Have you ever walked out on a movie?

Don't know the name of the movie. It's somewhere in the 80's.
Christopher Reeves and Michael
Caine lip locking on scene. My Parents dragged us out of the movie theater.
My mother was horrified.

Papa
 
old bear said:
My God man, that movie had one of the greatest lines ever. "The difference between winners and losers, Losers snivel, I did my best. Winners **** the prom Queen."

Yes, the rest of the movie was trash, but Sean Connery delivering that line was worth the price of admission many times over.

As someone who returned to school at 50 + years old, I can't recount the number of times I reminded both students and staff of the above. Students just gave me a strange look, the staff, just left me alone, then gave me a passing grade.
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Great line. Connery did have all the good lines in that film. For some reason I was partial to "Welcome to The Rock!" I remember annoying my friends for months afterwards with that line when answering my front door.

And the car chase through San Francisco. I know it's politically correct among movie connoisseurs to be all excited about the one in "Bullitt", but that airborne cable car was something else.

As for walking out of movies, I don't remember ever doing that. I either knew enough about the movie that the situation didn't occur, or I went to a movie that wasn't my choice with somebody else, and the somebody else was usually more important than whatever happened on the screen ;) .

Since I'm netflixing/streaming, I peek into a lot of movies that I end up not watching, but I guess that doesn't have the gravity of walking out of one you've driven to and paid for.
 
Will Carry said:
The only movie I have ever walked out of was Gone With The Wind when I was 5 years old. I thought it was boring and I wanted to see an Elvis movie.

I love going to the movies! Even though the popcorn is always stale because they don't make fresh popcorn anymore and there is always some Shmuck who just can't go two hours without his cell phone and I have to get up and tell him to turn it off. I still enjoy the movies. You just can't beat a forty foot screen.
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The first time I saw it-I THOUGHT it was going to be a real War movie with plenty of action-boy was I wrong. Fast forward about 10 years (which was about 30 years ago) they showed it as a matinee summer movie-so my friend Sy and I went to see it. It didnt change my opinion any-and we mostly payed attention to that gallon bucket of popcorn we each had-and the candy.
 
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I haven't, but I did start snoring during "Fool's Gold", which my wife had dragged me to.

I've always thought it interesting how one man's "worst movie ever" is another's "favorite of all time"!
 
I don't remember the last time I walked into a movie theatre!! I can't stand sitting there with a bunch of strangers that are busy stuffing their faces like pigs, rather than watching the movie, making all kinds of food related noises unwrapping, chewing like they have not been fed for days, talking etc... Who needs that when you can sit in your family room and watch just about anything you want in the privacy of your own home with no one bothering you and pop a cold one to boot. :)
 
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Walked out of a movie about 35yrs ago.Was waiting in line to buy tickets with my now ex-wife when a young couple offered us their tickets for free.Just thought they had an emergency of some kind so never gave it any further thought.That was before multiplex theaters so you didn't have multiple choices to see something else.

At least the few minutes of agony we sat trough didn't cost anything.
 
The movie I wanted to walk out on was Deliverance but didn't because we were with another couple. I still consider it way up there as one of the most disgusting movies ever made.
Jim
 
Walked out on a Peter Falk movie many years ago. Can't remember what got me to go in the first place. Then wife probably made me go.
 
revolver59 said:
Who needs that when you can sit in your family room and watch just about anything you want in the privacy of your own home with no one bothering you and pop a cold one to boot. :)
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Not to mention that you don't have to wear pants at home. Movie theaters are very narrow minded about attire...or lack thereof.
 
I was dating....

I was dating my present wife back when 'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot' came out. About halfway through it got so crude that we walked out. Disappointing for a Clint Flick. Things were much more proper in those days and wife wasn't used to all that.

Another one I was enjoying (I don't think it was at a theater) was 'A Fish Called Wanda', when it got to the point where the guy was threatening to eat the fish we turned it off and never finished it.

I've sat through some really awful stuff, much worse in fact and it may have bothered me , but I seldom snapped anything off so fast. I STILL don't want to see it unless somebody tells me the fish is ok.
 
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