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SwiftSketcher said:
I went to see How to Train Your Dragon, and in the ending where Hiccup
gets up out of bed and reveals he's missing a leg
some guy in the theater just starts laughing his fucking ass off loud as hell. It was like he just saw the funniest joke in the world. I just don't get it. It's such a shocking emotional reveal, and it was ruined for me forever because this guy thought it was funny as shit.

Same thing happened with Wall-e and the ending where Eve thought Wall-e was dead. For some reason the kids there thought it was hilarious and totally took the emotion out of it.
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Yesss, I went to see I Am Legend and at the end when
he had to strangle his dog to death
there were like 4 kids laughing their asses off and shouting "gay". I guess I was in a bad mood that day, but at the end I went right up to the kid and told him that he better learn to be quite and stop being a little bitch... nobody backed me up in the theater though, even though these shits were laughing during the entire movie.
 
FreeMufasa said:
Was on a double date (me and my gf, my friend and his date) and we were watching Van Helsing. My friend was fingering his gf and then took a whiff of his fingers. He then said to me "Smell this" and passed his fingers through my nose. It was one of the worst smells i've ever smelt. Through up in the theatre and then again in the rest room.
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FreeMufasa said:
Was on a double date (me and my gf, my friend and his date) and we were watching Van Helsing. My friend was fingering his gf and then took a whiff of his fingers. He then said to me "Smell this" and passed his fingers through my nose. It was one of the worst smells i've ever smelt. Through up in the theatre and then again in the rest room.
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Holy shit, just spat water all over my keyboard at work. Hilarious.
 
Death Note Live Action showing at a local Famous Players cinema.

This was the first "anime-ish" movie I went to see in public, and it will be the last. Fan girls "d'awaawwwwwwwww"ing at every scene with L in it, and everyone cheering and clapping at ever little reference to the show.

I wanted to shoot myself.
 
When I went to see Hulk, the 2002 movie, some fat woman fell asleep in front of me and started snoring noisily, and an air conditioner vent overhead dripped on me the entire time. In retrospect, I probably should have just left since the movie was Godawful anyway.
 
Back in HS, me and my g/f decided to go to the movies. Usually, it was she picks one, I pick one. But every time I'd let her pick one, that meant happy time for me during the movie, provided by her hand. So, I always was the perfect gentleman and let her pick the movie. So we go to see some chick flick. We're about a quarter of the way through the movie, and she starts "revving up the engine". Things are going good, I'm going cross eyed, and then I hear "Nice to see you. Can't wait for you to bring my daughter home tonight, so we can have a little chat."

Yep, only time I've ever had a semi and looked into another man's eyes.

Of course, I immediately lose interest in about two seconds of him staring at his little daughter, with her hands full. Her dad slowly walks away, she's trying to pull for the prize, and I'm sitting there in shock, fear, and disbelief. She then tells me "Oh yeah, I should have figured my parents would be here. My dad took my mom out for a date night."

Luckily, I think her dad, upon reflecting his 16 Y.O. daughter yanking some dude's crank, refused to discuss it again.

My fiance recently tried this tactic at a movie we went to see. She's heading to the promised land, and I break out into a cold sweat.
 
Didn't ruin the experience, but when my brother and I went to see the Aqua Teen movie a guy in the theater didn't know what he was in for and kept saying "What the hell?" the entire movie. Actually, he was the funniest part of seeing that movie.
 
Star Wars: Whatever the last one was called. Packed Ultrascreen theater, my buddy and I literally got the last two seats available on opening day, sometime in the afternoon. Next to me sits a young couple (guy/girl) and the guy won't stop making jokes. Dumb ones too.

So after about the 8th or 9th joke, he cracks another one and I loudly reply "DUH HUH HUH HAW HAW HAW!" He and his girlfriend are clearly caught off guard and they both look at me. I return a straight-faced stare for about 2 seconds and go back to watching the movie. No further jokes are made.
 
Oh yeah, one more:

I don't even remember what movie it was, but my father and I were 2 of the 4 people in the audience. The other 2 are this couple somewhere in their 50's. The guy is eating popcorn very loudly and like a pig. Worse yet, after each handful he's sucking the butter off each of his fingers one by one. Each finger-sucking has a pretty audible sucking and smacking noise. After 5 minutes I just couldn't take it anymore. I sat down next to him and explained that his finger sucking was not only loud, but it was grossing me out and it was all I could think about. He apologized and knocked it off. All was fine afterward.
 
Shit is usually pretty good here in Norway, but I did see The Grudge 2 with some friends when I was in Los Angeles a few years back.

