What was your worst moviegoing/theater experience?

I had to take my sister to see zootopia since my mother was sick with the flu. I thought "Oh okay I'll just sleep through it and this will all be fine". Then I saw the commercials for it referencing the term anthropomorphic, sorta like a little wink or a nod to a very specific group of people called furries. I thought "Oh god" but I remained optimistic that any furries wouldn't show up. Well guess what? We get there and already I see a fox, a wolf, and a god damn dragon fursuit stumbling around. And of course you got the ones with who half assed it and put a tail and ears on. My sister being the naive little girl she is thinks these are Disney mascots and wants to take pictures with them, so I let her. Finally we got our tickets and went in they where pretty rowdy when the movie started doing a bunch of cringey howling and whooping and yelling shit. One of the idiots had to take off their head because it was pretty warm in the theater and he dropped on me a few times. Then the scene where the two wolf guards where howling happened and entire the theater erupted in furries howling and screaming at the top of their lungs.
 
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I went to see that documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore with my boyfriend when it was new. It was at some small theater in some college area because the movie had limited showing. Things went by smoothly until the woman in front of me started losing her shit like some spaz. The movie offended her. Her husband who wasn't telling her to just shut the fuck up was obviously the one who wanted to see this movie. This whole time she was getting mad about how George Bush was portrayed and how the movie was criticizing him and she wouldn't keep quiet about it. She was loudly complaining because apparently she didn't know how to whisper and everyone was getting mad at the woman for making a big scene.
People around us were telling her to shut up, but she kept ranting. One guy near us at the time got up loudly and angrily and moved far away from the woman. She still kept ranting.
Eventually she and her husband got up and left because the movie offended her too much. I shit you not, people actually applauded when she left because the lady was such a loud cunt.
It was funny to be honest.

2. Watching that shitty Cursed movie and the entire time the movie was out of focus. It was also a boring film.
 
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neverendingmidi said:
There's a theater near me that was bought out by a different brand. It had been good up to that point, so I went to see How to Train Your Dragon 2 there the Thursday it opened. The sound sucked ass. All muffled and faint. Plus, despite the fact that this was an opening movie, it was in one of the smallest theaters they had, the ones usually used for movies right before they're kicked out to the dollar theaters.

Never went back. The other theater near me has the reserved seating with recliners in all of the theaters anyway.
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Alamo Drafthouse?
 
I can't say I've had an experience that was awful *cept for when me and the boyfriend saw The Revenant for his birthday and both hated it*.
But, recently I watched a re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey and throughout the entire film, there was a chick a few rows behind me who kept on commentating the movie.
When Dave is holding Frank with the space machine thingy and lets him go so's he can open the emergency door. I burst out laughing like a twat because all I could hear was this woman - in the most English accent - say
"ooooooooh, he's let him go. Well why's he done that???"
Just whyyyy watch a movie like 2001 if you're going to be like that?

( Other comments include "I didn't think this movie was about monkeys. I thought it was about space." "Well if he's going mad, why don't they just have an override button???" "It's a bit long isn't it." "The man's a baby." etc etc. )
 
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So me, my mom and my mom's then-boyfriend tried to see Nightcrawler. Unfortunately, we got pulled over by the cops due to speeding while stoned off his ass, so we were late, and the only other movies we could see were Annabelle and the Saw re-release. We bit the bullet and went to see Saw. The only other people there were a couple sitting in the back. Right as Dr. Gordon was sawing off his foot, I hear slurping sounds in the back. I turn around and see the dude eating out his girl in the back of the theater, and I swear her and I made eye contact. When the movie ended, I promptly got out of the theater as fast as I could.

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So many I could choose from the myriad amount of Furries at Zootopia, to the many, many complaints we got from confused old people regarding The Revenant. But the absolute worst experience was working Memorial Day. Imagine being utterly swamped by hundreds of people seeing either Angry Birds or X-Men: Apocalypse with no AC on a humid, 85 degree day, and each round of people lasting about an hour-and-a-half to all serve leaving us with about maybe five minutes to catch our breaths before we had to clean up the theaters and serve the next set of people. And well, yeah, there's a reason we drank and smoked as much as we did.
 
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Raging Capybara said:
Sorry, but could you explain it better? What were they finding so confusing about the Revenant? lol...
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They usually boiled down to "It's too quiet" during the slower scenes and "It's too cold" regardless of the heat being on as high as it can go. Though I'll say that a group of elderly people demanding refunds and getting into a yelling match with my manager was hilarious. I'm also drunk so, apologies for the vague wording.
 
