I forget what Fang and I were at (Stop making sense, or some similar thing) at the New Art, with Mark.

The lights came up, two cops walked in, went to some guy on the aisle, said, "You should have known better than that," and led him out.

The lights went down and the movie continued.

That wasn't the worst, just the most memorable.

I think the worst was probably when we went to see "Dance with a stranger" because it was a horrible film that kept seeming like it was going to turn into something one cared about.

It's one of the few cases where I really feel I lost a couple hours of my life I'll never get back, and the pleasant company I was in didn't make up for it.

It's been twenty years and I still feel cheated.

TK

i went to see Thelma & Louise on a first date.

Oh, it was so dark, there were so many. And interestingly enough, many of them would indeed have been helped by having an usher. Maybe. There was the huge and threatening black guy at the Egyptian, I think it was, who would not shut up despite being yelled at and kept talking back to the movie. There was the kid (presumably) at the Edwards in Triangle Square who thought it was just incredibly cool and funny to play with his laser pointer making little laserium squiggles on the screen throughout the movie. Probably the worst was that guy in the porn theater, though.

But there have been the more technical bummers, as well. The second-run dollar theater that had managed to put some Jean Claude Van Damme action movie on the platter wrong, so that reel 5 was spliced in *before* reel 4, and had apparently been running that way all week. There was the revivial showing of HARVEY where something was increasingly wrong with the projector, so the movie kept getting dimmer and dimmer until it was impossible to see it -- they had to just refund us on that one. And there was the silent movie we went to see where there was a power failure in the entire block the theater was in, and while we were waiting to see if it would come back, and the manager was vamping up front talking about the movie and the theater and the organ and so forth under the emergency lights, some woman had a schizo-street-person psychotic break and started screaming at him about stuff that didn't make any sense at all.

But the guy is right -- what matters most in all of this is that one way or another, we weren't able to watch the damn' movie in peace. If they can get that part nailed, the rest will follow.

jhimm - Yikes. Uh, was there a second date?

The worst one I remember is going to see one of the Star Wars movies a few years ago. We went to a 10:00 movie to avoid kids. It didn't work. 2 kids, an 8 and 10 year old without any parents with them, sat next to us and then yelled at the top of their lungs "shut up Jar Jar" anytime Jar Jar Binks came on the screen. They informed us that they had seen the movie 3x already.

Mike had to tell them to shut the fuck up.

1) Why are young kids going to 10:100 movies?
2) Why didn't they have any parental supervision?
3) Who gives their kids the money to see a movie 4x?

Ulrika - I just remembered my worst experience. When Lora, Jason, Chris and I went to see the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The place was crowded. We were trying to find seats together. Finally found them in the _front_ row and this guy walks up and starts sitting down and I turned to him and said, "I'm sorry those are taken." and he literally jumped up and yelled, "You have GOT to be F*CKING kidding me!" and looked like he was ready to hit someone. We then realized we didn't need all the seats and he came back and sat at the end of the row two seats away from Jason (we put Jason near him figuring...well, you know how big Jason is - nobody messes with Jason). But it was very freaky thinking this guy could go postal. So we moved one row back and away when a group of people unexpectedly moved....stay.away.from.the.crazy.mofo.

Highlander II: The Quickening

Nuff said.

"Probably the worst was that guy in the porn theater, though."
I can't imagine what this guy did that was _surprising_ to see in a porn theater. And was this B.P. (before PeeWee) or A.C.E. (After Comic Ejaculation)

kristin - My question would be: who the hell would pay to see Episode I more than once?? :-)

I hate seeing a late film and there are kids. Hates it. Especially R rated films. There are times I may want to see a particular movie with kids. But, at 10p.m., no.

Frodo - *snort*

Leprechaun II

I think it was Episode 2. The one where jar jar comes back but only for a few minutes here and there.

Jay-

Jacking off in porn theaters is typical, and expected. Following other people *around* the porn theater, to make sure they're near enough to you to watch you do it, even when they get up and walk away multiple times, is not.