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Have you ever walked out of the cinema because the film was so awful?

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emkana · 12/10/2006 11:34

I did, "under siege" with Stephen Seagal in it.
It was a sneak preview, where you didn't know beforehand which film you were going to see.

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themoon666 · 12/10/2006 22:26

Slept through the Harry Potter ones as well... all of them.

fullmoonmama · 12/10/2006 22:27

I walked out of Jean Luc Godard's 'King Lear' fairly early on (this was in 1987 I think). We also have had the pleasure of being the only two people in the cinema on two occasions!!! Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (in Grimsby of all places) and Ghost World (in Crystal Peaks, Rotherham). You can see that I tend to frequent all the most glamorous cinemas...

Kaz33 · 12/10/2006 22:29

Oh loads - a terrible space thing where peoples eyeballs were getting sucked out of there heads - it was horrific.

More recently - Ice Age 2 because the kids were scared and also it was the most terrible hollywood drivel.

mears · 12/10/2006 22:30

I walked out of The Deerhunter. I have tried to watch this film a couple of times since and still can't do it.

BadHair · 12/10/2006 22:30

Yes, left the Nightmare Before Christmas and Young Einstein early. Had high hopes for NBC so was quite disappointed, but only went to YE as everyone else wanted to see it.
Tried to walk out of Shakespeare in Love but was in the middle of a row of popcorn-munchers and couldn't get passed. So snoozed through most of it.

Pruhoohooohoooooni · 12/10/2006 22:34

Wanted to walk out of Wilde but was with some studetns and it would have looked bad if the teacher had fecked off.
More recently, have rented dvds and got 30 mins in and thought, life is too short for this.
Arthur, with Clive Owen - yes, I know, what was I expecting? Well some smouldering and swishing and hot horseriding for one, not Keira Knightly in woad and furs, even dh was disappointed.
And some thing with jennifer Aniston about her being the child of the guy the Graduate was based on...the guy being played by Kevin Costner - how he has built a career I will never know but anyway it's tripe.
Gladiator, just so dull.

Toothyboy · 12/10/2006 22:36

Can't believe I didn't walk out of Blair Witch Project - it was shite! Definitely the closest I've come to walking out though.

Switched off Lost in (Yaaawwwwnnn) Translation on DVD.

loomer · 12/10/2006 22:36

Moulin Rouge is fantastic! I am neither gay nor thirteen.
I thought Thin Red Line was a beautiful film.
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nly film I have ever walked out of (through sheer boredom and ridiculousness) was some terrible Hollywood version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Michelle Pfieffer in her flowery bower or sume such nonsense.

It has never occurred to me to go to sleep if I'm bored in the cinema - d'oh! So many missed opportunities.

ScareyCaligulaCorday · 12/10/2006 22:39

Bachelor Party.

Seriously dreadful. (I don't know why I was there actually)

I wanted to walk out of Out of Africa (unbelievably dull) but wasn't allowed.

And The Piano. Yawn yawn yawn.

ScareyCaligulaCorday · 12/10/2006 22:39

Switched off Moulin Rouge. Utterly unwatchable.

CarolinahowlingattheMoon · 12/10/2006 22:46

House of the Spirits. Sooo disappointingly dull.

bamboo · 12/10/2006 22:51

There's a great anecdote about Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis going to see 'Four Weddings and a funeral' at the cinema shortly after the fatwa was issued against Rushdie. The police had gone to so much effort to search the cinema, arrange protection etc that they felt obliged to stay and watch the whole film despite both hating it!

I quite liked it but I'm pretty lowbrow .

beckybraAAARGHstraps · 12/10/2006 22:52

Seven. I found it disturbing, but not in a pleasurably suspenseful/scary way. I found the thought of a bunch of writers sitting around coming up with these terrible, sickening scenes very distasteful. And why? I didn't GET the film.

And I wanted to yell "switch the light on for God's sake."

CarolinahowlingattheMoon · 12/10/2006 23:05

actually, there's a load of horrible films (inc Seven, Cape Fear and Event Horizon which I think someone referred to earlier) which I've sat through v unwillingly because I didn't want to look like a scaredy cat by running for the exit .

It's not just who writes this stuff? But also who the hell wants to act it out, or direct other people to act it out, or be the person who designs the psycho's lair or whatever? Very odd that there's a sizeable bit of a proper industry devoted to this stuff, IMO.

pointyfangedWeredog · 12/10/2006 23:27

Nightmare before Christmas?! Ooh I love that film.

brimfull · 12/10/2006 23:39

turned moulin rouge off..load of shite

broken flowers with bill murray .....also shite

dh and I walked out of titanic

sorrell · 12/10/2006 23:42

Since having children, I absolutely CANNOT watch anything in which people get tortured or deliberately hurt. They make me cry

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emkana · 12/10/2006 23:44

I came across Trainspotting on the TV the other night... screamed at dh to turn it over because I couldn't bear to see that awful baby scene

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sorrell · 12/10/2006 23:45

Everyone is someone's baby to me now! I just see everything through a mother-prism.

darlink · 12/10/2006 23:50

I walked out on a gig because the band was terrible.
Electrafiction - ex members of Echo and the Bunnymen

acnebrideofFrankenstein · 12/10/2006 23:55

walked out of Identity

i go to films with John Cusack in to look at John Cusack looking intense and slightly nervy and speaking in that spunk-in-my-throat growl

not to look at an image of a corpse with a pole down its throat

cod · 12/10/2006 23:56

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emkana · 12/10/2006 23:56

when they find the baby dead in the cot

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GhoulsToo · 12/10/2006 23:57

I fancy the Devil Wears Prada and I haven't fancied a film for eons

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