What are the worst experiences you've ever had in the movie theatre?

[kedrell]

Well we know Moss and Bell are Vietnam veterens who are haunted by their experiences.

We know Moss is a Vietnam vet. I don't believe Bell ever talked about Vietnam at all. The haunting is supposition on your part. So basically that's falls under occupation I'd say.

As is Woody Harrellson's character and also maybe Chigurgh.

More supposition.

Those two have a history together, probably in the Special Forces, considering their employment now and Chigurgh's skills.

All we know is that they know each other. The rest is supposition yet again.

We know that Sheriff Bell is jaded and feels like he is outgunned in this "new" world.

Fair enough. This literally is his entire character which IMO makes him a walking sign that says "things ain't what they used to be" and nothing more.

We know that Moss is a decent enough man to wake up in the middle of the night to go and bring water to that shot drug dealer water even though he knows it's not a good idea.

That's about all there is TO know about him internally.

We learn a lot of things about these characters. It's just not spelt out for us explicitly. I find it strange you complain about this considering i've seen you bemoan other films for "spoon feeding" and not being subtle enough.

Movies like this and 2001: A Space Odyssey are the other end of that spectrum. They are obscurant and basically throwing crap on screen and saying to the audience "ok, YOU interpret this". I hate that. It isn't my job to help write the film for them by filling in the immense blanks they've left in the script. It's not clever, it's lazy BS IMO.

And i'm not even touching on the more existential themes such as fate, chance, cause/effect and death.

All of which you have to plug into the movie on your own to get something out of it. You clearly don't mind doing so and that's fine. I do mind it when I spend my own money to see something that they were paid to write.

It's totally ok to not like a film like No Country. I can get why it's not every bodies cup of tea. But don't try and say it's a poorly made film. Because it isn't. And don't try to generalise by saying those who like it are pretentious Coen brown nosers. I love No Country for Old Men. I also love Borat. I also love Anchorman. I also ****ing love Harold and Kumar get the Munchies. Try to wrap your head round that.

Are you a professional, paid film critic? If not then what I said above doesn't apply to you so enjoy whatever you want.

 

[The Endless]

So basically because critics praised the movie (not just critics, but peers in Hollywood and the film making industry considering how many awards it got) and you didn't like it... they conned you?

Again, it's totally fine to not like the film. But just because you personally don't like it, it doesn't mean it's a poorly made film. Accept the fact that it's ok to not like well made films. Just like i accept the fact it's ok to like poorly made films, like Harold and Kumar get the Munchies

 

[Figs]

TDK - gets my vote for most insultingly stupid film with it's Joker Ex Machina BS.

I would be a rich man if I had a dollar for everytime you brought up how TDK "insulted your 'intelligence' ".

 

[kedrell]

I would be a rich man if I had a dollar for everytime you brought up how TDK "insulted your 'intelligence' ".

The ignore button's only a click away. Use it to your heart's content.

 

[Figs]

The ignore button's only a click away. Use it to your heart's content.

I don't put people on ignore and even if I did, you aren't annoying me. I was mainly joking.

 

[kedrell]

I don't put people on ignore and even if I did, you aren't annoying me. I was mainly joking.

And there in lies the trouble with this sort of communication as I was unable to tell that. Oh well.

 

[Black Narcissus]

The ignore button's only a click away. Use it to your heart's content.

Will do.

Bye.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

Spider-Man 3 was ironically one if the best cinema experiences ever. The film was garbage but the whole audience laughed their asses off at the absurdity if the movie. The cinema experience was great but the film sucked symbiot balls.

My viewing of Spider Man 3 was similar. During the part where Harry and MJ were making eggs or something and dancing and they kissed, some dude yelled out ****E! Which promoted a huge laugh from the entire audience.

 

[DA_Champion]

My viewing of Spider Man 3 was similar. During the part where Harry and MJ were making eggs or something and dancing and they kissed, some dude yelled out ****E! Which promoted a huge laugh from the entire audience.

I would find that obnoxious.

 

[Hypestyle]

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. I was already in a ticked off mood, having left the house to not have to deal with noisy folks.. then I have to pay evening prices (grr..). then the movie itself, the plot had more ghastly elements than I cared to see, and I was a fan of the Alien/Predator concepts. pre-teen kids getting facehugged and chestbursted, senior citizens, and pregnant women, too! And a whole town gets nuked. Geez!!

