What was your worst moviegoing/theater experience?

This one just popped into my mind. Me and my buddy went to go see a James Bond movie when we were teens. We thought we were a little early but the usher let us right into the theater. Cool. The movie was already playing, and there was lots of action on the screen. Lots of people already in the theater, too. Shit, must have been later than we thought. No problem, we'll just slide right in and enjoy the traditional Bond pre credit action teaser.

Wait, who is that character? That woman sure looks like the female lead. Is that the main villain?

Huh?

Credits roll.

The dumbass usher let us in at the end of preceding showing. This was back "in the day", so our teen anger was met with a shrug and a little bit of laughter by the usher.

We stayed and watched the whole movie, including the ending. Twice.
 
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I went to see The Beach Bum today and I sat in front of a bald, dumpy middle-aged guy and his uggo wife. When they were talking during the movie, I politely shushed them, and then he said to me "You shush!" like he's a small child, along with ugly bitch saying "How about you move your seat? We weren't talking!" This of course earns gets the attention of the other people in the theater, leading the couple to move to the back of the theater in a huff.

Why is "Don't talk during the movie" so seemingly impossible for people to grasp?
 
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When I was a kid and went to see the original Shrek, it had been raining a lot the past few weeks. So in the middle of the movie during some important scene some chunks of the ceiling (not the actual roof, I don't know what it's called) fell on me and some other people. It looked like cauliflower and I thought someone had thrown it at me. Was kind of gross to say the least. Didn't hurt much but left some bruises. The manager pulled me and my parents out of the theater (along with other people hit by the ceiling chunks) for like 15 minutes (plus had to wash it off after that). Made it hard to follow the rest of the movie, but at least I got free movie tickets for the rest of the summer.
 
Went to see one of the Star Wars movies as a kid. Half of the people there were wearing Jedi robes, and had those stupid fake lightsabers, and the other half were nigs, who talked during the whole movie.
 
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I recently went to see Isle of Dogs, and it took forever for the movie to get started. It was supposed to start at 2:30, but I had to wait over 20 minutes before it started playing. It's a good thing they skipped over all the trailers and commercials when it finally began, though.
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Had a similar experience when I was a teenager. It was one of my first movie theater dates and we went to see the My Bloody Valentine reboot. But we ended up sitting through at least an extra 30 minutes of those stupid trivia slides that theatres play before the show because the employees forgot to check the projecter room.
 
I was watching The Revenant in theatres and some simp was flickering his phone light on and off in front of me. I also saw Black Panther in theatres and a late viewer made the whole theater smell like weed for the duration of the film.
 
Back in 2016, a couple in their 30s or so sat directly in front of me and immediately proceeded to makeout hardcore during the trailers. At first I was really irritated, but the more I looked, the more turned on I got. I started filming them on my phone, got really close up but got caught and was chased from the cinema.
 
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I've had a couple:

1) A Quiet Place = I enjoyed the movie, but my seat was in the front row, which was right in front of the screen, and it was close enough to the point of having to look up to see the whole screen and it hurt my neck. Also, I shared the row with babbling teenagers that wouldn't shut the fuck up through the film. I didn't get to fully enjoy the movie until I saw it at home.

2) Revenge of the Sith = I went with some family on opening night. Between annoying patrons, poor customer service at the snack bar, and having some arguments with my family, it was a pretty sour time at the movies, and it got to a point where I didn't care about the movie and was just happy to get out of the theater and go to bed.

3) Terminator Salvation = I was sitting in the theater with my then girlfriend and a woman (who is what we would now call a Karen) got up and started yelling at someone for talking in the theater. Keep in mind, the previews hadn't even started yet, so I was just baffled as to why she was so upset about somebody whispering in the theater. Someone finally yelled back at her "Lady, your yelling is more annoying than his whispering". She complained to theater staff and delayed the film starting with all the nonsense she was ranting and raving about. Eventually, the Karen stormed out and we were able to see the movie, but by then, I was kind of exhausted just having to listen to it.
 
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I saw the Steve Irwin Crocodile movie in theaters (forgot the name) a long time ago and the sound went out halfway through. We couldn't find anybody to come and fix it so we finished the film soundless. A manager finally appeared after the fact to ensure we wouldn't be getting refunds. It was some ghetto shithole theater in Chicago so no surprise but still.
 
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RumblyTumbly said:
3) Terminator Salvation = I was sitting in the theater with my then girlfriend and a woman (who is what we would now call a Karen) got up and started yelling at someone for talking in the theater. Keep in mind, the previews hadn't even started yet, so I was just baffled as to why she was so upset about somebody whispering in the theater. Someone finally yelled back at her "Lady, your yelling is more annoying than his whispering". She complained to theater staff and delayed the film starting with all the nonsense she was ranting and raving about. Eventually, the Karen stormed out and we were able to see the movie, but by then, I was kind of exhausted just having to listen to it.
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Reminds me of one from long ago. Some old guy kept chatting during most of the showing of Identity. To the point that we had to move. It was a mostly empty theater too.

