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[Shazapp]

You rock.

See, there's a good theater manager.

The woman who runs our local theater doesn't care jack shit about anyone. Serioulsly. The movie theater in London has seven small, traditional seating screens and a large stadium seating screen with Dolby Digital 5.1. Since the big theater opened, the smaller theaters have gone into total disrepair, and they aren't cleaned regularly. Not only that, every time a new movie comes out that you think is going to be in the big theater, they stick in the smaller one. For example: Silent Hill. That week, it was pretty much obvious that was going to be #1 in the box office. Was that in the big theater? **** no. It was stuck in the smaller theater with the sticky ass seats and garbage all over the ****ing place.

By the way, this bitch hates controversial movies, so we are pretty much screwed during Oscar season.

That's why me and my friends drive ten miles to go see movies now. I'm tired of the crap this movie theater puts its customers through.

Thanks. I tried to do as much as I could to make the theater experience one that I would enjoy. I hate people talking or making unnecessary noise in the theater. When people would complain, I'd take it seriously. I'd go in personally and sit behind the people making noise (if there was a seat available). I'd warn them and then sit and wait...and if they started up again, I'd just kick them out. No refunds for them. Nothing. After awhile, people knew that if they complained, I'd take care of the situation and not ignore their complaints like most theaters did.

As for your local theater, the woman might not actually have control of her bookings. It's very rare that a manager books the movies. Unless she actually owns the place, she probably doesn't have much say in the bookings. I had a good situation where the president of the company I worked for was in charge of the bookings and very accessible. I could request movies and I usually got them. I'd take requests from customers and they'd be extremely happy when I got the movie that no one else would get for them. (My theater was mainly an art-house theater, but we'd occasionally run Hollywood films...which, not surprisingly, brought out the most troublesome audiences.)

I got "promoted" to run a larger theater in a big city. It was the worst situation ever, because I lost that ability to control the place as much as I could. There were too many rowdy people, too much politics involved in the booking of movies, customers that just did not care about the movie-going experience, and finding employees that actually gave a shit about doing a good job was impossible. I ended up quitting after 6 months.

 

[Bloodwake]

The silence between previews is always a hot spot for stupid shit comments.

Sorry about that, hehe.

 

[Bloodwake]

Thanks. I tried to do as much as I could to make the theater experience one that I would enjoy. I hate people talking or making unnecessary noise in the theater. When people would complain, I'd take it seriously. I'd go in personally and sit behind the people making noise (if there was a seat available). I'd warn them and then sit and wait...and if they started up again, I'd just kick them out. No refunds for them. Nothing. After awhile, people knew that if they complained, I'd take care of the situation and not ignore their complaints like most theaters did.

As for your local theater, the woman might not actually have control of her bookings. It's very rare that a manager books the movies. Unless she actually owns the place, she probably doesn't have much say in the bookings. I had a good situation where the president of the company I worked for was in charge of the bookings and very accessible. I could request movies and I usually got them. I'd take requests from customers and they'd be extremely happy when I got the movie that no one else would get for them. (My theater was mainly an art-house theater, but we'd occasionally run Hollywood films...which, not surprisingly, brought out the most troublesome audiences.)

I got "promoted" to run a larger theater in a big city. It was the worst situation ever, because I lost that ability to control the place as much as I could. There were too many rowdy people, too much politics involved in the booking of movies, customers that just did not care about the movie-going experience, and finding employees that actually gave a shit about doing a good job was impossible. I ended up quitting after 6 months.

I think the woman owns the theater, too, but I'm not exactly sure. I will look into it.

Thanks for the heads up though.

 

[Dr_Cogent]

Interesting idea: Most cell phones these days have cameras that can be used to video record parts of the movies. What if people made a big stink about that and got cell phones banned in the movie theaters?

Dunno about that, but it's perfectly fine if the block their communications while inside the building IMO. It's easy to do too.

 

[Vexidus]

My theatre experiences have been mostly enjoyable but a few times they've been ruined, ones that I can think of:

King Kong - lots of kids giggling and laughing at moments that were supposed to be emotional and moving, and this one kid kept asking his dad dumbass questions like "IS HE DEAD???" and the father actually responded to every question.. In addition to this absurdity, there were some teenage girls behind my friend and I, kicking the backs of our seats for a good long while, it took all of my will not to turn around and yell at them!

