Incidents in cinemas

Miguel_Sanchez

I'm thinking about writing an article on what cinemas do to deal with trouble makers in cinemas. I'm interested from hearing from anyone who works in a cinema on what guidelines they're given by their employers.

Also I'm wondering if anyone has stories about incidents, assaults etc. that have taken place when patrons themselves tried to get people to remain quiet during a screening.

I propose we shoot people who answer calls during a film.

Rabies

Hmmmm...

Years ago a friend of mine brought a girl to the cinema. A guy we know that works there gave them a free box of sweets to share. When the girl put her hand in she pulled out a condom. My friend didn't know what to say or do. All he could do was laugh.

I know it isn't the type of incident you are looking, but what the hell

Mimikyu

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ronano

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You should of gone out and got a security guard or sorted out yourself


I worked in the uci,walked into toliets to check if they were clean blah blah, guy in a cubicle with a needle in his arm passed out. I left him checked if anywhere else was occupied took oine of the cones p[ut it outside the door went to manager,ambulance was called i just stood outside the toliet til it was all over to make sure no one went in.

Hugh Hefner

There was a gagle of eejits in the back row of Resident Evil: Apocalypse and someone went to get a staff member after a while. I'm not sure if they were taken out a back exit or something but he at least sat near them to let them know he had his eye on them. It seemed to work.

P.S. This was in UGC Dublin.

fade2black

in fairness if you were to pick a film for that to happen during.....

kinkstr

ronano wrote:

You should of gone out and got a security guard or sorted out yourself


I worked in the uci,walked into toliets to check if they were clean blah blah, guy in a cubicle with a needle in his arm passed out. I left him checked if anywhere else was occupied took oine of the cones p[ut it outside the door went to manager,ambulance was called i just stood outside the toliet til it was all over to make sure no one went in.

junkie scum,that kind of incident makes me sick to my stomach

Evilution

I've got an interesting one. Went to see The Passion of the Christ in the UGC in dublin when it came out first. There wasn't many people in the cinema at the time which I like so I sat back to enjoy. However, near the end of the trailers, 5 tracker-knackers and their respective wans came into the cinema and sat right fukkin' beside me on the back row (where I always sit). Anyway, the movie started and the usual $hite began, phones, talking etc etc. However, as the movie picked up and went on to show jesus being tortured and led to be crucified, I seen something funny. The skanger girls began to cry and 2 or 3 or them left the theatre for a bit, went to the jacks or whatever. They came back after a bit, still a bit teary-eyed (who wasn't during that movie) but it got stranger still. No word of a lie here folks but 2 of the MALE SKANGERS actually started whimpering and cried a bit too. I'm not guessing here, these guys were sitting right fukking beside me!!!! They blubbed for a minute or two and then composed themselves. After that there wasn't a peep out of any of them for the rest of the movie!!!! I'll never forget that day.
Apart from that I witnessed 2 rednecks having a shouting match during Fahrenheit 9:11 when I was in the USA over the summer. That was gas.

damien

Have had two fights so far with tossers in the cinema who wouldn't shut up. Always fun.

ronano

It's always so strange when scumbags go to a movie which is some arty bs or subtitled french blah blah,what possesed you? and before someone jumps down my throat,come on they are scumbags! and junkie sacum was annoying merely for people thought i should of had some sympathy for him.

Miguel_Sanchez

Interesting stories. I'm looking for times when things escalated - cops were called etc.

damien.m - how did these two fights happen? Did others start it with you when you tried to get them to be quiet? Could you post the details or PM them to me if you're willing to talk about it.

Suaimhneach

What excatly is it you want to know?

People are people and get out of control for the same reasons in cinemas as they do in pubs or at gigs. Cuz people are silly. I work in a UCI and it totally depends on the situation.

Like the one time two junkies starting having sex in the front row, while the Ring was on, I wasnt working in the cinema at the time. A manager just came the gaurds were rang, and they were asked to leave.

Or another time when there was a scummer tryna sneak into the movie, he said he gave the tix to his three year old son, who lost em. So he started giving out to the kid. It was obvious he was tryna shift the blame. But ... onto his kid like. So, they were kicked, and I ya could do was feel sorry for the son.

