Worst theater experience?
 

What is your worst theater experience?

I haven't had any really horrible ones, but my worst is probably when I went to see Deep Blue Sea. This was in my days of sometimes seeing 3 movies in one day. Deep Blue Sea was last and close to dark. It was packed as hell. I ended up crunched up against the wall, too close to the screen for my liking. I was uncomfortable the whole time, and enjoyed almost none of the movie.

It's funny you bring this up cause me and a few friends had the worst experience ever the other day at Spider-Man 3. We went North Philly which is not the greatest area. When we got to the theater there were very few seats so we had to sit in the third row. That's when it all went to hell. There were kids crying and people yelling throughout the whole thing. The kid in front of me rocked his chair the whole time and when an action scene would come up he went crazy and shook the chair as much as possible hitting my knees each time. Like 30 minutes in to the movie this guy who i'm 95% sure was homeless (there are a lot of homeless people in this area) sits down next to me and smelled like a very old very used urinal cake. I couldn't breath through my nose for the next two hours. The audience there was terrible. At a few point when Peter cried the audience started screaming insults at him and laughing at him. And then with like 10 minutes left 75% of the audience just walked out and talking as loud as possible. Worst experience ever.

Worst in a worst way: King Kong. It was packed. We sat in the front row, for 3 hours, and it was awful.

Worst in the best way: Disturbia. a friend and I went to see it at a college theater, a free preview screening. They screwed up the aspect ratio so we were seeing boom mics in almost every shot. I don't want to be racist but since it was a free showing it was full of black people yelling/laughing/commenting literally every second of the movie. It turned out to be alot of fun and the perfect movie for that kind of experience

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Pretty much all of them

Must be summer time again..

Worst was Sixth Sense. PACKED house. This fat fuck of a bitch sat next to me. And started talking the WHOLE time. I mean the whole fucking time. I looked around to try to find a new seat to move to but it was sold out. No place to run. So then she says "Oh you can move if you want to!" I said "Uh, no I can't. I'd like to, but it's sold out and there's nowhere for me to go." After 15 more minutes of mumbling/talking from this bitch, I said "If I wanted to hear your commentary, I'll wait for the DVD". She then started getting more louder while talking. My friend went up to get the manager, so she started calling us "faggots". The manager wouldn't kick her out, but stood next to her for about 30 minutes. So she then started to "invade my space" by sitting so she could be putting her foot basically in my lap. So I waited for a scary moment, and pretended I was startled and kicked her foot with my knee. Anyway, the manager left, and she went back to calling us "faggots". Which I thought was funny since as someone who is black, she should know better than to oppress people who are different from her (not that I'm gay; I actually thought that part was funny. I should've started to hold hands with my friend).

2nd worst time was when I saw the Incredible Hulk. There were not one, not two, but THREE babies in the theater. And worse, was that the movie had a screaming baby in it. So when the baby screamed in the movie, it set off all the other babies. And of course the parents didn't take the kids out to the lobby. The kids in front of me were yapping on their cell phones the whole time, too.

Sunshine - the terrible new Danny Boyle "film". Maybe not my worst, but my most recent really really REALLY bad experience.

Saw Dragonheart with the first half hour or so of the movie out of focus.

King Kong, the power went out. When it came back up, there was no audio for about 5 minutes. They wouldn't give a refund.

You can't be bothered with a reason or description?

Coppola's Dracula...2nd row far Left side against the wall...my neck was killing me.

2nd worse was 6th sense, second row.

MI:2. Guy was on his phone several times throughout the movie talking above the movie. After about his 4th call, I yelled "Get the fuck off your phone or I'm coming down there".

He did. I was so pissed for the rest of the movie, I couldn't enjoy it. Not like it was a great movie, anyway.

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Definatley sounds like she was trying to get you to move so she could take up 2 seats with her girthiness. She sounded like a total psycho, you should have given her the crazy eyes.

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Face it, black crowds just tend to be louder than non-black crowds. There's nothing racist about it. It's just the way it is.

Worst: Got to Outbreak a little late and was forced to sit in the very first row with the three people I was with. It's an older theater in Pasadena and the first row is mere feet from the screen. Bad enough that it was near impossible to see anything to the left or right of the screen, but just minutes after we sat, two gang members snuck into the theater from the exits at the wings and sat on either side of my group. During every action scene the guy at my left would jump out of his seat, pumping his fist and yelling "YEAH, 'G'!" at, like, Dustin Hoffman. And when my leg sort of drifted into his space, he glared at me. I thought he was going to knife me.

What, you want him to be racist? :lol:

HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS-zillion screaming girls. Couldn't hear a thing.

THE ABYSS- Big storm hit and power went out in the middle of the movie. I think some kind of back-up generator kicked in, film kept starting and stopping for a few minutes and then stayed on for good. Leaving the theater noticed power was out everywhere but the theater.

