Yes! Battlefield Earth.
I stayed for the whole movie because I couldn’t believe how bad it was.

My ex GF made us leave in the middle of LOTR: Return of the King.

She is my ex for unrelated reasons.

I saw the South Park Bigger, Longer, and Uncut movie in theaters as a kid. I lived in a small town adjacent to a small city, and there weren't many other people in the theater. During the scene where the boys are watching the Terrace and Phillip movie and the theater-goers walk out, so did everyone else in our real life theater. It was surreal. We had a great time watching the rest of the movie by ourselves.

My dumbass father liked eragon, I couldn’t even give it a fair shot as a movie bc I was too caught up in how they absolutely butchered the storyline of the books.

How has nobody mentioned the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender movie? I saw it as a kid and even I wanted to leave.

Barnyard. My daughter and I used to go see EVERY kids movie when she was between 5 and 12 yrs. Let me tell you, I have learned to enjoy some shitastic movies. Then came Barnyard. 30 minutes in, it was so bad, I leaned over to my (then 6 years old) daughter and said "Sweetie, do you like this movie?" She looked at me with the most serious face and just said "No".

It wasn't me, but Pan's Labyrinth had quite the exodus of parents with their younger kids when someone was beaten with a bottle and shot to death very early on.

The Dark Tower. Was so embarrassed that I brought my wife thinking someone could possibly take 8 books and boil them down to 95 minutes that I made us leave a half hour in. It trivialized everything about the books in the worst way possible.

Also, Nacho Libre. Just couldn't do it. I don't ding JB for it at all but really bad.

Son of the mask. I don't know what I was thinking.

Across the universe.... like half of the theatre walked out. It truly was a piece of shit movie.

A guy in the row in front of me exasperatedly said ' I did the wrong damn drugs for this shit' as he walked out.

Watched a ton of people exit Battlefield Earth. Two granny aged women sitting near me walked out of Wolf of Wall Street once Jonah Hill pulled his dick out (in the film, not in the theater)

For my parents, their walk out because it was terrible movie was Pulp Fiction

...Yeah I don't listen to them for movie recommendations

That movie Wanted where Jolie curve balls bullets and Freeman reads the future by means of textile production

While not a bad movie, I saw a guy get up and leave after loudly giving an unhinged rant during Detective Pikachu

Reason: A line from the title character about "How can you NOT believe in Climate Change at this point?"

Same genius nearly got his ass beat by a members of a mostly black audience when he complained about Miles Morales being black during a Spider-Man preview in front of Black Panther

I didn't walk out of the Avatar movie, but most people did. Halfway through someone opened the door to the theater and yelled in, "avatar sucks!" Normally I'd be a bit put out by such a disturbance, but in this case it was actually the most enjoyable and funniest part of the movie. (Last Airbender just in case)

I was escorted out of a movie once.

The movie was called Quarantine. I don't remember if there were, but I don't remember any warnings before going to see the movie or when the movie started. So anyways there's a lot of flashing in the movie and I had multiple seizures.

I went to a free screening of Mixed Nuts in college. I was one of many people who walked out, and I think Steve Martin himself wouldn’t blame me.

I saw Brokeback Mountain when it first came out, and during the first homosexual scene I saw several angry boyfriends dragging their dates out of the theater. I feel like every one of them had a ball cap on.

We didn’t walk out of Ultraviolet, but when we left, the whole theater staff was there to see our reaction to how bad it was. They told me I owed my date dinner.

Somewhat related.

I must have heard of the M Night Shyamalan Avatar movie coming out but got confused and saw the blue alien Avatar instead. I was disappointed when I realized but I dodged a bullet.

Edit: For context I was a kid, it sounds weird without that info.

Weirdly enough the movies I've been to with the most audible walk-outs were all good films:

Exotica

Salo

Schindler's list

I think two of them just got too much for people and the other one had them worried they'd wind up on a list.

