To ask for your worst viewing experience in cinema or theatre?

[LouiseBrooks]

Inspired by another thread where people are dissing one of my favourite recent films (please go over there if you want to moan about that one ). Which other film or play did you utterly loathe?

Mine:
Film - Out of Africa. Streep's ridiculous accent, Redford's (who I normally love) awful miscasting, the fact that I knew they had messed about with the facts. Michael Kitchen was great though . My Streep fanatic friend left at the interval since she hated it more than me.

Theatre - Blood Brothers. Absurd story and awful songs.

Eat pray love

I literally could not give one tiny shit

Opera - anything

So fucking boring

Cloverfield. What an absolute pile of complete and utter fucking shite. Poorly acted, stupidly shot and it didn't even have a plotline.

I have genuinely got more enjoyment from and ingrown toenail.

Les mis
And
Les mis
Both film and theatre.

Buena Vista social club - only cine original film on when I was in Stuttgart on a very rainy day. Truly awful - only 2 other people in the cinema. Not sure why we stayed tbh.

Only ever actually walked out of one movie - ages ago - called some thing the cook the theif his wife and her lover,?? Dreadful. Thought usual suspects was crap. Not been too much recently as never seems to be anything i fancy when i have time.

Leaving aside various student productions...

Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard starring his 'muse' /girlfriend Felicity Kendall, who was somehow required to get naked I'm sure it was intrinsic to the plot but I can't remember as I'd gone to sleep. I note that this magnificent oeuvre has disappeared from both of their biographies.

Ted. Disgusting stupid film.

Theatre - the woman in black. Everybody raved about it, colleagues had seen if multiple times. Went with my parents and my dad fell asleep and me and mum just kept looking at each other going is this it wtf

Mostly other cinema goings and their farting about on social media during the film, talking (usually absolute bollocks) during the film and grazing/slurping throughout the film.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhh!

Generally I fall asleep in the cinema. Even during the day. I also used to fall asleep in lectures if we were shown a film.

La La Land (sorry) - my mate and I were just meh all the way through. I had more fun watching the Fast 8 trailer at the beginning.

The Age of Innocence - I think I was about 13 when I was on a "date" with my first boyfriend and we were so bored we got up and walked out.

Cinema - curious tale of Benjamin button. I mean what the actual eff. Three hours of my life lost forever.

Thought starlight express was pretty gash too when I saw it on a school trip about 15 years ago

Twighlight New Moon . Can't remember why I went but it was bloody awful, I left an hour in. Never have watched it again.

Theatre - Hobbit, about fifteen years ago in Darlington. I was really quite young, only prior experience of theatre was panto or singing kettle - the performance was just incredibly boring.

The English Patient. So boring and pretentious.

Blood brothers.Persueded to go by a friend who was a fan who assured me that it was the most heartrending things she'd ever watched. Bloody boring and poorly acted. It was a Nolan sister as the female lead and she really wasnt up to it.
And then swiftly followed by Mama Mia on stage. Why did I pay good money to see this ? Not even one big name to justify the high ticket price. I already know the songs and the storyline -why watch them on a dull stage without even a tiny bit of scenery ?
Let me go back to watching Am dram musicals. At least they are thrilled to be on stage and are so enthusiastic (I m not an am drammer by the way)

Stroke I loved both but The Age of Innocence is not something that would appeal to many 13 year olds.

Mamma mia and XFiles film.

My first ever experience of going to the theatre was when we were taken on a school outing to see Cats.

All those people dressed up like cats were as creepy as hell, the songs were terrible and there was no actual story. I was so bored I fell asleep. It was thirty years ago and it put me off theatre so much that I've only ever been back twice more in that time. I hate the theatre.

Captain Bloody Underpants-worst film ever!
Didn't help that I was joint supervising 60 14 year old Italian Students!😨
It was just....pants!

I fucking Robot

Marley and me, took 2 kids under ten to see it thinking it would be funny and uplifting. The dog fucking dies! All the kids in the cinema were bloody sobbing (and i was close to sobbing too). Felt so sad and deflated afterwards and poor kids were too

Theatre: Missing the play because parking in the destination city was a complete bloody nightmare. (And no, public transport wouldn't have been an option).

Cinema: I was dragged along to see Dance Flick. For the first and so far last time, I walked out, about 20 minutes in.

Mamma Mia on stage was awful and we were expecting big things
Phantom of the Opera- just meh

Fucking Les Mis. Wanted to jump through the screen and throttle them all myself to stop their caterwauling.

Cinema - Eyes Wide Shut. Never did work out what that was all about. Also something of the same era by Woody Allen, although that was so bad I can’t even remember the title of the film!

Theatre - a strange little “musical” called Paradise Found, which was basically the plot of a Carry On film set to the music of Strauss. Stayed to the end of that one as I couldn’t believe it was really that bad (it was).

I hated Cats and wanted to leave at the interval, but ExH refused as the tickets cost so much. The people sitting next to us didn’t return after the interval.

Worst film was Jack Black in “Be Kind, Rewind”