Though I will say to anyone having hassle with people in a cinema, just go tell a staff member, there are security gaurds for a reason. They'll generally be dealt with fairly quickly.

mycroft

ronano wrote:

You should of gone out and got a security guard or sorted out yourself


I worked in the uci,walked into toliets to check if they were clean blah blah, guy in a cubicle with a needle in his arm passed out. I left him checked if anywhere else was occupied took oine of the cones p[ut it outside the door went to manager,ambulance was called i just stood outside the toliet til it was all over to make sure no one went in.

One better, a guy I know was a bouncer in the IFI (then IFC) he found a guy OD'ding in the gents and started mouth to mouth resuitation, during which the junkie puked in my mates mouth, and then died.

My friend spent 6 months waiting to get the full all clear from all diseases Hep C and HIV.

ixoy

mycroft wrote:

One better, a guy I know was a bouncer in the IFI (then IFC) he found a guy OD'ding in the gents and started mouth to mouth resuitation, during which the junkie puked in my mates mouth, and then died.

My friend spent 6 months waiting to get the full all clear from all diseases Hep C and HIV.

That's a nice story...

Mine are mostly me muttering "Ssh!" The most vocal I got was, when some girl was blathering away on her mobile, causing me to turn around and say "Could you get off the phone please!"

My favourite witnessed incident was when there was a group of scumbags being disruptive. Some girl got up and called in the bouncer. The scumbags,
meanwhile, had moved places thinking to fool her. Her boyfriend however promptly showed the security guard where they had gone to and they were kicked out to the sound of scattered applause. That was good, as was someone in the cinema telling a chattering group of twits (6 rows behind him) "would you ever shut the fu*k up!"

But nothing violent/dramatic.

test999

OT: That would be an interesting poll...
Q) Would you give mouth to mouth to someone who is obviously an OD'ing junkie?

I've only had trouble with people kicking the back of my seat.
I've found that turning around and saying "excuse me, blah blah blah"
is seen as being a softie.
I've found that turning around and saying "oi, don't kick my seat again"
always works, even with proles.

I've never seen security at the liffey valley enema complex.

dudara

I was in the Capitol, Cork, recently waiting to watch "National Treasure". It was on in the main screen, a fairly large room, but there were very few people at it. I was checking my phone was on silent, when some young lad ran down the aisle I was sitting in, and vaulted over my legs, and ran on. He had a buddy following him so I stuck out my leg as the second lad hopped over. It was a bit evil..

mycroft

test999 wrote:

OT: That would be an interesting poll...
Q) Would you give mouth to mouth to someone who is obviously an OD'ing junkie?.

Not after hearing that story, no.

I have walked across a cinema to lean over someone on a mobile call to shout "shut up moron", scared the crap out of him.

Pigman II

Evilution wrote:

I've got an interesting one. Went to see The Passion of the Christ in the UGC in dublin when it came out first. There wasn't many people in the cinema at the time which I like so I sat back to enjoy.

That reminds me .... I was at an afternoon showing of PotC one day and there was at most 15 max at the screening. However, about 2 minutes into the film a group of around 20-30 secondardy school students (LeavingCerts I'd guess, uniformed but no teacher with em so I think they were just mitching) mosey into the cinema and start making a hell of a racket. As events proceed one of them tries to amuse the rest of the group by darting round the cinema 'blessing' everyone there by making that crusifix-gesture with his hand whilst saying 'peace be with you'. Now it's a while since I've gone to mass but I don't think that's how its done? ... anyway ... he does this to about 10 people and I try to just ignore him but inevitably comes to my turn to be 'blessed'.

'Peace be with you' says yer man with a smug grin on his face.

Now like I said I was just trying to ignore the fella but like a flash and out of nowhere I said in a gentle tone : 'Go back to your seat and shut up or you'll be the one in ****ing pieces.'

