Have you ever walked out of a film, and if so which ones?

[seeformiles]

Wanted to walk out of "Love Actually" when the luvvie-o-meter was going off the scale. Did walk out of "Star Trek" since the screen was blurry and they had (unadvertised) subtitles (fine if you're hard of hearing but just plain annoying if you're not). Got my money back.

I remember going to see the film "Fame" when I was about 15 and lots of parents dragging their offspring out when they realised that it wasn't like the cuddly TV series and Leroy was a lot swearier than they'd remembered.

My quite religious mate walked out when we went to see "The Wall" (when we were about 14) since he said it was blasphemous. Never spoke to me again!

 

[spanglechick]

I didn't walk out myself, but I was a participant in a threatened walk out of Brazil, the Terry Gilliam film.

I was an extra. There were 120 of us, all having already spent a day getting hair cut in a sort of mock 50s style, and being fitted for suits. We did a couple of scenes in the morning. Then while having lunch we were told that half of us could go home. We'd been offered £120 quid for the day being kitted out and the day filming. Those of use who were selected to go home were told we would only get 60 quid as we'd only done half a day filming. We pointed out that the contract included the hours being kitted out, and thus missing half a day filming shouldn't drop more than a quarter of the fee, a third at most. Having had our (quite reasonable) response turned down we came up with a plan.

We told the extras who were staying to do more filming. They agreed to walk out with us. After half an hour of frantic faffing around the production manager came by to apologise and on behalf of Mr Gilliam agreed to pay us all the originally agreed fee in full, and a bonus of fifty quid each for those who stayed longer.

Hopefully taught him a lesson. It's no good trying to save a few hundred quid by underpaying the extras when they know perfectly well that you have three Hollywood stars on set along with a complete crew, who cost many times that per hour.

terry gilliam interests himself with how much the extras are being paid? you know this?

anyway

i, too, never walk out of a film - even if it's crud. I managed a cinema for a few years, so i saw a lot of dross and didn't even play for it, but i always stay to the end.

the closest i came was 'Deep Blue Sea'.

 

[Idaho]

I walked out of A Perfect Storm. It was in german, and I couldn't understand it.

 

[6_6]

Some Adam Sandler movie.
Gosh it was awful. I don't even remember the name of it.

 

[Wookey]

Eden Lake, at the bit where the torture started.

And others which were clearly so bad I can't remember them!

 

[Wolveryeti]

'The Walker' - a Woody Harrelson turkey in which he plays a (highly unconvincing) gay socialite framed for a murder. Dull as fuck. After glazing over for 40 minutes I walked. Ah the irony.

 

[Orang Utan]

I have just walked out of a film. Felt quite a liberating thing to do. It was 'Public Enemies'.

This film seems to have rave reviews but I could just not find anything romantic in the violence and I felt glad when I just left them to it.

It's the first film I've ever walked out of, excepting Willow when I was about ten, but I was part of a group then, it wasn't my decision.

i expected you also walked out of united 93, outrages at the tissue of lies it was spinning

 

[ericjarvis]

terry gilliam interests himself with how much the extras are being paid? you know this?

I know it costs rather a lot of money to have a film crew and several leading actors sitting idle whilst another batch of extras are found, fitted for costumes, have their hair cut, and brought to the set. Not to mention being exceedingly boring for all concerned.

 

[toblerone3]

I walked out of There Will Be Blood last year I was just very bored by it.

Also walked out of The Big Lebowski. Nothing particularly wrong about the film I just had a very strong urge to have a cigarette and a drink.

 

[DexterTCN]

Top Gun and Highlander II.

 

[Dr. Furface]

The 2nd Lord of the Rings film. Somehow I managed to stick it for about 2 hours - it seemed a lot longer - but I realised I could take no more and the thought of going for a beer became overwhelming. I only went out of curiosity and boredom, I always knew I'd hate it.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Two films with Jack Nicholson, Batman, when the Batmobile reached a peak right in front of the moon making the Batman logo .

How odd, I think that's about the same time I walked out of batman but I didn't see the the moon so bit so maybe I left a little sooner.

 

[Ms T]

Only once. Miami sodding Vice. I went to the loo halfway through because I was so bored and I wanted to know how much of it was left. When I got back hendo asked me if I wanted to walk, thank God.

I fell asleep during Man on a Wire - not because it was shit. I was exhausted and the cinema was packed and stiflingly hot.

 

[Chz]

"Madhouse", starring Kirstie Alley. The only movie I've ever paid for and walked out of.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Toy Story- i dropped a pucker and woody was tripping me out !!!!

 

[kyser_soze]

Fell asleep during 'Mars Attacks', but have only walked out in similar situations to badgers i.e. scary movie date...

 

[Sadken]

Memoirs of an Invisible Man starring Chevy Chase

Clerks 2. Fucking SHIT. Huuuuuuuuge let down.

 

[danny la rouge]

Every Which Way But Loose.

 

[kyser_soze]

Y'see, I spend hours thinking 'That Sadken, he's a smart cookie and quite witty'

Memoirs of an Invisible Man starring Chevy Chase

Clerks 2. Fucking SHIT. Huuuuuuuuge let down.

Then you post something like ^^^this and I think 'Maybe the internets is lying to me.'

 

[Sadken]

Mate, Memoirs of an Invisible Man remains to this day the benchmark against which I measure all other bad experiences.

 

[chemn]

Bruce Almighty - had a bus to catch!

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I didn't walk out of 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' but I regretted not doing so. It was just dreadful. Really crap. I kept thinking: I'll give it five/ten more minutes, it has to get better. And it didn't. So I'd think, just five more minutes, it's really got to get better now. And it didn't.

And I didn't walk out of a screening of Clockwork Orange at the rape scene, but I really wanted to.

 

[Orang Utan]

Every Which Way But Loose.

i like that film

 

[danny la rouge]

i like that film

I guessed.

I went with a group of friends, but got so bored, I left and took the bus home.

 

[Chimmay]

Walked out half way through Troy a few years back. Not my kind of film, don't know why I went to see it in the first place.

 

[Upchuck]

The 2nd Lord of the Rings film. Somehow I managed to stick it for about 2 hours - it seemed a lot longer - but I realised I could take no more and the thought of going for a beer became overwhelming. I only went out of curiosity and boredom, I always knew I'd hate it.

Same here. I can watch it on DVD or the telly, but at the cinema it was sheer utter torture.

I walked out on Brokeback Mountain. that Jake Gyllenhall's flabby moley face made me wanna puke in the small confines of a multiplex watched it on DVD and coped better and enjoyed the film

 

[Orang Utan]

i didn't literally walk, but i chose vicky cristina barcelona on film flex a couple of hours ago and managed about 20 seconds before i realised it just wasn't for me, even with the presence of scarlet, rebecca and penelope.

 

[newme]

three men and a baby - at barnet odeon - some girls were chucking sweets about and one hit me so i threw some prawns, one of them hit a girl, she screamed 'i've been hit by a fish' and i beat a retreat to a nearby hostelry

 

[braindancer]

Only one film have I ever walked out from: The Saint starring Val Kilmer (with soundtrack by Orbital if I remember rightly). Utter utter toss.

 

[Mation]

Can't remember ever walking out of a film but loads of others walked out of AI went I went to see it. I was too mesmerised and baffled by it to leave.