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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.
really outdid himself
You should see what he saved for the non-fiction section.
Not even F16s, Harriers. Notoriously hard to fly and constantly breaking down.
That's right, Jesus. I haven't watched that movie in like 20 years so I just took a shot in the dark at what jets were really popular at the time and we were flying the shit out of F16s during the Gulf War.
Harriers were fucking nightmares for the mechanics and avionics techs that worked them.
My ex GF made us leave in the middle of LOTR: Return of the King.
She is my ex for unrelated reasons.
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.
There are bad adaptations, and then there's the Dark Tower, which was akin to a full palm-open slap to the fans while desperately hoping they could maybe appeal to some movie goers that were unfamiliar with the books, which it failed to do spectacularly.
Most of Steven King books end up this way. It's pretty much expected at this point.
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.
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.
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)
Across the universe.... like half of the theatre walked out. It truly was a piece of shit movie.
A guy in the row in front of me exasperatedly said ' I did the wrong damn drugs for this shit' as he walked out.
Okay fucking THANK YOU. I remember that movie being absolute shit and I would have walked out if I wasn't on a date with someone I was super into, but that was an absolutely terrible hot mess of a movie and it felt like all of my friends loved the movie and I'm like are you sure this is the same movie???!?!
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"
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.
Was that the one with or without David Bowie?
You're thinking of “Labyrinth”. Which is still a masterpiece of eccentric fantasy.
I've been to movies so terrible I left!
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
https://youtu.be/vhidWw1yWR8
A Passage to India
https://youtu.be/UxaPT6UbdAE
Hackers
https://youtu.be/Rn2cf_wJ4f4
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
https://youtu.be/frdj1zb9sMY
Rogue One is easily the best Star Wars movie since the original trilogy.
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:
Antman and the Wasp : Quantumania
Probably could have pushed through on the TV, but on the big screen it was an embarrassment. There was so little care taken in the CGI (noted that this was a COVID film)
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.
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 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.
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
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".
Weirdly enough the barnyard TV show was weirdly good. Like it was bad but also kinda ok in that weird way that after awhile you stop caring that its vaguely bad and it actually ends up ok.
Didn't walk out, but wish I had: the first Wonder Woman movie with Gal Gadot. They managed to make a Wonder Woman movie that was more about her boyfriend than Wonder Woman. Wtf.
I saw Young Einstein on opening weekend...for some reason. No one left the theater but there were only about 4 of us in there to begin with.
I once took my grandfather, a retired commander of the Land Army, to watch a leftist comedy. While I liked it, he was somewhat uncomfortable, but we watched it till the end.
A couple months later, he wanted to take me to watch a documentary on the life on a wooden ship over months, maintained for historical conservation. I'm not going to say it was the biggest turd I had ever seen in my entire life, but it was a serious contender, but nonetheless I had committed myself to watch it till the end because my grandpa did the same effort for me. In the end, it was him who asked me to leave early because he was bored.
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.
Mind you, some of those are good movies and I can tolerate some of the timeline fuckery, but it's really becoming a gimmick.
Not a bad movie at all, but it was so fun watching people with kids leaving the Sausage Party: what were they expecting?
Something similar happened when I saw the Final Fantasy movie. This blue-haired old lady walked in with her 7-8 year old granddaughter. They left shortly after a demon tore a soul from a living human.
No idea why she thought it would be appropriate for a kid that age.
An older lady and a kid were at South Park in the row in front of me. They didn't make it 10 minutes.
I think that a lot of people in the Boomer and older age ranges never really understood the idea of adult animation, so they just assume that animated shows and films are made for kids.
(But my favorite Parker/Stone walk-out was the obviously Mormon couple who sat in front of us for the first 30 minutes of The Book of Mormon. The guy had the word "Mormon" embossed on his belt. They didn't do their homework before they bought those tickets.)
