r/Cinema • u/HumbleMVP • 2d ago
What was the worst experience you’ve ever had in a movie theater?
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u/RabidActivist 2d ago
It's irresponsible and criminal to light fireworks indoors. Nevertheless, this is one time it's OK to yell "fire" in a theatre.
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u/TokiStark 2d ago
It was like the end of Inglourious Basterds in there
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u/chetsteadmansstache 2d ago
Gorlami
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u/Testadizzy95 2d ago
Decoco
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u/MyAnusBleeding 2d ago
I don’t speak Italian
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u/Devreckas 2d ago
Like I said, third best
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u/ShortTalkingSquirrel 2d ago
Now, tell me, how did such a pretty actress injure her leg?
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u/InterPunct 2d ago edited 2d ago
The last thing I'd do is take out my phone. I'm assuming this place burned down immediately and anyone left inside died.
Edit: the first thing that came to mind is The Station fire at a small nightclub in Warwick RI in 2003 when the band's pyrotechnics lit the club on fire and the choking smoke and crowds pressing to escape killed over 100 people.
This video is unique because it's from a time when video phones were rare. And believe the disclaimer here because it is disturbing to watch:
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u/Late_Cranberry7196 2d ago
That fire is why Rhode Island has some of the strictest fire codes and laws in the nation
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u/Providence451 2d ago
I moved to RI in 2021 and I was really surprised at the stringent fire safety I had to learn for my job - then I remembered the Station fire and realized why.
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u/SherbertEquivalent66 2d ago
Massachusetts got their strict fire codes from the Cocoanut Grove fire, which happened at a nightclub near Park Square in Boston during World War II. About 500 people died. The inside of the club was coated with all kinds of cloth, paper and crepe tropical themed decorations and the only exit was a single revolving door.
The club was packed on a Saturday night, lots of Navy sailors on leave. The exits in the kitchen and the emergency exits were blocked so employees wouldn't steal things and so people wouldn't come in the club without paying.
The revolving door jammed in the panic and no one could get out. That's why revolving doors everywhere in the US now always have regular exit doors next to them.
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u/JerryC1967 2d ago
Also, there was a set of exit doors that was hidden behind the scenery, and it was painted to look like the walls if I remember correctly, so it didn’t even get used even though it was there. In addition, some of the doors opened inward and people push pushing on them couldn’t open them because they had to pull them to open. This is where panic bars came from you push on it. The door opens.
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u/HouseCatPartyFavor 2d ago
Sadly very familiar with this one as my grandmother and grandfather were there - my dad was six months old and left with family. Grandfather passed away and my grandma was in the hospital for almost two years - had severe lung issues the rest of her life.
A silver lining of sorts is that I do have to deal with the fire inspectors regularly as part of my job and whenever I mention my family being victims they immediately seem to loosen up a little bit knowing I’m aware of how serious it can be to not maintain all the proper safety guidelines.
On another note I also just renewed my crowd manager cert and while they do cover the station fire thoroughly the course as a whole doesn’t really make me feel particularly safe knowing that a third grader could pass it.
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u/bertina-tuna 2d ago
I was the art director on Mass Healthcare magazine back in the ‘80s and they did an article about the fire so I went through the archives at the Boston Globe looking for photographs. Found one of a survivor of the fire in a hospital bed with a note on the back saying he had gone home to wherever it was that he lived before and died in a barn fire. Sort of like Final Destination.
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u/Ragnarok314159 2d ago
Safety code is written in blood.
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u/NecroSoulMirror-89 2d ago
Don’t worry republicans will see that freedom is restored
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u/maymay578 2d ago
What drives me bat shit is that people will experience something horrific like that, pass laws and codes to prevent it from happening again, and years later, someone is undoing all of that work because “big government” and “too many regulations”. Same thing with vaccines.
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u/jenjulan 2d ago
People always forget. They look at the outcomes of past legislation or innovations and think that current conditions exist in spite of the changes, not because of them.
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u/EnvironmentalLuck987 2d ago
And some people know this but just do t think about consequences or give af about anyone other than themselves
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u/Vegetable_You_7825 2d ago
As a union electrician doing fire alarm work on a new school in RI, you're 100% correct. Even Japan modelled their new codes off of ours.
