Have you ever walked out of the theatre because of a movie?

[JokermanJohnny]

I will be honest with you guys, I like Adam Sandler. He's nowhere near my top ten list of favorite actors, but he's enjoyable whenever he catches my attention. While I did like some of his movies (notably 50 First Dates and The Wedding Singer), some of his movies were forgettable at best (i.e. Eight Crazy Nights).

So naturally, when You Don't Mess with the Zohan reached theaters, I wasn't going expecting a comedy on par with The Mask or Dumb and Dumber, i could tell you now (the fact that The Longest Yard remake was unmemorable in my eyes didn't help much). But what I can tell you is when I saw the movie, there was just a number of things in that movie that just made me angry for some reason.

Now forgive me if I get this wrong since I've only seen that movie once (thank god), but at the time I saw it, I guess Zohan having sex with his customers, who just happen to be old spinsters, really came across as offensive rather than funny. So as I dragged my dad out of the theatre, we had to wait around an hour for my mom's movie to finish.

With that long anecdote out of the way, I want to ask you guys if you ever walked out a movie and what happened when you did?

[christoph]

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[the7k]

Saw

Hostel


Worthless piece of shit movies. Not horror, not really anything - I guess it could be called "torture".

Really enjoyable...

I haven't seen Hostel, but I got a free ticket to SAW V a while back.
Was not worth it.

[Pulsar_t]

Always research your movies before watching them. A simple look at Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes should suffice. I know some people would rather go in not knowing anything but does it feel good to waste money on snorefests like SAW and the Zohan?

[Inazuma]

I greatly prefer Japanese movies over American so it's extremely rare for me to get forced to go to the theater, but I do remember sleeping through a movie before. I would have walked out but the other people I was with didn't want to, so I just slept the whole time. I have no idea what movie it was either, which probably helps explain why I fell asleep.

[Niode]

Last movie I walked out on? Saw 2. My fiancée was a big fan the first Saw film. I have to admit I enjoyed watching it too, it was tense and had a fairly intelligent plot for a western horror film (I prefer the slow burn psychological j-horror more than the shock/gore-porn of western horror) this wasn't overly gory and had very few shock-moments in it. The thriller style nature of it made it enjoyable.

Saw 2. Ugh. Walked out midway because it was just boring. No plot to speak of, it was worse than a god-damn slasher flick. Here's some people, in a house, look at the varied ways that they die... Meh. Why is there 6 of these fucking movies?

The one before that was The Descent, again, just a boring ass movie full of boring ass 'actors'. Meh. I think we lasted 45 minutes on that one before just leaving.

[t0yrobo]

There were moments when I seriously considered walking out of Inglorious Basterds because it dragged on aimlessly so much. But it was worth staying till the end. I've never walked out before though, I'd feel bad about it if I did because I can almost always fund something I like about a movie.

[Arbitern1]

The first movie i ever walked out of was Don't Mess With the Zohan...It was quite atrocious. The only reason i saw it was because my girlfriend wanted to see it. Bedtime Stories was another awful movie that i walked out of. I wanted to spend time with my family and they wanted to see it over Yes Man...Which isn't an incredible movie but it's a helluva lot better than Bedtime Stories.

[Niode]

There were moments when I seriously considered walking out of Inglorious Basterds because it dragged on aimlessly so much. But it was worth staying till the end. I've never walked out before though, I'd feel bad about it if I did because I can almost always fund something I like about a movie.

Really? That's one film that I loved from start to finish. It's quite a long movie but it doesn't drag in the middle like say, Kill Bill 1 does. I was surprised at how long it was when we saw it in the theatre, we came out and said "that did not seem like 2 and a half hours!". Compared to LOTR:FOTR which definitely felt like 4 hours instead of the 3 it actually was.

[Pulsar_t]

Generation me's short attention spans are to.. Oh where were we again?