What play or movie do you remember walking out on?

Miss Saigon. Not at the intermission but right after Bui Doi (which I think is the first number in Act II). There was something so fucking cynical about using photos of real life tragedy to puff up that stupid-ass soap opera, I just couldn't take any more.

Sex and the City 2. I knew the movie had no reason for being other than a cash grab. It was like a commercial for vapid nothingness. (The first one at least tried to tell a story and advance the characters’ lives).

Michael Patrick King forgot that some sense of reality helps a good story make. Dizzy queen.

I like her movies! I don’t think I’ve ever walked out of a movie, though I’ve fallen asleep at plenty, including almost every Marvel movie I’ve been dragged to.

Stigmata, when I was in my late teens.

Too many to count. I'm a great walker outer. I have a very low tolerance for boredom...and why should I remember them if I walked out after 10 - 15 minutes?

Actually one of the last ones I walked out on that I do remember was that Emma Thompson film about the Mary Poppins writer.

I have sat through some truly awful movies, but walked out on only two.

Natural Born Killers. Maybe it was the theater's sound system, or maybe we were sitting too close to the screen, but I started feeling disoriented and nauseous. I was fine a minute after leaving.

The English Patient. Count me in with Elaine Bennis – that shit was so boring. An hour in, I thought more than two hours had passed. Then I realized there was another hour and a half, so I left.

One of those horror remakes 15 or so years ago. It was either The Fog or Prom Night. Not a scare, interesting character, or piece of atmosphere in sight.

Movies: Throw Momma From The Train. Had no urge to watch a movie where I wanted to throw EVERYBODY from the train.

Plays: A student production of "Hair" years ago (my boyfriend's friends were in it), where "interactive" became "aggressive". If I wanted to be hit, I'd sign up for a boxing class. If I wanted to be smacked at the top of a staircase, I'd sign up for...fuck, I don't know, a 1940s melodrama? Dynasty?

I saw a really bad production of Avenue Q a few years ago only because a few of my friends were in it and I had to leave at intermission. I'm not sure if that show is usually that insufferable, but this production sure was. When asked where I went, I had to make up an excuse.

Jurassic Park. It wasn't that I didn't like the movie, but the theater had their brand spanking new Dolby system turned up to an 11 for that movie and I couldn't take it.

Saw it at a different theater later.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, hated it

The Village

One, ever: "Time Bandits."

In 2000, I walked out of a Boston production of "Taller Than a Dwarf" with Matthew Broderick and Parker Posey. I like both of them, but this production was terrible.

I also walked out of some horrible musical put on by the Speakeasy Stage Company in Boston.

Six Days and Seven Nights. It was just Harrison Ford and Anne Heche shouting at each other--they had no chemistry.

I'll never forget the review of Six Days and Seven Nights in which the critic said Ford climbing atop Heche looked like a bum scrambling for change on a sidewalk.

[Quote]but the theater had their brand spanking new Dolby system turned up to an 11 for that movie and I couldn't take it.

I always bring a set of the spongy ear plugs with me. Movie theaters are always too loud, imo.

A. Jolie's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. We just looked at each and without a word, up and out. Her tits looked so ridiculous.

I was so bored/confused by 'The Ninth Gate' starring Johnny Depp that I remember giving up after 20 or 30 minutes and falling asleep. My date that evening was not amused!

Years later I tried to give it another go and lasted even less than the 20 minutes I originally had. It was just as shitty as I remembered.

Strange Days with Juliette Lewis and Ralph Fiennes. Some dreary mess about virtual reality.

Born on the Fourth of July.

Cats- a Chicago production in the 90s.

Star Wars. Everyone in the theatre but me lit up a joint. I hate the smell, and knew I'd only be miserable, so I left. I didn't see it until 1998.

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Brazil

[quote] Born on the Fourth of July.

Didn't leave but detested it.

I walked out of a press screening of “Platoon.” Too violent.

And I walked out of two Public Theatre Shakespeare productions in Central Park: “Hamlet” with Sam Waterston, and “Othello” with Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss. Waterston had no idea what he was doing. Julia had all the passion of a piece of cardboard, and Dreyfuss played Iago like Snidely Whiplash.

My older brother used to say that the Public did good productions of lesser Shakespeare, and bad productions of great Shakespeare. Too true in both cases.

No regrets.

R22. I’d rather see a production of CHICAGO starring a cast of cats!

