Have you ever walked out of a cinema/theatre half way through a show?

Never walked out of a stage show but we did walk out of Che! at the cinema. It starred Omar Sharif as Che and Jack Palance as Castro, and the dialogue was excruciating. We were passionate young socialists and just couldn't sit through this shambles. It has been listed as one of "The Worst Fifty Films Ever Made." However, The Motorcycle Diaries, also about Che, was very good.

I wanted to walk out of Straw Dogs because I found it so upsetting, but I didn't want to make the people I was with feel that they had to leave too. I was in tears by the time it ended.

I have never managed to sleep at the cinema, though I would gladly have dozed through the Care Bear and My Little Pony horrors. I have, however, slept through every Jurassic Park film on TV. Similarly, I have never seen any of the Star Wars films all the way through.

les Mis after 15 minutes, Cats, others in the past I can’t remember now. I can’t stand racism, bullying and extreme violence which rules out a lot. Cats was frankly weird in an unpleasant way as well as boring. Les Mis tickets were very expensive I remember going to a special cinema. I enjoyed the fish and chips I had after though.

I walked out of a Blondie concert about 10/15 years ago. It was actually a good concert, but I must have been having a massive hot sweat and started to feel ill with the heat, felt panicky and trapped and it was so loud! I thought my head would explode! I spent more than half of the concert in the bar area, watching it on the small screens in the bar. I couldn’t cope with it and didn’t want to risk going back in. I’ve been to lots of concerts before and since, so it was a bit of a one off. DH carried on watching it from his concert seat - he did come to find out if I was ok though (at the interval probably). He’s never let me forget it (in a jokey way) whenever a Blondie record comes on the radio.

Straw Dogs in 1971.
Both my boyfriend (now DH) and I were sickened by the vicious and gratuitous rape scene.

A few years ago some friends and I went to see Jethro on stage
He was so racist that it was embarrassing. We left before the interval.

I have never actually walked out but twice I didn't return after the interval. The first time was a Shakespeare play done in modern army uniforms on scaffolding which I just couldn't follow. And I can't remember the second one.
I nearly fell asleep in Cats but blamed it on having had a busy day in work!

I must be too mean to actually leave a theatre or cinema but often fall asleep. It's dark, warm and I have probably just had a lovely lunch or supper so... I nod off!

Have vehemently disliked Cats, Mama Mia and Phantom of the Opera when I have stayed awake long enough. Everyone is obviously different and thank goodness that we don't all enjoy the same things.

Metra and Annifrance, another Bambi-sobber here. I can vividly remember crying and was taken outside, where I continued to blabber. Poor poor Bambi! I am not sure even now, years later, if I have recovered. Poor poor Bambi... (and mummy, too!).

NB
I just checked and Bambi was re-released here in 1957. I remember being much much younger so my memory is obvious incorrect; I must have been a blubberer (is there such a word?!) at a much-older age, so not quite as cute! How innocent we were then..

BlueBelle

Oh just thought of another I didn’t walk out but was bored out of my head with The Mousetrap

I haven’t seen it, not an Agatha Christie fan but it beats me why it’s been playing to packed houses for over thirty years pre COVID.

I also found The Mousetrap boring. Before curtain up the audience were asked to keep the name of the murderer a secret and not divulge it to anyone. I found the play so tedious I fell asleep so I never found out who the culprit was!

I didn't walk out as it was a family outing but,I really didn't like- (don't know how I feel about admitting this in public, as everyone else I've spoken to absolutely raves about it) here goes-WARHORSE,!!!! the tech stuff was good but found the story predictable and boring, I do hope there may be someone else out there who feels the same. Please?

Two years ago DH booked tickets to see the Dick and Angel Strawbridge's live show in Newcastle. We quite liked them on the telly and were interested to hear more of their life in their French chateau. Unfortunately it really wasn't very interesting and it got to the interval with hardly a mention of their life in France. The audience seemed to hang on their every word and were clearly super-fans - we weren't so decided it was time to leave. On the way out someone with a clip board at the door asked us why we were leaving!
We've never watched one of their telly programmes again.

My friends and I left a theatrical performance at Richmond theatre at the first interval. Glenda Jackson was starring. I can't remember the name of the play, but it was just one long monotonous drone.

Moulin Rouge, with Nicole Kidman, Titanic, Porgie & Bess and I wished I’d walked out of Dunkirk, Kenneth Branagh ( hopelessly unconvincing).

