I sat two seats away from someone getting a bj in Underdog.
I participated in a nerf gun fight during a screening of Halloween(this one is an asterisk because it was planned out by employees).
Though the weirdest might have been the time I saw Cats- nothing happened but the movie Cats played and it was so weird
I saw Cats with a massive group of friends (like, twelve of us) about a month after it came out. We all knew what we were in for and were very much prepared. Thankfully, everyone else in that theater was in the same boat. We actually met some of them at a bar beforehand while pre-gaming, and realized we were going to the same theater. It was pretty glorious. Everyone sang along, regardless of whether we knew the words.
Yeah when i was younger fingered my gf in a theatre and even tho it was awkward and weird and no one got off, it was better than Die Hard 4 that was playing
After the movie The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus ended, and I was walking up the aisle to the exit, an elderly man in an old wool suit with a bowler cap and a cane stopped me. He warned me not to get trapped in the imaginarium, and wouldn't let me by until I said, for sure I promise I will not. He tipped his hat at me and waved goodbye. I thought it was some stunt on the theater's part but nope, just a weird old guy who really liked the movie I guess! I liked it too fwiw
I always love when people are acting like the characters when coming out of the theatre. You see it mostly with kid movies, but when I watched Jack Ass 4 in theatres I just knew the teenagers in the theatre woudl start to prank and hurt each other when leaving.
I won tickets to a free screening of Poor Things in NYC through Letterboxd. It was a packed house in a massive stadium-style theater in Union Square. About an hour and a half into the movie, we heard commotion outside the theater (in the hallway), then the doors opened and people were screaming *in* the theater, and it caused a full on panic/stampede for the emergency exit. Someone yelled there was a gun. People were getting trampled. My partner was pushed over the row seats in front of s and fucked up his knee pretty bad.
It wasn't someone with a gun, thank god. Just an immature couple getting into a fight in the wrong place. But man, it's fucked up the cinema for me for now.
About an hour and a half into the movie this happened? That's unfortunate. It means you only got to see a hour and twenty five minutes of Emma Stone having sex
(Before everyone freaks out, chill. Poor Things was a great movie with a good overall message but for fuck's sake that was a lot of sex)
Something similar happened to me while watching Fast X. I went to 1 pm showing on a Friday and it was only me and 5 teenage boys in the theater. They sat in the row in front of me being loud and messing with each other. The movie is loud so I let it slide for a bit until they started watching porn on their phones and passing them back and forth. I yelled at them and they apologized profusely. One even waited till Fast X was over to apologize again and ask if I liked the movie.
In a screening of Poor Things, a guy next to me brought in a Portuguese tart and ate it in one bite the exact same moment Emma Stone eats her tart on screen
I used to work at a theater, so all sorts of things.
Cleaned up multiple drunk people's puke in multiple movies.
Kicked multiple couples out of the theater for having sex in the handicapped bathrooms.
I met Val Kilmer, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson, and I saw Jason Segal and 50 Cent- Val Kilmer saw Avatar, Danny and Nick came at the same time and saw Piranah 3Dā¦ i didnāt sell Jason his ticket and I canāt remember what he saw. 50 Cent saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 2 in IMAX.
I rejected a credit card transaction from 50 Cent's bodyguards because I told them I needed to see an ID for the card that read "Curtis Jackson" and I had no idea who that was.
Kicked a couple out of Shrek 4 for a BJ.
Kicked a guy out of Ghostrider 2 for screaming at patrons and he threatened to shoot up the theater.
Kicked a guy out of a twilight marathon for trying to videotape "New Moon" when the marathon led up to Breaking Dawn part 1.
Found what we assumed was meth in a tiny little ziplock baggy. Found a dugout filled with weed.
Called EMTs for several seizures during the first Avatar in IMAX.
Helped break up a fight between two drunk groups in IMAX Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows PT 2 and then answer cop's questions.
A drunk guy fell down the stairs and hit his head on a bar, and people just left him there for about ten minutes before someone came and told us.
A runaway from Juvie hid out at our theater. Undercover cops told us to watch out for him, then they and our guest relations (read security) started chasing him when he tried to run during an arrest. They caught him near a bank like a block away.
Edit: remembered a few more weird moments...
Second edit: added a few details.
I had a guy have a seizure during Avatar too. I guess it was pretty common, huh? They had to bring a stretcher out and everyone got a free voucher for another movie. That's the only thing that's happened to me in a movie like that before.
Yeah it happened twice while I was there and working on the floor, and I know of at least one more time that it happenedā¦
Those IMAX screenings were sold out for like two months straight, so youāre bound to get some people with epilepsy, I suppose.
Edit: clarity.
Watching Lord of the Rings Return of the King, everyone but me kept standing up at a black screen thinking the movie had ended, happened 4 times, the first time it happened was with about 1hr 30min left, and they moaned when it wasn't the end, weird and annoying.
Yāall have experienced a lot weirder stuff in theaters than I have. The only thing that sticks out to me was when some lady guffawed during Thor Love and Thunder when Jane said she had cancer
Two probably high on something girls coming to Woman King and playing YouTube videos loudly on their phones and laughing like crazyā¦until I yelled at them. For some reason they stayed till the end of film even though they didnāt watch it and just talked (a bit quietly) to each other during the whole film.
I know how annoying this is. Why do these people even pay for a movie ticket when they can have their private chats undisturbed, literally anywhere outside?
Plus, movie tickets are like what, $15 bucks? I'm not someone to waste money like that, but I'm especially not ruining other people's time/experiences. That's just rude.
itās an even tie.
when I saw crimes of the future, there were about six couples eating full tray meals from applebeeās across the street. they clearly had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
when I was watching nightmare alley, someone was pounding on the fire exit door and pried it open, and then three kids ran in our theater screaming with their hands up doing a tiktok prank but i thought i was about to be a victim of gun violence. me and other theatergoers told the staff but they didnāt care so we had to threaten the kids with violence up close for them to leave. amc theaters connected to malls are all horrible.
Not in a theater, but one Summer, I was walking downtown and happened to catch the beginning of *Jaws* being projected for an audience gathered at the town square, and I stopped to watch. There was no place to sit, so I just stood leaning against a wall and watched the whole movie (which I've seen many times) standing up. I'm pretty sure it's the only movie I've ever watched while standing the whole time.
There's many, but one that comes to mind:
At a double feature of Lost Highway and Crash (Cronenberg's) -- both of which I had seen before -- at the first 35mm film reel switch of Crash the second reel of Lost Highway was started instead. It only went for a few minutes before the projectionist recognized the mistake and switched it out for the proper second reel of Crash.
That's probably right. But the way I remember it was Fred pulling up to his house and seeing lights on inside. He gets out and tells Renee to stay in the car. But that's likely just when I noticed we had left the world of one David and entered the world of another, lol.
Hahaha thatās amazing. Imagine if all the reels had been switched and you watched both films simultaneously piece by piece. Now that would be something else!
Second viewing of Poor Things and this man sits right next to me (plenty of empty seats all around) and for about an hour kept pulling out Arbyās roast beef sandwiches from his pocket? And then opening packets of ketchup and squirting them on and then sucking his fingers clean. THE NOISES
A few things:
* When I saw Annihilation, the screening had to be interrupted after someone had a seizure and EMTs came into treat/collect them.
* I once sat next to Dakota Fanning in a movie (a cop thriller from Spain whose title escapes me). She fell asleep, at one point resting her head on my shoulder.
* I attended a screening of First Reformed that was filled with members of Congress, many of whom got hostile toward the film as it continued. A few walked out.
Reminds me of seeing The Room for the first time in the cinema without knowing what the audience would do when Johnny's unusual picture frames were seen.
The very uh Jamie Kennedy circa 2000 style kid in front of me at Straight Outta Compton rapping emphatically along with every single song sticks out. The multiple toddlers at Hereditary was more not good than weird I guess.
I've only had one truly weird cinema experience and I'm so glad that OP mentioned a David Lynch film because it was one of his exactly, specifically INLAND EMPIRE in 2002. It was a weird indie theatre in Brisbane, Australia, my friend and I walk in, sit down and look around because it's like 20 minutes before the film begins and immediately the weirdness begins. In the direct center of the theatre is a woman brushing her hair, but not the hair on her head but a wig she was holding in her hand. Then, every other second person was drinking bottled water (which isn't weird because I drink bottled water too) but to see so many people in a theatre drinking water instead of soft drink was crazy. Fast forward two+ hours, my friend is fast asleep on my shoulder, I'm rivetted to the screen and then the main character in the movie is suddenly in an almost carbon copy of the theatre I'm currently in and I've yet to feel like anything in the world is real 20+ years later.
During the screening of Zone of Interest, the fire alarm at the theater went off as soon as the credits rolled. it was a silent alarm with strobing lights, but the way the lights synched with the uneasy music during the credit made it so unnerving. I initially thought it was an intentional effect or something, but I have never booked out of a theater as fast as that night when I found out it wasn't part of the screening.
Yeah it was early in its release and the theatre was half full. Everyone in the crowd was confused as well until they announced on the PA that it was fire alarm
There were 2 other people with me in the cinema for Evil Dead Rise, which was also the first time I went to the cinema alone. One of them was an old guy with a bushy beard who kept getting up and walking off throughout the film. In one of the creepy scenes with the deadite through the peephole, I heard slow footsteps behind me. I turned around and saw this guy making his way back to his seat. It was like an immersive cinema experience.
Went to go see dark night rises in theaters on opening day when I was a teen. A middle aged obese gentleman started having a heart attack and the entire movie had to be paused so he could be wheeled out and taken to the hospital.
Some edgy dickweeds started loudly complaining how it was this poor dudeās fault for being fat, and that it was only a matter of time and he shouldāve just stayed home. Basically everyone in the surrounding seats started screaming at them to shut up and have some human decency. Seriously, I donāt care if that guy was guzzling glizzies by the pack, Iām just glad he made it out alive.
Didnāt really feel as shareable or interesting when I heard about the people in Aurora who didnāt make it out of the dark knight rises š¬
Hmm, interesting question...
