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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
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 Posted - 03/26/2006 : 11:44:40 AM
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I've only actually walked out on one movie in my life. That was "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls". However, there have been films that I just shut off on my DVD player ("Irreversible" comes to mind). anyone else out there?
"...yet it hadn't destroyed his brain."
re: Charles "The Butcher" Benton (1956)
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Edited by - hbrennan on 03/27/2006 11:06:41 AM
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jackspencerjr
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
262 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2006 : 11:49:51 AM
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| The Mark Hammil movie Time Runner comes to mind. Turgid piece of crap. But I actually did watch all of it, but not in one sitting. I needed breaks. Long ones. |
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LaFluff
Archdeacon of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/26/2006 : 2:05:49 PM
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Turned off BattleField Earth (I could feel my braincells dying, and could just take no more)
Left Matrix: Revolutions early (expected a more coherent film)
Film I Prayed to God to Make it Stop But Could Not Leave: The worst one was being asked to take my little sister to see Dougal (recent animated children's film, revoiced and re-written for USA audiences). I can't bring myself to describe it, so here's a link to some reviews. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1156283-doogal/
I could not leave my sister, but I felt like getting the print and using a compass to scratch foul words all over it, rendering it unplayable forever. Really, I just cannot convey how horrible this was.
To get through it, I initially stared at the head that was almost in my line of sight to the screen. S T A R E D at it. O G G L E D it. Then I started figetting. Subconsicously at first, my feet started twitching. They wanted to Run Run Run away. My fingers started tapping. I kept stiring my drink, sipping it, stirring it.
At some point I started digging my fingernails into my arms to distract myself from the film. Seriously. I do not know what I would have done had I not distracted myself. I cannot convey the agony of that experience, and I am going to find the makers of that film and kill them.
All it would take would be 3992 consecutive showings of Dougal, and their brains would die.
Sorry if anyone liked it, but this film is now my personal nemesis!b |
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Representing Labor
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
62 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2006 : 3:41:56 PM
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| I'm too cheap to actually walk out of a movie, but I started reading comic books halfway through Matrix: Revolutions. |
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Joliet Jake Blues
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
Australia
41 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2006 : 3:57:57 PM
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I wanted to leave the Horse Whisperer so badly it hurt.
My then-girlfriend would have hurt me worse if I did though.
"Age and guile beat youth, innocence and a bad haircut" - P.J. O'Rourke |
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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
833 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2006 : 4:09:09 PM
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Well, I figure that if I could endure all of TOYS and ROBERTO BEGNINI'S PINOCCHIO without running screaming from the theater then I can tolerate just about anything. However, there are four films that have caused me to get up and exit the theater before the closing credits rolled.
AMOS & ANDREW - After a half hour of non-laughter I could take no more and went down the hall to another theater to watch ARMY OF DARKNESS for a third time.
HUDSON HAWK - Again, after a half hour on non-laughter I walked out and went down the hall to watch Brian Bosworth's STONE COLD for a second time.
TARZAN & THE LOST CITY OF GOLD - So utterly bored by the film I walked out with only a half hour to go. Keep in mind I walked out of a $1 matinee showing at a dollar theater.
JERKY BOYS: THE MOVIE - So awful, so unfunny that after about 45 minutes I could take no more. Two days later I had to the doctor where I was diagnosed with a bacterial infection of my lower intestines. Coincidence?
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Pip
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
333 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2006 : 4:25:39 PM
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Walked out of Salo by Passolini at a showing at the University of Maryland. Absolutely no redeeming qualities.
Recently watched Dirty Love, left the room momentarily, and returned to find the DVD gone and my sister and a friend refusing to turn it back over.
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jackspencerjr
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
262 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2006 : 4:57:00 PM
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| Ooh Ooh I just remembered one: The English Patient. That's right, Academy Award Winner for Best Picture of 1996, The English Patient. Shut it off after a half hour. The dullest thirty minutes of my life. Being a four hour movie, I realized I was only 1/8th of the way through, and I had no intention of being bored for that long on purpose. And I should have walked out of Fargo. Man, what anti-entertainment. |
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Gristle McThornbody
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Germany
186 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2006 : 7:43:17 PM
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Turned off 'Canadian Bacon'. Aren't comedies supposed to be funny?
