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I didn't walk out on it, I turned off the DVD player.
NAKOYKAATSI. Forty five minutes was all I could take in one sitting. WEnt baCk to it the next day to finish
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I am proud to say I have been visiting cinemas on a fairly regular (weekly or more) basis since June 1984 and have never once walked out.
Close calls: THE TOXIC AVENGER (typical Troma garbage), AUSTIN POWERS 2 (worthless on every level), HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES (tedious Texas Chainsaw ripoff full of constant screaming). Worst ever was DUST, a British shot-on-video atrocity from 2001 about a bunch of London media scum who spend the weekend in a stereotypical retarded English countryside, behave like animals and get bloodily slaughtered by the inbred locals for their pains. Dialogue was indecipherable, and the "plot" stopped for fifteen solid minutes of ear-splitting drunken horseplay in a pub. Somewhere between a third and a half of the audience walked out, and the exodus started after just five minutes.
NP: STAR TREK 2: THE WRATH OF KHAN (James Horner)
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I've never walked out of a film, but I've fallen asleep in a theater, twice (Star Wars, Network) and, I've turned off the laserdisc/dvd player a few times (Pulp Fiction, Phone Booth, Blair Witch Project) but I, ultimately, finished seeing all these films. Didn't make a difference. I still hated them.
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I've only walked out of one movie my entire life and that was back in th 70's, it was a version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped.
As for almost walking out, Looney Tunes Back In Action came very close. Joe Dante what happened to you???????
I'm picky about what films I spend money on.
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"Here On Earth" (2000) with Chris Klein and Leelee Sobieski. I thought I could just enjoy watching all the pretty young people for a while, but the story was just too damn insulting. I couldn't hold out. Sorry, Leelee.
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I have never, and will never, walk out of a movie I've paid to see. Why not just flush your money down the nearest toilet? Same difference. I tend to research movies before going (nutty idea, no?), so I rarely see really bad films at the theater.
I was sorely tempted with Cold Mountain, though... 
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Feb 25, 2004 - 3:11 AM
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OZ.
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Two movies I wished I had walked out on were the classics Lake Placid, Lara Croft Tomb Raider and Pearl Harbor.
I couldn't ever have believed that David E.Kelly (the same guy who once upon a time had three great hit shows at the same time on TV) wrote a piece of garbage like Lake Placid, which wasn't even shot on Lake Placid in the first place! Kudos for John Ottman, who survived this epic disaster with one of his livliest scores in his young carrer.
I fell asleep several times during Pearl Harbor and when I finally wake up in the theater, I realized that I had seen and awoken to a nightmare that had lasted more than three hours. As Roger Ebert wrote in his review for the movie North from 1994 " I HATED, HATED, HATED, HATED, HATED, HATED THIS MOVIE!!"
And last but certaintly not least, Tomb Raider was a total disaster from the get go. An empty theater in which you could hear yourself yawn throughout should certainly tell you of how good a movie really is. Much like Pearl Harbor, I fell into two nice little moments of snoozing not thinking of the agony on screen. After all was said and done, one of my friends put the exclamation point on the night by throwing up outside the theater.
When it's bad, it's BAD!
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Feb 25, 2004 - 9:29 AM
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Foxfire
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STAR WARS: EPISODE NUMB (uh, ONE). I couldn't figure out if it was live-action or a cartoon, but regardless of which it was, it was so vacuous I had to leave.
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. Proof that today's audience has no idea what a good horror film is. It was also the first time I was crying out for somebody to use a Steady-Cam.
The videos of GHOST, HOME ALONE, and SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE. There's something about popular "feel good" movies that make me ill because they're so obvious and uninspired.
Oh, yeah -- MOUSE HUNT. My wife thought it was fun, so I couldn't walk out, but I "walked out" in my mind. Thank God she's good looking and fairly intelligent despite that particular flaw.
The TV remake of INHERIT THE WIND. Didn't it have Kirk Dogface in it? I not only turned off the set, I walked outside and apologized to the ghosts of Frederick March and Spencer Tracy.
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Feb 25, 2004 - 10:03 AM
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Thor
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I never walk out of movies either, and have to agree with Monterey Jack in that it's useful to do some RESEARCH and PICK out the films you think will suit your taste before going to the cinema. Of course, you're going to take some chances now and then (either because you're with friends that want to see another film or simply because the film is nothing like you expected), but an evaluation of a film is only valid if you've seen it ALL THE WAY through, crappy or boring as it might be.
What I HAVE experienced, however, is MANY OTHER cinema-goers walking out of the same film. In particular, that was the case with the Japanese THE REALM OF THE SENSES and the French IRREVERSIBLE. Both of these contain controversial sexual contents. Being more of a "weathered" film-goer, however, I stayed put.
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