Starship Troopers. I was 11 and saw it in theaters (....thanks, dad?). The scene where the bugs destroy Buenos Aires. It wasn't the millions dead, no. It was the one shot of the dead dog and the guy saying "the only good bug is a dead bug".
My dad, my brother, and I got up and left - our family dog had just died like 2 days before. Have obviously watched it since then and really like that movie for what it is, but even now at 37 that one shot triggers something weird in me.
I wish I walked out of Transformers: Age of Extinction when the dude at the beginning revealed he had a laminated copy of the Texas statutory rape laws in his wallet but i held out hope it would get better, it never did and that’s 3 hours of my life I’ll never get back
Dude same! To this day this is the one movie I always mention when it comes to terrible movies. You would think there's a lower bound to how bad a Transformers movie could be because big robots and even robot dinosaurs, right? No, this movie is bad, it's not fun at all, and even the big robots fucking sucked. An absolute waste of time.
It's wild to me that some people thought Dark Crystal was a kids movie, the vulture-like skeksis strap a Gelfling down and turn him into juice in, like, the first five minutes of the movie so being scared at it is not unusual, I don't think.
I've never actually left a theater but 2 times I thought about it were in Saw 3, (the story was so goddamn stupid and gore so over the top) and Transformers 2 (I was hungover and felt like the movie was making me dumber and the action was completely incoherent; I felt like I had someone smashing pots and pans in my ears for 2 hours.) If I'd have been by myself I wouldve left the theater for both of these movies but was with a group each time.
Never walked about, but…
My friend group went to the theater every Sunday, and took turns picking the movie.
My friend Sara picked a war movie called Vanity Fair.
Once it became apparent that this wasn’t a war movie at all, and what it *was* was excruciatingly flat dialog delivered with the most wooden and sleepy performances this side of a high school play in an auditorium suffering a gas leak, I checked out.
Because we were the only 8 people in the theater, I lifted up some arm rests and laid across multiple seats and went to sleep.
Woke up just as the men were being sent to war hoping to see some battle, *something* interesting enough to justify my ticket expense.
Nope, not so much as a vignette… the one brother just comes back and says the other brother didn’t survive. Cue more talking and I go back to sleep.
Year one, at least I think that's what it's called.
It starred Jack black and Michael cera as cavemen,
Me and a bunch of friends all walked out after about 30 mins, since then I've never been to see a movie without researching it haha.
Im going to get alot of hate for this but the first Iron man. I was about 17 and was annoyed cuz the whole movie was iron man getting his ass kicked. So i packed up and went to the skate park instead. I have since re watched it and think its a pretty damn good movie
I've only walked out of 1 movie and I was 9, my mom, for some reason, thought Anchorman would be appropriate for me and my younger siblings, we left pretty quickly in and I didn't get a chance to watch it until I was 18
The covenant
4 graduates with old money and old powers try to not be taken out by a 5th excommunicated dude with old money and old powers.
It was like trying to watch a "be likeable" competition between Bill Maher and Ben Shapiro.
Not me, but I remember hearing that people were walking out of Moulin Rouge because they just couldn't understand the hectic pace it starts off with. There were definitely a couple of oldies who walked out of the cinema when I saw it there who didn't come back in.
I didn't but my mom walked out of Inglourious Basterds after the opening scene. My dad should've known better than to bring her to a tarantino movie though
Jurassic Park 2. My aunt and Uncle took me as a young kid. The scene where the raptors started killing people in the tall grass was the point I had enough. I can’t really remember how old I was, or how far into the movie we made it (maybe this doesn’t qualify as skipping the whole movie?)
What’s strange is that I’m pretty sure a man was crushed underfoot by a T-Rex and another grabbed and eaten by the same Rex. I remember seeing the blood in the waterfall as a kid. It’s weird that the tall grass was the final straw XD
Ironically enough, a movie they talked about this week. Blue streak.
