What’s everyone’s WORST movie experience? Mine is the time a guy came into a half-full theater late, sat down right in front of another guy, swore at him for “kicking his seat,” wouldn’t move to one of the many seats not in front of anyone, and finally pulled a gun on him and screamed “I’M A COP!”
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Film starts.
Woman sitting directly in front of us pulls out a Tupperware container of tuna salad, starts to nosh.
FRAGRANT tuna salad.
Still don't like that style of humor. Still don't like the film.
It was barely like 20 minutes into the movie fwiw. Never went back to ADH sadly.
Sorry we interrupted your private screening, dude.
1/2
However, my toolkit wasn't in the truck that day, I had to call my landlord and ask if he'd run to the house, get the box and meet me at the K-mart so I could change the battery (he did).
next day: getting alternator replaced. something like $550 all told, most expensive movies trip ever
One of the newer star wars movies 2 guys started a fist fight over a girl, who when they both got kicked out started cuddling up to a 3rd guy that was in the group lmao
Then Mom stood up and screamed at me.
And he wasn’t the only child during that screening.
Horror hounds are awful about bringing their kids to movies. I have just started avoiding the weekend matinees for big horror stuff (they tend to go to those because cheaper than babysitter).
Older lady next to me had no idea she'd bought tix for a fantasy movie, that was a sequel. The entire movie she was asking questions about what was going on.
"The core of the earth has stopped rotating."
Howls of derisive laughter.
Some wag at the bag of the theatre yells, "Bisto!"
Howls of laughter.
Thank goodness for camera torrents.
We did not see the second movie (whatever it was).
Day one- raw dogged it
Day two- I changed seats
Day three- I stayed home and watched my 4k copy on a recliner with a beer.
Literally as they're saying lines explaining shit she was asking him to explain that same shit. My wife and I pinched each other's legs into oblivion
There was no small child she had to explain this to. We checked.
During the end scenes when Bella's life is flashing by, the poor teen girl in front of me started seizing. I was a CNA at the time & had handled seizures before. It was the girl's first one ever. Helped calm her mom down & helped her until medics arrived. Poor kid.
The local news station movie critic guy was behind me and kicked my seat and talked the entire time. I asked politely, plz stop but he scowled and kept doing it. He was very rude.
currently 32% on Rotten Tomatoes, just sayin'
Smelled weird but it didn't ruin anything except my brain since I can't forget it.
i think one was when some guys moved our stuff that we were saving seats with and refused to budge so we had to sit in the front row which SUCKED
Looking at IMBD, I think maybe it was The Changeling.
Cinema 1 - evacuated for a bomb scare
Cinema 2 - massive fight, people being thrown over the balconies
Cinema 3 - crap movie, but the date was ok
3 cinemas in one night
Late 60s early 70s anyway
Glasgow, Scotland
In our defense, we liked Austin Powers together and the commercial can’t clarify just how sexual a movie is.
From the very first moment of the morning wood we sat in complete silence for 2 hours.
And any point would have been not a moment too soon.
The woman never stopped talking all through the film, then at the end of the film she shouted out that she'd just remembered that she had read about it and Schwarzenegger was going to die - just before he died.
Went on a Saturday morning (working 3-11 shifts at the time).
Screaming children, people talking, a packed theater and I was apparently the only person who'd had a shower and applied deodorant that week.
Completely broke the atmosphere.
No one got shot, but the theater got evacuated.
They didn't even offer a refund, or a replacement ticket.
We went and finished it.
The irony was too much not to.
Then I saw the Minecraft trailer, and a piece of my soul actually died.
Now, I'm reading a lot more. Even considering playing outside again.
Had to get up twice to tell someone and it never got fixed.
Also, pretty much any movie where kids show up is kinda the worst.
Went to watch Scream, and a couple was making out a few rows behind me. A few minutes later this dude starts moaning like it’s a damn porno.
Finally finishes, but sits there watching the movie. No clean up or anything
Second of all I haven’t been to the movies in years and rarely went to them bc I’m a homebody but I as a child was probably the cause of someone else’s worst movie experience. I was very loud and got scared at everything.
But the absolute worst 1/2
I don't think he's a bad guy, by all accounts. And I enjoyed his silly zombie heist movie. But Superman? No.
Shame we can't test for loutishness somehow.
As recounted here:
https://youtu.be/6bmnEsg3sEA?si=To9UjUfrGrgFt-Jz
I went to see _The Sixth Sense_. There were about 20 other people there, in clusters of 2 or 3, and they all chatted throughout, some of them on cell phones. The house lights were left on (low). I couldn’t focus enough on the movie to be surprised at the twist.
Anyway, they got kicked out, I got free tickets to the next screening, and then the guy next to me was on his phone the whole time. 😑
*hands you the silver cup*
Gave myself hydronephrosis.
We walked out and shall not return to that theater.
It was an afternoon near midsummer so still dumped him before sunset.
I now take Xanax if I am forced into watching a movie that hasn’t been out for at least 3 weeks.
a guy a couple rows ahead of us, there with his whole family, would not stop watching deal or no deal on a portable teevee
no headphones. just raw dogging his howie mandel fix. got mad when people yelled at him. had to threaten him in front of his kids
That level of selfishness is so incomprehensibly abominable, TF...
i was losing my got dang MIND
Honestly kind of awesome in retrospect that someone was that worried and/or mad.
... Yeah, I got nothing that won´t make me seem petty as shit now.
They could not stop making obvious comments or joking with each other the whole time!
I love them both, but their commentary was driving me up the wall that night!
The movie was alright, even if it wasn't Travolta's best.
During the scene where Blair comes out and tells the party that they're gonna die, a bunch of people started screeching. I soon learned that it was not from the movie - it was a giant rat running through the aisles eating popcorn.
[sound of peeing drowned out by rat w/NYC accent shouting NOT ME, SWEETHAHT as he dashes across people’s shins]
Don't kick seats. It's rude and can damage the seat. It's also obnoxious.
Also who brings a gun to a theater? 💀
‘nuff said
Fair to say, it diminished the impact of the ending
I'd definitely have done some sort of abbreviation to indicate which one was which. Like P.Norman and P.Act 4 or something.
There was no such "understandable" misunderstanding in my case, and no reparations offered by the cinema. Just "Oops!"
https://wiki.lspace.org/Foul_Ole_Ron
(not likely, this was in Iceland after all)
It was a whole thing.
Okay serious answer I’ve had several theaters have sound issues: The last 5 minutes of Dungeons and Dragons ‘23 the sound went out completely and the entirety of Shang-Chi the dialog was quiet and tinny, others over the years.
Some people shouldn’t go to movie theaters.
*on Christmas Day*