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

[EverySongbirdSays]

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?

Eurgh. Vom.

I walked out of Les Miserables (the play). The seats were very uncomfortable, I had been to a funeral that day and I was dead tired anyway.
I also walked out of a cinema many years ago when I was with a new boyfriend and knew going out with him was mistake when he started to put his arm around me (not proud of that but I told him very politely that I was going).

Matilda the musical is bloody brilliant. I don't know how anyone can think it's shite

Cats because it was atrocious.

Oliver because it was too hot.

Wanted to walk out of Mamma Mia the musical, but we had a guest with us, so couldn't. I thought the film was appalling, but it is like Citizen Kane compared with the stage show.

The English patient, my god it was long and dull!

We had to leave Seven Brides for Seven Brothers last year at the Outdoor Theatre at Regents Park but did so after it had been stopped for rain and DD was simply too exhausted to stay after a day at London Zoo, we were all a bit gutted as it was brilliant but the tube strike was on and it was going to take ages to get back to the hotel.

I love English Patient though

Cats is a bag of wank

We walked out in the interval of 'Jerry Springer The Opera'. The people sitting by us probably assumed we were disgusted at the profanity, when actually it was our first time in London or a show and when everyone got up we thought it was finished and went back to our hotel. We didn't find out there was another half til we saw it on tv

I walked out of Spirit of the Dance because it was the biggest pile of wank I'd ever seen. Some years before I just managed to get to the interval of Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of that Hayley Mills film about the Jesus in a barn. Can't remember the name. Shame because the Nationak Youth Theatre had done a brilliant version of it prior to that in the mid90s.

I wanted to walk out of Mama Mia. Awkwardly I couldn't because it was press night and I had a friend with me who wanted to see it. I looked around at the rest of the audience. They were loving it. It was if me and the other 2000 people had watched a different show.

Whistle Down The Wind

Awwww Gladys

I always think if you stick it out until the bitter end, if it really was absolutely shite you can look back and laugh about it, otherwise you really will never know if what you were watching be it a play or a movie didn't pick up pace.

I think sometimes it depends on your mood too. Some films take some time to warm up. If you're not in the zone, you might just write them off.

I remember taking dp to watch Avenue Q in London. He sat there, arms folded for about 10 minutes, completely out of his comfort zone. I thought I'd made a HUGE mistake taking him. He was in absolute stitches about 20 minutes in though and would go and see it again at the drop of a hat.

Thank you EverySongBird, that's the cocker

I looked around at the rest of the audience. They were loving it. It was if me and the other 2000 people had watched a different show.

Ugh. I had this with Mrs Brown's Boys about ten years ago. I'd gone with a gang from work the tickets were only a fiver which should have been a warning and watched them all howling with laughter while I wondered which fucking decade we had been transported to and when all these respected colleagues had had lobotomies.

I really should have cut my losses at the interval and pretended to be worried about trains home or something.

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.

That was its third incarnation. I've heard it was shit.

The staging was dreadful, and the spectacle of Jeff Wayne "conducting" a rock band was just cringeworthy.

I saw versions 1 & 2 at the NEC and they were great, you couldn't really see Jeff and the orchestra. Jeff overreached himself with the next two or three versions.

overthehill

I have to call BLASPHEMY on Wicked. It's my fave. I've been twice had tickets a third time and couldn't go as was ill.

Would go again.

The difference I think is I'd read the book, and I've got to say it makes so much more sense if you have. I noticed that on second watch. The book is great

I walked out of a Ken Dodd show. I lasted through 20 minutes of sexist jokes, diddy men and tickling sticks but finally drew the line at a cruise ship style entertainer playing the piano and leading the community singing. It was a glorious summer evening and the theatre was boiling hot and we decided to go and sit in a beer garden instead.

Thank God we left when we did - the show started at 7:30, we left at 7:50 and we found out later that the show actually finished at 12:45

I walked out of
Born on the 4th July as a teen

Never been able to watch those kind of films

I've left a 2 man experimental performance of The Tempest which was as dire as it sounds. I have no idea why I went in the first place.

I'm shocked that people didnt like Hot Fuzz. It's brilliant. 'The greater good'

A handful of people walked out of vagina monologues when I went to see that. I think it's fucking rude at the theatre when the people performing can clearly see/hear you doing it. Maybe not at a huge show but it probably had an audience of 50, it was quite intimate and very obvious when these groups of people waltzed out mid show.

The cinema isn't so bad but I do always think, crikey! You've wasted a good £9 on a ticket there. I went to see the last Bond movie at a drive in cinema and a couple of cars drove off. It was a bad film though tbf.

I walked out of Billy Ellott. Utter rubbish.

Woolly Ken Dodd is on my bucket list to see!

To this day I don't know why I didn't walk out of buena vista social club in cine original ( vaguely as it was subtitled) in stuttgart. The weather was shit but even so why did we not go to the pub???

Only thing I actually left early was Paddington - DD1 was distressed about Paddington's family dying.

A drive in in the UK Toddzoid?

How does that work, I've often wondered, I've only seen it on Grease

Do you literally watch it through your car windows?

I don't see the attraction?