{"id":345872,"date":"2025-08-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=394168"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:52:54","slug":"this-is-the-only-movie-that-has-made-stephen-king-leave-a-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-is-the-only-movie-that-has-made-stephen-king-leave-a-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the only movie that has made Stephen King leave a theater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen King, a recognized master of literary horror, has revealed that he left the cinema during the screening of &#8216;Transformers&#8217; in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a Twitter conversation that has now been deleted, the author mentioned that this is the only movie that made him leave early.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This confession came in response to a message from Linwood Barclay, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/steven-spielberg-prohibited-jurassic-world-dominion-from-having-any-direct-references-to-his-movies?ex=RAMP-3507.4&amp;rex=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"who also shared his experience of walking out of 'Jurassic World: Dominion'\">who also shared his experience of walking out of &#8216;Jurassic World: Dominion&#8217;<\/a>. The interaction has sparked a debate on social media about the movies that viewers choose to walk out of.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&#39;s only one movie Stephen King has ever walked out of, and it was directed by the maestro of Bayhem himself, Michael Bay. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IjvQx5mvil\">https:\/\/t.co\/IjvQx5mvil<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \/Film (@slashfilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slashfilm\/status\/1856396659980149186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Despite everything, a box office success<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite mixed reviews, &#8216;Transformers&#8217;, directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, <strong>grossed $709.7 million upon its release and has been part of a saga that has achieved over $5.288 billion in total. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historically, the abandonment of projections is not unusual, especially in genres like horror or those that contain explicit violence. However, there are occasions when viewers choose to leave simply because they find the movie unbearable or extremely boring.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Transformers | Official Trailer | Paramount Movies\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CbX_SIz_9fk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the case of King, despite his appreciation for adapting stories on screen, his experience with &#8216;Transformers&#8217; seems to have been enough for him to disconnect and leave cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ultimately, the &#8216;Transformers&#8217; saga has achieved notable box office success and popularity, although not all critics, including figures like King, believe there was quality in Bay&#8217;s cinematic proposal. This discrepancy between commercial success and critical reception highlights the different expectations that filmmakers and the audience have regarding what constitutes a good movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen King, recognized master of literary horror, has revealed that he left the cinema during the screening of &#8216;Transformers&#8217; in 2007. In a now-deleted conversation on Twitter, the author mentioned that this is the only movie that has made him leave early. This confession came in response to a message from Linwood Barclay, who also shared his experience of leaving &#8216;Jurassic World: Dominion&#8217;. The interaction has sparked a debate on social media about the movies that viewers choose to walk out of. Despite everything, a box office success Even though the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":345873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-345872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345879,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345872\/revisions\/345879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345872"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=345872"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=345872"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=345872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}