Ever walked out of a film at the cinema or slept through it?

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When I was younger I remember walking out of the film 24 days later, it was actually quite a good film, but I was young, had smoked a joint and got totally paranoid and freaked out by it!
I also walked out of The exorcist, just a lot of goddamn awful noise and screaming.
I fell asleep through The matrix 😂and Dh fell asleep during one of the later Bridget jones films
Anyone else?

Onlyhereforthecomments · Today 03:48
Fell asleep during a Harry Potter film & during a brass band concert in a theatre that I taken my elderley parents to.”

We took our then 4 year old to a classical music concert (not torturing her, she wanted to go 😁). Towards the end, she nodded off, to be woken at the end by the applause around her. She sat bolt upright, looked about and immediately joined in the clapping. A very sweet memory.

I am terrible for falling asleep in the cinema. I fall asleep during most of the films I watch with the kids. One time particular that sticks in my mind is when I went to watch a James Bond film, I drifted and woke to find my head resting on a random man sat next to me

Just got home from the theatre - excellent play
I did drift off for a few minutes - friend slept for at least half an hour, and snored audibly.
Didn't admit to it when I asked if she'd enjoyed the play😁

it was very warm in the theatre, and we'd eaten a really carby meal before hand.

I hardly ever sleep in cinemas, but always, always in theatres and concerts. I've come to accept it and know that if I just give in and snooze for about ten minutes, then I'll be fine for the rest of the play/concert/opera. Giving in and accepting is much more effective than trying to fight it. I don't know why it happens for live performances and not for films, maybe because the sound is more pervasive in cinemas. But dark, warm, comfy seats are a deadly soporific combo.

I would have walked out of 'Wall Street' but I was in the exact middle of a very, very long row, I'd have had to push past at least twenty people. And I would have wanted to fall asleep in the middle of a very, very dull and pretentious Eric Rohmer film, but I couldn't, so I just had to be as bored as it is humanly possible for one person to be.

@BFE, thank you for granting the gift of the phrase 'stoned as a badger'. I will treasure it always.

There must be something about Evita (Madonna movie). It was garbage, but I did manage to stay awake, however, the guy in the row in front of us slept with his head completely back resting in my friends lap for the whole move, and there were other people asleep too. Terrible.

I loved Evita, have seen the film several times, love the soundtrack and also saw it in the West End. I recall people walking out of the cinema though. I think they didn't realise it was a musical and were waiting for the actors to speak! Have never walked out or fallen asleep in anything but remember being bored to tears by Superman, not my cup of tea at all!

I loved Evita. I still have the soundtrack on CD.

I walked out of the first Lord Of The Rings film. Good grief, it was so boring and I didn't give a shit who got the ring. Nome of the characters were relatable and I couldn't invest even a cell of my brain into any of them. I sat in the bar instead.

I also left about 20 minutes into Waking Life. I love Richard Linklater and I'm a complete film snob, but this was too pretentious even for a knob like me.

I wanted to walk out of Alien Resurrection, but the cinema was rammed and I would have had to squeeze past my ex and his girlfriend who were seated at the far end of the aisle (very small town), so I tried to work out how many seconds I had left to live if I live an average life span and what percentage of those seconds I had wasted sitting watching this utter shite.

I saw the first Lord of the rings on a wet afternoon in NZ when it first came out. Front row was mums and babies in carriers (I’d never seen that before) and they were remarkably quiet (maybe they were bored too!).

The remake of Dune. H and DS2 left about halfway through. DS1 and I managed till about half an hour before the end. God it was tedious. I did watch the end on now tv, and I'll probably watch the second film on there as well, so I can fast forward it.

I went to see Message in a Bottle last night. It was absolutely mesmerising.
I nodded off because I'm so tired. It was only for a few minutes. There wasn't an interval so I couldn't have a caffeine shot to sort me out.
I do need to prioritise sleep more, I think.

I fell asleep in Manchester by the sea, not realising that I'd slept for over half an hour. I had no sympathy for the lead character ( played by Casey Affleck) and was surprised that the people I was with were very understanding about him. I saw it again on my own and completely got it. I also fell asleep in Donnie Darko and, when it was over, wondered why it was such a short film. I saw it again on my own and realised it was longer and much more complicated than I'd thought.

I walked out of Barbie. Total crap

Yes with Star Wars lol

The Langoliers was a great novella but a terrible film.

It was very faithful to the story, right down to chunks of dialogue which oddly never seems to work. Lines said in a book always sound ok but the same lines in a film always sound ridiculously clunky.

Of course the fact that the acting was dire didn’t help. Or is it that even the best actors can’t act if the dialogue is terrible? Who knows.

The box trolls bord me stiff.
Transporter I could not take the cringe of hard man act.
Barbie load of rubbish.
Les miserables I lasted a whole 30 minutes.
And loads more.

Cars 3
The Moshi Monster movie
At least 2 of the smurf films 😀

I have fallen asleep during Les Mis, Hamilton and The Greatest Showman when they were on streaming, I also had to really force myself to go back after the interval of Phantom, it was so hot up in the gods and my drink was so cool, standing outside! I'm not a musicals fan.
I walked out of Unforgiven many years ago, I went and sat in a pub while OH watched it.

When we were visiting my late MIL we were discussing what to go and see, the film Shampoo was mentioned and she went crazy, 'No child of mine is going to see that filth!' (We were about 30 at the time)
Apparently she and friend had been into town, had a cheap pensioners lunch and the gone to the cinema, pensioners prices, and they were disgusted with Shampoo! When we asked how long they'd stayed she said 'We'd paid to go in so we stayed to the end'. Bless a Yorkshire woman!

I've slept through many films, mostly the superhero type ones

I fell asleep in the cinema, the most recent Batman with Robert Pattinson... in my defence I did have a 4 month old DD at the time who didn't sleep 🙈😂

Benjamin Button sent me fast asleep and La La Land was snoozed through ….

Was hot and claustrophobic watching that Amber Heard/Johnny Depp one so I shut my eyes and managed to sleep through most of it.

Tarantino's Dusk Till Dawn - once the zombies appeared it went to shite and I walked out with my friend.

Leaving Las Vegas- I normally like gritty but this was such a dirge that my friend and I walked out.

Lord of the Rings. So long and dull. I slept for a bit then woke up and it still went on forever.

The Hangover 2- utter dross. Left and went to pub.

Chris Nolan films seem to have this low deep hum soundtrack which puts me to sleep almost instantly like a hypnotist snapping their fingers.

Walked out of Reservoir dogs - just too violent for me.

I can’t sleep at all in places like cinemas or planes etc so I haven’t ever slept through a film, but I kept doing those two-second micro sleeps through Brokeback Mountain. You know the ones where you drift off and then come back to consciousness with a big jolt/ jump.

Such a dull film with such a lot of mumbling.