In general, the thing that annoys me most is the sound of candy packaging, you know that really annoying noisy plastic sound when someone is digging around for a piece of candy? >_<

 

[djkimothy]

My theatre experience have been pretty good. Except this one time...

It was during Godzilla (the awful american one) my friend Martin and I were watching it. It was okay but these two kids (boys that were around 12-15 years?) laughed at every scene in the movie. I mean every ****ing scene. I mean what is it that's so amusing? So my friend and I started shadow laughing with them. Everytime they laughed we'd laugh louder and and stop after them. Then we started making comments like "Hahahahaha! Look at that, guns are so funny! HAAHAHAHAH LAWL!" with a slack jawed yokel retard voice.

So they got annoyed and called the usher on us. We gave a big "what the ****?" look to the guy and he just walked away. Needless to say the kids finally shut up. But we were still messing with them buy playing "crystal ball" with there heads behind them.

I learned a hard lesson that night, I hate kids.

 

[Dr_Cogent]

My theatre experience have been pretty good. Except this one time...

It was during Godzilla (the awful american one) my friend Martin and I were watching it. It was okay but these two kids (boys that were around 12-15 years?) laughed at every scene in the movie. I mean every ****ing scene. I mean what is it that's so amusing? So my friend and I started shadow laughing with them. Everytime they laughed we'd laugh louder and and stop after them. Then we started making comments like "Hahahahaha! Look at that, guns are so funny! HAAHAHAHAH LAWL!" with a slack jawed yokel retard voice.

So they got annoyed and called the usher on us. We gave a big "what the ****?" look to the guy and he just walked away. Needless to say the kids finally shut up. But we were still messing with them buy playing "crystal ball" with there heads behind them.

I learned a hard lesson that night, I hate kids.

It's not all kids. It's just the disrespectful ones who most likely weren't disciplined by their moron parents.

 

[fallout]

I haven't had too many bad ones. I did go to the Magic Johnson 12 Theater in LA once to see The Matrix: Reloaded. The patrons there seemed to enjoy standing and cheering a lot. They also yelled at the actors on the screen a ton. It was quite the interesting experience.

Yeah, I love that argument: If you can't handle me being a turdpot, you should just stay home.

Kind of sounds like the argument for trolls at GAF.

 

[brandonh83]

Sorry about that, hehe.

I wasn't really referring to you, but next time I'll know who the culprit is.

 

[Gio_CoD]

I don't have one experience that stands out, but I can't even count the number of movies that have been ruined for me by giggling teenage girls or 17 year old suburban gangstas. That's why I just stopped going all together. Unless it's a HUGE movie to me (like X Men 3), I'll wait for the DVD.

 

[djkimothy]

It's not all kids. It's just the disrespectful ones who most likely weren't disciplined by their moron parents.

Very true, sometimes my girlfriend would take me to some chick flicks and the girls at the theatre are absolutely the worst. They just won't shut up! This is why I don't watch the chick flicks at theatre, not cause of the movies but of the audience that it caters to!

 

[Ninja Scooter]

and then there is the people who sneak in entire meals to the theatre. Its bad enough with the buttery stink of popcorn, and that theatres for some reason serve hotdogs and shit, but everyonce in a while people bring in hamburgers and sandwiches and shit and the whole room ends up smelling like grease and onions. Seriously can't you fatties go 2 hours without eating?

 

[Oldschoolgamer]

and then there is the people who sneak in entire meals to the theatre. Its bad enough with the buttery stink of popcorn, and that theatres for some reason serve hotdogs and shit, but everyonce in a while people bring in hamburgers and sandwiches and shit and the whole room ends up smelling like grease and onions. Seriously can't you fatties go 2 hours without eating?

Ususally I would agree, but...movie food is hella expensive, and the Dollar menu is cheap.

 

[mrkgoo]

While comments about kids talking during a movie IS annoying, I guess you have to see it from a parents point of view. Of course you can tell a kid to be quiet and stuff (discipline, etc), but you can;t really stop taking your kid to the movies...