The Russia House with Michelle Pfeiffer and Sean Connery. The story never resolves, plot points are glossed over or not fully revealed. Three-quarters of the way through the movie, people in the theater were loudly complaining, WTF is going on? Just not good. The only time I think I walked out of a theater.

I had forgotten about The Village, but it was truly terrible and embarrassing for M. Night.

A Wilma Theatre production of Three Penny Opera in Philadelphia. Unwatchable.

Some modern English language opera that the Opera Co. of Philadelphia did as part of its main stage series some years ago. Ugh.

Show - Broadway production of Les Mis. Movie - Eviita

Into the woods – most boring shit I’ve ever seen

Shakespeare at the Delacorte has always been tough to sit through. In fact Shakespeare in general is agony to sit through. It's like opera sung by mediocre or bad singers. It's better to read. Your brain is better at conjuring up how it should sound.

The one exception for me was Plummer in Othello. The play should have been called Iago.

R30 I was just about to post that one! I think I knew it was a musical going into it but I didnt know they were going to obnoxiously sing EVERY line of dialogue. That sing songy shit had me irate within 20 minutes.

[quote] Into the woods – most boring shit I’ve ever seen

You are a rube.

R30, I sort of hate to ask it, but do you have a basket?

Color Purple on Broadway - meh, had to leave to catch flight. Pirates of Caribbean movie - Depp's performance & bored us to death

R30 agreed - yawn

[quote] I sort of hate to ask it, but do you have a basket?

LITERAL VIOLENCE!

RENT in 1999 (musical in Dallas) - Homophobic.

SIN CITY in 2005 - Disgusting.

How is “Rent” homophobic R38? (I have only seen the film).

Gay men die of AIDS. Lesbians and straight people get a magical cure.

Thus, homophobic.

I almost walked out on the Broadway show "Stomp" but somehow managed to tough it out. I'm not sure what I expected prior to attending but it's literally 2 hours of homeless bums stomping the floors, banging on buckets & tapping crackpipes against the wall.

No dialogue. No story-line. No score. No entertainment. I have no idea how this "show" was such a success?

Le Miz ca. 1990

People like loud. Probably because decades of noise pollution has harmed their hearing.

"The Last Five Years."

We said it felt like it had lasted five years by the time we got to the intermission. And then we left.

Eat Pray Love w/ Julia Roberts

Also walked out of Hedwig & The Angry Inch

The play of Hedwig when it played on the lower west side in a dive was fabulous.

I went outside to smoke at least four times during Lethal Weapon 4 - I smoked multiple cigarettes each time.

I friend begged me to go see Stuart Saves His Family with her. I went out for a cigarette during that one, and didn't go back in. She wasn't pleased to see me after the movie ended, and I was waiting outside the theatre for her.

The Allergist’s Wife.

Walked out of Brazil as well.

The only movie I've ever walked out of was THE THIN RED LINE. I couldn't take the constant voice-overs and random editing any longer. I'm usually not one for war movies, but it was nominated for Best Picture and I had enjoyed SAVING PRIVATE RYAN several months earlier.

"Venus" with Peter O' Toole. I lasted about 15 minutes before the May/December romance got a little too gross. Also the Korean horror film "I Saw the Devil".

Sex and the City 2. And I was on a plane!

American Psycho is the only movie I’ve ever walked out on. The book remains one of my favorites, but the movie was complete shit...really disappointing.

Star Wars 7 or something with Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. I was thinking Carrie sure wasn't allowed to write her own - or anyones - lines.

Play: Some "new work" piece that wasn't good in the first act but in the 2nd act it quickly devolved into some 9/11 conspiracy bullshit nonsense so I got up and left.

Movies: I actually bailed on the Coen Brothers' Hail Caesar after about 20 minutes which is odd because I like the Coen Brothers but the movie really irritated me.

I wish I had bailed on the Jonathan Demme movie "Something Wild" with Melanie Griffith. I liked the first 2/3 then it veered into this very violent bullshit with Ray Liotta and I HATED it.

The ending of "The Mist" STILL makes me want to travel back in time so I could have avoided its cruel awfulness.

Play: Three Sisters in the 90s. Jeanne Tripplehorn, Amy Irving, Lili Taylor, Billy Crudup, David Straithairn, Eric Stoltz...it was painful. Left at intermission.

Movie: Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein. Terrible. My friends wanted to stay so I sat in the lobby until they were done.

