People walked out of the theatre when I saw this

I saw TFA at a theatre in an Asian country where SW is certainly known about but isn't the kind of pop culture sensation it is here in the west (at least before this trilogy anyway). To my amazement, significant numbers of people walked out early. At first I thought they were just going to the restroom, but few who left came back, more and more people were getting up and walking out as time passed, and by the end of the screening the theatre was almost completely empty.

It's just an anecdote of course, but this was my first experience ever witnessing more than one or two people walk out of a screening early, and I never would have expected it to happen to a blockbuster like this. It just goes to show how over-hyped this awful film was by certain rogue elements of the fandom and media.