Saw Red Dragon opening night with a group of about 15 blacks sitting a couple rows behind me. By far, worst experience ever.

When I went to see the Village. The first several rows were jammed packed with teenagers and young kids, all talking so loudly during the trailers nobody in the theater could hear them. Once the movie started, they refused to stop (and I missed the first part of the movie because of this...I saw it but I could not hear it.) People started shouting for them to shut up, which ensued in a shouting match between the adults in the upper seats and the teens in the rows closer to the screen. Eventually, management had to bring police officers in to shut the kids up and escort people out if they refused to shut up.

And then I sat through one of the worst movies I've ever seen in a theater. That didn't help the overall bad situation at all.

It really turned me off seeing any PG-13 movie on opening night.

Care to elaborate? Just because you have black people in a theater with you it's a bad experience? I doubt that...there has to be more to this story.

And you just didn't leave and ask for your money back? Seriously...I can see if it starts out bad and the mangement does something about it, but if they allow it to continue, why sit there and take it? Spider Man 3 isn't a movie that will be gone from the theaters anytime soon...catch it at another time.

My afternoon experience with Spider Man 3 started out bad today as well, especially with a screaming kid that started screaming almost as soon as his parents brought him in there. The mom dragged him out and came back about 10 minutes later and said to the rest of her group, "He's not settling down. If he comes back in here he will ruin the movie for us." What about the rest of us, asshole? While I am glad she took the kid out, to assume they were the only ones being bothered by their stupid ass kid amazed me. But an usher who was standing in the theater stopped the beginning of the movie for a few minutes to remind everybody to shut their kids up or take them out, so what started out bad before the movie began (and there was more going on that just that one kid, as you can imagine if the usher had to say something to the group) was well handled by theater managment.

The relevant threads you linked are at least 2 years old and older. If somebody resurrected one of those, then somebody else would be moaning how such an old thread was resurrected.

Are these links really necessary? This is a movie talk board....certain topics will come up again and again...I don't really see a reason in resurrecting old threads when years later somebody wants to bring a topic up again. Otherwise we'd have long ass threads multiple pages long and for why?

And I noticed white people tend to bring babies and kids too young to comprehend the movie to theaters, even R rated movies. What's up with that? And there's nothing racist about that either!

I'm sure there's no need to get offended. We should just get along. I'm sure it wasn't meant to offend and doesn't apply to everyone. Making a stereotype of your own does not help the situation. If you think someone is being ignorant then it would probably be better to be the better man in this situation, it is the internet afterall.

I wasn't. I agree with what you said. I was just pointing out something else that seems to be central to a specific race, at least in my personal observations in theaters I've been to.

ah, and i also didn't disagree with what you said, it's a valid point that i never thought of before :D

Here in AZ you see more Hispanics bringing their babies to movies. Saw it numerous times last night at Spiderman 3.

About three years ago I was in our local cinema and a group of three mid-teen girls walked in, sat down about three rows behind our group and kept talking loudly throughout the trailers and advertisements.

Just as the film proper was starting the phone of one of the women rang. She immediately began talk-shouting into it and continued for around ten minutes. A loud action sequence came on and exasperated she screamed at the very top of her voice:-


"Why can't they play the film softer? I can't hear myself talk."


This prompted quite a few "Shhussh" noises from members of the smallish crowd, to which the young woman stood up and shouted:-


"Don't tell me to be quiet! You disrespecting my race, my people, you ****** ******'s!."


Her two friends also stood up at this point and accused the entire crowd of being racist in fairly vitriolic terms. This prompted several others to shout back at them and a few regretably used one of the more well known terms of racial abuse.

The three women left.

Five or so minutes later the film stopped, the lights came up and a woman we later found out was the theatre manager walked down the stairs and to the front of the screen. She announced that allegations had been made of racist abuse by members of the cinema audience, that the police had been summoned and that everybody was to remain in their seats.

This produced a few laughs, but it was obvious the manager was dead serious and a few minutes later security guards appeared at the exit doors. We waited about half an hour and a police officer arrived, came to the front and announced information would be taken from all present.

We all filed out slowly over the next twenty minutes or so whilst the officer and his colleague looked at all our I.D's, took down details and then told us we could go.

As we were leaving, we could see the three young woman talking to another officer who was taking down their statements. The loudest of the three was still screaming at the top of her voice:-


"They were disrepecting me because of my color. I want them charged. I want compensation from all those ***** ******'s. Can I sue them?"


Suffice it to say none of us ever heard anything further from the Police or lawyers representing the women but it became quite a talking point amongst friends. We also did not get to see the rest of the film and were too scared to ask for recompense because of the racism allegations hanging over us.

Undoubtedly my worst theatre experience.

