OT: worst movie theater experiences
i'm in the mood for a good laugh so i figure i'd start one of these threads again.
my worst theater experience was when i went to go see Spiderman 3 in a theater. well of course some dumb guy starts talking on his phone right when the lights go down and the thing starts.
after awhile a guy behind him gets tired of it and asks him to stop. the guy on the phone basically said "fuck off" and then the guy behind LEAPS into the row and takes the guy's phone from him. Then they start fighting, in the aisle, food and drinks are going everywhere and women are screaming.
It took the staff about 5 minutes to take control of the place. it was crazy. everyone got their money back.
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.. only this took place on a red eye flight from California back to Cleveland. It's I believe 3 seats, aisle, 3 seats sort of arrangement, and my ticket was for the window seat. Naturally, I'm walking in to board and this guy and his wife are in my window seat and the middle seat, putting me along the aisle. They of course are giving me that look as I'm walking toward them like they know they are in the wrong seat but just hoping whoever's seat it is doesn't say anything. I don't because I don't really care, and normally I prefer the aisle for the additional leg room.
Plane takes off... these people are stuffing their face with bags of smelly fast food to start and throwing their trash all over the floor. Then, it isn't until after we're into the flight, that I find out these idiots have put me between themselves and their 2 kids (probably 10-12 ish in age) on the other side of the aisle. While I'm trying to sleep, they spend the several hour flight passing gum and other crap over me and across the aisle to their kids never once acknowledge how f*cked up it is to have placed me in between all that. On top, un-related kid behind me is kicking my seat the whole time. It took everything I could to keep my composure and not get myself restrained by going off on those morons.
Almost forgot, the lady in my window seat was also on crutches with a boot... so instead of sitting on the aisle, this idiot makes me get up so she can limp to the bathroom any time she needs up.
Went to see the remake of 'Dawn of the Dead,' a few years back. The woman behind me had to react to every scene and every conversation, not to mention repeat lines of conversations going on even before the main action took place on screen. She seemed to be the type that would make a scene if you so much as turned around and told her to shhhhhh. So my friends and I got up. The only empty seats left were in the front row and we had to spend the rest of the moving looking straight up.
On top of that, the movie ended up being very meh. Zombies are NOT Olympic sprinters.
My sophomore year at Michigan, I took this English class about literary adaptations. Because we were reading Pride and Prejudice, our instructor assigned us to go to the State Theater to see Bride and Prejudice, the Bollywood adaptation that had recently come out. So one night, I trudged down there, paid my six bucks, and bought a popcorn to at least treat myself while sitting through this thing.
Five or ten minutes in, the sound quits. They try to fix it, and can't figure it out. So they send out a poor student worker to say "Sorry, everyone, we have to refund your money and you'll have to come back another time."
So here I am, with a full large popcorn, and an evening shot to hell. And I had to come back a couple days later and do it all again. Of course, the film wasn't even very good.
I was in 5th grade when me and my buddy played hookey from school and went to see a movie where I grew up inner city Chicago. This is about a 1PM film and the theatre is in a fiarly rough neighborhood where me and my buddy are 2 of just perhaps 4 white guys and 15 black/hispanic patrons.
This movie has an EPIC fight scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oud7EMZCu4
Between a very large white guy and a very large black guy. So as the fight progresses some idiot screams "kick that niggers ass." I literally felt my sphincter tighten as in response the black patrons are screaming in like kind "fuck that honkey up!"
I was to scared to say anything just scoping the exits for a getaway and an overwhelming cheer as the white guy (thank you GOD) died and the black members of the audience were appeased.
I watched that movie at home drunk and high and laughed all the way through.
And now that I've seen it I'd never ever ever see it NOT drunk and high.
In a theater, on a big screen, it's like an onslaught of horrifying events and you have no idea why you're forcing yourself to watch it. I just remember feeling nauseated from the get go.
Yes, but Dame Helen MIrren was in that film, in all her glory. From a guy's perspective, that's all that mattered.
