<p>I felt like I was right inside that submarine with all of those guys and the hams hanging from the ceiling and swinging back and forth made me almost dizzy. Then I had the bright idea to tell myself “At least you can’t smell it.” I was out the theatre door so fast I probably affected the earth’s spin on its axis. </p>
<p>There was a long, slow, peculiar Swedish film I tried to sit through about a year later that was just so long, slow, and (for me at least) painfully obscure that I walked out. I can’t even remember the name.</p>
<p>The Lord of the Rings series, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, The Matrix. I’m sure I’ll think of many others. This thread reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine was afraid to admit she didn’t like the movie The English Patient.</p>
<p>I’ve never actually walked out of a movie. But I WANTED to walk out on</p>
<p>– Dressed To Kill. It just seemed like relentless, gratuitous homophobia to me.
– The Princess Diaries. I love Julie Andrews. I love Anne Hathaway. I love Mandy Moore. This is one of the stupidest, most offensive movies, ever. The contempt Disney has for its audience just oozes from every scene.
– Wings of Desire. Relentlessly boring, and punctuated every 20 minutes or so with a scene of stunning beauty and creativity so that you are forced to keep watching. Ugh!</p>
<p>Honorable mentions:</p>
<p>My Dinner With Andre. I have tried to watch this movie four times. I have never made it to the second course awake.</p>
<p>Last Tango In Paris. I have seen it all the way through, three times, looking for whatever it was that Pauline Kael saw in it. It has one great shot, with no dialogue. That’s it. The rest is unmitigated crap, with Brando’s ugly body and Maria Schneider’s science-fictional boobs.</p>
<p>Nine. How could someone who made the best musical movie ever (Chicago), and who had all those great stars at his disposal, make something that awful?</p>
<p>I thought Last Tango and Eyes Wide Shut were both extremely tedious in similar ways. But the worst movie of all time in my book was Visconti’s The Damned.</p>
<p>Other really boring movies: Walkabout and Death in Venice and I never cared much for Ingmar Bergman, though I tried. I loved Hiroshima Mon Amour even though it was very slow.</p>
<p>JHS too true about Wings of Desire - but every time Columbo appeared, it tickled my funny bone.</p>
<p>These on the other hand are some of my favorite movies:
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<p>My husband loved My Dinner with Andre, I’m pretty sure I’d be propping my eyes open with toothpicks to stay awake.</p>
<p>My Dinner with Andre. I walked out after about half an hour, which seemed like half a year. I kept waiting for the incredibly boring talking to be over, but they just kept droning on, and on, and on. I felt as if I was cornered at a party by the dullest person on the planet. Propping my eyes open with toothpicks? No way. Sleep would have come as a blessed relief.</p>
<p>For some reason I can watch these over and over and over: State of Grace (even though I don’t like Sean Penn) and Serendipity (mesmerized by Beckinsale).</p>
<p>Movies that are perfect but I seldom run into anybody who’s seen them: Breaker Morant, 12 O’Clock High, & Nevada Smith.</p>
<p>That John Grisham one with Tom Cruise - I can’t even remember the name.
Any movie where Tom Hanks has an accent (Forrest Gump, The Terminal, Ladykillers, etc.)
Frances with Jessica Lange made me physically ill.</p>
<p>^The name of the movie/novel was called The Firm.</p>
<p>I rarely walk out of movies even if they tend to be poorly executed, but I walked out of Transporter 3. The movies plot was slow and 90% of the movie was action scenes. Very very very redundant. I also walked out of Disaster Movie.</p>
<p>There was another movie we walked out of several yrs ago-- was there a king kong remake or something?? I have this memory of just thinking the King Kong part was sooo stupid. We left. Cant even recall much about it.</p>
<p>Schmaltz – I agree with you, Breaker Morant is a wonderful movie!</p>
<p>Years ago I walked out of “Scanners” after the first scene with heads exploding. Waited for H in the lobby. I tried to walk out of “Road Warrior” but H wouldn’t let me (brute!). So I spent most of the movie with my hands covering my face. </p>
<p>I actually did not walk out of Das Boot but agree that the claustrophia of that film was palpable (and the movie was endless). But since I saw it in a blissfully air conditioned movie house on a sweltering August day during a NYC heat wave, the length was forgivable. </p>
<p>Don’t know if this is the “peculiar Swedish film” mentioned earlier, but I found Bergman’s “Cries and Whispers” pretty cringeworthy…</p>
<p>Never watched The Firm because the book was so soul-crushingly stupid.</p>
<p>Any movie where someone becomes someone else, especially if you’re supposed to take the premise seriously (as opposed to a slapstick comedy). My poster child for that is “Heaven Can Wait”.</p>
<p>Wished I could have walked out on “All the President’s Men”. I was a teenager with no interest in politics but was on a date anad there was only one movie/theater in our small town.</p>
<p>Saw American Beauty on video and thought it weird and unsettling.</p>
<p>My gf and I went to see Enchanted. After I saw, like, 20 mins of it, I couldn’t stand it anymore. So we went next door and saw The Golden Compass again.</p>
<p>I’ve walked out on three movies. I went to Fatal Attraction with my wife. After the first 15 minutes we looked at each other and agreed that we could tell where the movie was headed, and it was nowhere we wanted to go. Got our money back too.</p>
<p>The other two were movies shown on campus when I was in college. Even Dwarfs Started Small, directed by Werner Herzog, and Visconti’s Death in Venice. Dirk Bogarde is creepy, creepy, creepy.</p>
<p>I’ve slept through dozens of movies, particluarly those I took my kids to see when they were young. I took my daughter to some Japanese anime movie when she was little; I fell asleep at the opeining credits. My kids learned to elbow me when they were ready to leave.</p>