I am usually too cheap to not watch completely a movie that I have rented or to walk out of a movie no matter how bad it is. There have been a few movies that I found so bad that it overcame my cheapness. They were so bad that I returned the rental without watching it completely. I only walked out of one movie: Howard the Duck. So far I think Howard the Duck was the worst movie that I ever saw partially. These are bad movies that I had to turn off and immediately return to the rental store rather than finish watching:
1. Ishtar
2. Mosquito Coast
3. All of the Star Wars Prequels (I kept trying, I thought one of them might be decent)
4. Dragonheart: A New Beginning, 2000

My memory is failing me. I am sure once I hit the submit button other movies will occur to me.

My cheapness has caused me to finish watching too many bad movies.

I once saw Wag The Dog in the theatre, and walked out because it was so boring. Later, a friend rented it, and when we watched it we saw that we didn't miss anything by walking out.

I cannot stand Star Wars. I might like it better if it hadn't been forced on me so many times in college by die-hard fans, but oh well.

A friend and I saw Next Friday. It was just like Friday except the annoying people were a bunch of Mexican gangsters. The stereotypes in the movie were just stupid. I am glad I wasn't the one who paid to see that one.

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Whatever.

I have stood in the forest in the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

-The Police, 'King of Pain'

I liked the original Star Wars, but I think it was because I watched them as a child at the theater. In fact, I saw the first one at a drive-in. My big brother took us on $5.00 per car night. The special effects were better than anything out at that time. All my friends were wild about Star Wars. For us kids there was a lot of buzz about it. I tried to rewatch them on DVD. I wondered why I liked them so much as a kid. I must say sometimes I really miss drive-ins. They were so much fun. You came when it was light to get good parking. Underneath the screen was a children's playground. Where 50-100 kids under the age of 13 went completely wild while their parents stood in the snack line. The best drive-in in our town had an actual mini train that kids under 12 could ride in for free. As soon as Dad parked the car and turned off the engine we would leap out of the car and tear down the hill to be first in line to ride the train. We thought it was fun to lay on top of the car and watch the movie.

The last movie I actually walked out on was "Napoleon Dynamite."

I wanted to walk out of "Unbreakable" (M. Night Shymalan & Bruce Willis & Samuel Jackson) "Unwatchable"

I also wanted to walk out of "8 MM" with Nicholas Cage

The rare instances where I go to movies are almost always family outings, and so no matter how much I hate a film I can't simply walk out of it or else I'll catch hell.


If I could have, however, I'd have walked out of Pirates of the Carribbean and The Terminal.

*For Pirates, bear in mind that my eyes are very sensitive to light and motion. As such, the sequence in which the pirates all revealed that they were skeletons and ghosts was literally painful to watch.

*For The Terminal, I predicted just about everything that would happen within the first five minutes.

I think the Bernie movies were pretty bad. I am not sure of the whole title, it's so bad I have blocked it out of my memory. It's the movie where the guy dies and 2 men act like he is alive and drag him everywhere on vacation and stuff. OH such a bad movie. Another one is, Dumb and Dumber.

I have never been able to sit through a Bernie movie either.

I liked Unbreakable and The Terminal. They weren't great movies. I might have been mad if I paid for them, but I got to see them free because my sister-in-law rented them.

Some movies I realize that I would never be able to sit through so I never attempt to see them. Napolean Dynamite and Dumb and Dumber were movies I never had the slightest interest in seeing and never have.

Freddy Got Fingered comes to mind, and I was at a press screening to review it and couldn't walk out. My former boyfriend, and still good pal despite his bad taste in films, once rented "A Boy and His Dog" with a young Don Johnson. It was horrid, but we were watching it at his house. I escaped by falling asleep

Some bad movies you make the mistake of not walking out on then find yourself shuddering and having a hard time getting over having seen it. You are so lucky that you fell asleep in the middle of "A Boy and his dog". It was a bad movie. It took awhile for me to overcome its badness.

I was about to walk out of Rob Zombie's version of Halloween but fortunately the fire alarms went off and we all had to leave the theater 20 minutes in.

The last movie I think I walked out of was one of the Nutty Professor movies.