Over here, there are some movies sessions that are held during the day, and for a cheaper price and are known as 'crybaby' sessions. I'm not sure if the point is for the kids or the parents to see the movie, but it's basically a session where it's expected that noisy kids may be there.

having said that during Superman Returns, a couple of kids were let loose running up and down the aisles and basically just playing. I'm pretty tolerant about most things, as I can easily invest myself in a film, but if that were ever my kids, I'd probably just leave out of respect for other viewers.


Mostly though, attending a movie is pretty pleasant. Cellphones appear to be blocked at the theatre I frequent, and it's typically a wholesome atmosphere.

 

[Greenpanda]

I haven't really had too many, since to be honest I rarely see films in theaters, and I've had pretty good luck when I DO go...

...but I was annoyed when people LAUGHED at Gollum debating with himself in The Two Towers :|

 

[Ninja Scooter]

While comments about kids talking during a movie IS annoying, I guess you have to see it from a parents point of view. Of course you can tell a kid to be quiet and stuff (discipline, etc), but you can;t really stop taking your kid to the movies...

.

because parents need to do what my parents did to me: Put the fear of god in your children. If i would have behaved the way i see lots of kids behaving in public, my dad would have smacked the shit out of me.

 

[etiolate]

Let me see:

1. Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers - about a quarter of the way into the movie, the popcorn machine at the concession stand caught on fire and the entire theatre had to be evacuated

2. Rwanda - movie out of focus for almost the entire time

3. V for Vendetta - Movie cuts out, projector asplodes and then they restart the movie about an hour later into it and never show the missing chunk

4. Some teen movie - the teatre showed the reels out of order, events were all out of place and when we complained the manager just said "Well maybe the movie just sucked that bad?"

5. Lake Placid - For some reason, a guy kept moaning and screaming every time Betty White came on screen and proceeded to yell out how much he wants to **** Betty White and how hot she is. I think it made the movie better.

6. Lord of the Ring: Return of the King - two black girls kept yelling out "Frodo man! Thats his ni**a! Oh he lookin out for his boy!" during every Sam/Frodo scene. Also, made the movie funnier.

7. Night of the Living Dead - A real MST3K experience, including cheering on for the girl to be slapped, shouted out gay innuendos and I think at one point I actually started singing A Flock of Seagulls "I ran" during the movie.

 

[temp]

When I went to see Dead Man's Chest some guy had a heart attack or something. Anyway, I don't know if he's dead but I missed the last 5 minutes of the movie. Also these women behind me said that the new Ashton Kutcher/Kevin Costner movie looked like An Officer and a Gentleman on water. I wanted to tell them they were completely wrong.

 

[brandonh83]

Oh, no, I actually forgot my worst experience. This is far worse than anything I've mentioned in this topic:

A friend of my girlfriend pulled us to SHE'S THE MAN with her one night. Despite that it was probably one of the least offensive movies of that type, it was still pretty bad, and I was praying for something to happen so I could leave.

The projector malfunctions.

In the middle of my personal, disclosed celebration, they gave us free passes, and I ended up watching it again the NEXT MORNING. Had to sit through the FORTY-FIVE MINUTES that we made it through, in addition to the rest.

 

[Bloodwake]

7. Night of the Living Dead - A real MST3K experience, including cheering on for the girl to be slapped, shouted out gay innuendos and I think at one point I actually started singing A Flock of Seagulls "I ran" during the movie.

:lol :lol :lol

Seriously, I would have enjoyed that...

random Flock of Seagulls = hilarity.

 

[davepoobond]

i was watching The Truman Show in theaters, and this one part where Jim Carrey is making funny noises into the mirror and looking at the camera, the film begins to bubble (i initially thought it was part of the movie) and it burns off the film and makes the whole movie stop, and all we see is white, and there's a really annoying noise. i think they started the movie again with a large chunk of the movie gone, but we got free movie tickets for another movie i think.

but everytime i go, there's some stupid idiot that is kicking my chair or there is some stupid comment being made. sometimes comments are funny, but on the whole i hate whoever talks during a movie. i would never go to a theatre if it weren't for movies that i want to watch came out on a huge screen.

