Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
Have you ever been to a movie so terrible that you saw people leaving the theater? Which one was it?
Yes! Battlefield Earth.
I stayed for the whole movie because I couldn’t believe how bad it was.To me battlefield earth falls under the "so bad it begins to loop back around into Cheesey fun" category.
I especially love how what are essentially cave men find F16 fighter jets from the past and not only do the jets and old fuel work, but the cave men know how to start them and fly them effectively.
L Ron really outdid himself on that gem.
I've been to movies so terrible I left!
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
https://youtu.be/vhidWw1yWR8A Passage to India
https://youtu.be/UxaPT6UbdAEHackers
https://youtu.be/Rn2cf_wJ4f4Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
https://youtu.be/frdj1zb9sMYHackers is a masterpiece.
So is Rogue One. This guy has an odd view of what a bad movie is that's for sure.
Rogue One is easily the best Star Wars movie since the original trilogy.
It's not even a good movie, much less a good Star Wars movie.
There are longer absolute takedowns of it, but I like this one:
but that's not a high bar.
I understand the first three, but I have to fundamentally disagree with you as much as humanly possible on Rogue One being terrible. I absolutely respect your right and and opinion to think so, but for me it's one of the best representations of what Star Wars should be in the space fiction genre.
What was it about Rogue One that bothered you so much that you couldn't finish?
Cardboard characters, plot holes, and going against everything the original trilogy stood for.
It got on my bad side when they introduced Cassian by having him murder a completely innocent person, something the Empire would do.
Then, later in the film, when it's his fucking job to assassinate a legitimate military target, he gets all sweaty and - OH - JUST... CAN'T... PULL... THE... TRIGGER... No explanation, no character development... just because... That was when I walked out.
The real reason of course, is more complicated. The original writer/director fucked things up so colossally he was actually removed from the picture and a new guy was brought in to re-write and re-shoot. Cassian's change in tone was because of the two different creators.
I saw Young Einstein on opening weekend...for some reason. No one left the theater but there were only about 4 of us in there to begin with.
The Dark Tower. Was so embarrassed that I brought my wife thinking someone could possibly take 8 books and boil them down to 95 minutes that I made us leave a half hour in. It trivialized everything about the books in the worst way possible.
Also, Nacho Libre. Just couldn't do it. I don't ding JB for it at all but really bad.
There are bad adaptations, and then there's the Dark Tower, which was akin to a full palm-open slap to the fans while desperately hoping they could maybe appeal to some movie goers that were unfamiliar with the books, which it failed to do spectacularly.
I once took my grandfather, a retired commander of the Land Army, to watch a leftist comedy. While I liked it, he was somewhat uncomfortable, but we watched it till the end.
A couple months later, he wanted to take me to watch a documentary on the life on a wooden ship over months, maintained for historical conservation. I'm not going to say it was the biggest turd I had ever seen in my entire life, but it was a serious contender, but nonetheless I had committed myself to watch it till the end because my grandpa did the same effort for me. In the end, it was him who asked me to leave early because he was bored.
My ex GF made us leave in the middle of LOTR: Return of the King.
She is my ex for unrelated reasons.
She is my ex for unrelated reasons.
Across the universe.... like half of the theatre walked out. It truly was a piece of shit movie.
A guy in the row in front of me exasperatedly said ' I did the wrong damn drugs for this shit' as he walked out.
That movie Wanted where Jolie curve balls bullets and Freeman reads the future by means of textile production
I was escorted out of a movie once.
The movie was called Quarantine. I don't remember if there were, but I don't remember any warnings before going to see the movie or when the movie started. So anyways there's a lot of flashing in the movie and I had multiple seizures.
Unpopular opinion, but I left Oppenheimer at the 40 minutes mark. The main character was so unlikable, the movie pretentious, and I hated there was some kind of trial going on, but I had no context. So I left and did something better with my time.
Same. I stopped after about 20 minutes. I love science and know the history, so the art part ended up feeling waaaay too pretentious being dragged out for extra seconds in every damn scene. No wonder the movie's so long when they're wanking every scene...
Yeah I thought it was pretentious as hell. Par for the course from Christopher Nolan, making movies with 'deep meaning' feels that really aren't that deep actually.
He just has to overcomplicate things with some timeline fuckery. every. single. movie.
- Memento: timeline is backwards
- Inception: time runs at different rates in the real world vs the dream
- Dunkirk: 3 timelines running at different speeds (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week)
- Interstellar: time looping back on itself + time running at a different rate due to black hole fuckery
- TENET: yeah ...