I was expecting a bit of lip or some retaliation from the guy but he just turned white and slunked back to his seat. Funnily enough within seconds of him rejoining his herd the rest of em had shut up too

Hugh Hefner

mycroft wrote:

Not after hearing that story, no.

I have walked across a cinema to lean over someone on a mobile call to shout "shut up moron", scared the crap out of him.

See girls can get away with that stuff. No guy's going to start on a woman and no woman would do anything more than call the shusher a female dog or give her the finger. If a guy did that to a woman people would think it too violent and if the talker was a guy the guy would start something, especially if he was a skanger (the talker).

Hold on. Is mycroft a guy? No offense, I actually don't know.

midship

I went to see one of the bonds a few years back in UGC a chinese bloke answered his phone, a guy shouts "shut up of ill ram it up your..." the guy keep on talking ,the other guy walks over knocks the phone out of his hand and punches him! :eek:

Then he went back to his seat the guy just sat there, didnt ring the garda or tell cinema staff!!!!!! That was that :rolleyes:

smokingman

I was in the Cinema in Rathmines a few years ago when the Exorcist was re-released and just when the head turning started and things started getting crazy a dog (the Marmaduke size and type) ran into the cinema aisle, sat down and started watching the movie barking and howling when the she-bitch started screaming "F**K ME, F**K ME"....

very funny indeed it was......

He went quiet when the priests were in the scene though...bit spooky!

kaimera

incident in the States during the summer ::

saw AvP the night it opened in Jacksonville. Jam-packed screen. Before the movie even starts, some black folk decide to amuse themselves by being feckin' loud etc.

continues through the previews and on into the movie. Meanwhile cinema staff have moved in both sides of the screen at the back and are watching these people.

few minutes later, armed security come in a literally haul them out among their whinging etc to a loud applause from the rest of us.

mobile04

anyone remember the 80s in the city
the ambassador parnell street.
was watching the star wars trilogy there in the summer of 1984
and this guy up on the balcony starts hurling popcorn down on everyone.
litrally the whole bucket .
nowadays i got to go to the uci and listen to mobiles going off every ten seconds #

really gets up my nose..........

does anyone on here remember the cinema in inchiore ?
id love to know the name of it. i went to school in emmet road around the corner.
ahh the good auld days
2 films for 1 pound 50. lol

Milkman Dan

i was at a film in the ucg, and some guy kept making comments during the flick to make his mates laugh. a various times he said 'boring', 'duh', 'this film is ****' at that sort of thing.
so anyway a guy with a torch comes in and everybody showed exactly where he was sitting and he got taken out, dropping his popcorn as he went.
heh heh...

mobile04

youd feckin think for 2 hours people could just shut it?
me brother was just on the phone to me .he worked in the uci in england for a while

i was telling him about this post he said this african student was sleeping in the cinema for weeks after a night shift before he went to collage. you gotta laugh .......

gazzer

I was in the Cinema in Rathmines a few years ago when the Exorcist was re-released and just when the head turning started and things started getting crazy a dog (the Marmaduke size and type) ran into the cinema aisle, sat down and started watching the movie barking and howling when the she-bitch started screaming "F**K ME, F**K ME"....


Im nearly after p**sing myself laughing here in work when i read that. I would have loved to have seen that

8bi1ctzegfouva

was in UGC a while back, can't remember what film i was seeing, nice cinema and all, but some of the scum in that place, anyway, back to the story, was watching a film, when some knack-bag's phone rings, of course she picks it up and starts talkign away, then some other skanger shouts over something along the lines of " shut up ya fu(king (unt". to which the one on the phone replies "what ya gonna do about it ya leser*?"
can't remember what the repky was, but for about 30 secs to a mintue after that everyone in the cinema, approx 50 to 60 people just started shouting at the one on the phone to shut the fu(k up. In hindsight it didn't do much good, as she kept talking, albeit a bit more quietly, but it was still a good laugh for a bit.

* is lesbian shortened spelt leser,lezer or some other way?

