It helps if you've gotten in for nothing. But sometimes even if you've coughed up for the ticket, it can be so unbearable that you have to leave.

I won tickets for Elvis Costello at City Hall a few years ago. I'm not a fan, particularly, and neither is my partner. We were in there for around 30 minutes. The longest half hour of my life.

Amazingly, I also walked out of The Unbearable Lightness of Being many years ago. I remember being bored stiff. If I watched it now I'd just be stiff.

Even though I have really liked some of the Coen brothers other films (I happily went to see "The Man Who Wasn't There" 3 times at the cinema), I walked out of the heavily critically acclaimed "Fargo". I would have walked out of Independence Day had I not promised several people a "review" of it.

I have been to many scintillating operas but I walked out of a production of Tchaikovsky's Onegin, which was static and, frankly, boring. I also walked out of the ballet "La Fille Mal Gardee", but it wasn't the ballets fault. Several mothers who had obviously been dragged along by their young daughters decided to talk (and I don't mean whisper) about their 4x4 PTA lifestyle throughout the performance.

I've never walked out of a gig or film - although over the years there have been times I wished I had (Transformers, House on the Haunted Hill, Epic Movie, Resident Evil 2 to name but a few).

There have been some films that dragged for the first half hour, but then picked up and became wonderful by the end (Legends of the Fall is an example of that), so I always stick everything out until the end just in case.

I've walked out of a couple of films before, so bad I can't even remember their names!!

I walked out of that film they made about Mohammed Ali about 6 years ago, I thought it was really dull and uninspiring.

I walked out of a Bob Dylan gig at the Arena despite paying a small fortune for the tickets after about 3 songs. It was seated and I was about two thirds of the way back, but everyone was standing and you couldn't move to get a better view as there were rows of seats in the way. I was stuck behind a sea of tall heads and couldn't see the stage. There were no big screens and I felt as though I was in a claustrophobic room where I could only hear the music. I left and complained to the Arena management later who gave me tickets to see Meatloaf instead. He didn't do the best performance either, spending half his time bent over shaking his mike at the stage, however at least I could see him doing a poor performance, unlike Bob Dylan...who was incidentally selling £18 Beanie hats in the foyer, he sold out to commercialism, which was totally against what he used to be about.

It used to be in Dylan's commercial interest to appear as if he was not commercially interested. If you read biographies of Dylan he was never the protest singer type guy that it suited him to portray himself as.

Travis gig at the Octagon.
God, it was boring.
Only went because my wife wanted to go. It was her idea to leave half way through though, as it was so dire.

Oh nearly forgot, the last Toby Jepson gig at the Corp. Dear oh dear, having been a lifelong Little Angels fan and having seen Toby a few times since he left, I just thought he was going through the motions and he seemed to mumble everything he sang so could barely understand him. It really put me off him. We left after about four songs - didn't want a whole evening of listening to a half hearted performance. Kip Winger supported him and completely blew him off stage.

I once walked out on a movie, but I came back five minutes later! I only walked out to go to the loo! :D

Never walked out per se. I've left all nighters before they've ended as i'm tired - for example i really wanted to see the mystery jets at the transgressive thing in 2006 at plug but i'd seen them before and it was a school night and it was already half twelve.

I did however have a really good nap during the film pret a porter.

One i wished i'd walked out of was Malcolm X.I went to see it for my 20th? birthday with a big gang of friends. We'd planned on eating after and then having a few drinks. I didn't know it was about a 3 1/2 hour film. We were all bored, starving and sober when we went home! Not one of my best ideas.

Walked out of cinema before, went to see Ultraviolet and, well, it was rubbish.

I wish I had walked out of "No Country For Old Men" the other night - RUBBISH!

I should have walked out of 'Jackass, the movie' and 'transformers' as they were both truly awful, but I didn't, I'm a skinflint, see!

I went to Cardiff a couple of years ago to see the Foo's, who were followed by Oasis, I walked out of Oasis. I think I watched for about 10 minutes and just found myself getting so annoyed with him that I couldn't stay any longer so I went and got a hot chocolate and waited for the rest we were with to leave. It was awful and shall NEVER go and see them again EVER! I always thought I would really enjoy watching them but I didn't. Boo hiss.

i also walked out of the dylan gig at arena after about 20 mins was very very poor,the best part was the bloke dressed as elvis walking about.and level 42 lasted about the same at city hall.

I walked out of a Glasvegas gig 2 weeks ago. It was in manchester and they put two other dodgy bands on first, meaning that they came on too late and I had to drive back to sheffield and get up for work in the morning.
We were under the impression that they would be playing at 9pm, but they came on at 10:30 and that is just too late. when you have a 90 minute drive home due to the snake pass being collapsed.

