Have you ever gone to the movie theater to see a film and you couldn't sit through it to the end? Do you remember which film(s) that you walked out on?

I consider this much more severe than changing the TV channel or pressing the "STOP" button on the videoplayer. You go to a lot of inconvenience by getting dressed, driving to the theater, standing in line, paying outrageous amounts of money for snacks, etc. I figure something really has to cause you to say "Screw it! I can't take this anymore!".

I've only walked out of two movies in my life (technically only one, but I'll mention the second). I got up after 30-minutes or so and walked out on Francis Ford Coppola's DRACULA (1992). Not because it was bad, but because I was feeling faint. Slow torture and pain gets to me. I begin smelling rubbing alcohol (where none is present) and my skin gets ice cold and clammy.

The other movie was during a "Bad Film Festival" at the local university. There were a total of five movies scheduled, but the titles were not revealed. Admission was completely free .... with a catch! If you left during the first movie you had to pay $10 to get out. Second movie was $8. I sat through stuff I loved and tolerated: PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, TERROR OF TINY TOWN, EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. The final movie was the 1970s remake of LOST HORIZON. I hadn't seen it before, but I loved the original and I'm not fond all-star casts so as soon as the credits began I got up and paid $2 to leave.

I walked out of Natural Born Killers and into a theatre showing Forrest Gump. Do not regret it in the least...

I came very close to getting up and walking out of STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER, but I never pulled the trigger. I kept thinking "Okay. This is the worst part and now it's passed so I can unclinch my teeth" only to be hit with more lunacy all the way to the end. In retrospect, I should have gotten up when Sulu and Chekov were blowing into their communicator at Yellowstone Park to simulate a blizzard. Definitely by the time the three leads sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat!

What about when Uhura did a striptease?

I wouldn't have seen it 'cause I'd left at the first sign of stupidity. Just like it'd have been well before Scotty says he knows the Enterprise like the back of his hand, wonks himself against the bulkhead, and lays dying in the next scene. WTF!?!

I walked out of ULTRAVIOLET after about 20 minutes. On a related note, I fell asleep about a 1/2 hour into VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN when I saw it in theaters, woke up after about ten minutes and left. I rented it later and fell asleep at about the same point.

I seem to always have made an informed choice, and avoided going into any flick I would end up hating so much, I just had to get out of there. However, I seem to recall a date "forcing" me into a movie starring the Fat Boys called "Disorderlies". It was so bad, we got the hell out of there after a painful 30 minutes or so. I slept thru a few animated atrocities that my daughter wanted to see when she was young, but I didn't walk out.

I have never left a movie either.

Fell asleep in a couple, but I find something about the dark theatres threatens to put me to sleep whether I like the movie or not!

I have never walked out of a movie in my life, and I have no respect for anyone who has.

You are all complete assholes.

This is why America is doomed.

I have never walked out of a movie I paid to see. The closest I came to doing so?

POLTERGEIST 2: THE OTHER SIDE. 'Cause, damn.

I have only walked out of one movie - The John Frankenheimer version of The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Brando in whiteface, wearing a mu-mu, Val Kilmer wandering around stoned, CGI that was bad even though it was cutting-edge for its time, and some of the worst acting I've ever seen.

I pulled the pin after the 'hero' fails to steal a boat and leave the Island when he's confronted by rat/human hybrids about a foot tall. Ye Gods.

I can say I've never walked out of a movie. I'm picky on what I see.

But I have turned off a DVD, less picky with those.

Now you've done it!

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I walked out of Memoirs of a Geisha and a really bad Estonian independent film.
I think that's pretty much it.

There are good ones?

I walked out of ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. Still don't get why so many people love that movie. I thought it was pretty wretched, myself.

Never walked out of a movie, never fell asleep.

I enjoy 90-95% of the movies I see, at least to some extent. I cut out things I wouldn't like.

I almost never stop a dvd either (only exception I can think of is Matrix 2).

Some of the movies you guys walked out of I liked (in the theater anyway) -300, Funny Farm, BRam Stoker's Dracula. Star Trek V.

The one movie I felt like walking out of was The Cell. My friend wanted to see it and I didn't but he won. We went on a double date. It was so terrible, I wanted to leave, my wife wanted to leave. But we felt we couldn't. Afterwards, my friend had said they wanted to leave but felt like they couldn't because of us.

I was about to make this exact post.

I see a whole lot of movies in the theaters. The closest I've come to walking out on a movie was XXX: State of the Union, the sort-of sequel with Ice Cube. I thought it was not only bad but downright offensive.

The only time I remember falling asleep was during Out of Africa--can you blame me?

What? You mean you missed the attack of the giant pygmies that took place during the exciting climax of the movie? They set it up for a sequel, too - Back into Africa - but it was never produced.