JFK -- it was too damn long and I had to catch a bus home.

I wish I could have left during Hedwig. I found it so disappointing and I was bored. Apparently there was a gay couple having sex next to my friend and me. I must have been so bored that I didn't notice. My friends think it's the best movie ever and I say nothing when the subject comes up.

I wish I could have walked out on Sex and the City 2 but it's one of those fascinating trainwrecks that you can't look away from. SJP's delusions as a movie lead, Cynthia and Kristen in that scene that defines white privilege and poor Kim Cattrall trying to salvage some dignity.

Here are a few for me:

* Watchmen, the movie. Just thought it was a bore (I was also not the only one to walk out).

* The revival of "Pal Joey" on Broadway with Stockard Channing.

* A play staged by Tony Randall's National Actors Theater, off-Broadway. I only left because the seat was so tiny and I just couldn't take being scrunched up like that for another hour or more.

* Some godawful play off-Broadway with Shirley Knight about people on an island where strange things were happening. Couldn't get out of there fast enough.

R55, I agree about The Mist, and the fact that the nasty, cruel ending was set to a song and beautiful as The Host of Seraphim just made it worse.

A question for the DL panel (just out of curiosity): when you go see a play you don't like and want to leave, will you do so if you're close enough to the stage that the actors could see you getting up and walking out? Or do you prefer to wait until intermission so they won't see you?

R46 Yes, absolutely! The movie was nearly unwatchable.

I went to see De La Guarda with a buddy in some dump in downtown NYC. When they started practically hosing us down, I hightailed it out of there. I was fishing pieces of glued on confetti and stuff from my jacket, hair, clothes for days. Yeah, I knew it was "interactive" and avant garde, but it was winter and we were soaked.

In high school, I walked out of 'Hannibal' because I was too scared of Anthony Hopkins, and the Mason Verger character made me sick to my stomach. I've come to appreciate the film since then, however.

"The Evil Dead" - despite loving Bruce Campbell otherwise.

R56 i walked out on Kenneth's Henry V. Couldn't understand a bloody word that was said. For some reason i got irritated with the Deer Hunter and walked out. most recently i wanted to walk out on Knives Out, but my friend wanted to stay

I left at the intermission of " The Prom," because I was tired of seeing shows and being lectured to ( I had just seen King Kong and Slave Play). I also left at the intermission of the touring company of "Dream Girls," not because of the show, but because the sound was so bad, I heard no dialogue and only heard the overamplified bass guitar during the songs.

The Greatest Story Ever Told.

They lied, it wasn't.

Fell asleep during Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Fucking stupid film.

Walked out of Miss Congeniality 2. Couldn't take the awfulness anymore.

I had to sit through a movie my friend made. It was one of the worst films I've seen. The main character kept wanting to kill himself and it took all I could to not yell out, "Fucking DO IT!"

Oh and Hamilton almost lost me in the first act when the characters sit around rapping and doing the beat shit with their mouths. I already had doubts because I fucking hate Rap "music" but by the end, I enjoyed it. Still don't see why most loved it. Some of the numbers were annoying as hell and LMM was the weakest of the entire cast.

'Merrily we roll along' at The Library Theatre in Manchester, UK.

The cast we're doing their best (a couple have won Olivier Awards since) but it has to be one of the most boring things I've ever seen.

I did wait until the interval though, coward that I am.....

Alpha Dog. Not that it was bad, it was just so disturbing and distressing to me that this was a true story. And Anton Yelchin played some an innocent boy so well. It just saddened me knowing these events actually occurred.

I also fell asleep during the (rather) recent movie The Nutcracker. I couldn't help myself, it was just so boring.

Cats is the only time I couldn't even make it through the cast album. Never been silly enough to front up to see it.

Heaven Can Wait.

The only two films I ever walked out on were “Palmetto” and “Deep End of the Ocean”. I was in my mid-teens for both, and the former bored me to death while the latter was a total, wince-inducing disappointment (I read and liked the novel).

“Baby,” on Broadway. Unbearable, heteronormative claptrap.

Saw. Recently Parasite.

My friend and I walked out on Ferris Bueller's Day Off- What a CRAPPY teen movie.

Rent

Starlight Express

The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart. When that Suzy Creamcheese character pulls her dress over her head and asks, "Wanna ball?" all in one motion I'd had enough.

Tag with Jeremy Renner ( totally stupid).

