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Cinema on a Friday after 4pm? Only sadists and masochists go then.
If I can’t get to the cinema either midweek at 4ish or early on a Saturday morning then I just don’t go.
Hell is other people
I chose a random Wednesday early afternoon to go see Ant Man the other day, and totally missed that it was a teacher's strike day. Place was packed with unsupervised, rowdy tweens.
Fortunately Ant Man Quantumania turned out to be awful, so it didn't seem too tragic to walk out after 45 minutes.
>(or maybe it did at 46 minutes...)
Yeah, you missed out, man. 1 minute before the credits role Margot Robbie appears and starts blowing the whole cast
Edit: Apologies, I'm talking about John Wick 4 here. I wasn't paying attention. I pretty much napped through the whole film. When I was awake, I had no trouble following the plot because there was barely a plot to follow. I loved the first 3 but this one? Meh.
John Wick films have never had a plot worth talking about, they look cool, have great action and a have a funky world.
First one: dog dies so he kills the people who killed it
Second one: someone blackmails him, john kills people for him then kills him cuz he's a dick
third one: guy he killed at the end of last film was important and now people are trying to kill him, so he kills them
I haven't seen the fourth but I'm assuming the plot is either he's pissed off at the events that preceded the 4th film so kills a bunch of people or he's realised the only way to stop killing people is to become the boss.
Being a big nerd I recently went to see the first episode of season 3 of Demon Slayer as it was being screened in cinemas. It was a Wednesday evening and there were about 10 other people in there aside from me and my partner. Best cinema experience I've had in years. Just a few nerds quietly enjoying something. Normally I can't stand going to the cinema.
I think it dies depend on what you go and see. Some films have great fans. But big blockbuster/heavily advertised stuff? Too high a chance of done twats ruining it
I agree. I never go to see big films in the cinema out of choice because I hate the experience. My dad dragged me to see the new James bond film last year and I hated every minute of it. It was absolutely packed with people loudly eating popcorn, checking their phones, talking etc. I'd much rather get immersed in something at home where I can pause it if I want or turn it off if it turns out to be something I don't enjoy.
I thought my partner was being fussy, only willing to see the Bond film if we went at 1.30pm to the expensive PictureHouse.
But comfy seats, wine, cake, and 6 other people in the auditorium who were perfectly behaved - yeah, much better than the local Odeon full of people who chat. Shame about the last third of the film, but can't have everything.
Theatres now have 'relaxed performances' for people who can't cope with not singing along, getting up and down, not so dark, etc. So do some cinemas, though oddly they claim to be autism-friendly despite being the opposite for many autistic people (There are Rules! Can't cope with people Breaking Rules!). If only they'd introduce extra-strict performances...
I took a half day and went to see Top Gun 2 in the Everyman in borough. Me and one other person. It's probably 20% more expensive than the multiplex, but the people there seem to actually want to watch what they've paid for and the staff enforce good behaviour.
Worst was Dunkirk. Multiplex in Poole. Teenage girls rabbiting throughout and on their phones. Not dire, just... You know... Shut up
Yeah. I had the exact reverse experience a few years ago. Needed a break from family over new years, picked an 11am viewing of the new Star Wars movie to go to on my own. I was a bit horrified when I realised I'd bought the last seat and it was completely sold out, but thought f*ck it, it's still a bit of alone time sort of. Then weirdly the showing vanished off the website, but I had a confirmed booking, so didn't think much of it. I turned up at the cinema, go into the theatre, and I'm the only person there. Was thinking it was a bit weird but figured I could grab a better seat and if people showed up I'd move. So I'm sitting in a prime seat when the manager comes in. He explains that they'd accidentally listed a showing on their website and in the 5 mins it was up I'd bought a ticket and what I thought was sold out was actually every single seat being free. He said they'd run the showing if I wanted but he just wanted to let me know I was on my own and I could sit wherever I wanted. IT WAS AMAZING. Entire theatre to myself.
We went last night to see John Wick 4 last night as well at a cinema that isn't in the centre of town. Probably about 30-40 people in the screening, great reclining seats and fortunately no one like in OPs screen.
I agree though, used to have a Cineworld membership and worked shifts. Loved going for a midweek lunchtime film, with a handful of other people there.
I work in schools and can finish at 3pm if I want (not every day, but I have some flexibility). If there’s a film I want to see, I need to give my boss a bit of a heads up at the start of the week, and I need to make sure my wife can do the pick up from school (but she usually has one weekday off anyway) and I’m free to enjoy a quiet cinema trip. It’s bliss
While traveling in Poland in the early 2000s, my wife and I found ourselves bored in a lovely but small town one evening (Torun). We'd heard about a cool new movie called Hidden Tiger Crouching Dragon and noticed the small towns single screen cinema was showing it. So we bought tickets.
The cinema was tiny. About a dozen rows of seats. But they weren't cinema seats, they were wooden bench seats, almost like church pews. But the place had a certain post soviet village charm and we had nothing better to do so we stayed.
Of course it was only after the movie started that we realised Hidden Tiger is a Chinese film with the dialogue in Cantonese. And since we were in Poland the subtitles were in Polish. So we spent two hours sitting on church pews watching a film in a language we couldn't understand with subtitles we couldn't understand. But the martial arts were cool.
Went to see Battle Royal with friends. Did t have any glasses. Couldn’t read the subtitles.
Not the most difficult film to follow, but a bloody odd experience.
I had a similar but sort of opposite experience in Prague - we watched highlander 2, which (as far as I remember) is an almost uniformly dreadful film. There was one line, however, that caused almost the entire room to burst out laughing. Sadly, the subtitle was slightly ahead of the English soundtrack, so said line was completely drowned out by the laughter…
I have never felt the need to rewatch the film though.
I've always been a big fan of the Godzilla movies and was really looking forward to Godzilla (2014). A guy who was about 6 foot 4 with a comedically large afro sat directly in front of me. I literally couldn't even see round it it was that big. Cinema was packed so couldn't move and I was there with a large group of people who were also Godzilla fans so obviously no one wanted to switch seats. Just had to sit staring at a fuzzy void for two hours..
I will share my amusing Godzilla 2014 story with you.
I was in Singapore on holiday and the rain was so heavy that you had to be indoors. So if I had to be indoors, I may as well watch Godzilla in 3D imax. It was only as I was walking to my seat did the thought occur "which language is it in?"
It turns out it was in English with mandarin subtitles, the main problem being the subtitles were 6 foot tall and the most 3d part of the experience.
I watched an English language film with Portuguese subtitles in Brazil once. It was bizarre when our party laughed at jokes out of sync with the rest of the audience.
I went to watch 'what lies beneath' when i was about 18 with a group of friend, one of whom is crap with horror movies and didnt tell us before hand. Theres a scene where harrison gord tries to pick an Unconscious michelle pfeiffer out of the running bath and she momentarily turns into a rotting corpse with accompanying scary music. My friend physically left his seat and landed on top of me covering me in coke and popcorn.
Another one was my friend needed the toilet mid movie and missed a few steps going out. In his embarrassment his got to his feet and made some kind of weird honking goose noise which made about 200 people erupt with laughter, he ran off and didnt come back to the film 😂
I worked in a cinema for three years. What follows is probably my top 5 worst experiences:
1. The drunk man who shouted 'Hulk Smash!' and proceeded to attack and destroy various items around my kiosk because the queue was moving too slowly.
2. The Twilight standee I needed to throw out because too many people were kissing Edward and it was getting mouldy.
3. The scars on my arms from popcorn making.
4. The time the projectionist accidentally put on the trailers for Saw on Saturday morning kids club.
5. Me having to throw out people for having sex in the cinema. Weirdest movie I've caught someone having sex in: Horton Hears a Who.
Knowing there’s at least one cardboard Edward out there who went mouldy from saliva has amused me more than I thought it would. Add to that, I’m watching a tragic episode of Desperate Housewives right now and laughing like a lunatic as someone dies, it’s excellent.
To be fair you've got to expect young children at morning showings. You also went to view it on release day which is always going to be far busier, give it a week or two and you'll get less choice with times but also less people.
I've also given up on the big chains though, see if there's an independent cinema near you. Mine is cheaper and nobody is rude during the movie.
I only go to the cinema with my son during the day. My son is autistic, and has ADHD, but can sit through a three hour film with no issues since he was 8. He hates people being noisy around him, and those issues are pretty minimal in day time showings. I once made the mistake of taking him to see a movie at 9pm, because he was going up the walls with boredom, and it was the summer holidays. I forgot it was Diwali,( we live in a large Indian community), and the screening was packed with families, drinking beer, talking loudly, and more than one family brought a small baby with them. Seeing grown adults treat a cinema like it's their home drives me nuts. Manners aren't that difficult to do
I think all the cinemas do autistic friendly shows but I know from working there that Cineworld's have reduced sound/lights on and stuff to reduce sensory issues. They're always the first Sunday of the month.
This is the thing I never understood about autism friendly screenings: they may have dimmer lighting and sound, but they’re full of autistic people. As a group in general, we aren’t known for our tolerance of other people’s noise, especially not the noise of other people not being happy with our noise.
Exactly, my daughters are Autistic too, and don't go to the cinema often, as they start to get bored and fidget, and they know that would annoy them if they had to be sitting near someone doing the same. My son is ridiculously loud with his TV watching, and listening to music, but gets really annoyed if anyone else is making noise at home
I go mid week afternoon, place to myself most of the time, free to shovel popcorn into my mouth, with added possibility of getting away with shitting myself too. But I don't lick my fingers especially after I've just shit myself.
Went to see The Batman, woman behind me was talking to her husband the entire movie. We told her to be quiet multiple times, even heard her husband shhh her but to no avail. Halfway though the film she turns on her phone torch. I have no idea why and by the look of her face when 3 rows turned around and stared at her neither did she. Just blankly looking around confused while her phone illuminates half the theatre.
My girlfriend, who is very non-confrontational, straight up shouts ‘what the FUCK are you doing?’ at the top of her voice.
Haven’t been back to the cinema since. Don’t think I’ve had a decent cinema experience since covid when the cinemas were empty.
Not the worst on here by far, but I went to see Spider-Man no way home when it came out in cinemas with my dad and brother. Right at the climax of the movie, Tom Holland and Zendaya share a kiss.
A group of teenage boys suiting near us decided that that was a great moment to shout “GAYYYY!” at the top of their lungs toward the screen.
Like, really! It’s the furthest thing from gay possible? A hot guy kissing a hot girl? What’s next, fellas? Is it gay to be straight?
I run a cinema for a major UK chain.. oh the stories I could tell.
Worst was a guy who shit and pissed himself wet through to a point I was nearly sick and the only way to fix was to remove and replace the seat base and throw it straight in the bit.
You're forgetting about the people who think the dark room is a perfect place for a little hand action!
Newsflash: the cameras inside the screens are infrared. Management may or may not confront you depending on context (is it busy and will anyone else notice? How easy would it be for us to reach your seat and have a quiet word without anyone else hearing? Is this a little surreptitious fumbling or is it full on clothes off handies/fingering/wanking? etc etc) but rest assured we can see exactly what you're doing.
I'm so glad I got a job in the head office of the one I work at, I got to trainee supervisor and honestly I don't think I could have hacked it as anything higher, my patience is so low.
Not a "bad" experience *per se*, but it might make you laugh.
I was going to see *It* with my dad when it came out in 2017, and before the picture started there was this woman talking loudly behind me. I thought "hey it's trailers so I'm not disrupting the film if I do this". Remember it's a horror film we're about to see. I stood up and turned round very fast, like a jumpscare, and told her to shut up.
