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What movie and why?

I snuck into an R rated movie when I was 14 and then had an anxiety freak out about breaking the rules and left immediately

I walked out of Free Willy when I was 8. It was at the part when they try to get Willy to the bay and they’re in the gas station because he’s dehydrated so they’re washing him down and I was worried and scared they wouldn’t succeed. I never saw the ending until I was maybe 15-16.

No films, but I've army crawled out of the audience (only for like one row, mostly just hunched over and scurried, trying to keep out of the playwright's line of sight) of a play about the illegitimate Black daughter of Strom Thurmond.

A (white, iirc) customer at my mom's work had written it and was giving out tickets like he'd loaded them into a t-shirt cannon.

It was so, so awkward. I've seen better student-written stuff. It was earnest and preachy and anvilicious and stodgy and the play equivalent of slightly-moldy gruel.

My roommate had to see a play written by her instructor for class credit, and dragged me along, that I wish I'd been able to army-crawl away from. Or scurry. Or sprint. Or teleport.

It was about Mozart, but it fucking sucked. so. bad. At least the Strom Thurmond play was educational. Not even the music helped and I normally love Mozart.

No, but we almost got kicked out of Troy.

Backstory: My now-wife and I went to a very classical liberal arts school, and everyone, even transfers, had to take Hum 110 which gave us a grounding in the western classics, i.e. Egyptian, Roman, and Greek histories and culture. It was more than a year long course, in that, once you're accepted and registered at the school, they send you epic poems from those cultures to read over the summer before school starts, including The Iliad.

We KNEW this story. And the history and culture in this movie was laughably bad. Literally. And there was this snooty looking older couple, who were the only other people in the theatre, who were apparently convinced that they were watching Cultured Entertainment and did not like us guffawing over all the mistakes and tried to get us kicked out.

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I almost walked out of Eternals because it was so long and boring, but my friends didn’t want to leave, so I stayed.

I walked out of Snow White and the Huntsman. The AC in the theater was on the fritz and I wasn't feeling the movie at all.

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.

And some Cronenberg movie.

Torture and body horror are NOT my thing.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, I was a little kid and got REALLY freaked out. I think it was the evil queen telling the huntsman to get her heart that gave me the wibblies.

Mum and I I almost walked out of the theatrical showing of Fantastic Mr Fox. Only reason we didn't is cus we didn't want to waste the money.

The last jedi, for obvious reasons.

I almost walked out of Arrival (2016).
I'm a linguist and I was very interested in the premise of the movie, but in the end the linguistic part of it was so stupid it enraged me.
I was with friends, though, so I endured it and at one point the plot kept getting stupider and stupider so in the end I actually enjoyed myself.

The bonus was watching the movie dubbed in my native language (almost exclusively dubbed versions gets aired here) and it was either low quality or I was completely dumbed out at that point that I heard "Shall we make a blowjob" instead of "Let's have a baby" like it was intended to be. (For context: baby = bambino; blowjob = pompino it's quite similar)
I LAUGHED SO HARD DURING ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC SCENES OF THIS MOVIE. I laughed silently not to disturb other people and almost chocked myself. I don't regret a thing.

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My gag reflex got excessively triggered by a certain eating scene in the David Cronenberg version of The Fly.

I did apologize to my date.

I don't go to movies too often, but it hasn't happened yet. The closest was when I was a kid and my mom took me to see the Little Rascals movie and afterwards admitted she'd almost walked us out at the beginning because she thought the boys having a "Woman-Haters Club" would be played uncritically. Sorry mom, I was like ten and even I knew it was being set up to be shot down. Luckily we stayed and my mom ended up really liking the movie.

I've wanted to walk out of several movies, but I've never actually done so, mostly because I'd feel like I'd wasted my money and I can at least get enjoyment out of complaining about the movie with the people I went to see it with after.

Disney's Pocahontas. Because it was boring as fuck.

Nope, but that's out of pure stubbornness on my part. It's expensive to see a movie at the cinema and unless they start playing an entirely different movie by accident, I won't budge from beginning to end.

With that being said, I was tempted to leave from the absolute cringe of a sex scene in The Happy Time Murders. I was surprised that I felt that way since they even showed a part of it in the trailers - but the orgasm lasting like 5 minutes with silly-string going everywhere because 'lol he's a puppet' just... bad. Although, I ended up watching the whole thing and just felt disappointed because I think the movie could have been better if the film wasn't so focused on having to prove itself as a comedy for adults just because puppets were being used.
It felt a little bit like the what happened with the origins of Cool World, where they tried to make it more child-friendly for kids to potentially watch (which the resulted in NOT really doing that lol), and ended up straying away from a better storyline.

Guillermo del Toro movies, a couple of times.

I like them on the small screen - but in the theatre they're a combination of too slow and quiet AND THEN MAYHEM. I can just calibrate better when I have more control.

I didn't walk out on that animated Spiderman movie (the one with the new kid and the multiverses?) but I did spend a lot of time squinting through my fingers and whimpering at all the strobe effects. Great story, but goddamn hard to watch.

...This may not count but I walked very fast out of The Hunger Games because I had to get to the bathroom and throw up (and that's how I learned I get motion-sick at movies that use shaky cam).

Steven Spielberg's Poltergeist. I was about nine years old. I decided that the scene where one of the male characters literally washed his face off into a bleeding mess in the sink was just way too damn much.

I escaped to the room next door where I saw the second half of E.T., the Extraterrestrial. So I ran away from one Spielberg movie to watch another Spielberg movie.

I haven't, but I seriously contemplated walking out of The Great Gatsby. I'm not even a massive fan of the book; I just really hate Baz Luhrmann's style. I find it intensely vapid, and the vapidity is made so much more obnoxious by how grandiose it is. Scratch the surface and it's just more surface, is how I would describe it.

I'll probably get yelled at because both these movies are super popular but Blade Runner and Titanic, the former because of the misogyny and the latter because I was totally bored. (I had been pretty much dragged to it by a FOAF)

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My SO and I walked out of John Wick 3. It was painful watching all the baddies stand around and wait their turn to fight him one on one or two on one, but then they had a scene that was too gruesome for me and we bailed. I don’t remember exactly what it was but it was a graphic mutilation that normally I can close my eyes and tune out but I hadn’t enjoyed anything in the movie so no point staying.

I didn't. But the closest thing to wishing was the movie The First Time. I usually do not get dragged to movies I don't want to go but I was bored and I felt bad for taking her to a movie she hated a week before. My friend was a fan of Dylan O'Brian. Gods, I wish I was bored at home. She thought the movie was cute.

No, but the closest I came was for Saving Private Ryan. That opening scene was almost too much for me. When it first came out was the only time I've watched it. It was a good movie, but I am never putting myself through that again.

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