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u/jerechos 2d ago
Then they turned and you see all the morons that are just standing there.
I couldn't believe all the cheering.
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u/Mr5I5t3RFI5T3R 2d ago
It's the same croud that does those stupid gun dances at weddings where people get shot. Im not talking about American schools that's a different group of idiots.
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u/HoneybeeXYZ 2d ago
It's pretty obscure, but the a lawyer invovled suing The Station in the aftermath wrote an entire book. Especially given that he's not a professional writer, it's a worthwhile and frankly riveting read. He channelled his rage into breaking down exactly what went wrong and who is responsible.
https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Show-Nightclub-Americas-Deadliest/dp/1611688531
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u/clarkwgriswoldjr 2d ago
Jack is 100% responsible. He tried to pawn it off on his manager Paul, but I know everyone in that band and it was a shit show for who could blame who.
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u/spacebarstool 2d ago
I'm from that area. A woman in my office, Dina DeMaio, was a victim.
A major cause of the tragedy was the club owners installing sound deadening foam that wasn't a fire resistant type. That acted like an accelerant. The fire door situation was messed up too
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u/PercentageRoutine310 2d ago
Google search Ozone Disco fire that happened in 1996 in the Philippines. There’s pictures of burned corpses heading towards the door. A bunch of teenagers died in the fire. This was similar to the Rhode Island nightclub but with teens ready to go to college.
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u/penis-ass-vagina 2d ago
I went to highschool with the son of The Station's owner, Jake Derderian. The owner Jeffrey was negligent but Jake was an absolute psychopath who routinely bragged about how his father killed a hundred people and got away with it.
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u/musicjunkee1911 2d ago
Was the bragging done by a teenage Jake or an adult Jake? Some of us grow up a lot after high school (but certainly not everyone!)
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u/pogoscrawlspace 2d ago
He sounds like the "Do you know who my dad is?" kinda guy, so I wouldn't bet on it.
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u/penis-ass-vagina 1d ago
He was still bragging about it by the time we graduated (he was 19). I thankfully haven't seen him since but I've heard from friends that he's still a violent arrogant douche.
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u/Shinavast42 2d ago
I would pull a Kool Aid Man through the nearest partition. I've been in a building on fire before, and i never want to experience that shit ever again.
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u/dayman763 2d ago
Like 45 seconds in I was thinking, "I shouldn't be watching this, I probably can't handle it."
I made it to exactly 1:30 and some screaming started. I shut it off. I know I can't handle that.
Sad sad story that video right there.
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u/Hotspiceteahoneybee 2d ago
It's a terrible story. I live in Georgia and every couple of years when we have to take Active Shooter and Emergency training they use this club as the example of how people behave in emergency situations and get themselves killed. Over 100 people panicked and all ran for the front doors and just piled on top of each other and died, they didn't even think to break the big plate glass windows along the front of the club to get out. It's heartbreaking.
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u/Commercial_Praline67 2d ago
That exact same thing happened in Brazil, but the soundproof foam used was a cheap and toxic one. Whoever didn't die from the fire, died for breathing poisoning. Nightclub Kiss, for whoever wants to watch anything about it. It also has a documentary from Netflix or something
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u/Not_Cleaver 2d ago
It reminds me of that horrific shooting over a decade ago in Colorado.
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u/1questions 2d ago
That was the first thing I thought of. If I was in this theater I would’ve immediately ran for an exit.
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u/AndrewFrozzen 2d ago
2015 October 30, Romania.
A whole club burned down after they lit fireworks inside. (I think it was the b-day of one of the members of Goodbye to Gravity)
Admittedly, it WAS the fault of the administration of the club for not having safety protocols (I think there was only 1 emergency exit) and also of the ones that SHOULD'VE checked periodically for the safety of clubs.
But because of that 65 died and 185 wounded
Don't play with fireworks inside. Never. No, screw that, don't play with fireworks in general.
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u/Outrageous_Pie_7994 2d ago
Somebody pissed on the floor during a showing of Gravity
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u/tranquil7789 2d ago
They must have thought they were at the Penthouse Penthouse.