 

[GoutPatrol]

and then there is the people who sneak in entire meals to the theatre. Its bad enough with the buttery stink of popcorn, and that theatres for some reason serve hotdogs and shit, but everyonce in a while people bring in hamburgers and sandwiches and shit and the whole room ends up smelling like grease and onions. Seriously can't you fatties go 2 hours without eating?

I once found a large container of Lo Mein when I was cleaning a theatre. There was also an empty dish that looked to have Orange Beef.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I think all smartass comments should be saved until the very end of the movie. "Acting cute" while people are still watching is very rude. UNLESS you can tell everyone is hating the film. With something like Snakes on a Plane, I expect and welcome people to make hilarious comments. This is the nature of that type of film.

I think Fantastic Four was one of my worst film experience, at least in recent memory. There was a group of 13-15 year olds, maybe about 8 of them. They spent the entire movie running back and forth out of the theater, coming in loudly, switching seats frequently, and just causing all kinds of disturbance. Luckily the movie was complete shit, so I was more annoyed that truly upset. I was tempted to walk out myself...

And during The Break Up, there was a woman getting sorta upset AT the movie towards the end. She tried to be cute and predict the ending, of course she was dead wrong...but still, it got a little tiresome.

Most fun I've had? There was this insanely loud woman at Freddie vs Jason. She would yell out "Get 'em Freddie!" and "Oh hell no, **** him up." But then everybody in the audience started getting into it, that was pretty fun.

EDIT: Wow, Im surprised so many of you have had bad midnight showing experiences. All the midnight showings I've gone to this summer (X3, Superman, and Pirates) were perfect. Thats actually the reason I go to them, the true fans tend to be more respectful during these films.

 

[cybamerc]

Species 2: Skipped some classes to go see it with some class mates. Only available option was a small screen in one of the shittiest cinema complexes in all of Copenhagen, all of Denmark perhaps. Besides us it seems the rest of audience was made up only of immigrant thugs. Throughout the entire movie these people were smoking and talking on cell phones. At some point one person decides to tell a guy talking on his phone to shut up and judging by the reaction he was pretty lucky that the light was off. And to top it off the movie sucked as well.

 

[bud]

i was watching shanghai knights with some friends and it was pretty packed. there was this white boy sitting in front of us but he wanted to be black. he had this big jacket and all and he had his hat on. i couldn't see the entire screen but i was scared to say anything.

 

[brandonh83]

EDIT: Wow, Im surprised so many of you have had bad midnight showing experiences. All the midnight showings I've gone to this summer (X3, Superman, and Pirates) were perfect. Thats actually the reason I go to them, the true fans tend to be more respectful during these films.

My Pirates midnighter was perfection. Not a peep from the audience unless called for, and

Spoiler

Jack running into the Kraken's mouth

got appropriate gasps.

 

[Bloodwake]

I can truly say that the only problems I have encountered at midnight showings are from my dumbass friends.

Just kiddin guys, I love your asses.

 

[Lakedaimon]

years ago went to see Scary Movie 2 at the only theatre in the area that was still showing it. To make a long story short, my friend and I were the only people of our particular ethnicity in the mostly empty theatre, and this was made painfully apparent by the crowd several rows back who kept throwing candy and popcorn at us.

although to be honest, I was far more bummed out by the following experience. Went to see Episode 2: AOTC opening weekend and of course the theatre was totally jammed. to the point where the ushers were actually having people move to open up more seats. so im in the very back row of the theatre with a stranger on my right. its obvious from the conversation with his friends and the way he looks that he is a total dork but hey he dosent smell or anything and he seemed to be quiet once the movie started. but then it happened: every time natalie portman came on the screen, he would let out a barely audible moan it was totally horrifying. Totally creeped out I kept almost subconsciously checking to make sure his hands were out in the open. its bad enough I was watching Lucas' peyote-induced disaster, but that was just awful.