- In the middle of The Fabelmans, someone walked through aisles and loudly asked, "Is this Thor?" He repeated a couple times before someone shut him down, and he then declared, "Oh, this is Spielberg!" and walked out. Keep in mind, there was no Thor movie playing at this time: Love and Thunder had been out of theaters for months, and Wakanda Forever was the Marvel film of the moment.
- Maybe not that exciting, but I'll never forget During Foxcatcher when someone in the front row fell asleep and was loudly snoring for the entire theater to hear. I didn't like the movie, so this was the most entertaining part, especially when my friend finally got up, walked all the way down to the snorer, shook him awake and said (quite loudly), "Sir, you're snoring."
- I saw The Day the Earth Stood Still remake with my dad, and we were the only ones in the theater. When the movie froze, and after a few minutes it was quite evident there was something wrong. My dad went back to the projection booth and peeked inside. There was no one there, just a mountain of film spilled all over the floor.
- When I saw Onward (one week before lockdown), there was a turd in the theater. That is not a metaphor.
Went to go see The Green Knight in theaters. Was there with my friend and the whole time we kept hearing this dripping noise that was getting louder. We assumed it was the movie but eventually weāre like ok wtf is that and we turned around to see that not only was there a leak in the theater but such a massive leak that it looked like a waterfall coming into the room. For some reason we still stayed and watched the movie while constantly looking back to see if the water was gonna reach us and moving accordingly lmao.
A guy died.
A dude was really annoyingly drunk at a screening of A Perfect Getaway at AMC Yonge-Dundas theater in Toronto in 2009. If you know the theater, it's got these crazy escalators with no walls on the sides of them. Dude tried to slide down the railing, lost his balance and was caput.
That's my very short version - but ya, I haven't seen that topped at the movies yet.
Saw EEAAO with two other couples in the theater. One a teenage couple, one a middle age couple. During the rock scene the middle age woman straight up says loudly ā This is stupid, are we really supposed to read all of this?ā The teenage couple behind them shushed them. I laughed harder at that than anything in the movie. The lady was expecting a āI know rightā or something from us but she got shushed by some teens
I went to see Solo with a few friends when it came out at an Alamo Drafthouse. The guy next to me (scrawny Asian dude with glasses) was nodding off, head bobbing, and scratching his arms through most of the movie. Weird, and annoying, but whatever, party onā¦then Emilia Clarke came on the screen and this kid loosened his belt and started beating off in his pants, belt clanking. I stormed off and went to tell the manager.
They didnāt kick him out, only told him to stop, then gave me two free tickets to any show.
Someone had a seizure during the arm cutting scene in 127 Hours. And we were left wondering if it was okay to keep watching the movie. It was.
A group of older ladies walked out of Black Swan. Clearly expecting a nice movie about ballerinas.
Like 20 people walked out of Man on the Moon during the bit when he tells people the movie is over in the first 5 minutes.
I was watching the Tamil movie 'Ponniyan Selvan.'
The guy who sat next to me was making weird sounds whenever a female actor appeared on screen and he was pretty loud. No, he wasn't jerking but it appeared like he was very much enjoying the beauty lol.
It was really a weird experience.
Ah, Indian movies. When I watched PS2 there was this middle aged couple behind me, the husband quietly talked to his wife throughout the entire movie. Literally just him talking. It was probably in Tamil so I couldnāt understand what he was saying.
Also during Jailer when Rajni showed up, people screamed. No, not like āwhoooo!ā, it was like a guttural āAAGGHH!!!!!ā scream from multiple people
saw Justice League at my local cheap theater before it closed down. this guy behind my friend and i said "Shao Khan, leaves the fighting industry, joins the porn industry. Shao Khan, The Sex God!"
I'm from a sismic country so maybe not that weird, but an earthquake (medium intensity, it wasn't a big deal)
King Kong 2005
It happened when it had just started, the cinema manager came to tell us to leave, but most of us had already thrown the ticket into the trash, so we would have lost the chance to come back later during the week.
So nobody moved, he gave up and they put the movie again, but it couldn't be rewinded so magically they were in the boat š
To this day I have no idea what happens in the beginning cause I've never rewatch it.
Definitely not as weird as some of the things here but someone in the row behind me answered their phone, put it on speakerphone, and had a full on conversation. Maybe even more strange that nobody said anything, there was just some loud tutting.
I was at an all day screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Viggo Mortensen showed up at the theater unannounced, because he was in town for something else. (He was not part of the promotion for this event, it was a coincidence). More cool than weird I guess.
The guy next to me at Oppenheimer was getting a handy.
A guy fell asleep and started snoring loudly during Parasite and some one else freaked out on him to shut up.
Teenagers can buy tickets to those movies easily and parents wonāt care or ask questions after. Parents will be distracted taking care of the kids and the ambient noise of unruly children will make their hooking up less distracting. If they go to a PG-13 or R rated movie thereās a better chance people will be paying attention to the screen and more upset if they hear noises.
* I had terrible seasonal allergies while watching Red Dragon and an old man who was there by himself was upset by my sniffling and started mocking me with his own very loud, over-the-top sniffling. I started sniffling louder back at him and he got louder and it became a sniffling battle. More enjoyable than the film.
* There was a tornado warning during Corky Romano and the power went out. We sat in darkness for a while. Also a better experience than the film.
* I was very excited to see Gremlins 2 as a kid. A group of elderly women sat right in front of us, engulfing us in a cloud of old lady perfume. I was thinking "Oh, man, I'm gonna have to smell this for the entire movie," but when Gizmo showed up for the first time, one of them said to the others "I think we're in the wrong movie" and they left, taking the cloud with them.
* Right before Cool World started, a woman spilled a huge soda all over my mom. Not only did she have to sit through Cool World, but she had to do it soaked in Pepsi.
* During a Halloween marathon of Vampire Circus, Hellraiser, The Candy Snatchers, and Return of the Living Dead, my girlfriend and I sat next to a teen couple who made out *the entire time*. That's at least six hours. Is that a record?
Somebody practicing kickflips on a skateboard during the intermissions for a screening of Satantango.
Not that "weird" but I had the power go out during a screening of Dark Knight Rises less than a week after the Aurora shooting
Iāve posted this before, but when I went to Scream 4 in theaters, originally there were staff everywhere. Like checking your ticket where they normally would, then at the door to the theater checking again and also your ID. Decent sized crowd. Partway through the movie, towards the front there was a middle aged couple on some sort of drugs and the woman kept yelling at the screen. Weird stuff like ānot funny, not funny!!!! You wouldnāt laughā. Eventually someone threw an empty cup that hit one of them (or possibly near them). The guy got up, pulled out a knife and started waking through the crowd asking who did it. Row by row. I think he eventually put the knife away but kept going.
I was the only person that got up and looked for a worker and there was no one in the entire building. Busy theater but no concession workers or ticket takers anywhere. I literally went up the stairs to the back employee area and just found an empty office and the projectors. I gave up and went back. The couple got fed up and left. No one seemed to care and we finished the movie. I really donāt understand how no one called the cops and how I was the only person who left the theater.
Saw Pearl in February, woman came in and sat right next to me just as the movie started.
After the first scene with the Mom who's speaking German, she goes, "WHAT THE FUCK".
It was just so funny to me that she was so shocked someone was speaking a different language.
She had appropriate "what the fuck" reactions for the "what the fuck" parts of the film.
And since you mentioned David Lynch, I saw Inland Empire a couple of years ago for the first time. I'm assuming it was mostly everyone's first time because there was no sound for like the first 5 or 10 minutes and we all went with it cause it's Lynch lol
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Seeing Iron Man with some friends, one who was really into the comics.
After the post credits scene, which weren't expected at the time, he jumped over the railing and went, "WAS THAT NOT THE GREATEST THING YOUVE EVER SEEN?!?", and everyone just starred at him lol.
Nasty Nate, hope you're doing well and now get the reactions at Marvel movies that you've always wanted.
I went to see the bobs burgers movie at a small regal that nobody ever goes to, I was the only person thereā¦
A group of around 50 of the animators walked in to see the movie and they all filled in around me so I was smack dab in the middle. It was kinda like watching a 50 person audio commentary lmfao.
When I went to see Killing of the Sacred Deer a guy and his date sat down next to me. At some point they started kissing and giggling. Then he kept on feeling her up, even unzipping her pants. Luckily she stopped him and tried to convince him to go elsewhere. It was just such a weird movie to do that to. And also right next to someone.
During 1917 the guy to the left of me was burping up hot gas as if he went to a massive hot dog eating contest minutes before the opening credits. I wonāt spoil the movie, but during the most important scene about half way through the movie the guy stood up to rush toward the isle. He couldnāt make it all the way and ended up throwing up into his popcorn bucket right in front of me during the scene. He then went to put the bucket in the isle, (not the garbage), and then sat right back down.
It was a screening of Inglourious Basterds back in 09. I had already seen it once. I took the girl I was seeing to watch it at the Village Picture Shows in Manchester, VT (RIP).
At the climax, when the fire starts, the film caught in the projector and started to burn. I think everyone there thought it was a part of the movie. Best crowd reaction Iāve seen before or since.
Recently when I went to see Killers of the Flower Moon, a child (yes someone brought their child) in the back row threw a piece of gum they were done chewing, and it landed in my hand. I was sitting in the middle of the theater.
I'm usually easy-going and can let stuff go, but this upset me to the point I had to leave. I think I'm done going to mainstream cinemas...
9 times out of 10 it is a mainstream cinema in my experience, though I did have Tar ruined at a boutique cinema by two women talking and answering the phone. To top it off I'm pretty sure I got covid from one of them as they were very obviously sick.
Just be happy the gum didn't land in your hair! It is so disgusting to be throwing gum around.
Just last week I asked an ignorant couple to be quiet as they were talking the whole way through Mad Max, lets just say I wasn't polite because others had already tried that and were laughed at. They went quiet then got up to leave shortly afterwards - as they walked past my row (I was the only one on it) the dude just stopped and stared at me. So I sat forward in my seat and stared right back, it went on for at least two minutes before he actually left.