Walked out of an Alan Bennett play called Kafka's Dick. Just couldn't make head nor tale of it. Also left an amateur 'songs form the shows' concert an old boss was in, it was awful but had to pretend It was really enjoyable, good job I'd bought a programme so we could discuss it the net day.
I didn't like the film The Greatest Showman got bored,, but I loved the show of the same story Barnum, that was spectacular,

Kim19
I walked out of Shampoo and also Performance with Mick Jagger.

ex and I were highly recommended La Cage aux Folles. At the interval without saying anything we both picked up.our coats and walked out! Dennis Quaid was not in it that night, so I don't know if he would have made a difference.

We also walked out of a much hyped production of Aida at Olympia. the auditorium was vast, the seats had not been banked so we couldn't see the stage and the music was drowned by the Tube rumbling underneath. There was a near riot at the box office, and we did eventually get out money back.

My mother had to take me out of Bambi aged about 7, it upset me so.much.

I've never done it, even though I've felt like it. I just sit there with my mind elsewhere, thinking about my shopping list or something. I was at a one about N.Ireland, where I'm from, and we knew the bad language was expected in this show before we went, but the amount of shocked people walking out was amazing as they must not of heard about the play. The theatre looked half empty after the interval.

Mamma Mia about 18 months ago. We were surrounded by drunken women screaming and singing along completely drowning out the cast and the complete show.

My late husband and I were in Austria in the 1980’s on a skiing holiday. The local cinema had a US film we loved so went in after dinner one night. Watched German trailers/ads then the feature film started...in German. It wasn’t the US film on that day and we spoke no German so after 10 mins we pushed our way out. People were shocked and told us off in no uncertain terms plus the door steward wouldn’t let us out. We had a very odd conversation before the door opened. They didn’t give us our money back and we never went to a foreign cinema again.

Never have, mainly because I'm with other people. I've only been to one comedy show - Bill Bailey - and loved it. At musicals or theatre productions, if I get bored I find myself focussing on the costumes or the lives of the actors, or mentally planning my schedule for the next day or two...or counting how many calories I've eaten that day!

Yes, 'We Will Rock You" which we went to London to see. Money-making tedium. Fortunately we have good local theatres, when they are open again, which are fortunately not quite so hung up on the proliferation of musicals. I have fallen asleep in another London production but it was my fault, I was tired and it was dark!

I left a Motorhead gig back in the 70's. They were about an hour and a half late for the stage, started the first song about 4 times, each time walking off stage whilst the crew worked on broken guitar strings, sound issues, etc. Two songs in (I use the term loosely) we left as we'd had enough and had a train to catch.
I left a Cliff Richard's gig when he got to all his religious stuff. If I want preachy songs, I'll attend a church. Having to sit through ASWAD whilst we waited for Cliff was penance enough.
We went to see a Muse Gig at the cinema a few years ago and the sound was terrible. I left and went shopping in Tescos whilst the boys stayed.
Finally, we stayed up really late at a Butlins music weekend, Giants of Rock, to see Hawkwind who we had seen in the 70's and had really enjoyed. We couldn't believe that we had ever enjoyed their music, it was absolutely dire and so we went to bed. So disappointing.

A couple of very awful amateur dramatic things which we just sneaked away at the interval.
Then a couple of years ago we went to see a Queen tribute act the music started up sounded great the beat was really going people were really cheering and then the lead singer started singing he was Spanish or Italian and his English was abysmal.
We sat through "I went to breek free"
and "onder press- shure"
before deciding that we couldn't bear to hear dear Freddie Mercury spinning in his grave any longer and we left.

A friend treated us to tickets for 'Heathcliff', with Cliff Richard in the leading role. Cliff seems a pleasant, decent person and I don't dislike his singing, but casting him as Heathcliff seemed an exercise of hope over talent. DH and I kept casting agonised glances at each other as the show ploughed on, but did not dare get up and slide out at half time as our friends, who bought the tickets, seemed to be enjoying every moment. We would have done though, had we been sufficiently bold!

LauraNorder

Orlin and I in our teens walked out of Women in Love cos I was embarrassed at the ‘exposure of their dangly bits’ during the fight.
Have seen it since and laughed at myself. The innocence of youth in those days.

I remember going to see Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle. This was before it became well known and was in the small "studio" section of the theatre. The acting was done on the floor with all the seats around it at the same height. We were on the front row and the devil character was standing directly in front of me, about 2 feet away, for the nude scene. My eyes were exactly at "dangly bits" level. I had no idea where to look!!