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| Airbolt |
Posted - 01/22/2007 : 22:55:59
95% of what you hear from your fellow cinema goers is forgettable consisting of
- Gimme Dat Popcorn
- Gimme Dat Coke
- which one's John Wayne?
- isn't she a lesbian , why is she kissing Harrison Ford?
However , occasionally you get a Gem. Waaay Back i was crammed into a Shoebox-sized screening of " Where Eagles Dare " with a lot of noisy 10 year olds. Richard and Clint were chopping down Nazis with relish and inexhaustible Bullets. Finding no more to shoot they laconically head off to find more. At this point a plaintive voice quavers....
" There's No Germans left ! "
Has anyone else heard a well aimed comment in their cinema? |
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| ragingfluff |
Posted - 02/17/2007 : 16:54:27
I went to see Return of the Jedi in the now long gone, sadly missed Ambassador in Dublin. It was over the Christmas holidays and it was a matinee, so there must have been around 500 kids in the cinema, all of us enthralled. During the scene where Yoda dies, 500 of us sat there in absolute stunned silence until a tiny, plaintive voice behind me bawled out "Yoda's Dead!", which set all of us into embarrassed snotty sniffling. That scene is the equivalent of the death of Bambi's mother for my generation...
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| Montgomery |
Posted - 02/16/2007 : 23:11:33
quote:
Originally posted by Koli
I forget the details of the scene
Details of the scene -- Jaws, the shark, had eaten the rest of the guy.
EM :)
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| Koli |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 06:29:31
Not so much a funny remark as synchronised leaping...
30 years ago I was watching Jaws at the Hyde Park Cinema (famous for its gas lamps) in Leeds. I forget the details of the scene but at one point a decapitated head appears in a hole in the bottom of a boat. I and, it seemed, everyone else in the cinema involuntarily jumped several inches into the air before slumping back into our chairs. I can't remember a moment quite like it before or since. |
| Tori |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 05:38:25
quote:
Originally posted by Montgomery
Tori, your reactions are amazing.  Might I suggest you get a good DVD player and only watch at home?
EM :)
I pretty much have to. LOL It's humiliating for everyone. I'm SOOOOO glad that the Notebook was an at-home preview for me. Let's not even go into it. :) |
| Tori |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 05:37:41
You buried the lead. Your Dad cried during Father of the Bride?
EM :)
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Yeah, he was bawling like a baby. Then of course he got remarried and after that, I was chopped liver. I'm surprised he even made it to my wedding, much less cared either way. Oh, how things change. |
| Montgomery |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 19:12:56
Tori, your reactions are amazing. Might I suggest you get a good DVD player and only watch at home?
EM :) |
| Montgomery |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 19:11:33
quote:
Originally posted by Tori
I was a rather dramatic teenager and so we have a few incidents that were pretty funny.
One was the first time I saw Titanic. I was sobbing so loud that people were turning around to stare at me. When I came out of the theatre, I had huge, thick black streaks up and down my arm. Apparently, I'd worn quite a bit of mascara and wiped my eyes repeatedly with my forearm.
Second was when I saw the Sixth Sense alone. I was 14 or so and in the theatre and I absoutely could not handle the movie. I had screamed and cowered and hid and finally I sort of crawled out of the theatre and joined my parents in "Random Hearts". The second time I tried to watch the movie, I pulled on the shirt of the guy sitting next to me and broke some buttons. He wasn't too happy.
Then there's the time I saw Conspiracy Theory, I was probably twelve and was not happy that they couldn't be together in the end. An usher had to help my Mom carry me out of the theatre because I was crying so hard I couldn't walk straight.
By the time I was fifteen, nobody would go to movies with me and I totally understand! If my friends and I did go together, they'd sit a few rows ahead. One time one of the group brought along someone who didn't know me and felt sorry for me and sat with me and I scared the crap out of him by screaming during a horror movie. He learned his lesson quickly.
When I was five or so, my father took me to see Father of the Bride. At one point I turned and saw that my Dad was crying so I said really loudly "WHY ARE YOU CRYING, DADDY?" Everyone laughed.
Here's the last one. At the movies as a child (seven or so?) there was an advertisement for a movie full of gunfire and explosions and the announcer said "Starring Ice-T and Ice Cube." I said "Not with all that fire...they'll be melted in no time!"
You buried the lead. Your Dad cried during Father of the Bride?
EM :) |
| Tori |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 18:08:00
I was a rather dramatic teenager and so we have a few incidents that were pretty funny.