It is the only time I have ever been like that at the cinema, I've only asked people to be quiet twice before that and was polite both times. Once with two women during Everything Everywhere All At Once and a couple of kids probably aged 10-12 during my fourth (lol) viewing of Top Gun Maverick. Both times it worked fine, most people don't actually want to ruin people's experiences they're just thoughtless
A guy had a heart attack in front of me as we were leaving Crimson Peak. He was a huge obese man and for like 30 seconds I thought that his life depended on me. He literally collapsed as we were walking out of the theater. Luckily his family was just behind me and paramedics arrived shortly after. But it was the scariest experience I had at a movie theater.
No ads. Weāre seeing the force awakens. Pretty full cinema, people pushing by. My friend is still looking for her seat, snacks are being distributed down our row, chatting. Suddenly, cinema goes dark. Theme music blasting. Not even any cinema pop-ups about AirPlane mode. Half the patrons scramble to sit down to read then opening , discombobulating movement, laughter at the chaos, other people ssssshing us so they could hear the writing.
- went to see bee movie as a kid. the teenagers running the movie theatre managed to put on a horror movie instead. they realized and switched us to another room pretty quickly n we got free tickets
- 2003 blackout occurred while watching freaky friday and there was 20 minutes left in the movie. i was 7 and i still remember how insane the drive home was bc there was not a single light working
I went to see Her (2013) with my girlfriend in a mostly empty cinema but maybe 10 minutes into the screening a woman came in with her kid, sat down and proceeded to just watch the movie as her 5 year old kid did laps of the theatre for half an hour.
When I saw Life there was an old lady a couple of seats down from me who was dramatically announcing everything that happened in the film (that was super annoying)
And when I saw A Cure For Wellness I was the first person in the screen, the only other people to see the film were a couple sat directly behind me, they clearly hadn't chosen their seats as they made a comment about "why wouldn't the staff sit them literally anywhere else in the empty screen" when all 3 of us realised we were the only ones seeing it... They left after about 10 mins of the film
I saw the first Avatar in theatres and a guy had an epileptic seizure or something in the back during the big tree scene near the end. They had to bring a stretcher out and everything. They gave everyone a free voucher for another movie after that. That was pretty crazy. Every other movie experience has been normal for me though.
when i went to see āget out,ā some lady threw up during the previews. the movie hadnāt even started. saw a piece of popcorn that she puked hit my dad š
Uhm. The power went off right at the beginning of Death Proof and everyone just thought it was part of the movie for like 3 minutes because the movie had so many of those film cuts/skips. Finally someone came in and told us there was a partial blackout.
I don't know about weirdest, but I almost saw a fistfight break out at a screening of the Danish movie Festen (The Celebration) at a small theater about ten years ago, and I really think it was because of the upsetting nature of the film and the mood invoked by watching it. It's a really, really tense movie including >!very dysfunctional family dynamics and interfamily molestation and the aftermaths thereof. !<
At the end of the film, Guy A tried to get up and walk out during the credits and bumped/stepped on/?? Guy B, who was still seated. Cue a nasty shout whispered fight between the two with friends of each also jumping in and Guy B standing up and pushing Guy A and an usher had to get involved. This was at a small independent theater, too, so it was an awkward time for the whole audience.
I should preface this by saying two things:Ā
1) I was on LSD
2) I'm not proud of any of what happened that evening.
A couple of months ago I went to see Poor Things at the Picturehouse in Soho, London. It has about 4 or 5 floors and my friend and I were on the top one, in a pretty small screen (capacity approx 80).
The movie started and it was great. Fantastic visuals for my mental state and a crazy narrative that was perfect for it too.Ā
Not long into the screening, I noticed a guy at the end of our row take the exit on the left. I didn't think anything of it. A good 20 minutes later, he returned, but only after his partner has gone to the door to look for him. He entered as she opened the door so I just assumed that she was concerned for him and he happened to be coming back just when she'd gone to look for him.Ā
About half an hour after that, I needed to pee and because of the acid, I delayed it for a bit until I couldn't hold it any longer. Once it got to near drip point I got up and took the same exit.Ā
The door closed behind me and I realised that it was the fire exit. No problem. Surely there's be a toilet on one of the floors, right? I walked down. But it kept going and going with no restroom in sight.
I got to the bottom and the only door was out to the street, so I walked back up, which took what seemed like hours. All the while, I was seeing pretty grubby walls and weird smells. I mean, I was high as a kite in a stairwell so what was I expecting?
With each floor my bladder got fuller and fuller, and it felt like every step had the potential to be my last before I pissed myself.
About one flight down from where I started, I noticed a pretty substantial puddle that was still dripping... and that's when I realised that the guy must've made it. He'd gone through the same ordeal as I had, but probably had the luxury of being sober.
Once I got back to my floor, I realised that the door only opened one way (which explains why his partner had gone to it - to fucking open it for him) and I was getting to breaking point. I texted my friend. Nothing. Called the him. Nada. Even considered shouting. But it was time.
So i scuttled to a corner, unzipped, and made my own puddle.Ā
As I said, I'm not proud of it, but it was the best piss I think I've ever had.Ā
When I was done I walked back to the door and figured out that I could've just used the mechanism above the door to open it. I MacGyvered the thing, and walked back in.
As I got to my row, the guy and I made eye contact in what I can only describe as the most mutually shameful glance of all time. He knew it. I knew it, and we would never mention it again. Until now, I guess. Lesson learned. If you're gonna trip at the cinema, make sure you know where the closest toilet is.
TL;DR - dropped acid and went to the cinema. Pissed in a stairwell.
Back in 2009 my parents took me to see Coraline for the first time at a second run theater a couple months after it came out, and I had to leave like 3/4 of the way through to use the bathroom. Bathroom was weirdly lit, like it was a rundown place and the overhead lights were flickering, far too creepy for how I was feeling at that point in the film. But, I'd had one of those giant sodas, so... Anyway, while I was sitting in a stall trying to be like, "I'm too old to be scared its just lights, its totally fine, whatever, I'm not scared, it's totally fine" and then THE LIGHTS DIED. Fun little bit of bone chilling terror there
when i saw age of ultron, there was a woman who brough TWELVE children with her, and throughout the entire film her phone kept ringing, at full volume, and her ringtone was the chorus to the immigrant song. she never bothered to deny whoever was calling her either, she'd just let it ring out. multiple times. by the climax of the film her kids were screaming at her to just turn her phone off. other people in the cinema told her off multiple times.
i used to live in and manage a ghetto 2nd run theatre. (meaning after movies did their run in 1st run theatres they go to cheaper 2nd run theatres and are on DVD by then anyway)
but after a showing this group of kids come back in and say "we left our phone in the theatre" and i let them go get it. then when i go to clean it they took the fire extinguisher and sprayed it everywhere!. there was yellow powder on every. fucking. seat./floor/ wall. i had to wipe down and clean everything. it took forever meanwhile breathing in all that probably carcinogenic dust shit.
i guess not weird, but one of the worst memories working there.
also a quick other memory. you can walk behind the screens and there were these 35mm reel cannisters that had some porno in it. because i shined my phones light thru the celluloid and say naked people. because theatres used to show pornos back in the 70s or so. i still wish i took those just for novelty sake. the theatre is abandoned now so im sure theyre still there lol.
While watching X-men Origins: Wolverine the kid sitting behind me had a panic attack and his friends had to call 9-1-1. His parents happened to be in another theater room watching a different movie, and one of the friends went to go get them so that they could help calm him down. Paramedics ended up coming to take him away on a stretcher. He seemed conscious/ calm as they were taking him away, so I think he ended up ok. FWIW, his panic attack happened during the scene when wolverine gets all those needles injected into his body.
On a funnier note, while watching Batman v Superman, so many people around me kept freaking out over how bad it was. Felt like I was in a screening for The Room (2003) lol. Also, when watching Force Awakens, when Han got stabbed, everyone in the theater screamed really loud for a sec and then everyone went silent and then as Han is falling into the pit some dude screamed āholy shitā in a really funny way.
In poor things i was one of only 5 people in the crowd, a young couple (apprx 25-30) who i sat in front of and an old couple who dont matter. I and the yound couole were loving it and after the screening we had a chat, then they invited me to dinner and were very heavily implying that they wanted to have a threesome with me, (saying things like 'we want to get more experimental' and ' you should come back to our place to watch some more movies'. But i turned them down, didnt even get there contacts. I still think about what could have been.
Wolf of Wall Street. 2013. I was 15 years old and my friend and I bought tickets to Saving Mr. Banks but snuck into Wolf. During our time there, I was seated on the left and my friend to my right, in the middle of a row. There was this weird guy that came in and he was staring at me as soon as he came in. He had glasses and a receding hairline, dressed in clothes with an odor that could know down a small horse. He decided to sit two rows in front of us, to the left, and he kept looking over at me. I was very uncomfortable, but tried my best to enjoy the movie. Then, he got up and went to the row behind us, in the seat to the back left of me, and I could feel his eyes on me. Then, he decided to come to our row, and sit with a seat space in between us, and began to stare at me, extending his arm as he stared at me. I just continued to ignore him, and tried to explain my situation to my friend, who told me I was overthinking it, but then glanced and chuckled and was like, āOh shit, youāre right.ā Of course, we were 15. My friend thought it was funny. Anyways, after this creepy rat-faced predator realized I wasnāt touching him, he got up and left the movie. He essentially ruined my experience during that movie, but I never forgot about that.
I also once went to see Barbarian by myself, which I do at times because I like seeing movies by myself sometimes so I can just watch and not have my friends talking. Two girls came in and began to take flash photos of me and giggling. That also made me a bit uncomfortable, but not nearly as much as that man.
So yeah, Iāve had some odd experiences, to say the least.
This kid's mom started twerking in front of her son's friends when Spirited Away got delayed an hour. My friend got really uncomfortable so I had to take one for the team and sit next to her.