Rent (and I didn’t wait until intermission,) I walked out of Wicked (so stupid and I hated the songs) and the woke version of Oklahoma. I walked out in the last half hour of the Lehman chronicles and should have left after Act One.

I wanted to walk out of LaLaLand but my friend was enjoying it, such a horrible travesty of a musical.

Another vote for The Thin Ted Line

A Knight’s Tale... ugh

and a play in college that was supposed to be a gender-neutral version of Hamlet but instead was read as if the gender reflected that of the actor/actress so some characters were the same as the original but others weren’t. What a mess.

Reality Bites - I just didn't see the point of it. I did make it through like 2/3. But it just seemed intent on showing my generation as slackers and unnecessarily different.

Although I could understand their plight, it just seemed too 'woe is me'.

Nobody I knew in our early 20's was like that. I don't think the film holds up - it certainly isn't a 'must see' for anyone.

The Thin *Red* Line - sorry. But it might’ve been better if it was the Thin Ted Line with that giant talking bear.

Live Free Or Die Hard.

I could tolerate the elderly Bruce Willis. But for some reason Justin Long's and Maggie Q's characters got on my nerves.

There's Something About Mary

Ernest Goes to Jail

This Meg Ryan Mar Ruffalo(?) shitfest called In The Cut, or something?!? Awful. I walked across the mall parking lot and got some scampi and margaritas.

Mary Zimmerman's "The Arabian Nights", produced by my alma mater. The play was staged in the thrust theater, and was BEAUTIFULLY designed (and it even featured the taffeta coat I made for Polonius, for our department production of "Hamlet", some years before), but the script is absolute garbage. I dozed off several times in the first act, and left at intermission.

Zimmerman is absolutely awful, and entirely overrated. I will never cast a vote in her favor, for anything.

Walking out on a film will be a thing of the past when you're streaming. I fast-forwarded and skipped through "French Exit" the other night. I would have been infuriated if I had to sit masked in a theater watching it.

[quote] Eat Pray Love w/ Julia Roberts

My expectations for this movie would be very, very low.

"Into the Wild," I read the book b/c I liked "Into Thin Air."

After reading "Into the Wild," I wondered what was the point. The subject's / main character's adventure seemed so dumb.

I would not have gone to see that movie. Maybe people went to see that movie not having read the book.

I walk out of opera and go to dinner or go fuck. Or I arrive for the 2nd Act. Or skip the middle part. I feel this respects its origin and very design as court and high society entertainment. Nobody sat through most of the history of the opera, in silence, and with rapt attention. Ridiculous! Its not designed for that. The gay fans of opera from the 50s to the 80s got it wrong, with their worshipful attitude.

Only one: a German movie by Doris Dörrie. In the first 10 minutes, a deaf woman (Franka Potente) is hitchhiking, then has sex with the guy who gives her a ride and has him hit her. I demanded my money back and got it.

A touring production of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” The actress who played the title role had a voice so shrill, it drove me insane. It just kept going higher and higher. I found myself actually hoping the Nazis would arrive sooner than later, and felt terribly guilty about that thought, so I left early.

Films approximately 30 mins each: Nuts (1987) Streisand's character is not nuts just thoroughly obnoxious, Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) flat and unfunny, Friday the 13th (1980) cheap looking film.

Broadway: Take Me Out aka get me out! Left at intermission. Pointless. If I want to see naked men there's 2 men's locker rooms at my gym with showers, sauna and steam room.

Hilary and Clinton with John Lithgow as John Lithgow and Laurie Metcalf as Laurie Metcalf. Left after 30mins. How did this make it to Broadway! Closed early due to low ticket sales. Boring couple. Will never be revived.

Sort of.

For god knows why, I went to see Costner's The Postman by myself around Christmas. I was in the mood to just veg out in a dark theater. Didn't know much about the film.

After about 20 minutes, I realized that the movie might be the worst thing I'd ever seen. Saying it was bad wasn't even close to enough.

I get up to leave. Maybe sneak into whatever else is playing. As I do, I noticed that there's only five or six others in the audience. One of the those five or six says to me, "Stay. Let's watch this piece of shit together."

The others in the theaters laughed the comment. So did I. I sat back down.

We ended up watching the it as a group, mocking it, having an absolute ball at the expense of Costner.

Easily the most fun I've ever had in a movie theater!

