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Would you walk out of a film you hated?

117 replies

CormoranStrike · 21/10/2018 21:47

A couple sat near me in the cinema tonight were both on Facebook for most of the evening, and left at the closing credits muttering ‘that was fucking shite’.

Why didn’t they just leave? I couldn’t sit through something that was clearly boring me to death.

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Letshopeitsallok · 21/10/2018 22:10

Yes Godzilla.

Also slept through pretty much all of Frozen.

oopslateagain · 21/10/2018 22:10

Yes. Just did it last week with The Hate U Give, I thought it would be good but I hated the music and it was all teen angst for the first 15 minutes or so. Apparently it was really good so I kind of wished I'd stayed.

I can't stand people on their phones in the cinema, it's really bright and distracting if I can see a screen. Why do they do it?

Sugarsnappy · 21/10/2018 22:11

DaisyChainsForever Mr Bean the Movie is one of my favourites 

AcrossthePond55 · 21/10/2018 22:11

Certainly I would! My time is worth more to me than the price of the ticket! I may have wasted the money, but I'm certainly NOT going to waste my time!

Time40 · 21/10/2018 22:11

Yes, I've walked out of quite a few, and I've walked out of plays and concerts, too.

LuluJakey1 · 21/10/2018 22:12

I'd have a little doze until the end, although I have been known to leave Shakespeare plays early because I get so incredibly bored.

ShatnersBalloonFromPennywise · 21/10/2018 22:15

I've walked out of a couple of films, and didn't go back after the interval for a couple of plays. I slept through The Matrix and a Harry Potter film (possibly two of them).

AlpacaPicnic · 21/10/2018 22:15

I wish we'd walked out of American Hustle... I kept hoping it would get better!
In fact half way through the show there was a power cut and we sat in darkness for about fifteen minutes - I leaned over to dh and told him that if they couldn't fix it and offered us a refund, we would grab it and run and he agreed! Sadly, they fixed it so we sat through the rest and were mightily annoyed!

ShatnersBalloonFromPennywise · 21/10/2018 22:17

I wanted to leave American Hustle, but my friend really enjoyed it. I don't go to the cinema with her any more.

OnceUponATimeInAmerica · 21/10/2018 22:18

I want to know what film you were watching that they thought was shite?

Interview with the Vampire. At uni with a couple of friends. We went drinking instead.

Slept through the whole of Analyse This.

PawneeParksDept · 21/10/2018 22:18

I was forced to leave a film once as I went with a couple and they had a major tiff involving one storming out the other following and me needing a ride home!

I've never voluntarily walked but wanted to leave Training Day mentioned above but was with a friend and didn't want to just abandon them.

Same goes for a truly shite film that I can't even name in which Eva Longoria is a ghost if anyone knows it?

I have walked out of the theatre just the once The Commitments the musical. I love musicals so for me to get to an interval and think that was terrible and I have no desire to see the second half is a really big deal

MrsJayy · 21/10/2018 22:20

Dd was in a really angsty play a few years ago I didn't go back in after the interval but sshhh she will never know Blush

Nat6999 · 21/10/2018 22:21

Took DS to see Star Wars The Force Awakens, I'm not a Star Wars fan but he wanted to go to see it. After 15 minutes I was bored rigid, thankfully I had my headphones in my pocket, ear buds in, music on, brightness on phone turned down & I surfed while DS watched the film, he was happy & I wasn't bored rigid, we were lucky, cinema was quiet, hardly anyone in the screen we were in & nobody sat around us, I wasn't disturbing anyone .

BonnieF · 21/10/2018 22:23

I’ve walked out once, in 40 years. Star Wars Phantom Menace. Not just a kids film, a shit kids film.

Pericombobulations · 21/10/2018 22:25

Yes - Pink Floyd's the Wall - then bf kept telling me how it was the best film ever, I made the mistake of going with him to a screening and walked out - it sucked

safariboot · 21/10/2018 22:33

Once. Dance Flick. Utter trash, not remotely funny, truly the worst film I've had the misfortune to see any of.

MorvaanReed · 21/10/2018 22:37

I left Robocop 2. I was both bored and nauseated.

SoleBizzz · 21/10/2018 22:40

Yes a couple of times
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shins · 21/10/2018 22:51

Amelie.

What a pile of shite.

tectonicplates · 21/10/2018 22:53

How can anyone walk out on A Star Is Born?! I thought it was incredible.

I did walk out of a gig once as the band were shit.

Itis6oclocksomewhere · 21/10/2018 22:56

I walked out of La La Land. I tried as I really wanted to like it, but headed for the nearest bar instead.

vikingpooboat · 21/10/2018 22:57

Dunkirk and vanilla sky's borefest!

Skittlesandbeer · 21/10/2018 23:03

I have 2 cinema-buff friends who have a problem with this.

They are both single, and love film festivals and blockbusters equally. They automatically buy each other tickets, cinema passes, festival vouchers, etc. They go weekly at least, to the flicks together.

Only bugbear is that one is adamant that you sit through to the bitter end of a film you’re hating (or you don’t get to complain, or even say you saw x movie). The other one has a ‘Life’s too short’ attitude, and is off out of her seat after her ‘3 strikes you’re out’ policy kicks in.

They get a bit cross with each other, but I find it quite funny. Often Friend 2 will leave, buy another ticket to a different movie in the same complex and see that. Or sit in the nearest bar, on Facebook, with a cocktail, waiting for Friend 1.

They both feel equally justified in ‘critiquing’ the film to me.

I reckon it’s just one of those ‘there are two kinds of people in this world’ things. Personally, I’m with the ‘leave’ team. I’ve got little enough free time to be wasting it watching shite. But I admire the stalwarts!

allthegoodusernameshavegone · 21/10/2018 23:05

Yep, films and theatre too, life is too short. I really really wanted to walk out of my DN first school play but my DSIL made me stay, that’s 1.5 hours of my life I’ll never get back.

Dowser · 21/10/2018 23:18

Tectonicplates
The subject matter might have been triggering

I walked out of a play with Janet Ellis in ...was all swear words, fuck this, fuck that
Walked out and got my money back too