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.

At the cinema - Smokin' Aces, I fell asleep.
Vanilla Sky - somehow made it to the end but to this day have no fucking clue what was going on except that it was dreadful.

Theatre - I used to do ballet so my mum was always taking me to see ballets. Ballet is fun to do but boring to watch.

The Blair Witch Project. Only film where I have actually walked out of the cinema. Absolutely excruciating.

As a previous poster said, Downsizing with Matt Damon. To take such an interesting premise and turn it into such a load of boring shite is quite an achievement.

I bloody love both Blood Brothers & Noises Off, and have seen both multiple times. Horses for courses. :)

The only film I've seen at the cinema and absolutely detested was All Dogs Go To Heaven. But then I rarely go to the cinema so am usually fairly confident of liking the films I see.

The worst theatre experience was at Leeds Grand approx. 10 years ago. Me & my exH sat through a trilogy of 1920's murder mysteries. Good god they were dry and dull! Plus it was the middle of summer and ridiculously hot in the auditorium. We gave up at the second interval.

Funniest theatre experience was in 5th year and drama teacher took us to an avant garden type play. It turned out to be a radical feminist play about the affect of porn on women. It was brilliant but the drama teacher came out white faced as it was extremely rude with the most adult themes possible and we all had to promise not to tell our parents

Agree with above poster about Marti Pellow in Evita. I love him in wet wet wet but his voice was just embarrassing next to the professional actors.

Other theatre I hated was The play that goes Wrong. Just awful. Only one joke repeated over and over wears thin after the first few minutes.

Avatar.

Not only is it like Ferngully on acid but that was also the day I found out I have no 3d vision and trying to balance a pair of 3d glasses over your own glasses is like trying to nail jelly to a tree.

That fucking film gave me one of the worst migraines I have ever had.

I loved Avatar AND Ferngully! Also, Ferngully was like it was on acid in the first place! 😂

3D movies suck though I don't get them at all and they give me a migraine too

Walked out of The Disaster Artist and American Assassin.
Also Six Days Seven Nights and Les Mis.

Dead pool I went because my friends were fans.

Fantastic beasts and where to find them- I fell asleep (but in all fairness I had just started new antidepressant medication which made me very drowsy).

DH asked insisted that i went with him to watch 'Ghost in the shell'
There was about 6 other people in the cinema, I understood none if it, just didn't get it, was compleatly bored all the way through.

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

Oh god, I flew to Chicago once and this was the only movie that would actually work on the in flight entertainment. Even worse, I had exactly the same experience on the way back. Awful film and I've hated Jack Black ever since.

DD walked out of Downsizing last week. She has a cineworld card so goes several times a week and this is the only movie she's ever walked out of so I'm guessing it must be bad.

To add, DD and I have seen Cats a dozen times and love it. It is the only musical I like though.

BitOfFun

I agree, which is why I’ve tried to give valid reasons in my OP for those I hated. Why would someone, for example, go and see a musical if they hate musicals? I haven’t seen Forrest Gump, or almost anything starring Tom Cruise because I know I’d hate them (although I saw Minority Report on tv and rather liked it,) . However I also thought Shawshank sounded horrendous and when I finally watched it, ended up thinking it’s one of the best films I’d seen for years, so you never can tell I guess .

I’ve loved some of the stuff mentioned on here but am glad I’m not the only one to hate Blood Brothers though. One of my closest friends thinks it’s amazing and said she cried all the way through (twice!). I kept thinking of Dickens’ quote about needing a heart of stone not to laugh. Fortunately I didn't have to pay to see it.

Matilda The Musical.

The magic of the book and the film was missing and I just didn't enjoy it.

We consider The Brenda Effect. If one of our friends Brenda (not her real name) raves on and on about how brilliant a film / book / play / band / album is and posts loads of gushing posts about it we will inevitably find whatever it is to be an inexorable pile of shite

Being John Malkovich.

I went with my BF at the time, and the only reason we didn't walk about was because... well, actually, I have no idea. It was utter bilge from start to finish.

What?! Being John Malkovich is phenomenally good - what didn't you like about it?!

Damien Lewis in The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

It was AWFUL. He fell in love with the goat, and kept telling his wife that he was 'fucking a goat'. DD was not too impressed with her Dad's choice of theatre tickets!

There was no interval - we suspect that had there been, no-one would have returned for the second half.

Film. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells. I went to see it with an old BF. I renamed it Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Walls as I spent most of my time averting my eyes from the travesty on the screen.

Mullholland Drive. I'm normally a David Lynch fan, but God it was awful.

Theatre. A few years back I went to see a west end production of The Importance of being Ernest starring Martin Jarvis and Nigel Havers. My God it was awful. It was done as a play within a play where a local am dram group were putting on a performance. It had some kind exgrutiating sight gags, including people ducking to avoid swinging ladders and cucumber sandwiches falling off plates. My friend and I left during the interval and went to the pub

I once saw a really ridiculous version of Three Sister's. Acting was poor. Direction was overly staged. And to top it all off they poured sand all over the stage at the end. It was like watching a bunch of over zealous but slightly dim university students.

Am dram can be hilarious. Like the Chekhov play where a woman character stormed off stage, as she left a motorbike revved very loudly in the car park and whizzed off cue audience in fits.

We went to see an am dram play where the actor dried in the middle of a scene about the importance of words.

How could I forget - don bloody Giovanni (not my favourite anyway) opening with a steamed up car a’rockin and condoms being thrown out of the window. That really set the scene.

I almost wet my pants when one character was caterwauling as she sat on the roof of said car, applying her very red lippy.

It was one of those productions that was described as ‘brave’ or ‘challenging’ —or bollocks—.

Film: My Big Fat Greek Wedding. What an absolute crock of shite.

Theatre: Stones In Their Pockets.

What an absolute... You get the picture