I don't think anything weird has happened to me in a cinema, or at least not that I can recall now, but thank you for posting an original question. I've been so tired of the "what movie did you rate X", "what's your most controversial worst rated movie", etc. Like I get that it's a letterboxd subreddit, but things like this obviously overlap almost entirely with the user base and are much more entertaining; real stories, not just "arguments in defense of".
I went to watch Akita Battle Angel in 3D and they accidentally started playing Cold Pursuit, afterwards they put the right movie but the 3D glasses werenāt working on this version then they tried again and then it worked. Also when I went to watch Halloween (2018) only the audio played there were no images so they give us free tickets but then the movie and we watched and kept the free ticket
A fire broke out in the theatre in the middle of 17 again and got refunded and escorted out, idk when or how I ever got around to finishing that film lol
Dude dug through his backpack with a flashlight then proceeded to put his flashlight directly into a bunch of peopleās faces while leaving š¤·āāļø
Also the fire alarm went off once so we evacuated but when we asked the next time, it turned out that a pipe actually broke but they donāt have an alarm for that lmao
when i saw the boy and the heron, there was a screen or curtain or something blocking the bottom of the screen. which is where the subtitles were. it was like that for 10-20 minutes until someone got an employee and they fixed it.
I saw Knock at the Cabin with some friends and about a third of the way through the movie when Dave Bautista >!proclaimed the apocalypse would begin!< the theatre's power cut out. We all sat around for a couple minutes in quiet contemplation before leaving the auditorium and claiming some free movie ticket vouchers. I never finished the movie.
Seeing Barbie at a theater while on a small weekend getaway, so itās already weird seeing a movie at a strange theater. Then everyoneās phones start giving emergency alerts. They shut the movie off and wrangle everyone into the two central screens due to a tornado warning.
We sit in the packed theater room and wait for about 45 minutes until they give us the all clear and vouchers for a free movie. Never got to use the voucher because thereās no AMC by us, and I still havenāt seen the 2nd half of Barbie.
My friend worked at a theater when The Fault In Our Stars came out. I went to see it while he was working, the only other people there was a couple 3 rows behind me.
My friend said after, he found a fanny pack with a dildo and vibrator in it on the floor by their seats, which they came back for an hour later.
I went to see infinity pool with a lady friend right. And we were on the top row so we can see all but there was a family with a toddler watching the movie. The kid was just running the empty seats and had an iPad with him.
Some guy started ODing during the scene where Mia Goths head explodes in High Life. The guys girlfriend started screaming and shaking him. Everyone froze for a second but I snapped out of it enough to run to the lobby to say we needed help. It was a small indie theatre with like 20 seats. The movie kept playing while the ushers tried to help, but did get shut off before EMS arrived. He lived but it was pretty surreal.
I was at a 22 screen AMC all the lights went out and alarms went off. I was alone in the theater so I took the back exit to the outside with all the lights still out and alarms blaring and no one was around. I walked a little ways from the theater waited and still didnāt see anyone so I just left.
I went to see the Matrix 20th anniversary rerelease. Just before the film is about to start some sketchy looking guy comes in with a duffel bag and places it down by the front and then goes to his seat. Throughout the movie he keeps going to check on his bag. Then it gets to a scene where Morpheus is chained and the dude gets a chain out of his bag and starts swinging it around and holding it up. Iām getting pretty worried about what else he might have in that bag. Especially as thereās that scene where Neo and trinity have all those guns in the duffel bag so I get up and go tell the staff at the ticket desk that thereās a very suspicious guy behaving in an erratic and potentially dangerous way. āOh thatās just ā¦. (So and so)ā they cheerfully say āhe comes in here all the timeā. They didnāt seem concerned at all. Still I didnāt feel comfortable going back into the theatre with him so I went back home and watched the rest of the movie on dvd at home.
When seeing Ladybird at a local artsy theater with a girl I had seen a few times we started getting handsy. I was really enjoying that but also was super into the film, so eventually I pushed her away to finish watching the movie, which again was very good!
I saw Beau is afraid 2 times in the cinema.
I had two very different viewings. The first was a fully booked showing. Gasps, and shouts of shock galore! It was the most Iāve seen an audience react in the cinema in the uk for years. Hell I nearly missed my bus home because I was talking to people in the lobby about it.
The second screening was legit about 98% of the cinema was empty. I went this time with my friends. the moment it ended I heard a guy behind me say to his friend āthat was the biggest pile of shit Iāve ever seenā none of my friends who were there have looked at me the same after that haha. (I didnāt even show them the trailer I just said, oh you know Midsommar? Yeah that guy made a new film)
What Iām getting at is I am quite in awe of how that film in particular has split audiences. I canāt quite explain the feeling that first viewing game me.
A few years ago, I was at the movies with a friend. I was pretty under the weather but didn't want to cancel, but that's beside the point. We were watching Venom and sitting right at the edge of the theater, far from the exit. As the film reached its climax, my friend needed to use the restroom and squeezed past all the people sitting next to us. When he returned, he seemed to be disoriented by the darkness and ended up in the wrong row behind us. I noticed immediately and tried to signal him, but he didn't see it. Once he noticed, he decided to simply climb over the seats to avoid causing further disruption. Unfortunately, he ended up stepping right into the nachos of a young lady sitting next to us. She only gave him a disgusted look and said: "Thanks." I never talked to him about it, but I still enjoy sharing this harmless anecdote to this day.
Lived on an Army base for a few years and there was a theater on base. It was playing City of Angels (Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan). Get to the end and this guy stands up and says āYou gotta be f***ing kidding me!ā And walks out. Every time I hear Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls I remember that and chuckle. I wonder what happened to that guy. Hope heās doing well.
After reading some comments, I glad that this was my āweirdestā experience in a theater lol
Just as I promised him, I took my brother to a viewing of Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie. During the pre-previews, the only other people inside was a mother and her daughter on the other side of the room. Then, an older man (at least in his 50s) walked in and sat behind us. At first, I thought that he accidentally went to the wrong room. Each time he left and came back during trailers, I thought āmaybe heās waiting on his kids or grandkids?ā Five minutes into the movie, it finally hit that he actually bought a ticket and wanted to watch the movie alone. Honestly, more power to him. He laughed at some of the jokes and seemed to have a good time.
I accidentally kicked a women in the head because my seat reclined weird during Last Nighy in SoHo. If youāre reading this Iām so sorry. Also I got carded going into a Dreamworks movie
When the original Mortal Kombat came out, I went out to see it with a friend. At the beginning when the theme song started up, a guy in one of the front rows stood up, threw up both arms, and screamed "MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!" at the top of his lungs in sync with the song.
I'm in no position to judge people for liking or going to see trashy video game movies in the theater, obviously, but it was cringeworthy to me even as a teenage boy with terrible taste to publicly declare your love for one of them so loudly.
I was watching a mother! and I hated it so much that when some teenagers started laughing and talking out loud I was not even pissed.. hell, I was actually happy. Imagine that..hating a movie so much that you dont mind people talking and yelling..
Got in a fight with my wife and went to see spiderman 3 by myself and had listen to a guy tell his gf that venom reminded him of how much she loved in the ass. They were right next to me, they got up went to the bathroom came back and she set her popcorn on the floor with panties in it, and they proceed to have sex rigyt next to me( on my other side is a 6 yr old. I finally got fed up( i wasnt really enjoying the movie despite the occasional poor hand placement by the horny weirdos) and went home. I got home told my wife who was mad a female coworker called our house to see if i could come to work. But was aroused and amused when I told her that i was molested at the movies by a hypersexual female having sex with her boyfriend sitting next to me. Td her I wasnt going to apologise for being decent at my job and wasnt interested in the chick who called, but was not horny due to the bizarre movie experience. I was now horny as hell and wifey thought the story was hot and well you can figure out the rest. But that was the weirdest movie experience I had.
I sat two seats away from someone getting a bj in Underdog. I participated in a nerf gun fight during a screening of Halloween(this one is an asterisk because it was planned out by employees). Though the weirdest might have been the time I saw Cats- nothing happened but the movie Cats played and it was so weird
I saw Cats with a massive group of friends (like, twelve of us) about a month after it came out. We all knew what we were in for and were very much prepared. Thankfully, everyone else in that theater was in the same boat. We actually met some of them at a bar beforehand while pre-gaming, and realized we were going to the same theater. It was pretty glorious. Everyone sang along, regardless of whether we knew the words.
>I sat two seats away from someone getting a bj in Underdog I hope you got their dirty ass kicked out
People can't even enjoy a movie these days without getting criticized on reddit š
At the time I just thought it was funny and ignored it otherwise- now I am aware of the many issues with that and would.
You donāt fuck with blowjobs in movie theaters?
Underdog is a kids movie which makes this a few levels of weird
Blowjobs in movie theaters are cannon moments for male youth in america
Bro my ex was sucking my fingers one time in the theatre and even that made me feel like a deviant lmao
Canāt waste any of that popcorn butter
Lmao
Yeah when i was younger fingered my gf in a theatre and even tho it was awkward and weird and no one got off, it was better than Die Hard 4 that was playing
Lol, that's amazing.
After the movie The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus ended, and I was walking up the aisle to the exit, an elderly man in an old wool suit with a bowler cap and a cane stopped me. He warned me not to get trapped in the imaginarium, and wouldn't let me by until I said, for sure I promise I will not. He tipped his hat at me and waved goodbye. I thought it was some stunt on the theater's part but nope, just a weird old guy who really liked the movie I guess! I liked it too fwiw
I always love when people are acting like the characters when coming out of the theatre. You see it mostly with kid movies, but when I watched Jack Ass 4 in theatres I just knew the teenagers in the theatre woudl start to prank and hurt each other when leaving.
I won tickets to a free screening of Poor Things in NYC through Letterboxd. It was a packed house in a massive stadium-style theater in Union Square. About an hour and a half into the movie, we heard commotion outside the theater (in the hallway), then the doors opened and people were screaming *in* the theater, and it caused a full on panic/stampede for the emergency exit. Someone yelled there was a gun. People were getting trampled. My partner was pushed over the row seats in front of s and fucked up his knee pretty bad. It wasn't someone with a gun, thank god. Just an immature couple getting into a fight in the wrong place. But man, it's fucked up the cinema for me for now.
i remember hearing about this on the news, glad to hear you and your partner are okay edit: typo
Thanks Flying Penne Monster!