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

My viewing of Spider Man 3 was similar. During the part where Harry and MJ were making eggs or something and dancing and they kissed, some dude yelled out ****E! Which promoted a huge laugh from the entire audience.

I wouldn't find that funny at all. That's the worst kind of misogynistic frat-bro humor.

 

[HaplessHenchman]

Superman Returns Superman is now a dead beat Dad? What? I actually felt robbed as I walked out of the theatre. So glad that they rebooted with MOS and went a different direction from this mess.

Phantom Menace Jar-Jar. Do I need to say anything else?

 

[Iceman]

TASM2 - woman with 5 young kids behind me all screaming and crying from about 5 minutes in. And each of them went to the toilet about 5 times during the film. What was the point?

 

[Dispatch Ninja]

Ted is actually the worst for me. There were these 2 little girls maybe 10 years old a couple seats over from me laughing obnoxiously loud at everything in the movie. It was very uncomfortable.

 

[Supernova]

Texas chainsaw 2006 film, got carded at the ticket ripper station after buying tix already and im 26 by the way then. Then im sitting down and here comes all these teens who looked 13 with no parents and took up 2 rows. All had there phones out texting each other in the rows. Once the movie started the theater was packed and all the teens kept talking and whipping out there phones in front of me. I told them a couple times to stop and one said "your not my dad". Then someone 4 rows back started thowing candy to the front rows and one guy got up and yelled to kick whoever it was butt. All this happened within the first 40 minutes of the film and i decided to get up wnd get my money back.

 

[Doctor Jones]

The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

I was sinking lower and lower into my seat. I was making groaning noises, muttering to myself. I have witnessed angry geeks walking out the theater, and since I consider myself a laid back guy, I never thought I could ever walk out of a theater angry. Then after The Amazing Spider-Man 2 there was a guy storming out of the movie theater with a Spider-Man t-shirt in a rage asking incessantly what the **** he just watched and then continued to be angry for the rest of the day. And then I realized that guy was me.

I need an entire tumblr page to show you my facial expressions throughout the film. I felt like Pippin after he held the palantir. Lifeless.

 

[DA_Champion]

I understand the hostility, as it is against the law to not love the dark knight.

 

[kedrell]

Apparently it goes the same for NCFOM.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Mister J]

The nonsensical back and forth in here will stop, one way or another.

FWIW, my worst experience was X3. I don't think I've ever been so pissed in a theatre. When the dropped the "Juggernaut, *****" line, I wanted to break something. Spider-Man 3 is close. The two could alternate depending on what day it is.

edit: Honorable mention to Batman & Robin. The theater actually experienced a blackout little less than midway through. They gave everyone a free ticket in response and I was dumb enough to go back for the same film. I should have heeded the sign.

 

[DA_Champion]

Apparently it goes the same for NCFOM.

What's that?

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

What's that?

No Country for Old Men.

 

[Asr]

<previous post deleted, read the title first before reading the OP....think the thread need to be re-titled>

Spider-Man 3: definitely takes the cake for emo & deranged Peter, especially the scenes where he's trying to impress the ladies on the street who just ran away from him like he was a creep.

Transformers 2: Bay's infantile humor with the two inane non-stop-talking robots, Sam's mom flipping out while high on the college campus, and lines like the "I am directly beneath the enemy's scrotum". Major facepalms throughout that movie....

 

[Ultron-5]

I've seen bad movies in theaters, but I only walk out of them if they're so bad that they're not watchable. Now since I think about it, I have had 3 bad experiences at the movie theater.

Superman Returns- The plane scene was cool, but the movie was boring so I almost fell asleep. Then there was that island scene which was interesting. Nowadays we can all look back at the movie and wonder what the world would be like if Singers Superman franchise was still going on.

The Amazing Spider-Man- There were some kids playing around in the theater. One of them had a Spider-Man Halloween costume on and he wouldn't be quiet. His mom was on her phone and people in the theater were telling her to tell her kid to sit down... but she's like "He's playing". That kid was not quiet until an usher came into the theater and told the kids to sit down. The kids looked humiliated and everybody started clapping. That's an experience I'll never forget.

 

[Lord]

I never left out the theater, but i remember more than a half of the audience leaving The Tree of Life