What was your worst moviegoing/theater experience?

Silent Hill and 28 Weeks Later, both were in crummy little janitor's closet sized theaters because I waited a while after their release before I went to see them, but in the case of 28 Weeks Later it was only like a week or even just after the opening weekend and shitty little janitor's closet it was.

Neither were great movies but the crummy little theater didn't help, it wasn't just the size but the quality, they were shoddy, I saw The Mist in a janitor's closet sized theater too but at a different theater and that one was perfectly clean and well maintained, so it was fine.

But the worst experience was The Hunger Games, that was the same theater as the crummy janitor's closet one but this time it was in the big theater, however this was in the early days of digital projection I guess because the picture was all fucked up, but because I was there with someone else that cared about the movie more than I did I figured it wasn't worth complaining so there I sat watching a movie I wasn't liking while the picture was fucked up and in this theater full of people nobody thought to get up to complain about the fucked up picture.

I knew right away back then when these "female centric" franchises like Twilight, The Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey were starting up that American pop culture was headed in a bad direction and sure enough I was right!

All I could think about when watching The Hunger Games was how much I wished I was watching The Running Man starring a big, beefy, muscular unapologetic MAN, I miss old America.
 
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Maleficent. Not only was the film terrible, but I also had a splitting headache from walking around LA in 45 degree (celsius) heat all day and made the bone headed decision to watch it in 3D when I could only get a seat in the front row. It felt like someone was trying to drill through my skull.
 
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TheImportantFart said:
Maleficent. Not only was the film terrible, but I also had a splitting headache from walking around LA in 45 degree (celsius) heat all day and made the bone headed decision to watch it in 3D when I could only get a seat in the front row. It felt like someone was trying to drill through my skull.
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Had a similar experience only it was Avatar and it was freezing outside. Avatar is a garbage film too.
 
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That one rapture Nick Cage movie. Walked into it completely blind, I thought "Nick Cage's in it, can't be too bad". I was completely right, shit was funny but not the kind of garbagentertainment I'd pay for.
 
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I never watched the Starsky and Hutch movie despite paying for it (didn't miss much). I was playing at a Gamestop.
Watching the Twilight Breaking Dawn is a given...
My main one is watching the Star Wars Clone Wars movie. I paid 5 bucks for a pilot.
On a technical side, when I watched Godzilla, KotM, the power went off for a while. Luckily it was on the boring parts.
 
Dolphin Lundgren said:
When I saw The Ring in the theater I had the unfortunate opportunity to be in a crowd of people where parents brought their children. They thought it was a good idea to bring a toddler and a baby to see a horror film that had a lot of screeching sounds in it. (Who sees an ad for The Ring and goes "this is the perfect film to bring a young child to?") During most of the movie the baby kept crying. Most likely because of the loud sounds. Instead of leaving the theater one of the parents would take the crying baby and stand just outside the entrance where we could still hear it crying. They should have left because it's stupid to bring babies to a horror movie, but no. They stayed during the whole film and we had to keep hearing the loud crying.
The toddler who wasn't far away from me kept telling their mom that they didn't like the movie (You think?) and they wanted to go home. Of course the mom stayed. At one point I remember thinking to myself "I hope your damn kid ends up freaking out because it's afraid of the television and I hope it annoys you."

I saw Ghost Ship because MTV covered the movie and made it look cool. The film wasn't good. After the opening I watched multiple people get up and leave. Instead of walking out I kept thinking "maybe it'll get good" but it never did. At one point I saw a very large group of people walk out of the film at once. It's the only time I've seen that many people bail out on a film.
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Ghost ship was based, only saw it on dvd, though. Dunno if I would feel the same about a cinema release.
 
The 2005 King Kong movie was so fucking long. It was over 3 hours. Got up two times to take a piss.

This is going to sound autistic but when I was a kid I saw Batman Begins at an IMAX movie theater. I remember having some kind of sensory overload when kid Bruce fell into the hole and the bats swarmed right pass him. I immediately ran out and started crying like a bitch lol. It was pretty ironic because when my mother was calming me down I remember looking at the screen and seeing Alfred consul Bruce after the accident. I guess Christopher Nolan does a good job on the immersion. front. The movie is still one of my favorites.
 
Came down with strep throat at a showing of 'Clockstoppers' as a kid.
You know how some theaters have headsets that play audio description for blind people? Went to see 'Aquaman' and it was playing for the whole theater. It also seemed out of sync because it would play over dialogue.
 
