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.

I thought La La Land was awful and I love musicals.

Theatre - Keeler. It was truly shocking!

Cinema- Hot Fuzz. Dh still owes me for that one.

Theatre-Phantom of the Opera. Are you kidding me???
Absolute cliche crap and I hated every single whingy second (we took some visitors so could not flee at the interval)

I accidentally took my dad to see a soft porn film

Some friends and I walked out the cinema... movie was The Women... I think it was Eva Mendez and can’t remember who else.... pile of shite. Also walked out of Lee Evans at the O2... an even bigger pile of shite, we did not laugh or even crack a smile!

Saltandvinegar - have to agree on the thief/wife/lover. We started watching it the other day via MUBI. It was revolting. Looked pretty and had Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon, but still mysoginistic and horrible. A pity.

We also watched LaLa Land on Netflix. Agree that it's not that special.

I also left Vanessa Redgrave in Lady Windermere's fan at interval. It was very dull. The only life in the production was the elderly and glorious Googie Withers.

Oh.... I had the bright idea of choosing English National Opera production of 'A Handmaid'sTale' for my kid's first experience of that particular art form. DS opinion that it was a bunch of screechy women and had no tunes was a fairly succinct summary of the following morning's review in The Times.

There's so much wonderful stuff out there. Don't always pick well.

The Holiday. Total shite

Lord of the Rings. Everyone was raving about it. But honestly I was bored shitless through the entire 4 hour saga.

I really can't stand Blood Brothers. I saw it at the theatre about 10 years ago and it is grim and the songs are just not memorable at all.

In film, I despise Titanic - utter bilge.

I'd recommend everybody to walk out of Downsizing at about the halfway point. It doesn't get any better. It's a good premise but has absolutely no plot - don't drive yourself nuts waiting for the plot.

Agree with 'cats' as worst theatre. Bizarre and boring at the same time.

Only film I've ever walked out of was one of the hobbit ones. I cant even remember which.
Oh,and fell asleep during one of the Star Wars films, one of the ones with Natalie Portman. My dp hated it too.

Oh also has anyone been to see early man? Surprisingly bad, no story as such and felt 10 years out of date ("I predict a riot" on the soundtrack?) seemed to be mostly about football which I hate and I notice they've cleverly Left out of the TV trailers!

Cats, Top Gun, Ghandi.

Solaris.

Snore.

The secretary! Terrible. Was laughing by the end. My mum is the voice. She said she couldnt hear anything

Fifty shades of Grey

One of the X-Men films. Full of plot holes and generally not my thing. I think it was that film that I had a bloke sitting next to me chomping on popcorn and farting as well.

Can't stand Mama Mia, although I love Abba's music and adore Muriel's wedding.

Friends and I walked out the cinema 1/3 of the way through A midsummer night's dream but we were only 14/15 so maybe just didn't "get" it.

Everyone who raved about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo forgot to mention the rape scene. I walked out.

blueyacht wins the thread

Tinker tailor soldier spy. Lots of grey men talking. God that was boring.

The royal tenenbaums. Weird and stupid. Everyone else laughing - dh and were

As a teen my mum had a job as theatre critic for the local paper so I would go with her. Dear god only so many farces performed by 50 something accountants in church halls you can see without being scarred for life.

Films: Event Horizon (thought it was going to be scientific but it was just horrific and crap) and Dogville (pretentious film with Nicole Kidman where the set was drawn on the ground ).

Theatre: I had to sit through Mamma Mia till the bitter end, as I had been invited by a friend. Cringe.

Lincoln.

Black Swan was probably the only film that I was half tempted to walk out of. Not sure whether I hadn't read the reviews but it really disturbed me.

Theatre, Mama Mia. Absolute crock of shite

How can anyone dislike The Usual Suspects? Really?! Although I remember rewatching it with some friends at uni and about 10 minutes before the end one of them said to me "what's wrong with his leg?". I should have known to turn it off then!

And Panic Room is fantastic, if only for the photogrammetry - Fincher is brilliant. And Be Kind, Rewind? I love Michel Gondry.

I have a Drama degree, then worked in a cinema, then worked as a film writer so I've seen lots of stuff I would never have chosen to seen myself.

In terms of films, White Chicks, Soul Plane, the remake of Taxi are all up there. The best cinema experiences I had were films I knew pretty much nothing about but which immediately became favourites - Memento and Being John Malkovich mostly.

The worst theatre experience I had was being taken by my mum to see Closer by Patrick Marber. I was about 14, and trapped between her and an 80 year old couple which was quite mortifying at the time.

Oh, and Blasted by Sarah Kane (if you don't know what this is I'd advise you don't read the synopsis!). Horrifying.

Cinema - Pulp Fiction - both DH & I loathed it

Theatre - Cats - awful but the only thing I have left and not seen through to the bitter end was theJapanese Noh Theatre at the Southbank Centre about 25 plus years ago- me and friend hot footed it at first interval - you couldn't pay me enough to see it again

Both Jumper and The Black Dahlia. I'd loved the books but the film adaptations were abominations.

Mulholland Drive.