So I went to an early showing this afternoon of BvS and I walked out of a movie for the first time in my life. The movie theater was maybe 40% full and I took my place as the first previews rolled. The guy two seats over was asleep and had a big black backpack in the chair between us. Didn't think anything of it. The movie starts and guy wakes up. He's pale and just has this really odd stare/in the zone/had 5 too many red bulls. Maybe about 35-40 minutes into the movie, he slowly moves his back pack into his lap and slowly unzips it. I think the only reason I noticed it was because of how slow he was being. He starts messing around with something in the bag and proceeds to do so for the next 10 minutes when I decided to leave. This included a clicking sound that I just couldn't nail down. At this point I've stopped watching the movie and I'm focused on him. I get this bad feeling I used to get when I was a paramedic and we'd have really bad calls. So I got up and left. I'm a gun owner and have chl (wasn't carrying today) and in my head that clicking noise sounded like loading a magazine.

Now obviously nothing happened or it would be all over the news by now as that movie should be over. Maybe it was the ridiculously long work shift and patient load I had today where my brain wasn't working right, but it really freaked me out. Maybe I'm just getting paranoid.

Anyways, what weird things have happened to you in a movie theater.

You didn't tell the manager?

Thats def a creepy story op. You shoulda told the mgr though.

I spoke with mall security and said there was someone acting strange and gave his seat # to them. They said they'd check it out and headed that way. They said I could go.

Coulda been a Pez dispenser

Movie Sex

Responding to your story--it's the world we live in.

You probably wouldn't have made the association of appearance->noise->gun some 20 years ago.

You're absolutely correct. My mind after about 5 minutes jumped to TDKR shooting in CO. I was solely focused on watching his hands. If they came out of the bag fast, I wasn't gonna have a lot of time to lean across the seats to try and pin them to his chest. There was no way I was gonna be able to sit there for another 2 hours so that is when I decided to remove myself from the situation.

I worked in a movie theater for a couple of years during high school/early college. The amount of movie sex was higher than I thought, and never by anyone older than 18. We had a flashlight that bordered on spotlight status just for the occasion.

I worked there when Walking Tall was in theaters (been a few years since then), and there was a guy that watched almost every showing of it. He was a huge fan of The Rock. He would buy a ticket to every showing and stay the entire day watching it over and over.

In the "not weird" category, I had to tell Chuck Norris 'no' twice in one day and lived to talk about it.

I've never had something that creepy happen, but man, I get so pissed at people who use phones/screens in movie theaters...

Years ago, during a showing of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, this woman in front of us would not stop texting. It was one of those steep-seated IMAX theaters, and so I leaned down, lightly tapped the woman's shoulder, and asked her to turn her phone off. She turned around, looked at me like I was crazy, didn't say a word, and went right back to texting. So then I kind of nudged her shoulder and said, "PLEASE turn your phone off." Again, she looked at me like I was insane, and said it was an emergency with her daughter. "If it's really an emergency, then go outside," I said. She didn't respond. Kept texting. So, finally - and I still kind of feel bad about this - I really shoved the hell out her shoulder hard and said, "Turn your f***king phone off." Well, she was technically sitting directly in front of one my friends, who was to my right, and this woman's huge, black boyfriend - who I failed to see - was sitting next to her right. And at that moment, the boyfriend STANDS UP, turns around, and starts yelling - at the top of his lungs - at my friend to my right, who was scared sh*tless. Ha, he though it was him and he's literally yelling at him to quit touching his wife, that their daughter is having an emergency, etc. And then like five or six people - from all parts of a packed theater - yell back, "Then leave!" "Go outside!" etc. A moment later they did just that, and everyone clapped sarcastically as they left. It was hilarious.

Another "altercation" I had was with some idiot at a showing of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. It was a big action sequence in a forest, and all the sudden this guy like five rows in front of us holds up his IPAD - with both arms, high above his head - and starts filming the scene. A couple people yelled at him to quit, but he wouldn't stop. So I had this big wad of napkins in my hand and half-finished coke. I take the napkins, dip them in the coke, make a wet, sticky ball, lined up my shot, threw it... and NAILED the iPad right on the screen, as the wet wad then fell into the guy's lap. Our whole row saw me do this and cheered. The guy then immediately pulled his iPad down, packed it up in a backpack, and left. To this day, it's one of my great accomplishments in life.

I've never seen two people have sex in a movie theater, and I think I'm actually kind of jealous. Of both you and them.

The Alamo Drafthouse is the best

Oh, man. That is amazing. I've still somehow never seen a movie at an Alamo Drafthouse.

It sounds like you made the right call to leave. A few months ago, I took the kids out of a movie because someone was behaving suspiciously and my husband wasn't there (he's always armed when we leave the house). This guy also had a bag - like a duffel bag, and he wasn't watching the movie at all. Changed seats a few times even though the theater had assigned seats, kept looking around... Probably just high on something, but I decided better safe than sorry.

