Your Best and Worst Cinema Experiences

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by Godzilla » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:17 pm

Since lockdown has taken cinema away form most of us, I thought we could share our best/worst cinema experiences.

Best

Willow - the first film I ever picked myself. Based off the movie poster. An epic film and those bloody trolls and pigs. Still unsettling.

Predators - a cinema full of men of a certain age all geeking out over the return of the Predator.

Mad Max Fury Road - after the first big chase the entire audience let out a collective breath. Such a good film.

The last jedi - epic moment on screen, two ships collide, we all hold our breath and one bloke goes "woahhh" in the silence that follows and everyone starts laughing.

Worst

Skyfall - a dad took his son who asked questions every few seconds. (He was 28 years old etc)

The Wicker Man (remake) a woman sat and talked to her sleeping husband all the way through it. She was told to be quiet and was for a few minutes before starting again.

Jurassic World - Sunderland Empire - the couple sat next to us dropped something on the ground. I try to focus on the film but they are on the floor two lighters swaying above their heads like they are at a Genesis gig.

The rise of Skywalker - gooseberry fool film but made shitter as the screen was green for the first 15 minutes. Everything had a strong green tinge. Eventually they turned if off, then made us wait 30 minutes. Then we had to sit through the film again. The green was probably the soul of Yoda trying to escape the terrible movie.

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by OrangeRKN » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:23 pm

When school broke up for summer holidays it would always be a half day, and being right near the city centre there would be a mass exodus of students to the cinema. I can't recall any of the actual films we saw now so hard to call it the best experience but they are very fondly remembered days nonetheless!

A few years ago I saw an Alien and Aliens double bill, they are two of my favourite films and it was brilliant to see them on the big screen.

Mad Max Fury Road was genuinely incredible, I've perhaps never come out of a cinema so buzzing.

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by Zilnad » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:30 pm

Best - 1917 in the Showcase director's lounge. Amazing film at the end of a great date day. Left the cinema in a state of awe like I've never experienced.

Worst - Avengers Endgame. Saw it at Vue on a tiny screen. The sound system was strawberry floated. Too quiet and really crackly. The room was full and I've never heard food munching and sweet rustling so loud. I actually asked my wife if we could leave and see it another time but she wanted to stay. Absolutely ruined my first experience of the film and I'll never go to Vue again.

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by JT986M2 » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:31 pm

Best:

- Goldeneye - the first time I watched a Bond film in the cinema. It's still my favourite
- The Matrix - saw it in the cinema when it was re-released for a short period last year. Seeing it on the big screen was amazing.
- Avengers: Endgame - very cinematic and the ending of 10+ years worth of films. Plus I was on holiday so I saw it at 11am on a weekday and it was dead.
- X-Men - my first experience of comic books coming to life on screen. Blew my 12 year old mind. Spider-Man (2002) too
- The Fellowship of The Ring - Just :shock:. Return of the King might have pipped it, but I was dying for a pee for a good 50% of that film after ordering a huge drink
- Batman Begins. The only film I've watched multiple times in the cinema.

Worst:

- Pineapple Express - possibly the shittest film I've ever watched in the cinema. If I was on my own I'd have walked out, but I was with a group who had things planned afterwards. It's the only film I've ever considered walking out off.

Bonus round: 'The One That Got Away'

- Terminator 2 - I was obviously way too young when it first came out, but I'd still love to see it on the big screen.
- Aliens. Ditto.
- Pirates of the Caribbean - I genuinely thought it was going to be terrible based on the trailers. So I opted not to go when my friends went, and they had a great time. They were coincidentally sat next to the girl I fancied at the time to rub salt in the wound.

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PostRe: Your Best and Worst Cinema Experiences
by Captain Kinopio » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:38 pm

Best

Lord of the Rings - Couldn't tell you much about the experiences now but ROTK is one of about 3 films I've seen more than once in the cinema. All magical experiences that turned me into a life long fan.

Avengers Infinity War - Just blown away at the scope, humour, drama, strawberry float yeah moments and that ending. Phenomenal stuff and a worthy culmination of a decade of story telling (yes I know Endgame).

Worst

Mesrine - I think this was in my snooty about film phase and the lights were on in the cinema throughout. When I told someone they gave me a snotty, they're emergency lights excuse.

Elysium - Was really excited for the film and some dick was clapping and whooping, repeating dialogue and laughing at nothing throughout. He was sat right behind me so after about 20 minutes I turned round and told him loudly to shut the strawberry float up. Guy next to him told me he had some mental incapacity and couldn't help it.

Numerous other bad ones to be honest as generally people are wankers in cinemas.

