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Post by Lance Uppercut on Nov 28, 2009 10:53:27 GMT -5
I was a projectionist at a theater for 2 years and when we got the new movies for the weekend, we would have midnight screenings for the staff and some of our friends. We used to have some good times being loud and making fun of bad flicks. I remember there were three of us watching Forbidden Kingdom laughing our asses off about how terrible it was.
At another theater back in the day, me and friend went to a matinee of Clerks 2. It was us two and two elderly people. They may have lasted 10 mins.
When I was much younger I saw Waterworld and the film burned out on the last reel.
I love going to the movies and have so many good memories about them but my worst came when I was doing projection on Flight Plan.
Long story short, the film got hung across a wire in the brain and left a huge scratch on the right side of the reel. It was a 2000 dollar rental on the reel and I felt awful.
At least it wasn't a good flick.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 11:02:41 GMT -5
My cousin, my brother and I went to see Rocky IV, and during the big showdown between Balboa & Drago, the whole crowd was jumping to their feet screaming, "Get 'im Rocky! Kick that Commie's ass!" It was just like being at a real boxing event. I was impressed. Popcorn was being thrown around in celebration.
Then a few friends and I went to see Rocky V. Talk about the air being sucked out of the room. I think we were only 5 of 8 people there. On a Saturday afternoon. Opening weekend.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 28, 2009 13:42:32 GMT -5
In high school, a friend insisted we see Freddy Got Fingered. Yeah, I know. Second week it was out and there was me, Melissa and I think about 3 other people in the theater after school in the middle of the day. As the movie went on, one person would get up and leave, never to return. I think the final straw for the last person was when Tom Green delivers the woman's baby and swings it around by the umbilical cord. Melissa and I stayed to the bitter end. I now no longer fear ANYTHING in this world and whatever awaits me when I die. Ah yes. I remember going to see Freddy Got Fingered (by myself as none of my other sane friends would go with me) and chuckled yet was disappointed at the same time whenever someone would bring their kids with them. During the scene were Freddy's neighbor runs after him, only to trip and fall face first into the side of his car, causing his face to be covered in blood and teeth, the lady sitting in front of me yelled out "That's not funny!", which only made me laugh louder. I wasn't there for this story so my friend would probably tell it better but he remembers one time where some guy talked during a movie and someone next to him told him to quiet down. Instead of quieting down, the guy stood up and started yelling stuff like "I can talk during the movie if I want to!" It triggered a small argument which promptly ended when the guy yelled out "Bitch, I got a muthaf***in' bomb in my jacket!" and the ushers escorted him out. Finally, part of the reason I love the horrible Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li was (and I don't say this to sound racist) the group of black people sitting behind us. The movie sucked but whenever someone got hit, they'd yell out "OOOOH! OW! OH MAN!" and stuff like that and made it way more enjoyable than it should've been. I normally don't make too many comments during movies (at least not in theaters) but my friends and I were cracking jokes after a while because it was so bad. By the last 30-45 minutes, EVERYONE in the theater started making comments aloud because it was that bad. Of course, it wasn't a whole lot as there may have been like 50 people in the theater tops. My favorite was "Man, Mortal Kombat was better than this s***!" Your last one reminded me of another one. I went to see "Spider-Man 2" with some friends and there is this scene where Tobey Maguire takes his shirt off, which is obviously meant for the women in the audience. However, me and one of the guys I went with just started applauding for that part. The group of black guys sitting behind us then joined in yelling stuff like, "THAT's WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!" Mind you this was a packed theatre and this was amoung quieter moments in the movie. I'm pretty sure all who took part were hetero, but I doubt it looked that way. |
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Post by Triple Kelly on Nov 28, 2009 17:32:54 GMT -5
I had time to remember a few more, it's been too long since I've gone to the theater regularly and most of those memories I'd pushed to the back of my head. During Passion of the Christ, the film stopped or broke right after the flogging scene and everyone was standing up and going, "Hey, what's the deal?" This is when there was tons of publicity about the violence being so extreme (or "EXTREEEEEEEEEME") that there were reports of viewers having heart attacks during the movie and I very loudly said, "Geezus, someone have another heart attack in the middle of it?" Everyone just staaaared. I have a real big mouth, lol. I also bought the biggest soda cup size there before the movie and by the end, I had to go SO bad that I said "screw it" and went to the ladies room and missed the ending of the movie so to this day I don't know what happened to Jesus.  