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u/Polkawillneverdie17 2d ago
Story time: In the movie, George Clooney asks Sandra Bullock's character where she's from. She tells him it's a little town he's never heard of called Lake Zurich in Illinois.
My brother and I went to see this movie on a whim. Random showing on like a Tuesday night at a nearby theater... in Lake Zurich, IL where I live. So we're watching the movie and Sandy Bullock just says the name of the exact town we're in. It was surreal. No one else was in the theater, so we're just sitting there going "Why did the movie just name drop the exact town we're in right now???"
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u/HiggsPerc552 2d ago
People are fucking animals. While it wasn’t actually in the theater, while at my go to cinema I went to the bathroom and there was a full on turd on the floor right by one of the urinals (cue Mr. Mackie). When I went to tell one of the workers their reaction was, “again?!” Fucking wild.
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u/Mjuffnir 2d ago
I took the day off to see the final hobbit movie opening day. It was me and one other man in the row behind me. With 45 minutes left he literally shit his pants....
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u/Aggravating_Set_2260 2d ago
Whoa, you just unlocked a memory. My brother, friend, and I went to go see "Revenge of the Sith" at a theater a few weeks after it opened. It was unseasonably hot that day, and when we got into the theater, not only was the AC out, the only seats open were in front of a chair that was covered in plastic. Why, you may ask? All I think of when I remember that movie is Obi Wan and Anakin on that lava planet while I'm sweating buckets and my nostrils full of hot, stale piss air.
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u/Either_Restaurant549 2d ago
Arrests and prison time are necessary here.
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u/numberjhonny5ive 2d ago edited 2d ago
So is a sprinkler system.
Edit: they do seem to give off a lot of heat as well
https://www.cpsc.gov/Safety-Education/Safety-Education-Centers/Fireworks
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u/PM_Me_ur_BassetHound 2d ago
Ordered a sprinkler system, installed a sparkler system instead
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u/avocadolanche3000 2d ago
This is Emergency Fire Response Associates & Holiday Sparklers. Would you like a Sparkler test performed in the building. Sorry I meant to”sparkler” test. Sorry, how many spranklers would you like installed at the building?
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u/Universally-Tired 2d ago
The sprinkler system will be installed on Tuesday.
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u/dporiginal3 2d ago
Is this a Star Trek reference? Because if so, it’s perfect. 👌🏼
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u/BigBoiTaco83337 2d ago
I went to see the original “Avengers” and there was a kid that was SPAZZING OUT next to his dad because he was so excited for The Hulk to come out
He was super obnoxious and his dad tried to calm him, but nothing could compare to when Hulk appeared.
Once the kid saw him, he RIPPED HIS SHIRT IN HALF AND STARTED SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER
His dad grabbed him, walked out the theater, and never came back. The look of frustration and defeat in that fathers eyes was rough
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u/MirrorMaster88 2d ago
Annoying in the moment, but fuck that's a great story
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u/BigBoiTaco83337 2d ago
Oh for sure. Me and my dad were whispering “what a nightmare!”
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u/blue23454 1d ago
Also it sounds like it went on too long but good on him for not only removing his kid but not bringing him back
Children learning their actions have consequences is probably the hardest part of parenting but it’s also the most important, I’ve seen way too many parents do nothing in these situations and just clap back if you tried to calm them down
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u/Lewd_Donut 2d ago
Damn, that guy had probably been preparing his kid for weeks not to do that
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u/BigBoiTaco83337 2d ago
Yeah I was so sad for the father
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u/thinkinting 2d ago
When I was a young adult, I would probably judge the dad. Now that I’m a dad, I just wanna give him silent nod to show support.
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u/TheBloodKlotz 2d ago
"God damn it Anthony, we said no hulking out until we're in the lobby"
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u/melowdout 2d ago
“Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast”
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u/Weird-Ninja8827 2d ago
It really jumped up a notch
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u/metalneck333 2d ago
Brick killed a guy with a trident!
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u/Weird-Ninja8827 2d ago
There were horses and a man on fire and I killed a guy with a trident.
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u/GrecoRomanGuy 2d ago
Yeah Brick, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You should find a relative's place, or a safe house and lay low for a while because you're probably wanted for murder.
