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Would you walk out of a film you hated?

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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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Bloodybridget · 21/10/2018 23:23

Yes. I walked out of The Wind that Shakes the Barley after about ten minutes. I wish I'd never walked into it (shudder).

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 21/10/2018 23:24

Got up and started to walk out of Titanic

Then it hit the iceberg and improved slightly

Auntpetunia2015 · 21/10/2018 23:30

Yeah ghostbusters the original back in the 80s

Maltropp · 21/10/2018 23:32

Yes. 4 weddings and a funeral.... Emotive, mawkish tosh....

KeepServingTheDrinks · 21/10/2018 23:33

I would theoretically, but don't think I ever actually have.

I'm stunned by some of the films PP list above, though...

Schindler's List - thought it was one of the best films I've ever seen in terms of the story, the cast, the acting, the photography. I thought it was stunning and have seen it several times.

American Hustle was my favourite film of the year the year I saw it. Don't know if I live near you, AlpacaPicnic but we had a power-cut too that also lasted about 15 minutes. I seem to remember fire engines being called.

And Kill Bill? What's not to like!

shins · 21/10/2018 23:33

Bloodybridget I switched that off too. The main characters are called Damian and Sinead. In 1921!!!!Hmm

TheSageofOnions · 21/10/2018 23:48

I left Close Encounters of the Third Kind. If it's shite - cut your losses.

Witchend · 21/10/2018 23:51

I wouldn't-not at the price they charge here! Grin

Sardinesandparsnips · 21/10/2018 23:55

Moulin rouge. Awful. I'd gone on my own so just thought ' I won't get this time back' and got my coat.

Now I watch films at home so if I don't like it, I can turn off with ease and not have wasted time, money, or annoyed anyone by trying to sneak out:)

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 21/10/2018 23:57

We went to see "Hugo" on DS Birthday ( he still reminds me that I made him sit through it Grin )

The previews looked good, the cast was good
The plot line was a struggle to actually care
Massive great....................................pauses between dialogue . They could've cut the film by an hour .
2 hours and 6 minutes of my life - gone

DD and I went to the toilet and were "This is the worst film EVER "

We debated if we should go back but DH would wonder where we were .

FissionChips · 22/10/2018 00:00

King Kong and a film about a man and woman treading water in the ocean for 40+mins. Received a refund both times.

mermaidsandunicorns · 22/10/2018 02:24

I walked out of Lincoln it was just awful and I couldn't hear anything that was being said

HerRoyalNotness · 22/10/2018 03:31

70isa. I walked out of Hugo with the 2 DC, we were 30mins from the end and just could not take anymore!! Grin

I have walked out of another, can’t remember which. Nowadays if it’s with the kids I take a nap

Bloodybridget · 22/10/2018 03:31

shins I'm not sure if I even registered their names - it was the appalling torture scene that drove me out.

SusieQ5604 · 22/10/2018 03:35

Yes j walked out of les miserables movie and Chicago play. Shoulda walked out of Mamma Mia and woulda walked out of Mother but friend I was with had no ride home.

Graphista · 22/10/2018 03:50

Yep!

Shattered - AWFUL "psychological thriller with Tom berenger & greta scachi (weird one - I think she's a good actress but she's crap at picking good films to be in!)

Dd and I lasted 15 mins of "where the wild things are" SO boring

"Dh and i left Identity" 😱 one of our favourite films!

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

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

Star Wars films? 😱😱 philistines the lot of you! 😂😂😂

This is one of the reasons I LOVE streaming! Don't like it? Dead easy to turn it off watch something else that you've already watched a million times and know the script verbatim but love

SerendipityFelix · 22/10/2018 03:57

When I’m by myself, absolutely. With DP, he won’t do it. I wanted to leave during Hereditary, and mother! (almost persuaded him with mother! which just shows how awful the experience was). Not a bad shout to go and have a drink and wait for the other person though. I might pre-warm him of that option so we don’t get into a whispered debate next time.

(Having said that mother! is an awful experience, then reading after we saw it that is supposed to be allegory and comment upon the state of the world etc, I did then order the Blu-ray to give it a rewatch at some point, in light of that. Going in expecting a standard storytelling type film just leads to you sitting in the cinema questioning what the hell is happening and why are you wasting your life watching it.)

Peanutbutterjar · 22/10/2018 04:00

Eyes wide shut, terrible film

Marti pellow. Terrible live

MarcieBluebell · 22/10/2018 04:06

'Sardines' I love moulin rouge but is better in the comfort of your own home.

I no longer go to the cinema as there are just too many shit films.

alwayscrashinginthesamecar1 · 22/10/2018 04:49

What's wrong with people being called Damian and Sinead in the 1921 @shins? I quite enjoyed the Wind that Shakes the Barley.

I usually have a nap if a film is shite, but Jurrassic Park 2 was just too bad, so we legged it to the bar. Although not as bad as Space Chimps 2 which gets a magnificent 2.8 on imdb. Which is about 2.7 too high!

FrogsPornPuddle · 22/10/2018 04:51

Films I have walked out of:

Evita
The English patient
Transformers
Lost in translation

Limpshade · 22/10/2018 05:23

Never a film, but I once walked out of a play. It had five star reviews from all the broadsheets and was about a middle-class drug addict. Supposed to be ground-breaking, would change people's perceptions of what an addict looks like in the modern age, yadda yadda. I was lucky to get a ticket - the entire run was practically sold out. It was so overcooked. The mother character was like a pantomime version of a middle class white woman, banging on about her Aga and Farrow & Ball paints. I snapped and left when she came onstage for one scene carrying a Waitrose tote.

borntobequiet · 22/10/2018 05:34

I walked out of I think it might have been Measure for Measure at Stratford once because the actors looked so smug and the costumes were so stupid.

CountFosco · 22/10/2018 05:43

Walked out of a very stylised performance of a Jacobean play way back in the 90s. Walking out of a (not very full) theatre feels much ruder than walking out of the cinema.

Not that I think I ever have walked out of the cinema. I'm more likely to fall asleep, last time I did that was when I took DD1 to see Lego Batman: The Movie. Mumbly shite.

shins · 22/10/2018 07:14

@alwayscrashinginthesamecar1 it's ludicrously anachronistic as both of those names were virtually unheard of in Ireland til the 1960s. It'd be like Downton Abbey having characters called Madison and Shaznay.