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[fran.fernandez]

Before Wuhan virus hit I went to movie theaters at least one time a month. When I was a kid my mother used to take me out the school to watch movies every week (she mostly sleep)! That include many jean claude van damme, Jackie chan, mortal Kombat, volcano...mostly every movie out there at the time (90s). For my birthday present I would ask a family trip to the theaters lols.

But only three movies made me walk out. i know many would hate me;
1 - Evita (Antonio Banderas and Madonna), went with my father and mother. we all hate musicals. 20 minutes and out.
2- Star Wars ep1, being a fan when I was a kid of star war 2 and 3 the ep1 made me anti Star Wars. 1 hour and out.
3- Transformer. Don’t remember well, 40 minutes and out?

what about u guys, keep watching even if is bad or just walk out?

 

[Kadayi]

No. But I generally know what I'm getting with a film before I go in.

 

[J-Roderton]

The Spirit
Dumb And Dumber 2

 

[Revolutionary]

Nope, but I did come close with Terminator Salvation. Stormed out once the credits started rolling and demanded a refund.

 

[Pagusas]

The last muppet movie where Kermit goes to jail. It was soooo bad I walked out. No charm, no heart, just bad movie making

 

[Shantae]

I've seen some shitty movies, but only one I think I've ever walked out of was Lake Placid...just knew at the moment that I could be doing something better with my time.

I've left the theater pretty angry though. The Last Jedi, Transformers, and Superman Returns off the top of my head.

 

[xrnzaaas]

The Spirit
Dumb And Dumber 2

Dumb and Dumber 2 is probably one of the worst (big) sequels in history. And it's not coming from a hater, because I still love the first one and I like to rewatch it once every few years.

 

[nush]

Only if renting a movie and just turning it off quickly and returning it counts.

Jack and Jill lasted something like ten minutes.

 

[scoobidoo112]

Night School

 

[MaestroMike]

Rewatch of iron man I think. Nothing against the movie, but I realized that I just wasn't in the mood to watch anything.

 

[Happosai]

Before Wuhan virus hit I went to movie theaters at least one time a month. When I was a kid my mother used to take me out the school to watch movies every week (she mostly sleep)! That include many jean claude van damme, Jackie chan, mortal Kombat, volcano...mostly every movie out there at the time (90s). For my birthday present I would ask a family trip to the theaters lols.

But only three movies made me walk out. i know many would hate me;
1 - Evita (Antonio Banderas and Madonna), went with my father and mother. we all hate musicals. 20 minutes and out.
2- Star Wars ep1, being a fan when I was a kid of star war 2 and 3 the ep1 made me anti Star Wars. 1 hour and out.
3- Transformer. Don’t remember well, 40 minutes and out?

what about u guys, keep watching even if is bad or just walk out?

Hahaha...you mentioned a Transformers movie. Back in 2009 some friends Shanghai-ed me into watching Transformers 2 (knowing I hated the first one with all the mindless action scenes and how I hate glossy CGI robots). All I remember is the first 15-minutes was fighting and explosions and I walked out. You made it 40-minutes!?

Lasting year there was this movie called the Purge I Purging and it was part of a trilogy or something which I never knew about. It was extremely woke and miserable. I walked out on that after 30-minutes and realizing it would only get worse.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

one time i went with someone to a movie and they suggested Mystic River. we left soon after the opening part. yeah i know people watch p3do shit all the time on CSI or whatever, but when you start a movie with it, im sorry, im out. not my idea of entertainment.

 

[Ornlu]

Lawless (film) - Wikipedia

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That movie was some stupid bullshit. People getting smashed in the teeth with shotguns and not having any injuries; getting chunks of meat the size of hamburgers shot out of them and being fine; walking miles with their hands clamped together around a completely slit throat like it ain't no thang...then getting chilly and dying from a cold.

We were the only people in the theater for that turd sandwich; instead of walking out we just made it our personal MST 3000.

 

[Goro Majima]

I made it all the way through "Skyline" so I can make it through anything.

Fuck that movie.

 

[fran.fernandez]

Nope, but I did come close with Terminator Salvation. Stormed out once the credits started rolling and demanded a refund.

you can get a refund if the movie is bad????

 

[crumbs]

I don't go to movies that often & I've never walked out of one. However, I would have walked out of the following movies had I not been with friends/family at the time:

Matrix Reloaded - Was hyped for this, but it was a massive disappointment. The movie just dragged on and on, I was ready to sneak out about half way through. I still haven't watched the third movie.

