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Author Topic: Movie's you've walked out of... Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-24-2003 08:22 PM                     I can't say I have ever walked out of a movie; although I have been very tempted by such flicks as "Windtalker." OTOH, there have been plenty of times where I have ejected a rental DVD or VHS tape before the show could finish. "Hard Boiled" is one such film. Sorry, but I just hate John Woo movies. That's one example of an "emperor's new clothes" kind of thing. The guy is overrated when it comes to directorial and editorial flash. I don't think Woo cares at all about fundamental things like character and quality acting performances either.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 11-24-2003 08:27 PM                     I was anticipating Windtalkers for a long time, but I was extremely disappointed when it came out. I thought it would be somewhat like saving private ryan. He was just protecting this indian for no immediate reason, he was on no great mission. Pointless waste of film.  |  IP: Logged Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 11-24-2003 08:39 PM                     Only two for me: 1. Zoolander, got to that gas station scene and couldn't take it anymore. 2. The Medallion, wasn't the Jackie Chan I was expecting, so I left! Would have walked out on THE STONE READER, but I was required to watch the movie with my old place of employment.  |  IP: Logged Emma Tomiak Expert Film Handler Posts: 238 From: Carrollton, TX, USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 11-24-2003 11:11 PM                        I made the mistake of deciding to watch our screening of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." I absolutely LOVE the comic books, and I hoped that the movie might have some resemblance to them. It didn't. I volunteered to check the projector every 10 minutes because I couldn't watch my favorite comic ruined. Watching it with the other projectionists was like participating in an episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000.  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 11-25-2003 01:00 AM                        Never actually walked out of a movie that I can recall. Would have liked to have walked out of Lucky Numbers - but the damn thing had to be screened, and the only other person around that night had the misfortune of screening 'Blair Witch 2' (can't be bothered to remember the proper title.) ... still not sure who got the shorter end of the stick that night...  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-25-2003 02:13 AM                        Photographing Fairies: pseudo-psychological claptrap which I was forced to watch virtually at gunpoint to investigate a possible sync problem with the print. Within seconds of the last reel coming on I was out of there. Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train: it got quite good reviews, billed as a black comedy about various factions of a feuding family converging on the funeral of a not-much-loved relative, with all hell breaking loose (the kind of sitcom scenario the French tend to do well). Sadly, this bit of it was over by about half way through reel 2 and it then degenerated into long-winded discussions about philosophy, at which point I headed for the bar.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 11-25-2003 07:25 AM                     My dad, who recently had his 81st birthday, is well known for walking out on some sucessful films. Here's a few: On The Waterfront From Here To Eternity Bridge On The River Kwai Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? The Lion In Winter 4 of these are Columbia Pictures. It's not a studio issue. He loved the Eddy Duchin Story. I have walked out on one film: The Ruling Class (1971) w/Peter O'Toole. It just went on, and on, and...  |  IP: Logged John Carpenter Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 11-25-2003 05:23 PM                     As a paying customer - only Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas... but there are so many more that I would have loved to walk out on if it hadnt had been my job to preview... Bulletproof Monk comes to mind  |  IP: Logged Edward Jurich Master Film Handler Posts: 305 From: Las Vegas USA Registered: Jul 2003 posted 11-25-2003 10:05 PM                     Going back a ways, "Woman Under The Influence", could only take so much of a woman screaming and yelling.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Cope Master Film Handler Posts: 256 From: Overland Park, KS, United States Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-25-2003 10:23 PM                     Walked out on "Making Love" (1982). Fell asleep during "Armageddon" (1998). Stupidity at its finest.  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 11-26-2003 06:25 AM                     Only One For ME Cabin Fever Biggest piece of in the world  |  IP: Logged Gary Crawford Expert Film Handler Posts: 200 From: Neptune NJ USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 11-26-2003 01:46 PM                     Never actually walked out on one although tempted many times. I worked on "City By The Sea" when it was shot in Asbury Park in Nov and Dec 2000. Couldn't wait for it to come out, told everyone to see it (because I worked on it mostly). Release was pushed back a few times and took my daughter with me when it finally came out. I wanted to walk out but I kept watching it. This has GOT to get better! It didn't. Disappointing to say the least, predictable and formulaic. But I did make $50 an hour while I worked on it at least! (No, I had nothing to do with the storyline, editing, or anything like that so you can't blame me for this one!)  |  IP: Logged Kelly Skaggs Film Handler Posts: 68 From: Springdale UT Registered: Jul 2003 posted 11-26-2003 02:03 PM                        As a paying patron the only movie I walked out of is Hook. I would have walked out of Titanic during the pre open film check but, I fell asleep before I could leave.  |  IP: Logged William T. Parr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 823 From: Cedar Park, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-26-2003 04:20 PM                     I walked out of ISHTAR a.k.a. ISTRASH because the movie sucked. Came close to walking out of Cast Away not because the film sucked, but because the Cinemark Tinseltown South in Austin had some annoying Kids that had already seen the movie and we talking about all the parts that were coming up.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 11-26-2003 04:37 PM                        i don't walk out of movies, on principle. sometimes the end will justify the apparent crap that preceded it. sometimes i'll have a terrible experience the whole way through but on reflection later find something worthwhile about it. the only times have been very long films when i've just been too sleepy to absorb anything. if the intermission comes and i know more about my eyelids than what was on the screen, what's the point? 2 such instances: chushingura, and dr. zhivago (the first time). i'd still like to try and watch chushingura again. if there's no intermission and you can't leave without disturbing anyone, i think it's pretty rude to do so. carl  |  IP: Logged

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