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?

Wish I'd walked out of Black Swan. Walked out of the filmed Bristol old vic production of Jane eyre. ( climbing frame set.) know am in a minority, but awful awful awful.

Not for years. I left at the interval during a play shown during Mayfest, the year Glasgow was year of culture and as a student the tickets were cheap as chips. We went to a performance of something pretty much every night (those were the days!) but this play was terrible, it was a Jacobean comedy that just wasn't funny at all. It got terrible reviews and we weren't the only people to walk out. Made up for by the millions of amazing other things we saw during Mayfest.

It was on DH's bucket list too Apocalypse. Doddy's running time averages about 4 hours so he is certainly value for money.

I always read all the reviews and research in detail so I'm never taken too much by surprise. The only thing I've ever walked out of was a Watch With Baby film where DD threw up all over me.

Walked out of Lovely Bones. About a little girl getting abducted and killed, and this creepy killer in his underground hideout. A very slow agonising film.

Only once. Straw Dogs.1971.The most gratuitous rape scene ever.

Oh!

I saw the advert for that Jane Eyre!

Thought it looked dreadful off the promo alone, good to know I dodged that bullet

Wish I'd walked out of Cats.

words I loved that production of JE but I know people who loathed it.

I left the recent Hugh Grant film where he plays a creepy old professor as it was pitifully bad.

Otherwise, like a PP, a Pinter play (of some title or other) which was so tediously self-regarding I ached for the release of death. We went on a spectacular bender and ended up being slung out of Madame Jojos.

Sorry.All rape scenes on film are gratuitous but I didn't know how to put it

Left a performance of Winter's Tale at the interval as it was shit. Went for a drink instead.

Also left an REM gig before it began. It was outdoors at Loch Lomond. The place was full of pissed up neds, it was freezing and starting to rain, there was a tree in front of the stage and the car parking was a mare. We gave up and went back to the hotel. I reckon we'd still be in that car park now if we hadn't.

Horrible Bosses. Hideous shit

which was so tediously self-regarding I ached for the release of death.

Amazing. Actual LOL and I think I've found my new favourite poster

More 'snuck' than walked, but me and dh left a cinema one because the film was soon boring. It had Tim Robbins in it, that's all I can remember.

And I did the 'stuck on a plane' equivalent when I watched 'PS I Love You' a few years ago. I stopped it half way through and still remember it as the worst piece of dirge ever.

soon, not soon.

I walked out of 3men in a boat, at the Theatre Royal in Bath. Dreadful waste of time.

OMG, autocorrect. Sooo

I wish I'd walked out of the film 'Les Miz'. It was such shite. I wanted to guillotine that weedy Eddy Redmaine and Amanda Seyfried just to get them to shut up. Dire. Too long, too.

I walked out of a film years ago, (Stanley Krubik - Eyes Wide Shut) - hideous, absolutely not my sort of thing, can't think why we ever decided to buy tickets to watch it - I fell asleep once watching a Shakespeare play at Stratford, a guy I really liked had invited me and I just wanted a date with him but it was soooooooooooooo boring .

Dh has just reminded me that we also snuck out of Titanic after we both caught each others eye and started giggling about how awful it was.

Walked out of Russell Kane. He was talking a lot about his wife's pregnancy. I was bought the tickets as a cheer me up present following a miscarriage and he was talking about the miracle of life and the fear and excitement of going for the scan. I had to leave. It was a shame - it was doing a good job until that point but scans are a sensitive subject for me. [sadface]

I walked out of Anchorman 2 because I was pregnant, horribly uncomfortable and just wasn't clicking with the jokes. Felt quite bad for my DH who was enjoying it but I just couldn't stand any more.

The only film I really wish I had walked out of was Saw. I was staying with a friend and we were out with people I didn't know. I knew nothing about the film before I went in. I was too socially unconfident to walk out so I kept my eyes closed and tried to block out the sound. It sounds pathetic but even doing that I found the experience very upsetting and had nightmares.

I walked out of Horrible Bosses. They were 'joking' about killing a peanut allergy sufferer by exposing him to peanut.

Too close to the bone as dd was recently diagnosed and I was stressing about keeping her safe at school.

Was a shite film too.

We walked out of Hijacking when they started killing a goat live on screen.

We made it through but found the cinema rather empty after Snowtown which was excellent but extremely graphic. Went to see Compliance at the London Film Festival and thought it was gratifying how many people walked out. That was a shit misogynist film even if a true story.