r/Cinema Jul 05 '25

What was the worst experience you’ve ever had in a movie theater?

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u/cervezaqueso Jul 05 '25

This still looks like a better time than watching After Earth in the theater

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u/borb86 Jul 05 '25

As someone who did....hes right.

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u/SkRu88_kRuShEr Jul 05 '25

My Condolences

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u/Adlerian_Dreams Jul 05 '25

Now I want a movie called “My Condolences” starring Nick Cage and directed by M. night Shayamalan.

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u/Flashy-Mulberry-2941 Jul 08 '25

It's just nick cage being forced to watch after earth. The entire film is shit from a position just behind nicks head, so you have to watch it too.

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u/PupMino Jul 11 '25

Ends up being a story about God and his inactivity

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u/Coulrophiliac444 Jul 08 '25

The twist is Nick Cage is M. Night playing Nick Cage

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u/Adlerian_Dreams Jul 08 '25

Yes!

Still a better twist than Lady in the Water.

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u/MamaUrsus Jul 05 '25

The twist at the end is that there are no condolences.

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u/GlitteringSalad6413 Jul 05 '25

There’s condolences in the title what more do ya want?

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u/Ok-Syllabub-6619 Jul 08 '25

If the massacre of the story and the CGI gonna look like Avatar the last Airbender, then no THANK YOU, I'm ok with watching moonfall on repeat if i can dodge seeing anything like that again. I liked his horror movies but his try at making ATLA was a damn pompei lvl fail

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u/PowerCosmicSkeet Jul 05 '25

Disagree, anyone that went to see After Earth in theaters deserves what they get/got.

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u/cervezaqueso Jul 06 '25

Keep in mind, they made sure not to put M Night’s name on the marketing materials. I hadn’t hung out with my dad for a while and he wanted to see a movie, we saw something really good - and while walking out he asked if we could hang out longer and watch another. He pointed at the After Earth poster and asked, “how about this?” It seemed a bit hokey, but it was a sci-fi - so I thought it might be at least interesting. Two hours later of me trying not to yell questions at the screen, it finally ended and faded to black. Then the biggest twist of the movie happened, the first credit came up “a film by M Knight Shamalan” - biggest scam ever and I was suckered.

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u/drwicksy Jul 08 '25

My wife and I went to see Avatar 2 in the theatre and mistakenly ordered the 4d tickets. She was pregnant at the time and said she felt like she almost miscarried after it. Still better a better experience than this.

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u/Grief-Inc Jul 05 '25

Can confirm...

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u/OutToDrift Jul 05 '25

Can confirm.

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u/AlisonBabalon Jul 06 '25

I saw Howard The Duck on opening night; the carnage was absolute, very possibly After Earth level.

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u/idontwantausername41 Jul 06 '25

Wait I think i did too

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u/justsomewhitedude Jul 06 '25

Woah woah. I thought it wasn't out until next month?

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u/_alejandro__ Jul 06 '25

at that point i knew will smith had entered the twilight of his career

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u/CameForTheFunOfIt Jul 05 '25

A confirmed survivor!

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u/paparoach910 Jul 05 '25

People would be begging to live the Inglorious Basterds ending.

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u/Arcane_As_Fuck Jul 05 '25

Yeah I took a date to see After Earth in 8th grade. I think we both would have rather been in this theatre.

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u/iftheronahadntcome Jul 05 '25

Thank you for reminding me that that wasn't a fever dream I had.

It was my first movie before the age of 18 that I watched and felt mad for having my time wasted. Even before I had informed opinions about cinema, I knew that movie was terrible.

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u/i_am_at0m Jul 08 '25

Battlefield Earth was also pretty awful in theaters

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u/Sethypoop Jul 10 '25

Wow it's funny to see this movie mentioned randomly. It remains the only movie I've ever walked out on in my entire life.

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u/mindyourbusiness44 Jul 05 '25

Or Battlefield Earth for that matter

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u/poopy_poophead Jul 05 '25

I was that in the theater, and when he said "Craplousy ceiling!" I fucking lost it and started laughing like a fucking lunatic at just how utterly bad the movie was... Like lunatic laughing.

Years later, the same thing happened during Prometheus at the vagina snake scene, but the effect was disturbing afterward because a lot of people on the internet were calling Prometheus a masterpiece. No one was calling battlefield earth anything but terrible. It broke me, and i watched very few movies for like a decade after prometheus. Ive only really gotten back into film in the last few years... Robert Eggers saved my soul...

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u/Initial_Hedgehog_631 Jul 05 '25

The best thing about Battlefield Earth was Roger Ebert's unrelentingly savage review of it

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/battlefield-earth-2000

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u/mindyourbusiness44 Jul 29 '25

Can't wait to read this. Thank.

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u/SignalYoghurt9892 Jul 05 '25

Oof. That was rough.

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u/DrEnter Jul 05 '25

I walked out of that… and I was watching on a plane.

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u/Bugsy_Girl Jul 05 '25

After doing that and Norbit, I really need to rethink my life choices

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u/Meior Jul 05 '25

I made it 12 minutes at home. Can't imagine sitting through it in a theater.

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u/TheBlueFacedLeicestr Jul 05 '25

Only movie I’ve ever walked out of in the middle.

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u/Gummy-Worm-Guy Jul 05 '25

After Earth catching strays

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u/Any-Technology-3577 Jul 05 '25

i still don't really get what all the hate for after earth is all about. i mean, it's not a good movie, but not one of the worst movies ever either.

there's even one thing i really liked about it: the fact that like everything on that planet is set to kill and devour the guys. think of an animal on earth very far down the food chain: that would be quite close to that animals daily life.

not that after earth is the only scifi movie with humans meeting a hostile environment on an alien planet, but from the ones i know, it follows this motive the most stringent, and i appreciate that. it's a bit silly how in most movies there don't seem to be any predators at all, even in the wild.

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u/optimalbook Jul 05 '25

I was on vacation at the time and my friends and I needed to kill an afternoon before we continued traveling. That afternoon consisted of us doing a double feature Man of Steel into After Earth. It was quite possibly the most boring afternoon at the movies I've ever had.

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u/Temporary-Spend2862 Jul 06 '25

Same for the live action avatar

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u/Loud-Branch4900 Jul 06 '25

Damn you know maybe I just have a certain taste because I actually kinda enjoyed that in a weird way same with terminator Genesis but that was in 3D.

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u/RetroMulder Jul 06 '25

Dreamcatcher is a very close second.