Not really related but one time I went to a movie showing and no one else was there. Two individuals came in at separate times and sat on both sides of me right next to me and I was so uncomfortable at this situation I left. In hindsight it was a horror movie and maybe they were too nervous to see it alone but it's often on my mind.

I just scrolled through 200+ comments and did not see Cloverfield. I really can't say anything about the storyline itself as this was one I physically could not sit through. In addition to others who ended their suffering before us, I and 2 family members all experienced severe motion sickness within the first half hour and had to walk out. Didn't think it was worth throwing up over.

I watched an elderly couple walk out of The Aristocrats. It just added to the whole experience. But on top of that, the movie started with Morgan Freeman narrating some bullshit about cold weather. Some penguins appeared on screen and everyone collectively realized they had accidentally started playing fucking March of the Penguins!

All around a night well spent

Not a bad movie at all, but it was so fun watching people with kids leaving the Sausage Party: what were they expecting?

Asteroid City

It is Wes Anderson's movie. Really out there even for him.

I quite liked it. But a couple sitting in the same row first started shifting in their seats. Fake laughing at weird moments. Then whispering. 5 mins later they walked out with an obvious fuck this i dont care strut.
No one else left, but you could feel others were considering it.

Dude, Where's My Car? - I don't remember a thing about it (and would likely not hate it today) but I just remember being so.. exhausted at the comedy used. I looked at my friend and asked if they'd be open to leaving and they were like "oh yes, let's leave JFC"

Antman and the Wasp : Quantumania

Probably could have pushed through on the TV, but on the big screen it was an embarrassment. There was so little care taken in the CGI (noted that this was a COVID film)

Saw Pulp Fiction in a theater off post near Fort Sill, people kept getting up and walking out esp. when Marvin got shot in the face. I think the theater was 2/3rds full at the start and there were maybe a dozen of us left at the end.

People in Oklahomey weren't ready for QT lol

Bruno, what a crappy movie

My dad and I walked out of Paul Blart Mall Cop about 20-30 minutes in. No idea what possessed us to go in the first place lol

Zoolander 2. I should've walked out with them.

I never have. Once a movie goes bad, I have to see how bad it can get, for posterity.

For me it was the Assassin's Creed movie... Imo, that movie even makes Eragon look like a fucking Oscar winner

In “Mother” there were a couple of Manc women at the back who were either in there to see J Law or thought it’d be a regular horror movie to watch after the pub. They kept reacting to the movie throughout - at first because it was boring, and then with incredulity at what was happening onscreen. They’d only had enough though by the baby cannibalism scene.

I literally fell asleep and started snoring during "At Eternity's Gate", the one where the Willem Dafoe looking up meme is taken from. It was so boring... My girlfriend poked me in the ribs and I woke up to people around me laughing at me.

Robocop. When the bad guys kills Murphy a lot of people walked out the theater. Was enough for them. I keep watching the movie, I was 13-14 at the time, and quite enjoying the film. Animatronics was nice back then and the plot, where a guy die working and someone bring him back to keep working, was ok.

I wish that I had walked out of D-War /Dragon Wars back in 2007. That movie was such a piece of shit that I begrudge the minutes of my life that I'll never get back. There's like five cool minutes of some wyverns flying around fighting helicopters and the rest isn't just bad, it's boring. Go watch Reign of Fire instead and see Matthew McConaughey get absolutely unhinged. Definitely the superior trashy dragon movie.

Wow, I never knew Jimmy from Downton Abbey was in Eragon. Goddamn, and Jeremy Irons and Djimon Hounsou? This movie was stacked and yet it failed so hard. Bad writing or what?

I've never walked out of a movie, but I remember watching people walk out of Ong Bak because they were pissed that it wasn't in English.

No one mentioned this garbage ? Dragon Ball Evolution (2009), ,

i did the error to watch Eragon until the end though,
I should finish the Tetralogy though ,

😅

I've definitely been a few movies where I should have walked out. I watched Highlander 2 in the cinema for example which is probably one of the worst movies I've sat through ever.