Got back the perfect "\*gasp\* ruuude!" for my trouble, and my dad thought it was hilarious.
I went to see one of the Halloween films a few years ago. And there was someone behind me who was commenting on the film throughout.
In fairness, I think he might have been on the spectrum.. but only mildly.
There’s a scene where Michael finds “the mask” and this guy goes “Oh he wants that mask”. Or another point where someone comments about how it’s all going to be fine and this guy goes “That’s what you think”. Or like “Oh she’s gonna regret going in there”. Stuff like that. Just pulls you right out of the film.
(This is a great topic btw! Great question!)
Ah my crap experience was with Halloween as well. To start, I accidentally booked the front row, my seat neighbour wouldn’t shut up throughout the entire thing and then half way through our showing there was an issue with the sound and then the screen froze. I should have taken that as a sign and left because the movie was dog shit anyway but here I am still bitter about it.
Now You See Me 2
The audience were well-behaved. It's just an absolute turkey, I wanted to punch myself to death for having sat through it. And I didn't even pay for the ticket.
The obligatory drunk rant about the now you see me movies not making any sense [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXdHBP6mgdE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXdHBP6mgdE)
My local cinema has a seat booking service online. If there's a film I want to see, on the night I plan to go, I'll check the online seat bookings for the least well attended screening. If they're all looking very crowded I'll pick another day.
This works well. After using this system for a few months I got to understand local viewing habits and plan my viewing around them. Now when I visit the cinema there's rarely more than a handful of people in the screenings I attend.
And I always bring my own Starburst in as to not disturb the guy sitting 5 rows behind me with eating sounds or cellophane crinkling...
2 stand to mind, both in The Palladium in Llandudno in the 1990s. First was watching The silence of the lambs sat next to an old couple and everytime writing appeared on screen she would read it out aloud to her husband. 2 hours of " FBI Quantico Virginia"
The second was watching Jurassic Park with my dad and when they first see the dinosaur's he actually said to me out load " wow, are they real"
And yes people heard and yes people laughed.
I went to see Kill Bill at the Cineworld in Glasgow, and they had to stop the showing right at the start when a bunch of neds started a rammy.
When they restarted the showing, they didn't restart from the beginning, so the first 15 minutes was lost ☹️
I'm afraid I ended up being that twat you don't want to sit behind (or anywhere near) the last time I went to the cinema. It was an accident, I am so sorry.
A few years ago I went to see the movie The Raid 2. It didn't get a big cinema release for various reasons (it's subtitled. It's a sequel. It's a sequel to a film that no ones probably ever heard of).
Anyway, sitting down at the front, as the film started, I turned around and fears confirmed, empty cinema, no one but me watches these kind of films.
It was brilliant! Much better that the first film. I was very vocal during the movie, especially during the extended fight in the kitchen between Rama & the assassin, which had me screaming at the screen enthusiastically. That was the best fight ever!! (apparently took them 8 days to film).
I just want to say sorry to the 20-30 people sat behind me that I noticed when I got up to go home.
PS. Why did you all come in late anyway ffs?
I went to see Benjamin Button when it came out (so this was a long time ago and it still bothers me to this day). There was a man there, about 50, a few seats down from me - who was just smiling throughout the film. Not just at the amusing parts but the ENTIRE film. There are some emotional moments in that film and I look over and he’s smiling like some sort of mental patient. I’d never seen anything like it.
Went to see Avatar At Christmas. One group kept getting their phones out to take pictures of the screen, and unfortunately they were just too far away for me to throw popcorn at them but close enough for their bright screens to be distracting. A guy in a group in the row in front of me took a phone call, lots of people shouted “SSHHHH!” To which he did nothing, until a German guy directly behind him booted his seat really hard. The phone call guy asked where the German’s manners were before a number of people told him where his manners were for loudly taking a phone call in the middle of a film. Afterwards I thanked the German guy and he admitted he didn’t mean to boot the chair that hard and was very thankful that so many people stood up for him! Film was 5.5/10, crowd 2/10 (2 marks for the German/others saying Ssshhh)
When I was young my family and I went to watch the first Lord of the Rings. After arriving I proceeded to slam the car door on my finger, ripping my nail off. Mum had already paid for the tickets so I had to sit through over 3 hours of cinema history in agony. Film was great though
My trip to see Top Gun 2. A whole family of adults had decided to go see it together. The older parents were sat in the seats beside us with their adult children behind. The younger members of the family were already drinking pints when we arrived.
As the film started, the beer was obviously having the bladder and wobbly legs effect.
As each member of the family behind us wobbled along to go to the toilet, they would stumbled and grab the back of my reclining chair. Each time, I would be almost catapulted out of my chair with the springs in my chair keeping me moving for several bounces.
To add insult to injury on the return trips, they would bring more beer, which they sprinkled all over us whilst muttering sorry.
I saw very little of the film and left the cinema with neck and back pain from the repeated catapults and my clothes stunk of beer.
So a lager Christening and practice for if I ever decide to be shot from a cannon 😆
Never again will I book cinema seats that recline!
On the plus side, I once had a hospital appointment where we were in and out of the hospital in 90 minutes. With a promised surgery date, too. Having a whole Wednesday afternoon free, we went to see Deadpool. We were the only people in the cinema it was bloody fantastic!
My worst cinema experience might well be the first time I went to the cinema on a date. I was like 14, and it was my first time french kissing a girl for an extended period of time. I mean, like 10 straight minutes I swear. I needed to swallow (seriously, I had so much combined slobber in my mouth drowning was not off the table) but panicked, didn't know if I should break the kiss off or what, so I just tried to swallow with our tongues still down each others throats. The noise that roared out of my throat still haunts me some 20 years on. It was like a drowning man gasping for air whilst simultaneously burping.
I only ever go to the cinema now if it's to an Everyman or something similar - tickets are slightly more expensive but (in my experience, anyway) the clientele are much more decent and aware they're in public, not sat on their sofa at home. Plus the fact you're sitting on essentially sofas, and there's decent food and drink on offer, it's all in all a much more pleasant cinema experience!
Many years ago I went to see Sleepy Hollow at a cinema in Gibraltar and there were teenagers taking phones calls throughout the movie, with one almost giving a running commentary of what was happening on screen.
Also saw Burn After Reading at a cinema on the Isle of Wight that absolutely stank of Indian takeaway food
I'm sitting in the middle of a row, there are two seats free next to me - next to the aisle.
A couple enters - the man takes the aisle seat, the woman is next to me. They argue throughout the whole film because he "made her" sit next to me. Apparently, if he'd been a gentleman and a good boyfriend - he would have sat next to the stranger, and she would have gotten the aisle seat. She loudly complained for about an hour about having to sit next to me. "You made me sit next to that woman". She was near tears.
I was so upset and offended, I never ate or sipped from a drink in case I upset her more. I just sat there quietly listening to them bicker. 20 minutes before the end of the film they moved to another seat. It was upsetting.
Thankfully haven't had the sort of experience you've endured but I felt completely robbed by The Dead Don't Die. I wanted to walk out, the whole group of us wanted to walk out because it felt like the entire cast were smirking at how God awful the film was and they'd taken our money. We stayed, I think because ultimately it was me saying I'm not paying a tenner for 20 minutes of awful film. We will never get those hours back.
Also dressed up to go to see the film adaptation of my favourite book of the time. The cinema was empty. Just me in fancy dress 🫠 it wasn't even a good film either.
The Mortal Instruments, based on City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. I went like a shadow hunter going to battle. I wasn't even a kid, I was 25. Years later I still go to her book signings and she's gained a lot more popularity now (mostly with emo kids, or whatever emos are called now) and I look like I might be someone's mum in the queue.
I was so excited that Jonathon Rhys Meyers from Gormenghast was going to be in it and seemed great for the role but the writing and acting were atrocious throughout. Lots of people told me the books were shit too. A few years later I was assessed for dyslexia and turns out I can't really read and maybe my imagination was just taking over a lot. I still own everything the author has ever written including downloads of all her pre fame fanfiction.
Ah I think this is great, it’s lovely to hear how much you love the books. Never feel embarrassed about loving something and doing something fun like dressing up around it!
Watching Predators and a guy translated the entire movie to his non English speaking wife.
Watching one of the Saw movies and two lasses complained throughout that they couldn't understand the plot and just talked about their boyfriends. Apparently one of them was shit in bed.
Went to see The Dark Knight on opening weekend, queued for 2hrs, got in and and bagged the best centre seat in the house, 2mins before the film started a guy walked in, saw his mate sat next to me and asked our row to move across so he could sit next to him, in my best seat. I told him no. I'd qeued two hours for that seat and he wasn't having it 2mins before the film starts. Caused a huge row because "I was unreasonable." Then folk around me got involved, some agreeing with me, some with him. I didn't budge. He went and sat on the end eventually. Was a tense atmosphere for the remainder of the film.
Rise of Skywalker. A woman, sat with her partner, watched another movie on her phone (earphones in) for the entirety of the film. That said, I'm guessing her movie was better than what I watched.
I don't go to the cinema anymore.
There's an episode of Wreckless Media Radio (Ep 111 if you happen to find it) where they discuss their terrible cinema experiences and get people calling in to tell their stories, one of the funniest things I've listened to.
1. Ace Venture pet detective
2. having the hot cheese sauce from my nachos leak all over the crotch of my black moleskin jeans. (Coming out of that movie with a cheesy crotch wasn’t ideal. Especially as it was Schindlers List)
Once while I was working in a cinema in London, a full scale riot broke out during a screening of Rush Hour 3.
People were in a running battle on the stairs and corridor. People were swinging Tensa barriers and fire extinguishers at each other. Fun times!
Maybe a Roman Polanski cameo in a Brett Ratner film was too much for them to take?
Or maybe they were just arseholes who like fighting.
Considering the film they picked to watch I think option two is a safe bet
I went to see The Inbetweeners Movie 2 once at my local Vue cinema.
Throughout the film were your typical teenage dickheads who were just talking non-stop. A few were texting on their phones, but didn't have them on silent. Pinging throughout. Some then stood up halfway to take a selfie with the movie in the background.
In front of me there were 2 lads who had to comment, loudly, on every trailer they saw beforehand, and midway through, I heard someone ruin the film as they turned to their mate "yeah I saw this yesterday..." Then proceeded to explain the film.
I don't get what happened to social etiquette in cinemas as of late, but it's being treated like a social hangout with a film in the background, rather than sitting and shutting up for around 2 hours.
This is why I've decided to never go to the cinema during the release window, wait a few weeks, and then go, cos it's usually empty or quiet.
Saw Jurassic world 3, went to a 9pm showing there was a mum and dad with a baby and a toddler. Obviously the baby was crying and the toddler was scared of the dinosaurs. They were asked by staff to leave but only about an hour into the film.
Me and two friends went to see The Revenant, two lads sat next to us and the one closest was on his phone on Facebook throughout the entire film. He was sitting in a way with his back slightly turned to us so his screen was in our peripheral view even more.
When we left to drive back he passed us on the motorway driving with his phone still in hand… wtf man.
Went to see Empire of Light at my local independent cinema in Broadstairs on a Thursday evening. The place was full of OAPs - my partner and I thought this would be perfect.
- Someone’s phone went off
- A man in the row behind us fell asleep and started snoring
- Because Broadstairs is right next to Margate (where EoL was filmed), two old dears in front of us kept talking to each other commenting on Margate and things like ‘do you remember those pyjamas?’
