Has anybody ever left the theater in the middle of a movie because it was so bad?

[Mad Tam McC]

The only film I walked out of was Disney's Tarzan. I took my daughter to see it (first film she's been to see at the cinemea) and she found it too scary and we had to leave.

Mind you the trailer for Gladiator didn't help!

[HoopyFrood]

Like a few others, I've never walked out on a film -- perhaps some part of me retains a shred of hope that it'll suddenly get better at the end, and I also think part of me wants to stay and see how it ends. There are plenty of films that have bored me so much that I start daydreaming halfway through, or, if the cinema is almost empty, just take up a conversation with my friends (which we did during Alien vs. Predator 2 -- there was another group in the room with us, but they too just gave up and started having a whispered conversation as well...)

[j. d. worthington]

I've got to admit that I've not walked out on anything, but I've come close. As far as the absolutely worst film I've seen? Try this:

Antropophagus (1980)

I saw this as The Grim Reaper. I also saw it for free (my then-wife was working at a movie theatre and we got into most other theatres in town free of charge). This was perhaps the only time I ever felt I not only got rooked at that price, but that I should have been paid for even showing up, let alone staying....

[Quokka]

I didn't walk out on Titanic as I was there with my girlfriend who was enjoying it but I do count it as the most painful experience cinema has inflicted upon me to date.

[Foxbat]

Originally Posted by Quokka

I didn't walk out on Titanic as I was there with my girlfriend who was enjoying it but I do count it as the most painful experience cinema has inflicted upon me to date.

I agree it's pretty bad. Probably the most over-rated film of all time. I still can't figure out the reason for all those Oscars.

[ShrubChucker]

Originally Posted by iansales

I wish I could have walked out of Woody Allen's Scoop. Unfortunately, I was in a plane somewhere over the Atlantic at the time...

Personally, anything that has to do with Woody Allen is horrible....

[ShrubChucker]

I have walked out of a few movies....just walked into something I would rather see.

Aragon and The Golden Compass are most recent,
Mainly because I was bored...and the books were better.

There have been a few others but I can not remember.

[ShrubChucker]

Originally Posted by Foxbat

I agree it's pretty bad. Probably the most over-rated film of all time. I still can't figure out the reason for all those Oscars.

When it came out I saw it with my GF, I told my teacher that my butt hurt after the movie (because it was so long) He said that was something I should keep private. o_O

[Vladd67]

I didn't leave the theatre but someone did nudge as I had nodded off while watching Empire State in '87. Back then we worked on the theory if Barry Norman didn't like a film and gave it a lousy review then it was usually worth seeing, this time he was so right.

[Wybren]

I've only walked out on 2 Evita and then well we actually drove out of Team America. I wish I had walked out on phantom menace, I bought tickets to the first midnight screening and wished I had sold my ticket to my friend who couldn't get one.

[BladeOfFire]

Yes this is coming from a Star Wars fan. But Episode I was not a very good movie. I enjoy watching it and the part with Darth Maul dueling Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, but that's really it.

[williamjm]

Originally Posted by Ragnar

I left 15 minutes before the end of Tim Burton's woeful Planet of the Apes remake. I left mainly because I was desperate for a pee but couldn't be bothered to go back in afterwards.

You were lucky, you missed the worst part of the film.

I think I've been fairly lucky, I've never disliked a movie at the cinema so much that I've been tempted to walk out of it (although I've seen plenty of films on TV I've stopped watching), although there have been a few when I've been checking my watch during the film a bit. The nearest was when I went to see Star Trek : Nemesis and there was a fire alarm mid-way through the film so we had to leave. We were eventually let back in, but although I was curious enough about the ending to watch the rest of the film, if they hadn't let us back in and I had to go to another screening to see how the film ended I'm not sure I could have sat through the first part of the film again.

The most walk-outs I've ever seen was for a free preview screening of Solaris (the George Clooney version) where there were a few hundred people at the start of the film and at least half of them had walked out by the end.

[Barney]

Originally Posted by iansales

I wish I could have walked out of Woody Allen's Scoop. Unfortunately, I was in a plane somewhere over the Atlantic at the time...

I too saw that film on a transatlantic flight. I was slipping in and out of a gin and tonic fugue and noticed nothing apart from occasional glimpses of the lovely Scarlet Jo.

I walked out on As Good As It Gets. Ten minutes in I was shifting uncomfortably in my seat. When I was on the verge of crying with frustration and boredom I walked, and went to the pub with my companion. We got drunk and had a much better time than we would have done in the movie theatre.
Sometimes you just have to cut your losses!

[spaceseed]

I just recently walked out on "Be Kind, Rewind". Painfully bad.

[Aniri]

I think I walked out on Pulp Fiction in the theatre due to some gory scenes (weak stomach), but that's it. I'll tell you though, if I had been to the movies to watch Dragon Wars, I would have definitely walked out on THAT one!