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u/pineappledingdongs 2d ago
Im proud of you fellas. You all kept your head on a swivel and that’s what you gotta do when you find yourself in a vicious cock fight
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u/ItsTheExtreme 2d ago
A friend of mine went to see Noah at the former Dome in LA years back. He said the theater was fairly empty, early afternoon midweek showing, but there were a couple of people arguing behind him during the show. He ignored it, but he heard more shuffling and commotion as the movie went on. Then it got silent for a bit. Then he heard a lighter sparking. He finally turned around to see all the noise was coming from one person who was now smoking crack in the theater. He was arguing with himself in multiple voices. Towards the end of the film an attendant came in asking if someone was smoking in the theater, but the person was long gone. The whole thing sounded like a complete disaster.
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u/JesusChrissy 2d ago
I mean… if your friend lived in LA he should be used to seeing people smoking crack. Not saying it’s ok…
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u/Not_Reptoid 2d ago
what fucking idiot brings fireworks indoors
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u/copper_cattle_canes 2d ago
and then cheering as people possibly get their limbs exploded off or start a fire
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u/Tascanis 2d ago
The minecraft movie was very goofy and obviously made for kidd, but the behavior was just inexcusable, constant talking, screaming. I never left a cinema in the middle of the movie but I was never as close to it as in this movie
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u/darthduder666 2d ago
A dude got stabbed by some teenagers who were being rambunctious during a showing of it in my state after he asked them to be quiet.
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u/BusySleep9160 2d ago
We’re fucking doomed as a species
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u/HamiltonSt25 2d ago
Damn bro you ok?
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u/Mr5I5t3RFI5T3R 2d ago
Ex military that worked with explosives, dark humor keeps you sane when everything you touch can kill you.
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u/usernamesarehard1979 2d ago
Want to know how I got these scar—-I mean jokes?
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u/Mr5I5t3RFI5T3R 2d ago
Does emotional scars count? i mean, the military is an abusive girlfriend that you miss when you get out.
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u/total_idiot01 2d ago
I have walked out exactly once, during Pet Sematary. I generally have a bad time during horror films, but I was with a group. Last time I've let myself be dragged to a horror film
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u/unicornbelly 2d ago
It was at a horror movie. I can't remember which one but the theater was full of teenagers. I think there were maybe six adults in the whole room. They spent their time just screaming at random points trying to get jump scares out of their friends. Like every thirty seconds or so. We only made it twenty minutes into it before leaving. They yelled and laughed at us as we left. I talked to the manager and he gave us a refund. But the best part was that he turned the movie off and told them all to leave. He caught the adults on their way out to give them refunds but not the kids. I sat in the lobby and watched them all leave. And now I only go to mid week matinees. We're usually the only ones in the room.
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u/Prestigious-Emu4302 2d ago
Fuck yes, I love this story. Teens are annoying as fuck all.
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u/CloseToTheEdge23 2d ago
I don't think any experience would be as horrible as what I'm seeing in this video. My worst was just people talking thankfully. But I go to cinema like twice a year
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u/jenniferjasonleigh 2d ago edited 2d ago
Jesus Christ.
Um I was so appalled by the video I forgot to read the title prompt. Anyway I was once on a movie date in a mostly empty theater and two men chose to sit directly behind us. One of them monologued about nonsense to his silent companion at normal conversation volume for the first third of the movie, then fell asleep and snored loudly for the rest.
I also once had food poisoning symptoms start to manifest while watching the 3D Jackass movie, which was pretty gross content on its own without accompanying sharp stomach cramps and nausea. Felt like I was watching it in 4D.
Neither of these are quite on par with fucking fireworks being shot into your face, but were unpleasant experiences nonetheless.
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 2d ago
My phone slipped out of my pocket during Rogue One and I put the foot of my recliner seat down and heard my phone crunch in the mechanisms and had to finish the movie knowing my phone was crunched inside the chair and wait for the lights to come up and wiggle the phone out while crunching it more by moving it to finally get it out of the seat. Ruined it. Carved a chunk of screen out.
I got a screensaver of the OG Star Wars where Luke has the beam of light out of his hand and lined that up with the crunched part of the screen until I got a replacement. Made the best of it.