I did walk out of the early version of the play Hedwig that was in a dive. It starred the guy who wrote it, and I found the character less than captivating.

"Pulp Fiction". My only regret was not asking the person at the concession stand about the plot. If only someone had shot Samuel L. Jackson once he quoted Scripture, then it would have been an interesting movie.

A movie with Lily Tomlin and John Travolta. I think it was called Moment by Moment. Dreadful.

The NTLive broadcast of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.

Obviously mounted by people who had absolutely NO IDEA about the South and/or Tennessee Williams, it was truly atrocious from top to bottom. Horrendous performances (Gillian Anderson played Blanche like Tammy Wynette on a bender, while Ben Foster made Stanley into a cuddly teddy bear with a few anger issues). Set design that reflected NOTHING of the French Quarter and actually made mockery of Tennessee's intent (all white plastic & chrome -- and with an automatic drip coffee machine to boot!)

STREETCAR is my favorite American play, and, even though I bolted at the intermission, I still seethe when I remember the desecration on view.

Ragtime and Les Mis tours. Both boring, both surprising to me that they were so popular.

R100 that sounds like a dreadful production.

R97 The brilliant John Cameron Mitchell? Your loss.

Noah Emma Easton cannot act

Hudson Hawk with Bruce Willis and Sandra Bernhard. Pee-yew, what a stinker!! Left halfway through because first half was so excruciating.

R94 you should have stayed and shouted at the climax, "She's in the attic! She's in the attic!"

Both Flight 93 and To the Wonder made me walk out due to nausea. The former because it was too realistic in its portrayal of an actual plane in flight, and the latter because the story was so unclear and the camera kept focussing on the movement of plants around the actors.

James Cameron’s AVATAR. I cut out after an hour (some time around the magical tree reveal) and went to get a takeout. I never spoke to the (casual, new) friendly acquaintance with whom I went again.

Left an amateur touring production of TOP HAT early, because I felt uncomfortable being the only person under the age of 65 in a fifth-full audience (matinee showing).

Also, I wasn’t engaged in the songs or the story at all, and beyond the titular number found it to be an insipid and instantly-forgettable show. It was competently sung and performed, I just didn’t care (and given half the crowd were asleep, I wasn’t the only one...). It’s beyond dated, to the point you just wonder why it exists.

And I’ve seen the movie as well, but still couldn’t summarise the plot or describe the characters with a gun to my head. It’s fluff.

Bridesmaids, what a pile of unfunny shit.

R110 Agreed. The shitting in sinks was just too much. It wasn't even funny. It was gross. I kept thinking, "What has cinema come to?" To its credit, most of the movie was fine, but that part was unnecessary. Just women pretending to be as disgusting as men. Nobody wants that. I saw it with a dear male straight friend and he was equally grossed out, not amused. Men are not turned on by that. I now realize that this was Hollywood's attempt to try to make people think that women and men are 'just the same.'

Throw Momma from the Train. After 10 minutes. Awful.

R111 Was it trying to turn me on? And women can be gross as fuck when dudes aren’t around.

Most recently, Lincoln. I could only stand about 30 minutes.

Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown on Broadway. A turkey from the first note.

Scent of a Woman with Al Pacino. I should have known from the title it would be appalling.

I wanted to mention the only stage production of Shakespeare I loved. It was Ingmar Bergman's production of The Winter's Tale out at BAM. One of the experiences which showed the glory of what the stage is capable of and why do we so often settle for so much less?

I should’ve walked out of the movie Wild Hogs. But I had walked to the theater and it was in the middle of summer and really hot outside so I took out my iPod and listened to that until it was over.

Patton Oswalt has a great bit about hating a movie.

The remake of Bewitched (2005). I thought it might be fun and campy despite the bad reviews but it was stupefying. Same for the Stepford Wives remake from 2004.

R118 must be nice to lethally sedate your wife when you’re sick of them, so you can take a few years off doing the grief-circuit in-between playing video games and jerking off onto your Funko pops, until a replacement upgrade live-in maid/nanny/sex-pillow comes along. The out-of-touch murdering hobbit came good.

I had attended a performance by the national tour of Hairspray and next to me sat two Eldergays. The date or partner was having none of it he was bitching and hissing all the way through it, So during intermission, they left and only the one guy returned. I thought to myself who was enjoying it"Good for you for coming back and dumping off the one whining.