Transformers 2 - My brother-in-law really wanted to see this and I didn't hate the first film, but the 2nd movie was so bad. Definitely the worst film I've seen in a theater.

 

[kunonabi]

The Scarlet Letter with Demi Moore. That was less about the movie, although it was awful, and more that my friend's older sister lost interest.

Had circumstances allowed I would have walked out of the following:

Psycho remake
Fat Girl
The Two Towers
The Spirit
The Simpsons movie

 

[Revolutionary]

you can get a refund if the movie is bad????

I remember the manager saying that they generally don't give refunds after watching the entire movie, but they made an exception for me... I guess I pleaded my case well. Or maybe he saw the movie too and agreed lol

 

[Happosai]

The Scarlet Letter with Demi Moore. That was less about the movie, although it was awful, and more that my friend's older sister lost interest.

Had circumstances allowed I would have walked out of the following:

Psycho remake
Fat Girl
The Two Towers
The Spirit
The Simpsons movie

The fact that they had the gall to remake Psycho was bad enough. Glad I did not see that in theaters. Pretty sure all the remakes of the classic movies were crap. Remember when they were remaking William Castle movies in the late-90's / early-2000's? House on Haunted Hill with an actor who resembles Vincent Price and Thirteen Ghosts was the other they remade around the same time. Hitchcock, Corman, and Castle films belong only when/where they were first made.

Speaking of LotR...my sister's were obsessed with the live-action versions. I saw Fellowship of the ring in theaters with them opening weekend. They wouldn't shut up about it and wanted to go back to watch it again the following weekend. I recall I was already not enjoying it the first time...It just dragged on too long and I couldn't attach to the characters (plus, I grew up with the books and animated movies). I walked out the second weekend and walked into "the Iron Giant." The latter was better.

 

[Rival]

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[Fbh]

Nah, I'm too cheap for it. I'm like "I paid for it so I'll watch it till the end".

Though to be honest I've never watched a movie in theaters that was so bad it made me want to leave. The Last Jedi is about the only time I can remember checking my watch wondering how much longer it was going to take.

 

[Greedings]

this. It was painfully unfunny.

 

[SinDelta]

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Jupiter Ascending
Prometheus

Yeah. All three managed to reach a level beyond the bottom of the barrel. I regret not walking out, but watching them was like watching a trainwreck - I could not look away.

Most disappointed?

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Star Wars ep 8: The Last Jedi

 

[bender]

Thin Red Line. I went with two buddies. One friend, who loves every movie, was snoring about half way in and then my other buddy and I looked at each other, tapped sleeping beauty on the shoulder and walked out. I think this happened around the time the Dear John letter was being read. Once I got past the awe of star studded cameos, I just found the movie boring. I should really go back and watch it at some point.

Also walked out on Menace to Society after the opening, but I was on a date with a Korean girl so...

 

[Cunth]

I remember leaving Cool Runnings. I was like, wtf am I watching this for I already know they don’t win anything. Fuck this’

 

[flibbertyjibbert]

Ted 2 and Anchorman 2.

Left both after ten minutes because they were so fucking cringe and unfunny

Enjoyed the first films, sequels sukd

 

[DisguiseArrsick]

Spiderman 3. Because I had got food poisoning and needed to puke. I went home, missing the part where Parker goes Emo and only seeing the film in its entirety nearly 10 years later. Looks like I left at the right time.

 

[kunonabi]

Cloud Atlus too. Goddamn that movie was terrible.

 

[johntown]

I wanted too for Rise of Skywalker but I came with other people.

 

[teezzy]

 

[IDKFA]

Yes!

Years and years ago, me and my buddies used to hit the local cinema on cheap Tuesday (£3.50 cinema tickets!) And watch whatever was on.

Once we ended up watching Save the Last Dance and about half way through we'd had enough. We tried to get a refund for the tickets. The manager asked us why we wanted a refund and we just said the film was crap. Amazingly the manager gave us a refund! We then went to spend our £3.50 on a McDonald's.

 

[tommycronin]

Spanglish

 

[Sub_Level]

3- Transformer. Don’t remember well, 40 minutes and out?

Same but I lasted a little over an hour. Those turds are headache-inducing. Which is why it was extra surprising when Bumblebee was actually watchable.

