OT: worst movie theater experiences

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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.

share yours below.

 

Ike613

June 7th, 2015 at 10:22 PM ^

.. 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.

WolverineHistorian

June 7th, 2015 at 8:30 PM ^

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.   

Danwillhor

June 8th, 2015 at 7:58 AM ^

someone decided it'd be great to bring a very young kid to the showing. It's packed and the kid was quiet when the movie started so most forgot about him being there and kind loud during the previews. It's super quiet in I've scene and all the sudden this little voice in the front of the theatre says "ohh, man, that's some scary stuff". With the child's emphatic tone, lisp and complete unexpected nature of it the entire crowd was cracking up. Nobody really got over it. The movie was so meh that more people were impersonating the kid as they left. It was one of those things where you truly had to be there to really appreciate it.

Bando Calrissian

June 7th, 2015 at 8:32 PM ^

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.

IB6UB9

June 7th, 2015 at 8:46 PM ^

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. 

 

iLoveMichigan

June 7th, 2015 at 8:35 PM ^

Star Wars Episode 2. These two moronic, nerdy, fat, and smelly 40-year olds, who were there for their second viewing of the movie, were sitting next to my friend and me. Throughout the entire movie, they would just say things they thought were funny, making sure people around them heard. About three-fourths of the way through, I had enough. I stood, got in front of them, and said something like, "You guys need to shut the fuck up. You are ruining it for everyone around you. You are not funny." They stopped, thankfully.

1blueeye

June 7th, 2015 at 8:36 PM ^

This could be both good and bad. My wife doesn't even know the truth of this. But when we were dating she made me take her to see "runaway bride". We had dinner at don Pablo's. During the movie I let one fly that was so silent but deadly, she leans over and tells me, " the fat guy behind us ripped one and it's making me sick.". So she wanted to leave. Never saw how it ended. Damn

Wendyk5

June 7th, 2015 at 8:40 PM ^

I saw "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" in a theater 25 or so years ago. It's a British film that opens with a pack of dogs urinating and shitting on a guy who's just been beaten up and ends with a man being cooked and eaten by patrons in a restaurant. Everything in between was equally disturbing. I had to step out in the middle and splash my face with cold water in the bathroom - i nearly vomited from how stressful it was.

Badkitty

June 7th, 2015 at 8:46 PM ^

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.

champswest

June 7th, 2015 at 8:48 PM ^

First one was some Indie film that broke about half way through. About five minutes later it restarts for a few minutes then snaps again. This time there is a 15 minute wait for it to restart only to have it break again. After another very long delay, they announce that they can't get it fixed and give everyone a rain check for another day. My wife went back to see it in a few days, but I didn't.

Second one, my wife and I are waiting along with others, for the prior showing to end. When the people came out, they were acting kind of weird. Someone was helping an older lady walk out, who didn't look too good. There was talk that she had gotten sick in the movie. Finally, the staff announced that due to the unsanitary condition of the theater, the movie was cancelled and we were given refunds. I don't think it was vomit. I think it was from the other end.

The Man Down T…

June 7th, 2015 at 8:49 PM ^

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...

TheCool

June 7th, 2015 at 8:55 PM ^

Showcase Cinemas in Bloomfield Hills near Square Lake and Telegraph I went to see Halloween 4 or 5 with my stepmother. The first time we tried the screen went dead, so we had to come back after being refunded. Then, on the second attempt some dude and lady were arguing, or it might have been just two guys, but eventually a fight broke out a fun was brandished and I just remember being pulled through a sea of people into the parking lot on our way to the car and home. We went back the next weekend.

