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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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VulcanWoman · 05/06/2016 15:22

Wished I'd walked out of A River Runs Through It.

Ineedmorelemonpledge · 05/06/2016 15:23

Yes I walked out during Hannah & Her Sisters.

Woody Allen never really was my cup of tea.

These days I just settle back and go to sleep.

I think the seats are far comfier these days. Blush

MrsHathaway · 05/06/2016 15:23

I walked out of Enemy At The Gates (film) because it was just too realistic and grim. I made my friend stay because he was enjoying it. When he came out and described what had gone on to happen, I was glad I'd missed it. I have a photographic memory so the memory of Dave's telling me the plot in a cafe is much less distressing than it would have been on screen!

Bolograph · 05/06/2016 15:24

I've left concerts by popular beat combos and major orchestras, operas, films, seminars and lectures, all sorts of stuff. It's incredibly empowering. You've spent the money anyway, so it doesn't matter whether you stay or not, and if you're not enjoying it, the pub or the telly at home or an early night is preferable to getting annoyed.

Thankfulforeveryday · 05/06/2016 15:26

I left during thriller the musical, it was a bit shit and Michael Jackson was played by a girl with long blonde hair in high heels for half of it Confused

Tattieboggle · 05/06/2016 15:27

I walked out of Billy Elliot. It was awful. The violence, the language, the hatred. I just couldn't watch it.

But a few weeks ago I went to see The Book of Mormon and it was fabulous.

stupidgreatgrinonmyface · 05/06/2016 15:27

About 100 Years dh and I walked out of a film. We had been so looking forward to it, liked other films the director had made, but we're so disappointed.
A couple of years ago we were given tickets for a local play written by someone whose work we like. The play was great but the acting was dire and we left at the interval. Even staying that long was a feat of endurance.

Tattieboggle · 05/06/2016 15:30

plus it's only 2 hours max out of your life

Im not sure what that has to do with things.

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EverySongbirdSays · 05/06/2016 15:32

Trivial - I'm like you, I need to see it through if I've paid. At least if I have seen it all I can thoroughly criticise. The only film that tempted me was Training day. Can't describe why, just made me very uncomfortable it was so unpleasant.

Enemy At The Gates?? Is that the Rachel Weisz film? I saw it with my Dad and I can't remember a thing about it Hathaway other than "war film, barbed wire" plot nothing Jude Law was in it? That's about it

Billy Elliott show of film Tattie?

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Charliej86 · 05/06/2016 15:32

I've walked out of a theatre version of beauty & the beast, was too adult for my kids to enjoy.
I walked out of saw 3d, it made me feel ill.
And left a Rihanna concert.

ScarletForYa · 05/06/2016 15:34

I walked out of a film called August Rush before. It was all breathy whispering and lip wibbling. It didn't seem to be about anything.

Endured about twenty minutes of it but had to go.

FuzzyWizard · 05/06/2016 15:35

I've never walked out of anything. When I went to see inherent vice at least four different couples walked out. It's the only time I've ever seen that happen. I've seen the odd person walk out but never multiple groups of people in one, fairly quiet screening. Not sure what the issue was but I really liked the film.

VulcanWoman · 05/06/2016 15:37

I thought August Rush was good, saw it on tele.

penguinplease · 05/06/2016 15:37

I walked out of a Jimmy Carr show once.. Even knowing and accepting he can be a bit shock factor with his jokes we didn't expect 45 mins on various sex with children jokes. It wasn't funny just deeply unsettling and we weren't the only ones to leave.

JuniDD · 05/06/2016 15:38

I nearly walked out of I am Legend but my boyfriend would have come with me so in stayed for him. Relentlessly grim and upsetting. Though payback for me making him watch Hard Candy on our second date and him hating every second !

expatinscotland · 05/06/2016 15:39

I've walked out of several films because they were shit. And then went to another cinema in the row of them and watched something else.

I went to see Blair Witch Project at a dollar cinema. I ate a pack of Rolos and drained a Mountain Dew before it started. After 5 minutes of that camera rolling around, I thought I was going to be sick and left.

I walked out of Titanic because it was shite.

FuzzyWizard · 05/06/2016 15:39

I was tempted to walk out of 'despite the falling snow' though. I saw a bit of a trailer that made it look like a tense Cold War spy movie but it turned out to be a Danielle Steele type melodrama. It wasn't a long movie though, even if it felt long, and I managed to get to the end.

OurBlanche · 05/06/2016 15:40

Hell, I walked out on I am Legend... DH followed me... it was only when we hit the kitchen that we remembered we were at home and could just switch the bloody thing off Smile

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EverySongbirdSays · 05/06/2016 15:41

Hard Candy - BOLD CHOICE for a date film!

I would walk out in those circumstances penguin - it's perhaps part of the reason I don't really go to stand up.

Too much "shock value" jokes

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JAPABimtheonewhoknocks · 05/06/2016 15:41

I walked out of The Phantom Menace because I was very tired and it wasn't helping to keep me awake.

I was once at a screening of Crash (the David Cronenberg one) and several times throughout the film a group of people walked out.

TrivialBlah · 05/06/2016 15:41

Tattie, I get annoyed at people who don't give things a chance. I think I was referring to a post which stated life's too short.

I have one friend who 5 minutes into a film will say whether they like it or not and turn it off if they don't, never to watch it again. I'm someone who will watch something to the bitter end, even if it ends up totally shite. I will give things a chance, even if I'm proved wrong.

ApocalypseSlough · 05/06/2016 15:42

Bolo Grin @ popular beat combos- I say that hilariously when discussing music with my DC.
I've heckled and walked out of fringe stand up comedy and once embarrassingly at the 'entertainment' at a works do.

roundtable · 05/06/2016 15:43

I watched a terrible version of Metamorphosis at the Edinburgh Festival. I was mortified for the actors - it was toe curling how awful the acting, staging, lighting, well everything was really.

It was a tiny theatre and people were walking out left, right and centre. I felt terrible for them. The group I was with stayed until the end bit we were about the only ones. We saw the cast crying in the toilets in the interval and felt so sorry for them.

I couldn't walk out of a theatre while people were performing. I would for a film though.

Goingtobeawesome · 05/06/2016 15:43

We went to see Bugsy Malone recently. We really should have walked out.

It was terrible but what was very shocking were the adults in the audience calling out to their children on stage. If they want to be treated as professional actors then act it. And waving to loads of family members is not it.

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