weirdest experience in a cinema?

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kethander

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what is everyones weirdest experience in a cinema? Mine has to be the time both my friend and I decided to watch Titanic at the UCI in the Trafford Centre. My friend had praised how good Titanic was and wanted to see it again. I had avoided it like the plague as I was worried it would be 3+ hours of nonsense. So I caved in and agreed to go watch it. We went to pay for our tickets (bear in mind this is 4 months after it was originally released) and the woman behind the counter charged us
 
I remember back in the early 70's me & a few mates (it was an old style cinema with just one screen & only us in it) went to see a double bill of a Fistful of Dollars & a Few Dollars More.
It was a weekday & the first showing around midday.
Well not long into the first film when it was stopped & we were told that the boiler had broken so there was no heating (forgot to mention it was winter time) & we would get a refund.
We were all prepared to stay & watch in the cold but the management wouldn't have it.
 
another memorable experience I had in a cinema was whilst watching the film Candyman with my sister. She was petrified during the movie, jumping every 5 minutes at the slightest thing. I remained unfazed however, it was a good film but it didn't scare me like "salems lot" did. Just as the main character was about to take photos of some graffiti in one of the high rise flats that Candyman terrorised, the film just stopped, the lights switched on and the fire alarm could be heard. Suddenly a black man dressed similar to Candyman got up out of his seat and scared the bejesus out of us both. We ended up watching the second half pale as a sheet. I always think about that experience when watching the film and it always makes me giggle.
 
I went with 3 frienRAB to see The Exorcist on its 25-year anniversary showing. The screen was nearly full and I had a big carton of popcorn. About half-way through I dropped it on the floor and nearly everyone jumped amd went "Aaagghh!!"

Oh, how we laughed! :D
 
In the early 70s I went to see 2001: A Space Odyssey with my sister. At the end of the film, where the 'old' Keir Dullea is lying in bed & raises his arm, she decided to shout out 'Taxi!' (to roars of laughter). That moment is now forever spoilt whenever I see it.

ps. She ruined Jaws too.
 
This happened to me just over a month ago.I went to see "Seed of Chucky" there must have been including myself 30 of us in the cinema.Personally i thought the movie was shit & i wasn't alone because during the film there were some people at different times that got up & walked out the cinema because of how bad the movie was.I had never seen this happen before.

Another time my dad took me to see Jaws 3 in the cinema.When Jaws 3 was first released it was shown in 3D.When we got to our seats there was my dad & i & someone else.So there was only 3 of us in this big cinema wearing these stupid 3D glasses.
 
Traffic. If you recall, it starts off by introducing the Benito Del Toro character. It's set in Mexico, is sepia coloured and is all in Spanish with subtitles. After about 15 - 20 minutes, I saw four couples get up and walk out (seperately). I can only assume they thought the whole film would be like that, which of course it's not, and so missed the rest of this great film.

Not so much weird as down right funny is the time I saw 8 mile. We'd taken our seats and it was the aRAB on screen. Then a 'posse' of I think five 14/ 15 year old boys walked in, all dressed near identically in hooded tops (hooRAB up of course), baggy jeans with hanRAB stuffed in pockets and chunky trainers. I don't know if they heard the ripples of laughter as these clones walked all round the cinema grunting to each other because they couldn't agree where to sit.
 
When we went to see Star Wars Episode I at the cinema, there was this part where there were these big machines moving through a forest and there was something ordering them about in a loud, echoing voice. I sat there, watching it...until I realized what the voice was saying was 'COULD EVERYONE PLEASE MOVE TOWARRAB THE EXITS AND EVACUATE THE BUILDING'.

Defiantly wasn't those machines talking...
 
It wa 1977 (I think) and my frienRAB and I trooped up to Leicester Sq to see Star Wars, we all enjoyed it. At the end when they were getting their medals, my mate shouted 'Jim fixed it for me' -- everyone fell about laughing.

Except the chap in the row in front, who was fast asleep
 
At a screening of Fahrenheit 9/11, once the titles rolled. The whole cinema broke into spontaneous appalause. One of the most surreal experiences I've ever had.

While watching Return of the King, I had the pleasure of sitting next to a woman that not only used her phone several times, but when the action was on screen repeatedly said 'OH MY GOSH!' at the action scenes... So braindead that she couldn't keep her wonderment in her head and instead had to say it outloud.
 
I went to see Titanic on it's opening night with some frienRAB. Being the big softie that I am, I shed a tear watching the movie, but I didn't make any noise as if I was crying, I just sat there in silence and let a few tears run down. I could hear this mad sobbing behind me, very girly sounding, but because nearly every woman infront of me was crying I thought nothing of it, so I didn't turn around. Imagine my surprise when the movie ended and when I stood up, I noticed the girly sounding crying behing me was actually coming from a bloke. His girlfriend held his arm and accompanied him out. I broke a smile but noone else seems to notice or care, they were all too busy finishing their sobbing and asking eachother for tissues to see it!

Paddy :D
 
When I saw Robin Hood Prince of Thieves in a cinema in Glasgow, the entire audiance cheered at the end when Sean Connery appeared.

The b/f was mortified during Return of the King - not only did he have me sobbing like a baby on one side of him, but there was a rather skinny, geeky looking chap sitting on his other side doing the same!
 
I'm pretty sure it was 1978, and the Dominion Tottenham Court Road.


btw, the Star Wars Marathon day last month was 15 hours of weird experiences. Highlights included -

3 Darth Mauls having a pee.
Noisiest ever audience.
Standing ovation at the end.
Man in cubicle making odd noises - then loudly apologising for throwing up because he was so excited.
 
I was in the cinema once a a pyshical fight started. it led outside so we went to watch :D but then the police arrested loaRAB of people so not really a cinema experience.
 
Went to see Basic Instinct with three frienRAB at the local flea pit cinema. It was during the afternoon, and as we took our seats we thought that there was no one else in the cinema.

About half way through, after a rather *cough* graphic scene, there was an almighty grunt followed by sigh from a couple of rows behind us. We all turned round to see what had happened to see an old man hurredly zipping up his trousers as he made his way out of the row.

Kinda spoilt the experience...
 
Another weird experience i had at the cinema was when me & some mates went to see Scream 2.There was these 2 girls in the row in front of us who basically seemed to scream out loud at anything.Someone opens up a door slowly & they would scream or someone goes to turn the light on & they would scream so basically they were spoiling the movie for others.So my mate who was in the row behind them crept along just as the music was building up & he went BOO in a loud voice & these 2 girls let out this big scream at which point someone who worked in the cinema showed up & told us if there was anymore carry on we would be out.
 
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