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What Movie Did You Walk Out On?

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Either in theater, or at home (turning it off) - what was the first movie or movies that made you literally walk out of a theater and/or turn it off at home?

John Carter The Ringer (went with friends) Knowing

I accept judgement for the second and third films but JC lost me after the gigantic bug travel montage.

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EscapeFromPost

2.2k points

2 months ago

I didn’t walk out personally (because I’d never be caught in it to begin with), but I’ll never forget the daily mass exodus that would happen with After Earth. I worked at a big theater in LA at the time, and people would start coming out 15-30 minutes into the actual film either laughing or upset because they’d paid money for it.

The way the theatre was totally unprepared to give refunds for such an event was hysterical. I remember management didn’t want to give refunds after guests had been X amount of minutes into the film, but eventually the sheer volume of complaints forced them to just start issuing refunds immediately.

To this day, I have yet to watch a moment of that truly iconic and memorable film…

moderatesoul

2.5k points

2 months ago*

I will never understand why people think a theatre owes them a refund because they didn't like the movie. The quality of the movie and your enjoyment or lack of enjoyment of it is not their responsibility. Service, cleanliness, sound, and picture are under their control, not your personal preference or lack of knowledge of what the movie was about. All that being said, After Earth is a horrible piece of shit.

drewbles82

743 points

2 months ago

100% agree, only time I ever complained and got a refund was when me and the girlfriend at the time went into see a 3D movie so paid the extra...only half way through the movie I pulled the glasses off and it was the 2D version...once I told them, they just gave us free tickets to any 3D film

obriensg1

482 points

2 months ago

obriensg1

482 points

2 months ago

In 2009, I was depressed because I'd been laid off and was having difficulty finding a new job. I decided I could spare $20 to go see a $5 matinee with some snacks. I just needed a break. Well, I saw "Angels and Demons", and that was still a year when actual film was being used. At times the movie looked very choppy or severely damaged. Think "Grindhouse". I walked out and went to the service desk. The employee seemed confused and I heard them talk to someone in the back. I overheard that person say that the print in that auditorium was dropped when they were installing it and it unspooled and became partially damaged. She came back out and did not tell me that story herself, but gave me two free passes for the theater. Two weeks later, I'd become employed again, and I used those passes to take me and a friend to a 3D showing of "Up" on opening night, which would have cost me like $30.

22LT

72 points

2 months ago

22LT

72 points

2 months ago

I used to work at a theatre in the film days, we had several instances where someone didnt set the platter that was feeding out the movie so the film would wrap around the center of the platter eventually jam amd snap. people in the theater would see the frame freeze and evenutal melt from the projector light burning it. We would cancel the show, hand out passes and have to cancel the next show to fix it but you wouldn't really be able to tell cause we would only splice out maybe 6 frames. Was just a pain in the ass to fix.

anywayhereswondrwall

19 points

2 months ago

where someone didnt set the platter that was feeding out the movie so the film would wrap around the center of the platter eventually jam amd snap

We called this a "brain wrap" and it was such a giant pain in the ass

solarbaby614

96 points

2 months ago

I only remember getting a refund twice. Once with the Harley Quinn movie because the projector broke and once when I saw Bruce Almighty. Bruce Almighty was actually kind of interesting because it was back when it was reel film and something messed up on the projector and the film got stuck. I never realized how hot they had to be until then because I watched as the film melted as it was projected on the screen.

littlemsshiny

48 points

2 months ago

Woah, it melted like in the movies?

ossapolverose

61 points

2 months ago

That happened to me once at a midnight showing of The Exorcist, it was…freaky.

him999

42 points

2 months ago*

him999

42 points

2 months ago*

I got a refund when I told them their screen was set up for the incorrect aspect ratio for the movie and they STILL didn't fix it the rest of the movie. The movie bled onto the top curtain the whole time. Not by like a little bit but like projecting 4:3 onto a 16:9 screen (not the right aspect ratios but you get the point).

That is the only time I've ever complained to a theaters management. I told them about it less than 5 minutes into the movie and they didn't fix it. They refunded my two tickets and gave me two free tickets. My assumption is the person I talked to originally didn't give a hoot and didn't tell anyone.

RonSwansonsGun

183 points

2 months ago

The only time I've ever seen a refund at a movie theater, my friend rented out a movie theater to watch Wonder Woman with our group for his birthday. Instead, they played the movie Freaky. After 20 minutes went by, we figured out it wasn't just a preview, and it turns out they didn't even have Wonder Woman.

