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What the most disturbing angering, blood boiling, vein popping thing someone has every done while you were trying to watch a movie at the theaters?

Alright, this was during Return of the King, this one moron mother brought her bratty son, who kept asking her questions loudly. "Is he going to die?" "What's that!" Best of all, they were in my row, and I was one step away from throwing my Pepsi at them.

Some idiot pinched the back of my neck when Shelob jumped out.

The people at the Return of the King when I saw it were so obnoxious. And they see them without even knowing there was a book! 'These movies are so horrible, they shouldn't be made into books!'

Someone tried to kill me. That was awfully a nasty disturbance.

I went with a girlfriend to see some movie with Andrew Dice Clay in it. He was going off on some misogynistic rant and my girl got so pissed she stood up and started yelling back at him in full Angry Italian mode, flailing her arms and screaming profanities at the screen.

I was mortified.

And incredibly turned on.

Tear gas. That sucked. Like, a lot.

Some ass brought a five year old into Event Horizon and sat right in front of me.
FOr those who don't remember the movie, it was a flick about a spaceship that travels literally to hell and back, and torments the resue crew with horrible images of eternal damnation. People eating each other, brutal murders and suicides, really sick stuff. A fun movie to see, but apparently the kid in front of me was a wee bit too young, given the bloodcurdling screams he gave whenever something happened. You know, that little kid scream that no man with testes can manage to pull off.

My worst experience was during Batman Begins. A bunch of fucks were sitting in front of me and laughed at stuff like people dying and kept saying "heey this isn't a prequal to Batman! The Joker killed his parents!" and other ignorant stuff like that. Batman Begins is A REBOOT, A REBOOT PEOPLE! IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE OTHER MOVIES! Geeze when are people going to get that in their thickass heads. They also threw gummy bears and got them stuck on the screen.

Someone in the first row getting arrested. The cop came in with a flashlight, shined it all over the damn theatre, and then cuffed the kid, who wouldn't shut up about how he hadn't done anything. Everyone in the theatre was like "OK we believe you, shut the hell up you're ruining the movie!" :D

lightning struck the theater

better then annoying people who get up and attack the screen because the movies called the two towers. After the book, not september 11th. Why can people not understand this?! The book is called that! Get it!

I was sitting in a chair when some family with like 5 kids sat behind me and my friends. They kids ranged from 4-8 years old, watching Batman begins. The kids kept kicking the back of our seats, so my friend got upset, stood up and told the parents to get their kids to stop. The parents acted like nothing happened, and then after half way through the movie, the kid behind me threw his coke onto my friends head, and a bag of popcorn was tossed onto our laps. The manager came in and took them out, I believe banning them from the theater. We missed half the movie, so we stayed through it and watched it again(after cleaning coke and popcorn stuff off of us).

Two-thirds of the audience getting up and walking out halfway through David Lynch's Dune, opening night. Did it suck?

Yes.

Does that mean everybody else wants to hear, in elevated voices, all about how you're going to get your ticket refunded?

Nope.

Either that, or the time I had to bow out of seeing 'Godzilla 2000' because these two pobuckers in the front row apparently thought using underarm deodorant was just something other people do. I mean, I was four rows back and my eyes were tearing from their rank whiffiness. It's not like I'm expecting everyone to wear a suit and tie, but really - even a cursory shower and clean clothes aren't too much ask of your fellow movie-goers. It's not like we're all camped out sitting on cases of beer in your basement den, guys

Two people having sex in the middle of Charlie's Angels II, wait... that was me... moving along...

Alright, this was during Return of the King, this one moron mother brought her bratty son, who kept asking her questions loudly. "Is he going to die?" "What's that!" Best of all, they were in my row, and I was one step away from throwing my Pepsi at them.
I can beat that. When I took my parents to see Return of the King on Boxing Day (that's the day after Christmas for you heathen Americans), the movie theatre shut off the movie in the middle of one of Gollum's speeches to do the big DOOR PRIZE DRAW. Yes, halfway through a scene the frame doubled up and went "flap flap flap flap flap" and then white screen, so that some fool could come out and say "everyone take out your ticket stubs, we have a TEN DOLLAR GIFT CERTIFICATE to give away!"

I will never again go to see a movie in a small town. Next time I want to take my parents to a movie they can bloody well come to the big city.

OH YEAH, and the time Bryan Adams and his goofball friends sat behind us in a movie at the Capitol 6 and kicked the back of the chair the whole time. Like his music doesn't already suck enough, he has to be an irritating prick as well.

Well... thats quite a tough question. I'd have to say the time when that Lee Harvey Oswald fellow hid in the cinema where I was enjoying a rather fine movie. Needless to say the local constabulary was not pleased at all when they apprehended the ruffian.

We watched Return of the King with guy down front holding up cell phone, taping or streaming home to other person. The whole movie. That little white box in the left corner of our eye... Sentence fragment. Idiot 12-year-olds and laser pen? Fun.

