Movies You've Walked Out Of! It's your turn...

[MaineWriter]

The remake of Planet of the Apes, I assume? The 1968 original is campy fun, in my opinion; the remake is a film I have yet to see (and probably never will), but a good friend of mine distinctly disliked it.

I remember the first time I saw the original Planet of the Apes -- I was totally freaked out at the end. LOL...well, I was 13.

When I went to the endodontic specialist earlier this month and was being prepped for a root canal, Gladiator was the film they started to show me as a distraction! As I fled the premises due to a panic attack from a bad reaction to the anaesthetic, with less than fifteen minutes of the film having been seen by me, I guess you could say I walked out of this one as well.

Sounds like time to find a new endodontist! This guy is into torture....

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[Kd5000]

I walked out of THE BRIDE.  Did anyone else see this film.  I would have stayed longer, but the ppl i was with wanted to leave.  It was a remake of THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and starred Sting.  The critics panned it. This was way back in the mid 1980's and I've never seen it on tv or anything. 

[ifyoucantfixit]

         First movie I ever walked out on was Taxi Driver.  I was so stunned.  I had no clue what it was.  I had my young daughter with me.  There was no rating on it, and it was a total shock.  It was so graphic and so violent.  Carla, said mom what did you bring me to see this for?  We got up and left.  I was so upset by it, I still to this day can not stand Robert DeNiro.  I know he is supposed to be one of the greats of our time.  But I cant take him.

[delalluvia]

If I hadn't been with my best friend, I would have walked out of 40 days and 40 nights, Failure to Launch and The Family Stone.

Idiotic, juvenile and offensive with no redeeming characters and just excruciating to have to sit through.

Amistad.  One scene was so horrible and intense I walked out to stand in the lobby until it was over and I was able to pull myself together enough to go back in and watch the rest of the movie.

[LauraGigs]

I still to this day can not stand Robert DeNiro.  I know he is supposed to be one of the greats of our time . . .

I think he's so overrated!  He's had a handful of good performances, but he's been in a lot of CRAP too (Meet the Fockers – barf).  I just don't see what all the fuss over him is about.

[moremojo]

I think he's so overrated!  He's had a handful of good performances, but he's been in a lot of CRAP too (Meet the Fockers – barf).  I just don't see what all the fuss over him is about.

When he hosted Saturday Night Live (has he done so more than once?), he seemed distinctly uncomfortable with the show's live format. He revealed limitations to his grasp of his craft at that moment. I think he's a good actor, but with a limited range, which might in part arise from the types of roles he chooses or to which he has been typecast.

[delalluvia]

When he hosted Saturday Night Live (has he done so more than once?), he seemed distinctly uncomfortable with the show's live format. He revealed limitations to his grasp of his craft at that moment. I think he's a good actor, but with a limited range, which might in part arise from the types of roles he chooses or to which he has been typecast.

I think I read somewhere - in some screenwriter's tell-all - that DeNiro can't put two words together without it being scripted for him.

[MaineWriter]

I won't be seeing it, so I won't be walking out, but omigod does "I Know Who Killed Me" sound like one dreadful movie! It is at 8% right now on rottentomatoes.com

You know it's bad when reviewers write comments like this:

I wish I could say one nice thing about the movie, but even my old stand by of, “At least, it started on time,” doesn’t apply here.  After a 20 minute delay in starting the movie, I had to assume the projector was taking an ethical stand and refusing to be party to the heinous act of showing this movie to people who were forced to pay for it.

Ack!

[moremojo]

I think I read somewhere - in some screenwriter's tell-all - that DeNiro can't put two words together without it being scripted for him.

I've heard similar comments about Marlon Brando, in that he frequently read his lines from cue cards out of the camera's range. DeNiro reminds me a bit of Brando in that both are quite adequate in a rather narrow range of roles, but rarely (or cannot) stray far from their circumscribed focus.

[Mikaela]

Dune. The one with Sting and Kyle McLaclan (sp?) That one re-defined boredom.


And

Fight Club. Don't care that it was supposed to be Edward Norton and Brad Pitt apparently doing their best roles or what not. Don't care that the film keeps reaching the top of "Best Film Ever" lists. Nothing is going to make me sit through that amount of IMO gratuitous horrid violence.


I also agree with Laura about True Lies. Didn't see it in the cinema ( I've mostly managed to avoid Governator movies in the cinema, luckily) but I *did* watch part of it on TV one night when I was business travelling and staying alone in a hotel out in the middle of nowhere. I made quick and effective use of the remote's "off" button. What a piece of c**p.