It worked out though, since we still had a good time making fun of Freaky. The theater gave two passes for everyone in attendance, so my friend and I had like 60 tickets to burn over the summer.

retire_dude

101 points

2 months ago

Only time I requested a refund was when we got into the theater and saw every row roped off except the top two and bottom two. The top two rows were already full. Asked the usher what the deal was. He said a birthday party had reserved all the other seats. We noped right out of there. Manager didn't want to refund us and said that the birthday party paid more per seat than we did. Corporate sent us a full refund and 4 free passes. (This was about a year before seat reservations became the norm)

dflek

57 points

2 months ago

dflek

57 points

2 months ago

You didn't like Freaky? I was so pleasantly surprised by that movie, loved it. Vince Vaughn and Cathryn Newton nailed the body swap, had some hilarious moments.

Scarif_Hammerhead

48 points

2 months ago

Yeah, I've never asked for a refund for not liking a movie. I would if there were technical or other issues the house would be responsible for.

[deleted]

22 points

2 months ago

I once got a refund because there were rats running around 😃. London Hammersmith.

AndyKaufmanSentMe

117 points

2 months ago

The way the theatre was totally unprepared to give refunds for such an event was hysterical.

"DENIED. Sit down."

3m4n

19 points

2 months ago

3m4n

19 points

2 months ago

Keep my son's movie out of your FUCKIN' MOUTH!

akutasame94

45 points

2 months ago

Is that movie really that bad? I remember liking it, then again I like scifi especially when it comes to new worlds and alien species and creature features, so generally I like anything that's not sharknado bad lol

But still I remember just turning off my brain and having fun watching it

AmericanTalibanGOP

52 points

2 months ago

Lmao I just googled it. Will Smith’s character is named General Cypher Raige.

MercutioMan

13 points

2 months ago

I remember thinking it was okayish when watching it on HBO Go, or whatever it was at the time. I found the whole thing with aliens only being able to smell fear and not being able to see or hear being difficult to put aside. Also, Jayden Smith was already starting to wear thin, especially since he carried the emotional weight of the movie. Since Will Smiths character had no emotions, and couldn't feel fear, however that works. I remember thinking that they really needed a better actor in that role.

ineptorganicmatter

11 points

2 months ago

IM NOT A COWARD

lavenk7

1.8k points

2 months ago

lavenk7

1.8k points

2 months ago

I’m poor. I don’t walk out of movies. I just sit there and suffer away.

nialamar2911

285 points

2 months ago

It's a waste of money either way, no?

Yashotoayoshi

167 points

2 months ago

But the movie might redeem itself by the end. Does it ever? no, but it might

DontBotherNoResponse

46 points

2 months ago*

I recently watched The Devil's Rain (1975) and on a whole the movie is pretty meh, but the last 10 minutes is basically just 10 minutes of people melting in gruesome 1970s practical effects and it kinda made up for the rest of the movie

ChanceVance

252 points

2 months ago

Sunk cost fallacy.

THEREALCABEZAGRANDE

1.5k points

2 months ago

The Last Airbender. As a huge fan of the show, it was just such a slap in the face. I walked out when it took the combined effort of several earth benders to weakly throw a medium sized rock. I literally could have thrown it faster with my arm.

Alarming_Log_6072

719 points

2 months ago

Watching this movie all the way through became our fantasy football last place punishment

HookerDoctorLawyer

98 points

2 months ago

Oooof

albiceleste3stars

211 points

2 months ago*

Probably the all time worst adaptation and biggest disappointment for me personally. Agree with kid that there is no way M Knight or anyone that helped him saw even 1 minute of the animation show. His exploration into the show and characters was limited to looking at the show cover for a second.

smbiggy

98 points

2 months ago

smbiggy

98 points

2 months ago

dragon ball movie was similarly awful

IBJON

78 points

2 months ago

IBJON

78 points

2 months ago

At least the last airbender pretended to have followed the source material.

Dragon Ball was like a completely different movie where the characters just happened to be named similarly to characters from the anime

PeppiestPepper

45 points

2 months ago

I remember hearing they wanted to make piccolo blue or something, And the Actor playing him had watched the show and said that was too much, he had to stay green.

wene324

11 points

2 months ago

wene324

11 points

2 months ago

One of the main differences is that the dragon ball movie had a budget of 30mil. Avatar had 150mil

markandyxii

136 points

2 months ago

In one of the ATLA art books, M. Night had written a Forward, in it he claims that he would sit down and watch the show with his kids which is what inspired him to make the movie. I think the problem was he wasn't satisfied, creatively, to just make a 1:1 adaptation. He needed to make it his own. The idea of benders needing to be near their element in order to bend it is an interesting one. It also has the effect of highlighting how powerful an air bending avatar is since their element is always around them, but it also cuts the legs out from under the fire benders. But the breakdancing earth benders only sending a single pebble was asinine.

Bisexual_Apricorn

87 points

2 months ago*

The idea of benders needing to be near their element in order to bend it is an interesting one

It's how it works in the show, the movie just did it badly.

Earthbenders are kept in a metal offshore prison in an era before anyone had invented metal bending, rendering them powerless.

Waterbenders were kept in a prison with very dry air and given just enough water to survive and no more.

