What Is The Worst Movie Theater Experience You’ve Had? (Ended)

My nephew was about 11 at the time and he LOVED everything Lord of the Rings and since I am the coolest Aunt that ever lived (just ask him) I made it a point to take him to see The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in the newest theater in the City (in his mind, it was fancy and cool and he got his own popcorn and didn't have to share with his brothers).
The movie starts, he is mesmerized, doesn't move, doesn't say a word, leans forward in his seat, intensely watching this movie...about 20 minutes in, he nudges me and says "what is that sound?" I listen closely and can hear gagging and retching and it gets louder. He nudges me again and says, "what is she doing?" and points to the couple beside him. RIGHT BESIDE HIM IN THE NEXT SEAT. A woman is going down on her boyfriend. NEXT to an 11 year old. The theater was packed so we couldn't change seats, my nephew is about to cry because he just realized what was going on. So I leaned over my nephew and said to the guy, "really? You are right next to a child." The guy just laughed and the woman looked up and smiled.
I lost it. I grabbed my nephew and pulled him into the aisle and screamed "YOU PERVERT THERE ARE CHILDREN IN THIS THEATER. PUT YOUR PANTS BACK ON." That sent people running out of the theater to get a manager and two men confronted the guy and when they stood him up, his pants were undone, his penis was exposed, the girl's makeup was a mess. The movie was stopped. The police were called. My nephew cried. The couple was taken out by the police. The theater had to give everyone vouchers because they couldn't restart the film in the time allowed. My nephew wouldn't go back to the theater for about a year and a half.

Saw Cats. That was pretty bad

I ran into the kid that keeps bullying me at school and every time my parents looked away he would THROW HANDFULS OF POPCORN AT ME. Finally my parents caught him and he and his parents were told to control their child or leave. Complete silence and I got to enjoy Mulan in peace.

Alright, so I was watching the My Little Pony movie with my little sister and a few of her friends. We watched the whole movie with no problems. Until we had to get up and leave. My sister and her friends wanted to dance to the music in the credits and I needed the use the bathroom. My mom told me to meet her in front of the theater. But when I got up, I slipped. In a puddle of pee! And I starfish style fell too. It was in my hair on my clothes and in my mouth. So yeah that was nice.

An old dude was screaming on his phone... -.-

When I was about 5, I went to see Frozen for the bajillionth time. As we walked in, the theater was packed. No biggie, it was Frozen after all. Halfway through the movie, right during Let it Go, I heard a loud moan. I thought somebody was like singing it horribly because everybody loved Let it Go and Frozen to my 5 year old mind. But it was a woman and her husband getting it on down on the floor, right next to the wheelchair section. I whispered to my parents, asking them what the heck those people were doing naked. My mom stormed off to give them a piece of her mind while my dad went to talk to the usher. Just imagine. Two people having sex in a theater full of little kids. It still makes me gag, and I refuse to sit anywhere near the isle or the wheelchair section, or really anywhere with a flat area, to this day in a movie theater.

Only ones in the theater. A group comes in, sit in the seats directly behind us, then talks and eats loudly non-stop.

It was my first cinema experience. It wasn't exactly bad, now that I look at it, but at the time it was too much for me. I was 5, it was 1998, and we saw Armageddon. Yes, the same Armageddon with Liv Tyler, Bruce Willis, and badass Aerosmith soundtrack. I was clueless. First scene: meteor shower in New York (as far as I can remember), meteors are falling and wreaking havoc, people are dying. The cinema sound systems really overwhelmed me, I was terrified at what I saw, and I started crying. So my parents carried me out of the theatre. Yes, I was that crying kid in a movie theatre that everyone gets annoyed with, lol.

Was watching Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and some one decided to bring a newborn into the theatre, as expected the baby cried, but the mother did nothing to stop the baby from crying or go out side of the viewing room to calm the baby. Also before the movie someone kicked my foot as I was sipping on my slurpie and some of it spilled onto my lap. So I had to sit through the movie sticky, annoyed, and to top it off the movie was terrible.

When I was about 7 years old, my mother took me and my older brother to see Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." I had already seen the movie on a field trip at summer camp. Now, back then, when movie trailers were shown in theaters, they would show specific ones that were associated with the film company of the movie. I already knew something was wrong when a trailer for "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America" came on instead of "Jack." Then, instead of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" "Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood" came on instead. "Mommy, they put on the wrong movie!" I whispered. Mom assured me it was just a preview. It wasn't . I was crying and getting grossed out because a man was holding out a heart. Thankfully, at this point, we were ushered out of the theater room and taken to the Bordello of Blood's room instead. Apparently, they would show "Bordello of Blood" in the "Hunchback" room late at night and somebody forgot to take the film out that morning. After that experience, I became rather wary of whether the right movie would be shown whenever I went to that theater with my parents.
As an adult though, this story is hilarious to me!