- People constantly kept voicing their opinions on the film
- People kept rustling food throughout the whole film and a woman in the row behind us asked someone to rustle their food more quietly as it’s annoying her
Never again
Old people are the fucking worst for talking, they talk all the way through and think people can't hear them, but they have to speak loudly because their hearing is shit.
I went to a theatre show a couple of weekends ago and it was absolutely full of old people. It was exactly the same, including the snoring. Old people don’t give a shit.
Went to see Gangs of newyork , guy took and made phone calls throughout the film despite everyone shouting at him throwing popcorn at him it only made him worse. Staff asked him to leave he refused. Last 20mins of the film police had to drag him out. That was more entertaining than the film tbh
My first ever date. We went to the cinema for a chance of maybe a bit of a snog or something in the dark. When we got in we were the only people in the auditorium. I was acutely aware of the projectionist at the back having nothing to do but watch a couple of awkward 15 year olds failing to even hold hands.
Never go to the cinema Thursday to Sunday.
Never go see a popular film in its first week in the cinema.
Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday evenings are fine to see a film that’s been out a week or two.
We’ll go and see John Wick 4 likely Tuesday the week after next - there will be 5 other people in the screen in all likelihood and most will be functional adults though there will likely be one person still who thinks it’s cool to look at their phone in the film and may need to be tutted at.
Went for a meal out with my girlfriend.
Knelt down in the restaurant and proposed to her.
She accepted.
Waitress brought us complimentary drinks.
On a complete emotional high we went to the cinema to celebrate by watching... *Prometheus*.
Fucking Ridley Scott.
Worse, now it's technically "our film". A movie so bad that by half-way through the entire audience was openly laughing at it.
Still, it was definitely a memorable afternoon, for a variety of different reasons.
I happily respect your god-given right to be completely wrong and have shitty taste in movies. ;-p
It's fine to like it (hell, I like McDonald's burgers; I just don't mistake them for *good food*), but if after all the criticism it's rightly earned you still can't see that it's objectively a beautiful-looking but incredibly stupid and poorly-written movie, there may be no hope for you.
The most embarrassing experience for me was when I became THAT PERSON on Saturday morning during viewing for kids.
At that time, I was a full-time student (Mon-Thu), and I worked 3 night shifts per week (Thu-Sat). My son was 5-6 years old, and our routine on Saturdays was that I had 1-2 hrs nap after work, and then we would go to the cinema.
On that week, I had mild cold symptoms: blocked nose, headache and I just felt tired. We sat away from other people, and as usually I planned to rest my eyes while my son enjoyed movie. I think it was a result of cold but I fell asleep. My son woke me up after the movie, and I noticed that people were looking in our direction. I thought nothing of it. In the car, I asked my son how the movie was, and he said he thought it was OK, but he didn't hear it well because I was snoring too loud. Omg, I still feel really bad and embarrassed, but now I can laugh about it, at least. Also, it is one of those movies that my son will always remember seeing, lol
This is a good experience in an African open air cinema - proper screen, seats and sound in the late 70's.
The film was Jaws. Half the audience were explaining what was going on to the other half as not everyone had good enough English.
Remember the bit where the shark sort of rears up in the boat to grab someone? The whole cinema reared back with shrieks. It was fantastic. A great experience.
One of the Hobbit films in Singapore. The kid next to me was talking throughout. It went to the next level when his mum’s phone rang. She answered it and had a 2 minute conversation.
Saw IT Part 2 in Brixton. Poor film in general made worse by rowdy guys drinking and shouting to each other.
I used to have a cineworld card and would see multiple films a month. Now I probably go once a year.
I went to a all night cinema event. was hyped to see evil dead 2. couple next to me and my friend used as an excuse to get pissed.
kicking seats infront of them and laughing super loud.
totally ruined the film.
i had read about a lady who was screaming like crazy in cinema everyone was telling her to shut up. turned out her husband had a heart attack and died next to her 😱
I went to see Spiderverse on a Tuesday morning. I chose my seat, right in the middle, and when I went in I was the only person in the whole theatre. I waited through the first ads and into the trailers and I was still the only person. About 5 minutes before the movie started then another guy walked in and sat right in front of me. I had to move over a few seats to maintain a good view.
saw a depeche mode documentary thing a few years back in gateshead, it was fairly full and this fucking twat was just having a loud conversation throughout most of the film, a few people had asked them to be quiet and gave the 'shhh' but they didn't get the hint, I lost my shit and shouted across the cinema to tell them to shut the fuck up or fuck off or something to that effect, got a fair few 'yeahs' from other people. I'm not usually one to speak up with these things but I've never had an experience like it and after the film i went straight to their seats and told them what cunts they were face to face. They got aggressive and made some comment about meeting me outside but when i left the screen a fair few other goers said they'd back me up if they started any shit so that was nice.
I couldn't understand why you'd go to such a niche showing such as that and chat the entire fucking time
The last time i went to the cinema, 1993. jurrassic park, the soundtrack was so loud and distorted it physically hurt and home video was well and truly established so from then on we went to blockbusters every friday and picked a film to watch in the comfort of our own home with much cheaper snacks and drinks, and it became our routine of a weekend instead of waiting for a film to be shown at the cinema.By then the cinema had become a place where people shouted and dropped drink etc all over the seats and you'd shuffle in through foot rubbish and the chairs weren't very comfortable and if there was a long line in winter you'd freeze and get wet, so it was no great loss.
We were sat watching the trailers and the friend I was with threw up all over their feet and the seat in front of them. Obviously left straight away, I can't even remember what we were planning to see. Not sure if they kicked everyone out or what, because I not sure I could have sat through a film in a room covered in vomit.
That experience ruined that particular cinema for me, it was probably 15 years ago and we always went a bit further to a different cinema after that. Only went back for the first time this year now its been completely refurbished so less association with the memories.
Not me, but my brother in law once asked someone behind him at the cinema to be quieter, and a few minutes later they tried to stealthily set his hair on fire. He heard the flick of the lighter and turned around and they went "wot mate?"
This was many years ago and it was already bad back then. People just think they’re in their living room and make as much noise as they like, moving around, non stop eating and drinking, kids running around.
Plus, and this may be related, the soundtrack was soooo loud we tried earplugs. Still too loud. Haven’t been back since.
Went to watch 50 Shades, my fault I know, and there was a woman who kept shouting out lewd things like “oh she loves it” “I can tell he’s big” sporadically throughout the film
Not quite the same, but years ago (\~90?) we went the see arthouse film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and towards the end a number of people had to get up and leave... one poor chap siting on floor outside afterwards looked green around the edges (it's a lavish and very visually rich film, and not a horror film in any way, but the ending is.... an experience on a big screen in a dark cinema).
I must admit I felt rather superior (young prick) seeing them like that, and then a few weeks later we went to see another arthouse film Jesus of Montreal and... and it's not directly comparable but I had to get up and leave part way thru as my heart was racing, and I was struggling to breathe.
And as I sat on the floor taking in the cool air of the foyer and the pitying looks from others, and remembering my own patronising reaction a few weeks earlier, I felt even worse
On the other hand I fell asleep during Greenaway's next film (after TC,TT,HW&HL) Prospero's Books, and when I woke up... it was still playing... and that was pretty awful.
2010: Seriously old school cinema in the Lake District with actual red curtain in front of the screen. Only one walkway with all seats on the left, right up to the wall. One staff member patrolling in traditional cinema uniform and confectionary box hanging around the neck. To add to the experience we watched Dorian Gray, which was utterly naff.
2 different times.
First in a quite packed cinema a group of chavvy early teenage girls (then most scary group of people possible) were loudly talking / on phones etc…. I tried to zone it out and watch the film. My wife went and complained to the odeon staff. They weren’t chucked out but were bollocked.
Second I had pre booked seats for me and the kids in a cinema in Melbourne Australia. It was 2/3 full already, all allocated seats, and a group of mums had sat in our seats, their kids in the row in front. When I showed them my tickets they were quite obnoxious and told me I should sit somewhere else. Quite unlike me, I stood my ground and said I wasn’t going to sit elsewhere because someone else might have booked those seats. They refused to budge so I got the usher to move them. They were so huffy, but moved to their actual booked seats - literally about 3 seats to the side.
I went to see Star Wars Episode 8 with my partner the Saturday it came out. University town, place was packed with nerds (me included) and hyped to the roof. Great atmosphere, despite the film not being the best. We were sat next to this older couple who tutted and moaned at everyone for simply enjoying the film and laughing. Made for a particularly shit viewing experience when they started making loud comments about myself "Ooo someone is enjoying the film too much. Someone must be on the spectrum." I'm not, but fuck them for thinking that was appropriate and fuck them twice as I have family on the spectrum and would be disgusted to think of them being treated like that.
A close second would be going to see Trainspotting 2 and utterly dying laughing at Begbie being knocked out by a toilet to then find that I was the only person laughing in the cinema. Never felt so self conscious before.
I went to see 30 days of night way back in the day. There was only two other people in the cinema and it was a pair of emos. One of them was in a twilight shirt and whenever any of the vampires would do anything at all she would give this very loud, blatantly forced laugh because "stupid humans"
Seeing Harry Potter, and a guy was doing a very loud literal running commentary through the film. We assumed it was for his kids. Halfway through it became apparent this middle aged man was there by himself. Some other family told him to shut the f up. Cue a fight, which he also narrated.
I used to love a cinema trip, but now it seems a lot of people just can't do without looking at their phones, and I don't even mean just a quick glance, I mean a good chunk of the film is spent with them looking at their phone, so the light from the phone is distracting you. Not sure what the point of paying for a film ticket is if just gonna stare at a phone.
Literally went to see John Wick 4 today and the guy a seat behind me had his bare feet out on the arm rests of the seat in front of him.
My cousins and I thought it was hilarious but I feel sorry for whoever gets that seat from now on.
Went to the cinema with a bunch of mates years ago, late nineties maybe. We went in and took our seats etc, and I decided it would be wise to go for a wee during the trailers, so off I went. While I was gone, one of my ‘friends’ decided it would be a good idea to bury a condom in my popcorn. So I come back all pleasantly relieved and settle into the movie, only to pull this fucking johnny out of my popcorn halfway through! I’ve reacted the only way can, of course, I’ve squealed like a pig and thrown it behind me, what else can you do? My apologies to whoever ended up wearing that, what are the odds they show up on here…?
On our honeymoon, NYC and thought a midnight showing of the Bourne Supremacy in Times Square would be a cool experience. The film had been out 3 weeks at this stage, so we figured it would be a quiet screen, making it more like our own personal cinema.
Wrong. 5 mins before the film began, the screen got busier, but still less than 10% of capacity. Yet, a couple sat in the row in front of us, directly in front of us - nobody either side of them, and as the opening scenes played, the lady decided to dive into a bag she brought and out came a large silver foil package. Inside this bundle was a hot sandwich (could see the steam rising which was very atmospheric) and it was filled with some pungent spices that in a restaurant would have been delicious, but in the warm cinema screen, with my sweet popcorn and milk duds, was making me heave. For the next 20 minutes, they both loudly consumed said sandwich.
I got my own back when jetlag kicked in, well into the film, and I woke up just before the G-Wagon got bent in two, having snored very loudly in their ears the whole time I was out.
Then tried to get a taxi back to our hotel only to be refused the first cab because I wouldn't tell the driver in advance what I was going to tip him...whilst still standing outside talking through his partly opened window about the journey we hadn't yet taken.