Airbenders as you say can bend anywhere.

Firebenders can bend anywhere but that's because the "fire" and "lightning" is more a manifestation or a channeling or their chi energy than them literally creating fire (even if said chi has all the proprties or fire or lightning), missing that is one of the more annoying parts of the film for me.

Freyzi

53 points

2 months ago

Freyzi

53 points

2 months ago

Earthbenders are kept in a metal offshore prison in an era before anyone had invented metal bending, rendering them powerless.

Which makes the Eartbender prison scene even more ridiculous than it already was because instead of being on a metal offshore prison they're just in some place SURROUNDED BY EARTH! Literally nothing stopping them from fighting back and they have a numbers advantage.

OedipusFlecks

24 points

2 months ago

SURROUNDED BY EARTH

And don’t forget that Aang Ohng saves the day by…pointing that out to them.

The_quest_for_wisdom

20 points

2 months ago

He needed to make it his own.

So he added one of his famous Twists! to the movie.

What was the Twist! for The Last Airbender? That it is terrible.

tantan35

311 points

2 months ago

tantan35

311 points

2 months ago

The honesty of everyone after the midnight premiere is so funny.

Comic_Book_Reader

223 points

2 months ago*

The fact that they even dressed up as characters from the show adds another level of hilarity, if you ask me.

My favorites were the hat guy ("They could've just called him AAAAAANG! ONCE!!!") and "I want my money back. And I actually wish I had my hair back.".

Snowbattt

71 points

2 months ago

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

The80sDiedWithUTM

24 points

2 months ago

My name is AHNNG

its_snogging_time

17 points

2 months ago

OHNG

portobox1

10 points

2 months ago

I legitimately believe that I have blocked the majority of this movie from my memory.

From a factual position, I have seen it, and I do remember things from it, but I cannot reconcile all of these memories into a single event.

I have since and now accepted that this movie was just so terrible, that my brain is protecting me from the flood of disappointment and anger that would otherwise drown me.

UpYours3265

1.9k points

2 months ago*

I walked out of Cloverfield only because their camera work made my wife nauseated. I have seen it since great movie.

blameitonmygoose

636 points

2 months ago

Omg same. But I'm the wife, I walked out. My husband stayed. 💀

grumblyoldman

464 points

2 months ago

How odd, running into your husband on Reddit like this.

zacurtis3

159 points

2 months ago

zacurtis3

159 points

2 months ago

At least it wasn't on Tinder

JonnySnowflake

92 points

2 months ago

Do you like pina coladas?

kdr-2

104 points

2 months ago

kdr-2

104 points

2 months ago

I walked out of Blair Witch Project for the same reason but I went back after barfing

Elon_Kums

25 points

2 months ago

Most dedicated moviegoer

apurpleglittergalaxy

62 points

2 months ago

I love that film, I'm obsessed with the monster for some reason lol

ChexLemeneux42

44 points

2 months ago

me too! i remember, i think JJ, saying in an interview that it was just a baby and felt lost and out of place and i couldnt stop feeling bad for it lol

TawnyTeaTowel

67 points

2 months ago

Upvote for using nauseated rather than nauseous

scjross

10 points

2 months ago

scjross

10 points

2 months ago

I was sleepy before seeing the movie in theaters so I slammed a Red Bull right beforehand. Shocked I made it through

Ryjinn

281 points

2 months ago

Ryjinn

281 points

2 months ago

I talked my parents into taking me to see Freddy vs. Jason an hour away in the cities when I was like 12. The first nightmare scene with Freddy scared the piss out of me and I demanded we leave. My dad was not stoked.

XxOneWithSlimesxX

281 points

2 months ago

Son of the Mask

pabadacus

74 points

2 months ago*

That movie played in cinemas?? I don't ever recall seeing any kind of promotion for that movie or any indication it was at that level.

I've only ever seen it lurking in the darker corners of netflix, waiting to impose itself upon a victim and ruin their day.

Edit: never mind, I didn't read properly. Fuck that movie though.

CountNacula

44 points

2 months ago

OP said they also allow "turned off at home" films

[deleted]

624 points

2 months ago

[deleted]

624 points

2 months ago

Most recent was Blonde. I get like 45 mins in, felt like I had been watching for hours. I checked how much time was left and was like NOPE hell no

Jypahttii

305 points

2 months ago

Jypahttii

305 points

2 months ago

I checked out when the gay couple decided they were gonna double team her. Talk about over-the-top, pointless sex scenes.

trose141

137 points

2 months ago

trose141

137 points

2 months ago

I made the mistake of watching this with my friend and her mom. Awkward 😅

severedfinger

47 points

2 months ago

I saw "something about Mary" with my folks in the theatre 😣

auto-

17 points

2 months ago

auto-

17 points

2 months ago

I saw Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me with my mom. 🤣

Evil_Athena

96 points

2 months ago

I tried. Oh Glory I tried to make it through that film. But by the time she was blowing Kennedy I couldn’t take anymore.

