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Movies you walked out on and why


While we often go to the movies to see good stuff, sometimes we're served something so bad that we have to leave to maintain our sanity and/or keep our cookies down. Like the title says, are there any movies you guys have seen in the theaters where you just had to leave before it was over? And why did you do so? What made you walk out and ask for your money back?

For me, the only movie I absolutely had to leave when in the theater was "Three Kings." I was 13, and with my family, but I could only take so much violence, gore, and shaky, nauseating camera movement before mom and I had to run to the bathroom. I think the scene that finally put us over the top was when one of the soldiers got shot in a lung, and you can actually SEE his lungs struggling to breathe, which was almost as disgusting as when George Clooney earlier tells what happens when you get shot in the stomach and you literally get to see the bile sac get busted in the imaginary scenario he was talking about. The good news is, mom and I managed to keep our cookies down, but we used our time in the ladies' room to get a breather. My dad and brother managed to stay for the last 10 minutes of the movie, and told us what happened.

My grandpa was always the adventurous type, in great contrast to my prudish, play-it-safe grandma when it came to films. He sometimes would go alone to movies grandma would never like, and there was one incident where he walked out. He was watching "The Fifth Element," and walked out of the theater when Ruby Rod showed up the first time. Guess he didn't like loud, annoying radio DJ's with outrageous fashion sense, hehe.

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The Flintstones (1994). Truly epic proportions of stupid, boring, inane movie making. Possibly the worst movie ever IMHO. My wife and I kept looking at each other thru the movie and no one was making a move out so we just got up and left. I know one person then followed us - don't know about the others.

The Bourne series of movies. I enjoyed the first one immensely and very well directed by Doug Liman. Similar to you, we (again my wife & I) walked out of The Bourne Supremacy for headache and nausea due to stupid camera work (for no reason whatsoever). After than never saw any of the Bourne movies and any movies directed especially by the hack Paul Greengrass. I have heard that Green Zone is even worse in that the camera is shaking even when two people are just sitting and talking.

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I'm afraid the Flintstones live-action flick was made more so for children than older fans. They were trying very hard to make it a "cartoon with people in it" like my mom calls it, and it's not for everyone.

I never watched the Bourne series.

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Perhaps, but the children were not laughing either. I don't know if you have seen it or not but it was cringeworthy with no (& I mean NO) humour in it.

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The Flintbones (1992) had more humor than The Flintstones (1994)

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In that case, I must see Flintbones. :0)

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"n actually SEE his lungs struggling to breathe, "
Yeah but i assume thats a realistic and accurate portayal of true damage a bullet will do, therefore very educational , and hopefully discoraged some rednecks from waving their guns around and shooting each other for kicks...

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You could have used many examples other than “redneck” to prove your point. Does this mean rednecks are a group it’s still politically correct to make fun of?

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Rednecks who identify themselves as such are a notoriously sensitive bunch lacking any sense of humor.

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I’ve known several as well :)

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What I was trying to point out was the idea that someone who self identifies as redneck wouldn't (in my mind) take such offense. I think it's a trend for certain people to hunt out examples of rudeness toward a "class" of people. What's behind it is trying to normalize actual discrimination, like if it's ok to run down rednecks it's also ok to run down immigrants. smh, roll eyes

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Hmmm, so in your mind do you believe that if it is ok to run down red necks then it is indeed also ok to run down immigrants? I’m just using your example. If it’s not fair game as well then why?

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I’m sorry. Lol my comment was directed at snepts.

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i hope to be a redneck one day, just need to move to the country , which is hard in the UK , dont have much

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Idjuts have been fair game since the dawn of time.

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Idjuts have been fair game since the dawn of time. It doesn’t matter what color their neck is . . . or their trailer is.

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the last Jedi, I'm not well thought out, I just wanted a smoke break and the movie was too boring

I walked back in but I took my time.

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Seems like a kid's movie. Saw it on TV and I was not at all impressed.

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Shape of Water - ridiculous
Mother! - pretentious

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You didn't like Shape of Water? It was a beautiful love story showing that one can find love where least suspected. It's on of my all time favorites. I've seen it at least four times.

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fish love is not for me 😊😊

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a flabby fish 😊😊

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I didn't like Shape of Water either. I usually like del Toro films...

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It was either Ski School (1990) or Ski Patrol (1990) I forget which one it was. Absolutely rotten film/films

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Yep, Great year for the ski fans 👌

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The Ten Commandments.
It was intermission.

But seriously, I wish I had walked out of the first Paranormal Activity. I sat there gritting my teeth wondering if they would ever pull off something interesting. I went to the theater following a misprint in the paper, so the movie I wanted to see had moved on. Wish I had viewed The Fabulous Mr Fox, but I didn't want to see an animated film at that time. God, how I hate that movie PA.

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Passion of the Christ. I and many others walked out after about 20 minutes. It was the most sadistic, despicable film I've ever seen. Fortunately I and the others were able to get a refund from the theater.

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i've never walked out of a movie theatre before credits rolled, & i can't say i've ever felt tempted to do so.

alien resurrection was certainly a movie that i truly disliked, thought it was just awful. i would probably rate that as the film i paid money to see in a theatre that i disliked the most, but i still wanted to see it all the way through to the end.

i've never seen anything in a theatre that made me think 'i can't sit through another hour of this.'

maybe i'm too easy to please.

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Now that you mention it, I think my parents walked out of "Alien 3" because they were so fed up with how awful the story was. I just now remembered because you mentioned an Alien movie.

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