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.
Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd.
Hear me out. I love Sweeney Todd but these people didn’t know it was a musical. About 15 minutes in one guy said “Are they going to sing the whole time?!”. More than a few people got up and left and I honestly had never seen that before.
I guess the marketing for it at the time just completely left out that it was a musical.
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.
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.
Oh, I should also mention the last live action Tarzan that had a Skarsgard in it: It was a train wreck lol
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.
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.)
10 minutes mean they made it through “Hello” and maybe “Two by two”
They didn’t even get to the good stuff. Hasa diga Eebowai, I believe, Turn it off, All-American Prophet.
Man that show was so good. One of the few shows I’ve seen twice (that and Hamilton). The first time my wife was sick so I went with my BIL, but my wife was able to come the second time around.
For the record, im not rich. Solidly middle class. Our local theatre that does Broadway tours sells season tickets every spring and the payment plans make it very reasonable. It’s become a tradition that this what I get my wife for Mother’s Day. We get like a bunch of date nights planned out months out in advance so we can be sure to arrange sitters.
In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Mormon above was a season ticket holder.
(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.)
Was it released as a movie? Or do you mean the musical? If so, that’s the absolute best thing I’ve ever seen on stage. Also the only one that was so good I went to watch it a second time :-D
It was the musical, so it was not a cheap ticket. I don’t know how they didn’t know it was not going to be supportive of their worldview.
That’s actually a perfect analogy for what I know about their worldview.
I saw Epic Movie in theaters and it’s the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Nobody walked out but they should have.
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.
Relevant Dick Tits story.
I bet she looks back on those memories with you very fondly and realizes how much you love her.
Dr. Doolittle. The Eddie Murphy travesty. Bonus: it was a first date, too. We ended up staying together for almost four years. Shared trauma I guess.
highlander 2. people threw stuff at the screen (university town)…I don’t condone it, but i understood it.
I love how they kept doing sequels and this one is entirely ignored in canon.
I love Highlander 2 for this! Nightmare on Elm Street 2 had the same problem, just ignored the canon completely. 10/10 bad movie, will watch again.
Nightmare 2 was in the mental institution where Freddy grabs some girl and pushes her head into the TV and shit, right? Probably the only good part of the whole move.
I was at one too. but it wasnt cause the movie was terrible, it was cause the projectionist was… Movie was horribly out of focus, and about 7 feet too far to the left, and down too low that you could only see the top half of the film.
Tiny little shithole theatre refused refunds for it, too. It comes as no shock that it was bulldozed a few years later.
I didn’t see this in the theater, but if I had…
Showgirls. It was kind of a big deal when it was new because there was so much nudity and one of the stars had been in a very wholesome sitcom as a young actor. I was young enough that even though I’d heard it was awful I kinda wanted to see all that nudity, I thought how bad could it be? It was so terrible. So very terrible. The nudity couldn’t begin to make up for how terrible it was.
God I love that movie postor. Behold, the sexy one-legged worm!
Beware, it’s less sexy after you see the movie. They managed to take nudity and destroy all the sexiness. Maybe that was the point and I was too young to “get it” but I don’t think I’m alone in that assessment. 😬
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.
That movie series was awesome. I’m sorry that it aggravated your medical condition. That sucks.
Thanks. On a plus side I can share this silver lining (because I think we should all look for the silver lining). So the people I was with said me having a seizure made that movie far scarier 😂. None of them were expecting that (to be fair, neither was I).
I had one seizure as a kid (febrile) and one very brief one as an adult. I had been awake for like 26-27 hours at this point. I went to work really early the night before and worked all the way through the day and finally went home around 10. My friends wanted to midnight release the second transformers movie so I went too. There was a trailer for one of the Harry Potter movies with a dementor flying over a city. I remember my eyes rolling back and convulsing for about 6-7 seconds. My buddy next to me looked at me and said, “dude what the fuck was that?” I responded with, “I don’t know, I think I just had a seizure.” We watched the movie I fell asleep, didn’t like it that much.
Saw an old couple walk out after the opening credits of Swiss Army Man lol
No one mentioned this garbage ? Dragon Ball Evolution (2009), ,
i did the error to watch Eragon until the end though,
I should finish the Tetralogy though ,😅
That movie was a travesty. Even the writer apologized years later for that garbage.
I also watched Eragonand remember John Malkovich (being a francophile that he is) said this line in a french accent : i suffer without my stone,do not prolong my suffering.
kinda sums up what i feel about the movie and other bad movies…
