MOVIES THAT YOU HAVE WALKED OUT ON - Freeze-Frame Radio

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

MOVIES THAT YOU HAVE WALKED OUT ON

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

I came sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo close to walking out on NATURAL BORN KILLERS.

That was the movie that cemented my hatred of Oliver Stone.

It's not that the story line was too gruesome, or anything related to the plot, I just get so sick and tired of Stone's artsy fartsy method of filming. With the tinted lenses, the constantly changing angles, the close-ups, etc.

Quentin Tarantino's another one. Everyone wants to call the guy a genius but his style of movie making seems more about trying to be stylish than about telling a story.

That's as close as I've come though. I never walked out on one because I figure all I'm doing is screwing myself over by having paid for a movie I didn't watch.

Mocrzy · Patient Zero

There are only 3 movies I walked out on, but that was because of technical glitches that I couldn't stand to watch for the whole film. (2 I go my money back for, 1 I got a free popcorn)

1)the second Matrix, the vocal tracks were missing, there were still explosions & gunfire Of Trinity Jumping out of the building, but lips were moving, w/ no sound...When Neo Wakes up & starts talking, I thought it was still dream sequence...but then there were groups of people mouthing things & not speaking...This was the first showing of the day ( I was trying to see it before work that day) & they couldn't start the film over cuz it would screw up the showings for the rest of the day...money back for me

2) Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets... About 1/2 way through, the film broke...then they put in the next reel upside down ( after missing what turned out to be about 10 minutes of film from the broken reel)...got my money back for that one too

3) Mars Attacks...Only got popcorn for this one but you know how they have different screen ratios from previews to the feature film...well they never switched it through this film, and all of the actors were ultra skinny w/ thier heads partially chopped off the top of the screen. When I went to complain after a while, they gave me popcorn & fixed the film.

As for walking out on BAD Movies....well..... I sat through ALL of Showgirls....I pay for it, I'm gonna watch it.

Somechick · Chairwoman Of The Board

Movies are kind of a touchy subject for me, as well..my job is directly involved with movie theatres. Amazingly enough, I think I've only walked out on one movie- Tales from the Crypt Bordello of Blood. It was possibly the WORST movie I had seen...until I saw Freddy Got Fingered.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Felt like walking out on The Life Acquatic with Steve Zisso. I thought it was supposed to be a comedy, it was just plain odd.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Awww man, I was gonna see that! brian doyle murray is in that, it looked good from the trailer (but then, what movie doesn't).

Zim · Chairwoman Of The Board

I wish I had walked out on The Life Aquatic too. I kept waiting for the whole thing to come together and it never did.

Heartbeeps is the only other movie I would have walked out on if I wasn't a kid at the time with our folks picking us up after the movie. I learned endurance from that and haven't left one since...

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Hey Zim,

Nice to see you on the boards again, it's been awhile since I saw a post from you.

You and the Jazz Doctor now officially have me reconsidering seeing this movie!

I've been looking forward to it since I first saw the trailer, I was SURE I wanted to see it, now I may not even rent the video!

Zim · Chairwoman Of The Board

Yep, holidays keep me too busy to keep up with anything else...

At least wait until video - it's definitely not necessary to see it on the big screen. I was thinking this was the movie that received four stars from someone who never gives 4 stars (which was actually Spanglish). There was just no empathy for or desire to be any of the characters... which is why I go to the movies in the first place... to appease the closet romantic/adventurer in me.

edit for spelling

-- Edited by Zim at 13:52, 2005-01-03

sdmac · Newbie

I walked out on Miracle. I have a lot of friends that liked it, but to me it was too much about Herb Brooks, the coach, and not enough about the team. The way they portrayed it, u would think the players didn't contribute. I do believe Brooks was an important part of the team but he was the only contributor. How about a little player(character development) information. This was done like an ESPN movie(laughing).

Disney should stick to the Mighty Ducks, it was better developed.

Somechick · Chairwoman Of The Board

You really walked out of Miracle? See...I've learned to go into movies with zero expectations. I'm normally not as angry when the movie ends up sucking.

After I answered this the first time, I remembered another horrid movie- 28 Days Later. It was absolutely awful. The worst part was everyone in the group I went with LOVED it.

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

I did walk out of Natural Born Killers! I had three friends with me and they stayed in the theater. I wasn't the only one, there was a group of people that walked out and still had friends inside. We all just stood outside and talked.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

I've never actually walked out during a movie, again that whole, I paid for it, I may as well sit through it. I did want to walk out on Rudy, but I went with a bunch of friends who had actually wanted to see it, so I stayed for them.

murscclub · Chairman Of The Board

I should've walked out on Rustler's Rhapsody. It was this really lame modern western-style movie back in the mid 80's. My friends and I went to see it, and there were the five of us plus two other people in the whole theater! What an awful movie. We could've walked out, but then we would;ve been stuck waiting for my friend's mom to come pick us up, so we just stayed for the whole thing.