 

[AgentOtaku]

To lighten the mood in this horrible thread up a bit though, I had an extremely pleasant experience today seeing PotC2. Sitting with a friend waiting a while for the film to start. Next to us a 30-year old guy or so with his 5-year old kid. 10pm showing, and the kid's decked out in Johnny Depp's gear, has a gun with him, eyepatch, action figure, the works.. So me and my friend are sitting there just talking about movies and such and this guy leans over and says "I'll make you a deal. You watch our seats for your and I'll get you guys a drink and a popcorn". We hadn't bought any and I was going up there to buy some in the next 10 minutes or so. So I say "yeah, sure" at first, then tell him on actually 2nd thought don't worry about it. It's no problem. He refuses and says "what kind of drink do you guys want? Coke?" "No really". Again he insists and I say Coke. He's gone for maybe 10 minutes and comes back with a platter of stuff. 2 large drinks and a tub of popcorn for me and my friend, 2 drinks and a popcorn for him and his kid. I try to give him half the cost and he tells me it's no good, I did him a favor. He mentioned his kid probably wouldn't stay up for all of it and left quietly about a half hour from the end of the film.

Wow, maybe its because I'm a father, but that story is JUST SOOOO ****ING ADORABLE , especially the last part in bold. Guess you have to be a dad to understand

seriously though,

pretty much experienced a variation of some sort of the things listed in this thread. Needless to say, I haven't seen a film in theathers in like a whole year. Just refuse to go and wait for DVDs instead. I got around a $3500 home theater setup, so I'm good to go!

though, being a Bond fan, I might have to check out Casino Royale....kind of a mandatory thing

 

[tsp_gatmog]

Dollar menu is cheap.

everything on it costs one dollar in fact.

 

[Solo]

I havent had anything horrible, per se, aside from the usual cell phones, unfunny douchebags who think their comments are funny, loud eaters chomping away all goddamn movie (seriously, its 2 hours, you're not gonna starve to death), and a projector that died once. Pretty standard stuff. However, the one incident that does stand out in my mind was the time that a fight broke out during the movie, between two ferocious females. Now that shit was funnier than the movie was.

 

[tsp_gatmog]

completely the opposite of what this thread is supposed to be about, but my all time favorite movie theatre moment happened a few weeks ago during The Break Up:

so, the Snakes on a Plane trailer comes on, and right when it ended, i stood up and applauded, i was SO ****ing into it. then like over half of the ****ing the theatre (stadium seating, mind you) stood up and applauded with me. man, that was ****ing awesome!
then they started doing it to every other preview >:

 

[Solo]

so, the Snakes on a Plane trailer comes on, and right when it ended, i stood up and applauded, i was SO ****ing into it. then like over half of the ****ing the theatre (stadium seating, mind you) stood up and applauded with me. man, that was ****ing awesome!
then they started doing it to every other preview >:

They weren't "into it". They were mocking you.

 

[East Clintwood]

All I can say is the modern movie experience and the total lack of interest by the management led me to downloading movies as soon as they are available in decent quality and watching them at home. It's my revenge against the world. Until there are cinemas where it is forbidden to speak, eat, go to the toilet, get in late or get out early and carry a mobile I won't change that. People are just getting ruder by the minute and I don't care anymore. Last movie I saw was Revenge of the Sith and it was unbearable, I mean the audience.

 

[Zalasta]

How about assigned or preffered seating?

Most Taiwanese theaters have assigned seating. At the time when you purchase your tickets, you'd tell them the general location you want to be seated in and they'd write your row and seat # on the back of you stub. I used to think that is strange, but in a crowded showing, it allows them to know exactly what seats are left and where they are located, none of the inconvenience you'd find in US theaters where large groups of people showing up at the last minute thinking they'd find seats together, or ushers telling everyone to scoot in so they can squeeze out one or two more seats for those who couldn't be bothered to get there early or watch the next showing.

Years ago when I was critiquing movies I used to go to the theater at least once a week and sometimes for as many as 4-5 films in one weekend. However, I recall most if not all of those trips were fairly pleasant, nothing at all like what's been described here. I guess there are other benefits in attending advance screenings for critics (even though they are opened to the public as well).

 

[Bloodwake]

Okay, more proof that the Regency Cinema 8 in London, Kentucky is the biggest piece of shit in terms of a theater ever.

I went and watched Lady in the Water tonight in London... holy shit. WORST. THEATER EXPERIENCE. EVER.

This was only the second time in recent memory that I have walked out of a film. Seriously.