Big Rusiki said:
This is going to sound autistic but when I was a kid I saw Batman Begins at an IMAX movie theater. I remember having some kind of sensory overload when kid Bruce fell into the hole and the bats swarmed right pass him. I immediately ran out and started crying like a bitch lol. It was pretty ironic because when my mother was calming me down I remember looking at the screen and seeing Alfred consul Bruce after the accident. I guess Christopher Nolan does a good job on the immersion. front. The movie is still one of my favorites.
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Nolan's movies are really made for IMAX, when I saw The Dark Knight Rises in IMAX the shot where the plane drops legit gave me vertigo.

I know this is supposed to be about bad experiences and that was something cool, but you sharing that reminded me of that.
 
I saw Spider Man 2 on opening day back in high school but for some dumbass reason my friend who was with me decided to wait until the last minute to grab our seats so of course the whole theater was packed when we walked in so we had to sit in the very front row of the theater with our necks cranked up to watch the movie. The movie was still pretty good tho.
Funny side story, after the movie got out we went to the bathrooms and our eyes were all bloodshot from sitting so close to the giant screen and some old guy in the bathroom said something along the lines of "kids in here always smoking drugs".

A few years later I went to go see the forgotten Shia Lebouf thriller "Disturbia" with a different friend and about 10 minutes into the movie this group of three black girls walked in and I knew they would be trouble since they were already being very loud and obnoxious as they were walking into the theater. Since we saw this movie at a matinee on a weekday there were only a few other people in the theater, and these girls just would not shut the fuck up. One of them started crying as soon as Shia's dad got hit by the car in the beginning of the movie and then they would quiet down only for one of them to say something like "guess who just texted me!?" only for them to start squawking again. Since I was only about 19 at the time I was too introverted to yell at them and for some autistic reason we didn't bother with getting an usher so we just sat it out until of them stepped outside to take a phone call and her dumbass friends followed her out and they didn't come back but this didn't happen until the last 20 minutes or so of the movie.

A few years ago I watched Rouge One (ugh) and I made myself so sick from eating two bags of sour candy I smuggled in that I was sitting in my seat trying not to puke during the last 20 minutes of the movie. When the movie finally ended I had to endure trying not to barf in the car but fortunately I only lived 5 minutes away from the theater, only for me to throw up all over my bed when I got home...
 
Haven’t had too many terrible experiences. It’s either going to see Attack of the Clones with my dad and both of us being so bored we walked after about an hour, or going to see Return of the King with a few friends and having a couple autists sit behind us bellowing out lines from the movie or asking “what’s happening! I don’t get it!” every five minutes.
 
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When I went to see Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa in the theater, the digital projector shat the bed right in the middle of the prologue. It took several minutes (anywhere from 5 to 20) before the movie was able to restart.
 
A couple of quickies:
I went to the first Yugioh movie on opening weekend. A big mammy and all of her keedz pile into the handicapped row. She started speed running entertaining them with bubbles and loud toys. They get kicked out in record time and big momma starts screaming racisms about that.
Shrek: a dollar theater, every time Donkey comes on screen some loud black dude goes “Haw haw,look at dem teeef!” followed by a hyena laugh. Lots of beer cans rolled to the front noisily and the theater didn’t sell beer.

Outbreak: I was on a first date with a girl who later turned out to be mildly retarded:
I thought it was boring and put some moves on her. In her Minnie Mouse dumbass voice, she says way too loud “I know what you’re trying to do!” and everyone turns and looks at me.

Star Trek: Generations. I was sitting with some of my brother’s friends and some twelve year old bitches kept taking sips of ice cold soda and laughing and spitting ice water on our necks. I just got up and moved and didn’t explain until after the movie.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
Another bad experience is when I went to see Halloween 2018 and some lady had the bright idea to bring her damn baby to an R-Rated Horror Movie.
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That happened to me during one of the Hobbit movies, the baby could somehow cry over the very loud action scenes.

But anyone that brings a baby to a cinema is an asshole. If you want to go to the cinema, go to one special parent and baby showing some places do.

Same deal with low function autistics, if they can't sit and watch the movie like a normal person, take them to one of the special shows made for them.
 
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An ex pestered me to take her to the beatrix potter film staring the bitch from bridget jones.

The movie was fucking terrible, as you would expect. They filmed 2 hours of nothing, (that's right, the 2 hours of film was BEFORE she put pen to paper) then when it got to the interesting part where she started writing shit it faded to black, followed by 4 or 5 walls of text that you had to read, explaining what you already knew.

The only bonus was that the ex was bored as fuck after 20 minutes and wanted to walk out. I told her it was going to be shit, so to be a massive fucking arsehole I made her sit through all of it. Not all bad, as we were both laughing about how shit it was, afterwards.
 
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