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

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Eviebeanz Tue 16-Feb-21 08:42:30

I loved The Serpent. Left the cinema very early on during the showing of Ali.

grandmajet Tue 16-Feb-21 08:41:35

Bluebelle, I thought it was just us who disliked Cats! We stayed because it was so expensive. I felt it was a bit like The King’s New Clothes, no one dared say they hated it!
I did actually fall asleep in Skyfall.

Beauregard Tue 16-Feb-21 08:41:25

I wish we'd walked out after ten minutes of Evita with Madonna, but we stuck it out to the bitter end. Two hours of our lives we'll never get back.

fatgran57 Tue 16-Feb-21 08:41:05

Yes - Phantom of the Opera in the West End in London and Les Miserables in Hobart Tasmania - found them both tedious and left at half time.

grandmajet Tue 16-Feb-21 08:39:16

Oh I loved both of those GagaJo! Although Watership Down makes me cry.
Just shows how different we all are.
I know what you mean Calendargirl - but sometimes .....
I do wonder if films/programmes we give up on on tv would actually prove to be good if we’d paid for them and felt we should stick it out longer. I nearly gave up on The Serpent, glad I didn’t.

BlueBelle Tue 16-Feb-21 08:36:16

Twice I came so close but hung on
First time because I went with friends and didn’t want to be an embarrassment and that was to ‘Mr Turner’ I was bored to the point of longing to nod off, when we got outside afterwards it appears all four of us wanted to walk out and everyone stayed on for the others ?
Second time I was on my own and that was to the ‘Greatest Showman’, I disliked every minute of it but kept thinking it had to improve ...in my eyes it didn’t
Totally blanked out in Cats on stage as I found that totally boring and dull and just not meaningful to me but I was with the grandkids having a big treat going to the theatre so I did the ‘big pretend’

GagaJo Tue 16-Feb-21 08:32:50

I walked out of Watership Down with a friend as a teenager. I would have stayed, but she wanted to go. Also Moulin Rouge, with Nicole Kidman. Visually stunning, but I really disliked the film.

Calendargirl Tue 16-Feb-21 08:23:02

No, too mean. Would sit it out to the bitter end.

Sara1954 Tue 16-Feb-21 08:22:20

Last Tango in Paris, didn’t really get it.

grandmajet Tue 16-Feb-21 08:12:04

I’ve done it twice. The first time was David Bowies’s film, The Man Who Fell to Earth. What a load of tosh! More recently we left Ben Elton’s stand up show at half time. I was disappointed as I used to like him and loved his books but he seemed to have turned into a bitter, unpleasant person and it was not fun to listen to him.
Anyone else done this, and why?