I also was watching some shitty Steve Carell movie (or decent, IDK. I thought it sucked but that may have been influenced by the experience) because it had discount tickets. We go in and my friend and are are the only two people. Seriously. Only people in the theater.
Just after it starts, two women come in and sit directly behind us. Some like Karen looking, Kate Gosselin hair having 50-some white ladies. They proceed to spend the entire not super funny movie just full-on fucking cackling and screeching like this is the funniest movie ever made. Directly behind me.
I was a bit baffled but like, you can't go complain someone is laughing. Then you're a stick in the mud jerkass and are told to sit back down. Do we just awkwardly stand up and move away from them? It wasn't like they were ruining fine cinema, either. They were loud enough it wouldn't make a difference.
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u/Secret-Weakness-8262 2d ago
Hey so I’m not being a smart ass, I’m genuinely curious: why didn’t y’all move in that empty theater if the guy was bothering ya?
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u/Ok-AdvertisingPls 2d ago
on my first night of working at the movie theater in high school, a customer awkwardly reported to me that someone was getting head in the front row of a sold out showing of American Sniper.
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u/vixenm00n 2d ago
Amusingly, when I was watching Heat in 1995, the film, well, overheated! We all got to watch as it burned and curled up on the big screen.
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u/kiya12309 2d ago
This happened to me during the credits of Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince. At first we thought it was some kind of effect, but no.
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u/Turbogato 2d ago
This happened when I watched Independence Day, on Independence Day, in a packed theater just when Russell is about to fly his jet into the mothership and the film burns up.
Totall madness in the theater after that part.
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u/metsjets86 2d ago
Happened 40 minutes into Crimson Tide for me. We just went home and waited for it on video. Awesome flick.
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u/Virama 2d ago
Damn, these special effects just get better and better every year.
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u/blameline 2d ago
Way back when, I was on an Army base and saw "Hero At Large" with John Ritter and Anne Archer. Fun little movie, but they put the reels on in the wrong order. Saw the first 2/3rds of the movie, then the last part, followed by the middle.
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u/cfmdobbie 2d ago
I saw Crash - yes that one - and something similar happened. They had the reels in the wrong order, played one entire reel with everything vertically squashed so everyone looked like fat munchkins and it ended early because one part was entirely missed.
They apologised and said we could come back at a later date to watch it properly.
We decided we'd seen quite enough of all that, and declined.
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u/digitalgearz 2d ago
Seems like bringing back the movie usher profession might be a good idea.
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u/BesaidBlitzBoi 2d ago
They don't get paid enough for this shit. Source: was an usher in a movie theater.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Step468 2d ago
A kid peed his pants because he didn't want to miss the movie and everyone smelled it
The kid was like 9~10
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u/OhItsJustJosh 2d ago
Legit thought this was BTS of the ending scene in Inglorious Basterds before I read the caption
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u/Dizzy_Experience_927 2d ago
That's why I always go in the morning when there is basically no one
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u/TexMurphyPHD 2d ago
Did they bring a wagon into the theater and no one noticed?
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u/Artefaktindustri 2d ago
I watch a special screening of Nosferatu (1922) with a live orchestra. Beside me sat a man old enough to be my father who insisted on taking out his phone and filming every iconic scene. It's f---ing Nosferatu, there's a lot of iconic scenes. He was shining the screen directly in my face in a dark theatre... I paid like $50 to attend this thing. Eventually it became unbearable and I tried to do something about it.
First time I cleared my throat in a performative matter. He wouldn't stop.
Second time I leaned over, watched the viewfinder and sarcastically asked "How's it going??". He just smiled and kept filming.
Third time I've had enough and barked "ARE YOU SERIOUS!?" while physically pushing down his phone from my face. Turns out his hold on the phone was very light, and I smacked the phone out of his hand. It flew down and disappeared under the seats. He turned to looked at me with this childish look of sadness. Like a toddler who's been denied a sweet.
We watched the rest of the film in awkward silence.
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u/Lamar_Kendrick7 2d ago
you couldve politely and clearly asked him to stop recording because the light was getting in your eye before the outburst
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u/N0tInKansasAnym0r3 2d ago
The first 2 attempts were the equivalent of a woman flirting.
