Can they show a movie backwards and give me a refund?

Just tell them that the movie sucked, and that you want your money back.
If they refuse, just pirate the next one.
It was Kong Skull Island, was it not?

There are “match up” groups that a person with one foot can join to split a pair of shoes.

People with one eye still get to see the whole movie. And you got to see the one you saw today. You paid to see the movie, you did not pay to enjoy it.

Lots of things are unfair, including that blind people can’t enjoy most of the graphic elements of a movie at all for example, or that deaf people can’t hear the score, or that people with severe bladder or disgestive problems probably can’t sit through the whole thing, and so on and so forth.

If anyone ever promised you that everything in your life would be “fair” then that person did you a disservice. That would be unfair of them.~ Speaking only for myself and everyone else that I know personally, it’s a good thing that “life isn’t fair”, or we probably would have all been drowned before our sixth birthdays.

But back to your case: You didn’t like the movie.

Was there anything lacking in the service provided? That is, did the theater have bad acoustics, or was the audience disruptive (I’m assuming you didn’t watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show, where audience disruption / participation is part of the event) and not quelled by the ushers? Was the butter congealed on the popcorn? The fizzy drinks flat? The seats uncomfortable? If there was a problem with the venue or the projection, then a calm, thoughtful and dispassionate complaint to the theater manager – with a suggested compensation that would make you whole again – should be well-received by a reasonable and profit-minded theater manager.

If the problem was with the film itself: misrepresented by the trailers? unfaithful to the original written work? flatly acted or badly produced in some way? poorly edited or directed in ways that you can elucidate verbally? In that case a thoughtful and well-worded letter to the distributor can result in comped tickets to another movie that might be more to your liking.

Nobody likes to hear complaints, but business managers who know their business put more stock in one well-worded and thoughtful complaint than they put into mindless “support” by yes-men and thoughtless consumers.

You might be surprised what a “good complaint” can return to you.

The ticket entitles you to one showing of the movie. That you enjoy the movie is not guaranteed.

watching movies backwards sounds interesting…

If you think a movie sucks you don’t even have to say it sucks. At least at the theater I worked at you could walk up say there is a family emergency 90% into the movie and we would give you a pass so you could come back later to finish. You could just use the pass on any movie you wanted.

There are pretty much no rules on giving out passes. Just give them out so people go away. It cost nothing to give a pass and they might buy popcorn and soda when they use the pass. That is where the money comes from.

@johnpowell That is how it was when I worked at a movie theater back in college. But, that was ages ago, so I don’t know what it is like now.

I worked at one from about 1996–2000. I still have dinner with my old manager (she still works there) a few times a year. They are still lose with passes. Most of our dinner talk is her bitching about customers. And I am still sitting on about 100 passes she gave me the last time we had dinner. They are supposed to write down how many you hand out and why. This doesn’t seem to be enforced.

edit :: Since someone might wonder what I do with so many passes. There is a pizza place by my apartment where I can trade passes for pizza. One pass can score me a slice and a salad if the right people are working.

I guarantee that watching the movie backwards will be even worse than watching it forwards and I wouldn’t recommend it.

I just want to bitch so I will do this here.

14 shifts a week and only three projectionists. None of the managers could even turn on the lights in the theater. I found this out the hard way when I ended up in jail for sleeping in the bushes outside my dentists office.

I did make it to work but I was a bit late. That was the day I learned the managers didn’t know how to turn on the lights in the theater. None had a clue how to actually start a movie.

We were so fucking reliable they never thought about the booth. Until I practiced being homeless. Then oh shit. A massive push to teach the managers to learn how to actually start a movie.

That lasted about a hour. It was fucking absurd.

Granted… To learn how to properly run a booth you are looking at around three months and 40 hours a week. But they didn’t even try.

Watching a movie backwards? I’m still trying to figure out “Memento”. Maybe that will help.

You beat me to it, @LuckyGuy. I loved that movie.

It took me almost to the end to figure it out. I’d be sitting there thinking “What the ?, What the ? Wait. Didn’t that happen already? What the ?” Once I got it I had to watch it a second time.

Speaking of terrible movies: I just saw Rogue One.
What a piece of shit.

Making movies are not sleight of hand. It requires lots of people, hard work, lot’s of money and a great idea. Asking refund it’s something like you f**ed a girl and now you want your sperm back inside your body!

Wow—I bet you waited a long time to use THAT one !

A movie is a product like any other. If it is bad, you should have the right to a refund.

I know of no products where you have the right to a refund. Many companies may offer a refund, yes, but that’s just salemanship, it’s not a right.

Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU

Looked up information about it and it does not at all appear to support the idea that you have a right to a refund if you just don’t like the product.

It gives you a 14 day period in which you have the right to return any product for any reason, including “not liking it”.

So if you eat at a diner then decide the next day that you really shouldn’t have spent the money can you take your turds to the diner then ask for your money back because you “didn’t like it”?