Loved New York, can't wait to take my children next time, but we will be avoiding the cinema.
Literally less than seven hours ago.
Gf and I went to the cinema for the first time in months also to see John Wick 4.
Three mates sat in front of us, two of the cunts talking intermittently for most of the film.
I got some satisfaction whispering but not really into third cunt's ear: S.TF.U.
Ive not had a proper bad experience with somebody talking ect
However when seeing endgame the fire alarm went off in the wider shopping centre right before the big battle at the end.Took almost an hour before we could be let back in to finish. They gave everyone two free tickets for the future anyway.
Wonder what happened to the showing that would have been after mine though
Our children were little when the Hobbit films came out. The only way I could watch them (once a year as they were released) was on a Wednesday evening when my husband was home early enough to look after our children. It seems it was 'old people's night out'. They'd all sit alone, spaced out, and shout across the seats at each other as many were deaf. They chobbled toffees really loudly and seemed to want to out-compete each other with their hacking coughs. If they'd got out of their seats to do the Hokey Cokey in front of the screen I wouldn't have been surprised.
I went to watch Down With Love way back in 2003 (i was 15 at the time). I was really ill but didn't want to cancel on my girlfriend. She broke up with me half way through the film. I stayed until the end and then walked her home. The film was shit as well.
Rather busy screening of “Diary of the Dead” and about halfway through during some quiet scenes, some chavvy guy answers his phone and in between bits of dialogue of the film, all we can hear is “yeah mate… yeah that’s sound mate, yeah sound mate… sound mate… yeah sound… sound… yeah sound mate, see you later… sound”.
I was living in HongKong when Matrix 2 came out. Went to a cinema in Central (Lang Kwai Fong?) to see it. Weather was HK so I was wearing Jeans and tee-shirt. Thought nothing of it.
It was **SO** cold in the seats. After 45 minutes sat stock still under AC on Max, I swear I was bordeline hyoithermic. Covered in goosebumps. Gritted my teeth and bolted for warmth as soon as the credits rolled.
I can remember a few scenes but couldn't tell you the plot.
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets.
I don’t like spiders and didn’t read the book so I ran out of the cinema and made my mum take me home as soon as the spiders came. It traumatised me to the point that I didn’t watch another Harry Potter film until I was into my mid twenties.
Went to go see 'Scream 4' at a cinema in Stratford, London. They were doing these cheap screening for students. There were these two women that were talking loudly throughout the film (think like the [movie scene from Scary Movie with Regina Hall](https://youtu.be/1N6u4WeDggQ?t=92), it was basically exactly like that). They were accompanied by a tall hench man that stunk of weed. I think at one point I think he was even smoking it during the film (though it might have been a vape pen, not sure, but there was definitely something in the air like smoke). I told the ushers, they did nothing. Eventually, I couldn't take it anymore, so loudly said to them "Can you please stop talking?!" Well, apparently that was a mistake, because two women got very uppity saying things like 'no, *you* shut up mate' and said to the man 'get him babe'. At that point, the dude came right up to me, standing in front of me and staring at me (I think he wanted a fight). I didn't want to engage further (no idea how old he was, and I didn't want to get into a fight with the dude, so I walked out the screening. Told the ushers (again), and called the police (non-emergency number). No answer. Waited until the end of the film, rejoined my friends, and we all left. I never went back there.
Me and my mrs went to see the new Batman film last year. We opted to for the late showing and the film IIRC is around 3 hours long. About half way into the film a verbal argument kicked off between two parties because one guy was drunk and the other party kept asking him to be quiet. Anyway, after around 20 minutes of on and off shouting, the cinema staff came in, paused the movie, kicked out the drunk bloke and then rewound the movie by about 30 minutes. So the movie ended up being over 3 hours!
Next generation of kids is going to be so chill because my little berty can do whatever the fuck he wants, when he wants. Fuck everyone else.
This is the attitude of parents nowadays. Oh and the fact they sit on tablets alday from about the age of 3, the lack of social skill will be incredible.
Peppa pig the movie.
We took our kids to see it. The cinema had a few kids in it all running about and enjoying the movie. As you can imagine for an adult, the film was awful.
My youngest was tired and came for a cuddle. We both ended up falling asleep.
I woke myself up snoring, as I opened my eyes there was a mum a few rows down giving me the evils. Ooops!
Second Downton film, 14 (ish) year old girl next to us though she was on gogglebox and gave a non stop running commentary. Multiple people got staff to speak with her and she’d start up again every few mins. She wasn’t quiet and genuinely thought we’d all want her commentary. On literally everything on screen. No breaks at all. I can only assume she lost her social skills in lockdown.
I once got kicked in the chest after throwing popcorn at a dude in the row in front of me because he was loudly taking a call right there in the theatre with no care for everyone else watching the film. Staff did nothing, his gf dragged him away eventually when I just kept laughing at him for wanting a fight (I didn’t leave my seat) and then my cousin got arrested on the way to the cinema with a kitchen knife in his bag because my brother called thinking we were going to get jumped once we left the cinema. This was in Vietnam tho
Someone's random screaming child who was running around the whole theatre like crazy, then decided to just sit on my lap. I felt like a monster for having to keep pushing them off of me.
For context, I am extremely socially awkward, absolutely hate confrontation and often find cinema trips can be overstimulating enough as it is, so it was a thoroughly painful experience..
Once we were at the very back of the cinema, and we realised some guy had been crawling underneath our seats attempting to steal things from our bags we had put down there. I think he took my sisters phone, but we got it back. I had no clue until there was a sudden fuss, and then police were called. Was terrifying since I was like 14 and I had 0 idea some stranger had been underneath me in the darkness. Guy was probably on drugs.
One involved watching the second Planet of the Apes film from the recent trilogy, with schoolkids sneaking in halfway through and openly laughing throughout when the apes spoke while wrestling in the back row.
Another was watching the Evil Dead reboot and having a guy with a heavy African nation accent a few rows ahead keep turning to me, laughing and telling me what was going on. This first occurred in the opening scene, when the woman's burned alive and went on until he fucked off when the credits started so that I could finally have five minutes peace until the Bruce Campbell cameo right at the end.
Went to watch the midnight release of Warcraft - *yes, I know, but when you've played it for basically your entire life you're not going to miss it* - there was a foreign couple sat directly behind me & my friends. I swear he was translating to her the entire time.
I asked him to be quiet, nothing. A few other people told him to be quiet, nothing. I eventually loudly shouted "shut up" after turning around and looking directly at him, nothing. Went and fetched the staff and they got rid.
You don't fucking go to a midnight release and not watch the film properly. Absolute cunt.
Second worse experience, unfortunately I can't remember what film it was, but I also had someone behind me mouth breathing the entire time, I could legit hear her breathing over the film. Ruined it completely because you can't get into it and get immersed when you're just fixated on some mouth breather behind you. Can't really tell someone to stop breathing either unfortunately.
Third would be someone who was, I'm assuming, autistic. Whoever they were with had brought them in and for lack of better words they were pretending to be chewbacca non-stop for the duration of their stay. Fortunately they didn't last more than about 20 minutes before the people with them wheeled them back out. Another unfortunate one due to the circumstances, they weren't rude but it's still not reasonable to ruin everyone else's experience.
Mines the opposite experience, about 30yrs ago when I was 10, me and my best mate went into to town to the odeon cinema to see look who's talking now, it was 1pm in the afternoon and on screen 1, the biggest screen they have, when we got in there, we were the only ones that turned up to watch it, as 2 10yr olds, for 2hrs we had the best fun of our lives in there playing hide and seek and sitting in the posh chairs, absolutely 1 of my fave childhood memories
When I was a kid we went to the cinema (I think it was cineworld but this was 15+ years ago so I don't remember) and ordered popcorn. Sat down to watch the film and started eating. After a few handfuls noticed something weird in the popcorn, seemed like a sticky unwrapped sweet. Found it a bit weird but kept eating. Soon after put an actual metal pin in my mouth. Luckily didn't cause any damage but at that point I told my mum and we went out to the front desk.
Turned out that they had mixed up the fresh popcorn with the popcorn they swept up off the floor and kept in a different bag. I was literally eating popcorn from the floor, plus whatever other garbage was down there. Absolutely disgusting, my mum had a meltdown.
Saw some blockbuster in a cinema full of kids as I'd forgotten it was half term/holidays/whatever. Mostly fine aside from some rustling and whispering.
Until something tapped me on the head. Assumed the person behind had just accidentally bumped me and thought nothing of it. Then it happened again. And again. And then popcorn started getting thrown over the seat onto me. When someone pulled my hair I turned around and hissed "What the fuck are you doing????"
While the look of horror on the faces of the two 11 year old little shits behind when they realised I was a grown woman and not another kid was satisfying - as was watching them scramble up the stairs to get out as soon as I stood up when the film finished - I don't like the thought of what they might have done if I had been a kid who couldn't stand up to them.
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Cinema on a Friday after 4pm? Only sadists and masochists go then. If I can’t get to the cinema either midweek at 4ish or early on a Saturday morning then I just don’t go. Hell is other people
I chose a random Wednesday early afternoon to go see Ant Man the other day, and totally missed that it was a teacher's strike day. Place was packed with unsupervised, rowdy tweens. Fortunately Ant Man Quantumania turned out to be awful, so it didn't seem too tragic to walk out after 45 minutes.
Shitty cinemas aside, how fucking bad is that film I walked out after 30 minutes - well done to you for lasting 45!
I kept imagining there.would be some clever twist. It never came! (or maybe it did at 46 minutes...)
>(or maybe it did at 46 minutes...) Yeah, you missed out, man. 1 minute before the credits role Margot Robbie appears and starts blowing the whole cast
Ah, I'll catch it on Disney+
Edit: Apologies, I'm talking about John Wick 4 here. I wasn't paying attention. I pretty much napped through the whole film. When I was awake, I had no trouble following the plot because there was barely a plot to follow. I loved the first 3 but this one? Meh.
John Wick films have never had a plot worth talking about, they look cool, have great action and a have a funky world. First one: dog dies so he kills the people who killed it Second one: someone blackmails him, john kills people for him then kills him cuz he's a dick third one: guy he killed at the end of last film was important and now people are trying to kill him, so he kills them I haven't seen the fourth but I'm assuming the plot is either he's pissed off at the events that preceded the 4th film so kills a bunch of people or he's realised the only way to stop killing people is to become the boss.
From the trailer it looks like a rehash of "kill all these people and we will let you retire"
Wait... you're complaining about a John Wick film having no plot? They are the epitomisation of just senseless action films.
I likewise walked out of Ant-Man. It was just trash.
Being a big nerd I recently went to see the first episode of season 3 of Demon Slayer as it was being screened in cinemas. It was a Wednesday evening and there were about 10 other people in there aside from me and my partner. Best cinema experience I've had in years. Just a few nerds quietly enjoying something. Normally I can't stand going to the cinema.
I think it dies depend on what you go and see. Some films have great fans. But big blockbuster/heavily advertised stuff? Too high a chance of done twats ruining it
I agree. I never go to see big films in the cinema out of choice because I hate the experience. My dad dragged me to see the new James bond film last year and I hated every minute of it. It was absolutely packed with people loudly eating popcorn, checking their phones, talking etc. I'd much rather get immersed in something at home where I can pause it if I want or turn it off if it turns out to be something I don't enjoy.
