Strangest Movie Experiences

[Hucklebubba]

Heard from the row behind me at the conclusion of Return of the Jedi: Special Edition: "Those bastards took out the Ewok Song!"


Way back in the ancient days of the early 90s, I went and saw Jurassic Park in the theater, and during the middle-latter scenes when the hurricane is really being tempestuous, (Or hurricanical.) there was an accompanying real-life severe thunderstorm that added to the effect significantly.


A friend and I went to see Godzilla 2000 when it first came out, and had the theater all to ourselves, save for a single Mexican family.

Seeing as how we were all but alone, and the movie was such a turd, my pal and I decided to eschew the rules of theater ettiquette, and hold a low-key impromptu MST3K session.


And now, my favorite movie story of all time:

A couple years back, I was watching the straight-to-video 80s apocalypse gem The Day After, and eating a microwaved burrito. The burrito has no relevance to the story, it's just that that last sentence seemed incomplete somehow.

Anyway, I was watching said flick on Thursday shortly before noon. This is important, because the town I was living in at the time performs a tornado siren test every Thursday at noon. Some of you may already see where this is going.

So, the movie gets to the "Nukes are inbound, let's all run and scream," part, and just as the civil defense sirens kicked up in the movie, the real life sirens did likewise.

You know how sometimes in old cartoons, characters will have the color visibly drain from their face, to the accompaniment of a glug-glug noise? I'm pretty sure that happened to me.

Then I remembered what day and time it was, had a nice laugh at my own expense, and put on a fresh pair of underpants.

[DocD83]

What will they ever do if a tornado hits at noon on a thursday?

[Hucklebubba]

I've often wondered that myself. But, seeing as how most people in Oklahoma don't actually pay attention to tornado warnings, and some actually keep tornadoes as pets, I don't guess it would make much of a difference.

[deusdragonexx]

A few months ago, I went to see the midnight showing of High Fidelity at a local theatre with a few of my friends. This was, I admit, my first time seeing High Fidelity, and therefore my introduction into the world of good cinema, but that has nothing to do with my story.

Never having gone seen a movie at this theatre before, I was more than slightly surprised when a white guy with a rainbow striped afro walked into the theatre. What surprised me even more was the fact that he was accompanied by the hottest chick I'd seen in weeks.

I wonder how much he paid her to go with him.

[siege]

my fiance and i were in the theaters for i think it was the 2nd lotr movie and i mean its packed obviously. you couldnt breathe. anyway we're waiting as the coming distractions were going on and some lady jumps up across the theater and screams out some trivia question that her and her friend had apparently been arguing about for a half hour.

so much to my dismay of trying to be comfortable in a theater some hippy gets up and rambles off some dudes cousins uncles hobbits middle name backwards or some ludicriss thing like that and im just like aw... go play hobbit trivia somewhere else and u know like everyone in the theater new the answer to her question and im just like *shakes head* heh

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also we were like the only ones in the theater for the first mortal kombat. and the part where goro holds that dude up above his head and shang is like *finish hiiiiiimmmmmm* i was scared crapless thinkin goro was just gunna like snap him in two right over his head. man i was relieved he didnt do that. that woulda been way too much for me back then.

course then goro got punched somewhere...... man the first mortal kombat was pretty gritty. i think im gunna watch it. yea.....

moooortallllllll koooombaaaaaatttttt dun dun dun dadadadd duuuuun dun dun daddadad duuuuun dun duuuuuuunnnn test your might ch ch chchhhhhhhhh test your might ch chchchhhhhhh mortallll kombaaaaaatttttttttt

[PoolMan]

Hahaha... I like this guy.

Dadadunnnn... badaddDUNdaddbaddabadda DUN DUN!

[Genetic Mishap]

Whenever people start bothering you or giving you flak, just say "Don't mess with me man, I've got the Mortal Kombat theme stuck in my head!"
It's actually worked for me. Twice.

[Al]

This is not a story I was actually present for, but would have paid money to see. A while back, my Uncle Fred and Aunt Jackie decided to have a night on the town for the first time in many years. They barhopped for a bit, only to discover that they were about twenty years older than the oldest people in any of their old haunts, so they decided go to to the movie theater, also for the first time in a over a decade.

They walk into the new De Niro movie 15 Minutes, which had already started, as a fire truck rolls onscreen complete with wailing siren. My aunt, who has not been in a theater since the eighties and missed the Dolby Surround Sound ad at the opening, hears the siren coming from the back of the theater. Ever the elementary school teacher, she immediately runs to the front of the audience and yells over the dialogue "OKAY FOLKS, WE SEEM TO HAVE AN EMERGENCY! EVERYBODY CALM DOWN AND BE ORDERLY ABOUT THIS! LET'S EXIT THE THEATER LIKE ADULTS!"

After being pelted with popcorn, they sat as far away from everyone as possible.

Al

[FindTheGirl]

1) I went to see "Pearl Harbor" with my parents (I swear, it was against my will). As soon as Ben Affleck's plane plopped in the drink and the melodramatic score started playing, the girl sitting in front of me began weeping loudly and profusely at any interval involving overly-dramatic situations. Worst of all, you could gauge when she would start crying again (i.e., "Ben and Josh's plane just got shot down, she's gonna let 'er rip any moment now..." ). It was pretty annoying and hilarious at the same time. I mean, crying because JOSH HARTNETT just got shot feels just ludicrous to me. I felt like World War II veterans were horribly misrepresented by those talentless hacks.

2) When I was 4 years old (1987), I went to my grandparents house for Halloween. After trick-or-treat, I was forgotten in front of the TV (stupid grandparents). As luck may have it, the feature that night was "Aliens", which I saw in its visceral entirety. Ok, I had nightmares for about 5 months afterwards, and I still haven't totally conquered my fear of the dark. The images and situations from "Aliens" are always floating in my head, like I kept seeing a cleaved and disembowled Bishop crawling towards me, and don't even ASK about the facehuggers. What's funny is that a few years ago I re-discovered "Aliens", and now it is one of my all-time favorite films. It is like I have this malevolent creature growing inside of me...

[deusdragonexx]

When you stop to think about that last statement, its wrong on more than one level.

I just remembered. I went to see Daredeveli in theatres. This was about four weeks after it came out, so I was a bit late. But Me and my brother went to see it, and as it turns out, it was the only time in history I've been able to see a movie in an empty theatre. If only I had my girlfriend there instead of my brother...

[Deleted]

I remember when me and my friend meredith saw X2 on opening day. It was so great, because every time even a remotely cool thing happen people would burst out clapping! It was sooo fun!

Also there was the time when I got dragged into Chasing Papi by my friends, and the power went out in the theater during the last 2 minutes of the movie. So me and my friend KT finished the movie for everyone, and then we got one of those free movie ticket things (I still have it!)

And then after I watched Reservoir Dogs for the first time with my cousin we spent days after it quoting the movie and giving each other color coded names (I was Mr. Purple Mountains Majesty, she was Mr. Tickle Me Pink.)

And then there were the times we watched Queen Of The Damned, and spent the whole time making fun of it (Some of the funnier quote from that being "No...HUMAN could play a violin that fast!" "Lestat drinks the blood, and we get the road-kill!" "MARIUS! I FOUND YOUR SECRET HIDING PLACE!")

And after me and my mom watched The Mothman Prophecy we kept getting this weird garbled phone calls. Seriously, they would be all static-y and sometimes people would be speaking spanish and stuff. It was crazy.