I left after the second act of " The Paris Letter" in LA and skipped the third. It was a real bore. After seeing NPH fully naked on stage for ten minutes and Josh Radnor briefly full frontal, there was no reason to stay, since I really didn't care about any of the characters.

When I’ve paid I stay, unless I find it actually offensive. It might get better.

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG in NYC and TOM JONES in Florida. Had I not been with visitors from out of town, I would have walked out on BOEING, BOEING and NOISES OFF.

There's a certain type of lazy trope-filled faux-slapstick show that turns me off. These shows are written by lazy people who think stupid audiences will enjoy flat humor, tired sit-com mix-ups, door slamming, misunderstandings, mixed signals, and people running in and out of rooms.

Mama Mia 2, and I loved the first one.

Batman, Heath Ledger- Too fucking loud.

Broadway-Les Miz- One More Day. NO, not one more minute. To be fair, I was still traumatized by the matinee performance of Angels in America from earlier in the day. Even thinking about it right now takes my breath away.

In the 1980s when my older brother had just gotten his driver's license and he had nothing to do on Saturday or Sunday afternoons, he'd sometimes drive us to the movies and see pretty much anything playing around the time we arrived..

We walked out of a ridiculous, fratboy, romantic sex 'comedy' fantasy called PORKYS and snuck into a different theater. Kim Cattrall and Steve Guttenberg were that movie. It was even too stupid for my brother so we walked out. A few years later, we walked out on MANNEQUIN, a ridiculous, fratboy, romantic sex 'comedy' fantasy. Kim Cattrall was in it. We snuck into another theater because the theater basically stole our money for that piece of garbage. I walked out of BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, a ridiculous second-rate RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK rip-off fantasy. Kim Cattrall was the female lead. I walked out of SHORT CIRCUIT (starring Steve Guttenberg). I fell asleep during IT TAKES TWO (starring Steve Guttenberg) and BONFIRE AT THE VANITIES (starring Kim Cattrall).

I've walked out on a lot of movies, but I've never walked out on a live performance. If I did I'd just leave during intermission.

R126 do you just hate Kim Catrall?

Hi R128, I don't think I hate Kim Cattrall or Steve Guttenberg, but it's got to me more than coincidence. Maybe it's the type of cheap stupid movies they're in? Maybe they take roles that were passed on by more discriminating performers? But I know that if I see their name in the cast of a tv show or a film, I avoid it because I expect it to be stupid and cheap. - R126

Kim Cattrall’s 80s films are classics.

It is, frau cunt R120. It truly is.

Die in a grease fire, frau cunt R120.

I think it was a movie that took place in an Italian monastery, The Friary of Man Stank

Chariots Of Fire- My friend and I were only 15 years old. We were bored out of our gourdes.

Crash -the 2004 film, not the James Spader one. How did that shitfest win an Oscar?

R134 wow, that brings back buried trauma. I actually wish I could forget—or could have walked out of—the Cronenberg CRASH with Spader; not because it was awful trash and badly done, but because it was very uncomfortable and unpleasant viewing, that ironically (and I suppose deliberately) was hard to look away from.

And the book (by Ballard) is even worse. Some chapters made me want to burn the pages or douse them in acid, and I’m usually the last proponent of book censorship or destruction. At one point Ballard talks about fucking open wounds in patients like they’re vagina-substitutes, and fetishising and violating hospitalised minors as well as dead bodies in the morgue. Horrid and brutal.

An intriguing text and possibly an important one on some level, that made for a provocative film, but still a vile experience.

There were two films back in the 80s - 𝐒𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐢𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐊𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 (1984) with Sean Connery and Miles O'Keefe, and 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 (1987), an Italian sword-and-sorcery film. In the seat at the theater, these struck me as the most stupid films I'd ever attempted to put up with. In retrospect, however, I've seen and tolerated much worse; I must have been out of sorts on the days I went to see those films. Or just finicky - back then, I used to go to movie theaters three or four times a week.

If I remember correctly, The Barbarians has a scene where the real life twins playing the leads make out to avoid getting caught by the villain's henchman. So weird.

Yeah, R137, in looking the film back up, I saw that mentioned. I never saw that - I lost patience with it and left pretty early on. And I've never watched it again.

Star Wars (first one). I was 11 years old and bored to death, not sure I lasted 45 minutes.

Pret a Porte and Crazy Rich Asians. I really wanted to like Crazy Rich Asians, but I could not take it any longer and left 10 minutes before it ended.

