| re: "I hated the show. I left at intermission." | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 05:47 pm EDT 10/10/24 | |
| In reply to: "I hated the show. I left at intermission." - HadriansMall 01:55 pm EDT 10/10/24 | |
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| You don't need to love every minute of a show to love the show. And you don't need to hate every minute of the show to hate the show. If the first act of a show is consistently stupid, confused, pretentious, unfunny (when it's meant to be funny), or offensive in one of any number of different ways, you've seen enough. It isn't going to get better. Nobody who knows what they're doing in the theater is going to write (or allow) a terrible first act just so that the show can "get better" in the second act, and if the author(s) don't know what they're doing in the theater, the show isn't going to get better in any event. That said, I've never actually walked out of a stage play or musical, out of respect for the actors. But then, I don't go to shows randomly; I pick the ones that I'm darned sure, in advance, that I'm going to like, so I'm never tempted to walk out. On the other hand, as a former film critic, I've walked out of quite a few bad movies halfway through, though I'd give them an hour or so before leaving. I also frequently click away from a movie (or anything else) on TV, without sitting through the whole thing, as I'm sure you do too. |
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