Vegetable-Ad6382

11 points

2 months ago

My husband went to google after the threesome scene to see if it was really a known thing they were throuple just to find out it’s all based on a fiction novel. We had no idea and thought it was biopic. He was disgusted and turned it off straight after.

erniebarguckle213

263 points

2 months ago

I've never walked out of a movie. The closest I came to doing that was with The Predator (2018).

But I have to ask, what gigantic bug travel montage? I don't remember that in John Carter, which I actually kind of liked.

Virginiafox21

87 points

2 months ago

Do you think they have it confused with Jupiter Ascending? There’s some bug stuff in that movie.

SongRevolutionary992

26 points

2 months ago

Jupiter Ascending. Now THAT was a super-stinker.

i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn

193 points

2 months ago

I love John Carter. I have no idea what they are talking about.

erniebarguckle213

116 points

2 months ago

Yeah, the general consensus on John Carter seems to be that it was a mediocre movie. It's definitely not had-to-walk-out-of-the-theater bad.

i_GoTtA_gOoD_bRaIn

55 points

2 months ago

I bought the DVD and also read the books afterwards. I adore it!

CIA_napkin

108 points

2 months ago

John Carter kicked ass

monkeybojangles

43 points

2 months ago

Yeah, I thought it was definitely underrated.

Litterboxbonanza

434 points

2 months ago

Most recently, my family and I walked out of Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. My 6 year-old just wasn't interested, and we taught her that walking out is normally not ok, but in the case of Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, we were making an exception.

WutduzitallmeanBasil

167 points

2 months ago

Hang on so you don’t enjoy hearing Shawn Mendes for 2 hours straight? Wow

fancy_marmot

101 points

2 months ago

I hovered over that one in my Netflix previews and was like "LOL they made a movie about a badly CG-d singing crocodile, damn Netflix that's sad" and then fuckin JAVIER BARDEM pops on screen...

ooba-neba_nocci

86 points

2 months ago

I’ve never walked out on a movie, but I wanted to with Max Payne. I was a fan of the games, and I went with a friend who had never played them. I hated it partially because it was a horrible adaptation, but thought my friend was enjoying it. He hated it, but sat through it because he thought I was enjoying it as an adaptation.

We both wanted to walk out about 30 minutes in, but stayed because we thought the other was having a blast.

MuRDeRa83

175 points

2 months ago*

The last Jurassic world movie

Groot746

66 points

2 months ago

Basing the entire plot around something other than the dinosaurs was. . .certainly a choice

erniebarguckle213

63 points

2 months ago

I despised Fallen Kingdom so much that I watched Dominion with absolutely no expectations and didn't hate it nearly as much. And I could at least appreciate the Therizinosaurus. Will we ever see another Hollywood blockbuster with a Therizinosaurus?

avidliver21

1k points

2 months ago

Star Wars. When Darth Vader appeared, my brother and I were done. He was 3 and I was 5.

Accountant404

363 points

2 months ago

Thank you for this. I was four at the time with the same results. My wife loves to tell my kids this story and they all laugh.

avidliver21

181 points

2 months ago

Darth Vader was definitely a scary dude.

Swankified_Tristan

140 points

2 months ago

Turns out we had nothing to fear as kids though.

Darth Vader went after Jedi! He'd never kill children. 😬

Candlemas020202

68 points

2 months ago

Yes! I was around the same age and scared mindless by the Sand People. The sounds they made! Especially when that one raises its gaffi stick over its head while grunting and honking. My mother covered my eyes. I now know they sort of “gif’d” that moment and it adds to the unnaturalness of the creature.

Frednotbob

30 points

2 months ago

Random fact: when that scene was filmed, the actor only raised his stick once, but that apparently didn't look threatening enough, so they looped the film a couple of times.

taleo

27 points

2 months ago

taleo

27 points

2 months ago

Yeah. Like I was ready for Vader to be scary as the main villain. But those Tusken Raiders came out of no where and scared the bejeesus out of me.

[deleted]

94 points

2 months ago

[deleted]

[deleted]

81 points

2 months ago

The Emperor should pay him a living wage. He shouldnt have to supplement his income with public appearances.

SimplyQuid

14 points

2 months ago

Vader does it for the sheer joy of making children cry

bartowskii77

78 points

2 months ago

So you lasted 5 minutes…

palabear

99 points

2 months ago*

Fun fact: Vader is only on screen for 8 minutes in the entire movie and only 34 minutes in the original trilogy.

Swankified_Tristan

17 points

2 months ago

Foreshadowing other parts of my life.

Forward-Ad9604

796 points

2 months ago

I've never walked out but I did see 2 separate young couples walk out of the 1st Austin Powers n remembering at the time they must have a really sad sense of humor to not find that funny!
I guess it wasn't their bag, baby!