8bi1ctzegfouva

not really an incident, but something funny, was watching "open water" in IMC in dun laoghaire, and there was a middle aged woman in front of me with her friend, and this poor woman was scared sh1tless. anytime even a dolphin popped out of the water she would shriek and jump about a foot of her chair, by about half-way through the film i started to laugh when ever she did this, and by the end everyone was laughing, so it kinda ruined the whole tense theme of the film. i felt sorry for her though, as at the end she ran for the door, either because she didn't want people to see her, or she had had an accident. haha, poor woman

mobile04

i bet the people who own ugc now are kicking them selfs its turned out to be a haven for dipsos junkies and what not

the aldi across the street also dosnt help. i was in there a few weeks ago and saw a girl with a black refuse bag full of empty lager cans
from aldi no doubht.
that exorcist story was a goon un alright .

mycroft

the detective wrote:

not really an incident, but something funny, was watching "open water" in IMC in dun laoghaire, and there was a middle aged woman in front of me with her friend, and this poor woman was scared sh1tless. anytime even a dolphin popped out of the water she would shriek and jump about a foot of her chair, by about half-way through the film i started to laugh when ever she did this, and by the end everyone was laughing, so it kinda ruined the whole tense theme of the film. i felt sorry for her though, as at the end she ran for the door, either because she didn't want people to see her, or she had had an accident. haha, poor woman

Watching the Matrix revolutions in the savoy and there was just this weird noise during any fight scene. This kind of half hum half click. Near my ears I was convinced there was something wrong with the projector

I realised during the finale it was this eldery woman two rows behind me, and whenever there was on screen violence she would "tut" loudly and scowl. What kind of freak brings there grandma who disapproves of violence to the frigging matrix three? I mean it's not like theres been two other movies to prepare you to accept the fact their may be violence and your old dear may not approve. FFS the first film includes the line, "we'll need guns lots of guns" you were expecting steel magnolias?????

JoeSchmoe

Went to see the Incredibles last week in the UCI in Coolock, These three girls came in and sat behind us, they were quite young, oldest was probably about 13/14, the others younger, anyway one of the girls had seen the movie before and she thought it would be great to tell her two friends what was going to happen in the movie about 5 seconds before it happens. So after about five minutes of "oh yeah this is deadily the boy says/ does...." "Now he's going to pick up the car and....." I turned around and asked them to be quiet.

They didn't quieten down and they started throwing popcorn at me and giggling and blowing drink at me through their straws, I ignored them for a while but then they started kicking the seats and that was too much. I didn't really want to start giving out to preteen girls so we decided to move seats. I had a quick look around and saw the seats directly behind the girls were free, so moved we did.

How the worm turned, then every few minutes I sprinkled them with a few drops from my drink and when they turned around i acted all innocent, just watching the film. After a few sprinkles one of them started sobbing "all I wanted to do was come watch a film....boo hoo...sob sob"

I felt bad about making a little girl cry....for about two seconds and then the warm glow of smugness took over and we enjoyed the rest of the movie in peace

The_Goose

Went to see national treasure last night in Carlow! Everything is grand til the 7 nackers down the frontsatrt jumping over seats and talking on thier mobiles then they all leave, i think great , all back in again, the fat little ****ers go down to there seats but the other 3 have to sit in my row, next the fat 3 get up to come looking for paddy, "Hey paddy, we re goin to the pool hall" at the top of his voice. The ushers were called but could only walk in and out. Two mins later they re back in on the mobiles talking away!!! Why would you pay into the cinema to do this?????
Plus they left and came back in, This is not allowed is it, I mean left the building!!!
Anyway this is the third time this has happen in carlow so thats it, not payin 7 euro to listen and smell some knacker have phone sex with his cousin.

Was ther some thing about blocking mobile signals in the cinema?? they should have it everywhere!

mycroft

JoeSchmoe wrote:

How the worm turned, then every few minutes I sprinkled them with a few drops from my drink and when they turned around i acted all innocent, just watching the film. After a few sprinkles one of them started sobbing "all I wanted to do was come watch a film....boo hoo...sob sob"

I felt bad about making a little girl cry....for about two seconds and then the warm glow of smugness took over and we enjoyed the rest of the movie in peace

Goddamn where is there a rep system when you need it.