1963, I was ten, Jason And The Argonauts at the Essoldo, Stretford, UK got to the part where that big statue comes alive and chases Hercules and his friend and I dragged my little sister up the aisle saying in a LOUD voice how she was frightened and couldn't take it and I had to take her home. She was LOUDLY complaining because she was enjoying the film. I didn't see the whole film till about forty years later but that bit still freaks me out. The whole memory is so embarrassing! I've always been a wimp...

This will totally date me... My friends and I had the whole theater to ourselves for "The Secret of My Success." We were in high school, giggly, crushing on Michael J Fox. Suddenly our row of seats started shaking. Hard. There was no one else there! So, being goofy high school girls, we convinced ourselves the theater was haunted. We thrououghly freaked ourselves out. Made a ton of noise. Probably pissed the theater crew off. Turns out it was an earthquake. In INDIANA! (Not an earthquake hot spot for those who don't know). Not a terrible experience. Just the most interesting one for me!

Saw Annabelle II at the movie theatre. There was a person that throw his rucksack in my head for the fear during a jumpscare scene

3 groups of couples having sex during alien

Was at an IMAX film, some guy a few rows in front started having a heart attack. Film stopped, lights came on, the cliche "is anybody a doctor" was called out. Got our money back, so obviously it was worse for the guy than for me.

we don't go to the theater much, but when we go to our local one, 99% of the time we are put in the room that is FREEZING COLD! we bring heavy coats and we're still cold! I never enjoy the movie quite as much as I should I'm so busy shivering. and yes, I know a lot of the things on this list are a whole lot worse than this, no need to tell me.

Boy... where to start?!

1) Was, I guess, a MCU-movie, so, loud, fast and full of action set pieces. The movie didn't even started yet as we've heard a crying young child... or shall I say toddler... maybe 2 or 3 y.o. Fortunately (more for the kid then us) they've left the theater early when movie just started.

2) Guy next to me texting all the time. Me patiently waiting to say anything until start of the movie... he, of course, did not care at all and continued hitting his brain drenching device. As I've asked him firm but polite to stop he looked pissed but quit his habit for the next 2 hours

3) Couple behind us talking over the whole movie... she explains what just had happened on screen. Every effin scene! Turned around to ask to be silent (as she was having a high pitched, loud voice) for the rest of the movie... guess what who didn't care about it for a second. Tried it, getting annoyed a bit more each time, several times but she kept going. 20 minutes later she got booed out by the rest of attendees!

Bonus: not to mention the people who get calls, answering them and don't giving a shit about the rest of us who want to enjoy the movie, not their private business.

Watching frozen 2 with my niece and nephew and two people that are clearly older like (40 to 50) were having loud you know what while Indina sang about the unknown. And here I thought that this was a kids movie!

My worst experience was that one time I paid an absurd amount of money to sit through a half-hour of advertising before the movie started. No, wait -- that happened *all* the times.

1 - Was watching Aquaman with my sister and there was a couple behind us. The girl was clearly unaware of superhero films. During the fight scenes she asked him very loudly where Ironman was. And when it was the intermission, she asked him angrily when Spiderman was making an appearance. Turns out she was into Tom Holland and her boyfriend told her he was in Aquaman to get her to come along. They fought for a while.

2 - Talking about Tom Holland, I was watching "In the heart of the sea" and right next to me was a young girl (maybe 7 years?) along with her parents. In my city, the movie was rated A, so I was surprised to see someone her age there. Then as the movie progressed, we realised she couldn't speak/understand English and the movie was in english so she kept asking her dad (in Hindi) what was happening and the dad in loud whispers translated it to her. There were so many parts a young girl her age wouldn't understand so he made stuff up. I could not enjoy the movie and even Chris Hemsworth couldn't make me pay attention to what was happening and till date I think the movie was too long and too slow because it felt like time stopped at that moment.

3 - I was with my best friend watching a random movie and a rat crawled into her blouse. It was terrifying for her and she stripped right there. Thankfully it was dark and I had a spare jacket to give her. We couldn't finish the movie because she was hysterical and creeped out so we left immediately.