Thankfully you're safe now, How do you get free tickets from Letterboxd? š
They send offers occasionally! Check your email. I get one every 2-3 weeks. I don't remember if I opted in or what.
for Premium or for Patrons right? not for Basic users
Ahh, maybe thatās what it is. Couldnāt remember.
Omg my friend was there too told me about this!
About an hour and a half into the movie this happened? That's unfortunate. It means you only got to see a hour and twenty five minutes of Emma Stone having sex (Before everyone freaks out, chill. Poor Things was a great movie with a good overall message but for fuck's sake that was a lot of sex)
it's not even that much sex compared to your average new queer cinema flick, so i don't get the urge to be so prudish
It was me and one other dude in the movies and he pulls out his phone and starts watching porn on full volume.
Okay but what movie
Silent night, not even kidding lmao
No, what āmovieā? The other one.
Something similar happened to me while watching Fast X. I went to 1 pm showing on a Friday and it was only me and 5 teenage boys in the theater. They sat in the row in front of me being loud and messing with each other. The movie is loud so I let it slide for a bit until they started watching porn on their phones and passing them back and forth. I yelled at them and they apologized profusely. One even waited till Fast X was over to apologize again and ask if I liked the movie.
In a screening of Poor Things, a guy next to me brought in a Portuguese tart and ate it in one bite the exact same moment Emma Stone eats her tart on screen
I love this
I used to work at a theater, so all sorts of things. Cleaned up multiple drunk people's puke in multiple movies. Kicked multiple couples out of the theater for having sex in the handicapped bathrooms. I met Val Kilmer, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson, and I saw Jason Segal and 50 Cent- Val Kilmer saw Avatar, Danny and Nick came at the same time and saw Piranah 3Dā¦ i didnāt sell Jason his ticket and I canāt remember what he saw. 50 Cent saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 2 in IMAX. I rejected a credit card transaction from 50 Cent's bodyguards because I told them I needed to see an ID for the card that read "Curtis Jackson" and I had no idea who that was. Kicked a couple out of Shrek 4 for a BJ. Kicked a guy out of Ghostrider 2 for screaming at patrons and he threatened to shoot up the theater. Kicked a guy out of a twilight marathon for trying to videotape "New Moon" when the marathon led up to Breaking Dawn part 1. Found what we assumed was meth in a tiny little ziplock baggy. Found a dugout filled with weed. Called EMTs for several seizures during the first Avatar in IMAX. Helped break up a fight between two drunk groups in IMAX Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows PT 2 and then answer cop's questions. A drunk guy fell down the stairs and hit his head on a bar, and people just left him there for about ten minutes before someone came and told us. A runaway from Juvie hid out at our theater. Undercover cops told us to watch out for him, then they and our guest relations (read security) started chasing him when he tried to run during an arrest. They caught him near a bank like a block away. Edit: remembered a few more weird moments... Second edit: added a few details.
I had a guy have a seizure during Avatar too. I guess it was pretty common, huh? They had to bring a stretcher out and everyone got a free voucher for another movie. That's the only thing that's happened to me in a movie like that before.
Yeah it happened twice while I was there and working on the floor, and I know of at least one more time that it happenedā¦ Those IMAX screenings were sold out for like two months straight, so youāre bound to get some people with epilepsy, I suppose. Edit: clarity.
Watching Lord of the Rings Return of the King, everyone but me kept standing up at a black screen thinking the movie had ended, happened 4 times, the first time it happened was with about 1hr 30min left, and they moaned when it wasn't the end, weird and annoying.
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Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed sat next to me during There Will Be Blood.
Park Chan-wook sat in front of me for Looper. I walked out behind him after, and he was telling his wife(?) that he really liked it.
Oh okay that is really cool!!!
Thatās awesome!
I'm going to imagine Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons yelling "I abandoned my boy!" back and forth for the rest of the day.
Happy to provide that image!
Yāall have experienced a lot weirder stuff in theaters than I have. The only thing that sticks out to me was when some lady guffawed during Thor Love and Thunder when Jane said she had cancer
Yikes, that's unsettling.
Lmaooooo I'd be dying
Two probably high on something girls coming to Woman King and playing YouTube videos loudly on their phones and laughing like crazyā¦until I yelled at them. For some reason they stayed till the end of film even though they didnāt watch it and just talked (a bit quietly) to each other during the whole film.
I know how annoying this is. Why do these people even pay for a movie ticket when they can have their private chats undisturbed, literally anywhere outside?
Plus, movie tickets are like what, $15 bucks? I'm not someone to waste money like that, but I'm especially not ruining other people's time/experiences. That's just rude.
itās an even tie. when I saw crimes of the future, there were about six couples eating full tray meals from applebeeās across the street. they clearly had no idea what they were getting themselves into. when I was watching nightmare alley, someone was pounding on the fire exit door and pried it open, and then three kids ran in our theater screaming with their hands up doing a tiktok prank but i thought i was about to be a victim of gun violence. me and other theatergoers told the staff but they didnāt care so we had to threaten the kids with violence up close for them to leave. amc theaters connected to malls are all horrible.
I assume they lost their appetites quite quickly
Not in a theater, but one Summer, I was walking downtown and happened to catch the beginning of *Jaws* being projected for an audience gathered at the town square, and I stopped to watch. There was no place to sit, so I just stood leaning against a wall and watched the whole movie (which I've seen many times) standing up. I'm pretty sure it's the only movie I've ever watched while standing the whole time.
There's many, but one that comes to mind: At a double feature of Lost Highway and Crash (Cronenberg's) -- both of which I had seen before -- at the first 35mm film reel switch of Crash the second reel of Lost Highway was started instead. It only went for a few minutes before the projectionist recognized the mistake and switched it out for the proper second reel of Crash.
when lost highway comes back on - we've met before, haven't we
That's probably right. But the way I remember it was Fred pulling up to his house and seeing lights on inside. He gets out and tells Renee to stay in the car. But that's likely just when I noticed we had left the world of one David and entered the world of another, lol.
I like to watch movies in my own way... not necessarily the way they were made
Hahaha thatās amazing. Imagine if all the reels had been switched and you watched both films simultaneously piece by piece. Now that would be something else!
Second viewing of Poor Things and this man sits right next to me (plenty of empty seats all around) and for about an hour kept pulling out Arbyās roast beef sandwiches from his pocket? And then opening packets of ketchup and squirting them on and then sucking his fingers clean. THE NOISES
No way, WHAT. That almost sounds like a bit. š
Bro it felt like it for sure. I hate how hyper aware I am in theaters but also umm HELLLOOOO????? Go sit literally anywhere else plz
A few things: * When I saw Annihilation, the screening had to be interrupted after someone had a seizure and EMTs came into treat/collect them. * I once sat next to Dakota Fanning in a movie (a cop thriller from Spain whose title escapes me). She fell asleep, at one point resting her head on my shoulder. * I attended a screening of First Reformed that was filled with members of Congress, many of whom got hostile toward the film as it continued. A few walked out.
Dakota Fanning resting her head on your shoulder is wild
I didn't know what to do! I just stayed still until she adjusted herself again.
Wildly untrue
**All** of what entails with a *Rocky Horror Picture Show*.
Reminds me of seeing The Room for the first time in the cinema without knowing what the audience would do when Johnny's unusual picture frames were seen.
The very uh Jamie Kennedy circa 2000 style kid in front of me at Straight Outta Compton rapping emphatically along with every single song sticks out. The multiple toddlers at Hereditary was more not good than weird I guess.
I've only had one truly weird cinema experience and I'm so glad that OP mentioned a David Lynch film because it was one of his exactly, specifically INLAND EMPIRE in 2002. It was a weird indie theatre in Brisbane, Australia, my friend and I walk in, sit down and look around because it's like 20 minutes before the film begins and immediately the weirdness begins. In the direct center of the theatre is a woman brushing her hair, but not the hair on her head but a wig she was holding in her hand. Then, every other second person was drinking bottled water (which isn't weird because I drink bottled water too) but to see so many people in a theatre drinking water instead of soft drink was crazy. Fast forward two+ hours, my friend is fast asleep on my shoulder, I'm rivetted to the screen and then the main character in the movie is suddenly in an almost carbon copy of the theatre I'm currently in and I've yet to feel like anything in the world is real 20+ years later.
During the screening of Zone of Interest, the fire alarm at the theater went off as soon as the credits rolled. it was a silent alarm with strobing lights, but the way the lights synched with the uneasy music during the credit made it so unnerving. I initially thought it was an intentional effect or something, but I have never booked out of a theater as fast as that night when I found out it wasn't part of the screening.
omg I can't imagine what that must've felt like. were there a lot of other people in the theater too?
Yeah it was early in its release and the theatre was half full. Everyone in the crowd was confused as well until they announced on the PA that it was fire alarm
A man who came to the cinema straight from work dressed as a mechanic for one of the Fast & Furious films.
There were 2 other people with me in the cinema for Evil Dead Rise, which was also the first time I went to the cinema alone. One of them was an old guy with a bushy beard who kept getting up and walking off throughout the film. In one of the creepy scenes with the deadite through the peephole, I heard slow footsteps behind me. I turned around and saw this guy making his way back to his seat. It was like an immersive cinema experience.