You sir are a credit to the human race and a fine soul, and when next I am in a tavern I will raise a glass to salute you.

monkeyfudge

I was in a cinema last week and a kid somewhere in the cinema wouldn't stop doing the crazy frog sound...

It's things like this that make you look forward to Hell.

JoeSchmoe

mycroft wrote:

Goddamn where is there a rep system when you need it.

You sir are a credit to the human race and a fine soul, and when next I am in a tavern I will raise a glass to salute you.

all in a days work my good man

ronano

mobile04 wrote:

youd feckin think for 2 hours people could just shut it?
me brother was just on the phone to me .he worked in the uci in england for a while

i was telling him about this post he said this african student was sleeping in the cinema for weeks after a night shift before he went to collage. you gotta laugh .......

God,how did he get by the cleaners/people noticing the guy there continously in the morning?

BolBill

If you ever want to "enjoy" been annoying by kids acting like tw*ts and getting away with it, just head to Dun Laoghaire. Basically in there you can do what you f-ing well like and nobody bats an eyelid.

magpie

This is why I rent movies and watch them at home.

This is why I also hate travelling on budget airlines (which is now all of them) as it's cinema knacker behaviour for 6 hours in an aluminium tube at 40,000 feet.

I blame the celtic tiger, bring back the days when the knacks were too poor to do anything more expensive than sniff glue. Plus the glue sniffing sedated them nicely.

trotter_inc

BolBill wrote:

If you ever want to "enjoy" been annoying by kids acting like tw*ts and getting away with it, just head to Dun Laoghaire. Basically in there you can do what you f-ing well like and nobody bats an eyelid.

In fairness now I was in Dun Laoghaire a couple of months ago and some kids were kicked out for messing - just report them to security and they'll throw them out, if not demand your money back.

smokingman

gazzer wrote:

I was in the Cinema in Rathmines a few years ago when the Exorcist was re-released and just when the head turning started and things started getting crazy a dog (the Marmaduke size and type) ran into the cinema aisle, sat down and started watching the movie barking and howling when the she-bitch started screaming "F**K ME, F**K ME"....


Im nearly after p**sing myself laughing here in work when i read that. I would have loved to have seen that

Yeah, it was a serious bit of light relief at the time...the usher that came in left him there for about ten minutes and no-one complained 'cause it was so funny, mind you there were only about 15 people in there at the time.

Love those huge Marmaduke dogs....anyone know what the breed is called?

humanji

I remember years ago, me and a few friends went to the cinema to see some family movie of some sort. Anyway, the place was packed and we had to sit about two rows from the front. Behind us we a few teenagers, about 15/16 and a baby. Just before the trailers ended we heard, "Oh, no. The baby's pissed itself!" I don't know if it was just my imagination, but the floor seemed stickier and there was a nasty smell!

And if that wasn't enough, I bought a packet of skittles and was struggling to openen them, when the bag exploded, showering me and those around me with skittles. The lights were still bright enough that every body in the cinema saw me and were screaming and laughing at me. And I didn't enjoy the film either!

Cabaal

I was in Waterford Cineplex maybe a year ago and there was two scumbags a few rows infront of me and my girlfriend, the two of them were drinking cans and after awhile they started smoking hash,

anyway a lad in the row behind them said something to them and they started on him..luckily one had more sense then the other and they moved down to the very front but still contined to smoke and drink oh and talk...

3 times I went outside to the lobby to find a member of staff or a manager, I looked everywhere and nobody was around, not the way I wanted to enjoy my evening
I'm thinking they should put a bell at the counter you can ring for assistence

Ruu_Old

In the Diamond Multiplex in Navan, the floor had just been waxed or something. There was a couple of teens skidding across the front row for a while before the previews came on, i was just waiting for it to happen. One of the girls fell flat on her arse, great!! Top thread, many a laugh!