We got there pretty early since we had nothing better to do. Twenty minutes in the doors slam open and in walks a group of black people (relevant to the story) laughing and shouting all the way to their seats. Mind you, this was twenty minutes after the film had started. As they sit down I see that all of them are girls, except for one guy who seems to be the center of attention to the rest of the girls.

Anyway, they probably didn't have a clue what was going on in the film, or what it even was about, because they kept shouting obscenities at the screen, throwing shit, and generally being a bunch of dicks. My friends and I were ready to just leave, the movie kinda sucked anyway, when this HUUUUUGE black guy got up and yelled "SERIOUSLY? SHOUTING AT THE SCREEN? THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT NOW?" and just stared at them for 30 seconds straight. Things got real quiet after that, then the whole theatre just burst into applause. Was pretty hilarious.
 
Xun said:
Sitting with a friend watching Bruno. Awful film.
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I remember another time I had a bad experience at the cinema, although this time it wasn't a bad film.

I went to see Up in 3D at the London IMAX and the 3D messed up right when
Ellie dies.

It ruined the film. :(
 
I remember urban-blight throwing popcorn at the screen during the "Front Row Joe" segment at Cinemark (Woodland, CA). Pissed my girlfriend off, but I thought it was pretty funny. It was decidedly less funny, when they started heckling the movie to the point of shouting over the dialogue.
 
Solo said:
- people with cellphones. Turn that fucking shit off.
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Some fuckwad would not stop talking loudly on his cell phone the entire movie, and I realized I could not kill him with my mind.

That's probably my worst theater experience.
 
I went to see "Drag Me to Hell" with some friends. We were the only 3 people in the theater. Then a family of 4 morbidly obese people come in (after the previews had started). In an entire empty theater they sit directly in front of us. Then, they all took off their shoes and put their feet up. Their feet fucking smelled so bad it was overpowering. Then, they proceed to noisily take out and eat chinese food and the combined smell of whatever they were eating and their feet had me gagging and dry heaving the entire movie.
 
x Power Pad Death Stomp x said:
I went to see "Drag Me to Hell" with some friends. We were the only 3 people in the theater. Then a family of 4 morbidly obese people come in (after the previews had started). In an entire empty theater they sit directly in front of us. Then, they all took off their shoes and put their feet up. Their feet fucking smelled so bad it was overpowering. Then, they proceed to noisily take out and eat chinese food and the combined smell of whatever they were eating and their feet had me gagging and dry heaving the entire movie.
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Why didn't you guys sit somewhere else?
 
The worst I remember is watching Street Fighter and the sound mix was turned up to an unbearable level. It was a theater in Torrance, CA, probably Regal owned and operated.

Eventually people started to complain and the projectionist turned down the volume half way through.
 
FreeMufasa said:
Was on a double date (me and my gf, my friend and his date) and we were watching Van Helsing. My friend was fingering his gf and then took a whiff of his fingers. He then said to me "Smell this" and passed his fingers through my nose. It was one of the worst smells i've ever smelt. Through up in the theatre and then again in the rest room.
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I live in Fort Collins, CO, and the audiences are usually pretty good. The problem is that we only have two decent theaters in town, one a Carmike and the other a Cinemark, and it seems like they'll hire any random high school student to run the projector and sound system. 60% of the time at the Carmike theater either the sound is messed up (only coming through some channels, or having no bass, etc.) or the picture is ruined (very dark image/washed out colors--like a projector bulb went out perhaps), or both. Complaining does nothing, so I stopped going there entirely. The Cinemark is just a bit better.

The biggest problem is that no one else seems to notice or care. I want decent sound and picture for my $20 movie going experience. Is that so much to ask for?

...I can't wait to move to leave this town.
 
You know I can honestly say that since I started going to matinees I haven't had a bad experience. Usually there are like 5 people tops when I go to those. However before I started going to them the last one which was the norm for me was the stereotypes yelling at the screen during a horror movie. Sadly that was usually what I experienced. Yelling at the screen or talking up a storm as loud as they can. It was always so annoying. That's one reason I started going to said matinees. Well that and the fact I can save 3 bucks.
 
JABEE said:
I don't move.
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Just happened to me with MI:4. This guy was getting on the ushers case because he had to sit in the first three rows in the IMAX theatre. He wanted her to get other people to move.

Don't show up just before the movie - fuckers! Especially with a limited screening of an IMAX film.

Morans.

Also, I was at The Artist and someone's cell phone went off. FUCCCKKK. Then they proceeded to start texting the person.
 