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by 7256930752 » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:43 pm

Good idea for a thread

Best

Jurassic Park
I didn't always have the best relationship with my dad growing up but I remember him taking me to see this and having nightmare for weeks :lol:. So good.

Independence Day
I'm sure this was the was the first film the Dundee Odeon showed in surround sound. It really changed the cinematic experience.

Avengers: Infinity War
Decided to try the 4DX screen and it really made the experience. It's felt a bit pointless on films I've seen since but I loved every second of that film. I went to see it again in...2D? It definitely felt like something was missing.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
I was really looking forward to this and it didn't disappoint. I genuinely thought the film was only half way through when the credits rolled.

Worst

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
After loving TPM as a 12 year old this film could not be saved by youthful enthusiasm. Couldn't wait for it to be over.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
After TFA bringing me back around in Star Wars this was right back to the prequels. I remember walking out and my missus asking "did you love it" and saying "not at all".

Jurassic Park: The Lost World
On holiday in Devon and the cinemas air conditioning had stopped working.

Die Another Day
Queued for hours to watch that pile of gooseberry fool.

I'm sure I'll think of some more.

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PostRe: Your Best and Worst Cinema Experiences
by Tomous » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:47 pm

Captain Kinopio wrote:Elysium - Was really excited for the film and some dick was clapping and whooping, repeating dialogue and laughing at nothing throughout. He was sat right behind me so after about 20 minutes I turned round and told him loudly to shut the strawberry float up. Guy next to him told me he had some mental incapacity and couldn't help it.



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PostRe: Your Best and Worst Cinema Experiences
by Memento Mori » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:50 pm

Worst

Venom- Guy comes in five minutes after the film starts and sits two seats away from me. I'm in the back row and the door is right behind me. His phone is on. Two minutes go past and he's still playing with his phone. I ask him to turn his phone off, he says yeah in a minute. A few minutes later and his phone is still on and I realise at no point has he actually looked at the movie screen, he's just come in to sit down. I ask him again louder to turn his phone off and he tells me to mind my own business. At this point I completely lose it and shout "TURN THE strawberry floating PHONE OFF YOU banana split". Some guy in a row in front leaves the room obviously to get a security guard and phone guy leaves straight after.


Tomb Raider- Again I'm sitting in the back row and there are group of teenage girls sitting in front of me talking through the movie trailers. Already I'm annoyed. Movie starts and they're still talking to each other and playing with their phones. Then one of them stands up and walks over to another to show her a message she's received on her phone. I shout "SIT THE strawberry float DOWN, JESUS CHRIST!". She sits the strawberry float down and they're all silent for the remainder of the film.


Endgame- Surrounded by plebs eating crisps. It's a constant soundtrack for three hours.

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PostRe: Your Best and Worst Cinema Experiences
by JT986M2 » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:53 pm

Captain Kinopio wrote:Elysium - Was really excited for the film and some dick was clapping and whooping, repeating dialogue and laughing at nothing throughout. He was sat right behind me so after about 20 minutes I turned round and told him loudly to shut the strawberry float up. Guy next to him told me he had some mental incapacity and couldn't help it.


Oh man. That's the cinema equivalent of that episode of The Inbetweeners when they went to Thorpe Park

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by OrangeRKN » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:54 pm

JT986M2 wrote:
Captain Kinopio wrote:Elysium - Was really excited for the film and some dick was clapping and whooping, repeating dialogue and laughing at nothing throughout. He was sat right behind me so after about 20 minutes I turned round and told him loudly to shut the strawberry float up. Guy next to him told me he had some mental incapacity and couldn't help it.


Oh man. That's the cinema equivalent of that episode of The Inbetweeners when they went to Thorpe Park


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PostRe: Your Best and Worst Cinema Experiences
by Memento Mori » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:56 pm

Remembered another

The Lighthouse- Some old guy a few seats away is talking to himself/muttering for the entire film. When the mermaid appears he goes "Oh a beasty!". I try to resist the urge to chastise someone obviously mentally gone.

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PostRe: Your Best and Worst Cinema Experiences
by Memento Mori » Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:00 pm

JT986M2 wrote:
Captain Kinopio wrote:Elysium - Was really excited for the film and some dick was clapping and whooping, repeating dialogue and laughing at nothing throughout. He was sat right behind me so after about 20 minutes I turned round and told him loudly to shut the strawberry float up. Guy next to him told me he had some mental incapacity and couldn't help it.


Oh man. That's the cinema equivalent of that episode of The Inbetweeners when they went to Thorpe Park

There was a downs syndrome kid doing this in my screening of the second Fantastic Beasts film. Thankfully I noticed he had downs syndrome when he walked in.

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by Choclet-Milk » Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:04 pm

Best- Toy Story 4. Early afternoon screening, slap bang in the middle seats, not a single soul in there besides us. Absolute bliss.

