Most walk-outs you've ever seen in a theater
 

Mine would have to be Magnolia. The theater was about half full when it started and about a quarter when it ended.

Another one was Talented Mr. Ripley, I think it lost about twenty of a full house, a majority of which groaned when it was over.

Mine would also be Magnolia, with most of those occuring during Tom Cruise's seminar.

South Park wins for me, I've never seen so many scandalized parents as I saw during the Uncle ****er song.

Starship Troopers

Was mainly parents taking their little children out because they thought it was gonna' be a non-violent movie. Boy were they wrong. :lol:

For me it would be shadow of the vampire. A film I loved, most people had no idea it was not a horror/vampire flick

Irreversible

Matrix Reloaded had over a dozen walk-outs when I went to see it. Wish one of them had been me, but sadly I have only ever walked out of 2 movies in my life, Cannonball Run 2 and Sleeping with the Enemy.

As far as walkouts in relation to the number of viewers currently in the theater, may have actually been Twin Peaks Fire walk with me. There werent exactly alot of viewers in that theater. So I would say more than half walked out.

Some might have walked out of the showing I was at, but that might've been because I was laughing so loudly.

Kill Bill had a good amount of walkouts last night. About 6 alone during the anime scene.

That's easy. The Thin Red Line. The theater was about 80% full when the movie started, and by the end it was maybe at about 1/3 capacity.

And BTW, for the record I love that flick. I'm just pointing out how many people bailed on it that night.

Nine out of thirteen people walked out of Woody's ANYTHING ELSE. when I saw it opening night.

Battlefield Earth had a buttload of walk-outs. I stood outside the theater waiting for some friends (we were going to see Gladiator) and watched in fascination as no less than 20 people came out and demanded their money back from the poor box office girl. I waited about fifteen minutes for my friends to show up and during that time I watched as that poor girl flinched each time someone walked up to her window looking pissed. At one point, the angry mob got so bad that the manager came outside and started telling people buying tickets to go ahead and theater hop to Gladiator if they think that piece of crap Travolta movie was too horrible to watch.

I actually went to see BE just to heckle it a couple nights later. My friends and I got some laughs from the audience, which is probably the only reason very few people walked out of that particular showing. In fact, we had quite a lot of audience participation by the middle of the movie.

Oddly, there was no sport in giving that piece of crap the MST3K treatment. Only Manos, Hand of Fate was worse.

I'd have to agree with Anything Else...when I saw it most people left (I liked it)... I hardly EVER walk out of a film...but I did just walk out of "House of the Dead"... it was horrible (i didn't pay to see it, thank god...only walked out to go see another flick instead)...

Also I saw lots of people walk out of My Boss's Daughter and also wish I was one of those fortunate enough to not kid themselves into thinking "it has got to get better than this"...

MATT

Natural Born Killers. I saw it opening night at a packed theater. It seemed like half the theater walked out during the whole Dangerfield- Sitcom scene.

Never noticed people walking out, but I have walked out durin' one movie and one movie only...

ALI

Ugh!

Recently, Eyes Wide Shut. A substantial part of the college age crowd seemed to think Nicole Kidman was going to be nekkid for the whole movie. They were bitterly disappointed.

I wanted to walk out of The Blair Witch Project, but I had to see how bad it could get. A lot of people walked out of that one.

I saw plenty of people walk out of Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. I guess they didn't know what they were getting into.

THE STUPIDS


(Inculding me)

I walked out durning the opening credits. Did they ever end?

Saw Solaris (the Clooney remake) with my friend opening weekend (it was on a Sunday night).

The film started with the theater being 3/4 full. Right when the lights came up and the credits began, less than 1/4 of the theater was left. Most of the people left a half an hour into the movie or fifteen minutes before the film ended.

The only other walkouts I have seen were with The Royal Tenebaums, Memento, and South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.

Yep. Same here. I was actually one of 'em. Hated it. Would've walked out of Unseeable but it ended when it did.

The most I remember were during Eyes Wide Shut. I have never walked out of a movie, though I should have during Wing Commander.

My mom walked out during Cry Baby (she was a big Depp fan, and was disappointed. I was in another movie with my dad. I have since found Cry Baby to be a very funny movie.

Kung Pow. There were about ten of us in the theater when it started. Everyone was quite. My friend and I were the ONLY ones left by the time it eneded. Funny thing is, my friend and I laughed the WHOLE TIME. So much, that my stomach hurt when I left. I guess nobody else thought it was so funny... Awesome movie. Don't know how it would be the second time around.

The one, and ONLY movie that I've ever walked out of was Ron Howard's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Even went back a SECOND TIME (thought maybe I wasn't in the mood the first time), and fell asleep; waking up at the very end. I'd say that I've probably go to the theater a good 100 time per year. Sad to say that I actually walked out of one.

The most I've seen was in "What Lies Beneath". A stinker is a stinker, but a damn near 3 hour stinker? No good.

I have only walked out of "Volcano" so far. I must say, nothing was worse than sitting through "Dreamcatcher" though.

Re: Most walk-outs you've ever seen in a theater
 

This one surprises me to read that. Almost all the other movies mentioned in this thread make sense because they were universally loathed, such as Battlefield Earth, or because they appealed to a certain audience such as the art theater crowd, or those that like movies that are not delivered to you wrapped with a neat bow, such as Mulholland Drive or almost any Lynch film.

But Talented Mr. Ripley does not seem like that to me. It's easy to follow. Not offensive. Intriguing and suspenseful. Not too slow paced. No major questions that forces one to sit at a coffee shop discussing with other film friends for hours what something meant.

I loved this movie. What am I missing? Do many people not like it?