Your most uncomfortable times at the cinema.

Are you refering to the lesbian sex scene?
Man, that must have been embarrasing. lol

Watching The People vs. Larry Flynt. Don't get me wrong, the movie was great, but it was a bit akward when your there with both of your parents. It was Mom's idea to boot.

The first memory that pops to mind was watching Cameron Crowe's Singles with my parents on the VHS. Watching a fantasy basketball player urging Campbell Scott to ejaculate and an abortion plot twist do not a happy conservative father make.

When I saw The Fellowship of the Ring with my dad. He was just weirdly and vocally upset about the whole thing. He kept asking why they gave the ring to the children, and repeatedly saying "WHY DON'T THEY JUST THROW OUT THE RING?!?"

Realizing that the one stinking up the whole room, reeking of garlic is you (long story) and running out of the theater.

I remember you mentioning this in past threads. Still makes me LOLZers.

It's both the best and worst moment in a theater for me.

Bearing witness to a stabbing in a theater is pretty damn uncomfortable.

The time I saw "Home Alone" and right before the movie, some fat kid started running up the aisle until he made it to my row and puked his guts out, leaving the fantastic scent of bile hanging in the air for the duration of the flick.

The time some jerkoff told me to step outside after I asked him politely to shut the fuck up at "The Lost World." I didn't go, but damn, just sitting there for another hour or so wondering what was going to happen once the credits rolled was not my best movie-going experience.

The time I had to take the biggest, most grandiose piss of my life...5 minutes into "Hellboy."

The time my then-girlfriend and I got into an argument about foreplay about 30 seconds before "Revenge of the Sith" started, leaving the conversation unfinished and giving her 2 hours and 20 minutes to stew over it.

When I worked at a theater after high school and found a used condom in the front row of the one I was cleaning. That was uncomfortable.

What did the argument consist of?

I won't go into details, as it's a personal matter, but...

My wife and I hit a rough patch in our marriage about 3 years ago. We went and saw a movie while we were in the rebuilding stage, and there was a scene in the movie that we were watching that was a direct reference to the issue that caused our problem. We should have left the movie at that point, but we stuck it out and had a MAJOR fight on the way home.

We're good and strong now, but there is no way in hell that I will ever watch that movie again, much less bring it up.

Oh shit, just reading that makes me uncomfortable. Yikes.

Seeing End of Days with my mom at 13. More specifically, the scene where Gabriel Byrne has the threesome with the mother and daughter.

I went to see Raiders of the Lost Ark and realized about a half hour in that Hitler was sitting right behind me. Awkward.

Why the fuck do I not remember this?

hahahaha.

Watching Kingdom of Heaven with a blind date, whom you realize you don't want anything to do with, but feel obliged to follow through and finish the date.


Yeah, I'm lame.

I've had some weird theater moments with my parents. My mom was desperate for some mommy-daughter quality time once, so she threw the paper at me and told me to pick any movie and she'd spring for it. I picked Team America. She still hasn't fully forgiven me.

I asked her to buy tickets for myself and my BFF Christie for an R-rated comedy. We were both 13 at the time and couldn't get tix ourselves. She decided to tag along and brought my younger sister, who was about eight at the time(why she brought an 8 yr old into an R-rated movie, I still don't get). Christie and I were in the middle of the theater, while mom and lil sis grabbed two seats on the side of the theater. The movie was There's Something About Mary. I swear, I did not know about the jerk-off scene, and when it started, I could feel my mom's eyes on me. Later, she told me that she'd fallen asleep, but my sister frantically shook her awake and cried out, "Mommy, what's he DOING?" Needless to say, she was fucking horrified.

I'd gone to see some movie with my lil sis, and our dad was our ride home, but he was in a screening of Bad Boys 2. It was still going after our movie ended, and the usher guy said it was fine for us to go into the screening and sit with him. We walked in, but didn't want to crawl over people to find him, so we sat in the very front. It was right at the end as they are standing in the mine field. When the baddie took the bullet to the forehead, I blurted out "Holy SHIT!" before I realized what I'd even said. The whole theater erupts in laughter. As the credits start to roll and we walk out, my dad is standing there with his arms crossed, shaking his head and chuckling. He just looked at me and said, "I knew it was you". That's the first time he ever heard me cuss

Going to get a bit personal here:

Took my then girlfriend to see What Lies Beneath. We were new parents at the time and as such didn't get much "alone" time. So things got a bit hot in the movie theatre and I ended up letting my fingers do the walking if you know what I mean (she was wearing a skirt).

