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Have you ever walked out of the theatre or cinema? Why?

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EverySongbirdSays · 05/06/2016 15:02

I was at the theatre last night. The play was 16+ and clearly stated it contained swearing and sexual references in its advertising and BOY did it. The people next to us walked out after the umpteenth wank joke and I was like Shock I've never seen that happen before. And surely if something states upfront what it's about you don't hoik your bosoms and get professionally offended and make for the exit?

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Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 07/06/2016 02:22

I took my DD to see High School Musical 3
And I fell asleep. I've never been so bored in all of my life.

CreepingDogFart · 07/06/2016 06:04

I walked out of the Bourne Supremacy or one of those films anyway, with a friend, because we didn't realise it was part of a series AND it was boring as shit.

I walked out of the Spiderwick Chronicles because my nephew was terrified. So we then hung around and waited for Horton Hears a Who.

SpaceDinosaur · 07/06/2016 17:31

First thing I ever walked out on was Saw4

I'd never seen any of the Saw movies. I don't cope well with horror, I don't know why I was there!!!

I have never walked out on a play. I act. It affects you.

I've "tuned out" of some god awful live performances however and accepted refunds when the show has had "technical difficulties" (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!) 😂

Flatbellyfella · 07/06/2016 19:04

My brother & his wife walked out, along with many others at a Tom Jones concert, because he was just shouting his songs, rather than singing in the voice he had years ago. Lots of the old timers are way past their sell by date.

imwithspud · 07/06/2016 19:06

Walked out of a film called The Shaggy Dog as a teen. We just found it boring. Never done it since.

NorbertDentressangle · 07/06/2016 19:12

In my first year of uni a group of us from halls of residence went to see a film at the not The Moulin Rouge cinema in Oxford (the one with can-can legs sticking out of the front, opposite the house with a shark in the roof).

Can't remember the film but it was some arty bollocks put on for fresher students who were no doubt trying to be cool and trendy yet intellectual at the same time (ie. the likes of us Grin) .

Anyway it was dire so we walked out , went to the pub and had a thoroughly enjoyable evening there instead.

10tinycrabs · 07/06/2016 19:24

National Treasure I with Diane Kruger and Niclas Cage.

I could not bare it, it was naff, boring, naff, boring, naff.....

See for yourself

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DerelictMyBalls · 07/06/2016 19:27

Top Cat - DS asked if we could leave and go to the swings. So relieved!

10tinycrabs · 07/06/2016 20:22

*bear Blush

Wordsaremything · 08/06/2016 02:21

Thanks, pp , for validating me re Jane eyre. Rank. Left my mate there too. Couldn't bear it. Empero's new clothes syndrome.

ForalltheSaints · 09/06/2016 17:32

Never. I did go to a play once which was rubbish to be honest, and about half the 50 or so audience did not return for the second half.

Hippywannabe · 09/06/2016 22:27

Recently went to see Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in Plymouth, two old ladies lasted about 30 minutes before rising up dramatically and stomping out.
I would love to know what they thought they were going to see.
It was brilliant, bythe way!

HumptyDumptyBumpty · 10/06/2016 08:50

A few: King Lear at the RST in Stratford (or whatever the acronym is) - it was awful. The fool had a West Indian accent (assumed, I think), which made him incomprehensible, it was so thick. The rest of the cast were in jeans. There was no set. I'd read the play, so knew what was happening, but there were points when I thought I'd missed whole acts, it was so bizarrely unlike Shakespeare.

Pearl Harbour. Just no.

A production of Pelleas and Mellisande, while at Uni. It was dire. It didn't help that I hadn't realised there would be only recitative, no arias. I was bored witless.

DH walked out of a production of Turandot.

Which makes us sound like v cultural types. We aren't. Last time I went to the cinema it was to watch Avengers.

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SandyMumsnet · 16/06/2016 09:26

Hi Everyone,
Just sweeping this great thread into films. OP please do shout if this is a problem for you. Flowers

BasinHaircut · 16/06/2016 09:32

I walked out of Frankie Boyle when he made his joke about Harvey Price.

Id only seen him on TV before and didn't realise how vile he would be in his stand up routine.

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EverySongbirdSays · 16/06/2016 16:59

No problem, Sandy,

Basin good for you like you I thought Frankie funny based off mock the week and he still does do the occasional great tweet but I was lulled into a false sense of security with him. Watched a Netflix of his. 90% rape and sexual abuse "jokes" and he's a very intelligent man, he's better than that. I think it's like a contest a self loathing thing to see how vile he can be. I turned it off.

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BasinHaircut · 16/06/2016 19:17

EverySong it was only about 5 minutes into the show and I'd already had enough before he made that 'joke', it tipped me over the edge and I just hit up and walked out. I text DH and told him I was across the road in the pub and he followed me in the interval. He said it didn't get any better. He also said I wasn't the only one who left.

We've turned him off every time he has come on the TV since. Even if I see a funny tweet of his I just can't laugh at it because of how disgusted I was with him in that moment.

Thankfully you don't seem to see so much of him now and I hope his career suffered because of that incident.

JustDanceAddict · 19/06/2016 11:29

I've fallen asleep in films (Jackie Brownto name one) but cba to walk out!

JustDanceAddict · 19/06/2016 11:36

Matilda def no shit btw for anyone planning to
See it. Not sure what people expect when they go to theatre/films sometimes. I certainly wouldn't be paying for London theatre unless I really wanted to see a particular show and heard good reviews.

whattheseithakasmean · 19/06/2016 11:40

I walked out of a Stranglers gig - they encouraged girls from the audience to get up on stage and strip during the set. It just seemed so objectifying & degrading, I walked out.

I have left Wagners ring cycle during the interval - there was only so much I could take.

BoatyMcBoat · 19/06/2016 12:55

Blush I really enjoyed Jackie Brown (starring Pam Grier - that one?) and also the Ring Cycle BlushBlushGrin

Footle · 19/06/2016 13:33

The Constant Gardener. I had to go out and throw up because of the way the handheld camera made everything lurch around.

roundtable · 19/06/2016 14:55

Oh God, I watched The Constant Gardener on a first date.

I had no idea what it was about beforehand but had to say goodnight and go home afterwards as I was so upset.

trickleupeffect · 19/06/2016 19:13

Walked out of a particularly dire stage production of The Hobbit (big fantasy fans). Dh and I looked at each other in the interval, went out for some fresh air and just kept walking.
Should have walked out of Jimmy Carr, boring + paedophile jokes, only stayed because paying for sitter.
Uncle hasn't been to the cinema since the Seventies when he walked out of a showing of Jaws. I love Jaws.
Saw Sarah Millican recently, wouldn't have walked out if theatre had been on actual fire. Very funny.

elh1605 · 19/06/2016 20:13

I've seen people walk out of Les Miserables😮😮 That I don't get! I've been lucky and never not enjoyed anything at the theatre. The only thing that's come close is Mary Popping but purely because of the freaky clown😲