Wanted to walk out of the theater will seeing 'Pet Cemetary 2', but girlfriend paid for the tickets and wouldn't budge. While trudging out as the credits rolled I told her that I'm glad she paid, because I'd be pissed if I'd paid money for that piece of crap.
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2006 : 02:26:06 AM
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| Romancing the Stone and Gunga Din are two movies I "walked out on". (Actually, they were only video rentals, but about forty minutes into each I said, that's enough, then hit stop and rewind. |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2006 : 03:36:31 AM
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| I've never, ever walked out of a film. I was tempted to with Joe Chapelle's "Phantoms", tohugh. I know it has a certain cult status, and that is probably his best movie, but at the time it hit me like an unispired John Carpenter rip-off, and even worse, things moved excruciatingly slow. |
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New Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
469 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2006 : 04:11:55 AM
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| I walked out on TOMMY and the 1982 CAT PEOPLE. I've turned off so many movies on TV that they'e not worth listing. |
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Victoria Silverwolf
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
80 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2006 : 05:45:14 AM
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The only one I can recall is Pocket Money. Not a terrible film, just kind of a typical Western. I guess I just wasn't in the mood for it.
Reality is a crutch for people who can't face up to science fiction. |
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JazzyJ
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
114 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2006 : 11:50:38 AM
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Originally posted by New Hinda
I walked out on TOMMY and the 1982 CAT PEOPLE. I've turned off so many movies on TV that they'e not worth listing.
Like Hinda, MANY TV movies, etc. However, the only movie I PAYED something for that I couldn't finish was "Child's Play". And I watched ALL of Battlefield Earth. In the theater...
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KurtVon
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2006 : 2:52:44 PM
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Walked out of two films, and only one because it was bad.
The first was Three Kings. I didn't think it was good: the dialog was shoddy and after the first half hour the rest of teh script was easily predictable. But my wife was physically revolted by the characters. She was pregnant at the time so when she said "If this character becomes any more dispicable, I'm going to hurl" I took it seriously.
I probably could have made it to the end of the movie, but I wouldn't have enjoyed it anyway.
The other time was when we were at a convention and hopping theaters. We almost always enjoyed what we saw and stayed for the conclusion. Even this awful Chinese film where at the end the bad guy transforms into a giant red scorpion. Lots of fun.
Anyway, we went into one theater to see an anime called Agent Aika which was actually pretty good. The fan service was so over the top that everyone was laughing. It was kind of like the south park movie where you keep thinking "They can't top that..." and then they do, but in this case with panty shots. After it was another film called Magical Maiden or something like that. It sapped every ounce of humor from the room in seconds, and at the five minute mark was so revolting we just glanced at each other and walked out.
I don't know if that really counts because, while there was a $30 cover, the films themselves were free. But it was so bad that we decided to call it a night and left the film con completely.
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"The easy way to tell is monkeys have a tail and apes don't."
"What's the hard way?"
-- Actual conversation with my daughter
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1791 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2006 : 3:25:02 PM
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Not in any particular order:
"Breaker Breaker" (Or was it "Citizen's Band"?). My brother rented this pile of **** because it had "Bigfoot" in it. I walked out to watch Scooby Doo in another room (I was 30 at the time!) and he shut it off before it ended and appolgised for asking me to watch it with him.
"White Line Fever". I'm certain that "ten-four, good buddy" means "from one idiot to another".
There was some horror movie where a female pianist develops a hunchback (That no-one notices) and gives birth to a demon. Durring the "birth" scene, I shouted "Oh hell, not another of these things!" and left stomping my feet. What's more, it was a FREE movie at the public library.
And the one I couldn't walk out on no matter how much I wanted to:
"Shampoo". It was showing with "The fortune", but was supposed to be the second feature. They showed it first (No doubt because they knew people wouldn't have stayed for it) and if I had walked out, they wouldn't let me back in to see the movie I wanted to see. I tried to sleep through it without success. |
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