Movies

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.

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⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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.

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

The Spirit.

Saw it in theaters and left half way through.

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.

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.

Legends of the Fall

Ringer -- coincidentally also Jeremy Irons.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.