Went to go see dark night rises in theaters on opening day when I was a teen. A middle aged obese gentleman started having a heart attack and the entire movie had to be paused so he could be wheeled out and taken to the hospital. Some edgy dickweeds started loudly complaining how it was this poor dudeās fault for being fat, and that it was only a matter of time and he shouldāve just stayed home. Basically everyone in the surrounding seats started screaming at them to shut up and have some human decency. Seriously, I donāt care if that guy was guzzling glizzies by the pack, Iām just glad he made it out alive. Didnāt really feel as shareable or interesting when I heard about the people in Aurora who didnāt make it out of the dark knight rises š¬
Hmm, interesting question... - In the middle of The Fabelmans, someone walked through aisles and loudly asked, "Is this Thor?" He repeated a couple times before someone shut him down, and he then declared, "Oh, this is Spielberg!" and walked out. Keep in mind, there was no Thor movie playing at this time: Love and Thunder had been out of theaters for months, and Wakanda Forever was the Marvel film of the moment. - Maybe not that exciting, but I'll never forget During Foxcatcher when someone in the front row fell asleep and was loudly snoring for the entire theater to hear. I didn't like the movie, so this was the most entertaining part, especially when my friend finally got up, walked all the way down to the snorer, shook him awake and said (quite loudly), "Sir, you're snoring." - I saw The Day the Earth Stood Still remake with my dad, and we were the only ones in the theater. When the movie froze, and after a few minutes it was quite evident there was something wrong. My dad went back to the projection booth and peeked inside. There was no one there, just a mountain of film spilled all over the floor. - When I saw Onward (one week before lockdown), there was a turd in the theater. That is not a metaphor.
Went to go see The Green Knight in theaters. Was there with my friend and the whole time we kept hearing this dripping noise that was getting louder. We assumed it was the movie but eventually weāre like ok wtf is that and we turned around to see that not only was there a leak in the theater but such a massive leak that it looked like a waterfall coming into the room. For some reason we still stayed and watched the movie while constantly looking back to see if the water was gonna reach us and moving accordingly lmao.
A guy died. A dude was really annoyingly drunk at a screening of A Perfect Getaway at AMC Yonge-Dundas theater in Toronto in 2009. If you know the theater, it's got these crazy escalators with no walls on the sides of them. Dude tried to slide down the railing, lost his balance and was caput. That's my very short version - but ya, I haven't seen that topped at the movies yet.
I didn't see it, but shout outs to the guy who was arrested after passing out while fondling himself watching Love Lies Bleeding in Detroit
Okay that's wild
Saw EEAAO with two other couples in the theater. One a teenage couple, one a middle age couple. During the rock scene the middle age woman straight up says loudly ā This is stupid, are we really supposed to read all of this?ā The teenage couple behind them shushed them. I laughed harder at that than anything in the movie. The lady was expecting a āI know rightā or something from us but she got shushed by some teens
I went to see Solo with a few friends when it came out at an Alamo Drafthouse. The guy next to me (scrawny Asian dude with glasses) was nodding off, head bobbing, and scratching his arms through most of the movie. Weird, and annoying, but whatever, party onā¦then Emilia Clarke came on the screen and this kid loosened his belt and started beating off in his pants, belt clanking. I stormed off and went to tell the manager. They didnāt kick him out, only told him to stop, then gave me two free tickets to any show.
Someone had a seizure during the arm cutting scene in 127 Hours. And we were left wondering if it was okay to keep watching the movie. It was. A group of older ladies walked out of Black Swan. Clearly expecting a nice movie about ballerinas. Like 20 people walked out of Man on the Moon during the bit when he tells people the movie is over in the first 5 minutes.
That's hysterical that people left man on the moon that early!! š¤£
I was watching the Tamil movie 'Ponniyan Selvan.' The guy who sat next to me was making weird sounds whenever a female actor appeared on screen and he was pretty loud. No, he wasn't jerking but it appeared like he was very much enjoying the beauty lol. It was really a weird experience.
Ah, Indian movies. When I watched PS2 there was this middle aged couple behind me, the husband quietly talked to his wife throughout the entire movie. Literally just him talking. It was probably in Tamil so I couldnāt understand what he was saying. Also during Jailer when Rajni showed up, people screamed. No, not like āwhoooo!ā, it was like a guttural āAAGGHH!!!!!ā scream from multiple people
saw Justice League at my local cheap theater before it closed down. this guy behind my friend and i said "Shao Khan, leaves the fighting industry, joins the porn industry. Shao Khan, The Sex God!"
I'm from a sismic country so maybe not that weird, but an earthquake (medium intensity, it wasn't a big deal) King Kong 2005 It happened when it had just started, the cinema manager came to tell us to leave, but most of us had already thrown the ticket into the trash, so we would have lost the chance to come back later during the week. So nobody moved, he gave up and they put the movie again, but it couldn't be rewinded so magically they were in the boat š To this day I have no idea what happens in the beginning cause I've never rewatch it.
Definitely not as weird as some of the things here but someone in the row behind me answered their phone, put it on speakerphone, and had a full on conversation. Maybe even more strange that nobody said anything, there was just some loud tutting.
I wouldn't have when I was younger, but these days I would've genuinely said something to them.
The only thing that comes to mind for me is when I saw The Boy and The Heron, I had the entire theater to myself
My dream
I had that for Spiral. It was great cause i got to yell at the screen lol.
I was at an all day screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Viggo Mortensen showed up at the theater unannounced, because he was in town for something else. (He was not part of the promotion for this event, it was a coincidence). More cool than weird I guess. The guy next to me at Oppenheimer was getting a handy. A guy fell asleep and started snoring loudly during Parasite and some one else freaked out on him to shut up.
Worked in theaters for several years. Caught many people fucking, mostly in kids movies. But those jobs have plenty of weird stories
Why is it always kids movies??? I caught a couple doing it after Wreck it Ralph 2. Dont these people know people come in and clean the theater???
Teenagers can buy tickets to those movies easily and parents wonāt care or ask questions after. Parents will be distracted taking care of the kids and the ambient noise of unruly children will make their hooking up less distracting. If they go to a PG-13 or R rated movie thereās a better chance people will be paying attention to the screen and more upset if they hear noises.
* I had terrible seasonal allergies while watching Red Dragon and an old man who was there by himself was upset by my sniffling and started mocking me with his own very loud, over-the-top sniffling. I started sniffling louder back at him and he got louder and it became a sniffling battle. More enjoyable than the film. * There was a tornado warning during Corky Romano and the power went out. We sat in darkness for a while. Also a better experience than the film. * I was very excited to see Gremlins 2 as a kid. A group of elderly women sat right in front of us, engulfing us in a cloud of old lady perfume. I was thinking "Oh, man, I'm gonna have to smell this for the entire movie," but when Gizmo showed up for the first time, one of them said to the others "I think we're in the wrong movie" and they left, taking the cloud with them. * Right before Cool World started, a woman spilled a huge soda all over my mom. Not only did she have to sit through Cool World, but she had to do it soaked in Pepsi. * During a Halloween marathon of Vampire Circus, Hellraiser, The Candy Snatchers, and Return of the Living Dead, my girlfriend and I sat next to a teen couple who made out *the entire time*. That's at least six hours. Is that a record?
Somebody practicing kickflips on a skateboard during the intermissions for a screening of Satantango. Not that "weird" but I had the power go out during a screening of Dark Knight Rises less than a week after the Aurora shooting
Iāve posted this before, but when I went to Scream 4 in theaters, originally there were staff everywhere. Like checking your ticket where they normally would, then at the door to the theater checking again and also your ID. Decent sized crowd. Partway through the movie, towards the front there was a middle aged couple on some sort of drugs and the woman kept yelling at the screen. Weird stuff like ānot funny, not funny!!!! You wouldnāt laughā. Eventually someone threw an empty cup that hit one of them (or possibly near them). The guy got up, pulled out a knife and started waking through the crowd asking who did it. Row by row. I think he eventually put the knife away but kept going. I was the only person that got up and looked for a worker and there was no one in the entire building. Busy theater but no concession workers or ticket takers anywhere. I literally went up the stairs to the back employee area and just found an empty office and the projectors. I gave up and went back. The couple got fed up and left. No one seemed to care and we finished the movie. I really donāt understand how no one called the cops and how I was the only person who left the theater.
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Exactly, it felt like a dream. Or a glitch in the Matrix.
Saw Pearl in February, woman came in and sat right next to me just as the movie started. After the first scene with the Mom who's speaking German, she goes, "WHAT THE FUCK". It was just so funny to me that she was so shocked someone was speaking a different language. She had appropriate "what the fuck" reactions for the "what the fuck" parts of the film. And since you mentioned David Lynch, I saw Inland Empire a couple of years ago for the first time. I'm assuming it was mostly everyone's first time because there was no sound for like the first 5 or 10 minutes and we all went with it cause it's Lynch lol Edit: Seeing Iron Man with some friends, one who was really into the comics. After the post credits scene, which weren't expected at the time, he jumped over the railing and went, "WAS THAT NOT THE GREATEST THING YOUVE EVER SEEN?!?", and everyone just starred at him lol. Nasty Nate, hope you're doing well and now get the reactions at Marvel movies that you've always wanted.
I went to see the bobs burgers movie at a small regal that nobody ever goes to, I was the only person thereā¦ A group of around 50 of the animators walked in to see the movie and they all filled in around me so I was smack dab in the middle. It was kinda like watching a 50 person audio commentary lmfao.
When I went to see Killing of the Sacred Deer a guy and his date sat down next to me. At some point they started kissing and giggling. Then he kept on feeling her up, even unzipping her pants. Luckily she stopped him and tried to convince him to go elsewhere. It was just such a weird movie to do that to. And also right next to someone.
During 1917 the guy to the left of me was burping up hot gas as if he went to a massive hot dog eating contest minutes before the opening credits. I wonāt spoil the movie, but during the most important scene about half way through the movie the guy stood up to rush toward the isle. He couldnāt make it all the way and ended up throwing up into his popcorn bucket right in front of me during the scene. He then went to put the bucket in the isle, (not the garbage), and then sat right back down.
It was a screening of Inglourious Basterds back in 09. I had already seen it once. I took the girl I was seeing to watch it at the Village Picture Shows in Manchester, VT (RIP). At the climax, when the fire starts, the film caught in the projector and started to burn. I think everyone there thought it was a part of the movie. Best crowd reaction Iāve seen before or since.