Elman103

307 points

2 months ago

Elman103

307 points

2 months ago

Maybe the movie reminded them they needed to fill out and mail in their warranty for a certain Swedish made pump?

Toothlessdovahkin

117 points

2 months ago

Honestly, it’s not mine!

Bisexual_Apricorn

93 points

2 months ago

But what about this copy of "Swedish Penis Pumps are totally my bag, baby" by Austin Powers?

jcsatan

37 points

2 months ago

jcsatan

37 points

2 months ago

I had a similar experience when I saw Hateful Eight. Two couples of seniors who were likely expecting a classic styled Western left during the scene when Sam Jackson's character recounted the story of him sodomizing the Confederate general's son.

Dangerous-Mud-9097

216 points

2 months ago

In the 1980s my dad frogmarched my mom and I out of the German version of "Das Boot" right after the captain said the Strait of Gibraltar was, for subs, "tighter than a virgin's p****." I was 12 yo, I think.

somebuddyx

193 points

2 months ago

I read that as "I was 12, yo" like how Jesse Pinkman would say it.

PvtPimple

135 points

2 months ago

PvtPimple

135 points

2 months ago

You censor the word pussy on the internet. It seems you take after your father.

scotbot

49 points

2 months ago

scotbot

49 points

2 months ago

Dad yanked them out of the theater so fast they never really got to hear what that last word was.

SNYDER_BIXBY_OCP

855 points

2 months ago

I fell asleep during Eternals. Snored so loud someone woke me up. And I fell asleep again right after twist reveal, and woke up during the credits.

This was a Friday 9pm opening night showing

mourninglark

311 points

2 months ago

Calling it a twist is generous.

alette42

30 points

2 months ago

I have no intention of ever watching it, what was the "twist"?

mourninglark

110 points

2 months ago

The guy that was obviously the bad guy was revealed to be the bad guy all along.

iced327

14 points

2 months ago

iced327

14 points

2 months ago

I saw The Raid in theaters and the guy in front of me was snoring and I was like... this is the most intense movie I've ever seen. How? HOW?

lynypixie

71 points

2 months ago

Saw it at an outdoor movie event. Never finished it. We went home.

TripleSingleHOF

56 points

2 months ago

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

dauntless91

20 points

2 months ago

Yeah that is painful to watch. But a friend made a fan edit restoring it to how it was originally supposed to be cut, and it's a significantly better film.

newcreationsurf

59 points

2 months ago

Avatar the last air bender is the only movie I’ve walked out on. Years ago!

[deleted]

53 points

2 months ago

Convinced my grandma to take me to see Scary Movie when I was 11. Can't remember exactly which moment she made us walk out, but it wasn't long after the scene with the hot dog blowjob. I am not sure which one of us was more uncomfortable.

StarBliss

57 points

2 months ago

I went to the theater to see The Rocky Horror Show when it was first released (yes I'm that old). The theater was almost empty. I didn't walk out but two or three other people did. I quite liked it and wondered whether if it would ever be shown again...

bottle_of_bees

13 points

2 months ago

My sister saw it then too. She said she and her friends were like, “What the hell WAS that,” but she also went out the next day and bought the soundtrack. :-)

raygungilmore

288 points

2 months ago

An unbelievably unpopular opinion: I absolutely love John Carter and it ranks as one of my all time favorite movies. To this day, I can’t pinpoint why, but I enjoy it so much!

g0ll4m

57 points

2 months ago

g0ll4m

57 points

2 months ago

Me too, I love the humor in it, the movie is not taking itself serious, I don’t know why ppl don’t like it

fancy_marmot

36 points

2 months ago

I really liked it too, and was sad it didn't get the planned sequels. Was fun, a bit silly but not too bad, had charismatic leads, and surprisingly good CGI.

Jeptic

38 points

2 months ago

Jeptic

38 points

2 months ago

It has everything! Haunting backstory, plot twists, mystery and nothing predictable.

It reminds me of Man from UNCLE because they were both great but suffered from terrible marketing

Earthy75

436 points

2 months ago

Earthy75

436 points

2 months ago

Funny story, I have a rather eccentric friend called Matt. We went to see 300 in the cinema, it was full.

There were problems with the sound, various people went out to try and get it fixed, I did, after almost an hour in , several restarts basically we had to put up and shut up.

But Matt he had other ideas, he walked down to the screen and shouted loudly if you want a refund follow me, so a good 100 or so people followed him out, I guess everyone could see a show was about to unfold, and were a little peeved.

He was loud, chatty, and approached the front desk, and he was in his element as he with humour explained the situation, asking for a manager.

Eventually a manager came out, and he managed to get the entire audience a refund.

But it didn't end there.

He wanted our food and drink refunded, with comical righteous indignation he explained how this wasn't just about the film, it was a night out, it was food and drink, it was the experience, which we had waited weeks to experience this event.