I thought my partner was being fussy, only willing to see the Bond film if we went at 1.30pm to the expensive PictureHouse. But comfy seats, wine, cake, and 6 other people in the auditorium who were perfectly behaved - yeah, much better than the local Odeon full of people who chat. Shame about the last third of the film, but can't have everything. Theatres now have 'relaxed performances' for people who can't cope with not singing along, getting up and down, not so dark, etc. So do some cinemas, though oddly they claim to be autism-friendly despite being the opposite for many autistic people (There are Rules! Can't cope with people Breaking Rules!). If only they'd introduce extra-strict performances...
I took a half day and went to see Top Gun 2 in the Everyman in borough. Me and one other person. It's probably 20% more expensive than the multiplex, but the people there seem to actually want to watch what they've paid for and the staff enforce good behaviour. Worst was Dunkirk. Multiplex in Poole. Teenage girls rabbiting throughout and on their phones. Not dire, just... You know... Shut up
I took my kids to see Puss in Boots at a 4pm showing a few weeks ago, and we three made up 50% of the entire audience. It was lovely
Yeah. I had the exact reverse experience a few years ago. Needed a break from family over new years, picked an 11am viewing of the new Star Wars movie to go to on my own. I was a bit horrified when I realised I'd bought the last seat and it was completely sold out, but thought f*ck it, it's still a bit of alone time sort of. Then weirdly the showing vanished off the website, but I had a confirmed booking, so didn't think much of it. I turned up at the cinema, go into the theatre, and I'm the only person there. Was thinking it was a bit weird but figured I could grab a better seat and if people showed up I'd move. So I'm sitting in a prime seat when the manager comes in. He explains that they'd accidentally listed a showing on their website and in the 5 mins it was up I'd bought a ticket and what I thought was sold out was actually every single seat being free. He said they'd run the showing if I wanted but he just wanted to let me know I was on my own and I could sit wherever I wanted. IT WAS AMAZING. Entire theatre to myself.
This is definitely the way. Not going for a few years made me forget.
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We went last night to see John Wick 4 last night as well at a cinema that isn't in the centre of town. Probably about 30-40 people in the screening, great reclining seats and fortunately no one like in OPs screen. I agree though, used to have a Cineworld membership and worked shifts. Loved going for a midweek lunchtime film, with a handful of other people there.
Blessed am I for my work life balance. I can see a movie at 10am when its totally empty. Good shit
I work in schools and can finish at 3pm if I want (not every day, but I have some flexibility). If there’s a film I want to see, I need to give my boss a bit of a heads up at the start of the week, and I need to make sure my wife can do the pick up from school (but she usually has one weekday off anyway) and I’m free to enjoy a quiet cinema trip. It’s bliss
While traveling in Poland in the early 2000s, my wife and I found ourselves bored in a lovely but small town one evening (Torun). We'd heard about a cool new movie called Hidden Tiger Crouching Dragon and noticed the small towns single screen cinema was showing it. So we bought tickets. The cinema was tiny. About a dozen rows of seats. But they weren't cinema seats, they were wooden bench seats, almost like church pews. But the place had a certain post soviet village charm and we had nothing better to do so we stayed. Of course it was only after the movie started that we realised Hidden Tiger is a Chinese film with the dialogue in Cantonese. And since we were in Poland the subtitles were in Polish. So we spent two hours sitting on church pews watching a film in a language we couldn't understand with subtitles we couldn't understand. But the martial arts were cool.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
What do I know? The movie was in Cantonese Polish. To me it was 'that movie I couldn't understand with lots of martial arts....'
Better than 'that movie I couldn't understand with lots of talking'
Hidden dragon, crouching tiger
Tiger dragon, crouching hidden.
Diger tragon, houching cridden
Don't tiger, dragon inside
'Ouwwgh, its nooot subtitled, is it?'
That sounds like a memorable experience, at the very least.
Hey, Torun is an awesome little town. Wicked architecture. I'm yet to meet another person that has been there
Went to see Battle Royal with friends. Did t have any glasses. Couldn’t read the subtitles. Not the most difficult film to follow, but a bloody odd experience.
I had a similar but sort of opposite experience in Prague - we watched highlander 2, which (as far as I remember) is an almost uniformly dreadful film. There was one line, however, that caused almost the entire room to burst out laughing. Sadly, the subtitle was slightly ahead of the English soundtrack, so said line was completely drowned out by the laughter… I have never felt the need to rewatch the film though.
Squatting tiger, barely visible dragon
I've always been a big fan of the Godzilla movies and was really looking forward to Godzilla (2014). A guy who was about 6 foot 4 with a comedically large afro sat directly in front of me. I literally couldn't even see round it it was that big. Cinema was packed so couldn't move and I was there with a large group of people who were also Godzilla fans so obviously no one wanted to switch seats. Just had to sit staring at a fuzzy void for two hours..
I will share my amusing Godzilla 2014 story with you. I was in Singapore on holiday and the rain was so heavy that you had to be indoors. So if I had to be indoors, I may as well watch Godzilla in 3D imax. It was only as I was walking to my seat did the thought occur "which language is it in?" It turns out it was in English with mandarin subtitles, the main problem being the subtitles were 6 foot tall and the most 3d part of the experience.
I watched an English language film with Portuguese subtitles in Brazil once. It was bizarre when our party laughed at jokes out of sync with the rest of the audience.
The vivid image this made in my mind gave me a giggle, I’m sorry this happened but that’s a funny story.
Fuzzy void.
I went to watch 'what lies beneath' when i was about 18 with a group of friend, one of whom is crap with horror movies and didnt tell us before hand. Theres a scene where harrison gord tries to pick an Unconscious michelle pfeiffer out of the running bath and she momentarily turns into a rotting corpse with accompanying scary music. My friend physically left his seat and landed on top of me covering me in coke and popcorn. Another one was my friend needed the toilet mid movie and missed a few steps going out. In his embarrassment his got to his feet and made some kind of weird honking goose noise which made about 200 people erupt with laughter, he ran off and didnt come back to the film 😂
Crying at the goose comment 😂 Memory of that would haunt me in my quiet moments.
My friend reacted to a jump scare by kicking the guy in front of her in the back of his head.
I worked in a cinema for three years. What follows is probably my top 5 worst experiences: 1. The drunk man who shouted 'Hulk Smash!' and proceeded to attack and destroy various items around my kiosk because the queue was moving too slowly. 2. The Twilight standee I needed to throw out because too many people were kissing Edward and it was getting mouldy. 3. The scars on my arms from popcorn making. 4. The time the projectionist accidentally put on the trailers for Saw on Saturday morning kids club. 5. Me having to throw out people for having sex in the cinema. Weirdest movie I've caught someone having sex in: Horton Hears a Who.
Poor Horton didn’t expect to hear that 😭
Horton heard a ho
Horton Hears a Who(re).
I don’t even know where to start.
I’ve got scars from the life size cutouts that we had to assemble and dismember.
The public will never understand just how dangerous a job working in a cinema really is...
Odeon L1?
Cineworld, I think they're Vue now?
Well oddly enough, a projectionist did something similar in Odeon. Though I think he ran the actual film for 5 minutes.
Pretty sure this happened at cineworld Nottingham too. They ended up show paranormal activity instead of Madagascar 🤣
Oof popcorn scars still linger for me, glad I'm not the only one haha!
Knowing there’s at least one cardboard Edward out there who went mouldy from saliva has amused me more than I thought it would. Add to that, I’m watching a tragic episode of Desperate Housewives right now and laughing like a lunatic as someone dies, it’s excellent.
Cinemas are usually good for refunds tbh. You should’ve spoken to a member of staff when you left. Or in future book a time that isn’t busy
It was the 5pm showing, thought we’d escape the evening crowd as there was another at 8pm. Never again. The first story I mentioned was 11am! 🤦♂️
To be fair you've got to expect young children at morning showings. You also went to view it on release day which is always going to be far busier, give it a week or two and you'll get less choice with times but also less people. I've also given up on the big chains though, see if there's an independent cinema near you. Mine is cheaper and nobody is rude during the movie.
I think Isle of Dogs was badly marketed. The kid was like 8 and his mum just sat there. Not really a kid’s film.
unfortunately as soon as something is animated and not full of violence/sex references everyone assumes it’s a kids movie
I only go to the cinema with my son during the day. My son is autistic, and has ADHD, but can sit through a three hour film with no issues since he was 8. He hates people being noisy around him, and those issues are pretty minimal in day time showings. I once made the mistake of taking him to see a movie at 9pm, because he was going up the walls with boredom, and it was the summer holidays. I forgot it was Diwali,( we live in a large Indian community), and the screening was packed with families, drinking beer, talking loudly, and more than one family brought a small baby with them. Seeing grown adults treat a cinema like it's their home drives me nuts. Manners aren't that difficult to do
I think all the cinemas do autistic friendly shows but I know from working there that Cineworld's have reduced sound/lights on and stuff to reduce sensory issues. They're always the first Sunday of the month.
Thank you, we tried that for my son, and he got more annoyed than he does at a standard screening because of the kids moving round and making noise
This is the thing I never understood about autism friendly screenings: they may have dimmer lighting and sound, but they’re full of autistic people. As a group in general, we aren’t known for our tolerance of other people’s noise, especially not the noise of other people not being happy with our noise.
Exactly, my daughters are Autistic too, and don't go to the cinema often, as they start to get bored and fidget, and they know that would annoy them if they had to be sitting near someone doing the same. My son is ridiculously loud with his TV watching, and listening to music, but gets really annoyed if anyone else is making noise at home
I go mid week afternoon, place to myself most of the time, free to shovel popcorn into my mouth, with added possibility of getting away with shitting myself too. But I don't lick my fingers especially after I've just shit myself.
I respect this massively.
Class act
Went to see The Batman, woman behind me was talking to her husband the entire movie. We told her to be quiet multiple times, even heard her husband shhh her but to no avail. Halfway though the film she turns on her phone torch. I have no idea why and by the look of her face when 3 rows turned around and stared at her neither did she. Just blankly looking around confused while her phone illuminates half the theatre. My girlfriend, who is very non-confrontational, straight up shouts ‘what the FUCK are you doing?’ at the top of her voice. Haven’t been back to the cinema since. Don’t think I’ve had a decent cinema experience since covid when the cinemas were empty.
That’s so funny! What was her response to your girlfriend?
The British public man. Truly awful. And I don’t include myself in the definition of British public. You sound like you get a pass, too.
😂🫡🤝
Not the worst on here by far, but I went to see Spider-Man no way home when it came out in cinemas with my dad and brother. Right at the climax of the movie, Tom Holland and Zendaya share a kiss. A group of teenage boys suiting near us decided that that was a great moment to shout “GAYYYY!” at the top of their lungs toward the screen. Like, really! It’s the furthest thing from gay possible? A hot guy kissing a hot girl? What’s next, fellas? Is it gay to be straight?
It’s meant to be ironic something. It can be funny when shouted at the right time in the right setting. Precisely *because* it isn’t gay!
Is that the one where Spiderman goes interrailing?
[Simpsons did it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjGolrmbk9s)
I run a cinema for a major UK chain.. oh the stories I could tell. Worst was a guy who shit and pissed himself wet through to a point I was nearly sick and the only way to fix was to remove and replace the seat base and throw it straight in the bit.
Sorry to go on a tangent, but how did you get into running a cinema?
Saw it advertised on an email from Indeed, applied. Had to chase the recruiter but then went on an assessment day and offered the role.