The movie theater didn't have anyone watching the projector during the film. I'm serious... they must have had a machine switch the reels. Whatever... that isn't the point. What is the point is that the projector was ****ed up the entire time we were watching the movie (including trailers). Seriously, during the trailers, the image was letterboxed. Which should never happen in a movie theater. And by letterboxed, I mean like severely, like to the point that it was almost like watching a non-anamorphic widescreen DVD on a widescreen TV. When the movie started, the image was stretched to the entire screen, but the same effect applied. Not only that, the negative the theater received was too long vertically by frame, and the movie theater didn't try to correct this at all... in EVERY shot, you could see a mic hanging down from the top of the frame. EVERY shot.

So, I was fed up with this shit about ten minutes into it, as well as my friend brandonh83 (a fellow GAF poster). I first yelled at the top of my lungs, "FIX THIS SHIT" but that didn't work, because, of course, there was no projectionist. I know this because whenever I went to complain at the concession stand, they actually had to send someone up there to fix the film.

Of course, the next reel was switched on, and more problems happened. Such as the mic was back in the screen, and the picture was unfocused and ****ed over YET AGAIN.

I and my four friends (including fellow GAF posters tehjaybo and brandonh83) got the **** out of the theater and demanded our money back. The girl who gave us our money back had to be bitchy about it too and act like it was a chore. We went to Corbin (the superior theater) and experienced superior sound and picture quality not found at shitty movie theaters. Oh yeah, and there was a projectionist at Corbin, for the record.

**** YOU REGENCY CINEMA 8.

 

[master_shake_05]

:lol A local arthouse theater has those problems all the time. Now I gotta wait for DVD to see some of the best films of the year

 

[DCharlie]

in south london , 5 thugs walked out of Nil by Mouth after the main character gets dropped by a scottish guy. they were complaining because it was unrealistic. they cheered when the main guy beat up his wife too.

think they might have got the wrong end of the stick regarding this films content

 

[Porridge]

No one behaves themselves at theaters and this thread is proof.

The Exorcist re-release:

Some shocking scene occurs (forget which one out of the many in that film) and this big ol' lady keeps asking the entire theater "you saw dat??." Of course she was only asking her boyfriend next to her, but she made sure that she brought us all together with her volume.

Kill Bill 2:

It's the end of the movie, everything's being resolved, the final dialogue. Baby starts crying two rows up. What... the... ****. Who the hell brings an infant to a movie that has the word KILL in it? This thing keeps whining so I ended up telling the mother "Take it outside". My friends got a kick out of that.

Batman Begins:

This woman and child keeps talking. It got to a point where I, God forbid, had the nerve to "shh" them. She says, "She's only a baby!" to which I replied "You shouldn't be talking during the movie."

Then I hear this gHetTo tHug near her tell me "She can say whuteva da fuk she want." I didn't respond because I value my life. But the point is, you gotta be brave in the theater

If people are ruining your movie that YOU paid for, don't tolerate that shit. You can even get a refund if you want. How could you not?

Theaters need to definitely enforce some stricter rules

To lighten the mood in this horrible thread up a bit though, I had an extremely pleasant experience today seeing PotC2. Sitting with a friend waiting a while for the film to start. Next to us a 30-year old guy or so with his 5-year old kid. 10pm showing, and the kid's decked out in Johnny Depp's gear, has a gun with him, eyepatch, action figure, the works.. So me and my friend are sitting there just talking about movies and such and this guy leans over and says "I'll make you a deal. You watch our seats for your and I'll get you guys a drink and a popcorn". We hadn't bought any and I was going up there to buy some in the next 10 minutes or so. So I say "yeah, sure" at first, then tell him on actually 2nd thought don't worry about it. It's no problem. He refuses and says "what kind of drink do you guys want? Coke?" "No really". Again he insists and I say Coke. He's gone for maybe 10 minutes and comes back with a platter of stuff. 2 large drinks and a tub of popcorn for me and my friend, 2 drinks and a popcorn for him and his kid. I try to give him half the cost and he tells me it's no good, I did him a favor. He mentioned his kid probably wouldn't stay up for all of it and left quietly about a half hour from the end of the film.

Awesome story!

 

[master_shake_05]

The ghetto thug was probably some ****ing asshole who deserved to get his ass kicked. You should have hit him with that ol' bitch's baby.

 

[pestul]

I've had some pretty bad experiences.. but I still love the theatre. Most blockbusters are not even enjoyable to me in the living room.. I need the atmosphere.