One was the first time I saw Titanic. I was sobbing so loud that people were turning around to stare at me. When I came out of the theatre, I had huge, thick black streaks up and down my arm. Apparently, I'd worn quite a bit of mascara and wiped my eyes repeatedly with my forearm.
Second was when I saw the Sixth Sense alone. I was 14 or so and in the theatre and I absoutely could not handle the movie. I had screamed and cowered and hid and finally I sort of crawled out of the theatre and joined my parents in "Random Hearts". The second time I tried to watch the movie, I pulled on the shirt of the guy sitting next to me and broke some buttons. He wasn't too happy.
Then there's the time I saw Conspiracy Theory, I was probably twelve and was not happy that they couldn't be together in the end. An usher had to help my Mom carry me out of the theatre because I was crying so hard I couldn't walk straight.
By the time I was fifteen, nobody would go to movies with me and I totally understand! If my friends and I did go together, they'd sit a few rows ahead. One time one of the group brought along someone who didn't know me and felt sorry for me and sat with me and I scared the crap out of him by screaming during a horror movie. He learned his lesson quickly.
When I was five or so, my father took me to see Father of the Bride. At one point I turned and saw that my Dad was crying so I said really loudly "WHY ARE YOU CRYING, DADDY?" Everyone laughed.
Here's the last one. At the movies as a child (seven or so?) there was an advertisement for a movie full of gunfire and explosions and the announcer said "Starring Ice-T and Ice Cube." I said "Not with all that fire...they'll be melted in no time!" |
| Airbolt |
Posted - 02/06/2007 : 13:02:00
I once went to a small cinema which was privately owned. I got a ticket from the owner and asked if there was a coffee machine. He disappeared to the kitchen to boil some water - while the queue for tickets grew behind me.
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| Rovark |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 20:54:33
Not so much a funny comment but a situation.
Watching "The Howling" some 25 years ago in the Fleapit in Cardiff. Obviously, being a horror movie, there's a certain amount of expectation and excitement as it begins and at a point when it went quiet on screen, the place's guard dog, a bloody great German Shepherd started barking and scratching outside the door just behind us. The whole audience collectively jumped, then burst into nervous giggles. My guess would be the owner did it deliberately as I can't recall ever hearing the dog during a screening before or after, but it was priceless. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 02/05/2007 : 09:39:07
When I saw Blood Diamond, at the moment when Danny and Maddy separate, someone shouted (at the front of a large screen, while I was at the back) "Go on! Kiss 'er! Kiss 'er!" and everyone broke out laughing. |
| damalc |
Posted - 01/30/2007 : 00:51:00
i have a couple.
before the feature, they showed a preview for "Castaway." right after Hanks washes up on the beach, stands up, looks around and says, "Hello?" i called out in my best Bob Denver voice, "Skipperrrrr." got a good laugh from the rest of the audience.
during a school field trip to a movie, 9th grade, i think, a girls yells out in the middle of the movie, "Get your f-ing hand out of my pants!" now i look back and think that was staged but it was hilarious to a theater full of adolescents. |
| Downtown |
Posted - 01/27/2007 : 15:44:12
When I saw The Phantom Menace, about 30 seconds into the closing credits I yelled out "That sucked, George!" and it was like The Emperor's New Clothes...suddenly everyone in the theater seemed willing to admit it. It wasn't so much a funny comment as a funny situation. |
| Conan The Westy |
Posted - 01/27/2007 : 05:06:19
When we were watching Poltergeist at the cinema a few of us started singing Shakin' Steven's Green Door at an inappropriate moment.
Also after watching The Goonies we nearly tripped over a young couple pashing outside the theatre. When I enquired "Any braces" they went beet-red and my friends cracked up. Perfect timing (it happens so rarely with me, hence my clear recollection of an incident of 20 years old). |
| Chris C |
Posted - 01/26/2007 : 20:28:28
This is funnier looking back than it was at the time. Mrs C and I went to see The Passion of the Christ. The cinema was not very full, and about 4 rows behind us were 3 late-teen/early 20s girls. They spent sections of the film upsetting the rest of the audience by giggling at mobile phone messages and enquiring "Is that Mel Gibson" any time somebody with a beard appeared on the screen.
At the end of the movie, the first words to appear on the screen, in VERY BIG LETTERS (like on the poster outside) are "Directed by Mel Gibson". Cue a collective "ooohhhh" from behind us, and loud sniggers from everyone else. |