I left halfway through An American Werewolf in Paris. London was a friggin classic. Paris was poorly acted, treated the audience like idiots, and was campy as hell (and not in a good way).

My wife, son and I walked out of Will Ferrell's "Holmes and Watson". Terrible.

I remember David Cronenberg once saying in an interview that when Crash screened at Cannes, there were times you couldn’t hear the movie over the sound of people storming out.

Just a few weeks ago: Madame Web.

I walked out of that Marine recruitment movie. Battlefield Los Angeles?

Wish I would have walked out of The Blair Witch Project.

Some people walked out of that Dragonball live action movie, but I stayed because I was enjoying my rage.

I walked out of American Pie, which I entered by mistake. Got it confused with American Beauty. Talk about culture shock.

I stayed as well as most of the audience but when I sat for Kill Bill, at least 10 people got up and walked out when O-Ren Ishii took the head off Tanaka.

Godzilla 2000, it was the worst most boring piece of shit I've ever experienced.

Bonus, In the name of the King. I didn't walk out because one of my friends was being stubborn, but another friend and I spent 1/3 of the movie wandering around the theatre cause we just needed breaks.

I don't even hate Uwe Boll, we saw House of the Dead and enjoyed it, even if ironically.

I was at one too. but it wasnt cause the movie was terrible, it was cause the projectionist was.. Movie was horribly out of focus, and about 7 feet too far to the left, and down too low that you could only see the top half of the film.

Tiny little shithole theatre refused refunds for it, too. It comes as no shock that it was bulldozed a few years later.

There was a movie I saw with my gf at the time, I want to say it was Alexander (2004) but I think it was something else. Alexander was pretty bad. The theater was empty so instead of leaving she gave me a handy, so not all was lost.

It might have been The New World (2005).

Edit: it was The New World. Also I came into a Panda Express bag, not 100% sure why we had it or how we got it in. I guess we finished up our lunch in the theater. Wanted to elaborate so nobody thought I just came on the back of the seat in front of me or something. I'm not a barbarian.

Freddy Got Fingered. One of the only movies I've ever walked out on

Not a terrible movie by any means but Doctor Sleep. Poor elderly folks just weren't prepared for certain events

Idk if this counts but me and a friend of mine went to go see the movie Skyline and no one walked out because no one else was there in the first place ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I can only think of one. The original movie of The Barnyard. It's a kids movie, of course, and it was never going to be great, but kids were asking to leave that movie. That's impressive.

The nutty professor 2

Tree of Life (2011)

I was into weird movies at the time, and still am, so I went alone to some small theater that was showing it. A few people walked out in the middle of the movie because after a full hour, nothing noteworthy actually happened. At the end of the movie when the lights went on (and still nothing actually happened the whole movie) everyone who was still there looked around in confusion and just started leaving. I had no answers either.

I once took my grandfather, a retired commander of the Land Army, to watch a leftist comedy. While I liked it, he was somewhat uncomfortable, but we watched it till the end.

A couple months later, he wanted to take me to watch a documentary on the life on a wooden ship over months, maintained for historical conservation. I'm not going to say it was the biggest turd I had ever seen in my entire life, but it was a serious contender, but nonetheless I had committed myself to watch it till the end because my grandpa did the same effort for me. In the end, it was him who asked me to leave early because he was bored.

Alien Covenant. After the flute scene I went out, fucking atrocity of a movie. Let's hope the new one is better, now that Scott isn't directing it.

Hedwig. I thought it was such a beautiful movie and about half the people in the theater left.

Fitting first example - I once rented Eragon on DVD, and turned it off after at most 15 minutes because it was so bad. Don't think even serving a life sentence I could become bored enough to reconsider watching that...