More fun. Lovely Matrix Reloaded midnight premiere. No sound. Sound appeared after ten minutes. No sound until people started booing.

The Core. Ourself and our father only ones in theater. Until family with four hundred babies came in at climax. Fortunately, movie sucked, but still... point is made.

Our family sat in chair to see Willy Wonka. Big fat 400 pound man sit in front of us. We not amused.

Yea, so I'm going to see The Passion of Christ ya know, and there's this guy thats chowing on popcorn, making loud crunching noises. Then, suddenly, lost balance (in his seat) or muscle spasm and: FLING! Popcorn all over some ladies hair. Next up, while he's being crucified, pop/soda spill. Everywhere. On the floor. Sticky feet sounds, the rest of the movie and leaving.

It didn't ruin the story, the plot was clearly laid out, but it was annoying to me, and disrespectful to some more conservative members of the crowd.

I sat next to him. He was my father.

I have two that would qualify:

1) I used to live in Georgia, and when I was about 17, we went to the local movie theater to watch a Freddie Flick. Suddenly the power went off, and in came the ushers yelling at everyone to RUN to the bathrooms and get down... they didn't even have flashlights. At first, everyone thought they were crazy, then panic set in and people ran to the bathrooms in one big mass. I know everyone didn't fit in the bathrooms - we wound up in the hall between theaters. Shortly thereafter, the front glass windows blew out and part of the roof was ripped off by a tornado. The theater was kind enough to give us free tickets for another place, but it was pretty crazy.

2) Here in Utah, they have midnight movies on the weekends - they're regular first run popular movies (like Robots, etc.). In College, when I used to leave work at 10 pm, often my friends and I would head to the theater if there was a flick we really wanted to see. Most nights, it was fine, but every once in a while, there'd be a couple uh... "enjoying themselves" quite loudly in between the rows of seats.

I can remember when I was in High School, I was with my football team and the coach had treated us all to see a private veiwing of Remember the Titans. Well afterwards a bunch of idiots thought it would be funny to start messing around, well one of the assist coaches was standing by the exit holding a bunch of the guys back. I happened to be pushed to the front, then the coach fell back. I fell to the floor, and everyone including Fat Mitch, fell on me. This maounts to around 600+ pounds of body fat.

I had my breathe nocked out of me, got knocked out for 10 seconds, had a bunch of bruised ribs, and had to hyperphenilate. All the stuff that is suppose to happen at a football game, happened in the theatre. Oi vey.

The most annoying thing was when a group of 10 year olds started running and shouting the staff would come in tell them off let them sit down then they just start all over again i told myself that i was never going back there again because thats just bad service really they should have kicked the buggers out

I went to see the Hulk, the film wasn't as good as it could have been, but anyway the theatre was full of parents and their kids that looked as if they thought they were about to see the next Shrek film. For the first hour of the film there was this 4 year old boy in the row behind me asking his mum "when is he going to turn into the hulk? when is he going to turn into the hulk". A large proportion of the audience left halfway through. How ignorant?

Working at a theater. My god, its soul-shattering.

I remember when we had to clean out the theaters when the first Harry Potter opened. They gave us less than 10 minutes (usually it is 20ish) to get in there and clean up the place before letting in the audience for the next showing. I had to scrape some hideous concoction of soda, popcorn, and gum off of the walls while our manager screamed that we were being too slow and delaying the next showing. And that was when the kids in the audience weren't being messy.

My experiances arne't exactly as, um...well, extreme as others...but, I absolutely hate it when kids bring cell phones to movies. Not because they're loud, but because they're so damned bright. One group of kids sat near the front row, and held up their cell phones as they played around on it...bright as hell. So I went in front of them and brought out mine, did the same thing...made a bit of noise...kicked around...flipped them off, you know...

They stopped...

Forgot what movie it was.

I have no extreme experiences. The idiots with cel phones are annoying. So are the ones that walk in 5 or 10 minutes after the movie starts and disturb others to get into a seat and stand in the way.

Two people having sex in the middle of Charlie's Angels II, wait... that was me... moving along...

You da man!

an old dude yelling at me for disturbing the movie

Well as a kid most old theaters had balconies. My friends and I were the punks that use to throw whole tubs of popcorn and large sodas down on the crowd. During big scary scenes of movies when everyone wasnt paying attention. Was chased out of theaters often. But always a good laugh.

1) some guy shouting on his phone. dialogue between him and my friend.

friend-turn off the phone!

guy- I am talking to my fwend.

friend- I don't care if your talking to your fucking friend!


2) some family behind us (i think it was also a tolkien film) little kid kept asking questions. my grandmother finally told the parent if she didn't understand it she should be here. luckily I'd seen it before.

3) couple having it on. another movie with same grandmother (usually movies I want to see again.)

I forget which movie it was but every time something hasppened, this group of people behind us would applaude.