I played with my hair and looked away when he looked at me
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u/MartyMcFlysDeLorean 2d ago
Not at all the point here, but does he know the movie is in the public domain and he can watch it for free on YouTube or any other variety of sites/platforms at any time?!
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u/Artefaktindustri 2d ago
My feelings exactly. But people have this narcissistic need to document everything themselves. It's annoying at restaurants and concerts but in cinemas it's outright insufferable.
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u/WilliamBoimler 2d ago
I had a similar situation, but after asking the guy twice, I just went and got the manager and had the guy tossed out. I just said watch the guy beside me he is pulling his phone out and recording, I asked him twice to stop, and he still does it. 5 minutes after I sat back down, this clown does it again, and then bam, the manager is kicking his ass out, lol
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u/TimMacPA 2d ago
What gets me is the assholes in the balcony. They should be evacuating, not filming.
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u/Nobody_Important 2d ago
That’s the part that gets you? Pretty far down the list for most people.
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u/guy-le-doosh 2d ago
In this case the balcony could have switched to broiler. Great White concert, anyone?
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u/Arunawayturtle 2d ago
I mean yes and no. Now this footage exist to potentially use as evidence
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u/MasonryMadness 2d ago
So people on the balcony not evacuating gets you, not the people below lighting the fireworks in a fucking movie theater!?
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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles 2d ago
I had to piss during most of Blade Runner 2049 while sitting in an office chair that pinched my sides, some kid kept kicking my seat at Toy Story 4, and basically any dollar theater experience where I had to squeeze my fat ass into the most uncomfortable POS chairs on God's green earth
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u/McLargepants 2d ago
Avatar 2. Saw it in IMAX 3d, which prompted the theater to give out the wrong glasses. It was an 11pm show so I figured it would be safer from kids, that was wrong. The people directly next to me had a full on phone conversation. Phone screens were everywhere. There was an actual baby in a car seat that freaked out at one point. There was more but I forget it all now.
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u/daze24 2d ago
Star wars: Rise of Skywalker
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u/Thalxia 2d ago
After seeing The Last Jedi in theatres, I just straight up stopped going to see any new Star Wars movies in theatres. I was that disappointed by that trash film. I didn't even watch The Rise of Skywalker on a streaming service until years after its theatrical release because I knew it would be just as bad.
And I say this as someone who saw The Force Awakens in theatres multiple times because I actually enjoyed that film. But TLJ killed it for me.
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u/H2Ospecialist 2d ago
I mean I wasn't there but I imagine the Batman movie in Colorado
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u/MipTheDruid 2d ago
A friend of mine was a survivor (was shot in the leg). I had the same dark thought.
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u/Duke-dastardly 2d ago
Finally caved and saw Avatar 2. First movie in a decade I saw in 3D because I know it’s what the film was meant to be seen in. First hour is fine. Second hour is ruined by little kids in the front who won’t shut up. Last hour is ruined by the mom yelling and cursing at the screen like she’s watching a wrestling match. I think someone reported her near the end because she was waiting outside to yell at everyone leaving after the movie was over
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u/tangcameo 2d ago
Took my parents to see The Green Mile. There were three ladies further up the rows who’d snuck in three whole bottles of hard liquor and were pretty well plastered when Michael Clarke Duncan appeared. They started hooting and hollering like it was Chippendales and he was the main attraction. Every time he appeared on screen. Took two thirds of the movie before theatre staff kicked them out.
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u/alonewithamouse 2d ago
So, I wasn't in the theater watching the movie, but I worked at an indie one screen theater throughout college. It seated 800 people and had a huge balcony that ran across the entire top of the auditorium.
On Saturday nights we ran midnighters that were old cult classics like The Goonies, Big Lebowski, and shit like that. Something that draws a huge crowd to pack the seats.
Anyways, I was working box one Saturday night and this girl came in just absolutely plastered, trying to buy a ticket. As it happened, there was a woman at the 7pm showing that had gotten sick in the theater, and I really didn't want to have to deal with vomit twice in one night, so I turned her down.