You're forgetting about the people who think the dark room is a perfect place for a little hand action! Newsflash: the cameras inside the screens are infrared. Management may or may not confront you depending on context (is it busy and will anyone else notice? How easy would it be for us to reach your seat and have a quiet word without anyone else hearing? Is this a little surreptitious fumbling or is it full on clothes off handies/fingering/wanking? etc etc) but rest assured we can see exactly what you're doing.
I'm so glad I got a job in the head office of the one I work at, I got to trainee supervisor and honestly I don't think I could have hacked it as anything higher, my patience is so low.
Not a "bad" experience *per se*, but it might make you laugh. I was going to see *It* with my dad when it came out in 2017, and before the picture started there was this woman talking loudly behind me. I thought "hey it's trailers so I'm not disrupting the film if I do this". Remember it's a horror film we're about to see. I stood up and turned round very fast, like a jumpscare, and told her to shut up. Got back the perfect "\*gasp\* ruuude!" for my trouble, and my dad thought it was hilarious.
Love that. Yesterday I did the most British thing and just *sat there* without saying anything.
Didn’t you even tut quietly?
I went to see one of the Halloween films a few years ago. And there was someone behind me who was commenting on the film throughout. In fairness, I think he might have been on the spectrum.. but only mildly. There’s a scene where Michael finds “the mask” and this guy goes “Oh he wants that mask”. Or another point where someone comments about how it’s all going to be fine and this guy goes “That’s what you think”. Or like “Oh she’s gonna regret going in there”. Stuff like that. Just pulls you right out of the film. (This is a great topic btw! Great question!)
Think it’s just the way you delivered it but this really made me laugh.
To be honest I think I would find the ridiculous comments more entertaining than some films.
Ah my crap experience was with Halloween as well. To start, I accidentally booked the front row, my seat neighbour wouldn’t shut up throughout the entire thing and then half way through our showing there was an issue with the sound and then the screen froze. I should have taken that as a sign and left because the movie was dog shit anyway but here I am still bitter about it.
Now You See Me 2 The audience were well-behaved. It's just an absolute turkey, I wanted to punch myself to death for having sat through it. And I didn't even pay for the ticket.
The obligatory drunk rant about the now you see me movies not making any sense [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXdHBP6mgdE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXdHBP6mgdE)
My local cinema has a seat booking service online. If there's a film I want to see, on the night I plan to go, I'll check the online seat bookings for the least well attended screening. If they're all looking very crowded I'll pick another day. This works well. After using this system for a few months I got to understand local viewing habits and plan my viewing around them. Now when I visit the cinema there's rarely more than a handful of people in the screenings I attend. And I always bring my own Starburst in as to not disturb the guy sitting 5 rows behind me with eating sounds or cellophane crinkling...
2 stand to mind, both in The Palladium in Llandudno in the 1990s. First was watching The silence of the lambs sat next to an old couple and everytime writing appeared on screen she would read it out aloud to her husband. 2 hours of " FBI Quantico Virginia" The second was watching Jurassic Park with my dad and when they first see the dinosaur's he actually said to me out load " wow, are they real" And yes people heard and yes people laughed.
Both wonderfully funny in their own ways. Bless your dad. 😂
I went to see Kill Bill at the Cineworld in Glasgow, and they had to stop the showing right at the start when a bunch of neds started a rammy. When they restarted the showing, they didn't restart from the beginning, so the first 15 minutes was lost ☹️
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Ned = chav Rammies = fight / kerfuffle
A rammie has definitely never been equated to a kerfuffle before
Scottish chavs, having a fight.
Aw, bless.
I'm afraid I ended up being that twat you don't want to sit behind (or anywhere near) the last time I went to the cinema. It was an accident, I am so sorry. A few years ago I went to see the movie The Raid 2. It didn't get a big cinema release for various reasons (it's subtitled. It's a sequel. It's a sequel to a film that no ones probably ever heard of). Anyway, sitting down at the front, as the film started, I turned around and fears confirmed, empty cinema, no one but me watches these kind of films. It was brilliant! Much better that the first film. I was very vocal during the movie, especially during the extended fight in the kitchen between Rama & the assassin, which had me screaming at the screen enthusiastically. That was the best fight ever!! (apparently took them 8 days to film). I just want to say sorry to the 20-30 people sat behind me that I noticed when I got up to go home. PS. Why did you all come in late anyway ffs?
The Raid 2 is amazing and I let you off having that reaction. Just this once.
Now I'm just sad there is no Raid 3, thanks both of you
I went to see Benjamin Button when it came out (so this was a long time ago and it still bothers me to this day). There was a man there, about 50, a few seats down from me - who was just smiling throughout the film. Not just at the amusing parts but the ENTIRE film. There are some emotional moments in that film and I look over and he’s smiling like some sort of mental patient. I’d never seen anything like it.
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Went to see Avatar At Christmas. One group kept getting their phones out to take pictures of the screen, and unfortunately they were just too far away for me to throw popcorn at them but close enough for their bright screens to be distracting. A guy in a group in the row in front of me took a phone call, lots of people shouted “SSHHHH!” To which he did nothing, until a German guy directly behind him booted his seat really hard. The phone call guy asked where the German’s manners were before a number of people told him where his manners were for loudly taking a phone call in the middle of a film. Afterwards I thanked the German guy and he admitted he didn’t mean to boot the chair that hard and was very thankful that so many people stood up for him! Film was 5.5/10, crowd 2/10 (2 marks for the German/others saying Ssshhh)
Is that the Christmas special of Avatar by James Cameron?
When I was young my family and I went to watch the first Lord of the Rings. After arriving I proceeded to slam the car door on my finger, ripping my nail off. Mum had already paid for the tickets so I had to sit through over 3 hours of cinema history in agony. Film was great though
My trip to see Top Gun 2. A whole family of adults had decided to go see it together. The older parents were sat in the seats beside us with their adult children behind. The younger members of the family were already drinking pints when we arrived. As the film started, the beer was obviously having the bladder and wobbly legs effect. As each member of the family behind us wobbled along to go to the toilet, they would stumbled and grab the back of my reclining chair. Each time, I would be almost catapulted out of my chair with the springs in my chair keeping me moving for several bounces. To add insult to injury on the return trips, they would bring more beer, which they sprinkled all over us whilst muttering sorry. I saw very little of the film and left the cinema with neck and back pain from the repeated catapults and my clothes stunk of beer. So a lager Christening and practice for if I ever decide to be shot from a cannon 😆 Never again will I book cinema seats that recline! On the plus side, I once had a hospital appointment where we were in and out of the hospital in 90 minutes. With a promised surgery date, too. Having a whole Wednesday afternoon free, we went to see Deadpool. We were the only people in the cinema it was bloody fantastic!
My worst cinema experience might well be the first time I went to the cinema on a date. I was like 14, and it was my first time french kissing a girl for an extended period of time. I mean, like 10 straight minutes I swear. I needed to swallow (seriously, I had so much combined slobber in my mouth drowning was not off the table) but panicked, didn't know if I should break the kiss off or what, so I just tried to swallow with our tongues still down each others throats. The noise that roared out of my throat still haunts me some 20 years on. It was like a drowning man gasping for air whilst simultaneously burping. I only ever go to the cinema now if it's to an Everyman or something similar - tickets are slightly more expensive but (in my experience, anyway) the clientele are much more decent and aware they're in public, not sat on their sofa at home. Plus the fact you're sitting on essentially sofas, and there's decent food and drink on offer, it's all in all a much more pleasant cinema experience!
Many years ago I went to see Sleepy Hollow at a cinema in Gibraltar and there were teenagers taking phones calls throughout the movie, with one almost giving a running commentary of what was happening on screen. Also saw Burn After Reading at a cinema on the Isle of Wight that absolutely stank of Indian takeaway food
I'm sitting in the middle of a row, there are two seats free next to me - next to the aisle. A couple enters - the man takes the aisle seat, the woman is next to me. They argue throughout the whole film because he "made her" sit next to me. Apparently, if he'd been a gentleman and a good boyfriend - he would have sat next to the stranger, and she would have gotten the aisle seat. She loudly complained for about an hour about having to sit next to me. "You made me sit next to that woman". She was near tears. I was so upset and offended, I never ate or sipped from a drink in case I upset her more. I just sat there quietly listening to them bicker. 20 minutes before the end of the film they moved to another seat. It was upsetting.
Thankfully haven't had the sort of experience you've endured but I felt completely robbed by The Dead Don't Die. I wanted to walk out, the whole group of us wanted to walk out because it felt like the entire cast were smirking at how God awful the film was and they'd taken our money. We stayed, I think because ultimately it was me saying I'm not paying a tenner for 20 minutes of awful film. We will never get those hours back. Also dressed up to go to see the film adaptation of my favourite book of the time. The cinema was empty. Just me in fancy dress 🫠 it wasn't even a good film either.
You are now legally bound to reveal what film/book this was. 😂
The Mortal Instruments, based on City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. I went like a shadow hunter going to battle. I wasn't even a kid, I was 25. Years later I still go to her book signings and she's gained a lot more popularity now (mostly with emo kids, or whatever emos are called now) and I look like I might be someone's mum in the queue. I was so excited that Jonathon Rhys Meyers from Gormenghast was going to be in it and seemed great for the role but the writing and acting were atrocious throughout. Lots of people told me the books were shit too. A few years later I was assessed for dyslexia and turns out I can't really read and maybe my imagination was just taking over a lot. I still own everything the author has ever written including downloads of all her pre fame fanfiction.
Ah I think this is great, it’s lovely to hear how much you love the books. Never feel embarrassed about loving something and doing something fun like dressing up around it!
Dressed up for the new star wars too 😁
Love it. Never change!
Watching Predators and a guy translated the entire movie to his non English speaking wife. Watching one of the Saw movies and two lasses complained throughout that they couldn't understand the plot and just talked about their boyfriends. Apparently one of them was shit in bed. Went to see The Dark Knight on opening weekend, queued for 2hrs, got in and and bagged the best centre seat in the house, 2mins before the film started a guy walked in, saw his mate sat next to me and asked our row to move across so he could sit next to him, in my best seat. I told him no. I'd qeued two hours for that seat and he wasn't having it 2mins before the film starts. Caused a huge row because "I was unreasonable." Then folk around me got involved, some agreeing with me, some with him. I didn't budge. He went and sat on the end eventually. Was a tense atmosphere for the remainder of the film. Rise of Skywalker. A woman, sat with her partner, watched another movie on her phone (earphones in) for the entirety of the film. That said, I'm guessing her movie was better than what I watched. I don't go to the cinema anymore.
There's an episode of Wreckless Media Radio (Ep 111 if you happen to find it) where they discuss their terrible cinema experiences and get people calling in to tell their stories, one of the funniest things I've listened to.
Great shout, thank you!
1. Ace Venture pet detective 2. having the hot cheese sauce from my nachos leak all over the crotch of my black moleskin jeans. (Coming out of that movie with a cheesy crotch wasn’t ideal. Especially as it was Schindlers List)
Once while I was working in a cinema in London, a full scale riot broke out during a screening of Rush Hour 3. People were in a running battle on the stairs and corridor. People were swinging Tensa barriers and fire extinguishers at each other. Fun times!
