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

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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 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?

Blanche

I wanted to walk out of the stage show Matilda due to a combination of it being shit and the family in front giving their kids ipads to play on the whole way through

Only once, Robocop 2, can't remember specifically why it was crap, just that it was.

Came close while watching Highlander 2.

I was talked into both films by the same person, I knew there was a reason we don't see each other anymore.

Someone walked out of Billy Elliot. That musical is brilliant and I've seen it three times

DH and I walked out of the film American Hustle. It was utter shite. We went to the pub instead.

Although, I have walked out of a comedian's very small gig at a Christmas do aso did the party I was with. He was telling racist and sexist jokes non stop and picking on random members of the audience and saying horrible things about them.

I didn't feel bad about that one.

I haven't walked out of anything because I'm also a "I've paid for this so I'm going to see it through to the bitter end" sort of person - but if I could have got out of my seat (went with friends, sat in the middle of them) when we went to see The Beach with Leo di Caprio, I might have done so. Annoyed the fuck out of me.

When I went to see Silence of the Lambs, a couple left halfway through that. Not even at a particularly 'orrible bit, either!

But I don't go to see films that I don't think I'll like, or that I'm not sure about - I get them on video or watch them on the plane when I go back to the UK, that sort of thing. Then I have choice and control! So I gave up on Les Mis after half an hour (SO dreary and soul-destroying, just couldn't be doing with it) and The Revenant was just too bloody violent and gory, so that only lasted 15 mins. I don't watch horror movies because they're really not my thing, I have far too graphic an imagination and the pictures stay with me, come back into my dreams etc.

I have fallen asleep in a couple of things though - Good Morning Vietnam, for e.g.
DH fell asleep in Ray, but I quite liked that. He wishes he'd walked out of Solaris, but was there with a friend of mine (I was working) and neither of them knew the other well enough to say "this is shit, fancy a beer instead?"

Matilda is shit?! Confucius

I've wanted to see it for an absolute age!

I'm doing cursed child this year so that's my West End Quota but was going for 2017. Though the news that Hamilton is coming has swayed that.

I just fall asleep instead of walking out.
I've fallen asleep in many films. (Long and boring films ex boyfriend wanted to see).

I even fell asleep during phantom of the opera on Broadway. To be fair I had been up since 6am that day.

I walked out of Meet The Parents after 40 minutes. It was absolute shite.

We walked out of something about Mary, owing to it being pathetically shit and unfunny. It was made worse by the whole cinema being in rapturous hysterics. Just wanted to punch everyone.

I know the rest f the world thinks it is hilarious but honestly, it really isn't!

You thought Matilda the musical was "shit" ?

Several years ago I went to see the movie "Blindness" starring Julianne Moore and a significant portion of the audience walked out at the point in the story where the women are being raped. I wanted to as well but my jerk of dh wouldn't leave with me (now ex-dh as it happens). It was a very upsetting and all too realistic scene and I will never watch it again.

I'm not sure which cast members you mean,Apostophes, but when I saw it, there was David Essex, Jimmy Nail, Daniel Bedingfield, et al.

It wasn't their fault it was shit.

The staging was dreadful, and the spectacle of Jeff Wayne "conducting" a rock band was just cringeworthy. (The strings group probably would have done just as well without him, too.)

Yes. It's dire as is the new version of Miss Saigon and I also loathed Chicago (probably the casts fault on all of them, Ruthie Henshall was in Chicago and I can't stand her)

OP - yes, that's the one. Siege of Stalingrad, Jude Law as a Russian sniper.

I don't do well with snipers. I can cope with violence but not malice. There's an awful lot of malice in the film, to do with breaking the siege by manipulating civilian morale; also some historically accurate Final Solution stuff.

It was also kind of my specialist subject at the time, because I was doing a Modern German History paper as part of my (then) MML degree. So I knew what was coming and had the background validating all the horrible bits that usually make your brain go "oh but of course that's not real". Same happened when I watched Boy In The Striped Pyjamas though mercifully at home.

I watch Game of Thrones on delay so I can ff through the malicious bits though standard blood and guts doesn't bother me.

I also went on a date to see Hard Candy can't believe others have too!

I like enemy at the gates, it's a good film

Well I loved Matilda

I also loved Miss Saigon though not Ellen's new song. The new version was a much grittier interpretation with the Engineer being a much nastier, sleazier character rather than a loveable rogue.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Savoy, left in the interval. Great set, great costumes, pathetic school boy jokes. Some of audience screaming with laughter, we weren't!
It was, years ago, apparently, a great film. The theatre version came later to my home town and I felt like going to the box office and warning people. AIBU??

Miss Saigon was the IT ticket at one time - I did hear it had not "aged well"

I turned off There's Something About Mary - it's disgusting frankly, but that was at home. When I finally saw it I remembered a friend saying how hilarious it was. I thought less of her as a result.

I walked out of The Wall (the really shite Pink Floyd film) hated Pink Floyd before and really hated them afterwards. Have turned off DVD's of things like Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Wished I had walked out of "About Time" which is co-incidentally on TV tonight, its only good until the Wedding and afterwards I just wanted it to end.

Every I love the way you jumped to the conclusion that the people who left did so because they were shocked/offended/prudish and wrong for being so and not realising what the content of the play would be before seeing it instead of the more likely alternative that they just didn't enjoy it,/didn't find it funny/were bored/thought the acting was shit.

Every re "...surely if something states upfront what it's about you don't hoik your bosoms and get professionally offended and make for the exit?"

Of course you do! if something is offensive or unpleasant you certainly do. They've already got your money, why should they have your time as well.

I walked out of the Unusual Suspects and Shallow Grave. They were billed as comedy and I don't like my comedy violent. Yes, I know Shallow Grave should have given me a clue but here are comedies that involved death, that are not violent and unpleasant.