Movie Theater Experiences Thread

[titansupes]

^ I'll happily co-sign both of those. Absolutely love my Star Wars midnight screenings.

 

[scarlet-witch]

I miss going to midnight showings. Damn being a parent to small children. :P

 

[chamber-music]

I saw Rogue One at a brand new Cinema that recently opened near me. It has a coffee shop, bar and pizzeria in the cinema.

 

[Dr Lee]

Back when the final Potter movie came out, I was tasked as being the driver for my sister and her friends to see the midnight showing (A whole insane story in itself). the biggest screen was packed to the rafters with Potter fans... and it was crazy fun.

I don't think it matters what the movie is, if you are in a showing packed with fans, then it's going to be a crazy fun time.

 

[scarlet-witch]

I remember being at a midnight showing of Half Blood Prince, and before the movie started people were hitting a beach ball around the theater, this woman stood up and popped it and was like "we're in a movie!" Lady, do you really think people that are at a movie, at midnight on a weeknight are going to be playing with a beach ball DURING the film? Calm down.

 

[Kane52630]

I thought I was gonna avoid the crowd by going at 11 in the morning to see Rogue One...nope.

There was a kid next to me (by kid I mean in his early 20s) who was geeking the f*** out over the littlest of things.

 

[scarlet-witch]

When I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in theaters, someone kept going "awwww" every time something sad happened, which if you saw that movie you know was about every 10 minutes. I've never wanted to punch someone so badly.

 

[Samuron]

We went to see Star Trek: Generations opening night; there was a problem with the sound system and everything was distorted. After a while it was restarted, but still sounded bad. The lights came up, we waited, and eventually it started again - no sound at all this time.

The lights came up again, and I turned around to see a couple dozen teenage theater workers filing in, holding movie passes, and man did they all look scared. Lions den my ass; try walking into a crowd of pissed-off Trekkies. But, they were polite, apologetic, and professional, in spite of people being openly hostile.

A week later, when we went back to see it again, I saw the manager in the lobby, and said, "Excuse me, but I was here last week for the Star Trek opening."

He actually took two steps back and said, "Yes?"

And I said, "I just wanted to complement your staff on the way they handled the crowd. It was nasty, but they were really professional."

When I got back to my seat, my wife asked, "Why did you get so much popcorn?"

 

[titansupes]

I saw Rogue One at a brand new Cinema that recently opened near me. It has a coffee shop, bar and pizzeria in the cinema.

... Okay, you win. Especially if all those things are still open when you come out of your midnight screenings.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

there's suppose to be a new "Chunky's Cinema Pub" opening in my area, this year...
there's a few other locations already in my state/next state over, but nearest ones to me is like 15-20 miles away, this new is only 2-3 miles from my house

I don't know how common places like this are in other parts of the country/ world,but what it is..

is basically a movie theatre/restaurant where you actually get served food right in the theatre

instead of stadium style seating, you sit at a long table, you can get food/drinks (including alcoholic beverages) they have a pretty good menu, too, not just typically movie theatre snacks

the chairs are actual car seats (out of old luxury cars) that roll around, they lean back and everything, very comfy

so looking forward to the new one opening, as that will be my new go to theatre

 

[chamber-music]

... Okay, you win. Especially if all those things are still open when you come out of your midnight screenings.

Yeah. You can take all those things into the movie with you as well. My friend was sat next to a couple eating an entire pizza though the movie.

 

[Immortalfire]

A friend asked me if I had ever walked out of a theater because the movie was so bad. I said no, because I don't see movies that are gonna suck.

 

[terry78]

A friend asked me if I had ever walked out of a theater because the movie was so bad. I said no, because I don't see movies that are gonna suck.

Hypesters never go to the movies without pre-reviews or pointless debate of said movie first.

 

[LoganPool]

Best theater experience: Midnight showing of The Dark Knight. Myself and 3 other friends (all dressed at Batman) arrived at the theater around 8pm. The theater had a huge conference room that they put us in to wait. Around 845 a huge euchre tournament got started. It was a blast! We became friends with a bunch of people. They let us into the auditorium around 1115pm. The place was electric... I can't even describe it. At 1145 they started playing clips from Batman Begins. As soon as they played that last scene of Gordon showing the Joker card to Bats, they started the movie. No trailers, no nothing. F***ing great! I'll never forget it.