People who can't chew popcorn with their mouth closed. Actually... popcorn itself irritates me and I'd like to stab the idiot who thought crinkly bags and crunchy popcorn were a good idea.

I'm easily irritable when it comes to sounds.
 
Random teen cunts who have nothing to do then watch a random movie (most of the time they are movies that are actually good) and start yapping and screaming and throwing popcorn around to such an extend that you have to find a staff member to throw them out. We all applaud when that happens and quickly resume watching the movie in silence.
 
Only a couple in recent memory

- Went to go see see 21 in theatres. Got there late and sat in the very front row. So f'n terrible, never again.
- Went to see avatar like 3 weeks after it came out. It was crazy busy and the theatre reaked like BO and wasn't clean at all. Also, $13.50 for a 3D movie? How about no.
 
cultofweaver said:
movie theater stories....
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I worked in a theater for a couple years.
There were so many things that would happen that would leave me just scratching my head and saying "Why?"

(Sorry in advance for the super-long 1500+ word post, but I got on a roll while typing)

On Fridays and Saturdays, the cops would be at our movie theater. Not security guards, but police officers. I see their cars parked in the parking lot every now and then where I go to see movies now, but where I worked, they hung out in the lobby, ready to respond to anything. To get in, you are going to have to walk past these officers. So if you are in there, you should know that there are cops in there.
Now, I'm walking around working as a porter this one night, with my broom and dustpan, and someone comes out of an auditorium and straight up to me. "Sir, I believe there is someone smoking in the theater I'm in." So I follow this person in and ask them to point out to me who it is. He/She points to someone in the back row and I begin walking up the stairs to have a word with them when my eyes finally adjust and I turn around and go straight to get the cops. Why? This dumb son of a bitch is has a pipe out and is smoking weed in the theater. A theater where there is no smoking period and there are cops everywhere and he thought it would be a great idea to get high. Why?!

One night a woman came in and bought her ticket, then approached me to have me tear the ticket stub and then direct her to the proper auditorium. What blew me away about her though (besides the terrible smell of alcohol coming off of her) was that she was smoking a cigarette. Like, inside of our building. I'm sitting there thinking, 'Why did the cashier not say anything to her, WTF?' I tell her, "Ma'am, there is absolutely no smoking in our building." She brushes past me and lets out a slurred "Oh...okay. Yeah, I'm good," leaving me standing there like "What in the world...?"
A supervisor and officer walks up and ask "Was that women drunk?" I told them, "Ummmm, yeah, I'm pretty sure she was, but she is also smoking right now. I told her she had to put it out and she didn't seem to care." So they ask what theater she was going to and head off to find her. They later come back and are standing in the lobby scratching their heads before a patron comes up and talks to them, causing them to run into a nearby auditorium which just ended. The supervisor comes back and asks me to follow him. He walks me to the front row and says "Is that the woman who was smoking earlier?" Sure enough, there is the old lady, passed out across the first row of seats, with the police officer yelling at her to wake up. She just wandered into the first room she saw and fell asleep. Finally the officer roused her from her slumber and escorted her out.

Spy Kids 3D. Got a report of a guy fingering his girlfriend in the theater. It was opening weekend too. That one pissed me off quite a bit, because it was a theater full of children and they were sitting right in the middle of the seats.

Like others in here, I had experiences with people smearing feces all over walls and doors in the bathrooms. I would gag as soon as I saw it and shut the stall door, reach over the top with a broom and lock it from the outside, and put up an Out of Order sign and then leave it. It was a dick move, but young me did not think he was getting paid enough to deal with that.

Can't really think of too much else. People who dip used to piss me off, when I would be cleaning a theater and find spit bottles and dipspit cups everywhere. People would either toss them into the seat or onto the floor, or they would balance them perfectly to where when I walked past, it would fall onto my pants or shoes. I had chewing tobacco and spit splash onto me numerous times.


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I hate all of the things most of you hate: kids kicking your seat, people talking, loud eaters, cell phone users, dudebros. But my worst movie theater experience was probably while I was still working for that theater.