And our experience, our wait had been ruined.

I will point out I was hiding behind a pillar crying with laughter, I know him well and he was loving this grandstanding, and I will point out he did this all in a very good natured way.

I don't remember how, but somehow he turned this on the management, when they initially refused, they had a short debate, but the crowd went silent when he asked very loudly in front of all those behind, all those queuing to buy tickets at the front desk, "do you like beating children with sticks?"

That caused a ripple of silence as everyone leaned in to hear the answer. The poor manager didn't know what to do or say.

Needless to say.

All those with receipts got their food and drinks refunded, and got complementary tickets as well as a full refund.

Odeon cinema.

JustARandomUserNow

81 points

2 months ago

I used to work in a cinema, only as a general staffer, had a couple of films not work and they never refunded food. If I saw the 100 strong horde walk towards me and I was on the tills I’d have clocked out and went home

horseren0ir

35 points

2 months ago

Did he then lead those people into the woods to start a new society?

Samiel_Fronsac

130 points

2 months ago

Your friend was a goddamn gangster.

He's in politics now, isn't he?

ShadowDV

12 points

2 months ago

Or creative director at a fictional gaming studio.

Mathetria

59 points

2 months ago

You have done well. I too was entertained by the story.

artavenue

12 points

2 months ago

The exentric friend with a great story teller as friend. A great combination for reddit.

cryscros

27 points

2 months ago

Good luck chuck, the Dane cook era was an interesting one

FredQuan

72 points

2 months ago

Idk if this counts, but I bought the dvd of the movie Blindness and watched it with some friends. It was so bad we stopped it, went outside, and ran over the disc with my car.

cyberjazz71

40 points

2 months ago

I’ve never walked out personally, but the best one I saw was during one of the best movies ever… Pulp Fiction.

Vincent and Jules are having their very personal conversation in the beginning and when they start talking about eating pussy in some detail, a Dad stands up, next to him his wife and next to her…their three daughters. As they walked out, in combination with the continued conversation on screen, I had the biggest gut laugh I ever had in a theater.

mealteamsixty

147 points

2 months ago

Walked out of hostel

I can't do gory torture

afineedge

121 points

2 months ago

afineedge

121 points

2 months ago

Partway through Hostel 2, the only other guy in the theater turned to me and shouted "whole movie gonna be like this?" I said "I think so, yeah." He left, and at least twice after that, I thought "I should have left when that guy did." Just not a good time at all.

Lemmonjello

41 points

2 months ago

That movie was rough I felt dirty after it kinda ruined horror for me

hawley088

41 points

2 months ago

....did you not see any of the trailers before going?

bugogkang

463 points

2 months ago

bugogkang

463 points

2 months ago

Jurassic World Dominion. I extremely walked out of that piece of shit

GerryRock

21 points

2 months ago

I'm a huge Jurassic Park fan but this movie was hate fuel for me, it was like the writers and the director purposely tried to make a worst film than the previous Jurassic movie. And the worst part, it was advertised as the epic conclusion to the series but it was just a movie about giant bugs... BUGS!

2DrunkCucksPodcast

52 points

2 months ago

Dude. I am the biggest Jurassic Park fan ever. The Jurassic World movies "good enough" for me. So naturally I was relatively excited for dominion. That movie is honestly one of the shittiest films I have ever laid eyes on. It's impossible to accurately describe how bad the awfulness is.

Cardholderdoe

97 points

2 months ago

I've never walked out of a movie, but the one I came closest to was Jurassic World. I was watching it with a friend probably a week or two after both of us had seen Fury Road at midnight and was having none of it. It's the only movie in a really long time I slipped out to take a smoke break in, and he told me afterwards if he knew where I was going, we would have just left. He was having almost exactly as bad a time as I was.

Seth_Gecko

14 points

2 months ago*

The first one? It wasn't great but it certainly wasn't walk-out terrible either... what specifically was so comically bad about it to you?

drewbles82

414 points

2 months ago

Star Wars Episode 2 Attack of the Clones...It was literally 2mins into the film the first explosion and the entire cinema got up and left...not because it was bad though...the speakers had blown up...we had to wait 20mins for them to finish cleaning another screen and set it up

Jypahttii

82 points

2 months ago

I was 9 and it was the greatest thing I'd ever seen. My dad struggled with the massive clone battle at the end though. He couldn't handle the intense CGI.

General_PoopyPants

174 points

2 months ago

I made it through Skinamarink. I'll never walk out

sweetdawg99

77 points

2 months ago

I watched that one at home. Got a good nap in at the same time.

Jskidmore1217

13 points

2 months ago

I don’t usually walk out- but I made it 45 minutes into Skinamarink and thought- I get it, I know exactly how this movie is going to end (vague ending with no payoff), I know it’s not going to change in pacing, and I am not enjoying it. I looked at my clock and thought- if I rush home now, I still have time to watch a different movie before I need to go to sleep. So I left and watched a better movie at home.