I never saw people walk out of a terrible movie in the theater except myself, when my girlfriend, my roommates and I walked out of Johnny Mnemonic. After hearing about the dolphin, I think we made the right move.

Also, I have a people walking out of a good movie story: My dad was a film historian and also wrote movie reviews. The Last Temptation of Christ had just come out. It was only showing in a handful of theaters in the country. We drove up to Chicago to see it. There was a crowd of Christians protesting outside behind a barrier and there was a metal detector and bag search, which was totally unprecedented. While watching the movie, every so often some Christian would get angry and storm out.

I was only 11 at the time (my parents had no idea what was an appropriate movie for a child), so I didn't remember the movie at all when I re-watched it as an adult. But it's not like Scorsese is a bad filmmaker, so of course it was a good movie.

My mom and I walked out of Jurassic Park 3 and into Artificial Intelligence and we weren't the only ones. To this day, I haven't seen all of either film, but after seeing Jurassic World maybe I was too harsh on JP3. I remember quite liking what I saw of AI. I should rewatch it from the start.

I watched several people leave during Team America. Yeah, it was the sex scenes.

I saw Ecks vs Sever in theatre, and I wish I had walked out.

The oryginal Suicide Squad.

Phenomenon (1996) with John Travolta.

We were with a group and some of the group wanted to see it, despite doubts by some of us. So we went anyways, figured even if it's bad, it's a shared experience. The movie was kinda meh, boring and forgettable, but not bad per se. However it is a looooooong movie, after about an hour about half of the group wanted to leave. Multiple people had already walked out of the theater at that point. By the time 90 minutes rolled around even the people who really wanted to see the movie said they wanted to leave. We were one of the last to leave, most people had walked out at that point. The theater apologized and gave everyone a voucher for another movie.

It wasn't even the good kind of bad where it turns into campy or corny or anything like that. It was just boring AF and maybe more of a TV movie than an actual theater experience.

Chappie. And I was one of the people leaving early.

Ad Astra - Good potential, abysmal execution

What even was the plot of that movie, I watched it years later on DVD and it seemed like several movies in one and none of them had bugger all to do with each other. Nice VFX mind.

Batman and Robin.

First movie I walked out of, about the time they were driving around on the rooftops. Abysmal.

I didn't see this in the theater, but if I had...

Showgirls. It was kind of a big deal when it was new because there was so much nudity and one of the stars had been in a very wholesome sitcom as a young actor. I was young enough that even though I'd heard it was awful I kinda wanted to see all that nudity, I thought how bad could it be? It was so terrible. So very terrible. The nudity couldn't begin to make up for how terrible it was.

Spice World

I left the theatre for House of the Dead, along with my friend, who demanded a refund.

Unpopular opinion, but I left Oppenheimer at the 40 minutes mark. The main character was so unlikable, the movie pretentious, and I hated there was some kind of trial going on, but I had no context. So I left and did something better with my time.

Quite a few times, and I've also left a bunch.

We'd have sneak peak movie nights in my local cinema on Wednesday at 10 PM for like 5 bucks, and regular showings would start from Thursday. You never knew which movie you got to see, sometimes it was a blockbuster, sometimes it was bust. That was the appeal of it though.

Occasionally they'd screen some otherwise straight to DVD movie just so that the publisher could advertise with "limited theatrical release" instead. Those were almost universally shit, and most people would leave within the first 10-20 minutes.

Edit: I'm afraid I don't really remember many titles, but one that stuck was Elephant Heart, some family drama about a neglected kid from a troubled family in Germany who was fighting his way out of the "ghetto" by joining a boxing club and turning professional. The dialogues and acting were incredibly terrible.

Saw an old couple walk out after the opening credits of Swiss Army Man lol

Emoji movie. Only parents with kids remained.

Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd.

Hear me out. I love Sweeney Todd but these people didn't know it was a musical. About 15 minutes in one guy said "Are they going to sing the whole time?!". More than a few people got up and left and I honestly had never seen that before.