I couldn't make it halfway through "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" although I generally like Peter Greenaway films.

I can hardly watch any movies anymore without turning them off. I only made it through about 10 minutes of "Deadpool", even though it seems to be a favorite of a lot of people.

They have been showing the 'Deadpool' movie's almost weekly at 9pm on Film4 in the UK for the past year during our interminable lockdown, I've never lasted more than 10 minutes. Even when I've had a hangover.

Actually, nothing... I find that I enjoy even the worst movies once I am in a movie theater. Somehow it removes my sense of taste.

The list of movies I've attempted to watch in my house is a very long one.

[quote]A few years later, we walked out on MANNEQUIN, a ridiculous, fratboy, romantic sex 'comedy' fantasy.

MANNEQUIN is not a 'fratboy sex comedy.' It's a rom-com aimed toward women. Most straight men I've known call it a 'chick flick.' It even has a musical montage where the two leads play dress-up. These same men say that 'no straight dude fantasizes about that' even though the movie is supposed to be from the guy's POV.

I can't think of a single movie I've walked out on. - but I will say the absolute worst film I had to sit through was The Great Wall, primarily because I was expecting it to be exciting as it was directed by one of my favorite filmmakers (Zhang Yimou) and it turned out to be beyond awful from the beginning.

But theater is a whole other matter. Let's start with Broadway.

During its original run, I walked out of Dreamgirls. I was working in a pre-college summer program, and two friends of mine were hanging outside during the intermission complaining about the first act, and we all decided to ditch the second act and walk over to the Howard Johnson's and hang out there until the show was about over.

The most recent thing I walked out of was the last Broadway show I saw, The Girl from the North Country. I wanted to walk out after the first song, and being paranoid about COVID didn't help in making me want to hang around - but I slogged through it until the intermission.

I also walked out during the intermissions of Wicked, the most recent Oklahoma - I didn't even hang around for the cornbread - Ink, The Rose Tattoo, Once, The Color Purple and Pippin.

At the Paper Mill Playhouse, I walked out of Once on This Island, Bandstand, Benny & Joon and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

At NJPAC in Newark I walked out of national tours of Evita (the lead shrieked like a banshee) and Thoroughly Awful - I mean Modern - Millie.

I've only walked out of one film: Taxi zum Klo during the proctologist exam.

But I've walked out numerous at the theater, starting with the awful Bells Are Ringing revival with Faith Prince.

Trainspotting because I couldn’t understand a thing they were saying.

A Clockwork Orange because I was young and I found the rape scene highly offensive

Honeysuckle Rose because Willie came off as creepy and it was boring

The Paper. The most boring movie I have ever seen. My two companions and I sat in silence and then at the same time we all looked at each other like, what are we doing here, and left.

"Earth Girls Are Easy"

"The Road to Wellville"

Some Joe Dante-edited film thing with bloopers and bits from Uncle Andy's Funhouse where poor animals had wires attached to them to do dumb stunts.

Hudson Hawk is worse than an Ed Wood movie or an elementary school play. How did it ever see the light of day? How could all TBTP not see how horrible a movie it is?

Not really a movie or play, but I walked out on the world premiere of John Harrison's The Great Gatsby at the Metropolitan Opera in early 2000. It was a bore and I wasn't feeling well, so I decided to jet just after intermission.

Strangely enough, I later came to like the score when I heard the recording of it. Not great, over all, but I would see it again (and stay) if they revive it in the future.

Sunday in the Park with George, on Broadway. Could barely wait for intermission to leave. I also walked out of Birdman, what a load of overhyped twaddle, did anyone really MISS Michael Keaton, so that he needed to come back??

John Harbison's I meant above--fucking autocorrect.

The Goonies is so slow the first hour is all introducing the obnoxious young characters and bored me to tears. I've tried to watch it on TV about 3 times and never make it to their adventure. I really like the logo graphics for the poster art and I've owned 3 Goonies tee shirts

Cats on Broadway. Was escorted out by ushers when i decked the cat that touched me on the shoulder as they entered interactively. Greta Garbo was seated next to me - not that I knew her - and thought what happened was hilarious.

in my mid teens, the first attempt at "Rollerball" in the mid 70's. horrible is almost a compliment.

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R152 You should have stayed for the second act of Sunday. Far far worst than the first with Bernadette Peters doing an old lady skit on the Carol Burnett show. It had to be seen to be disbelieved.