- Oppenheimer: constant jump cuts between different periods in Oppenheimer's story
Mind you, some of those are good movies and I can tolerate some of the timeline fuckery, but it's really becoming a gimmick.
This movie sucked. If they told it in sequential order this movie would have bombed. Showing the scenes out of order made it more interesting than it had any right be
Classic Nolan trick: perplex your audience with non-linear story telling and loud blaring audio contrasted by whisper dialogue to sell the illusion of depth and tapestry....
Didn't walk out, but wish I had: the first Wonder Woman movie with Gal Gadot. They managed to make a Wonder Woman movie that was more about her boyfriend than Wonder Woman. Wtf.
Barnyard. My daughter and I used to go see EVERY kids movie when she was between 5 and 12 yrs. Let me tell you, I have learned to enjoy some shitastic movies. Then came Barnyard. 30 minutes in, it was so bad, I leaned over to my (then 6 years old) daughter and said "Sweetie, do you like this movie?" She looked at me with the most serious face and just said "No".
Weirdly enough the barnyard TV show was weirdly good. Like it was bad but also kinda ok in that weird way that after awhile you stop caring that its vaguely bad and it actually ends up ok.
My dumbass father liked eragon, I couldn’t even give it a fair shot as a movie bc I was too caught up in how they absolutely butchered the storyline of the books.
Out of curiosity, what was wrong with it? I never read the books, and watched it years later on late night cable, and it seemed ok. Typical pre-teen bland fantasy. Perfectly fine on enough weed
Weirdly enough the movies I've been to with the most audible walk-outs were all good films:
Exotica
Salo
Schindler's list
I think two of them just got too much for people and the other one had them worried they'd wind up on a list.
I've seen Salo but I really wouldn't call it good. I nearly did walk out, and I sat through Battlefield Earth (although admittedly I was drunk, which helped a lot)
Alien Covenant. After the flute scene I went out, fucking atrocity of a movie. Let's hope the new one is better, now that Scott isn't directing it.
All copies of Prometheus and Covenant and everything in any way referencing them needs to be put in rockets and shot into the sun (I know that takes a lot of ∆v shut up, I want them destroyed), and we collectively as a species need to pretend they never existed. Based on how bad Napoleon turned out to be too, I think we may need to put Scott on one of the rockets. We'll just say he died of COVID.
I went to a free screening of Mixed Nuts in college. I was one of many people who walked out, and I think Steve Martin himself wouldn’t blame me.
I saw Brokeback Mountain when it first came out, and during the first homosexual scene I saw several angry boyfriends dragging their dates out of the theater. I feel like every one of them had a ball cap on.
We didn’t walk out of Ultraviolet, but when we left, the whole theater staff was there to see our reaction to how bad it was. They told me I owed my date dinner.
Ultraviolet falls into campy sci fi that I love like Equilibrium.
Oh yeah, they're both great! And Aeon Flux too. And by "great" I mean "shit" but I love 'em.
I saw the South Park Bigger, Longer, and Uncut movie in theaters as a kid. I lived in a small town adjacent to a small city, and there weren't many other people in the theater. During the scene where the boys are watching the Terrace and Phillip movie and the theater-goers walk out, so did everyone else in our real life theater. It was surreal. We had a great time watching the rest of the movie by ourselves.
I can't imagine not loving every second of that movie. I still sing Uncle Fucker to myself.
Around the time the movie was released I worked over nights stocking at a Toys R Us. As soon as the store closed I would connect my discman to the PA system and we would listen to music all night. One day we were working later than usual because of Christmas, no one told us the store had actually opened and Uncle Fucker was playing over the PA.
It wasn't me, but Pan's Labyrinth had quite the exodus of parents with their younger kids when someone was beaten with a bottle and shot to death very early on.
Was that the one with or without David Bowie?
You're thinking of “Labyrinth”. Which is still a masterpiece of eccentric fantasy.
Not a bad movie at all, but it was so fun watching people with kids leaving the Sausage Party: what were they expecting?
Something similar happened when I saw the Final Fantasy movie. This blue-haired old lady walked in with her 7-8 year old granddaughter. They left shortly after a demon tore a soul from a living human.
No idea why she thought it would be appropriate for a kid that age.
An older lady and a kid were at South Park in the row in front of me. They didn't make it 10 minutes.
I think that a lot of people in the Boomer and older age ranges never really understood the idea of adult animation, so they just assume that animated shows and films are made for kids.
(But my favorite Parker/Stone walk-out was the obviously Mormon couple who sat in front of us for the first 30 minutes of The Book of Mormon. The guy had the word "Mormon" embossed on his belt. They didn't do their homework before they bought those tickets.)