I guess the marketing for it at the time just completely left out that it was a musical.

A Rough Draft, a Russian movie based on a Russian book. The book is quite good, but the movie... Let's say I didn't see people leaving the theater, because I left it first.

I was really close leaving the cinema twice in my life. First time was the movie "2012". Second time the First "Hobbit" Movie

Dude, where's my car?

We saw it after we went to see the shaft movie and got free passes because film burned - it really did that! - at a quiet point with palmieri. We lost the 5 slow minutes in that film.

We saw it on free passes and I still wanted my money back; but I sat through every minute and hated it instead because the tickets were still ours and formerly-poor kids don't waste stuff like that.

The Nun. Imagine a horror movie where the pitch is "nothing happens for 2 hours"

Legends of the Fall

I saw Young Einstein on opening weekend...for some reason. No one left the theater but there were only about 4 of us in there to begin with.

highlander 2. people threw stuff at the screen (university town)...I don't condone it, but i understood it.

Going back a bit, but that old Bruce Willis 'classic' Hudson Hawk. The projector film broke about an hour in, and everyone cheered and about half the people in the cinema took the opportunity to walk out, never to return.

X-Men 3 The Last Stand

I think I got like 45 minutes into it and left. No way I was going to sit through another hour of that.

Honey with Jessica alba. Like 6 of us walked out and got our money back

Didn't walk out, but wish I had: the first Wonder Woman movie with Gal Gadot. They managed to make a Wonder Woman movie that was more about her boyfriend than Wonder Woman. Wtf.

I saw Epic Movie in theaters and it's the worst movie I've ever seen. Nobody walked out but they should have.

Dr. Doolittle. The Eddie Murphy travesty. Bonus: it was a first date, too. We ended up staying together for almost four years. Shared trauma I guess.

The people in front of me walked out during Argylle. It was far too long.

Tinker Tailor Solider Spy. I've never been so painfully bored at the cinema. Left after 30 minutes, which triggered a small flood of people to follow.

Dumb and Dumber To

Not a movie, but when I was dating my wife, our college had "The Fantasticks" musical that came to town. The production was so terrible I would guess that 1/3 of the audience left at intermission. This was a professional traveling group and it had to be obvious to them that so many people didn't return for the second half.

The only movie I ever walked out was Brother Bear. Maybe I was already to old (26ish) but that was too cringy and kitschy for me.

my friends walked out of inherent vice. but i stayed

I Love Trouble (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0110093/) They were driving out of a drive-in.

The Spirit.

Saw it in theaters and left half way through.

"The Transporter Refueled". Living in a smaller city in Northern Canada with three screens... We had a Tuesday night cheap movie night group that would go to whatever was playing, then to the pub afterwards. Small city -- something to do. We had seen a lot of bad movies as a result, but this was the worst. At the end of the movie, everyone had left except our small group. We're masochists, apparently.

Alexander. Absolutely terrible especially considering the cast and potential from a story point of view.

Date Movie. It only took one for me to swear off Friedberg and Setzer

Breakfast for Champions. Almost everyone left the cinema. We also didn't make it to the end. Terrible movie...

Moulin Rouge.

My dad and I walked out of Clockers. Too violent.

I've only ever walked out of one movie and funny enough I genuinely can't remember which one. I think it was the exorcism of Emily rose but that doesn't feel right. Either way we sat in the theater for an hour and not even a single jump scare or anything other than some lady running around gathering a story from different churches or something. Got super board so our group left. It wasn't even one of those movies that's so bad it's worth joking about.

My wife thinks it may have been the nun. She says the women's mother was also part of the story some how

2 days and no one mentioned one i personally walked out on:

Weekend at bearnies 2

Dracula Untold. I don't know why I thought it might be good but the first quarter or so that I stayed awake through just seemed like he needed marriage counseling or something.

