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Cats
The rushed Universal film – which has been tweaked by director Tom Hooper after some mistakes were spotted – may have been panned by critics, but the studio was hoping it would be embraced by audiences.
However, the film – which had an estimated budget of $85m-100m (£65m-77m) – has been a box-office bomb, grossing just over $6m (£4.6m) in its first weekend of release in the US.
Now, numerous messages posted on Twitter reveal people hated the film so much, they were forced to leave the cinema – some as early as 15 minutes in.
“The best part of our showing of Cats was about two-third of the way through when a man in the audience stood up, said ‘this movie is bad and I’m leaving’, and walked out while everyone applauded him,” one user wrote .
Film mistakes Batman (1989) The Tim Burton-directed superhero film has multiple mistakes, but a major one happens in the scene when Joker and his crew deface paintings at a museum. One of his gang members slaps a painting with his hands that are covered in red paint, but in the next shot, the handprints have disappeared from the artwork.
Film mistakes Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019) Rick Dalton, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, flies back to Hollywood on a Boeing 747. But it would have been a 707. The film was set in 1969 and the 747 went into service in January 1970.
Film mistakes The Graduate (1967) Dustin Hoffman’s character drives in the wrong direction across the Bay Bridge in San Francisco on his way to Berkeley, California. He is travelling on the top deck of the bridge for traffic going from California to San Francisco.
Embassy Pictures
Film mistakes Pretty Woman (1990) There is a continuity issue at breakfast when Julia Roberts’s character takes a bite out of a croissant. She’s in the hotel room with her co-star Richard Gere, but when the camera pans back to her, it transforms into a pancake. Then when she takes a second bite out of the pancake, there is only one bite mark in it.
Rex
Film mistakes North by Northwest (1959) One of the children playing an extra in Alfred Hitchcock’s film covers his ears a few seconds before Eva Marie Saint’s character unexpectedly fires a gun at Cary Grant’s character in the Mount Rushmore cafeteria.
MGM
Film mistakes Pulp Fiction (1994) Bullet holes can be seen in the walls of the apartment where John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson’s characters go to get a briefcase, but it’s before the shoot-out has happened.
Miramax
Film mistakes Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) John Connors Cessna’s plane numbers keep changing in the film. When he is in the hanger on the runway it is N3035C, but once it’s flying, the numbers change to N3413F.
Warner Bros.
Film mistakes The Wizard of Oz (1939) Judy Garland isn’t wearing her iconic ruby red slippers in the scene where the trees pelt Dorothy and the Scarecrow with apples. Instead, she can be seen wearing plain black shoes.
Alamy
Film mistakes American Sniper (2015) The baby that Bradley Cooper holds while adapting to civilian life after the Iraqi War is plastic. In fact, it looked so fake, even he admitted it was “nuts”.
Film mistakes Independence Day (1996) When computer expert David Levinson, played by Jeff Goldblum, is throwing a tantrum in the hanger housing the captured alien craft, he knocks over a bin that is labelled “Art Dept”. Clearly, a set designer left it there by mistake.
20th Century Fox
Film mistakes The Fast and the Furious (2001) In a scene when Jesse and Tran race, Tran is wearing a shirt with sleeves, but in the next shot he’s in a tank top. Didn’t anybody notice when they edited it?
Universal Pictures
Film mistakes Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011) We were always told that Harry Potter had his mother’s blue eyes. But when we see Lily Potter as a child, she has brown eyes.
Warner Bros.
Film mistakes Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) As a group of stormtroopers enter a control room, one of them accidentally bangs his head on a door. The actor responsible, Laurie Good, couldn’t believe it made it into the final film.
Film mistakes Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) There is a crew member wearing a cowboy hat and looking out to sea behind Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow on the pirate ship.
Disney
Film mistakes Quantum of Solace (2008) A street cleaner behind Daniel Craig’s James Bond is pretending to sweep the road but is holding his broom several inches off the ground.
Sony
Film mistakes 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) When Bianca accidentally shoots a gym teacher with an arrow, an extra, who is playing a student, runs off to get urgent help – but once she thinks she is out of shot, she stops and looks back at the camera.
Buena Vista Pictures
Film mistakes Braveheart (1995) There is a modern car in the background of a big battle scene. Considering the film is set in the 13th century, it’s hard to imagine how it stayed in the final cut.
20th Century Fox
Film mistakes Django Unchained (2012) Leonardo DiCaprio accidentally cut his hand while filming a scene in which he slams his hand on the table and breaks a glass. But rather than shout “cut”, he carried on in character. Tarantino liked it so much that he kept it in the film.
TWC
Film mistakes Captain Marvel (2019) Many of the mistakes are related to the film’s 1990s time period. These include computers using a wrongly dated version of Windows and Carol Danvers’s memories being jogged by a Nirvana song that wasn’t out until after she left Earth.
AP
Film mistakes Spider-Man (2002) Toby McGuire’s Spider-Man saves Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane from a group of attackers. He throws them through a set of windows before he kisses her upside down in the rain. But during their romantic embrace, the windows behind her are perfectly intact.
Rex
Film mistakes Blade Runner (1982) As Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) dies one rainy evening, he releases a dove into a clear, blue sky. It is a lovely symbolic act but slightly dampened by this continuity error. Ridley Scott finally fixed this and other mistakes with his 2007 Final Cut.
Film mistakes Halloween (1978) John Carpenter’s slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis was set in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, but all the cars have Californian number plates and there are shots of palm trees, as the film was shot in Southern California.
Film mistakes The Goonies (1985) At the end of the cult film, Data tells news reporters that the octopus was really scary, but this actually refers to a deleted scene. It was only added back in for the Disney Channel version.
Rex Features
Film mistakes Avengers: Endgame (2019) Eagle-eyed fans have noted that Ant-Man can be seen in two places at once during the final battle scene – in the van, and in his giant form, fighting alongside the other Avengers.
Film mistakes The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Merry and Pippin are captured by the Orcs at the start of the film, and Pippin is seen in handcuffs. But he doesn’t have them anymore in the fight scene. And then they reappear on his wrists a few moments later.
Rex
Film mistakes Gladiator (1999) Ridley Scott’s epic film took place many centuries before fuel-powered vehicles. But during the Battle of Carthage, a gas canister can be seen on the back of a chariot when it flips over.
Rex
Film mistakes The Dark Knight Rises (2012) There is a mix up over whether it is day or night at the beginning of the stock market heist scene in Christopher Nolan’s film. It is clearly daylight, but suddenly, after the police chase, it’s pitch black.
Rex
Film mistakes Titantic (1997) When Jack (Leonardi DiCaprio) is painting a naked Rose (Kate Winslet) and tells her to go over by the bed, and then says he means the couch, it was DiCaprio flubbing his lines. But James Cameron kept it in the film because it was funny.
Rex
Film mistakes Jurassic World (2015) The blockbuster featured about 33 mistakes, including a scene in which lead actor Chris Pratt talks to co-star Bryce Dallas Howard without his mouth moving. In another scene, a phone’s broken screen suddenly appears fixed.
Rex
Another added: “Still trying to think of words (any word, really) I can use to describe Cats , but until I do, please know that five groups walked out of our theatre before it was over.”
One Twitter user said: “I really don’t think you can understand how freaky and wrong it is until you see it.”
Cats – an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s successful musical – stars Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, James Corden, Judi Dench and Taylor Swift.
You can see a selection of these tweets below.
Cats is in cinemas now – read our verdict here and then find a ranking of the feline characters, from least to most embarrassing, here .
Following its mauling by critics , which included a zero-star review , the film grossed just $2.6m (£1.9m) on its opening day.
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