Victor Valiant

June 7th, 2015 at 9:07 PM ^

Don't remember the movie. I was a senior in high school and on my first date with a girl I had recently asked out. I had my foot up on the arm rest of one of the seats in the row in front of me, not realizing it was bothering a woman who was short enough that I couldn't tell she was sitting there. Her boyfriend/husband who was probably about 30 years old to my 18 at the time turned around and screamed at me in a quiet theater for making his girl uncomfortable even though I hadn't realized I was. I was so taken aback that I couldn't muster words. I eventually whispered to the girl I was with that I was embarrassed because I hadn't noticed I was bothering anyone. The guy saw me whispering and screamed at me again because he assumed I was bad mouthing him. I was once again taken aback and had no idea how to react. Needless to say my date was ruined and I felt like a giant douche around that girl the rest of my senior year. It's been 11 years and I still get furious picturing that red neck embarrassing me in that theater, even though he was partly justified for being upset.

UNCWolverine

June 7th, 2015 at 9:08 PM ^

I rented a room from some kook in Raleigh for a few months just after grad school. It was 100+ every day and she refused to turn on her a/c. I didn't have a job yet so on the days my gf wasn't home I had nowhere to go all day unless I wanted to sweat at the house all day. So I started to spend my afternoons at the gym or at the theater.

On theater days I'd buy a ticket for the first movie of the day then just basically theater hop all afternoon, watching all sorts of crap. Someone mentioned Dumb and Dumberer which reminded me of this time in my life. That movie was so bad I actually took a nap in the back row, never slept during a movie at the theater before.

gwrock

June 12th, 2015 at 11:33 PM ^

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."

ST3

June 7th, 2015 at 9:27 PM ^

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!!!

Perkis-Size Me

June 7th, 2015 at 10:16 PM ^

Hangover III. That's one of those movies where you just want to ask for your money back because it was so bad.

I regret wasting $10 of my hard earned money to go sit through that disgrace of a movie.




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MGoblu8

June 7th, 2015 at 10:21 PM ^

Went to see a midnight movie (don't remember which) in Miami. We were early, so I ordered some Cuban coffee. The lady gave me a whole cup, complete with the little cups for sharing. Anyway, I was a Cuban rookie, so I tossed the little cups and drank the coffee. About halfway through the movie, I start feeling jittery, and like my heart is racing. As it got worse, i got more nervous (probably some palpitations), and a little numb (I'm 95% sure it was mental). So I spent the rest of the movie wondering if I was going to go into a lethal heart arrhythmia and die. Again, I don't even remember the movie.

pinkfloyd2000

June 7th, 2015 at 10:48 PM ^

"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.

samdrussBLUE

June 7th, 2015 at 11:33 PM ^

AI artificial intelligence from 2001. Went with my mom (I was like 13). 10 minutes in, we looked at each other like WTF!? 30 minutes later, we looked at each other and left. Only movie I have failed to complete in a theater.




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Sam1863

June 8th, 2015 at 6:27 AM ^

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.

Bigasshammm

June 8th, 2015 at 9:10 AM ^

Forget what movie it was but there was a guy and girl sitting a few rows in front of us and the guy had a back scratcher with him. He sat through the entire movie scratching his back, his arms, his legs, everywhere. I was beyond disgusted by the end of the movie and told the manager they may want to burn the chair he was sitting in. Throughout the movie I couldn't stop staring at him. Still gives me the creeps.


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.

Vote_Crisler_1937

June 8th, 2015 at 10:57 AM ^

Vantage Point.

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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RGard

June 8th, 2015 at 11:02 AM ^

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.

Bosch

June 8th, 2015 at 5:09 PM ^

Dances with Wolves with a couple friends in high school. I know the movie has generally favorable reviews and has won awards.... but I hated it. About half way through, the film splits (probably over the head of a lot of you).... we clear the theater and they give us a pass to see another movie. Good right? Except we go see Nothing but Trouble a couple weeks later. Chevy Chase. Dan Akroyd. Demi Moore. John Candy. I figured it would have moments.... but it was god aweful.

drfall92

June 8th, 2015 at 7:26 PM ^

Avatar! Too long and the 3D gave me a headache. There was the time that I went to watch Marley and Me and my girlfriend broke up with me.