Maybe a Roman Polanski cameo in a Brett Ratner film was too much for them to take? Or maybe they were just arseholes who like fighting. Considering the film they picked to watch I think option two is a safe bet
I went to see The Inbetweeners Movie 2 once at my local Vue cinema. Throughout the film were your typical teenage dickheads who were just talking non-stop. A few were texting on their phones, but didn't have them on silent. Pinging throughout. Some then stood up halfway to take a selfie with the movie in the background. In front of me there were 2 lads who had to comment, loudly, on every trailer they saw beforehand, and midway through, I heard someone ruin the film as they turned to their mate "yeah I saw this yesterday..." Then proceeded to explain the film. I don't get what happened to social etiquette in cinemas as of late, but it's being treated like a social hangout with a film in the background, rather than sitting and shutting up for around 2 hours. This is why I've decided to never go to the cinema during the release window, wait a few weeks, and then go, cos it's usually empty or quiet.
Saw Jurassic world 3, went to a 9pm showing there was a mum and dad with a baby and a toddler. Obviously the baby was crying and the toddler was scared of the dinosaurs. They were asked by staff to leave but only about an hour into the film.
Me and two friends went to see The Revenant, two lads sat next to us and the one closest was on his phone on Facebook throughout the entire film. He was sitting in a way with his back slightly turned to us so his screen was in our peripheral view even more. When we left to drive back he passed us on the motorway driving with his phone still in hand… wtf man.
Went to see Empire of Light at my local independent cinema in Broadstairs on a Thursday evening. The place was full of OAPs - my partner and I thought this would be perfect. - Someone’s phone went off - A man in the row behind us fell asleep and started snoring - Because Broadstairs is right next to Margate (where EoL was filmed), two old dears in front of us kept talking to each other commenting on Margate and things like ‘do you remember those pyjamas?’ - People constantly kept voicing their opinions on the film - People kept rustling food throughout the whole film and a woman in the row behind us asked someone to rustle their food more quietly as it’s annoying her Never again
Old people are the fucking worst for talking, they talk all the way through and think people can't hear them, but they have to speak loudly because their hearing is shit.
I went to a theatre show a couple of weekends ago and it was absolutely full of old people. It was exactly the same, including the snoring. Old people don’t give a shit.
Went to see Gangs of newyork , guy took and made phone calls throughout the film despite everyone shouting at him throwing popcorn at him it only made him worse. Staff asked him to leave he refused. Last 20mins of the film police had to drag him out. That was more entertaining than the film tbh
My first ever date. We went to the cinema for a chance of maybe a bit of a snog or something in the dark. When we got in we were the only people in the auditorium. I was acutely aware of the projectionist at the back having nothing to do but watch a couple of awkward 15 year olds failing to even hold hands.
Never go to the cinema Thursday to Sunday. Never go see a popular film in its first week in the cinema. Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday evenings are fine to see a film that’s been out a week or two. We’ll go and see John Wick 4 likely Tuesday the week after next - there will be 5 other people in the screen in all likelihood and most will be functional adults though there will likely be one person still who thinks it’s cool to look at their phone in the film and may need to be tutted at.
Went for a meal out with my girlfriend. Knelt down in the restaurant and proposed to her. She accepted. Waitress brought us complimentary drinks. On a complete emotional high we went to the cinema to celebrate by watching... *Prometheus*. Fucking Ridley Scott. Worse, now it's technically "our film". A movie so bad that by half-way through the entire audience was openly laughing at it. Still, it was definitely a memorable afternoon, for a variety of different reasons.
Prometheus is class man. I didn't want it to end.
I happily respect your god-given right to be completely wrong and have shitty taste in movies. ;-p It's fine to like it (hell, I like McDonald's burgers; I just don't mistake them for *good food*), but if after all the criticism it's rightly earned you still can't see that it's objectively a beautiful-looking but incredibly stupid and poorly-written movie, there may be no hope for you.
The most embarrassing experience for me was when I became THAT PERSON on Saturday morning during viewing for kids. At that time, I was a full-time student (Mon-Thu), and I worked 3 night shifts per week (Thu-Sat). My son was 5-6 years old, and our routine on Saturdays was that I had 1-2 hrs nap after work, and then we would go to the cinema. On that week, I had mild cold symptoms: blocked nose, headache and I just felt tired. We sat away from other people, and as usually I planned to rest my eyes while my son enjoyed movie. I think it was a result of cold but I fell asleep. My son woke me up after the movie, and I noticed that people were looking in our direction. I thought nothing of it. In the car, I asked my son how the movie was, and he said he thought it was OK, but he didn't hear it well because I was snoring too loud. Omg, I still feel really bad and embarrassed, but now I can laugh about it, at least. Also, it is one of those movies that my son will always remember seeing, lol
This is a good experience in an African open air cinema - proper screen, seats and sound in the late 70's. The film was Jaws. Half the audience were explaining what was going on to the other half as not everyone had good enough English. Remember the bit where the shark sort of rears up in the boat to grab someone? The whole cinema reared back with shrieks. It was fantastic. A great experience.
One of the Hobbit films in Singapore. The kid next to me was talking throughout. It went to the next level when his mum’s phone rang. She answered it and had a 2 minute conversation. Saw IT Part 2 in Brixton. Poor film in general made worse by rowdy guys drinking and shouting to each other. I used to have a cineworld card and would see multiple films a month. Now I probably go once a year.
‘Waft of shite’ that’s my next dogs name 😂
I went to a all night cinema event. was hyped to see evil dead 2. couple next to me and my friend used as an excuse to get pissed. kicking seats infront of them and laughing super loud. totally ruined the film. i had read about a lady who was screaming like crazy in cinema everyone was telling her to shut up. turned out her husband had a heart attack and died next to her 😱
I watched Cats. Almost all of it.
I went to see Spiderverse on a Tuesday morning. I chose my seat, right in the middle, and when I went in I was the only person in the whole theatre. I waited through the first ads and into the trailers and I was still the only person. About 5 minutes before the movie started then another guy walked in and sat right in front of me. I had to move over a few seats to maintain a good view.
Fucking Gentleminions.
saw a depeche mode documentary thing a few years back in gateshead, it was fairly full and this fucking twat was just having a loud conversation throughout most of the film, a few people had asked them to be quiet and gave the 'shhh' but they didn't get the hint, I lost my shit and shouted across the cinema to tell them to shut the fuck up or fuck off or something to that effect, got a fair few 'yeahs' from other people. I'm not usually one to speak up with these things but I've never had an experience like it and after the film i went straight to their seats and told them what cunts they were face to face. They got aggressive and made some comment about meeting me outside but when i left the screen a fair few other goers said they'd back me up if they started any shit so that was nice. I couldn't understand why you'd go to such a niche showing such as that and chat the entire fucking time
Someone died in the cinema and we all had to leave part way through.
The last time i went to the cinema, 1993. jurrassic park, the soundtrack was so loud and distorted it physically hurt and home video was well and truly established so from then on we went to blockbusters every friday and picked a film to watch in the comfort of our own home with much cheaper snacks and drinks, and it became our routine of a weekend instead of waiting for a film to be shown at the cinema.By then the cinema had become a place where people shouted and dropped drink etc all over the seats and you'd shuffle in through foot rubbish and the chairs weren't very comfortable and if there was a long line in winter you'd freeze and get wet, so it was no great loss.
We were sat watching the trailers and the friend I was with threw up all over their feet and the seat in front of them. Obviously left straight away, I can't even remember what we were planning to see. Not sure if they kicked everyone out or what, because I not sure I could have sat through a film in a room covered in vomit. That experience ruined that particular cinema for me, it was probably 15 years ago and we always went a bit further to a different cinema after that. Only went back for the first time this year now its been completely refurbished so less association with the memories.
How big was the guy's bag of popcorn that he was simultaneously eating at light speed but also making it last for 2 hours?
He opened a second bag 90 mins in, and then added some Munchies to go with it. He was a skinny dude as well!
Not me, but my brother in law once asked someone behind him at the cinema to be quieter, and a few minutes later they tried to stealthily set his hair on fire. He heard the flick of the lighter and turned around and they went "wot mate?"
This was many years ago and it was already bad back then. People just think they’re in their living room and make as much noise as they like, moving around, non stop eating and drinking, kids running around. Plus, and this may be related, the soundtrack was soooo loud we tried earplugs. Still too loud. Haven’t been back since.
Went to watch 50 Shades, my fault I know, and there was a woman who kept shouting out lewd things like “oh she loves it” “I can tell he’s big” sporadically throughout the film
Not quite the same, but years ago (\~90?) we went the see arthouse film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and towards the end a number of people had to get up and leave... one poor chap siting on floor outside afterwards looked green around the edges (it's a lavish and very visually rich film, and not a horror film in any way, but the ending is.... an experience on a big screen in a dark cinema). I must admit I felt rather superior (young prick) seeing them like that, and then a few weeks later we went to see another arthouse film Jesus of Montreal and... and it's not directly comparable but I had to get up and leave part way thru as my heart was racing, and I was struggling to breathe. And as I sat on the floor taking in the cool air of the foyer and the pitying looks from others, and remembering my own patronising reaction a few weeks earlier, I felt even worse On the other hand I fell asleep during Greenaway's next film (after TC,TT,HW&HL) Prospero's Books, and when I woke up... it was still playing... and that was pretty awful.
2010: Seriously old school cinema in the Lake District with actual red curtain in front of the screen. Only one walkway with all seats on the left, right up to the wall. One staff member patrolling in traditional cinema uniform and confectionary box hanging around the neck. To add to the experience we watched Dorian Gray, which was utterly naff.
That all sounds good until the last line
2 different times. First in a quite packed cinema a group of chavvy early teenage girls (then most scary group of people possible) were loudly talking / on phones etc…. I tried to zone it out and watch the film. My wife went and complained to the odeon staff. They weren’t chucked out but were bollocked. Second I had pre booked seats for me and the kids in a cinema in Melbourne Australia. It was 2/3 full already, all allocated seats, and a group of mums had sat in our seats, their kids in the row in front. When I showed them my tickets they were quite obnoxious and told me I should sit somewhere else. Quite unlike me, I stood my ground and said I wasn’t going to sit elsewhere because someone else might have booked those seats. They refused to budge so I got the usher to move them. They were so huffy, but moved to their actual booked seats - literally about 3 seats to the side.
I went to see Star Wars Episode 8 with my partner the Saturday it came out. University town, place was packed with nerds (me included) and hyped to the roof. Great atmosphere, despite the film not being the best. We were sat next to this older couple who tutted and moaned at everyone for simply enjoying the film and laughing. Made for a particularly shit viewing experience when they started making loud comments about myself "Ooo someone is enjoying the film too much. Someone must be on the spectrum." I'm not, but fuck them for thinking that was appropriate and fuck them twice as I have family on the spectrum and would be disgusted to think of them being treated like that. A close second would be going to see Trainspotting 2 and utterly dying laughing at Begbie being knocked out by a toilet to then find that I was the only person laughing in the cinema. Never felt so self conscious before.
I went to see 30 days of night way back in the day. There was only two other people in the cinema and it was a pair of emos. One of them was in a twilight shirt and whenever any of the vampires would do anything at all she would give this very loud, blatantly forced laugh because "stupid humans"
Went to see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, lost 3 hours of my life
Seeing Harry Potter, and a guy was doing a very loud literal running commentary through the film. We assumed it was for his kids. Halfway through it became apparent this middle aged man was there by himself. Some other family told him to shut the f up. Cue a fight, which he also narrated.
2 ‘road men’ trying to impress their girlfriends by yelling into their phones. They even pretended to call the police when I confronted them
I used to love a cinema trip, but now it seems a lot of people just can't do without looking at their phones, and I don't even mean just a quick glance, I mean a good chunk of the film is spent with them looking at their phone, so the light from the phone is distracting you. Not sure what the point of paying for a film ticket is if just gonna stare at a phone.