We were sitting at the back and the theatre was mostly empty, so we thought we had gotten away with it. Until we went to leave. A manager confronted us on the way out and asked if we had a minute. We went to his office and were shown a night vision video of us, midway through our own little show. Since when do movie theatres employ fucking night vision cameras in the screening rooms?!?!?!

After scaring us with the possibility of phoning the police and charging us with indecency, he relented with a 6 month ban from the theatre.

Certainly made What Lies Beneath memorable...

Abe Lincoln wins this thread.

For me it was a really bad date with a girlfriend who treated me like shit (I was too much of a pussy to call her out on it) and gave me The Silent Treatment during The Matrix Reloaded. It would have been bad enough if it weren't one of the most disappointing movies ever.

Uh, did you get that video back, Krish-O?!

I'll do you one better: I saw this on TV with my family and blurted out "Awesome."

Nope. It's probably on the internet somewhere though.

Batman and Robin.

Ironic title, considering the circumstances.

Yeah, it was both my most comfortable time at the movies, followed quickly by my most uncomfortable. I'm all about the extreme highs and lows.

I said the same thing when Byrne started to pee crude oil.

Truly the last fun Arnold movie.

Oh, you think you're bad, huh? You're a fucking choir boy compared to me! A CHOIR BOY!

I remember this - I died laughing when you posted that, it was hilarious.

Yeah, nudity on film and parents are not a good mix.
I didn't learn this lesson with The Ninth Gate or The Hollow Man so I guess it's my fault for inviting my friends and my dad to see Tomcats for my 15th birthday. Not even halfway through, my dad makes us all leave and gives a lecture on why it's inappropriate for us to watch dirty movies like that. I guess he realized this was embarrassing so to make up for it, he took us to see Exit Wounds. Jerry O'Connell, Steven Seagal and embarrassment; such a shitty day at the movies.

I had a similar thing happen watching High Fidelity in the theater with my girlfriend at the time. Makes me wince thinking about it even now.

I started scrolling back up the thread looking for a user named "Abe Lincoln" when I read this. I'm ashamed.

Yes, because naked boobies are far more offensive than brutal, bloody violence. Gotta love North American standards.

I got dome from a girl I met that night, while my buddy got dome from his girlfriend right next to me. Somewhat awesome, but there was an elderly couple at the end of the aisle to my left, and a lonely creeper who stared at me from the front row (we were five rows back, nearly empty theatre) the entirety of the...session with a shit eating/rapist grin on his face. He was muttering something to himself, I don't know what.This was in Vienna, and the movie was the first Chronicles of Narnia. I'm not sure really what to think of the whole experience, and whether to place it under awesome or just plain weird.

I took my 8 year old cousin to see Transformers.
Julie White "Were you...masturbating?"
Cousin "Um, what does that word mean?"
Me: Wishing I was elsewhere

I think it's a little of both, but the one thing I can say with some authority is that you were probably the only person on the planet who really enjoyed the first Narnia movie.

You are lucky though that we aren´t at book five already. Having that experience during a movie called "The Horse and his Boy" would spin your words in a way you surely wouldn´t want.

Last year sitting through the first 15 minutes of SuperBad with my mom. I was 23 and was going to see it with some friends but they made other plans. So I had to go to the mall and my mom came with and she wanted to go see it too. After the first 15 minutes where I had to hold back lots of laughter I finally said "lets go see something else". That's the ONLY movie I've ever walked out on because I felt really weird watching it with my mom.

Superbad-I was the only one who laughed at the Orson Welles joke in the beginning. And I laughed really fucking loudly.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix-Discussed this in other threads. The screening started late, and I was joking with one of my employee friends about the possibility of rioting. One of the managers hears this walking by and informs me that if I don't shut my fucking mouth he'll kick me the fuck out of his fucking theater. In front of a news crew (oddly enough I saw the newscaster a little bit later on as it's a small town and he professed that he was very uncomfortable as well). I spent most of the film dwelling on the incident and since I'm a very anxious person by nature to the point of needing medication it soured my evening to say the least. Oddly enough corporate sided with the manager saying that no employee mentioned me making a joke, they all said I threatened the manager. I complained enough that he let it slide and didn't ban me but it still pisses me right the fuck off.