A coworker and I had gotten off of work and gone out to her car to smoke a bit. We then went back in and into a theater. I still remember to this day, 'Cheaper by the Dozen,' with Steve Martin. Not something I wanted to see, but I had a thing for this chick for a while and she wanted to, so whatever. So we are sitting there, going through the trailers and making some small talk. About 5 minutes into the movie, it hits me: I have to throw up. I excuse myself and run out the theater into the men's room. I don't know what the fuck was in the shit that we smoked, but I violently threw up for several minutes before passing out. I woke up probably 15 to 20 minutes later after some movie had ended and the bathroom filled up. Someone was yelling if I was okay, as my legs were stretched out from under the stall door and visible to everyone. I stand up and open the door, walking out and to the sink to clean my face up. In front of everyone, here I come in my movie theater uniform still with vomit all over my face. I wash my face and then head back to the theater. I get to the entrance and feel like I am going to die. There is a janitor's closet next to me, and I open the door and walk in a step or two.
Boom! Down I go, face first into the floor and the door shuts behind me. This was sometime before midnight. I end up waking up around 3 in the morning and go out. There is no one in the theater anymore except a buddy from school who is closing up. He sees me and says "Yo, I thought you go off work hours ago?" I explained what happened to him and ask for a ride home and then sat around for half an hour waiting for him before going home. And the next day, I had to try to come up with a good story to tell the chick when she said "Hey, what happened to you last night?"

Another story comes close to tying with that for first place. It involves the same girl. We get off work again and go smoke again. The third Matrix is out and neither of us had seen it yet. It's already half an hour or so into the movie though, but we both wander in and sit down in the front row in a section where it is two seats by themselves next to each other. I'm useless with being able to talk to a girl or handle myself well at this point in my life, so I spend most of the movie sitting as far away from her in the chair as I possibly can. Rather than just do anything, my mind is overanalyzing the situation. I'm sitting there trying to think of every possible thing I could say or do and her reaction to each of these. Finally, it gets to the part where
Trinity
dies and I realize, 'This is probably the most sad, romantic part of the movie...do something.' So I look over at her and place my hand on her upper thigh, causing her to look at me, and I say "Are you doing alright." She smiles and says "Yeah, I'm doing good." I then say, "Oh, okay" and remove my hand from her thigh and return to my awkward position hugging the opposite side of the chair from her.
I still look back on the incident and get pissed off at younger me...
 
I went to see Warrior with my wife and behind us was 3 generations of assholes. Grandmother, son and his wife and their kids. They all were talking throughout the movie like they were sitting in their living room. The kids getting up and walking around, the parents talking about house stuff. At one point of the movie I just got fed up, turned around and yelled, "You aren't in your living room! Now shut up or leave!". I got a small round of appplause from people around us and the kids had a look on their faces like I was about to kill them. They were quiet the rest of the movie. After the movie I ran into the dad in the bathroom, he apologized and that was it. I usually don't react like that, but this was a movie my wife had really wanted to see and that family was ruining the experience for her.

I rarely go to movies anymore because of the audience wildcard.
 
The last movie I saw on opening weekend was Inception, it was a horrible experience and I'll never do that again. I have a weird work schedule where I'm usually off on weekdays, so I just wait a few weeks then go to a matinee on a weekday, the wife and I are usually the only people in the theater.

Actually I have one random, awesome experience with a weekday show. We went to see Bridesmaids on a Tuesday evening at least a month after it came out, I was surprised that it was still in the theater. We got there a little early and saw that there were already a few people in the theater, it was all older people so I was cool with it. Then as the previews started people just kept streaming in, all older couples and small groups of adults. Before I knew it the place was packed (it was a small theater), and the crowd was really awesome, no kids, talking, or texting and everyone was really into the movie and laughed a ton. It totally surprised me and it was the best movie going experience I've had in recent memory.
 
I think theatres' apathy for people shitting up the expirience has as much to do with less customers than anything. At least it is the case for me, not prices or anything else. I seems it has become progressivley worse over the years to where it is intolerable.
 
Was in a horrible spot last night at MI4 in UltraAVX (competes with IMAX here in Canada). Would like to know your thoughts on what the hell I was supposed to do.

Three guys were sitting in front of me and my friend. Late 20s I'm guessing. Seemed like three normal dudes going to see an action movie - nothing out of the ordinary when they came in and took their seats.

Movie starts really silently... And I start hearing this kind of... Laughing? Chuckling? In front of me. "Heheuhuhuheheheuhhuhuhuehu". I think to myself wtf is going on, is this asshole laughing already? This isn't going to be good.

Then he starts wobbling his head back and forth, fingers all twitching out. Dude was mentally challenged. Some form of Tourettes Syndrome I'm guessing. For the ENTIRE rest of the movie, he was shaking around in his seat being extremely loud, doing this nervous tick laugh thing he can't control. The movie was ruined for everyone around him, except for his friends as I'm guessing they're used to it.