Worst- God. Basically any other visit. If it's not people on their phones, it's rustling bags, strolling in twenty minutes late using the strawberry floating torch on their phone to find the stairs (they're already strawberry floating lit up!), or in the absolute worst cases, people just having full strawberry floating conversations!

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm willing to pay 4x the normal ticket price for a guaranteed empty screen.

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PostRe: Your Best and Worst Cinema Experiences
by Red » Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:09 pm

Thor Ragnarok is the only time I've walked out during a film and demanded a refund, because of the dickhead BELLOWING with laughter right behind me every time someone spoke on screen.

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PostRe: Your Best and Worst Cinema Experiences
by Ironhide » Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:10 pm

Captain Kinopio wrote:Worst

Elysium - Was really excited for the film and some dick was clapping and whooping, repeating dialogue and laughing at nothing throughout. He was sat right behind me so after about 20 minutes I turned round and told him loudly to shut the strawberry float up. Guy next to him told me he had some mental incapacity and couldn't help it.

Numerous other bad ones to be honest as generally people are wankers in cinemas.


:lol:

One of my worst cinema experiences would be Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, not because the film was particularly bad (it's not brilliant but its utterly hilarious in places and I lost it during the rhino scene) but around halfway through the film I shoved a handful of sweets into my mouth (Minstrels) and genuinely thought I'd been poisoned as I was hit by the taste of anti-freeze/paint thinner and my throat began to close up along with feeling extremely hot, this lasted around five minutes but I felt ill for the rest of the day and threw up when I got home.

I still have no idea what caused it (panic attack possibly as I have had them a few times minus the chemical taste) and still can't bring myself to eat Minstrels.

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by OrangeRKN » Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:20 pm

I'm very good at focusing on a single thing and filtering out anything unrelated. This causes problems with me apparently even replying to my girlfriend in conversations with no recollection because I'm e.g. playing a game, or completely missing something else happening in the room and even within eyesight, but it has the great advantage of me never being annoyed by another person in a cinema :lol:

We've come out of screenings before with my girlfriend complaining about the people behind talking all the way through and me having no recollection of that at all.

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by Frank » Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:36 pm

Genuinely think that the two final Avengers films have ruined every other big release at the cinema for me. It was so unusual to be in a huge room full of people all totally fixated on the same thing. No phones, no obnoxious chatting, barely any rustling, and the atmosphere was electric.

The cheer that went up during Endgame when Cap grabbed Mjolnir was insane. Goosebumps.

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by sawyerpip » Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:37 pm

Some of my best:

Independence Day - I remember this being one of the first films I was really excited for after seeing it at number 1 for ages on the US Box Office countdowns they'd show on Sky Movies. I was only 7 but saw it at our local cinema which would let kids in to watch anything and as a child I thought it was one of the best films ever :lol:

Terminator 2 - Saw this recently when it was re-released in the cinema for its 3D release. One of the all time greatest action films, and the helicopter chase scene in particular was fantastic on the big screen.

The Force Awakens - I went to the midnight showing for this and it was just great fun.

The Phantom Menace - yes really :lol: I was a child and couldn't wait for this film, somehow I enjoyed it despite the trade politics bollocks. Jar Jar wasn't quite as offensively bad when you're only 10 either.

The Hangover - Bit of an odd one but I saw this on an impromptu trip to the cinema after there was nothing else showing that took our fancy, and I knew nothing about the film before going in so it was a nice surprise that it was genuinely hilarious.

Interstellar - The docking scene is probably the best thing I've ever seen in a cinema.

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PostRe: Your Best and Worst Cinema Experiences
by Grumpy David » Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:37 pm

Best: Avengers Infinity Wars and also Endgame

Doesn't really need an explanation! Saw it in the extra large screen that Cineworld has in 2D of course because 3D can strawberry float off. 11 years of build up and 20 movies creating a wonderfully fun universe with amazing "strawberry float Yeah" moments and the whole audience was totally engrossed.

Other noteworthy mentions to The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. Saw them in true IMAX screens which made the specific scenes incredible.

Worst:

I'm very lucky in that I can't remember other people being so annoying as to ruin a movie experience for me. I actually can't think of the worst movie I've seen in cinema either. Probably Spiderman 3 because at the time I absolutely loved the first 2 Spiderman movies (not seen in years so no idea how well they hold up these days) and it was bitterly disappointing and very surprising at just how awful it was compared to Spiderman 2.

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by more heat than light » Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:48 pm

On my Return Of The King viewing the film actually cut out just as Frodo was about to throw the ring in the fire. We had to file out of the cinema while they fixed it. When we got back in the film had moved on ten minutes. Eventually they sorted it out and moved it to the right place, but it kinda killed the movie.

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