I had to watch a movie about the civil war and genocide in the Balkans with a girl who was really into foreign movies. I was depressed enough after the movie that I just called it a night after the movie was over.
Before the Rain? If so, one of the finest foreign films of the last three decades.
You would.
in the theater. My friend told my other friend it was no good and don't see it. My other friend somehow translated that to "It's good, go see it"
Wost movie ever made. Opening scene is a brother and sister bemoaning that they can't marry as they are so in love and want to screw. They demand that their dad bless the union and he says sure, he's adopted. go for it. It went downhill from there...
I have my embarrasssing kid/teen memories too. I'm mid 50s and you'd think one of the benefits of aging would be that you forget those moments. Nope. You are stuck with them.
Actually, I had no idea what was coming. I knew nothing about the movie. Saw it opening night in Manhattan on a whim. Walked out a few minutes after the big reveal. It's a lousy movie with or without the "surprise."
Don't get me wrong, I thought it was a funny movie. It was more about the circumstances. We arrived late, so we had to sit in the very front row, and my wife (girlfriend at the time,) hearing it was a funny movie, thought it would be fun to bring HER MOTHER!!!
Worst movie ever.
I regret wasting $10 of my hard earned money to go sit through that disgrace of a movie.
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"my worst theater experience was when i went to go see Spiderman 3 in a theater"
You could have stopped right there, pretty much.
EDIT: I just saw that someone already beat me to that, and did a much better job than I did.
I hate to pile on again, and beat that dead horse, but my personal vote goes to 'The Phantom Menace.' All that hype, all that excitement, and...*thud*.
More recent film, and a very close runner-up: 'The Counselor.' Almost makes me NEVER want to see anything Ridley Scott ever does again. As much as I am a fan of Cormac McCarthy in terms of his novels...movie scripts are definitely not his thing. The only thing that salvaged that experience was the fact that my brother and I saw it in the theater with all of two other people, sitting far away from us, so we could pretty much openly give the film the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" treatment.
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I think there's one essential truth about guys and movies: we will sit through practically anything if we think we're gonna get laid at the end of the night.
So many years ago, this girl (a big fan of horror films), wanted to see "The Guardian." I can't stand those movies, but I figured I'd bite the bullet if it would help make the evening have a happy ending (pun intended). Besides, I've been rightly accused of sometimes having a closed mind about movies, and not giving certain genres a chance. So here was a chance to rectify that. It might actually turn out to be good, y'know?
It wasn't even close. Other than the one moment when I thought, "Hey, that's the guy who played Ray's father in 'Field of Dreams,'" I spent the evening trying not to stare at my watch. I consoled myself by thinking, "Well, I'm not here for the movie - I'm here for the 'other thing.'"
Unfortunately, the other thing didn't happen either.
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Also one time we went to see one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and it was subtitled. Didn't know beforehand and we were already there. Basically I missed the whole movie because my brain made me read every word on the screen.
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SO SORRY YOU ARE HEARING IMPAIRED!!!
I'm going to post this to admit that I laughed, and then neg myself because I'm ashamed that I did.
A thriller you are supposed to watch to the very end. We went to a late showing which started late because they turned off the projector for a while after previews. Then (probably connected) the projector broke with about 8 min to go in the movie. The whole movie is those 8 minutes. We were told by the theatre to walk 3 blocks over to their other location and join a showing in progress. We arrived and the movie was about 30-40 minutes behind where ours broke by the time we got there. We had to stand in the back and on the sides. Like 30 people standing around this full theatre. Re-watching a third of the movie we just saw. Finally saw the ending. It sucked. The movie was terrible. All that for nothing.
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Yahoo Serious. My wife and I thought it would be a good comedy to see. We left after 10 minutes and went to the pub. That's the only movie I've ever walked out of ever.
Wolf of Wall Street... We didnt know what it was beforehand, so I certainly didnt expect to watch a poorly disguised porno with my mom for 3 hours.