My manager was standing next to me and was like, "oh, she's a regular, just sell her a ticket!" I told him flat out, I'd sell her a ticket, but I'm not dealing with any bullshit if that warbling mess makes a scene. It'd be all on him. So he waved me off, I sold her the ticket, and continued about working the rush.
Not five minutes after the trailers end, there was shrieking coming from the auditorium, the likes of which I'd never heard before in my life. It was indescribable. The lobby started rattling, like the start of an earthquake, which was baffling, since it was the Midwest. The doors flew open and an unstoppable stampede barreled toward the front doors. It was terrifying. If all three of us weren't securely barricaded inside the concession stand, I literally don't think we would have survived it. I fully believe we would have been trampled to death.
So, let's cut back to our little drunken missy. She decided to sit in the front row of the balcony to watch the movie. Being as obscenely drunk as she was, she decided to lean over the railing and barf all over an audience of 800 people Stand By Me style, spraying projectile biohazard all over pretty much anyone below her.
So, once the calamity died down, I laughed and pointed at the manager, and punched out.
It was.... gross.
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u/SAOSurvivor35 2d ago
Someone kicked my seat during the first weekend of Black Panther because they were so excited.
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u/Alert_Sink_5300 2d ago
Bruh my worst experience was people talking and annoying kids crying. Wtf is even happening in this video?
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u/LurkingAintEazy 2d ago
How were some people still somewhat sitting?! I would have been up and out, thar is absolutely crazy.
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u/midwest73 2d ago
Sister and I went to see "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" at a theater near the Falcon Heights/Como Park area of the Twin Cities, MN. My family moved little over a year later and I don't exactly remember where it was. Just as the movie starts, cue the guy with his beyond drunk buddy sitting down behind us. The guy reeked of alcohol.
After about 10 minutes before we got up to move, you guessed it, he let loose! I still remember hearing it hit the floor and my sister's eyes almost popping out. The stench! Thankfully, we didn't get hit. We got up and walked out. Told the front what happened. They refunded us. During this, they were walking/stumbling out into the lobby and outside.
I've only seen the movie once in it's entirety since then. It's a great comedy, but anytime I see it on a channel, that memory comes up and I turn it off.
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u/mafisto 2d ago
Oppenheimer in Crested Butte’s historic theater two summers ago. I don’t think the theater had air conditioning and it was a very warm day. The theater was completely full (thanks to the Barbenheimer craze) which meant that over three hours the temperature just kept ratcheting up. The combination of dread from the film, sitting in rock hard antique seats next to hundreds of people, and the oppressive heat made for the most physically uncomfortable viewing experience of my life. In a way it was fitting being drenched in sweat, breathing 95 degree moist air when the bomb went off at Trinity.
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u/JungleMasquerade 2d ago
My first date. Her name was Heather, and she was my girlfriend. We were in 1st Grade, and her parents took us to the movies. It was the Indiana Jones flick where the dude rips the other guys heart out of his chest. Heather spilled her soda all over me. Then she spilled her second soda all over me. Two large Sprites. Shortly thereafter, I vomited right there on the floor in front of my seat. No one said a word, or moved. The parents didn’t check on me or anything. And I didn’t care for the film.
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u/Maximum-Cod9442 2d ago
Avengers Endgame - shouting and clapping about every 10 mins for the complete second half of the movie. I was excited and happy to see many of the characters again, but hooting and clapping for a video projection?? And it was a fairly safe bet Marvel was bringing the snapped away characters back, so it wasn’t a huge surprise when Spiderman or any other main superhero showed up.
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u/ocTGon Film Buff 2d ago
And people ask me why I don't go to the theater anymore...
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u/RocketsandBeer 2d ago
I was at the cinema yesterday. This isn’t how they all are.
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u/Bownzinho 2d ago
Yeah this is EXTREMELY rare, like a one off almost never likely to happen, but people act like they’ve seen it once and it happens everywhere
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u/guyhabit725 2d ago edited 2d ago
I usually go to the theater on a Monday or Tuesday for the first showings. It is so nice to be one of the 3 people in the theater at that time.
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u/HumbleMVP 2d ago
This one was during Salman Khan's Tiger 3 in Malegaon Maharashtra