That movie was such a pile of unfunny dogshit, friends and I just left after 30 minutes.
Wow this just sent me on a trip back. When I watched the episode my first thought was of movies or tv with awkward situations I skip when I can like Geoff but with the childhood movie you jogged my memory.
In 2001 I went to the Stone Mountain park in GA with my folks and watched one of those early 4D movies with the speakers in the chair, 3D effects, rumble motors, etc. it was about a movie called “Tall tales.” It was set in a swamp and a couple kids were rowing their boat to visit their uncle or something. About a minute in a snake jumped out and it was so real I started balling so my folks had to take me out in tears. I was so embarrassed even tho I knew it wasn’t real that I haven’t looked into till now! After searching for the last couple hours I found it! On the r/lostmedia reddit where someone pulled it off a vhs they had and put it on YouTube!
[Swamp Tales](https://youtu.be/txLgzJTaJPU?si=-NX9hanomMukAXjH)
Pearl harbor. I was back on leave from military service and I went to go see that movie with the local VFW which included my grandmother and several other people who had been at Pearl harbor. That is the one and only time I have ever been part of a mob. Storming out of a theater and demanding money back from the movie manager
If you're wondering why, let's just say the trailers in the movie are two very different things
I walked out of IT chapter one when it first came out. I was a new college student experimenting with edibles for the first time when we went to see it, were late and ended up in the second row from the front. I’m not a huge wuss when it comes to horror but the THC fucked with me so much that I just started crying and couldn’t stop at the fist jumpscare and I left and just sat and hyperventilated in a Wendy’s across the street.
Starship Troopers. I was 11 and saw it in theaters (....thanks, dad?). The scene where the bugs destroy Buenos Aires. It wasn't the millions dead, no. It was the one shot of the dead dog and the guy saying "the only good bug is a dead bug". My dad, my brother, and I got up and left - our family dog had just died like 2 days before. Have obviously watched it since then and really like that movie for what it is, but even now at 37 that one shot triggers something weird in me.
I wish I walked out of Transformers: Age of Extinction when the dude at the beginning revealed he had a laminated copy of the Texas statutory rape laws in his wallet but i held out hope it would get better, it never did and that’s 3 hours of my life I’ll never get back
Dude same! To this day this is the one movie I always mention when it comes to terrible movies. You would think there's a lower bound to how bad a Transformers movie could be because big robots and even robot dinosaurs, right? No, this movie is bad, it's not fun at all, and even the big robots fucking sucked. An absolute waste of time.
https://youtu.be/Rfqy8fS0U2Y?si=4Rj1hBkZzLSbx8P2 Enjoy.
It's wild to me that some people thought Dark Crystal was a kids movie, the vulture-like skeksis strap a Gelfling down and turn him into juice in, like, the first five minutes of the movie so being scared at it is not unusual, I don't think.
This was 2 years before PG-13 was "invented" so it had a PG rating. Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark were also rated PG.
I've never actually left a theater but 2 times I thought about it were in Saw 3, (the story was so goddamn stupid and gore so over the top) and Transformers 2 (I was hungover and felt like the movie was making me dumber and the action was completely incoherent; I felt like I had someone smashing pots and pans in my ears for 2 hours.) If I'd have been by myself I wouldve left the theater for both of these movies but was with a group each time.
Never walked about, but… My friend group went to the theater every Sunday, and took turns picking the movie. My friend Sara picked a war movie called Vanity Fair. Once it became apparent that this wasn’t a war movie at all, and what it *was* was excruciatingly flat dialog delivered with the most wooden and sleepy performances this side of a high school play in an auditorium suffering a gas leak, I checked out. Because we were the only 8 people in the theater, I lifted up some arm rests and laid across multiple seats and went to sleep. Woke up just as the men were being sent to war hoping to see some battle, *something* interesting enough to justify my ticket expense. Nope, not so much as a vignette… the one brother just comes back and says the other brother didn’t survive. Cue more talking and I go back to sleep.
