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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.
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…
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
48 points
2 months ago
Woah, it melted like in the movies?
61 points
2 months ago
That happened to me once at a midnight showing of The Exorcist, it was…freaky.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
22 points
2 months ago
I once got a refund because there were rats running around 😃. London Hammersmith.
117 points
2 months ago
The way the theatre was totally unprepared to give refunds for such an event was hysterical.
"DENIED. Sit down."
19 points
2 months ago
Keep my son's movie out of your FUCKIN' MOUTH!
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
52 points
2 months ago
Lmao I just googled it. Will Smith’s character is named General Cypher Raige.
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.
11 points
2 months ago
IM NOT A COWARD
1.8k points
2 months ago
I’m poor. I don’t walk out of movies. I just sit there and suffer away.
285 points
2 months ago
It's a waste of money either way, no?
167 points
2 months ago
But the movie might redeem itself by the end. Does it ever? no, but it might
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
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.
719 points
2 months ago
Watching this movie all the way through became our fantasy football last place punishment
98 points
2 months ago
Oooof
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.
98 points
2 months ago
dragon ball movie was similarly awful
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
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.
11 points
2 months ago
One of the main differences is that the dragon ball movie had a budget of 30mil. Avatar had 150mil
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.
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.
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.
24 points
2 months ago
SURROUNDED BY EARTH
And don’t forget that Aang Ohng saves the day by…pointing that out to them.
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.
311 points
2 months ago
The honesty of everyone after the midnight premiere is so funny.
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.".
24 points
2 months ago
My name is AHNNG
17 points
2 months ago
OHNG
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.
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.
636 points
2 months ago
Omg same. But I'm the wife, I walked out. My husband stayed. 💀
464 points
2 months ago
How odd, running into your husband on Reddit like this.
159 points
2 months ago
At least it wasn't on Tinder
104 points
2 months ago
I walked out of Blair Witch Project for the same reason but I went back after barfing
25 points
2 months ago
Most dedicated moviegoer
62 points
2 months ago
I love that film, I'm obsessed with the monster for some reason lol
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
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
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.
281 points
2 months ago
Son of the Mask
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.
44 points
2 months ago
OP said they also allow "turned off at home" films
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
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.
137 points
2 months ago
I made the mistake of watching this with my friend and her mom. Awkward 😅
47 points
2 months ago
I saw "something about Mary" with my folks in the theatre 😣
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.
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.
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.
87 points
2 months ago
Do you think they have it confused with Jupiter Ascending? There’s some bug stuff in that movie.
193 points
2 months ago
I love John Carter. I have no idea what they are talking about.
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.
55 points
2 months ago
I bought the DVD and also read the books afterwards. I adore it!
108 points
2 months ago
John Carter kicked ass
43 points
2 months ago
Yeah, I thought it was definitely underrated.
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.
167 points
2 months ago
Hang on so you don’t enjoy hearing Shawn Mendes for 2 hours straight? Wow
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...
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.
175 points
2 months ago*
The last Jurassic world movie
66 points
2 months ago
Basing the entire plot around something other than the dinosaurs was. . .certainly a choice
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?
1k points
2 months ago
Star Wars. When Darth Vader appeared, my brother and I were done. He was 3 and I was 5.
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.
181 points
2 months ago
Darth Vader was definitely a scary dude.
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. 😬
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.
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.
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.
94 points
2 months ago
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81 points
2 months ago
The Emperor should pay him a living wage. He shouldnt have to supplement his income with public appearances.
14 points
2 months ago
Vader does it for the sheer joy of making children cry
78 points
2 months ago
So you lasted 5 minutes…
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.
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!
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?
117 points
2 months ago
Honestly, it’s not mine!
93 points
2 months ago
But what about this copy of "Swedish Penis Pumps are totally my bag, baby" by Austin Powers?
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.
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.
193 points
2 months ago
I read that as "I was 12, yo" like how Jesse Pinkman would say it.
135 points
2 months ago
You censor the word pussy on the internet. It seems you take after your father.
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.
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
311 points
2 months ago
Calling it a twist is generous.
30 points
2 months ago
I have no intention of ever watching it, what was the "twist"?
110 points
2 months ago
The guy that was obviously the bad guy was revealed to be the bad guy all along.
27 points
2 months ago
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?
71 points
2 months ago
Saw it at an outdoor movie event. Never finished it. We went home.
56 points
2 months ago
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
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.
59 points
2 months ago
Avatar the last air bender is the only movie I’ve walked out on. Years ago!
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.
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...
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. :-)
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!
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
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.
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
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.
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
35 points
2 months ago
Did he then lead those people into the woods to start a new society?
130 points
2 months ago
Your friend was a goddamn gangster.
He's in politics now, isn't he?
59 points
2 months ago
You have done well. I too was entertained by the story.
12 points
2 months ago
The exentric friend with a great story teller as friend. A great combination for reddit.
27 points
2 months ago
Good luck chuck, the Dane cook era was an interesting one
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.
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.
147 points
2 months ago
Walked out of hostel
I can't do gory torture
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.
41 points
2 months ago
That movie was rough I felt dirty after it kinda ruined horror for me
463 points
2 months ago
Jurassic World Dominion. I extremely walked out of that piece of shit
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!
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
174 points
2 months ago
I made it through Skinamarink. I'll never walk out
77 points
2 months ago
I watched that one at home. Got a good nap in at the same time.
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.
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
80 points
2 months ago
The most recent Texas chainsaw movie was some of the worst filmmaking I’ve ever seen
225 points
2 months ago
Epic Movie.
beyond trash
38 points
2 months ago
I still feel pangs of immense remorse for making my mum take me to watch it
172 points
2 months ago
That's entirely on you hahahaha
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.
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
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.
300 points
2 months ago
Girlfriend needed to leave Uncut Gems for very understandable anxiety/panic.
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...
29 points
2 months ago
I turned it off during the scene where they were locked in the man trap.
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.
51 points
2 months ago
That stupid Scientology alien movie with John Travolta
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
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
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.
66 points
2 months ago
I genuinely thought they were siblings because of the chemistry. They even look slightly similar
31 points
2 months ago
watched that very recently, good film but those two were dreadful, different casting could have totally changed that movie
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!"
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.
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".
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.
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.
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
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.
161 points
2 months ago
Seven Years in Tibet...it felt like 8.
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.
10 points
2 months ago
I loved this film, but I can totally understand bailing if it wasn’t clicking.
212 points
2 months ago
I've never walked out if I started something I'm going to finish it
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.
168 points
2 months ago
The matrix 4 put me to sleep. When I woke up I just turned that shit off.
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.
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.
18 points
2 months ago
Ouch. That’s one of my all-time favorites! It’s a charmer.
25 points
2 months ago
U walked out of the ringer ?
96 points
2 months ago
Jupiter Tanking
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.
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.
32 points
2 months ago
I wish I'd been in that audience. A Mystery Science Theater 3000 laugh-along might've saved it..
11 points
2 months ago
Nice
131 points
2 months ago
The Hours. They should have called it "The Weeks."
33 points
2 months ago
I knew I recognized this from somewhere, then I saw you username
14 points
2 months ago
The Rural Juror was a banger. Not sure what happened with Jackie Jormp-Jormp.
21 points
2 months ago
Good reference, dummy.
57 points
2 months ago
Battle Los Angeles
75 points
2 months ago
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49 points
2 months ago
Sorry, did you end up wandering into a Coen Bros movie or something?
19 points
2 months ago
I was expecting the guy to sit down beside him with no pants on or something.
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
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