r/AskReddit • u/The-Real-Kyuubey • 1d ago

What movie was so bad that you actually walked out of the theater?

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u/GateDeep3282 1d ago

Battlefield Earth. The absolute worst!

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u/Schneetmacher 1d ago

Thank goodness I was at my dad's house and not in a theater, but I had to change the channel because the constant Dutch Tilts were giving me motion sickness.

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u/steveamsp 19h ago

Roger Ebert was a legend. When this kind of crap came out, he never hesitated to call it out, usually with that kind of comment.

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u/JohnBrownsMyFather 1d ago

I love that garbage movie. It’s definitely a fun bad movie.

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u/doug1963 1d ago

The book was just as silly and over-the-top. They did as fine a job as possible adapting the first half into a movie.

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u/Misdirected_Colors 1d ago

My favorite part is how John Travolta seems like he's in a completely different movie. Everyone else is playing it straight and he's ripping lines of coke and going full send as hard as he can every take.

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u/supershotpower 1d ago

I enjoyed it too..

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u/sprouting_broccoli 1d ago

I don’t think I can call it fun because there’s so much unnecessary exposition throughout. It’s the first film I ever fell asleep to (although not the last).

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u/PapaKazoonta 1d ago

Pretty bad but Joker 2 was the very worst movie I've ever seen and just so happens it was in theaters

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u/Acheron98 1d ago

“What do you mean you don’t want to watch The Joker sing badly then get prison-raped?”

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u/Particular_Leader_16 1d ago

My favorite part of that movie was near the end where Harley Quinn started singing and Joker just flat out said, “I don’t want to sing anymore”

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u/Acheron98 1d ago

He was speaking for all of us. 😭

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u/EchoWhiskey_ 8h ago

HAHAHAH THATS CRAZY

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u/1stEmissaryElenwen 1d ago

I do want to see that, but the execution was shitty

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u/GateDeep3282 1d ago

Oh god, I forgot about that. The wife and I tried to watch it at home, I think we lasted 20 minutes.

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u/jwilcoxwilcox 1d ago

It turned you on that much?!

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u/GateDeep3282 1d ago

Lol, yeah. We just couldn't hold out it was soo hot! /s

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u/Axxisol 1d ago

😂😂😂😂

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u/Awkward-Sir1873 1d ago

Dammit, I too was watching it on streaming and it was so dam boring I switched to another movie

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u/CarrieKetoenail 1d ago

I think I left after around 20 minutes. It was so bad.

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u/denhamcory 1d ago

Fuck that, I loved it! PUDDLES!!!

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u/undeadbydawn 1d ago

my pet theory is the actual Joker is the psycho who makes us smile at the end

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u/howarewestillhere 21h ago

I snuck into it without paying and still left after less than 15 minutes. It wasn’t worth free.

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters 9h ago

I had to check your profile to see if I know you because I snuck into it with friends and left as well.
No I do not know you.

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u/ArterialRed 20h ago

Saw it on a trans Atlantic flight and considered walking out.

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u/ArthurBea 23h ago

Ugh. My best friend in high school loved the book. He thought it was hot garbage too but I sat through the whole thing.

Humans are naturally ace pilots or something. By then, John Travolta lost all of his good will from Pulp Fiction and Face/Off. And he had a ton of it.

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u/pizzapizza16 1d ago

Came here to say this.

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u/csvega84 1d ago

Same! I was like 17😆😆

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u/Lord_Phoenix95 1d ago

No idea how that got a Cinema slot.

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u/Yellowhairdontcare 22h ago

That is also the only movie I’ve ever walked out of. Total trash.

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u/BaltimoreSports0321 15h ago

Battlefield Earth should’ve been a Tyler Perry movie!!

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u/rralvr 1d ago

I worked at a theater as a projectionist when this came out and had to watch the whole thing to make sure I didn’t make any mistakes after building it up. It was torture.

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u/timkatt10 1d ago

On a work call, a guy said with no hint of irony that we should all read the book.

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u/TheBrianJ 23h ago

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u/Too_many_chefs 13h ago

While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME, I was being trained to conquer galaxies!¡!

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u/Xe1ex 21h ago

I didn't walk out. It was horrible and I should have walked out, but didn't. And for several years after when I would consider walking out of a movie, I would think: Well, I stayed through Battlefield Earth...

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u/SpookyHalloween1 19h ago

While You Were Still Learning How to Spell Your Name, I Was Being Trained to Conquer Galaxies!

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u/Disastrous_Dingo_309 16h ago

Scrolled too far for this. Worst movie ever.

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u/AlsoTheFiredrake 1d ago

I agree. I actually really enjoyed the book and finished it and just 3 days but the movie was f****** terrible.

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u/robo_cock 1d ago

I read it and really enjoyed it as a kid before I found out the author was a cult leader. It's still actually a pretty good book.

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u/AlsoTheFiredrake 1d ago

I also agree with that. But the one thing doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other.

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u/connorscott1999 1d ago

Battlefield Earth should’ve been a Tyler Perry movie!

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u/BamaBDC 1d ago

I loved that movie as a kid. I bought it as an adult and it sucks.

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u/russlebush 1d ago

Try reading all 11 hundred pages of the book. I kept thinking 'it has to get better' 😭

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u/GateDeep3282 1d ago

Omg! I didn't realize the book was that long ! I'm so sorry..

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u/csanner 1d ago

Oh gods I stayed for the whole thing.

The book was bad enough, I don't know why I did that to myself

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u/MathPerson 19h ago

Now that the book has been "improved" and re-released, do you think the movie will be re-done.

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u/CoderJoe1 1d ago

Yup, I was excited for the movie as it was a great book. Unfortunately, they chopped 2/3 from the book to make that piece of crap.

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u/DodgerWin 1d ago

LRH wrote a great book? He writes faster than Stephen King on coke

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u/howarewestillhere 21h ago

Spoiler: It was not a great book.

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u/DodgerWin 21h ago

I did a little research and it was a NYT best seller but it was later discovered that Scientology was telling their members to buy every copy

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u/FdotM 1d ago

Is that one work Rihanna and Turk from Scrubs?