What was your worst moviegoing/theater experience?

[Rome's rightful successor]

I remember going to see Pirates of the carribean dead man's chest in the theater and there's this obnoxious kid keeped randomly talking throughout the movie. He had an annoying voice to and sounded like he was developmentally disabled in a way. His father was pissed off at him but did nothing the whole time. Everytime that stupid kid opened his mouth the rest of the theater just internally groan, you could just feel it.

Outside of that I've had multiple different expierences of people bringing there babies into movie theaters and we all know how that turns out.

 

[OmnipotentStupidity]

Went to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 after liking the first one when I was really young. Not only was the film itself pretty garbage, but I got a double whammy of horrible theater experiences! There was one kid in the row below me who just would not stop kicking his seat back and forth and banging it into my feet (no matter how many times he was told to stop), but I also had to deal with two 30-year-old women behind us. They would both keep whispering to each other, repeating every single line that was said on screen at that second during the movie. And I don't just mean they'd whisper whatever line they thought was funny and giggle to themselves.

No, they would repeat, verbatim, every single line that they'd just heard.
Word for word.
Throughout the ENTIRETY.
Of the movie.

Every single noise, every single scream, every single sound effect that was added in, every single action. And nobody in that entire room felt compelled to leave because this theater was expensive as hell, was one of only two good theaters within an hour radius that wasn't local and played a wide variety of movies, and nobody in there wanted to have a wasted ticket.

Suffice it to say, I never went back to that theater after that.

 

[Aqua Panda]

I got a few.

Parents dragged me and the siblings to the first Narnia movie. (Which IMO is quite awful, though the sequels did improve a bit.) A lady brought her months old toddler in what still looked to be hospital swaths in the theater on opening weekend. First major action scene the baby starts wailing and doesn't stop through the entire film. The theater wouldn't remove her or issue refunds, so everyone sat there growing ever more pissed off. Most ended up leaving the theater before the end of the film.

Another was during fellowship of the ring, a guy just wouldn't shut up about spoilers to his girlfriend and had the audacity to give death glares when people sushed him. Got to the point people were actually pelting him with popcorn until he got up and left.

On a positive experience: 28 weeks later was actually a real highlight. The screening room AC broke and it got over 100 degrees and muggy in there. The theater gave out free passes right before the previews started but let people stay as they kept the film rolling. The high heat/humidity really made that opening shot of the zombies in the field all the better, plus amping up the rest of the tense moments. It ended up being one of my favorite movie experiences.

 

[Lathe]

I was younger than 8 and my parents took me to Crimson Tide. This was the age before stadium seating and I was already short. I ended up watching the entire movie between the two seats in front of us. Also, being a child it wasn’t a great idea to bring me to a movie that requires more critical thinking than bad man bad so it was boring. Watched it later though, I enjoyed it.

I went during 2020 and that was annoying. I took off my mask because I already got it. I had a Karen passive-aggressive (cough and pointing at her mask) me about it for about thirty minutes until I politely yet firmly to her to fuck off and stuff her mask up her dry, childless cooch. She tried to get management involved but the manager was a 20 year old with better shit to do. She left after that. I believe I went to see Tenet but between that and sipping on a whiskey flask, I barely remember it.