During the torture scene of The Passion, a cell phone rang and a very loud Chinese woman began yelling into it. It pissed me off.

friend of mine went to see the passion.
got kicked out because he was cheering for the wrong team.

I don't remember what movie it was, and something like this only happened to me that once, but I remember the dialogue. Midweek late showing, only about twenty-some people in the audience. A cellphone rings rings and then a teenage girl starts shouting into it. It's obvious that everybody is ticked off, so I just turned straight towards her and told her, loudly, to turn that **** thing off and shut the **** up so the rest of us could hear the movie (it was an R rated film, so my language wasn't exactly out of place). She said a lot of crap that ammounted to a challenge that I make her, and I said "Fine, *****, but let's step outside so the rest of the audience can enjoy the movie." Then some scrawny kid that I assumed to be her boyfriend stood up and threatened me. From my position relative to them I was sillhoutted against the screen and I'm not exactly a small guy and have a very deep voice, so when I invited him to either make good on his threat or shut up and make his girlfriend do so as well (I added quite a few extra descriptive words, but at a late R rated show there weren't any children present). He sits down and all is silent. People start clapping. Girl that started it all starts trying to talk smack to everybody at once. With a single lound response from me, there was only a few more claps and then wonderful science.

What I usually encounter is middle school kids trying to bum cigarettes off of me outside while I have a smoke before the show. "No, really, I'm 18." I don't know how many times I've actually responded, "No, you're four feet tall and obviously haven't hit puberty yet. Now go away before I get tempted to step on you. Yeah, that's what I said, You're short enough and I'm tall enough. So get lost before the janitor has to come out and scrape you off the sidewalk." Not that I'd ever actually injure such a child, but if you don't scare them off then they refuse to leave you alone and you know their parents aren't around to control them (being a tall, broadshouldered guy in a black leather trenchcoat also helps scare off the little punks). Though once I saw the one would-be-mooch get picked up by his mom as I enjoyed a post-movie smoke; I walked up, told her what her son had done, and she went off on him right there in public. I literally blew smoke in the kid's face, it was funny as hell.

This new batch of young people really needs some more direction...

What is the worst movie theater disturbance you ever had?

John Wilkes Booth.

I have no extreme experiences. The idiots with cel phones are annoying. So are the ones that walk in 5 or 10 minutes after the movie starts and disturb others to get into a seat and stand in the way.

I will admit i arrived late with my friends onice it wasnt my fault one of them went to the toilet and because we wanted to sit next to eachother my attempts to say "lets go" were futile i was so annoyed i dont go with my friends to the movies now that happened 3 times i hate disturbing people in movies because i know how annoying it can be

Yea, so I'm going to see The Passion of Christ ya know, and there's this guy thats chowing on popcorn, making loud crunching noises. Then, suddenly, lost balance (in his seat) or muscle spasm and: FLING! Popcorn all over some ladies hair. Next up, while he's being crucified, pop/soda spill. Everywhere. On the floor. Sticky feet sounds, the rest of the movie and leaving.

It didn't ruin the story, the plot was clearly laid out, but it was annoying to me, and disrespectful to some more conservative members of the crowd.

I sat next to him. He was my father.

I think I like your father.

I've never seen anyone in the audience do something extreme, but the cinema in my homw town is pretty shitty. Sometimes, there's no sound, sometimes they go through half the movie with the movie all fuzzy, and sometimes they play the same trailer two times in a row. There is always one person to take care of both candy-selling and tickets, and this is the only cinema in a city of 25000+...

Once when I was sitting in a theatre during an anime convention, the smell of burning rubber filled the room. We ended up having to evacuate the building because some moron in the garage below us was for some reason burning tires down there.

I've seen about anything. Most annoying thing is the cell phone, happens each time I go to the movies. Other incidents on top of my list:

3. Guy lights up a cigarette during The Gift. Needless to say that it was a smoke-free theatre.

2. During Whale Rider (English with German/French subtitles) a mother reads out loud the subtitles to her kid. In the showing room next door, they would have shown the movie German-dubbed...

1. Opening of Batman begins. Weird guy sitting next to me. Some smelly bastard who starts some crazy conversation:
Guy: Can I ask you for a favor?
Me: What kind of favor?
Guy: My back itches terribly.
Me: So!?!
Guy: Could you scratch it?
Me: Sure as hell I won't!

Later on he's scratching his crotch, then bowing over like he's sniffing drugs or whatever.

That sh*thead ruined the whole evening.

When I was about 15, I went to the cinema with my (ex-)boyfriend and a couple of friends. One of the friends was behaving like a complete idiot, so my boyfriend and I (in whispers) agreed that we'd leave to save the rest of the audience. One couple in front of us had been especially annoyed, and when my boyfriend - who had not been doing anything at all, to be fair to him - leant over to apologise to them, the bloke punched him! Our money was refunded, but the guy was not apprehended. Had he punched my friend, I could have understoond, but my ex hadn't done anything wrong and had only attempted to apologise on my friend's behalf.