Movies that you almost or walked out on. It was that bad. - Page 3

*winter* · #31 11-19-2011, 10:47 AM

Paranormal Activity. Actually, I stuck around, only because I was enjoying the "commentary" by the other people in the theatre. But I thought it was HORRIBLE!

AnchorAlumna · #32 11-19-2011, 11:19 AM

Showing my age here: Ryan's Daughter. Made by David Lean, the same guy who made Bridge Over the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Dr. Zhivago. RD took itself way too seriously. We started laughing and then left.

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Out of Africa. We left at the intermission and managed not to die of boredom.

I love that movie! I have to see it every few years. But its structure is heavily influenced by David Lean's pattern - sweeping music, big themes, romantic leads.

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Originally Posted by DSTRen13

I've pretty much stopped seeing movies in theatres.

This makes me incredibly sad. My dad managed 4 movie theatres so I grew up watching anything and everything. I still love to go to a theatre. But the moviemakers are not making it easy by only making stuff that appeals to 13 to 24-year-old males.

cjburris93 · #33 11-19-2011, 11:30 AM

I walked out on "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane". To date, it's the only film I've ever gave the order to abandon ship. No clue why I even bothered to see it.

tinydancer · #34 11-19-2011, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Showing my age here: Ryan's Daughter. Made by David Lean, the same guy who made Bridge Over the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Dr. Zhivago. RD took itself way too seriously. We started laughing and then left..

Oh you and me both! I rate Ryan's Daughter as the worst movie I ever saw.

There was an intermission and about half the audience left, thinking that was the end. I wish I had gone with them!!

KKGCaroline · #35 11-19-2011, 06:36 PM

Sex and the City 2...... just terrible

MysticCat · #36 11-19-2011, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ASUADPi

I've never walked out of a theater because of the money I've spent to see the movie.

I have stopped watching rentals if within the first 20 minutes I'm either confused or bored out of my mind.

Same here.

Lost in Translation and The Big Lebowski both got cut at the 20-30 minute mark.

knight_shadow · #37 11-19-2011, 07:48 PM

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (had to Wiki the name)

I am not a fan of the series, but decided to see it with 2 fraternity brothers I was working with at the time. I fell asleep within the first 10 minutes.

AZTheta · #38 11-19-2011, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Lost in Translation and The Big Lebowski both got cut at the 20-30 minute mark.

You made it further than I did on both those. I do not get what the deal is about The Big Lebowski. It's just weird.

christiangirl · #39 11-20-2011, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by ASUADPi

I have stopped watching rentals if within the first 20 minutes I'm either confused or bored out of my mind.

I rented Love in the Time of Money and promptly fell asleep. Sooooo didn't get it.

AGDee · #40 11-20-2011, 10:24 AM

Back when I used an actual video store for DVDs, I was trying to rent The Notebook. The wrong movie was in the case though so I ended up with I <3 Huckabees. Most awful movie ever.

Sciencewoman · #41 11-20-2011, 11:58 PM

I'm noticing a theme here of weird movies that are just too "out there" with their time travel, incomprehensible time/space continuum distortions, "magical" plot elements, etc. Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise was the only movie I just couldn't wait to be done. There's one scene where he's contemplating jumping off the roof of a building, and someone in the theater actually yelled out, "Just jump already and get this over with!"

ElieM · #42 11-21-2011, 12:20 AM

I wanted to walk out on Avatar, but instead suffered a 3D headache caused by excessive eye-rolling

Psi U MC Vito · #43 11-21-2011, 12:55 AM

Almost walked out of the second second movie about Neo and Morphus (I refuse to call it the Matrix. IT IS NOT!) Sorry but the scene with the party and sex scene kind of ruined it for me.

ASTalumna06 · #44 11-21-2011, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Same here.

Lost in Translation and The Big Lebowski both got cut at the 20-30 minute mark.

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Originally Posted by AzTheta

You made it further than I did on both those. I do not get what the deal is about The Big Lebowski. It's just weird.

Thank you! What IS it about this movie that people love so much? I saw it years ago, shortly after it was released to rent... so.. 12 years ago? I was about 15. Within the last year, I've had a bunch of people quote the movie and say how hysterical it is. I remembered that I hated it when I was younger, but I thought maybe it'd be like asparagus.. I couldn't stand it as a kid, but now I love it. So I gave it another shot..

I got 30 minutes in (after contemplating since minute 10 whether or not I should turn it off), and I just couldn't take it anymore.

I don't get it.

PeppyGPhiB · #45 11-21-2011, 02:57 AM

The only movie I've ever walked out of was Spice World, when I was in college. We snuck into As Good As It Gets just as it was starting. At the end, one of my friends yelled, "That was waaaay better than Spice World!"

An example of a movie that makes you work hard to understand it, but it's worth it: Momento.

Examples of movies that make you work too hard to understand them, and I still don't get it: Vanilla Sky, Magnolia, Mulholland Drive. Vanilla Sky was a tough one for me, because I otherwise love Cameron Crowe.

On the other hand, I like many of the movies mentioned earlier in this thread and even own a few of them (Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut, Gladiator, Catch Me If You Can, The Hangover).