Spacedog

Went to see 'The Sum Of All Fears' a couple of years ago, I was dragged there by a friend who's into war movies. Of course me, not wanting to be there stated that I would leave on the third full screen shot of an american flag... which took longer than expected, so in the interviening time, I spent shouting all over the cimema about how tom clancy stories are for thich headded retards and that anyone here to see this film are latent homosexuals, repressing there gay desires, through september 11th revenge fantacies, whice subconciously seeking an excuse to leer over ben affleck. All the people were pissed off at me big style but did nothing about it, ahhhhahahahahaha, it was fun, saved me watching that 'tarded film too, so it's not all bad!!!!

Hugh Hefner

What a great friend you are.

ixoy

Spacedog - you do realise you're precisely the sort of ****wit that we all hate here, yeah? You're neither clever or amusing, just the sort of selfish twat cinema goers rightly loathe.

Tell me though - do you care about the cinema experience? If you were enjoying something, would you like us screaming in your ear or annoying you?

tSubh Dearg

The bf and I went to see Hero a couple of months back and as in nearly all these stories the cinema was all nice and quiet until the film was just about to start when a group of about 10 teens come in and sit right behind us.

They took forever to settle down and then proceeded to eat their popcorn as loudly as physically possible....not something I ever want to hear again!

As the film went on they were obviously getting bored and started chatting and laughing. There were 2 girls in the group and fair play to them they kept telling the lads to shut up...but to no avail.

However they weren't too bad and were ignorable UNTIL they started having an ice cube fight. When one of the ice cubes hit the bf on the head he muttered "That's it!" and turned around and in his best scumbag accent said "If you don't stop your f*cking around, I'm going to smash your f*cking faces in" He looked pretty intimidating in the dark and the teens shut up pretty fast. They were quiet for the rest of the film and fairly fled when it ended.

Phil_321

Spacedog wrote:

Went to see 'The Sum Of All Fears' a couple of years ago, I was dragged there by a friend who's into war movies. Of course me, not wanting to be there stated that I would leave on the third full screen shot of an american flag... which took longer than expected, so in the interviening time, I spent shouting all over the cimema about how tom clancy stories are for thich headded retards and that anyone here to see this film are latent homosexuals, repressing there gay desires, through september 11th revenge fantacies, whice subconciously seeking an excuse to leer over ben affleck. All the people were pissed off at me big style but did nothing about it, ahhhhahahahahaha, it was fun, saved me watching that 'tarded film too, so it's not all bad!!!!

You have to be joking Spacedog.....

It was a sh*t film though.

Agent Orange

Spacedog wrote:

Went to see 'The Sum Of All Fears' a couple of years ago, I was dragged there by a friend who's into war movies. Of course me, not wanting to be there stated that I would leave on the third full screen shot of an american flag... which took longer than expected, so in the interviening time, I spent shouting all over the cimema about how tom clancy stories are for thich headded retards and that anyone here to see this film are latent homosexuals, repressing there gay desires, through september 11th revenge fantacies, whice subconciously seeking an excuse to leer over ben affleck. All the people were pissed off at me big style but did nothing about it, ahhhhahahahahaha, it was fun, saved me watching that 'tarded film too, so it's not all bad!!!!

My fist, your face.

Same time, same place.

Spacedog

Come on folks, it's not like I don't enjoy the cinema, but it was the sum of all fears were talking about here. frankly I think I was doing everyone a favour be destracting them from what was a rag of a film. It's not like I shouted out "it's his sled" at the beginning of Citizen Kane or anything.

The way I see it, if the general public are stupid enough to continually pay to watch cheesy hollywood crap, like the Fast and the Furious, American Pie, Van Helsing and The Day after Tomorrow, they should expect to be bothered by loud mouthed idots like myself. If I had my way they'd all be lined up and shot!

I went into extravision last week and asked to rent a copy of Goodbye Lenin, the guy behind the counter said they didn't stock it, but yeah it's a great film. It's because people are idiots that good films don't get shown, and excuse me if I upset a few while venting my frustration in a cinema, but they had it comming!

Agent Orange, thems fightin' words. I challenge you to a boxing match, with the proceeds going towards a worthwhile charity.

dudara

Cop yourself on spacedog, and stop being a muppet. You have no right to ruin other people's choice of film, no matter how crap it may be.