Moment by Moment.

I also walked out of Planet of the Apes immediately after Charlton Heston showed his butt. My 13 year old self shot in his pants and had to go to the men's room to clean up....

Sideways and the Alice in Wonderland sequel with the Borat guy

Saw the first TWILIGHT movie in German; in Köln on an exchange trip with a group of peers (we were teens at the time). Even dubbed in a foreign language I could tell it was horseshit. I stumbled out into the unfamiliar city and somehow found my way back the hostel alone—rather that than endure more.

Theater: Titanic and Will Rogers Follies

Movie: Momma Mia and Forrest Gump

All of Netflix content (or it certainly seems so sometimes)

[quote] "Stay. Let's watch this piece of shit together."

R96, very funny. In what city was this?

I walked out of " Aspects of Love" at intermission and went to the Gaiety to see the naked men.

My Dad walked out with the other three people in the cinema at the time who gave that greedy tone-deaf piece of FIFA hagiography UNITED PASSIONS a chance.

On the press junket directly before & after the release, the lead actor Tim Roth was absolutely slandering, which pretty much says it all. He still rightfully slags it off now. The director hasn’t done much since, and I don’t blame him.

Don’t know and haven’t looked up how well it played here in England (I’d imagine very poorly), but in America it grossed something like $900 and closed in a few days, because sports journalists were the only people watching it (in disgust). I can’t imagine who FIFA even made this for, or for what purpose. It’s criminal that propaganda like this gets millions in funding/budget, and beautiful nuanced independent storytelling has to happen on a shoestring.

Myself, I’ve never sat down and watched it, and hopefully will never have cause or motivation. The only positive thing I’ve heard people say about it is that it contains pretty breathtaking cleaned-up/restored HD footage of vintage World Cups, but that’s literally the only watchable thing in a two-and-a-half hour runtime. I think it’s still on streaming, somewhere, fuck knows why.

Walked out of Bright Lights Big City. Fuck you Michael J Fox.

Wanted to walk out of Les Mis in London 1997 but I was so exhausted that I slept instead.

There are so few movies I have walked out on: I Love You To Death, Poltergeist II and In The Cut. Just was not in the mood and found my mind wandering to other things I could be doing. I left In The Cut because I realised I could be doing laundry.

Years ago my grandmother got free passes to see "I the Jury" on the Paramount studio lot. She took my sister and I when we were just kids. the first 10 minutes of the movie was full of sex and violence that my grandmother walked us out.

"Hooray for Hanukkah."

The review may have said, "Play Enjoyed By All," but they certainly didn't ask me!

In the Cut was brilliant

Dick (1999) It's like an over extended SNL skit.

R60 Walked out a half hour into the Broadway play Hillary and Clinton and had a center aisle seat five rows from the stage and patrons were told that if they got up to use the bathroom during the performance they would not be able to return to their seat. Fortunately I was on the aisle and didn't have to climb over anyone and the play was 90 mins long without intermission and it was pointless and as boring as Bill and Hillary are.

Blues Brothers and Blair Witch

The Ben Elton play "Gaspers" in London many years ago. I was visiting from the US, and little anglophile that I was, I knew Elton had been part of the '80s comedy scene, especially as a writer, and assumed he was funny. It was so awful that I walked out after a few scenes. I'm not even sure I waited for intermission.

Sorry, "Gasping." If I'd known how much I would come to love Fry and Laurie, I might have stuck it out, but at the time I didn't know who Hugh Laurie was.

Moulin Rouge. Fucking Christ on a Pogo Stick.

R177 movie or stage show?

R177 - I forgot about that one (the movie) - I barely lasted five minutes.

I left soon after the broken back mountain started. I was told it was American cowboy movie but then the man went up inside the other man.

I walked out on Planet of the Apes when I was 13. I came in my pants when Charlton Heston showed his butt and I had to go clean up.

Cavalcade (1933), the worst Oscar Best Picture winner ever! Fled the theater after a half hour. Fortunately I only paid 25 cents for the movie ticket.

Moulin Rouge - vile, execrable, contemptible

Salon Kitty.

Mrs Doubtfire & Forrest Gump - execrable trash. Back in the Bronze age: any Billy Jack movie

Hated The Usual Suspects, although I didn't walk out.

R173 - if you find Hillary & Bill Clinton so boring, why would you buy tickets and go to a play about them?

A clockwork orange