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.

Oh no, I love Dogville! I can understand why the whole Brechtian thing may not appeal though. But Hot Fuzz and Pulp Fiction? Sacrilege.

Hateful Eight was a pretty dire cinema experience. Watching a fixed shot early on of someone running in snow from one carriage to another and then back again for what feels like eternity wasn't a great sign.

Black Swan did suck though.

Cinema Sausage Party - WTAF?

Pearl Harbour, it went on and on and on and.........

Hated Blood Brother especially as paid a fortune to see it in London.

As a child went to see a superhero thing - think it was batman, but had to be taken out - I thought it would be a long cartoon not real people.

Pulp Fiction
Jerry Maguire

Unmitigated crap both of them

Went to see Noises Off by Michael Frayn described as a hilarious farce. Rest of the audience wetting themselves with laughter, I have rarely seen such a load of pathetic unfunny bollocks in my life.

Now the 15 hour 3 night production of Morte D’Arthur that was slated by critics was fantastic as was that surreal musical of Moby Dick.

Oh and Lord of the Rings. So boring

Mama Mia. It wasn’t at the cinema, but served up as a big treat at our friends’ house with a long preamble as to it’s fabulousness. Being British, that meant we had to watch it all the way through and feign enjoyment whilst internally screaming. I had the added stress of worrying about DH’s face, which isn’t gifted at dissimulation.

saving Mr banks.... so boring and i love mary poppins!!! I was on a date as well and he never rang me back and I blame that film.

I was also once stood up going to see a showing of the film 'Love Actually'.... it was quite a late night showing and I waited for ages but my date never showed up so I just went in and watched it on my own. I was one of three people in the screening. I found the film incredibly depressing.
It was SO obvious id been stood up when I came out. All the cinema staff were looking at me with pity.

'Mother!' i was really excited about going to see it and we had got a babysitter for the first time in ages in order to be able to go. I was so dissapointed with it. Felt like a 6th former on pot had backed me into a corner at a party and was trying to 'like explain life and the artistic process maaan!!'

Agree about the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Explicit violence and rape scene. It was awful

I loved dogville, black swan and Mulholland Drive tho!!

Happy Feet. I loathed it, especially all the pseudo-lets-all-save-the-planet cobblers, the main justification in the film being that cute animals entertain us so it would be a shame to exterminate them.

Nativity 3 even my 5 year old thought it was awful we walked out

I had to sit through a bloody Leon Shuster movie - he is a Saffer ‘funnyman’ - racist, misoginistic, load of sh*t I have ever had to watch ...

‘Legends of the Fall’ ...awful!

We also mistakenly took my 85 yo granny to see ‘The Guru’ - it was the only movie with availability on a rainy day at the coast (very little to do) and the ads lied .... granny didn’t get it and kept asking us what they said/what did they mean ...

That annoying Harry Potter spin off where he runs about after a briefcase for two hours. Anything with Keira Knightly in it.

Inception - I've never seen a bigger pile of overhyped, smug rubbish.

Another one for Blood Brothers. I wanted to like it - I’ve heard Willy Russell talk about how it was put together and everything, and it’s a clever idea, but I just didn’t enjoy it.

It probably didn’t help that somebody collapsed halfway through the first half so they had to stop and bring the lights up while they took him or her out. One of the people I’d gone with said that whoever it was had been lucky getting to escape so early!

God yes blood brothers! Pile of utter crap so glad thought it was just me.

The magic roundabout took dds then 6 and was very hung over and woke myself up
Snoring. Robbie Williams voice made me literally vomit into the popcorn bucket.

Not my finest mummy moment

Funny people with Adam Sandler. I went to cinema with family ages 50-17 we all decided to walk out. It’s the only film that I have never finished even though a few have been dodgy.

Gorillas in the Mist. Couldn’t wait for her to die so that we could leave. And The Color Purple. Book was great, film appalling.

Theatre - two people sitting behind me talked loudly all the way through the play. I told them either to shut up or leave. Thankfully they left.

Good Lord- so many RIDICULOUS dismissals of movies or shows which simply were never going to be the particular cup of tea of those posting!

Why on earth would anybody go to see a long cinematic musical like Les Misérables if they hated singing? Or a sophisticated historical social satire like The Age Of Innocence as an unworldly adolescent? And why rubbish Cats if, by your own admission, you haven't even seen it?

I despair. Honestly, people are entitled to review anything they've genuinely experienced, but it should be in good faith for it to count, otherwise it just comes across as philistinism.

To the poster who hated Noises Off. I loved it and laughed like a drain. I have been in your position though.

I saw Toby Young perform his How To Lose Friends and Alienate People about 15 years ago. I found it so unfunny and cringey yet people were loudly guffawing all round me. He came across as a complete prat.

Bit

Or realism maybe?

Hamlet. Cinema. Me and my best friend had been waiting, anticipating for MONTHS.
Feckin Typhoid Mary decided that was the night she was going too. Couldn’t hear a word with the hacking, coughing and spluttering.

rage