I just walked out of a movie for the first time ever.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

It was hurting my head just reading the op this morning, did you get the sense other audience members around you were about to die rolling their eyes as well?

Either way, you clearly made the right call... yeeesh

I was really curious if we were the only people who walked out, or if we emboldened others to do so. Maybe I'm projecting my own tastes, but I can't see how anyone would have enjoyed it. It was just staring at a non-moving screen while annoying sounds played, and it went on interminably. Who would find that interesting?

We were sitting in the front and the entry was near the screen, so it was mercifully a short walk to get out. I couldn't see how others were doing, but I could tell that the couple next to me were bored, because they were doing surreptitious thumb-wrestling or something below the level of the seat backs.

If the director chased me down to yell at me, my diplomatic plan was to say that I have trouble with flashing lights, and that's true. They issued a warning as it started that flashing lights would be happening, and I wasn't happy to hear that.