My ex GF made us leave in the middle of LOTR: Return of the King.
She is my ex for unrelated reasons.
That movie Wanted where Jolie curve balls bullets and Freeman reads the future by means of textile production
You think that’s a trip you should read the comic it’s based off of holy fuck is it a ride.
Watched a ton of people exit Battlefield Earth. Two granny aged women sitting near me walked out of Wolf of Wall Street once Jonah Hill pulled his dick out (in the film, not in the theater)
Yes! Battlefield Earth.
I stayed for the whole movie because I couldn’t believe how bad it was.To me battlefield earth falls under the “so bad it begins to loop back around into Cheesey fun” category.
I especially love how what are essentially cave men find F16 fighter jets from the past and not only do the jets and old fuel work, but the cave men know how to start them and fly them effectively.
L Ron really outdid himself on that gem.
Somewhat related.
I must have heard of the M Night Shyamalan Avatar movie coming out but got confused and saw the blue alien Avatar instead. I was disappointed when I realized but I dodged a bullet.
Edit: For context I was a kid, it sounds weird without that info.
I’ve been to movies so terrible I left!
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
https://youtu.be/vhidWw1yWR8A Passage to India
https://youtu.be/UxaPT6UbdAEHackers
https://youtu.be/Rn2cf_wJ4f4Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
https://youtu.be/frdj1zb9sMYHackers is a masterpiece.
So is Rogue One. This guy has an odd view of what a bad movie is that’s for sure.
Rogue One is easily the best Star Wars movie since the original trilogy.
but that’s not a high bar.
It’s not even a good movie, much less a good Star Wars movie.
There are longer absolute takedowns of it, but I like this one:
I understand the first three, but I have to fundamentally disagree with you as much as humanly possible on Rogue One being terrible. I absolutely respect your right and and opinion to think so, but for me it’s one of the best representations of what Star Wars should be in the space fiction genre.
What was it about Rogue One that bothered you so much that you couldn’t finish?
Cardboard characters, plot holes, and going against everything the original trilogy stood for.
It got on my bad side when they introduced Cassian by having him murder a completely innocent person, something the Empire would do.
Then, later in the film, when it’s his fucking job to assassinate a legitimate military target, he gets all sweaty and - OH - JUST… CAN’T… PULL… THE… TRIGGER… No explanation, no character development… just because… That was when I walked out.
The real reason of course, is more complicated. The original writer/director fucked things up so colossally he was actually removed from the picture and a new guy was brought in to re-write and re-shoot. Cassian’s change in tone was because of the two different creators.
I also found Rogue One incredibly overrated. Nothing that they play up feels earned, and I didn’t get invested at all, possibly for some of the reasons you mentioned.
You are correct and the other person is incorrect. Or possibly trolling.
I didn’t like Rogue One either. 🤷🏻♂️
Unpopular opinion, but I left Oppenheimer at the 40 minutes mark. The main character was so unlikable, the movie pretentious, and I hated there was some kind of trial going on, but I had no context. So I left and did something better with my time.
This movie sucked. If they told it in sequential order this movie would have bombed. Showing the scenes out of order made it more interesting than it had any right be
Classic Nolan trick: perplex your audience with non-linear story telling and loud blaring audio contrasted by whisper dialogue to sell the illusion of depth and tapestry…
Yeah I thought it was pretentious as hell. Par for the course from Christopher Nolan, making movies with ‘deep meaning’ feels that really aren’t that deep actually.
He just has to overcomplicate things with some timeline fuckery. every. single. movie.
- Memento: timeline is backwards
- Inception: time runs at different rates in the real world vs the dream
- Dunkirk: 3 timelines running at different speeds (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week)
- Interstellar: time looping back on itself + time running at a different rate due to black hole fuckery
- TENET: yeah …
- Oppenheimer: constant jump cuts between different periods in Oppenheimer’s story
Mind you, some of those are good movies and I can tolerate some of the timeline fuckery, but it’s really becoming a gimmick.
Same. I stopped after about 20 minutes. I love science and know the history, so the art part ended up feeling waaaay too pretentious being dragged out for extra seconds in every damn scene. No wonder the movie’s so long when they’re wanking every scene…
It wasn’t me, but Pan’s Labyrinth had quite the exodus of parents with their younger kids when someone was beaten with a bottle and shot to death very early on.
The Dark Tower. Was so embarrassed that I brought my wife thinking someone could possibly take 8 books and boil them down to 95 minutes that I made us leave a half hour in. It trivialized everything about the books in the worst way possible.
Also, Nacho Libre. Just couldn’t do it. I don’t ding JB for it at all but really bad.
I was escorted out of a movie once.
The movie was called Quarantine. I don’t remember if there were, but I don’t remember any warnings before going to see the movie or when the movie started. So anyways there’s a lot of flashing in the movie and I had multiple seizures.
Dude, Where’s My Car? - I don’t remember a thing about it (and would likely not hate it today) but I just remember being so… exhausted at the comedy used. I looked at my friend and asked if they’d be open to leaving and they were like “oh yes, let’s leave JFC”
Barnyard. My daughter and I used to go see EVERY kids movie when she was between 5 and 12 yrs. Let me tell you, I have learned to enjoy some shitastic movies. Then came Barnyard. 30 minutes in, it was so bad, I leaned over to my (then 6 years old) daughter and said “Sweetie, do you like this movie?” She looked at me with the most serious face and just said “No”.
I went to a free screening of Mixed Nuts in college. I was one of many people who walked out, and I think Steve Martin himself wouldn’t blame me.
I saw Brokeback Mountain when it first came out, and during the first homosexual scene I saw several angry boyfriends dragging their dates out of the theater. I feel like every one of them had a ball cap on.
We didn’t walk out of Ultraviolet, but when we left, the whole theater staff was there to see our reaction to how bad it was. They told me I owed my date dinner.
For my parents, their walk out because it was terrible movie was Pulp Fiction
…Yeah I don’t listen to them for movie recommendations
To be fair if they went into it not knowing how graphic Quentin Tarantino movies usually are, then I can see why they’d leave. It’s got literal rape and sodomy in it.
I just scrolled through 200+ comments and did not see Cloverfield. I really can’t say anything about the storyline itself as this was one I physically could not sit through. In addition to others who ended their suffering before us, I and 2 family members all experienced severe motion sickness within the first half hour and had to walk out. Didn’t think it was worth throwing up over.
But then surprisingly 10 Cloverfield Lane was pretty damn good
