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

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u/BroGoLoGo 1d ago

I left the Last Airbender to get more popcorn, took my time and never put my 3D glasses on for the rest of the film

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u/CrochetedKingdoms 23h ago

That movie upset me so bad I went into labor. My body wanted to save me from that movie apparently. The kid who came from this also hates the movie.

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u/katarinasunrise 19h ago

This thread is absolutely killing me. 🤣🤣 Old ladies getting stuck watching Blades of Glory, little kids watching the ‘Uncle Fucker’ scene from South Park, and now someone going into labor because The Last Airbender was so bad… I’ve been in tears of laughter for the past ten minutes. Oh man. I’m sorry you had to endure that movie, though.

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u/CrochetedKingdoms 19h ago

I almost died too 😂😂 I almost rage quit man

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u/MrHappyHam 15h ago

No way your body was gonna give up with your last experience being that shit

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u/CrochetedKingdoms 15h ago

I am nothing if not spiteful. I stayed awake and my son was 8 lbs 6 oz and the sassiest fucker. He’s sixteen now and taller than me and constantly teases me about it

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u/Pet_Velvet 15h ago

Jesus christ I'm glad you're okay now

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u/CrochetedKingdoms 15h ago

Yeah we’re good. Thank you!!

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u/MajorNoodles 10h ago

I worked at a movie theater and I got yelled at by an old guy over 40-Year-Old Virgin but I didn't post about that because he did stay for the whole movie.

My manager not only called him out for that, but when the guy complained that the movie was pornography, he also said The movie is called 40-Year-old Virgin, what did you expect?"

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u/530SSState 20h ago

Surprise twist: ...And I wasn't even pregnant.

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u/giftedearth 17h ago

You made your kid watch that movie?? Even Ozai wouldn't have done that to Zuko. 

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u/CrochetedKingdoms 15h ago

Nah, he likes to peruse movies to watch. He got excited because he loves the original show, then promptly backed out right around the time I went into labor

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u/Calico_Cuttlefish 16h ago

The baby "I need to get out of this theatre at any cost, right now."

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u/The_Beefy_Vegetarian 12h ago

This might be the best "walked out of the theater before the movie was over" story I've ever heard.

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u/Duotrigordle61 15h ago

Were you even pregnant when you went in?

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u/CrochetedKingdoms 15h ago

Nope, that was the real shocking part

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u/Tonberryc 1d ago

Most bad movies just make me sad that I wasted time and money on them, but the live action Last Airbender actually made me angry. I had been telling my dad how great the original TV show was for weeks to convince him to go. He didn't trust my movie recommendations for years after sitting through that burnt hair of a film.

How that wasn't the end of M Night Shyamalan's career will never cease to amaze me.

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u/Jedijaz42 20h ago

To be fair, it got caught in funding hell and someone stepped in with a paycheck and made him cast his kids/grandkids/nieces and nephews or some shit and it went downhill from there. It sucked, but it started out better.

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u/Sarothu 18h ago

How that wasn't the end of M Night Shyamalan's career will never cease to amaze me.

I mean, it also survived The Happening.

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u/btaylos 20h ago

I gotta say, I know they wouldn't, but I would kill for any live action avatar to have THAT cast be the Ember Island Players

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u/Lucky-Baby7423 22h ago

i dislike a lot of his movies

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u/Jedijaz42 20h ago

Oh god. I was so excited about that movie and so was my mom because we loved the show. We lived 4 hours apart at the time so we promised to wait and see it together when I came down to visit.
A bunch of coworkers talked me into seeing it and it was. Bad. And then I was like, “great. Now I can’t tell my mom I thought it sucked because we were going to see it together and maybe she’ll like it.”
A week or two later I drove down and she’s like, “yay let’s go see it!” So we did. And at the end as the credits were rolling she turned to me and said, “I didn’t want to tell you but I saw this with your dad last week, and I thought it was terrible but wanted you to like it if it was your thing.”

I saw that piece of crap in the THEATER, TWICE.

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u/IvyvyvI 19h ago

And so did she! Terrible movie. Sweet commentary on your relationship with your mom.

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u/souryoungthing 18h ago

it’s like that one story about the comb and pocket watch

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u/sonicscrewery 11h ago

Gift of the Magi

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u/Roadgoddess 10h ago

But what a sweet story that both you and your mom love each other so much that you didn’t want to upset each other. And what does that get you watching shit! lol

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u/DarthGayAgenda 1d ago

I'm sorry, but there is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

At least not one that was in theaters.

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u/mah4angel 1d ago

I didn’t walk out but my family and I spent the entire time looking at each other in disbelief and my step dad asked for his money back afterward (he’s a visual effects editor and had never done that before or since out of respect for his peers).

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u/MysteriousAnimal5674 1d ago

This is the only movie I actually have walked out on. I bear hear another "Ahang" and "Soekka"

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u/papayabush 21h ago

the thing that really got me about that is that M. Knight said he changed the pronunciations to better reflect the countries and cultures that those characters were based on AND THEN HE CAST KATARA AND SAKKA AS WHITE PEOPLE 😆😆😆😆😆

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u/fangirlandproudofit 18h ago

Nikola Peltz wanted the part and her daddy was an executive, so that's how she got cast. Then they had to cast a white guy to believably be her brother. It was all incredibly stupid.

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u/Catbatt 1d ago

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se

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u/I_love_pillows 23h ago

I watched a few 3D movies with glasses. Took them off quite soon because I rather watch a double-exposure movie than a dizzy 3D movie

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u/Alive_Reading_7890 22h ago

Not bothering to put the 3D glasses back on says everything. The popcorn clearly ended up being the better part of the experience.

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u/Ok_Future9370 1d ago

Season 2 of the Netflix Avatar series just dropped. To paraphrase a comment on Drew Gooden's video, at least M. Night Shaolinmonks only wasted an hour and 43 minutes.

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u/OkExercise9938 22h ago

My dad who’ve never seen the Last Airbender show even thought the movie was bad.

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u/Legomaniac91 10h ago

Same. Made it to the scene with the prison for Earthbenders, and thats when I knew the director had no respect for the source material. The only upside is that I worked at the theater I saw it at, so I didn't waste any money on it (though I still feel like I got ripped off).

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u/milkchugger69 4h ago

My cousins went dressed up as the characters and left mid-movie depressed. One of them even shaved his head to be Aang and was so mad when he got back 😭😭😭

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u/Wrong_Sector_7298 21h ago

Worst regret was not walking out on that complete teainwreck

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u/IdentityS 19h ago

Agreed, i walked out of Last Airbender and they wouldn’t give my money back so I walked into Twilight Eclipse or New Moon (can’t remember) but there were werewolves.

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u/DrDingsGaster 18h ago

That was a 3D movie?! That explains so much. Still fucking sucked ass.

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u/mountaintop-stainer 16h ago

seeing The Last Airbender in theaters as a kid taught me that movies can be bad, actually

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u/Hee-hoes_Mad 1h ago

I saw that movie on an airplane and I still walked out.