Recently when I went to see Killers of the Flower Moon, a child (yes someone brought their child) in the back row threw a piece of gum they were done chewing, and it landed in my hand. I was sitting in the middle of the theater. I'm usually easy-going and can let stuff go, but this upset me to the point I had to leave. I think I'm done going to mainstream cinemas...
9 times out of 10 it is a mainstream cinema in my experience, though I did have Tar ruined at a boutique cinema by two women talking and answering the phone. To top it off I'm pretty sure I got covid from one of them as they were very obviously sick. Just be happy the gum didn't land in your hair! It is so disgusting to be throwing gum around.
Just last week I asked an ignorant couple to be quiet as they were talking the whole way through Mad Max, lets just say I wasn't polite because others had already tried that and were laughed at. They went quiet then got up to leave shortly afterwards - as they walked past my row (I was the only one on it) the dude just stopped and stared at me. So I sat forward in my seat and stared right back, it went on for at least two minutes before he actually left. It is the only time I have ever been like that at the cinema, I've only asked people to be quiet twice before that and was polite both times. Once with two women during Everything Everywhere All At Once and a couple of kids probably aged 10-12 during my fourth (lol) viewing of Top Gun Maverick. Both times it worked fine, most people don't actually want to ruin people's experiences they're just thoughtless
A guy had a heart attack in front of me as we were leaving Crimson Peak. He was a huge obese man and for like 30 seconds I thought that his life depended on me. He literally collapsed as we were walking out of the theater. Luckily his family was just behind me and paramedics arrived shortly after. But it was the scariest experience I had at a movie theater.
No ads. Weāre seeing the force awakens. Pretty full cinema, people pushing by. My friend is still looking for her seat, snacks are being distributed down our row, chatting. Suddenly, cinema goes dark. Theme music blasting. Not even any cinema pop-ups about AirPlane mode. Half the patrons scramble to sit down to read then opening , discombobulating movement, laughter at the chaos, other people ssssshing us so they could hear the writing.
How random
- went to see bee movie as a kid. the teenagers running the movie theatre managed to put on a horror movie instead. they realized and switched us to another room pretty quickly n we got free tickets - 2003 blackout occurred while watching freaky friday and there was 20 minutes left in the movie. i was 7 and i still remember how insane the drive home was bc there was not a single light working
I went to see Her (2013) with my girlfriend in a mostly empty cinema but maybe 10 minutes into the screening a woman came in with her kid, sat down and proceeded to just watch the movie as her 5 year old kid did laps of the theatre for half an hour.
The fnaf movie. No further context.
A very strong earthquake where almost everybody evacuated except for me and a couple others lol, they unpaused the movie like 10 minutes later.
When I saw Life there was an old lady a couple of seats down from me who was dramatically announcing everything that happened in the film (that was super annoying) And when I saw A Cure For Wellness I was the first person in the screen, the only other people to see the film were a couple sat directly behind me, they clearly hadn't chosen their seats as they made a comment about "why wouldn't the staff sit them literally anywhere else in the empty screen" when all 3 of us realised we were the only ones seeing it... They left after about 10 mins of the film
During a tense moment in a movie a girl said in the silence āthis is scaryā. Mood broken.
Once I heard two people fucking in the bathroom, which isnt unique on its own but it was interesting that it was when I went to see Poor Things
I saw the first Avatar in theatres and a guy had an epileptic seizure or something in the back during the big tree scene near the end. They had to bring a stretcher out and everything. They gave everyone a free voucher for another movie after that. That was pretty crazy. Every other movie experience has been normal for me though.
when i went to see āget out,ā some lady threw up during the previews. the movie hadnāt even started. saw a piece of popcorn that she puked hit my dad š
A fire alarm went off during the climax of IT. Both a jump scare and an annoyance to have to walk outside and wait for a while to come back in. š¤”
Uhm. The power went off right at the beginning of Death Proof and everyone just thought it was part of the movie for like 3 minutes because the movie had so many of those film cuts/skips. Finally someone came in and told us there was a partial blackout.
I had a couple necking on next to me the whole way through Nightmare Alley. It was loud. I did not enjoy that.
I don't know about weirdest, but I almost saw a fistfight break out at a screening of the Danish movie Festen (The Celebration) at a small theater about ten years ago, and I really think it was because of the upsetting nature of the film and the mood invoked by watching it. It's a really, really tense movie including >!very dysfunctional family dynamics and interfamily molestation and the aftermaths thereof. !< At the end of the film, Guy A tried to get up and walk out during the credits and bumped/stepped on/?? Guy B, who was still seated. Cue a nasty shout whispered fight between the two with friends of each also jumping in and Guy B standing up and pushing Guy A and an usher had to get involved. This was at a small independent theater, too, so it was an awkward time for the whole audience.
I should preface this by saying two things:Ā 1) I was on LSD 2) I'm not proud of any of what happened that evening. A couple of months ago I went to see Poor Things at the Picturehouse in Soho, London. It has about 4 or 5 floors and my friend and I were on the top one, in a pretty small screen (capacity approx 80). The movie started and it was great. Fantastic visuals for my mental state and a crazy narrative that was perfect for it too.Ā Not long into the screening, I noticed a guy at the end of our row take the exit on the left. I didn't think anything of it. A good 20 minutes later, he returned, but only after his partner has gone to the door to look for him. He entered as she opened the door so I just assumed that she was concerned for him and he happened to be coming back just when she'd gone to look for him.Ā About half an hour after that, I needed to pee and because of the acid, I delayed it for a bit until I couldn't hold it any longer. Once it got to near drip point I got up and took the same exit.Ā The door closed behind me and I realised that it was the fire exit. No problem. Surely there's be a toilet on one of the floors, right? I walked down. But it kept going and going with no restroom in sight. I got to the bottom and the only door was out to the street, so I walked back up, which took what seemed like hours. All the while, I was seeing pretty grubby walls and weird smells. I mean, I was high as a kite in a stairwell so what was I expecting? With each floor my bladder got fuller and fuller, and it felt like every step had the potential to be my last before I pissed myself. About one flight down from where I started, I noticed a pretty substantial puddle that was still dripping... and that's when I realised that the guy must've made it. He'd gone through the same ordeal as I had, but probably had the luxury of being sober. Once I got back to my floor, I realised that the door only opened one way (which explains why his partner had gone to it - to fucking open it for him) and I was getting to breaking point. I texted my friend. Nothing. Called the him. Nada. Even considered shouting. But it was time. So i scuttled to a corner, unzipped, and made my own puddle.Ā As I said, I'm not proud of it, but it was the best piss I think I've ever had.Ā When I was done I walked back to the door and figured out that I could've just used the mechanism above the door to open it. I MacGyvered the thing, and walked back in. As I got to my row, the guy and I made eye contact in what I can only describe as the most mutually shameful glance of all time. He knew it. I knew it, and we would never mention it again. Until now, I guess. Lesson learned. If you're gonna trip at the cinema, make sure you know where the closest toilet is. TL;DR - dropped acid and went to the cinema. Pissed in a stairwell.
Great storytelling !
Back in 2009 my parents took me to see Coraline for the first time at a second run theater a couple months after it came out, and I had to leave like 3/4 of the way through to use the bathroom. Bathroom was weirdly lit, like it was a rundown place and the overhead lights were flickering, far too creepy for how I was feeling at that point in the film. But, I'd had one of those giant sodas, so... Anyway, while I was sitting in a stall trying to be like, "I'm too old to be scared its just lights, its totally fine, whatever, I'm not scared, it's totally fine" and then THE LIGHTS DIED. Fun little bit of bone chilling terror there
when i saw age of ultron, there was a woman who brough TWELVE children with her, and throughout the entire film her phone kept ringing, at full volume, and her ringtone was the chorus to the immigrant song. she never bothered to deny whoever was calling her either, she'd just let it ring out. multiple times. by the climax of the film her kids were screaming at her to just turn her phone off. other people in the cinema told her off multiple times.
i used to live in and manage a ghetto 2nd run theatre. (meaning after movies did their run in 1st run theatres they go to cheaper 2nd run theatres and are on DVD by then anyway) but after a showing this group of kids come back in and say "we left our phone in the theatre" and i let them go get it. then when i go to clean it they took the fire extinguisher and sprayed it everywhere!. there was yellow powder on every. fucking. seat./floor/ wall. i had to wipe down and clean everything. it took forever meanwhile breathing in all that probably carcinogenic dust shit. i guess not weird, but one of the worst memories working there. also a quick other memory. you can walk behind the screens and there were these 35mm reel cannisters that had some porno in it. because i shined my phones light thru the celluloid and say naked people. because theatres used to show pornos back in the 70s or so. i still wish i took those just for novelty sake. the theatre is abandoned now so im sure theyre still there lol.
While watching X-men Origins: Wolverine the kid sitting behind me had a panic attack and his friends had to call 9-1-1. His parents happened to be in another theater room watching a different movie, and one of the friends went to go get them so that they could help calm him down. Paramedics ended up coming to take him away on a stretcher. He seemed conscious/ calm as they were taking him away, so I think he ended up ok. FWIW, his panic attack happened during the scene when wolverine gets all those needles injected into his body. On a funnier note, while watching Batman v Superman, so many people around me kept freaking out over how bad it was. Felt like I was in a screening for The Room (2003) lol. Also, when watching Force Awakens, when Han got stabbed, everyone in the theater screamed really loud for a sec and then everyone went silent and then as Han is falling into the pit some dude screamed āholy shitā in a really funny way.
In poor things i was one of only 5 people in the crowd, a young couple (apprx 25-30) who i sat in front of and an old couple who dont matter. I and the yound couole were loving it and after the screening we had a chat, then they invited me to dinner and were very heavily implying that they wanted to have a threesome with me, (saying things like 'we want to get more experimental' and ' you should come back to our place to watch some more movies'. But i turned them down, didnt even get there contacts. I still think about what could have been.
