Movies that you have walked out on

It's not derisive, it's just a difference of opinion. Not everyone will enjoy the same film, or agree upon it's excellence. It's a film I nearly walked out on because I felt that it was heavy handed in it's reliance on a forced, grand master narrative. In fact, I felt the same way about Babel and Crash. Maybe it's the triptych plot device that I find annoying, because of its insistence on pushing a singular, simplified "deep metaphor" into a contrived story. Personally, if were talking about brilliant studies of character or themes, I prefer a film like Antonioni's Blow-Up.

I never got how it was forced unless one wanted it to be because they couldn't find the parallels it subconsciously draws. I've never felt any part of it "tried" to say something, just like in a surrealist film where not everything is symbolic of something profound.

Why, cause the old guy likes it?

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Never walked out, but have turned off and not finish.

Valhalla Rising.

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Why, thanks.

We managed to sit through Valhalla Rising but it was agonisingly slow and pretentious. I think the director was trying to cross Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God with a Terrence Malick mood piece with added ultra violence. That actually makes it sound quite good, but sadly, it stinks. Mads Mikkelsen's character One Eye reminded me a lot of Kirk Douglas in The Vikings.



Anyway I walked out of Red Dragon because it sucks, and I love Manhunter.

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Fight Club. Although I saw it on DVD later on. What a complete piece of garbage. I want those 2+ hours of my life back.

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LOL. I feel your pain, brother. I'm right with you there. I was on a date and we went back to her place to watch it. She was going on and on about how great it was. Halfway through it I was praying for rope and a tree branch.

Fight Club and Vanilla Sky are fantastic surreal films, IMO. Fincher and Crowe did a great job, I thought.

That said - I almost walked out on Vanilla Sky. I didn't think it was bad, but the girl I was with at the time was getting upset by some of the concepts in the film. We stayed for the entire film, and were glad we did by the end.

didn't really walk out but I was so close to doing it - Serendipity

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Feeling Minnesota ... OH MY GOSH!!! Worst film ever.

My dad made me leave Goonies when I was a kid. Too much cursing for a pg film, according to pops.

also had to leave Lord Of the Rings, but that was due to a fire alarm. lol

Ooo, how about Red Planet. . That film sucked!!!

The worst movie I have ever seen in the theater would have to be The Blair Witch Project 2. I am almost embarrassed to even say that I have seen the movie let alone that I paid to watch it. My wife and I were in KC and killing time before we were to meet up with friends. We decided to go watch a movie and when we got to the theater the only movie yet to play was Blair Witch 2. We left about halfway through just could not take anymore.

I haven't watched it but it's hard for me to believe it's worse than the first The Blair Witch Project.

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I liked both BWP films.

>mfw I click on his homepage and he's an actor with imdb credits

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I should've walked out on meet the spartans omg.