White people? I see more latino's bringing in 8 of there kids then any other group! Well, it IS California.

recently, my brother and i went to see alpha dog. there were probably 15 or 20 people in the theatre tops and in walks this grossly overweight guy and sits in the row in front of us to the right. after about 10 or 20 minutes into the movie, a black couple walks in and sits down at the top of the theatre in the two seats at the right at the top of the isle.

a little after that, the girl answers her phone and is talking on it for a couple minutes. so the guy in front of us throws his arms into the air and says, "watching a movie here!" and the guy responds, "my bad." so i thought she hung up after that, but my brother says she stayed on the phone. either way she was on the phone again and it pushes the guy in front of us over the top.

he gets up, walks up the steps and and smashes the guys fries and chicken fingers onto the floor. the guy and girl obviously flip out. they start to get into it. the black guy calls the big guy fat and stinky. he replies with "yeah i know, that's why i sat next to you." they continue the verbal insults and the girl says, "stop arguing, you are ruining my birfday." finally after more yelling and someone trying to get them to stop or leave, who they told to screw off, the couple leaves and the overweight guy celebrates by pouring snowcaps into his mouth from two feet above his head.

honestly, i thought there was going to be fist-a-cuffs and it resulted in my missing a decently part of the movie. at the end, some lady was leaving and thought all the arguing was from the movie, haha.

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It seems people missed that when they compulsively hit "reply" on my previous post.

Spiderman 2: a lady comes in with her 2 year old kid right as the movie starts, sits next to me and proceed to try to muffle her (scared shitless) yelling toddler with her hand. I told her "you know this movie is over 2 hour long, right?" She left soon after.

First Harry Potter: spanish lady translated the whole movie as it happened for her 2 kids who kept yelling "que pasa mama?" in my ears every 5 minutes.

WHAT RACE WAS SHE?!

I had my first ultra-bad experience tonight. First of all, if you know you don't have the bladder to hold your fluids, don't sit in the middle of the row. And if you do, don't step on people's feet as you take your alcohol perfumed self to the john. Then we had Mr and Mrs Inconsiderate. Taking a 3 year-old to a 7:30 Spider-man 3 showing isn't using a whole lot of common sense. Damn kid kicking my chair while sitting on her mom's lap making all kinds of noise. Then the kid's "papi" (as she kept refering to him throughout the movie) takes a cell call. (After having seen the trailer screen freeze for 2 minutes on the "silence your phone" ad before the movie even started.) I usually get past one of those things happening....but tonight where the parents had about as much common sense as the kid...

You should have told the cops to check her phone's call history in her phone. It would have shown that she was talking over the movie since it'd be time stamped. This would have proved the audience's story to be true and that she had been talking over the film.

That has to be the most outrageous story I have ever heard. I think you win the "Worst movie experience" award.

I was honestly going to start a thread today called I am never going to the movie theater again . But I figure I’ll just slip it in here, unnoticed.

I haven’t had a good movie experience in years. People are getting ruder and ruder. It transcends race, age, and gender. Before Spiderman 3 my last trip to the theater had me purple faced and screaming at the guy next to me who started talking on his cell phone. I could have ended up in jail for loudly threatening to murder him.

Yesterday I went to a packed matinee for Spiderman 3 and resigned myself before hand to the type of crowd I expected. It was worse than I could have imagined. Numerous babies, at no point was there a time when at least one wasn’t crying. Phones were ringing; people were having complete conversations all around me. About half way through the movie the three year old behind me began to chant, “This is boring, I wanna go home. This is boring, I wanna go home.” Repeatedly for about 20 or 30 minutes. His parents made no attempt to quiet him.

Add to that (at least here) theaters are getting smaller and smaller. As I sat there watching the movie on that tiny screen I said to myself, “There is absolutely no reason to go to the theater anymore.” I didn’t blow up; I didn’t yell at people, I didn’t lose my cool in any way. I had accepted it the way a condemned man finally accepts death. I walked out into the afternoon sun and know I will not be back for a long, long time. Perhaps never.

This is why I just dont go anymore, or extremly rarely.


In fact, why go at all?? Its $9.00 for one person. And $5.00 for popcorn, and $5.00 for a drink. if its a date for 2, your looking at $30 + . . .

You can just buy the DVD in 2 months for half that, and enjoy it at home in peace and quiet.



The only reason so many go to the movies anymore is because its an easy date experience. no planning, everyone does it, and . . . you dont have to talk during it.

'The Exorcism of Emily Ross' - over at AMC's Columbia 14 (Columbia Maryland) - on a Friday night, to a near sold out crowd, those fucking teenagers with their goddamn cellphones and talking left and right... some people got really angry at them and told them to 'shut the fuck up' which didn't help at all... I even complained to the management. I haven't been there back to those theatres

Batman & Robin - Sound was way out of sync with the picture and the film sucked. So much so that it's the only film I ever walked out on.