Knocked Up-This one was at home. I'd been trying to get my dad to watch this for a fortnight. He hated The 40 Year Old Virgin to the point that he found it offensive, but I thought this might be different. A friend of his came to town and convinced him to watch it. She apparently had seen a very different movie the first time and was extremely uncomfortable. My dad was horrified (and this is a man that grew up with George Carlin and loves Clerks II. His standards are absolutely bizarre sometimes, the only things that seem to offend him are Apatow films). I was made horrifically uncomfortable.

The Invisible-Girl I was dating at the time and I got a little handsy. Apparently we weren't subtle. We were also on a group date. Needless to say I hear all about it all the time.

Lastly: Sex and the City-When Samantha sees her neighbor's salad fork I let out an audible groan which was meant as "Oh why was that necessary?" but apparently sounded like a "Oh God I want that all up in me" groan. Again, I still hear all about it constantly.

While I don't like to judge based on movies someone likes or dislikes....

You went to the theatre (or left with) some vagina, right? Right?

Well, walking next to me yes.

I went with two of my best friends, one of which is marrying another one of my friends and the other one was not only not legal yet but is one of those girls that you love to hang out with but could never imagine dating.

EDIT: It should also be pointed out that I'm a huge fan of the show and I'm the one who coordinated the outing.

My moment takes place during a showing of The Bourne Identity in a cheap Paragould, AK theater. The way this theater was set up, they had a back row and then another row behind it that was (presumably) designed for disabled people. I have always adhered to the philosophy that he who sits in the back row does not get hit in the head with popcorn, so I chose my seat accordingly. The lights dimmed. The movie began. About the time Matt Damon gets off the boat, I became vaguely aware that some latecomer had entered and wheeled himself down the disabled row, directly behind me.

No problem. But then the noises start. Wet, smacking sounds as whatever was sitting behind me ate, I don't know, worms or something. Just the nastiest sound you could imagine, and along with it, the breathing. Like a half-choking, half-wheezing, half-gurgling kind of thing. Now, around the time Clive Owen bought the farm, I feel this thought coming and I can't stop it: Holy shit, this guy's Mason Verger. That is not a comforting thought by any stretch of the imagination. I was stuck in that horrible position where your instinct is to get the hell out of there and find another seat but your brain tells you that would be highly insensitive so you're suddenly afflicted with paralysis.

I didn't so much as glance in his direction on the way out. The second Moby filled the theater I was gone.

You were dating an invisible girl? wtf?

LMAO... that did come out hilarious.

It would've made the night less awkward that's for sure.

Had random sex with this girl, and she invited me to see a movie the next day. I figured hey, why not, might get lucky again.

It was First Sunday. And it was sold out. She was hell bent on seeing it. We had to sneak in. The whole movie I'm cringing, and everyone around me is laughing hysterically. Did I mention the family of seven sitting next to us, preventing me from even attempting to put my arm around her? To top things off, we drive home in awkward silence and never speak again.

Also, watching Red Dragon as a first date movie? Never a good idea. Or Planet of the Apes. I have really bad date movies.

It's not "at the cinema", but I think my public library viewing of Pink Flamingos was the most uncomfortable I've ever been during a movie. The fact that I had headphones on, so people walking by could only see the images without knowing the context (though, really, no amount of context can make up for the egg loving terror that is Edie?) made things much worse. I felt like I was masturbating on a subway train or something.

You do huh?

I think I posted these in the last iteration of this thread but my 2 most awkward movie experiences were first dates.

First one was back in high school and I take this girl out to a movie. We go and see War of the Roses with Michael Douglass and Kathleen Turner. There's a scene near the end when Danny DeVito sums up what he learned from the Roses' divorce and he says "Cat people shouldn't marry dog people." Halfway back to the car and she breaks a stony silence by asking me "So are you a cat person or a dog person?"

Fifty fifty shot right? I may as well be honest.

"Dog person." I say. "Huh" she replies. "I'm a cat person."

There was no second date.

Second one was the time I took a first date to History of Violence. Now in my defence... she picked the movie. For those of you who haven't seen it... it opens with the murder of a toddler and in date movie terms, rapidly goes downhill from there. The first sex scene was awkward. The second one... even after all the acts of gory violence still shocked her enough to make her yelp and cover her eyes.

We had a good laugh about it afterwards and even dated a couple of more times but I could tell she was shaken up by the movie.