And on the flip side, I saw the Exorcist (like that segue, huh?) re-release with some friends in h.s. and the theater was packed (as it should be) but there was a group of teenage girls that were REALLY REALLY friggin' loud. They were screaming and yelling at every little "scary" moment, even if it wasn't scary. The last straw was the scene where Reagan spiderwalks down the stairs. The girls screamed at the tops of their lungs and were promptly escorted from the theater, which made EVERYONE happy. Tho for some reason the usher asked *us* if we were part of their group, despite the fact we weren't making a sound and didn't acknowledge them. I also went with a few friends in Middle School to see Beverly Hills Ninja with Chris Farley. I cannot tell you how much I laughed my head off watching that movie. I was dyiiinnggg. Tears were coming down my cheeks in laughter. I was laughing so loudly in the theater that everyone was looking at me as if I were an alien. Maybe they wanted to see Mars Attacks instead. And one last one. I went to see Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny and there were about.....I'd say 7 to 8 people in the theater in the middle of the day. And OF COURSE there's gotta be one broad that brings her little son/cousin/nephew, don't know. I thought to myself, "This movie is rated R, I don't think she's going to be too pleased". And right on schedule, all the penis and boner jokes arrived in full force while the kid laughed and said out loud the little kid word for a penis while his "mom" told him to be quiet. I think they stayed for the whole movie. |
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Post by 4real on Nov 28, 2009 17:36:01 GMT -5
Its become tradition with me and my friends that if we walk into a theatre and its empty we MUST have a cinema wrestling match, usually just in front of the screen............until someone always walks in on us and we walk off sheepishly. Goes back to my college days when we used to see films at the earliest available time, usually midday. Also during The Mist everybody clapped and cheered during the bit where..... {Spoiler}The annoying religious nut bag woman gets killed And my first movie make out? Forgetting Sarah Marshall. God I love that film. |
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Post by The Charismatic Enabeler on Nov 28, 2009 17:40:55 GMT -5
When seeing Beavis and Butthead Do America I remember a crowd wide manhunt for the jerk with the laser pointer being conducted by an angry moviegoer.
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Post by Perd on Nov 28, 2009 17:45:47 GMT -5
During "Death Proof", I yelled out, this movie is enjoyment proof.
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Post by 4real on Nov 28, 2009 17:46:49 GMT -5
During "Death Proof", I yelled out, this movie is enjoyment proof. Ha ha you're right, that film was terrible. |
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Post by The Ichi on Nov 28, 2009 18:32:08 GMT -5
Just before The Dark Knight started, a couple in the row just in front of me got into a huge argument which ended with the woman chucking her drink at her boyfriend, followed by everyone cheering. Weird.
And of course me and a bunch of friends getting completely smashed before going to a screening of X-Men (I was 16). Strangely we didn't get kicked out.
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Post by Triple Kelly on Nov 29, 2009 4:52:58 GMT -5
Also several times I had the misfortune of catching both horny idiots masturbating and couples attempting to have sex during a movie. Maybe you shouldn't have worked in that porno theater then. D'oh! ;D |
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Post by bubbles on Nov 29, 2009 10:20:28 GMT -5
Being rudely awoken from my nap during Transformers 2, no idea why I went to watch it.
At the moment I can't even go to the cinema, it used to be a 5 minute drive or I could walk there in about 20-30 minutes but the bridges out of town collapsed last week due to flooding so now it'd take about 1-2 hours to drive depending on the traffic.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Nov 29, 2009 10:36:30 GMT -5
When I went to see The Blair Witch Project, it was almost sold out. As the movie's going there's a part where it's pitch black and Heather runs out from behind a tree. One woman in the audience at the top of her lungs just yelled out "Holy shit!" The entire cinema just burst out laughing.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Nov 29, 2009 10:39:30 GMT -5
Also during The Mist everybody clapped and cheered during the bit where..... {Spoiler}The annoying religious nut bag woman gets killed[/spoiler My crowd did the exact same thing, myself included. |
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Post by theryno665 on Nov 29, 2009 13:07:09 GMT -5
And one last one. I went to see Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny and there were about.....I'd say 7 to 8 people in the theater in the middle of the day. And OF COURSE there's gotta be one broad that brings her little son/cousin/nephew, don't know. I thought to myself, "This movie is rated R, I don't think she's going to be too pleased". And right on schedule, all the penis and boner jokes arrived in full force while the kid laughed and said out loud the little kid word for a penis while his "mom" told him to be quiet. I think they stayed for the whole movie. This reminds me about the time I went to see Shrek. It was during a weekday afternoon so hardly anyone was there but a few of my friends and a couple other people, including a mom, her kid and his grandma. Throughout the movie, the kid wasn't even paying attention, walking back and forth throughout the empty row of seats. But when Shrek leaves Donkey in the castle and says he has to go back in and "save my ass", the kid loses it and for the next five minutes or so, the kid is all like "HEY! HE SAID HE HAS TO GO SAVE HIS ASS! DID YOU HEAR THAT? HE SAID ASS! HE HAS TO GO SAVE HIS ASS!" |
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Post by Red Lion on Nov 29, 2009 18:22:53 GMT -5
Me and my friends got in (illegally mind you, we were 16/17 for an 18 film) to see Jackass 2. It was a pretty crowded screen but you could tell that half the crowd were there because the films that they intended on seeing were already sold out. There were people gagging and looking away in disgust, and looking at me and my friends chuckling as if we were mad!