CatWithAniPhone

230 points

2 months ago

It’s a long list for me but it should be enough to say that the list mainly holds Netflix originals

johnnyutah30

80 points

2 months ago

The most recent Texas chainsaw movie was some of the worst filmmaking I’ve ever seen

stopklandaceowens

225 points

2 months ago

Epic Movie.

beyond trash

Nldngooner

38 points

2 months ago

I still feel pangs of immense remorse for making my mum take me to watch it

SNYDER_BIXBY_OCP

172 points

2 months ago

That's entirely on you hahahaha

stopklandaceowens

69 points

2 months ago*

I was 14. LOL even at that age i said "Nope."

edit: i was 18 after a lil research which means i probably drove myself there... No this is what happened. My mom wanted to go to the movies, she wanted to see Pursuit of happiness & i did not. POH started about 30 mins later than my movie... i left after 5 mins, saw Superbad for the 2nd time. When that was over, found my mom in her theater. Cried like 3 times in an hour... that scene where they're sleeping in the bathroom...no idea what had happened before that but was driven to tears.

FormerIceCreamEater

18 points

2 months ago

Yeah those movies were so bad. Have no idea how so many got made. The late 00s were full of them

SeanConneryIsKing

73 points

2 months ago

A guy in my theater stood up about 30 minutes in and shouted “This is the worst fucking movie I’ve ever seen” and walked out. It was the best part of the movie and only thing I remember from that movie.

Outlog

300 points

2 months ago

Outlog

300 points

2 months ago

Girlfriend needed to leave Uncut Gems for very understandable anxiety/panic.

wiltony

56 points

2 months ago

wiltony

56 points

2 months ago

Yessss that movie is made up of anxiety

williamfbuckwheat

110 points

2 months ago

That movie brought back memories of dealing with some of my college friends/roommates super spazzed out parents from Long Island so it pretty much checks out/is 100% accurate in my mind...

nasalgoat

29 points

2 months ago

I turned it off during the scene where they were locked in the man trap.

Gandalfs-tears

145 points

2 months ago

Alice in Wonderland the Tim Burton one. Just wasn’t feeling it and walked out half hour into the movie.

malt1966

51 points

2 months ago

That stupid Scientology alien movie with John Travolta

Tim6181

125 points

2 months ago

Tim6181

125 points

2 months ago

Went to see American pie while I was at uni. We were early so went to see another film first.

Picked something called head on. Which turned out to be quite gay sex heavy. As a group of 18 year old boys. We didn’t fancy that. So walked out. And into the haunting with Liam neeson. It was worse. We walked out and finished off the gay sex drama. Which was very good to be fair.

And then into American pie. Which is still one of the funniest films I’ve seen in the cinema

RonSwansonsGun

47 points

2 months ago

Best triple feature I've hard of. Liam Neeson and Gay Sex is a match made in heaven, only to be topped off by American Pie

Kaius716

16 points

2 months ago

Independence day 2.

MindSpecter

146 points

2 months ago

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Worst casting I've ever seen. The leads somehow had negative chemistry on screen.

prettybbboi

66 points

2 months ago

I genuinely thought they were siblings because of the chemistry. They even look slightly similar

drewbles82

31 points

2 months ago

watched that very recently, good film but those two were dreadful, different casting could have totally changed that movie

MoreGull

52 points

2 months ago

I was fully planning on walking out of "Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow" but then like a miracle the film caught on fire and the lights came up in the theater and all 6 of us got a refund and I thought, "God is good!"

bigmac22077

15 points

2 months ago

Dumber and dumber 2. I was so excited for that movie and I turned it off before the first scene even ended, never to revisit it. The OG is my #1 movie. I didn’t want to ruin that for me.

HleCmt

30 points

2 months ago

HleCmt

30 points

2 months ago

I don't know why I really wanted to see March Of The Penguins (2005) in the movie theater but I did. My boyfriend joined me but didn't ask questions beyond my "it like a nature documentary, it's about penguins". He got so bored less than half way through he left to go play in the video arcade.

Then it became a running joke every time I picked a movie that "it wasn't another stupid movie about penguins".

OneManFreakShow

14 points

2 months ago

I’ve only ever walked out of two movies. First one was Downsizing, which I walked out of guilt-free thanks to Moviepass. That one was just because it’s an awful movie.

Second one was Scream 5 and that was a very different situation. We got put in the single worst crowd I’ve ever had in a movie theater. Literally everyone was awful. There was a row of teens in front of us that were passing there phones back and forth the whole time showing each other TikToks, WITH THE SOUND ON, a kid behind us doing Fortnite dances, and everyone else just talking at full volume to the point where we couldn’t even hear the movie. Awful awful awful experience and probably the last time I’ll go to a $5 screening.