I walked away from a vixen gig a couple of years ago, they were awful, but it was at a festival and there was plenty of other bands. Also I walked away from Moody-Marsden gig. They were just so bloody boring and there anacdotes of being in whitesnake were of no interest to anyone.
I also had the displeasure of seeing the lightning seeds. what a load of old w@k that was. Tired old songs with an awful band and no presence on stage, they were roundly thrashed by the wonderstuff who seemed to posess all the energy and life which was missing from the former band.

I should have walked out of 'Jackass, the movie' and 'transformers' as they were both truly awful, but I didn't, I'm a skinflint, see!

I fell asleep while watching Transformers at Cineworld last year.

Saw half an hour of the film, fell asleep, woke up 2 hours later.

I walked out of "Last Days" which was the most uninteresting film I've ever seen even though I knew about the subject matter.

I also walked out of watched Medulla Nocte (think that's what they were called) but that was because they were just far too loud...went back in when Soulfly came out.

I fell asleep while watching Transformers at Cineworld last year.

Saw half an hour of the film, fell asleep, woke up 2 hours later.

You only wasted half hour of your life then :thumbsup:

The only film I've ever walked out on was one I saw when I was yuonder - would have been over 10 years ago, and it was about some recluse playing a piano. No idea what the film was called. It was deathly dull and I was too young to sit through it!

Don't think I've walked out on any gigs. Although I did leave Mayfest early a few years ago, but that wasn't my choice!

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Many years ago (God, I feel old), along with two friends I went to see a double bill of "The Exorcist" (brilliant film) and "Exorcist II - The Heretic" (which had just been released) in Rotherham. Watched the first film and thoroughly enjoyed it as usual. Exorcist II started and we began to watch it. Twenty minutes passed and then I turned to look at my friends and just said "Ready?"

Two minutes later we were in the pub. The worst film I've ever paid to see!

If anything can be classed as a sequel to "The Exorcist" it's "Legion" also by Bill Blatty.

P.S Also walked out on a band called "Hatfield & The North" at the City Hall. Went in the "Albert" after that.

The only film I ever walked out of was Dancer in the Dark. I've been a huge fan of Bjork from the moment The Sugarcubes first single came out, and the music in the film was great, but everything else about the film was so absolutely dire I wanted to gnaw my own arm off. Some hailed it as a masterpiece, but I found it physically impossible to continue to the end.

Never walked out of a film, but I did walk out of a mystery jets gig. Utter arty pretentious crappery. One of them was banging a kettle and the guitarist looked so off his face I'm surprised he could stand up.

Reading these contributions just makes me realise how much crap we all put up with in the name of entertainment!
And although I've not walked out of many things, there are so many that I wish I had.
Thanks purdyamos for reminding me of the nadir of my life spent in front of Dancer in the Dark.
I went with the children and others to the panto in Stockport just before Christmas and soon knew that I absolutely could not survive it. Left after 15 minutes or so and sat in the car reading Jon Ronson until the others came out.
It was, literally, "behind me".
Sat dying inside all through Jean Binta Breeze at the Crucible Studio a year or so ago, with my partner who really wanted to go. If it hadn't been so unintentionally hilarious, it would have been unendurable, and I'd have suddenly run screaming from the room, clasping my head. But the Studio is not somewhere you can discreetly exit from. Of course, when we both quickly left immediately prior to the inevitable Q&A session, we discovered that we had both been desperate to escape for most of the night.
A lot of the Off The Shelf events are like that.
It'd be worth establishing a discreet signal for these occasions that means "I'm ready to go if you are"

You only wasted half hour of your life then :thumbsup:


He must have wasted it again as it made his list of best films of last year over at http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=244727&highlight=transformers

I wished I had walked out on that film.....before my childhood memories were shattered once more!

I agree with Dancer in the Dark, watched about 15 minutes with my housemate before I had to leave the room.

I wish I'd walked out of David Lynch's 'Inland Empire' - 3 hours of utter rubbish. I kept waiting for a good bit and it just didn't happen!

Luckily the films I've seen that have been so bad I've had to turn them off have been on DVD or TV. That would include: My Own Private Idaho, Alexander, Moulin Rouge, that MTV style Romeo and Juliet, The Age Of Innocence, The Family Stone, Johnny English - all piles of steaming tripe. There are more but my mind has thankfully erased them.

I saw Oasis at the Leadmill sometime just before their first album came out - well, for a couple of songs because I couldn't take any more. Everyone was going "Oooh, we've GOT to go and see this band, they're going to be huge" etc. But oddly enough, the side bar was absolutely jam packed while they were playing ;)

Fallen asleep during most of Star Wars II : Attack Of The Clones. Blimy that was so dull. How could he make a Star Wars film so boring?

Wish I could have walked out, but had kids with me so couldn't:

Piglets Big Adventure. Dull, dull, dull. Even the kid's were shuffling in their seats.

Jungle Book 2. Possibly the worst film I have ever paid to see, and an insult to the original.

My wife and I walked out of The Blood Brothers at The Studio about 15 years ago.

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