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 29, 2009 19:15:39 GMT -5
And one last one. I went to see Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny and there were about.....I'd say 7 to 8 people in the theater in the middle of the day. And OF COURSE there's gotta be one broad that brings her little son/cousin/nephew, don't know. I thought to myself, "This movie is rated R, I don't think she's going to be too pleased". And right on schedule, all the penis and boner jokes arrived in full force while the kid laughed and said out loud the little kid word for a penis while his "mom" told him to be quiet. I think they stayed for the whole movie. This reminds me about the time I went to see Shrek. It was during a weekday afternoon so hardly anyone was there but a few of my friends and a couple other people, including a mom, her kid and his grandma. Throughout the movie, the kid wasn't even paying attention, walking back and forth throughout the empty row of seats. But when Shrek leaves Donkey in the castle and says he has to go back in and "save my ass", the kid loses it and for the next five minutes or so, the kid is all like "HEY! HE SAID HE HAS TO GO SAVE HIS ASS! DID YOU HEAR THAT? HE SAID ASS! HE HAS TO GO SAVE HIS ASS!" Oh man that reminds me of one of my favorite theatre stories. I went to see "Slackers" with my friend Peter, who is a little bit slow. Anyway, it gets to the part were that kid from Pete & Peter is singing "She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes" and they show the shaft of his penis. Anyway my friend Peter LOSES IT, and for at least several minutes was saying stuff like, "MY GOD, A PENIS, I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY SHOWED A PENIS! THAT's FUNNY THAT THEY SHOWED A PENIS!" It got so bad in fact that this bald guy a couple of rows behind us finally stood up and said something like "For God sake's its just a penis, get over it!" |
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Post by A Dubya (El Hombre Muerto) on Nov 29, 2009 19:38:11 GMT -5
Too many to list.
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Post by bob on Nov 29, 2009 19:56:30 GMT -5
few weeks ago I went to see Saw 6....what I thought he really cool was that there were only 9 people in the theater and I literally had the entire back row to myself
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Nov 29, 2009 20:00:01 GMT -5
Ordinarily I HATE people who make "witty" comments during movies, but I got a good laugh a few weeks back when Mrs. Schlapowitz and I went to see the absolutely awful "Paranormal Activity". When it ended, a bunch of guys in the back row started a "WE WANT A REFUND! <clap clap clap clap clap> WE WANT A REFUND!" chant.  |
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Post by Triple Kelly on Nov 29, 2009 20:13:43 GMT -5
Oh man that reminds me of one of my favorite theatre stories. I went to see "Slackers" with my friend Peter, who is a little bit slow. Anyway, it gets to the part were that kid from Pete & Peter is singing "She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes" and they show the shaft of his penis. Anyway my friend Peter LOSES IT, and for at least several minutes was saying stuff like, "MY GOD, A PENIS, I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY SHOWED A PENIS! THAT's FUNNY THAT THEY SHOWED A PENIS!" It got so bad in fact that this bald guy a couple of rows behind us finally stood up and said something like "For God sake's its just a penis, get over it!" That was what I said to my mom during Bruno when he whips it out. My mom flipped the f*** out as if she'd never seen one before. And I was unphased and told her to get over it, LOL. She's also 61 so she's still in that "Nudity = The Sky is Falling" mindset. |
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