A cinema boss says they had to hit pause on a film for the first time in “many years” to remove rowdy teenagers during a screening of A Minecraft Movie.
Finn Macdiarmid reports.
Finn Macdiarmid reports.
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00:00If you have TikTok or Instagram, you'll know the Minecraft movie has exploded in popularity.
00:05But in certain cinemas across the country, showings of the film have been marked by audiences
00:09yelling meme lines from the trailer like The Nether, Flint and Steel and The Most Infamous.
00:17It all comes from a TikTok trend, but it doesn't just stop at repeating lines.
00:21Some screenings have seen food and drink thrown and extreme pranks like a live chicken being
00:25brought into a screening.
00:27At The Stag, an independent cinema in Sevenoaks where they've been showing the blockbuster
00:30three times a day, they did have to remove a group who were disrupting the film.
00:34I mean, we're not special in this regard.
00:36It's been happening all over the country and all over the world for that matter.
00:41Just some children being rowdy in a screening, it's become quite commonplace unfortunately
00:46for this particular film and others.
00:48We asked them to calm down and they didn't and then we asked them to leave and they didn't.
00:53So unfortunately, the very much last recourse of anything like this is you pause the film
01:01and they have to endure the angry glares of the rest of the auditorium of people whose
01:07lives they have been upsetting during the course of the film.
01:10Tony from The Stag Theatre also mentioned that the Minecraft movie was particularly bad
01:14for this type of behaviour.
01:16This isn't something they have to deal with very often.
01:18We went into one of the screens after the Minecraft movie to see how much rubbish and
01:21popcorn there was left.
01:23Now cinema workers here at The Stag say that this level of litter is normal for the Minecraft
01:28movie but we caught up with some young people outside to get a view of was there any disruption
01:33and did it affect their viewing experience?
01:35And in the physical, was anyone shouting any lines or anything?
01:38Only chicken jockey.
01:40We heard that.
01:41No, not really.
01:42We did shout it though.
01:44Yeah.
01:45Nothing was like thrown in all that so.
01:47And was anyone throwing anything or was everyone quite calm?
01:50I think someone like threw a bit of popcorn.
01:54And did you like the movie?
01:55Oh yeah, definitely.
01:56It was really good.
01:57What was your favourite bit?
01:58Chicken jockey.
01:59Yeah.
02:00While the film's target audience hasn't been too affected by the trend here in Kent, since
02:04here in Sevenoaks there was only one instance, the cinema say other venues have had it far
02:08worse than just some popcorn on the ground and a few loud customers.
02:12Finn McDermid for KMTV in Sevenoaks.
02:14Sevenoaks.