This also matches my experience. American Beauty had a bunch of walkouts, too.

I can see how American Beauty would have quite a few walkouts, especailly with Spacey's opening scene. Not something one typically sees in the first three minutes of a movie.

I saw the original "Dawn Of The Dead" when it first came out. There were over two dozen walkouts. All the gore was something relatively new back then. Practically all the walkouts were couples. Back then, not a good date film.

I would not walkout on any film I paid money to see.

I've never personally walked out, but the movie with the most walkouts that I've noticed was also The Thin Red Line (which I personally enjoyed)

The most people I remember seeing walk out of a flim was South Park BLU, at least 10 couples or so walked out that I remember seeing ahead of me. I have only walked out of one movie in my life, despite how bad they were. Chicago. I could not take it, my eyes wanted to be stabbed out and my ears chopped off. I sat thru crap like Battlefield Eath and Eck Vs. Sever but Chicago was too much to take.

In much the same vein as the Amish situation, how could so many people go to see South Park BL&U and not expect the film to be what it was? Maybe they were expecting a Disney film because it was animation. :D

The only movie I've ever walked out on was Carrey's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I probably would have walked out on The Perfect Storm, but fell asleep first.

The most I saw was during Die Hard with a Vengience, some black people walked out when



actually those were drive offs since it was at a drive in theater, remember those? ;)

Personally, I walked out on Mr. Wrong and Batman and Robin. This is from someone who stayed through the whole screening of Dude, where's my car?

Starship Troopers

A lot of parents walked out with their little kids because they thought it must have been a kids movie when it obviously was not.

Yep. Same here; I was one of them actually.

When my wife and I checked out Closer Saturday night (which we loved), there were at least 1/3 of the theater that left during the strip club scene with Portman and Owen. Then as it went on, more and more slowly got up and left. I think it was a church group mostly. Must have been thinking it was a romantic comedy. Ha! I live in Springfield, Missouri by the way.

Matt

The most people I've ever noticed walk out of a movie was during Hero, but it was only like maybe 5 or 6 people. I don't know if people just don't walk out of movies around here, or if I just don't notice them. I've never personally walked out of a movie.

So I asked my manager about this: apparently, the most walkouts we ever had was during one of our monthly "silver dollar shows", generally for seniors, with tickets at $1 each. Generally they're "nice" films, like Shall We Dance.

Anyway, they kicked up a storm when someone programmed Me, Myself & Irene. Most of the 400 people walked out, screaming murder.

Whenever I rented any subtitled movie, my father would always tell me about being an usher when 8 1/2 was first released.

"In the newspaper it said this was the greatest movie ever!" he would reminese. "People would come in, watch it for five minutes, then get up and leave. There was never anyone left in the theater by the time it was over."

Then five minutesd into the movie I had rented, he would get up and go upstairs to watch a Cheers re-run or something.

Natural Born Killers on opening day had the most I've seen. I did see a few during Team America on opening day too.

Yup, I'd agree with you. A lot of people (including me) left during that movie.

A guy I work with went to see Irreversible opening night with three friends. There were 12 people in the theater, everyone but his group left. After the movie one of his friends said "Man, I wish we would have walked out" and my co-worker said "You were on the aisle! I was waiting for you to get up!"

The theater cancelled the rest of the showins for Irreversible for the week.

I still regret not walking out of "Ulee's Gold"

Same here. I caught a Saturday matinee and several elderly women were complaining loudly that they lost all respect for Cruise after that scene. By the end of the film (which I love) there was only about 10% of the original audience left.

I saw a few people walk out of Show Girls. We nearly left during Solaris too.

:lol: Good story

The most walkouts I've seen was during South Park: BLU. Ironically, it was one of the only movies I've seen more than once in the theater.

A female friend and I went and saw Solaris opening weekend. Prior to seeing it (as we were waiting for the theater workers to clean the theater), we had a (brief) conversation with one of the professors teaching religion at UNLV as she was just coming out of the movie. She said she highly enjoyed it and after I told her that I was a fan of the original novel and the Russian movie, she said I'd probably enjoy it as well.

Film started around 9:30pm. The entire theater was mostly sold out, a few empty seats here and there. By 10:00pm, people started walking out one by one (as I would start humming Queen's Another One Bites the Dust). By 10:30pm, half the theater was left. Fifteen minutes before the film's finale, a majority of the people in the theater get up and leave. All at once. My friend and I are shocked.

By time the credits start and the lights go on, twenty people are left in the theater. Prior to start of the film, there were at least two hundred people in there to begin with.

Same here.

I've never walked out of a film, but Bad Girls almost pushed me over the edge. Everyone else in my party walked out of The Pillow Book, and they weren't too happy about waiting in the lobby for over an hour while I watched the rest of it.

I usually just drive myself to the theater these days. ;)

The Thin Red Line? I don't get it. It was a fantastic movie!

I can't believe the quality movies that people claim to have walkouts. 2001? Eternal Sunshine...?

I thought this thread would present more crude or graphically violent films. For instance, the funniest thing I ever witnessed was during Sid and Nancy. Apparently, a lot of old people didn't bother reading any sort of synopsis before attending and left in droves. :D

I never walked out of a movie. What a waste of money. I try to only see sure things.