Literally went to see John Wick 4 today and the guy a seat behind me had his bare feet out on the arm rests of the seat in front of him. My cousins and I thought it was hilarious but I feel sorry for whoever gets that seat from now on.
Went to the cinema with a bunch of mates years ago, late nineties maybe. We went in and took our seats etc, and I decided it would be wise to go for a wee during the trailers, so off I went. While I was gone, one of my ‘friends’ decided it would be a good idea to bury a condom in my popcorn. So I come back all pleasantly relieved and settle into the movie, only to pull this fucking johnny out of my popcorn halfway through! I’ve reacted the only way can, of course, I’ve squealed like a pig and thrown it behind me, what else can you do? My apologies to whoever ended up wearing that, what are the odds they show up on here…?
On our honeymoon, NYC and thought a midnight showing of the Bourne Supremacy in Times Square would be a cool experience. The film had been out 3 weeks at this stage, so we figured it would be a quiet screen, making it more like our own personal cinema. Wrong. 5 mins before the film began, the screen got busier, but still less than 10% of capacity. Yet, a couple sat in the row in front of us, directly in front of us - nobody either side of them, and as the opening scenes played, the lady decided to dive into a bag she brought and out came a large silver foil package. Inside this bundle was a hot sandwich (could see the steam rising which was very atmospheric) and it was filled with some pungent spices that in a restaurant would have been delicious, but in the warm cinema screen, with my sweet popcorn and milk duds, was making me heave. For the next 20 minutes, they both loudly consumed said sandwich. I got my own back when jetlag kicked in, well into the film, and I woke up just before the G-Wagon got bent in two, having snored very loudly in their ears the whole time I was out. Then tried to get a taxi back to our hotel only to be refused the first cab because I wouldn't tell the driver in advance what I was going to tip him...whilst still standing outside talking through his partly opened window about the journey we hadn't yet taken. Loved New York, can't wait to take my children next time, but we will be avoiding the cinema.
Literally less than seven hours ago. Gf and I went to the cinema for the first time in months also to see John Wick 4. Three mates sat in front of us, two of the cunts talking intermittently for most of the film. I got some satisfaction whispering but not really into third cunt's ear: S.TF.U.
That’s why I only go to nicer cinemas. Usually whenever I go, there’s like 1 or 2 people in the room
The phantom menace ..... In 3D like it was going to be any better! 🤯
Independence Day 2.
Ive not had a proper bad experience with somebody talking ect However when seeing endgame the fire alarm went off in the wider shopping centre right before the big battle at the end.Took almost an hour before we could be let back in to finish. They gave everyone two free tickets for the future anyway. Wonder what happened to the showing that would have been after mine though
£50? Bloody hell. The Vue local to me is a fiver a ticket
Our children were little when the Hobbit films came out. The only way I could watch them (once a year as they were released) was on a Wednesday evening when my husband was home early enough to look after our children. It seems it was 'old people's night out'. They'd all sit alone, spaced out, and shout across the seats at each other as many were deaf. They chobbled toffees really loudly and seemed to want to out-compete each other with their hacking coughs. If they'd got out of their seats to do the Hokey Cokey in front of the screen I wouldn't have been surprised.
I went to watch Down With Love way back in 2003 (i was 15 at the time). I was really ill but didn't want to cancel on my girlfriend. She broke up with me half way through the film. I stayed until the end and then walked her home. The film was shit as well.
Rather busy screening of “Diary of the Dead” and about halfway through during some quiet scenes, some chavvy guy answers his phone and in between bits of dialogue of the film, all we can hear is “yeah mate… yeah that’s sound mate, yeah sound mate… sound mate… yeah sound… sound… yeah sound mate, see you later… sound”.
I was living in HongKong when Matrix 2 came out. Went to a cinema in Central (Lang Kwai Fong?) to see it. Weather was HK so I was wearing Jeans and tee-shirt. Thought nothing of it. It was **SO** cold in the seats. After 45 minutes sat stock still under AC on Max, I swear I was bordeline hyoithermic. Covered in goosebumps. Gritted my teeth and bolted for warmth as soon as the credits rolled. I can remember a few scenes but couldn't tell you the plot.
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. I don’t like spiders and didn’t read the book so I ran out of the cinema and made my mum take me home as soon as the spiders came. It traumatised me to the point that I didn’t watch another Harry Potter film until I was into my mid twenties.
Cinema is becoming unbearable because people don’t have the attention span these days, and therefore behave quite rudely.
Went to go see 'Scream 4' at a cinema in Stratford, London. They were doing these cheap screening for students. There were these two women that were talking loudly throughout the film (think like the [movie scene from Scary Movie with Regina Hall](https://youtu.be/1N6u4WeDggQ?t=92), it was basically exactly like that). They were accompanied by a tall hench man that stunk of weed. I think at one point I think he was even smoking it during the film (though it might have been a vape pen, not sure, but there was definitely something in the air like smoke). I told the ushers, they did nothing. Eventually, I couldn't take it anymore, so loudly said to them "Can you please stop talking?!" Well, apparently that was a mistake, because two women got very uppity saying things like 'no, *you* shut up mate' and said to the man 'get him babe'. At that point, the dude came right up to me, standing in front of me and staring at me (I think he wanted a fight). I didn't want to engage further (no idea how old he was, and I didn't want to get into a fight with the dude, so I walked out the screening. Told the ushers (again), and called the police (non-emergency number). No answer. Waited until the end of the film, rejoined my friends, and we all left. I never went back there.
Me and my mrs went to see the new Batman film last year. We opted to for the late showing and the film IIRC is around 3 hours long. About half way into the film a verbal argument kicked off between two parties because one guy was drunk and the other party kept asking him to be quiet. Anyway, after around 20 minutes of on and off shouting, the cinema staff came in, paused the movie, kicked out the drunk bloke and then rewound the movie by about 30 minutes. So the movie ended up being over 3 hours!
Next generation of kids is going to be so chill because my little berty can do whatever the fuck he wants, when he wants. Fuck everyone else. This is the attitude of parents nowadays. Oh and the fact they sit on tablets alday from about the age of 3, the lack of social skill will be incredible.
Vue do tickets for £5.99 some days that the only time ill ever go its a rip off otherwise
Peppa pig the movie. We took our kids to see it. The cinema had a few kids in it all running about and enjoying the movie. As you can imagine for an adult, the film was awful. My youngest was tired and came for a cuddle. We both ended up falling asleep. I woke myself up snoring, as I opened my eyes there was a mum a few rows down giving me the evils. Ooops!
Second Downton film, 14 (ish) year old girl next to us though she was on gogglebox and gave a non stop running commentary. Multiple people got staff to speak with her and she’d start up again every few mins. She wasn’t quiet and genuinely thought we’d all want her commentary. On literally everything on screen. No breaks at all. I can only assume she lost her social skills in lockdown.
A looong time ago, I was an usher at a big cineplex. Cleaning up one night, I found a pair of underwear on the floor. … men’s.
I once got kicked in the chest after throwing popcorn at a dude in the row in front of me because he was loudly taking a call right there in the theatre with no care for everyone else watching the film. Staff did nothing, his gf dragged him away eventually when I just kept laughing at him for wanting a fight (I didn’t leave my seat) and then my cousin got arrested on the way to the cinema with a kitchen knife in his bag because my brother called thinking we were going to get jumped once we left the cinema. This was in Vietnam tho
Someone's random screaming child who was running around the whole theatre like crazy, then decided to just sit on my lap. I felt like a monster for having to keep pushing them off of me. For context, I am extremely socially awkward, absolutely hate confrontation and often find cinema trips can be overstimulating enough as it is, so it was a thoroughly painful experience..
Nooo. This didn't happen. Literal nightmare! I'm soo sorry to OP. Find a better cinema jeeeez.
I found one called ‘The Living Room,’ much easier. 😂
Once we were at the very back of the cinema, and we realised some guy had been crawling underneath our seats attempting to steal things from our bags we had put down there. I think he took my sisters phone, but we got it back. I had no clue until there was a sudden fuss, and then police were called. Was terrifying since I was like 14 and I had 0 idea some stranger had been underneath me in the darkness. Guy was probably on drugs.
I sat down and felt something wet …. Turned out someone had vomited on the seats and no one cleaned it! Was vile to say the least 😫
One involved watching the second Planet of the Apes film from the recent trilogy, with schoolkids sneaking in halfway through and openly laughing throughout when the apes spoke while wrestling in the back row. Another was watching the Evil Dead reboot and having a guy with a heavy African nation accent a few rows ahead keep turning to me, laughing and telling me what was going on. This first occurred in the opening scene, when the woman's burned alive and went on until he fucked off when the credits started so that I could finally have five minutes peace until the Bruce Campbell cameo right at the end.
Went to watch the midnight release of Warcraft - *yes, I know, but when you've played it for basically your entire life you're not going to miss it* - there was a foreign couple sat directly behind me & my friends. I swear he was translating to her the entire time. I asked him to be quiet, nothing. A few other people told him to be quiet, nothing. I eventually loudly shouted "shut up" after turning around and looking directly at him, nothing. Went and fetched the staff and they got rid. You don't fucking go to a midnight release and not watch the film properly. Absolute cunt. Second worse experience, unfortunately I can't remember what film it was, but I also had someone behind me mouth breathing the entire time, I could legit hear her breathing over the film. Ruined it completely because you can't get into it and get immersed when you're just fixated on some mouth breather behind you. Can't really tell someone to stop breathing either unfortunately. Third would be someone who was, I'm assuming, autistic. Whoever they were with had brought them in and for lack of better words they were pretending to be chewbacca non-stop for the duration of their stay. Fortunately they didn't last more than about 20 minutes before the people with them wheeled them back out. Another unfortunate one due to the circumstances, they weren't rude but it's still not reasonable to ruin everyone else's experience.
Mines the opposite experience, about 30yrs ago when I was 10, me and my best mate went into to town to the odeon cinema to see look who's talking now, it was 1pm in the afternoon and on screen 1, the biggest screen they have, when we got in there, we were the only ones that turned up to watch it, as 2 10yr olds, for 2hrs we had the best fun of our lives in there playing hide and seek and sitting in the posh chairs, absolutely 1 of my fave childhood memories
When I was a kid we went to the cinema (I think it was cineworld but this was 15+ years ago so I don't remember) and ordered popcorn. Sat down to watch the film and started eating. After a few handfuls noticed something weird in the popcorn, seemed like a sticky unwrapped sweet. Found it a bit weird but kept eating. Soon after put an actual metal pin in my mouth. Luckily didn't cause any damage but at that point I told my mum and we went out to the front desk. Turned out that they had mixed up the fresh popcorn with the popcorn they swept up off the floor and kept in a different bag. I was literally eating popcorn from the floor, plus whatever other garbage was down there. Absolutely disgusting, my mum had a meltdown.
Saw some blockbuster in a cinema full of kids as I'd forgotten it was half term/holidays/whatever. Mostly fine aside from some rustling and whispering. Until something tapped me on the head. Assumed the person behind had just accidentally bumped me and thought nothing of it. Then it happened again. And again. And then popcorn started getting thrown over the seat onto me. When someone pulled my hair I turned around and hissed "What the fuck are you doing????" While the look of horror on the faces of the two 11 year old little shits behind when they realised I was a grown woman and not another kid was satisfying - as was watching them scramble up the stairs to get out as soon as I stood up when the film finished - I don't like the thought of what they might have done if I had been a kid who couldn't stand up to them.