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

We wanted to have a new experience during the Christmas break, and so we headed off to a regional town in Victoria. We spent some good days around the city. Not being white, we got stared at some times, but we carried on, doing our thing. One day , it was the 26th of December , we decided to watch a movie in the theatre. It was a Tintin & Captain Haddock, animated movie. Our kids were 4 years and 11 years at that time. The movie went well, and the kids were enjoying the movie, delighted to see their favourite characters. They would laugh out at times, when something funny happened. This happened a few times, but they were well mannered and not being naughty.
A couple , who were sitting in the next line, were quite annoyed at the kids laughing at the funny scenes. This was supposedly a kids movie, and it was surely expected that kids were allowed to be kids, and laugh and have fun.
Gradually, the man who was quite big and burly , and covered with tattoos, started giving us dirty looks, accompanied by his girlfriend. Each time the kids giggled they would get angry, and send hateful looks in our direction. The kids being young, didnt notice, and it was dark too. I noticed it, and was quite intimidated as the man was very big and rough looking.
When the movie ended, the kids stepped out happily , and we headed out. Outside the theatre hall, the guy stood there, ready to pick a fight-argument. I could see the anger and dislike towards us. His chubby , and angry girlfriend stood next to us, ready to do/ say whatever. My husband had no idea what was happening because he had'nt been noticing the couple's activities. As the guy came towards us, angrily, trying to start an argument, or a lecture on behaviour, I hurriedly took the kids out. My husband followed me , wondering why I was rushing out. This kind of deflated the situation. Later on when i related the incident to him, he said that he wished that I had let him speak to the couple.
I chose to leave, because I did not want the kids to see us being confronted for no reason, for laughing , and above all for being subjected to racism.
However due to that unfortunate event, I am now always aware in every situation.

I know someone else on this list said Cats and honestly I have to agree. My friend group decided that we’d see it as a joke and Jesus Christ I swear we left within the first five minutes. We wanted to gouge out our eyes.

I used to work in a theater so all of the above comments aren't shocking to me. However I'd say the worst things I saw go on were parents who took their children to scary movies that were inappropriate for young children. I'll never forget the guy who took his toddler to see an 11pm showing of Red Dragon, I said it was rated R he said the child would sleep through it. At the end of the movie that child was very awake and his eyes were so wide. Another time a woman came with two young children about 4 years old, she got tickets to some rated R movie about an evil tooth fairy (I forget the name of the movie). I of course told her the rating and she said she didn't care. At the end of the movie she came out and yelled at me because she thought the movie was stupid; ok I didn't make the film. Both her children were in tears terrified because of what they saw in the movie. Finally one woman came in with two children as I was selling her the tickets to her at the box office one of the children projectile vomited all over the floor. She said these were her grandchildren who were visiting, she said they were both sick but that she had promised them a trip to the theater and it was their last day in town.

I was watching "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" with my mum and sister. To make the movie viewable to most audiences, my city's censor board had cut off scenes. So all the throat slashing was cut off and it was annoying as hell. They replaced those scenes with random shots from the same scene. So the lip syncing was off at most places. They didn't even show any blood.

And sitting a little away from us was a group of young teens who got annoyed every time a song began. They would tut and make sounds and ask things like "why are there so many songs" or "another song?" and my sister at one time was so frustrated that she yelled back saying "It's called a musical for a reason."

It was in the middle of the movie, people starting yelling at some guy for sneezing to loud and the person above me turned around too fast and spilled a bunch of pop on my head. I finished the movie and they guy gave me money to get something because he felt bad.
Best worst day ever.

Not really a bad experience but it's reeeeeally annoying when my grandma takes me to movies. She makes a big fuss about everything. For example, she will only get 1 refillable popcorn for four (4) people and then brings it into the theater and puts it into plastic bags for us. Same thing with drinks. 1 large drink and she bring 4 cups along in her purse. It's honestly amazing how much stuff she can fit in her purse. I get the point of what she's doing but it's just so annoying and she makes such a big deal outta it. I still love her though. :)

First time at the cinema with my boyfriend - he talked more to the stranger next to him than to me - before, during AND after the movie.
Sh*tty experience for me... If I hadn't been in a foreign country i would've gotten up and left before the movie even started!

I was on a first date with a guy I really liked. Towards the last quarter of the movie, I had to pee very badly. So I get up and start trotting towards the exit, but when I'm halfway across the theatre, LITERALLY FRONT ROW CENTRE, the heel of one of my shoes broke.

I went sprawling face first onto the floor. In front of the ENTIRE (pretty packed) movie theatre. There was no second date.