Since then I haven't taken the kids alone by myself and I probably won't until they're much older. We've coached them what to do if someone starts shooting. Paranoid, perhaps, but this is the world we live in.

I would not aggressively initiate physical contact In a theatre, nor would I throw dirty napkins on an iPad.

That would be creepy.

Nothing too weird when I've gone.
I recently started listening to the We Hate Movies podcast, and they recently read a listener letter in which he went to the bathroom at the movies and the guy in the stall next to him was furiously masturbating.


TC,

Any stories about celebs/film industry people doing weird things at the theater?

Bye Felicia

I've seen plenty of celebs in the theater, but no, unfortunately I've never seen one do anything weird.

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What?! Man that's hard to believe...

For all of you in Dallas, the new one in south downtown is amazing. So glad it's finally open.

Funny story: at the first showing of Revenge of the Sith the projector bulb must have gone out, because the screen went blank but you could still hear the movie.

The opening scene was Obi-Wan and Anakin in their starfighters and that pretty cool space battle. We could hear it, but not see it. The crowd quickly got irritated and vocal, so I acted fast. I stuck my hands straight up and their shadow was projected up on the screen. I made shadow spaceships and proceeded to 'act out' the battle for the audience. That lightened the mood until they got everything working. They didn't rewind the film at first, but the crowd got vocal again and they started the film over from the beginning.

You would lose your ever-loving mind going to a movie in the UAE. Emiratis are the WORST moviegoers in the history of film. They talk on their phones, text, talk loudly to one another, walk around. The premiers of both The Hunger Games and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 were absolutely ruined for me. And you can't say anything to them lest you piss off the wrong person and get deported.

We did a showing of something similar to Kings of Comedy. It was one showing in our smallest theater. Ten minutes in you could smell the weed all the way down the hall. Luckily it was the weekend and some cops were working security for us. They called a few on duty cops and they hauled around 30 people out in handcuffs for several drug and a few gun charges. The entire theater was smoked out.

He was probably just illegally recording the movie.

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I love Alamo!!!! They had another marketing deal about this years ago where before the movie started, for public awareness they showed a real security cam video of them having to stop a movie to throw out someone.....freikin awesome!

This has made me lol. What a great thread.
I've had a very loud farter in front of me before. Larger dude would just lift one leg, kind of push a little sound out of his mouth and then a huge fart followed by a sigh of relief. No lie maybe 8 massive farts.
I was guilty of buying tickets to the Big Green with my jr high gf only to sneak into Seven. We literally made out for 2 hours straight. Just kissing, for so long. Why is that cool to jr high kids? If my wife wanted to make out for 2 hrs straight, I'd tell her to take a hike.

Sorry I sat in front of you.

Once saw a kid in his late teens bump a little kid on purpose walking to his seat and talked smack afterwards like he was some badass. Little did he know the boy had a very large father waiting for him in his seat. The dad stood up, asked him why he pushed his boy, the teen decided to buck up and was knocked out cold with one punch. Heard the dads other kids yell out "daddy, don't go to jail again!". They all left before security could come - not sure if he ever got in trouble.

Not a weird story, but one of my favorites to tell:

I was about 15 when Once Upon a Time In Mexico came out. Rated R and we were in a city where they were big sticklers about carding you for age. My brother said to just pick a film with a similar time and buy a ticket.

Walked up and looked at the options in a panic, before finally saying "Um...... one for Seabiscuit, please?"

Still probably the lamest thing I've ever said. The thought of seeing Seabiscuit in a theater by myself in high school still makes me laugh. I really wanted to reassure the guy that I was cooler than that and was definitely sneaking in to another film, but... alas.

used to work at a theater and this same portly guy would buy a ticket, go buy a big tub of popcorn and watch people play video games... from about 15 ft back. We called him the butt-watcher. I don't think he ever actually watched a movie.

Don't remember the movie but there was a guy sitting in front of my girlfriend and I that every so often would pull his foot up/lean over and appear to like chew on it or something. Yep.

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Went to see a movie about 3-4 years ago with my wife, I can't remember the exact movie but it was one that everyone knew had some violence and a little blood. Anyway about 30-45 minutes I feel a huge thud on the back of my chair and then a top of the lungs woman's scream in my ear. The movie stops, lights come on(with apologies from staff) and come to find out the girl behind me had passed out and awoke screaming because she was scared. The paramedics had to take her out and the movie resumed. Her friend told those of us around that she passes out at the sight of blood.

I was glad she was ok but why in the holy f*** would you go to a movie with violence when you know you pass out at the sight of blood.

Had someone roll up and threaten kill me as a couple friends and I were leaving a theater one night. Followed us around as we walked around the center. Eventually got to my car and hit the gas only to be pulled over by a constable. Told him what happened and he left us to look for the other car.

Another time sat next to some maybe teenage kids who looked like they were trying to have sex but weren't sure how.

Haven't been a big of the movie theater experience in a long time.

I remember once back in 2000, we went to see a movie (I think it was Gladiator) and saw some people going in to see Battlefield Earth...that was weird.