I'm sorry, I don't care if this isn't politically correct but fuck those guys. Seriously. What the fuck am I supposed to do, ask him to leave? Tell him to control his uncontrollable tick? What a horrible position to put everyone else in.

He deserves to enjoy life like the rest of everyone else, but to do so in a situation where it ruins everyone else's enjoyment of a movie is ridiculous. $15 and two hours of my time wasted.

What would you have done GAF?
 
my brother and I went to see a movie, forgot the name but some fat girl and her friend were eating a pizza during it, one of those theater pizzas and she had some awful toppings and stuff on it, it was chicken, garlic ,broccoli and i think cottage cheese 0_o


then when we went to see Kill Bill 2 some fat guy sat next to us and his B.O smell was awful.


then there are people who make jokes out loud, must of them have been hilarious in bad movies though.

"what the fuck man, fuck you and fuck this dentist movie with sam jackson" was what some guy yelled during "the man" i saw on opening night fjhksdfhjfsdfsd, hilarious
 
dskillzhtown said:
I went to see Warrior with my wife and behind us was 3 generations of assholes. Grandmother, son and his wife and their kids. They all were talking throughout the movie like they were sitting in their living room. The kids getting up and walking around, the parents talking about house stuff. At one point of the movie I just got fed up, turned around and yelled, "You aren't in your living room! Now shut up or leave!". I got a small round of appplause from people around us and the kids had a look on their faces like I was about to kill them. They were quiet the rest of the movie. After the movie I ran into the dad in the bathroom, he apologized and that was it. I usually don't react like that, but this was a movie my wife had really wanted to see and that family was ruining the experience for her.

I rarely go to movies anymore because of the audience wildcard.
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This is why I dont go any more, and the cost. I will go on rare occasions for movies like Super 8 or Prometheus. But I have on several occasions turned around, and told people to please be quite.

I just wait 120 days and watch it on my home theater instead. So much better, plus beer :)
 
Two chicks were laughing during the scene in
i am legend where will kills his dog
so my buddy and I got up after the scene and yelled at em, we got an applause from the rest of the theatre as they left...
 
alphaNoid said:
I just wait 120 days and watch it on my home theater instead. So much better, plus beer :)
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I've moved into a new town, and there's an independent cinema. It has a bar.

The last film I watched was Drive. No kids. No talking. Just a quiet audience, a good film and two pints of badger ale

sogood. Not going to the big empire cinema ever again, I'd rather wait two weeks and see it WITH BEER
 
It's always horrible. I'm afraid I will end up going to jail.

I once threatened to throw someone off a balcony.


The Alamo Drafthouse has spoiled me.
 
Went to see The Omen remake with my friends. Behind us were these underage teenage girls.
When the grave was opened and you saw the dead jackal. They shouted "OMG is that a Dinosaur?" I couldn't help myself but say "Are you fucking kidding me?" out loud.
 
ConvenientBox said:
Two chicks were laughing during the scene in
i am legend where will kills his dog
so my buddy and I got up after the scene and yelled at em, we got an applause from the rest of the theatre as they left...
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alphaNoid said:
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Lolol. I just said that:
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Goddam immature people unable to handle emotions...
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ChefRamsay said:
He deserves to enjoy life like the rest of everyone else, but to do so in a situation where it ruins everyone else's enjoyment of a movie is ridiculous. $15 and two hours of my time wasted.

What would you have done GAF?
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I had something similar happen to me a couple of years back, some kid in a wheelchair contraption was put right next to me. He was on some kind of ventilator which made a constant hissing sound and he proceeded to moan throughout the entire movie.
Sure it made the movie harder to follow, but it was definitely one of my better cinema experiences knowing that the kid was still able to watch the movie even with everything else stacked against him. I can't even remember what crappy interchangeable Hollywood blockbuster it was that we were watching, but I remember that kid.
 
When I saw Jurassic Park in the theater, I was living in South Carolina. This really stereotypical redneck family sat down right behind me. I heard this conversation - and please read it with the stereotypical redneck/southern drawl.

MAN: "You sure you can handle this movie? Supposed to be pretty scary-it's in 3D"
WOMAN: "Well, dang-don't we need some glasses?"
MAN: "Naw, some kind of new technology, I don't quite understand it myself."

So they were actually quiet for the movie. So if you remember the movie, Dr. Grant hypothesizes that dinosaurs evolved into birds. At the end of the movie, they all fly away on the helicopter and Dr. Grant looks out the window and sees a flock of birds.

The man turned to his wife and proudly proclaimed "Them's dinosaurs."
 
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