

I was so prepared to walk out of In the Bedroom. This movie was so painstakingly slow I couldn't take it. I was about to lift myself out of my seat and exit until Matt does his thing and I was riveted to the end. I was glad I didn't leave but that was very risky of the director because I'm sure a lot did

I usually don't walk out of movies. What's the point? There's no one in the theater involved with the film, so as a statement the early exit is worthless. And most films are able to keep the visuals moving, so one can tough it out.

But theater? All together different. If it's not good enough, it's not going to get better in the 2nd Act. I have left many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows at intermission. A few times, I've gotten up and walked out during an Act. That is always a statement being made, usually about garbage being spewed by the writer or director. Once, I left mid-performance from an off-Broadway show being produced by my employer. I had to go to him in the morning to tell him the play was so offensive I could not stay. Oddly, he agreed with me and explained it had not developed as he had hoped and at the end of this limited engagement, he was ending his association with it. And he did.

Our time on this planet is limited. I don't give away any of mine to bad theater.

The only "statement" I'm making when I walk out of a movie is "this sucks."

I walked out of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” It was so bad that I fell asleep watching it and realized that I would rather be at home.

The original Star Wars, before it started. There was such a rush to find seats, I got separated from my friends. A cloud of pot smoke arose. I took the subway back downtown, asked a guy I met at Julius if he wanted to fuck, so that's what I ended up doing that night. It got kind of S&M, but that's another story.

damn...too bad your rules are so damned strict OP. I got stuck watching a wedding video of a Pakistani friend. It was over 8 hours...yes, it went on and on...finally I had to leave.. It was awful;l!

Insidious. I used to love horror movies and still love a few from long ago, but that movie was utter garbage.

Walked out of a bad play in London years ago...cannot even remember the title or the plot. It was just bad.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Bridesmaids - it was just too fucking dumb for me

Wanted desperately to walk out of that fascistic piece of shit “Starship Troopers”, but I didn’t have a ride home. My date didn’t understand why I found it offensive. We didn’t last.

Walking out of a movie is because it's painful to sit there and watch it, it's that bad. You have something better you could be doing with your time.

It's only gotten close for me a handful of times. I have actually walked out of horrible films I snuck in after the movie I paid for was done. I'm not watching some horrible shit I didn't pay for. I usually save that action for films I know I don't want to pay for and might be not the best.

I have shut off countless DVDs, and movies I've streamed because they were awful. Back when we got DVDs in the mail from Netflix, I had no problem slipping the DVD back in the sleeve after 15 minutes and dropping it back in the mail rather than sit through shit. But I've blocked out those titles. It's more memorable if you walked out.

I remember being in at the theater watching the Thin Red Line which I loved, watching people walk out. I was hoping my date didn't want to dodge but he was off to the side with moist eyes almost tearing up, so I was good.

r379, that is one of my guilty pleasures. Loved that movie. Do you get now that it was satire?

Breathless.... a Richard Gere movie from probably thirty years ago. I was with a girl who said: I've seen his cock, let's go. This is bullshit.

I saw somebody walk out of Last Christmas, Saturday night. It wasn't good but I didn't think it was walk out awful.

[quote]Henry&June I went by myself. I tried to watch it I really did but I got so bored like the last 20 minutes I got up and left

I loved Henry and June. I thought it was a beautiful film.

I [italic]almost[/italic] walked out of Meet Joe Black. Dear god it was boring. But Brad Pitt was so ethereally beautiful in it I couldn't leave. I still believe that he's at his physical best in that film, at least facially. The light, almost platinum blonde hair paired with the black clothes really worked.

R381 Yes it totally is satire and Paul Verhoven significantly changed it from Robert heinlein's novel.

I remember seeing ST in the theaters. when that co-ed shower scene came up, a mother grabbed her two little crotchfruit and walked out.

I guess she could handle bugs tearing people apart but not the shower nudity.

[quote] I loved Funny Games, lol. I'm surprised at how many people get so bent out of shape over that movie. The director was purposefully fucking with you the whole time.

I can imagine no better reason to walk out of a movie than "The director was purposefully fucking with you the whole time."

[quote] I usually don't walk out of movies. What's the point? There's no one in the theater involved with the film, so as a statement the early exit is worthless. And most films are able to keep the visuals moving, so one can tough it out.

No, "one" cannot.

But thanks for the pompous lecture, Prince Charles.

hugo pool and blair witch project.

First time I walked out of a movie was when I was a kid. It was about a young boy, maybe eight or nine, who lived in a ghetto. This kid ends up addicted to heroin and going through withdrawal. I got to a certain point, and when I saw this young child become a junkie and go through withdrawal, I said forget it, that’s enough. I don’t care what happens after that.

It was pretty obvious the rest of the movie, or a good part of it, was going to be this kid suffering through one horrific ordeal after another and I didn’t want to see it. It was just unrelieved misery up to that point. For all I knew, he would grow up to cure cancer, but I wasn’t waiting around for that.

Prince of Tides. It felt like I was in Therapy. I did see it eventually and I love it.

I walk out of any shaky camera movie.

R379, the book and movie are pretty different. The book can be really heavy handed about its premise, which is, there have been wars and soldiers since the beginning of civilization and they’re never going to end.

He proposes that after some great social upheaval, the military takes over and then it becomes a tradition that vets run the government, then eventually that vets are the only voters. It’s all about people earning the right to be a citizen. They touch on it a little bit in the movie, but they really hit you over the head with it in the book.

The other premise is that humans from earth go exploring, get too nosy around another species and get their attention, and start colonizing another planet the aliens want for themselves. So the aliens follow the interlopers (us) back to earth and start trying to destroy us in self defense. We started it, not them. But the authorities don’t want to admit it’s our fault, so they fill the airwaves with propaganda about how the aliens are the bad guys, and start an all out war with them. Then we start losing because there’s more of them than us. We’re being exterminated in a war of attrition. The subtext is, they’re down to twelve year old replacement soldiers because everybody else is dead. And no one talks about it. They just pretend they don’t know, because it’s the end of us.

He’s referencing WWII Nazis sending out kids to fight at the end of the war, when they’re out of grown men. At the time the book was written, everybody would have caught the reference. The Germans lost. Showing those kids in uniform shows we’re losing. The soldiers know nothing about home because there’s probably huge casualties back there, if anyone’s even left. So they don’t tell them. In the book they never tell you what happened.

There‘s a lot of underlying meaning between the lines, it’s not just about bugs. It’s actually more about war propaganda and how governments make people believe their cause is righteous and they’re winning, even if they’re not. Veerhoven did a good job of communicating that theme even if he changed a lot of details.

Bronco Billy Manhattan Citizen Kane (revival house)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Michael Constantine squirted Windex right into my eye.