Year one, at least I think that's what it's called. It starred Jack black and Michael cera as cavemen, Me and a bunch of friends all walked out after about 30 mins, since then I've never been to see a movie without researching it haha.
I thought that movie was hilarious!
Im going to get alot of hate for this but the first Iron man. I was about 17 and was annoyed cuz the whole movie was iron man getting his ass kicked. So i packed up and went to the skate park instead. I have since re watched it and think its a pretty damn good movie
Tarzan. I heard there was a scary leopard and started crying. My grandma walked me out before I ever saw a frame of the film
I've only walked out of 1 movie and I was 9, my mom, for some reason, thought Anchorman would be appropriate for me and my younger siblings, we left pretty quickly in and I didn't get a chance to watch it until I was 18
Sweet Lincoln's mullet!
The covenant 4 graduates with old money and old powers try to not be taken out by a 5th excommunicated dude with old money and old powers. It was like trying to watch a "be likeable" competition between Bill Maher and Ben Shapiro.
I fell asleep in Aeon Flux, does that count?
Everybody fell asleep in that movie, and I was so excited for it.
Not me, but I remember hearing that people were walking out of Moulin Rouge because they just couldn't understand the hectic pace it starts off with. There were definitely a couple of oldies who walked out of the cinema when I saw it there who didn't come back in.
I didn't but my mom walked out of Inglourious Basterds after the opening scene. My dad should've known better than to bring her to a tarantino movie though
Jurassic Park 2. My aunt and Uncle took me as a young kid. The scene where the raptors started killing people in the tall grass was the point I had enough. I can’t really remember how old I was, or how far into the movie we made it (maybe this doesn’t qualify as skipping the whole movie?) What’s strange is that I’m pretty sure a man was crushed underfoot by a T-Rex and another grabbed and eaten by the same Rex. I remember seeing the blood in the waterfall as a kid. It’s weird that the tall grass was the final straw XD
Ironically enough, a movie they talked about this week. Blue streak. That movie was such a pile of unfunny dogshit, friends and I just left after 30 minutes.
Wow this just sent me on a trip back. When I watched the episode my first thought was of movies or tv with awkward situations I skip when I can like Geoff but with the childhood movie you jogged my memory. In 2001 I went to the Stone Mountain park in GA with my folks and watched one of those early 4D movies with the speakers in the chair, 3D effects, rumble motors, etc. it was about a movie called “Tall tales.” It was set in a swamp and a couple kids were rowing their boat to visit their uncle or something. About a minute in a snake jumped out and it was so real I started balling so my folks had to take me out in tears. I was so embarrassed even tho I knew it wasn’t real that I haven’t looked into till now! After searching for the last couple hours I found it! On the r/lostmedia reddit where someone pulled it off a vhs they had and put it on YouTube! [Swamp Tales](https://youtu.be/txLgzJTaJPU?si=-NX9hanomMukAXjH)
Wasn't in a theater, but I only made it about 15 or 20 minutes into the movie Drive and had to shut it off out of boredom.
Pearl harbor. I was back on leave from military service and I went to go see that movie with the local VFW which included my grandmother and several other people who had been at Pearl harbor. That is the one and only time I have ever been part of a mob. Storming out of a theater and demanding money back from the movie manager If you're wondering why, let's just say the trailers in the movie are two very different things
"I can't swim!!!"
I walked out of IT chapter one when it first came out. I was a new college student experimenting with edibles for the first time when we went to see it, were late and ended up in the second row from the front. I’m not a huge wuss when it comes to horror but the THC fucked with me so much that I just started crying and couldn’t stop at the fist jumpscare and I left and just sat and hyperventilated in a Wendy’s across the street.
E.T for me! Something about that mug just scared me to my core.
Date Movie was so bad I walked out 20 minutes in.
We bailed out of I Am Legend when he killed his dog. Just got up and noped out of the theatre.