In 'The Last Samurai', about a quarter of the way through the film the projector wigs out and the reel of the end of the movie appears on the screen and spoils everything. It takes them about 30min to get it fixed and needless to say, we all get are money back and a free pass.

I hate when someone drops something like a beer bottle, ice in a cup, bag of skittles or whatever and it rolls/slides all the damn way to the front of the cinema making a racket for like 2min sometimes.

Trilogy Tuesday (for LoTR) ended up being a pretty underwhelming experience at least for the FoTR and TTT. A couple of nerds a few seats away would say all the lines of the two films aloud just before they were spoken on screen.

Watching theatre films with my Father can be a little uncomfortable at times. He has a very loud/annoying laugh that overshadows an entire theatre and persists longer than anyone elses. I wouldn't be able to count how many times he has received a mocking laugh from the other patrons.

Oh.. and for the love of God, a movie theatre is not Fenway Park. If you're in the unlucky row with the weak bladder, your movie is pretty much ruined from the getgo (when the theatre is full). Sit the **** down and don't drink 8L of coke.

Other than that.. it's usually great.

 

[ronito]

Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet - Sitting behind a group of pre teen girls and having shout out "No! He can't die! What kind of story is this?!!"

Cutthroat Island - Actually a pretty good experience outside of the movie. There were only like 10 people in the theatre and after about 40 excurciatingly horrible minutes of that movie I stood up and said, "I've had enough who wants to go bowling?" 4 people outside of my 2 friends that came with me came. It was fun.

 

[Flynn]

Okay, more proof that the Regency Cinema 8 in London, Kentucky is the biggest piece of shit in terms of a theater ever.

I went and watched Lady in the Water tonight in London... holy shit. WORST. THEATER EXPERIENCE. EVER.

This was only the second time in recent memory that I have walked out of a film. Seriously.

The movie theater didn't have anyone watching the projector during the film. I'm serious... they must have had a machine switch the reels. Whatever... that isn't the point. What is the point is that the projector was ****ed up the entire time we were watching the movie (including trailers). Seriously, during the trailers, the image was letterboxed. Which should never happen in a movie theater. And by letterboxed, I mean like severely, like to the point that it was almost like watching a non-anamorphic widescreen DVD on a widescreen TV. When the movie started, the image was stretched to the entire screen, but the same effect applied. Not only that, the negative the theater received was too long vertically by frame, and the movie theater didn't try to correct this at all... in EVERY shot, you could see a mic hanging down from the top of the frame. EVERY shot.

So, I was fed up with this shit about ten minutes into it, as well as my friend brandonh83 (a fellow GAF poster). I first yelled at the top of my lungs, "FIX THIS SHIT" but that didn't work, because, of course, there was no projectionist. I know this because whenever I went to complain at the concession stand, they actually had to send someone up there to fix the film.

Of course, the next reel was switched on, and more problems happened. Such as the mic was back in the screen, and the picture was unfocused and ****ed over YET AGAIN.

I and my four friends (including fellow GAF posters tehjaybo and brandonh83) got the **** out of the theater and demanded our money back. The girl who gave us our money back had to be bitchy about it too and act like it was a chore. We went to Corbin (the superior theater) and experienced superior sound and picture quality not found at shitty movie theaters. Oh yeah, and there was a projectionist at Corbin, for the record.

**** YOU REGENCY CINEMA 8.

There are different gates that have to switched around between trailers and the movie. The print of the movie you saw was fine, it was the projection that was bad. Filmmakers regularly get stuff like microphones and cable on the print, but it's supposed to be "matted out" by the projector. Looks like somebody was a sleep on the job. It happens quite frequently, I usually get up during the credits and tell them to do it.

 

[Bloodwake]

There are different gates that have to switched around between trailers and the movie. The print of the movie you saw was fine, it was the projection that was bad. Filmmakers regularly get stuff like microphones and cable on the print, but it's supposed to be "matted out" by the projector. Looks like somebody was a sleep on the job. It happens quite frequently, I usually get up during the credits and tell them to do it.

Yeah... I knew it was something the theater could fix... which made more pissed. It made me more pissed that after complaing about it, the shit STILL didn't get fixed.