 

[Mace Dolex]

Best Movie Experience
The only time I went to a midnight showing and it was for The Dark Knight Rises, everybody clapped and good responses but it sucked the next day I had to work early.

Worst Movie Experience
It didn't really ruin the movie for me but in the middle of The Last Action Hero somebody had let out a fart. t:

 

[Link]

Early 2016, Oscar season. Double bill of Brooklyn and The Revenant. I was dumb enough to have sugar free candy during the former film, and halfway through I had to literally run to the bathroom. I returned an hour later, just to witness the final "The End" freeze-frame, already feeling like a corpse. The Revenant, someone has a heart-attack 30 minutes into the film, which resulted in a huge break and the film getting restarted. All my sympathy for the guy (who survived!), but I missed the last bus and had to walk for almost two hours to get back home. Absolutely the worst day I've ever spent at the movies. My double-bill's are usually very succesful, like when I saw Wild and Whiplash back-to-back. Very enjoyable.

 

[scarlet-witch]

When I saw Nocturnal Animals a guy very loudly went "REALLY?!" to his wife during the opening scene (which you will completely understand if you've seen it.)

I lol'd. I love when stuff like that happens.

 

[Teelie]

A friend asked me if I had ever walked out of a theater because the movie was so bad. I said no, because I don't see movies that are gonna suck.

I came very, very close to walking out of the last Transformers movie. I would have too had they not kept the main reason (Dinobots) for me going until the very end of the movie (which turned out to be a mild letdown). It would be the first time a movie was so bad I left the theater. Although AVP: Requiem gets a mention too. I nearly walked out on it after the "birthing" scene but I had been dropped off and had no ride home at the time.

 

[Bats123]

If it wasnt because i was with someone else, i would've walked out of Jack Reacher 2, i swear to god, that movie is BARELY 2 hours long and it felt like 5, i was so bored out of my mind.

Also, i went with a lot of my friends to see Suicide Squad opening night, boy did i regret that, after the first Joker scene i knew i was in for a **** fest, i just looked at my friends and they all had a different range of faces, from disgusted to shocked to angry. We've basically made a deal to not watch another DC movie opening night.

 

[brandeezy89]

During AOU I sat next to this group of teens on opening night and one of the guy's gfs kept texting and talking during the movie. He turned to her and said "Put your ****ing phone away and shut the **** up. I'm trying to watch this". Everyone around was

 

[BlueLightning]

So I went to watch Batman v. Superman with a couple of friends for a second time. It was kind of a compromise, as we were supposed to watch it together but I went with my family before. So I promised to not say anything, no complaining, no heckling, no sly comments. Nothing.

But as the movie went on I barely could contain myself. I was freaking frustrated! I started swallowing all the popcorn I could, sunked in my seat. It was a superhuman feat.

After the movie I went on a lengthy discourse about how everything was so monumentally wrong with the film.

 

[Mace Dolex]

So I went to watch Batman v. Superman with a couple of friends for a second time. It was kind of a compromise, as we were supposed to watch it together but I went with my family before. So I promised to not say anything, no complaining, no heckling, no sly comments. Nothing.

But as the movie went on I barely could contain myself. I was freaking frustrated! I started swallowing all the popcorn I could, sunked in my seat. It was a superhuman feat.

After the movie I went on a lengthy discourse about how everything was so monumentally wrong with the film.

Man I feel for you man, I'm a huge Batman and Superman fan but I can barely sit through it even currently that it's showing on HBO, I mean I can at least change channels but you had to sit for 2 plus hours.

 

[scarlet-witch]

I watched Batman v Superman on an airplane and laughed wayy to hard at the Martha part. That was awkward.

 

[Drizzle]

These dumbass parents brought their 4 year old daughter to see Logan at the showing I was at and the mother had the audacity to ask her husband "Is there nudity in this?" before it started. You know, because that's totally worse than the infinite bloody stabbings and decapitations in the movie. Needless to say, the kid kept quiet because she was terrified and was afraid to uncover her face.

 

[terry78]

Oh I had a group of about 4 women and a baby sitting behind me at my showing.