As a teen, I went on a double date with this guy who kept asking me out. My sister's bf insisted that he's really a nice guy when you get to know him. We saw "Shampoo" the Warren Beatty film. It was really raunchy and inappropriate for teens. Adults were walking out indignantly with their young children (you guessed it, there were no warnings then or rating system). I was mortified because he kept laughing at the worst times, and slapping his knees and all that. My sis and I wanted to leave, so we ended up leaving early. Needless to say, I never went out with this guy again.

Okay so... one time while seeing zootopia everyone was ordering a bunch of candy before because some guy had that idea. well right in the middle of this movie i hear a really gross noise. HE'S THROWING UP!!! And he didn't even try to get to the bathroom. Pretty soon, almost EVERYONE that ordered as much as him is retching. It smelled horrible. I was gagging by the point that the movie was over and had to rush to the bathroom to puke when we were leaving.

I was 11 years old. Frozen 2 had just come out and my mom and I were eager to see it in the theaters. My dad stayed behind because he hates movie theaters, and, well, he fared better off because of his decision.
The theater was fairly empty save for a few families in front and a mother and her child behind us, and a lady right next to me.
When Elsa started singing 'Into The Unknown', the lady next to me LEGIT pulled a huge plastic bin of burritos and nachos out of her tote bag and began loudly crunching and munching. Half an hour later, she stopped eating, got up without cleaning her seat, and left. That's all. She simply wanted to displease us.
AND THEN, when Elsa was riding Nokk to Atohollan, the girl behind us got up, leaned on the railing right above our heads, and opened a bag of sour patch kids. Not too bad, right?
Wrong. She started tossing the candy into our HAIR, while loudly crinkling the bag. Couldn't get worse, right?
WRONG. She then proceeded to put a 'kid in her mouth, chew on it a bit, and then SPIT IT OUT into MY HAIR!!!
My mom was furious and asked the girl's mom to tell her to stop, even after we had already asked the girl herself, but the mom just gave us the stink eye and settled down into her seat.
So yeah, not pleasant at all.

Went to see "John Carter"; fell asleep and saw nothing of the movie. I heard it sucks

Once I went to a movie with my sister and my friend. We were seated next to a woman and her ex-husband. She spent almost the entire movie complaining to him about how he never posted anything on Facebook about her anymore, and that he always tagged his new girlfriend in his posts. The poor guy stayed pretty quiet the entire time while she cried and whined. I'm not surprised he divorced her.

Ok, so, this is my first actual posting on BP, apologies if it's weirdish.

Anyways, what, eight years ago now? Four years old, going to see the theatre at christmas like we always did. It was 'Cinderella.' really looking forward to it, had some good laughs, very typical melodrama experience. I'd enjoyed it all, but then it got to this scene, where, as a kid, of course it scared me to death. A giant spider- like, literally, HUGE, made from some kind of metal- came out over the audience. I was four or five, so at the time that was a really stressful experience. It was so realistic though- and at that age to have a ginormous creature with fangs, eight eyes, jet-black colouring looming over you? I've been arachnophobic ever since. My parents say they had to bring me out of the theatre I was screaming so bad.

Anyways, eight years later and I'm finally beginning to work on my fear of spiders. But hey, that was TRAUMATIZING. I'd be fine with it now I'm twelve, but as a four-year-old? No way.

The neighborhood theater had kids' hours on Saturday afternoons. One day an adult male pervert sat next to my friend and I and exposed himself. When we realized what he was doing, we jumped up and ran to the candy counter to tell someone, but by the time the manager and ushers went to where we sat, he had disappeared.

Star Wars: the rise of Skywalker, No explanation needed

Years back sitting in the theater and saw a flicker of light off to my right in the row behind me. Guy had tossed his cigarette butt and it rapidly took off in the theater floor litter. Everyone got out OK but it was exciting for a bit.

Seems weird now but people used to smoke everywhere.

I was in a movie theater once with my family and little nephew and we were watching monsters ink. Around 20 minutes into the movie, we started hearing some strange noises that were reminiscent of moans. We tried to ignore it but they became louder and I got up to see what was happening when someone yelled "OH GOD YES". Needless to say when I got down there I discovered a man and a women, engaging in sexual intercourse in the middle of a childrens movie. Mike and Sully did not approve haha and we never visited the theater again...

I was watching Zootopia in my school's gym, as a little fundraiser, and you know when they are in the building that had the insane animals locked up, and they were walking through it and then the tiger jumped scared everyone. Well, when that happened I literally jumped up and screamed as loud as a can. Everyone was looking at me like I was going mental. Short story but yeah :)

I was 15 and dating a guy whose family collected vintage cars and drove them in parades etc. He picked me up in a Model T pickup truck. It was cool and exciting. He took me to the drive-in where we watched Deliverance. Midway through the movie, my date absolutely freaked out, went hysterical, thrashed around and finally jumped out of the vehicle, leaving me totally confused and clueless. I'm like "WHAT??" and he finally gasped out "SPIDER!" Yeah, first date was last date...