CP · Lord of the Lair

I walked out of one movie. I do not remember the title, but think it starred Deniro and Nick Nolte. You are all going to think I am a wimp, but the movie started with a brutal rape scene. I could not handle it--even knowing it was just a film. I can hanlde Dirty Harry violence and Rambo, but not this one.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Mz, what on earth offended you about Rudy? That's one of the last films I would think someone would want to walk out on. I'm not a big fan of it, but I thought it was supposed to be a touching film about overcoming obstacles.

Natural Born Killers, iy yi yi, I'm glad to know I wasn't alone.

Ultimo · King of the Ring

never walked out of a moive but lately I have only been to see Kids films and if we didnt have kids with us I would walk out on most of the films I have seen lately, the last being "The Son of The Mask" truly awful!

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

It kinda offended me with how sappy it was. I'm from South Bend, so I got sick of all the sap stories that come out of Notre Dame, especially when I'm privy to some of the insider info and know about all the corruption there. I now live in Bloomington, Indiana, which is truely a college town, and although there is a lot of drama here as well, it's not as fake as it is there.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

That makes sense. I get it.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

I almost wanted to walk out of "Sideways". What a useless, miserable, self-absorbed think he knows it all child-man the main character is in that film. Plus his buddy is just as bad. I deal with people like this at work 45-50 hrs a week, I sure didn't need to be reminded of them at the movies.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

On a similar topic, are there any movies that people have walked out of that you absolutely loved? A lot of my friends hated Lost In Translation, so I waited until it came out on DVD and rented it. I absolutely love it! I think I'll buy it. I do think that they marketed it wrong, it's not a comedy.

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

For me it was Shawshank Redemption. I went, not even knowing what it was going to be about, and just emerged feeling that that had been the best (6$ I think it was at the time?) that I had ever spent.

Another good one was an Italian film from back in the late 1980's called Cinema Paradisio. I LOVE that film!

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

I get to go the movies so rarely that I never walk out. I am an embarrassment for my husband (or anyone else who is with me) if the movie is remotely sad. I cried during Beauty and the Beast (my goddaughter looked at me and said "Wimp!"). I cried during a movie where a horse died at the beginning of the movie. I don't cry at the drop of a hat any other time (o.k., that's a lie, I have cried about commercials), but sit me in a movie theater and I turn into a sobster.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Don't feel bad Trish,

At least you're a woman so society accepts you being emotional!

I'm too sensitive to that stuff myself, movies and TV can easily make me well up with tears. But I have to fight to hold it in!

I was watching Ladder 49 two nights ago with my sister. She bought it and she always wants to watch her new ones here because I have the big screen. I was actually wiping tears and my throat was hurting (you know, when you get choked up), and she was starting to get emotional, but she said "Isn't that sad" and I tried to use my best tough guy voice to say "Yeah, that's too bad". But if the lights had been on she would have caught me straining to avoid full out tears.

OVER A DAMN MOVIE! IT'S NOT EVEN REAL FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

Pathetic

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

absolutely pathetic!

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

Yah, somebody call the waaaambulance!

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

I did come close to walking out of Dances With Wolves only because it was a 3+ hour movie. If I had known that I wouldn't have ordered the tub of pop.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Walking out and taking an extended bathroom break are two different things...

Jimmyc · Standard Member

Sorry folks I'm a little slow on posting I'm a couple of posts behind. I walked out on "Office Space" what a waste of time, money and energy. Sure the stapler guy was funny but was there anything else?? Sorry MZ, I understand about you being from Southbend but come on... IT WAS RUDY!!! Everyone wanted to be him. Everybody knew it had to be true and now my bubble is burst. I guess I would compare that to walking out on the Karate Kid because you knew that Ralph Machio was really 24 when he made the first movie and would have never been allowed to go to the HIgh School party. If that Party never happened he would have never met Miagi and won the tournament. What would the movie be about?

JimmyC

What ever happened with the Road trip concert???

-- Edited by Jimmyc at 16:40, 2005-03-22

Jimmyc · Standard Member

Jeremy: I watched Ladder 49 Saturday with my Father-in law (retired Fireman of 32 years) he said it was closest thing to real that he has ever seen. Anybody who says they didn't get a little emotional over that movie is either lying or hasn't seen it.

JimmyC

PS I got emotional with lift your voice. If you haven't seen it rent it. It is not the typical Lizzie Mcguire movie they marketed it to be.