Best/Worst Cinema Experience

[velo army]

21 minutes ago, Bert Raccoon said:

We actually watched Under Siege on the way to Alton Towers, very surprised the teachers allowed it tbh but there was a massive cheer on the bus when Erika Eleniak popped out a cake with no top on 

Fairly sure the male teachers kent the score exactly here.

[BFTD]

I guess watching videos on coach trips must have been common; I went on a school trip to Spain in the early Nineties and we were asked to bring a video so we'd have a library to watch on the way (36 hours on a bus; f**k's sake). I took Life of Brian, which was the final pick as none of the other kids had heard of it. I was the hero of the bus for two hours as everyone loved it and the other films had either been pish or everyone had seen them a million times before.

I've walked out of three films; Peter Jackson's King Kong, and two others that I can't remember anymore, so they must have been really memorable. I had Cineworld Unlimited when I walked out of King Kong, so I knew I could just walk into something better; it was sinfully boring, like a lot of Peter Jackson's output since he got to Hollywood and set about slavishly adapting/remaking the fiction of his youth.

[scottsdad]

I walked out of Lincoln. Utter pish.

[coprolite]

Best for me was Mike Leigh's Naked in the cinema tent at Glastonbury in the early nineties.

For those that don't know the film, it's a darkly comic, melodramatic, meditation on alienation and cycles of abuse in the modern urban world. I've heard it called pretentious shite but i love it.

Watched while sitting on grass, leaning on a bale of hay, tripping on strawberries and caning through the eighth of soap bar that my mate had just found on the ground.

Went outside to 28° heat, bright sunshine then off to see the Beastie Boys (if i remember correctly which i almost certainly don't).  

[PrestersKTID]

Best - Probably Django unchained or inglorious basterds. Hadn't seen any Tarrantino films before watching Basterds and was blown away by Christoph Waltz, just a superb film. Django if anything i enjoyed more, Waltz again superb but Di Caprio and Samuel L Jackson also played great characters.
 

Worst - Star Wars the last Jedi or rise of skywalker. (can't remember which one which says a lot) 

Was buzzing to watch it as the force awakens had a tonne of nostalgia which carried it, 

Experience became an anticlimax when the movie crashed about 10 mins in then restarted for a minute then crashed again then the lights came on and about a half hour later it started again....from the start...then restarted from where we left off. Proper scunnered and then the film didn't live up to expectations anyway.

[DeeTillEhDeh]

On 19/04/2024 at 11:16, pozbaird said:

I’ve only been to the cinema once in goodness knows how long, and that was on a trip to London where the opportunity arose to see the Bond movie ‘Spectre’ at The Odeon on Leicester Square when it was just out. The reason I stopped going to the cinema isn’t because of a particularly shite experience with a guff movie, it was because of endless shite experiences caused by some members of Joe Public. I seem to attract them… the loud slurping popcorn crunching, talking all the way though the film, snottery sniffing types… maybe it’s me, because at gigs, I seem to end up these days with a gaggle of lassies near me who just shout at each other throughout the gig. I was a baw’ hair away once from just saying to them ‘what’s the fcuking point of you gobby shites buying tickets for this? Fcuk off to the pub’… but I didn’t, I thought it mind you, but I just moved away to another bit of the venue.

Don’t want to come over as a killjoy auld kunt, I’m really not. Not looking for absolute silence or anything, just getting a low tolerance level these days for the loud gobshite concert shouters, or the snottery sniffers sat next to me anywhere. Hurrumph x 2.

Anyway, the cinema, aye, so, will never forget back in the day, going to a screening of Led Zeppelin’s concert movie ‘The Song Remains The Same’ when I’d not seen them live yet, and was before videos never mind DVD or BluRay… it was in the Classic Grand porn cinema in Glasgow. Just thinking back while typing this gives me the boak… the venue that is, not the movie, even if it is self indulgent and wanky 1970’s excess… in fact, the perfect cinema for wanky 1970s excess, when you think about it.

My pet hates are food, chatterboxes, mobile morons and adults taking kids who really shouldn't be at tge film.

Thankfully I've found that using my app I can move seats away from the morons.

When I worked in London, the best place to avoid those morons was the National Film Theatre. 

At that time you were not allowed food or drink in full stop.  Anyone with a mobile phone out would face the wrath of the ever-vigilant staff (and customers). And god forbid if you tried to talk!!

They've relaxed the rules since but still have a ban on hot food, savoury food and popcorn.

Funnily enough, my worst experience (but also memorable fir all the wrong reasons) was also in London at the Streatham Odeon.  The film started and half the audience were still on mobiles and/or chatting.  This went on for 10-15 minutes until a 6ft 6" Irishman and built like a brick shithouse stood up a screamed that he was going to break the fucking hands off anyone who didn't put their phone away.  As you can imagine, it being London, some arsehole took him up on his offer and all hell broke loose.  I just scarpered as I could see where this was heading.

 

Edited May 2 by DeeTillEhDeh

[scottsdad]

I have remembered a good one for me.

The very first time I saw The Godfather was at the McRobert in Stirling. It had an intermission and a bar, so I managed to grab a drink half way through. 

Seeing that movie, for the very first time, on the big screen was tremendous. 

I also saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show there, with students performing the film as it was playing behind them. That wasn't quite as good. 

[BFTD]

1 hour ago, scottsdad said:

I also saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show there, with students performing the film as it was playing behind them. That wasn't quite as good. 

I've known people who were brought along to showings of Rocky Horror and weren't warned by their mates beforehand. They seemed traumatised.

[tamthebam]

I was with a bird at a showing of "The Dish" (decent movie) at the Dominion. 

Some b*****d horribly let off in front of us and we were silently blaming each other for it. 

[tamthebam]

On 23/04/2024 at 09:24, scottsdad said:

I walked out of Lincoln. Utter pish.

Spoiler:

Spoiler

He gets shot at the end. Happy to help

 

[BFTD]

4 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

I was with a bird at a showing of "The Dish" (decent movie) at the Dominion. 

Some b*****d horribly let off in front of us and we were silently blaming each other for it. 

It doesn't happen often, but one of the shameful joys in life is producing a horrific fart in a public area and listening to people blame each other for it.

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1 minute ago, tamthebam said:

Spoiler:

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He gets shot at the end. Happy to help

 

Are you sure? There's always that slight doubt since Tarantino brought out Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Edited May 3 by BFTD

[tamthebam]

1 minute ago, BFTD said:

It doesn't happen often, but one of the shameful joys in life is producing a horrific fart in a public area and listening to people blame each other for it.

So it was YOU. You b*****d! 

[BFTD]

[BFTD]

I've just remembered seeing Arachnophobia in the cinema.

I've never been in an audience that was quite so involved in a film. Grown men and women loudly yelping throughout and a general "I don't like this" vibe all round. When John Goodman shows up to save the day, a massive cheer of relief. I've seen all sorts of horror films with other people, but none had the audience freaking out as much as a PG movie about spiders.

Also saw the Kubrick/Spielberg film AI in the cinema, and there was a proper argument started towards the end. It's a very bad film that relies upon tugging the audience's heartstrings and fails miserably, so it becomes pretty funny as a result, and half the audience started laughing at the unintentional comedy. Turns out that some people were finding it terribly moving; eventually they began standing up and throwing tearstained insults at the rest of the audience for laughing at their very serious robot drama, which caused even more laughter. Just a very surreal experience, and I was a bit relieved that it ended before any fists started flying (or worse; this was in America).