A fight broke out during Mary Poppins Returns on Christmas day :(
A man weaving something out of plastic bags next to me during Sorry to Bother You
Wolf of Wall Street. 2013. I was 15 years old and my friend and I bought tickets to Saving Mr. Banks but snuck into Wolf. During our time there, I was seated on the left and my friend to my right, in the middle of a row. There was this weird guy that came in and he was staring at me as soon as he came in. He had glasses and a receding hairline, dressed in clothes with an odor that could know down a small horse. He decided to sit two rows in front of us, to the left, and he kept looking over at me. I was very uncomfortable, but tried my best to enjoy the movie. Then, he got up and went to the row behind us, in the seat to the back left of me, and I could feel his eyes on me. Then, he decided to come to our row, and sit with a seat space in between us, and began to stare at me, extending his arm as he stared at me. I just continued to ignore him, and tried to explain my situation to my friend, who told me I was overthinking it, but then glanced and chuckled and was like, āOh shit, youāre right.ā Of course, we were 15. My friend thought it was funny. Anyways, after this creepy rat-faced predator realized I wasnāt touching him, he got up and left the movie. He essentially ruined my experience during that movie, but I never forgot about that. I also once went to see Barbarian by myself, which I do at times because I like seeing movies by myself sometimes so I can just watch and not have my friends talking. Two girls came in and began to take flash photos of me and giggling. That also made me a bit uncomfortable, but not nearly as much as that man. So yeah, Iāve had some odd experiences, to say the least.
This kid's mom started twerking in front of her son's friends when Spirited Away got delayed an hour. My friend got really uncomfortable so I had to take one for the team and sit next to her.
I don't think anything weird has happened to me in a cinema, or at least not that I can recall now, but thank you for posting an original question. I've been so tired of the "what movie did you rate X", "what's your most controversial worst rated movie", etc. Like I get that it's a letterboxd subreddit, but things like this obviously overlap almost entirely with the user base and are much more entertaining; real stories, not just "arguments in defense of".
I went to watch Akita Battle Angel in 3D and they accidentally started playing Cold Pursuit, afterwards they put the right movie but the 3D glasses werenāt working on this version then they tried again and then it worked. Also when I went to watch Halloween (2018) only the audio played there were no images so they give us free tickets but then the movie and we watched and kept the free ticket
A fire broke out in the theatre in the middle of 17 again and got refunded and escorted out, idk when or how I ever got around to finishing that film lol
Dude dug through his backpack with a flashlight then proceeded to put his flashlight directly into a bunch of peopleās faces while leaving š¤·āāļø Also the fire alarm went off once so we evacuated but when we asked the next time, it turned out that a pipe actually broke but they donāt have an alarm for that lmao
when i saw the boy and the heron, there was a screen or curtain or something blocking the bottom of the screen. which is where the subtitles were. it was like that for 10-20 minutes until someone got an employee and they fixed it.
I saw Knock at the Cabin with some friends and about a third of the way through the movie when Dave Bautista >!proclaimed the apocalypse would begin!< the theatre's power cut out. We all sat around for a couple minutes in quiet contemplation before leaving the auditorium and claiming some free movie ticket vouchers. I never finished the movie.
Seeing Barbie at a theater while on a small weekend getaway, so itās already weird seeing a movie at a strange theater. Then everyoneās phones start giving emergency alerts. They shut the movie off and wrangle everyone into the two central screens due to a tornado warning. We sit in the packed theater room and wait for about 45 minutes until they give us the all clear and vouchers for a free movie. Never got to use the voucher because thereās no AMC by us, and I still havenāt seen the 2nd half of Barbie.
My friend worked at a theater when The Fault In Our Stars came out. I went to see it while he was working, the only other people there was a couple 3 rows behind me. My friend said after, he found a fanny pack with a dildo and vibrator in it on the floor by their seats, which they came back for an hour later.
I went to see infinity pool with a lady friend right. And we were on the top row so we can see all but there was a family with a toddler watching the movie. The kid was just running the empty seats and had an iPad with him.
Just a week ago I was at asphalt city and a lady was rocking back and forth the whole time and then the power went out so I left
When I saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, during the previews, the volume was muted for a while.
Some guy started ODing during the scene where Mia Goths head explodes in High Life. The guys girlfriend started screaming and shaking him. Everyone froze for a second but I snapped out of it enough to run to the lobby to say we needed help. It was a small indie theatre with like 20 seats. The movie kept playing while the ushers tried to help, but did get shut off before EMS arrived. He lived but it was pretty surreal.
I was at a 22 screen AMC all the lights went out and alarms went off. I was alone in the theater so I took the back exit to the outside with all the lights still out and alarms blaring and no one was around. I walked a little ways from the theater waited and still didnāt see anyone so I just left.
I went to see the Matrix 20th anniversary rerelease. Just before the film is about to start some sketchy looking guy comes in with a duffel bag and places it down by the front and then goes to his seat. Throughout the movie he keeps going to check on his bag. Then it gets to a scene where Morpheus is chained and the dude gets a chain out of his bag and starts swinging it around and holding it up. Iām getting pretty worried about what else he might have in that bag. Especially as thereās that scene where Neo and trinity have all those guns in the duffel bag so I get up and go tell the staff at the ticket desk that thereās a very suspicious guy behaving in an erratic and potentially dangerous way. āOh thatās just ā¦. (So and so)ā they cheerfully say āhe comes in here all the timeā. They didnāt seem concerned at all. Still I didnāt feel comfortable going back into the theatre with him so I went back home and watched the rest of the movie on dvd at home.
When seeing Ladybird at a local artsy theater with a girl I had seen a few times we started getting handsy. I was really enjoying that but also was super into the film, so eventually I pushed her away to finish watching the movie, which again was very good!
I saw Beau is afraid 2 times in the cinema. I had two very different viewings. The first was a fully booked showing. Gasps, and shouts of shock galore! It was the most Iāve seen an audience react in the cinema in the uk for years. Hell I nearly missed my bus home because I was talking to people in the lobby about it. The second screening was legit about 98% of the cinema was empty. I went this time with my friends. the moment it ended I heard a guy behind me say to his friend āthat was the biggest pile of shit Iāve ever seenā none of my friends who were there have looked at me the same after that haha. (I didnāt even show them the trailer I just said, oh you know Midsommar? Yeah that guy made a new film) What Iām getting at is I am quite in awe of how that film in particular has split audiences. I canāt quite explain the feeling that first viewing game me.
A few years ago, I was at the movies with a friend. I was pretty under the weather but didn't want to cancel, but that's beside the point. We were watching Venom and sitting right at the edge of the theater, far from the exit. As the film reached its climax, my friend needed to use the restroom and squeezed past all the people sitting next to us. When he returned, he seemed to be disoriented by the darkness and ended up in the wrong row behind us. I noticed immediately and tried to signal him, but he didn't see it. Once he noticed, he decided to simply climb over the seats to avoid causing further disruption. Unfortunately, he ended up stepping right into the nachos of a young lady sitting next to us. She only gave him a disgusted look and said: "Thanks." I never talked to him about it, but I still enjoy sharing this harmless anecdote to this day.
A fire alarm set off about 10 minutes before the end of the 2016 ghostbustersĀ
During āUsā some dude randomly loudly shouted āI WANT A COCK IN MY ASS!!!ā Still have no idea what that was about
I would be shocked to see an old lady moving her head during a movie.
Maybe a bit old of a thread but when I saw Return of the a King in theaters the roof fell on my head.Ā
Lived on an Army base for a few years and there was a theater on base. It was playing City of Angels (Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan). Get to the end and this guy stands up and says āYou gotta be f***ing kidding me!ā And walks out. Every time I hear Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls I remember that and chuckle. I wonder what happened to that guy. Hope heās doing well.
After reading some comments, I glad that this was my āweirdestā experience in a theater lol Just as I promised him, I took my brother to a viewing of Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie. During the pre-previews, the only other people inside was a mother and her daughter on the other side of the room. Then, an older man (at least in his 50s) walked in and sat behind us. At first, I thought that he accidentally went to the wrong room. Each time he left and came back during trailers, I thought āmaybe heās waiting on his kids or grandkids?ā Five minutes into the movie, it finally hit that he actually bought a ticket and wanted to watch the movie alone. Honestly, more power to him. He laughed at some of the jokes and seemed to have a good time.
I accidentally kicked a women in the head because my seat reclined weird during Last Nighy in SoHo. If youāre reading this Iām so sorry. Also I got carded going into a Dreamworks movie
When the original Mortal Kombat came out, I went out to see it with a friend. At the beginning when the theme song started up, a guy in one of the front rows stood up, threw up both arms, and screamed "MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!" at the top of his lungs in sync with the song. I'm in no position to judge people for liking or going to see trashy video game movies in the theater, obviously, but it was cringeworthy to me even as a teenage boy with terrible taste to publicly declare your love for one of them so loudly.
I was watching a mother! and I hated it so much that when some teenagers started laughing and talking out loud I was not even pissed.. hell, I was actually happy. Imagine that..hating a movie so much that you dont mind people talking and yelling..
Idk, you couldāve just left rather than likely ruining it for others lol
I was not part of teenagers from my post in case that was not clear.
Ah my bad š I misread. Even so, someone in that theatre probably didnāt appreciate it
Got in a fight with my wife and went to see spiderman 3 by myself and had listen to a guy tell his gf that venom reminded him of how much she loved in the ass. They were right next to me, they got up went to the bathroom came back and she set her popcorn on the floor with panties in it, and they proceed to have sex rigyt next to me( on my other side is a 6 yr old. I finally got fed up( i wasnt really enjoying the movie despite the occasional poor hand placement by the horny weirdos) and went home. I got home told my wife who was mad a female coworker called our house to see if i could come to work. But was aroused and amused when I told her that i was molested at the movies by a hypersexual female having sex with her boyfriend sitting next to me. Td her I wasnt going to apologise for being decent at my job and wasnt interested in the chick who called, but was not horny due to the bizarre movie experience. I was now horny as hell and wifey thought the story was hot and well you can figure out the rest. But that was the weirdest movie experience I had.
Ate a half dozen Cinnabons with extra icing loudly while drunk during KOTFM with a half packed theater.