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Movies You've Walked Out Of! It's your turn...
dot-matrix:
I've walked out of a few in my day, even asked for a refund a few times... the most memorable/ forgettable are:
The New World with Colin Farrell
The Libertine with Johnny Depp
Tallidega Nights with Will Farrell
Se7en with Brad Pitt
Last Tango in Paris with Marlon Brando
Ave Ventura Pet Detective ( I can't stand Jim Carey)
and I don't even waste my time on anything by Quentin Tarantino anymore.
David In Indy:
I've never walked out of a movie. There's a few I WISHED I had walked out of though. One that comes to mind is "The Exorcist". I was only 11 at the time, and my mom had read the book a couple years prior to the film's theatrical release. She took both me and my sister to the movie. This was in 1973, I think and she didn't realize how intense and frightening this movie would be. Nobody did. The movie shocked and horrified many people. It scared the fire out of me. I remember sleeping with my bedroom light on for the next few weeks.
Another one was Jaws. It was an excellent movie, but again, it scared me to death. I was 13 when this movie hit the theatres. We took a vacation to Florida a month or two after I saw the movie, and just like many other people, I was scared to go into the water. I finally did, but only after much arm twisting from my mother.
I really don't have any problems sitting through a movie, no matter how bad it may be. I'll sit through it, and just make it a point to never watch it again. I really don't like those "slasher, blood and guts" movies such as "Friday the 13th" etc, so I don't go to those movies in the first place. I saw Halloween in 1978, but only because my friends pressured me to go. In fact, this was the very first movie I actually drove to. I had just received my driver's license about a month before. When I arrived home, mom and dad were both out to dinner with some friends, and I was the only one in the house. You can just imagine what was running through my mind. I spent the next two hours scared to death Michael Myers would pop out from around the corner and chase me out the front door.
Like I said, I don't like those kinds of movies! :laugh:
Ellemeno:
David me too, exactly, about The Exorcist and Jaws. I was a little bit older than you when they came out. I had read both the books, and they STILL freaked me out in movie form. Remember "Tubular Bells," the theme from The Exorcist? After seeing that movie, I would leap across the room to turn the radio off when it came on, it conjured up all that terrifyingness for me so vividly. To this day, if I am at the beach, and I think about Jaws, I have a sudden, desperate yearning to be in America's Heartland, as far from sharks as I can get. :)
Most of the movies you all have named I haven't seen because they SOUNDED like movies I would walk out on.
My husband and I did walk out of Goodfellas (or wait, was it Casino?), sitting in the lobby til the movie was over and my parents came out. After seeing the Freedomland trailer the first time I saw BBM, I learned to go find and lay claim to my seat in the theater, then leave and not come back in til the Freedomland trailer was over.
opinionista:
The only movie I ever walked out of was The Blair Witch Project. I usually have no problem sitting through a movie no matter how bad it is, but The Blair Witch Project made me dizzy. The handheld camera movement made me feel sick. It trembled during the entire film. And the movie was so awful and silly that I didn't think it was worth staying.
louisev:
--- Quote from: dot-matrix on August 25, 2007, 07:49:43 pm ---I've walked out of a few in my day, even asked for a refund a few times... the most memorable/ forgettable are:
The New World with Colin Farrell
--- End quote ---
The New World was definitely yawnworthy. I think I shut it off out of sheer tedium about 3 hours into it.
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