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

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?

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!

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 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!).

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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..

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Fatgran57, yes we’re all so different, I’ve seen Phantom on stage 3 times plus watched film on tv loads and read the book. I listen to the music and it makes me cry!

Ellianne - snap! we also walked out of Aida

We have walked out of several plays/operas/movies over the years. Life is too short to be bored to death.

I don't enjoy shows very much.
Too 'showy' for me.
I've seen Joseph, we will rock you and some others, but I would rather have been at home.

Yes, a couple of years ago I went to see Aiden Turner in a play called The Lieutenant of Inishmore in London. I loved him in Poldark and stupidly booked it when it was first announced without reading anything about it. It was absolutely dreadful. It was about the IRA and had scenes with torture and also featured a dead cat which people seemed to find hilarious. It was one of those occasions when you look at people around you laughing like drains and think 'am I in a parallel universe' - I couldn't wait to get out. I also started watching 'Hamilton' on my daughter's Disney plus channel and turned it off after half an hour. So very glad I didn't pay through the nose to see it in the West End - couldn't understand a word they sang (there is no speaking) so if you don't know anything about American history, you're mystified. One film I wished I'd walked out of is The Favourite - totally bonkers and with a horrendous clanging soundtrack that gave me a headache.

My daughter, my mum, and me went to see Take That at the height of their popularity, and there was a woman next to us with a face like thunder, with a bit of tissue stuffed in each ear.

My friend and I went to see the Exorcist in our early 20's, much against the wishes of our parents. We lasted until her head began to spin (the girl being exorcised, not my friend) then beat a hasty retreat. There were staff in the foyer checking that early leavers were OK. It ended up with them calling my Dad to come and get us. All he advised was that we never told my Mum where we'd been! I never did!

My mother told me that I cried my eyes out at 'Bambi' and she had to take me out. Then a couple of years later I cried at 'Lassie Come Home'.

More recently a friend and I paid a lot of money for some opera tickets, thinking we needed some culture, and started watching 'Il Trovatore'. We didn't understand a word of it, (in Italian), nor could we follow the story. We scived the last Act!

I don't remember walking out,but I have definitely fallen asleep at the cinema.Many moons ago,not long married,my husband was a journalist and had to do a critique of James Bond films at a midnight matinee.I really dislike James Bond films at the best of times,but this was ideal for six hours of sleep(only woke

up for the ice-cream)

I was taken out of Pinocchio in floods as a child, not Bambi. When the whale swallowed them I got in such a state my poor mum had to take me home.

My Dad walked us all out mid Jimmy Tarbuck inthe70s he was dire but when he started doing an all Scots are mean set we left along with half the audience all Scots on their Glasgow Fair holiday at an English resort

I walked out during Jim Davidson stand up show in Windsor, he spent the first 10 mins swearing and insulting the audience (who had paid good money to come and see him) disgusting!
I left the cinema during one of the Oceans 11 films, jumping back and forth in time, got so confused! Also The interpreter, was too confusing for my little brain. I went to the red carpet premiere of Inception met all the big stars, Tom Hardy, leo diCaprio, Cillian Murphy, (my name is...) Michael Caine, but should have taken a notepad as I could not follow it at all and was dreading all the celeb sycophants asking me what I thought as they were raving non stop about it afterwards. I also went to see Whitesnake play Hammersmith pally, David Coverdale had a cold, so it was a karaoke concert where the band played the music and expected the crowd to sing it themselves. There was nearly a riot in the lobby as hoards of people were leaving and VERY angry. They should have cancelled the gig, you come to hear him sing it, not expect to sing it yourself!

Three times in total, the last being 2018. I think it was called Nativity. Hugh Dennis was in it and it was dire. We three girls decided in the interval we would rather go for cocktails, so we did

Early 60s went to see a show in London with Jimmy Edwards and Eric Sykes, can’t remember the name. They thought they were both hilarious and ad libbed constantly and pathetically. Left in the interval. Left a Ken Dodd show before the end as it was so hot in the theatre but heard later he went on until about 2am. Could have walked out of a stage show of Cats but stayed to see if it improved. It didn’t.

Went to some music concert back in the late 90s or early 2000s, it was so bad/immemorable that I can't even remember who was on stage, I do know there were meant to be 5 or 6 famous groups/solo artists but the NEC Arena was full of parents who'd taken their 5-10yr old kids to show them the artists of their own childhoods. There were kids running around, jumping up and down on the seats, the music wasn't that great either (I seem to remember a couple of the listed artists had been changed at the last minute).
I think I lasted about 20mins and walked out. At least I beat the rush to get out of the car park!

Blondie ...sound was absolute rubbish and after checking that Debbie Harris as as lovely as she looked on TV, we were off.