 

[epicnemesis]

Step Up.
I went to the movies with a bunch of guys expecting to go see Snakes on a Plane. (I think) coincidentally ran into our female friends in the theaters who were going to see Step Up. For some reason all the other guys wanted to go with them, so we all went to step up. I ended up just walking around the mall halfway through.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I walked out of Shazam. It wasn't awful or anything. I'm just not 9 years old anymore.

 

[Sub_Level]

Thin Red Line. I went with two buddies. One friend, who loves every movie, was snoring about half way in and then my other buddy and I looked at each other, tapped sleeping beauty on the shoulder and walked out. I think this happened around the time the Dear John letter was being read. Once I got past the awe of star studded cameos, I just found the movie boring. I should really go back and watch it at some point.

Terrence Malick films are not for everyone. I find them boring as well, especially Tree of Life. However his two 70s movies still hold up very well. Badlands (1973) starring Martin Sheen and Days of Heaven (1978) starring Richard Gere are both great and are only 90 minutes long compared to the fuckin 3 hour long Thin Red Line. I recommend both.

 

[p_xavier]

Yes Fight Club. In rewatched it a couple years later and it was still one of the worse movie I ever saw.

 

[Codswallop_]

Came close for the Force Awakens, but that was mostly due to the ten year old monster screaming and climbing all over the seats in the front row. Movie also wasn't that great.

 

[triplestation]

when i went to go see the dark knight rises i left the theater in spirit

 

[Space Runaway]

No but while watching A Good Day to Die Hard in the theater, I was constantly thinking about all the better things I could be doing rather than watching this trash movie. =/

 

[Elektro Demon]

I think I was in the theater 10 or 15 years ago. I prefer to lay on my bed and watch shit on my tv while smoking cigs and drinking beer.
What kills me is that I can't smoke in theaters. Fuck that.

 

[and 3 others]

when i went to go see the dark knight rises i left the theater in spirit

James, is that you?

 

[tkscz]

Beowulf. That movie was just dumb. I didn't mind the weird CGI it used, but it was just a boring and dumb movie.

 

[MaestroMike]

I did fall asleep through Syriana and sweeney Todd. Though it was late at night when I saw it with some amigos I just couldn't stay awake.

 

[frostyxc]

If I go to a theater, I'm of the mind of sitting through whatever pain comes and taking it like a pro. Yes, it's dangerous and reckless, but that's just how I roll. *flicks sunglasses into a dumpster*

I felt a strong desire to walk out of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon right after the New Line logo dropped, but luckily for me, the warm embrace of a nap set in about 10 minutes into the movie, and I woke up as the credits were rolling. I asked my poor friend how the movie was, and with a pained look on his face, he simply said, "Not good." My young nephew said something similar after I woke up at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Poor kid.

As for more recent flicks that I wanted to commit seppuku during: Aquaman, The Last Jedi, Harley Quinn, and Suicide Squad. Yeah, it's a bit DC heavy, but they often crap out such boring, CGI-vomitous trash.

 

[godhandiscen]

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.

I hated it when I watched it on theaters alone and walked out mid movie. However, I enjoyed it later when I watched it with a girlfriend. It made me realize that my mental state affects my perception in a greater way than I imagined.

 

[Punished Miku]

Left during the last 15 minutes. One of the worst movies I've ever seen lol.

 

[Biff]

Before Wuhan virus hit I went to movie theaters at least one time a month. When I was a kid my mother used to take me out the school to watch movies every week (she mostly sleep)! That include many jean claude van damme, Jackie chan, mortal Kombat, volcano...mostly every movie out there at the time (90s). For my birthday present I would ask a family trip to the theaters lols.

Your mother took you out of school to go to movies so she could sleep?

What am I even reading here? Something lost in translation?

 

[Grinchy]

Fantasia when I was really young. In fairness, my grandpa took us and the deal was that we'd go to Toys R Us afterward. But it was so damn boring to us and we wanted to get them toys.

I walked out of a dollar theater when my friend and I got tickets to watch What's the Worst That Can Happen. We needed to kill a couple hours and ended up just sitting in the parking lot instead of watching the rest of the horrible movie.

 

[ShawnMichael651]

This trash...first time I ever walked out of a movie theater and asked for my money back..(in case photo does not upload - The Spirit.)