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I was with the guy who masturbated while watching The Emoji Movie.
My niece wanted to know why he was gasping a lot. I responded to how good the animation is.
Thank god she was too little to look over to see what he was doing.
Cheers to whoever gave the tip.
 
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Local Anime Club was working with Local Theater to show anime dvds on one of their big screens. Cool stuff mostly, even if it was before super clear HD copies of everything. One time they had Porco Rosso. But they only had a bootleg DVD of it, with a hard-letterbox (not an anamorphic) bootleg DVD sourced from the old laserdiscs with very shit audio that was distorted as fuck.

Probably one of the only times I've walked out on a movie.
 
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All my worst experiences were usually at Marvel movies.

The absolute worst one was when my family went to see Captain America: The First Avenger. When we sat down at our seats, my mom noticed a large cockroach crawling around the row, so of course we get up to move. We move up a few rows to get away from the cockroach, and about 10 minutes later a large group of black teens/young adults came in and sat in the same row we just left. Perhaps that cockroach was a sign, because when the movie started they would not shut the fuck up. They talked loudly over the movie and were on their phones the whole time. It got so bad that after about 20 or 25 minutes of this, the ushers came in and escorted them out. I swear I'm not making this up, but the whole theater cheered as the group was being booted out of the movie. My family basically lost the whole beginning thanks to them, so they didn't really know what was going on.

Then there was the time I went to see Iron Man 3 and this 5 or 6 year old sat in the row right in front of me. He wouldn't stop talking throughout the whole thing. It wasn't bad enough to where I couldn't follow it, but it was that instant that made me hate kids at movie theaters in general. If your kid can't keep his mouth shut, he doesn't deserve to be at the theater. Thankfully he piped down when an old man next to me asked them to be quiet.

I also saw Captain America: Civil War in a somewhat empty theater. There was probably about 15 people max. There was a big black dude in the back who laughed loudly and obnoxiously at every little joke, even the ones that weren't really all that funny (Falcon laying next to Bucky and saying he hates him? Cue loud-ass laughter). That said, this same dude was also the reason that was the funniest trip to the theater.

There's a moment near the end where Tony is shown a recording of Bucky and he recognizes the street in the video. The twist is that Bucky was the one who killed Tony's parents, but at first the recording just shows Bucky and a car. As soon as Tony said, "I know that street," the black dude says, very loudly, "OHHH it's his parents!" This was roughly a minute before it was revealed that yes, it was his parents who were killed by Bucky. There was a collective groan in the theater, as not everybody had quite caught on to it like this guy.
 
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Watching the Last Jedi and realizing i could get out because i was with someone else (Back then that person though it was laughably bad eough to stay, their opinion toward it went down when they thought about it later)
 
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Tiny ass "Arthouse" Movie theater showing Grammy nominated shorts. Me and ex gf watched it but it was pretty boring and the place was empty except me and her. So we just start making out, but a few minutes into it two old ladies come in and they have to have the theater light on to see their seats for some reason. So they walk in on me and the ex just making out in the middle of "Room on the Broom" (Narrated by Simon Pegg)
 
i can't really say i had bad experiences, i mean if they were bad they end up positive (my time seeing one of the planet of the apes movies and the movie cut out during half of it and it took 25 - 30 minutes to fix, to the point were cinemark gave everyone watching it a free tick to see another movie) in the end except twister and batman vs superman, twister made me puke after i was done watching it (i was still a kid but damn that movie was bad) and batman vs superman gave me a migraine watching it and it didn't go away after the movie was over so i felt like shit after watching a pile of shit
 
My worst experience happened during a screening of Baby Driver.
To be fair, from the trailers alone one could think it's just a dumb action/heist movie like Fast and Furiouos, but there are many quiet parts in it. During one of those, some douchebag was bored enough to play around with his laser pointer, annoying everyone but his stupidly giggling friends.
It was the first time ever that I yelled at someone in a theater.

Another mildly annoying/amusing thing was a dude taking pictures and short videos during Deadpool 2. He was sitting right in front of me and I could see the quality was shit so what was the point of that?
I justed waited for the moment he would turn around and take a fucking selfi with the screen behind him but that sadly/luckily never happend.
 
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