Went to an outdoor screening of La Dolce Vita. Some friends that came with us left about halfway through. I know it’s supposed to be a classic but it just didn’t land for me at all.

Krippendorfs Tribe.

Napoleon

I know this isn’t going to be popular but I walked out of Inglorious Bastards. I felt like it was so boring and the long bits of dialog just seemed to drag on forever.

The Thin Red Line. Beat you in the face with sign that reads SYMBOLISM in all caps.

We left 3/4 of the way in of "licorice pizza", we were hoping it would pick up since reviewers said it was good, but it's just so bad.

Never walked out of a movie but the only movie I fell asleep in the theater was Shrek 3.

Cast Away and Spice World

This is an oldie, Raising Arizona. I was a kid that didn't know better and was easily entertained, people were getting up to leave and even my mother wanted to, poor lady had to SUFFER thru it.

Not "terrible" in the sense the OP meant, but when I went to see "Hard to be a God," 40 people sat down and eight made it to the end.

Vanilla Sky (2001) with Tom Cruise.

Absolutely awful movie. That was the only movie I’ve ever walked out on, and I’ve seen some really bad movies.

Eragon lmao

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kull_the_Conqueror

Only movie I walked out of. I wasn't the only one.

My mother and I walked out of Death Becomes Her. She loved the cast but couldn't enjoy the movie.

Probably didn't help that it was only a couple of months after her mom died.

But I watched the whole thing on cable years later and still questioned what the fuck they thought they were thinking with that script.

The Favourite.

For the life of me I cannot understand what I was meant to take from this film. It was art, sure, but not art that resonated with me.

Alvin and the chipmunks

Fear.com

The only time I've ever experienced this was with Skinamarink, had two different people walk out of it. I completely understand why people don't like it, but I was in the 50% of people who saw it that it totally worked for. It got under my skin in a way no other horror movie has (even amongst some really good ones that I really loved/was scared by!), and it was the first one in a while that scared me as an adult. For a long time after seeing it, I hated walking around my house at night for any reason.

Ringer -- coincidentally also Jeremy Irons.

Boogie Nights, my wife had enough of it and insisted on leaving.

I wanted to leave the art film "Burnt By the Sun" but ended up apologizing to my date (she liked arty films too). We both agreed it was so bad it was almost amusing.

Atlas Shrugged, Cloud Atlas, I think the one with Tom Hanks. Thought it might be an interesting movie because of the title and Tom Hanks, but I could tell within the first five minutes it was nothing but propaganda. I saw a couple other people leaving along with me.

I am looking forward to my first movie to walk out on, nothing so far. If I had to pick, I think I’d walk out on a musical type movie

Key and Peeles “Us” was atrocious I tried to stick it out thinking it would get better but.. walked out.

Iron Sky. A lot of young chavs grabbed their beers and left the theater. Apart from a couple of minutes you can mostly see in the trailer that movie is indeed pretty shitty. The sequel is even worse. It was pretty overhyped and I suspect it hasn't aged well.

Dragon it just sucked Meet the Robinsons.....It doesn't get good till the last 30 or so minutes. But it's a tough spot to get their.

For me it was Lincoln and The Hate U Give. I gave the movies a chance but 30 mins in I just wasn't feeling them. I think for THUG it was a secret showing at a cinema and I'd gone in with the expectation of an action/comedy movie so may not have been in the right frame of mind.

Not a theater walkout, but... We just tried to watch "Legend" with Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, and directed by Ridley Scott. It was so jarring, shockingly bad we couldn't last past the 15 minute mark. The writing, the acting, the direction, the music (with bombastic synth stabs), and really terrible editorial/audio fx choices. Also, there is so many feathers just floating around. Honestly, I love b-movie fantasies (Krulletc) but this thing takes itself so seriously and is so cringingly bad we just couldn't get through it.

The Watchmen. It dragged on far too much, and all of my friends decided to walk out due to how boring we found it.