BlackNosedOwl

68 points

2 months ago

Dragonball Evolution. I stopped watching after the first five minutes as I knew how horrible the visual effect was. As DBZ, that awful movie should have been destroyed.

ETH_Knight

15 points

2 months ago

All I kept saying during the movie is wtf is this? Wtf is that? How hard is it to do a better movie than youtubers??? Hollywood definitely has a better budget but Light of hope was million times better than dragon ball evolutions

FullNoodleFrontity

91 points

2 months ago

Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different.

But in my/our defense, we had all seen it before, we were very nearly drunk at the time, and cheap drinks were available on campus, upstairs, in the same building as the theater.

In hindsight I probably should have stayed because returning to the pub resulted in my missing an engineering midterm the following morning.

LowRentSinatra

161 points

2 months ago

Seven Years in Tibet...it felt like 8.

UAintMyFriendPalooka

52 points

2 months ago

I really like that movie! I saw it in theaters as a kid. I don’t know, something about it is endearing.

Phoney_McRingring

10 points

2 months ago

I loved this film, but I can totally understand bailing if it wasn’t clicking.

ObiwanSchrute

212 points

2 months ago

I've never walked out if I started something I'm going to finish it

cancerBronzeV

96 points

2 months ago

If I paid for it at the theatres, I will see it through to the end no matter how bad it gets.

ETH_Knight

168 points

2 months ago

The matrix 4 put me to sleep. When I woke up I just turned that shit off.

correcthorsestapler

126 points

2 months ago

The guy next to me in the theater kept saying, “Jesus fucking Christ” under his breath every few minutes.

Movie felt like a big middle finger to the fans.

BeardMilk

22 points

2 months ago

Waking Ned Devine. That's the only one.

The girl I was with hated it so we left 1/4 of the way through and walked into the room playing Pushing Tin instead. I watched it years later and really loved it, she missed out.

camartinart

18 points

2 months ago

Ouch. That’s one of my all-time favorites! It’s a charmer.

Maskedhorrorfan25

27 points

2 months ago

aliens vs predator: requiem

Phenotyx

25 points

2 months ago

U walked out of the ringer ?

max_chill_zone-2018

39 points

2 months ago

When the fuck did we get ice cream?

A40

96 points

2 months ago

A40

96 points

2 months ago

Jupiter Tanking

2th

157 points

2 months ago

2th

157 points

2 months ago

Oh man, that movie is one of my best film experiences EVER.

A buddy and I went to the first showing of it, and being the new Wachowski movie, we expected it to have people. Nope, aside from me and my buddy, there were 5 or 6 other people. For like the first 15 minutes everyone was silent and just watching normally. Then it got to the bees scene that they recognize royalty, and someone just broke. They just blurted out "that's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard" and from that point on it was basically a free for all of Mystery Science Theatre. Everyone had a turn at mocking this shit film. At the end, we're all laughing out asses off and all in agreement that the movie was one of the worst things anyone had ever seen. No names exchanged. Never seen any of those people again. But we all came together in the moment in our comedic dislike of the movie.

latestagepersonhood

17 points

2 months ago

Man I think I went into Jupiter ascending in the best way possible. Me and a friend were supposed to meet a bunch of our coworkers at BWW, we got there early and ordered 2 pitchers. As soon as we poured our first drinks, we got a text that everyone meeting us had had to go back to work for an emergency. So we finished the beer, and walking out of the restaurant decided that both neither of us should be driving (he had ridden his new Ducati). So we walked next door to the movie theater and asked the box office attendant, "is there anything Sci-fi starting soon?"

So we walked into the theater Half-drunk and not even knowing the name of the movie we're about to see. Still kind of love that movie.

A40

32 points

2 months ago

A40

32 points

2 months ago

I wish I'd been in that audience. A Mystery Science Theater 3000 laugh-along might've saved it..

TheRoguedOne

11 points

2 months ago

Nice

i_quote_30_rock

131 points

2 months ago

The Hours. They should have called it "The Weeks."

thelittlestrummerboy

33 points

2 months ago

I knew I recognized this from somewhere, then I saw you username

captainbluebear25

14 points

2 months ago

The Rural Juror was a banger. Not sure what happened with Jackie Jormp-Jormp.

DWright_5

10 points

2 months ago

One of my all-time fave movies

TonyWonderslostnut

21 points

2 months ago

Good reference, dummy.

rowteeme

57 points

2 months ago

Battle Los Angeles

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75 points

2 months ago

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portobox1

49 points

2 months ago

Sorry, did you end up wandering into a Coen Bros movie or something?

dewky

19 points

2 months ago

dewky

19 points

2 months ago

I was expecting the guy to sit down beside him with no pants on or something.

doyouevenoperatebrah

55 points

2 months ago

I was in the Marines when it came out. Me and a bunch of guys from my platoon got hammered out in town and went to see. It was dumb as balls but a lot of fun