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

We left the touring production of Quartet at the interval as we felt the cast were simply going through the motions. I had been so looking forward to seeing Paul Nicholas etc it was a real letdown.

We Will Rock You (and I love Queen)

Stones in Their Pockets

Blood Diamond

Another film I would have walked out of was
District 9. It was the biggest load of tosh I've ever seen but DH loved it.

Lala land! We too! Why oh why did it win so many awards?! Emperor's new clothes and the luvvies colluding methinks

Pirates of the Caribbean - hadn't a clue what was going on. Also my first time in a cinema when my mother took me to see Bambi and I cried so much when Bambi's mother died that we had to leave.

I’d wanted for ages to see ‘Tuppence to cross the Mersey’ as I’d read the book. DH bought tickets for our anniversary and I was ecstatic. Half way break I didn’t have the heart to tell him I wanted to go home.

Went to see cats (theatre). Couldn’t understand all the hype. Thought it was awful. Wanted to leave but I was with a group of workmates and didn’t want to be the odd one out.

Did walk out on Johnny Cash though. Thought we were going to see an enactment of his life story but instead we got a man (dressed in black), talking his way through 3 hours of JC’s life story with the odd song on his guitar. Left after an hour.

No, if I've paid my money, then I'm sitting right through it, good or bad!

Yes, I left at the Interval of We Will Rock You, I thought it would be just up my street but didn't enjoy it at all and was very disappointed.

I left the cinema halfway through 'Deliverance' because it's a horrible film. I was a student then, must've been 1972. I'm 69 years old but I still wouldn't watch it. Perhaps it's more of a man's film...

No. As, who knows if by staying on until the end of the show he might had improved. Plus the cost paid for your ticket I would want every penny's worth. Its a different world right now booking any Stage show as it's not even been decided on when theatres will re-open up again. Yes, used to love Ben Elton as a stand-up in his younger days + then his books. Such a nice guy. Think though he's had personal issues/struggling with IVF I read once but think now he has twins ? But if dealing with personal issues he should not be touring. Maybe he is just Not funny anymore + your opinion of him is only good from his earlier days.

Mum and I walked out of Royal Tennenbaums. As we stood up the women behind us said ‘thank goodness it’s finished ‘ and followed us out. I once stood up after 15 minutes of a dreadful play and announced ‘I have a migraine. Let me out’

Dream Girls at the Savoy Theatre in London only three years ago. Loud, screechy, deafening and predictable. (Mind you, now I’m so theatre-deprived I would probably love it!)

3 times all plays. Stones in your pockets a one man show! TOMMY pinball wizard with Kim Wilde and a modern Sweeney Todd with Jason Donovan. My then boss went to see the Sweeny Todd one the day after and phoned me up from a pub next door to have a go for not warning him. He left his wife and mother in law in the theatre and spent the time in the bar.

Yes, but I can’t remember the name of the play. It had very graphic scenes of a woman giving birth - really distasteful, and certainly not entertainment.

Twice. Once in Malvern where Jane Horrocks completely ruined a Shakespeare play and once during the interval of a very peculiar ballet where the dancers walked around picking up and putting down apples!

Yes, I slept through most of the first half of Cats and left for the second half and as for the Lion King , well I really don’t understand why people love it, I thought it was rubbish so I walked at half time!

glammanana

I have never walked out of a cinema but have fallen asleep quite often after 10 minutes.

Me too, usually doing my good Grandma act by taking them to various things like Beauty and the Beast, vey good for insomnia.

My friend and I have spent years going to the theatre, ballet, cinema etc but I've never liked musicals and only went to please her. Eventually I told her I didn't like them so after that she'd go to them with another friend. After a couple if years she asked me to go to Les Mis. She'd seen it twice before and assured me that even though I didn't like musicals I'd love Les Mis. What an endless dirge, I had to fight to keep my eyes open. I always thought the first half of any musical was awful but they usually perk up in the second half so you leave thinking it was good! I too gated Cats, a,though the set was impressive. Starlight Express was actually quite enjoyable and the Lion King was fantastic, but both if those are really for children and we'd taken our son as birthday treats.
Love ballet but the same friend and I went to see Sleeping Beauty performed by the Vienna Ballet Company and were stifling giggles all through it. It was very amateurish with the dancers wobbling about and looking as if they might fall over.
At least we were entertained.
And finally don't get me started on some if the stuff at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. We live nearby and used to go regularly to afternoon matinees as they were cheap, but some of the productions were just awful, especially the comedies.
However, I've never actually walked out before the end.

I wish I had had the courage to walk out of Annie and nothing would ever get me to sit through all that screeching again. I did walk out of a Songs from the Shows production, my DH bought me tickets for my birthday for some unknown reasons as he should know by now that that is a genre I don’t like, the male lead ‘singer’ was just awful and I refused to go back for the 2nd half.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

ollibeak You made me spray my coffee - still laughing! ?

Yes - my daughter (early twenties) and I went to the cinema in the Kings Road in Chelsea to watch a Shakespeare play being filmed and broadcast live from a theatre. It was absolutely dreadful, lost a lot in the transmission and I said, shall we make a dash for it? And we did.

NanKate

When we were first married we went to see the film of Canterbury Tales. I was almost 9 ninths pregnant and just managed to squeeze into the seat in the middle of the row.

The film began and we realised this was in fact a film called ‘The Other Canterbury Tales’ which was a sexed up interpretation, we hated it and I had to push my large bump along the full row to get out. As we did so we saw our neighbours ?.

We often laugh about it now and suspect we wouldn’t be at all shocked if we saw it again.

I recall going to see the Canterbury Tales at the Leeds PLayhouse, during one of the (many) bawdy scenes an entire row stood up and walked out, it was a school party accompanied by their Nuns! What they expected the CTs to be I don't know.

Many years about 40 years, watching a Magician/Hypnotist, he hypnotised two men and made them do degrading things like acting like dogs? I felt embarrassed for them!

Decades ago I walked out of The Devils (Oliver Reed). I coped with some of the more gruesome scenes (with nuns) by closing my eyes, and nearly got to the end. The burning got to me, I could smell the flesh. I think it was very near the end. My then bf didn’t leave with me!

I pay good money to go to the theatre or a concert, and if I don't enjoy it, I leave at the interval.

I have also left an opera early, not because I wasn't enjoying it, but because I just could not stop coughing. I didn't think it fair to the others in the audience, or to the performers to stay.