There was another time when I went to see the premiere of Ever After with my mom, and during the showing of it, the projection messed up and almost ate up the film, causing it to start playing backwards, I think even at one point it was upside down, and they had to turn it off to fix it which took at least 30 to 40 minutes.
 
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Back in middle school, my family went to see the first Fantastic Four movie (the one with Jessica Alba and Chris Evans).

We sat towards the middle-back, because my dad doesn't have great eyesight. About 5 minutes before the movie began, a family of what looked like a dad, his son, and dad's mom came and sat directly behind us. We were a little weirded out, but we didn't care that much...Until the movie started.

Anytime a remotely comical line was said, the family behind us would laugh uproariously and parrot the line out loud. Any time action was on screen, they'd yell out, "WOOOOOOOW! LOOK AT THAT! SO COOL!" They all had thick, redneck accents to boot.

Around the halfway point, my dad just left the theater. I don't remember exactly what he said, but he whispered something to my mom like, "Fuck this, I'm going to listen to Sports Center in the car."

Looking back on it, I wonder if they were secretly apart of some kind of prank show, or something.
 
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Saw that horrible 'Batman & Robin' movie in the theaters. About halfway through the movie, the whole thing cut out and they offered everyone tickets to a later showing (or maybe next day, can't remember). My recollection is that pretty much no one took them up on the offer and were just happy to get out of that awful movie (my family included) - which to this day I have never seen all of and don't intend to.
 
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Back when How to Train Your Dragon 3 was in theaters, me and the wife went on a date night. She's a big fan of the series, and I like them a fair bit, so off we went. Right at the beginning of the film I knew we had trouble. Three Chinese people sat directly behind us, and proceeded to speak through the whole movie in their native tongue. It wasn't quiet either. I could forgive them if they were a family with a kid, but they all appeared to be fully grown adults. We didn't go back to the theater until Joker came out because of that.
 
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I was talking with a friend during the previews before the movie started, this woman asks us to be quite, weird because it's just just shitty ads, but okay I'll be quite can't be assed to deal with it, kicker is the dumb bitch talks during the movie a number of times had to tell her to shut uplol.

Last Jedi was pretty bad, some fucker kept turn his phone on and even took a fucking call, he was kicked out, that was better than the movie to be honest. Same thing in Parasite happened as well.

Another time, could just smell feet, made a comment to my friend and we laugh, woman in front of us then moves seats and the smell is gone.

Had old women come in the last few minutes of a movie waiting for their movie to start, and thinking it's okay to talk over the movie, pretty much shouting, just got to tell people like that shut up, a shush never works with old women for some reason.

Not sure why carers and parents take children/ those with disabilities to the cinema when they can't be quite for the run time, then again lot of normal people that can't shut up and stay off the phone for a 2 hour movie as well. It's why I mostly go to indie cinemas or just wait for home releases now, just more enjoyable.
 
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Went with my family to first Pirates of the Caribbean movie premiere. An adult man sitting in front of us laughed at every instance of someone getting hit or falling down and waved his bottle of cola around when this happened; he did not react to dialogues or other kinds of situations at all. We had more laughs from his antics than from the movie itself.

The Two Towers midnight premiere - some drunk guys watched the movie beforehand (it was very easy to download a high quality copy) and commented loudly at every fucking thing, spoiling scenes and so on, they were also rolling empty bottles down the cinema ramp (there were no stairs, only ramp). I decided to say nothing to them, as standing up to a bunch of drunk skinheads is not a good idea and I wanted to bring back home all my teeth intact.

I went to see Equilibrium with my pal, the movie wasn't popular so they were showing it in a smaller cinema hall. 15-20 minutes in a guy came in, sat close to us and started watching - okay, the hall was like 10% full anyway. Halfway through the movie it seems the same scene is showing again, "okay, maybe it's intended" - but moments later the guy next to us is running away through the door. A moment later the film stopped for a while and started from roughly the same moment and the guy came back. It was most likely the projector operator and he fucked up, because he wanted to see the movie sitting in a comfy chair and not from behind the projector.

The Revenant - some lady in her fifties, neatly dressed, wearing glasses etc. giving impression of someone intelligent, was commenting the movie loudly to her partner, in the most infantile way imaginable. For example when the bear falls down on a guy after a desperate fight she says something like "aaand ploop! xD". I commented loudly "these plebs are annoying" or something like that and this seemed to work for the rest of the movie.

Sex scene in that awful "300" sequel. Kinda embarassing to watch when your family is sitting next to you.
 
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