gimme your weirdly memorable movies experiences
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Dave Levitan
Btw, a pretty memorable movie-going experience is when you're studying abroad in Belgium and you and your friends get very high to go see Lord of the Rings but it's sold out so you sit in the back for Mulholland Drive instead without having any idea what it is.
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My first time ever in a theater, presumably.
I do remember the scenes with the scary black floaty pointy device and Leia and co shooting to escape but I definitely didn't understand the movie.
Maybe I was missing some context but it made me so sad.
Once the lights went down, the theater was filled with the sound of beers opening. Literally, everyone smuggled some in. Also, everyone spoke every word of dialog along with the actors.
I’ll go with the time we had the same theatre showing a kid’s movie in the day, and the new Jason movie at night.
1pm show, PACKED with kids, put wrong film on — but didn’t know until AFTER boobs filled up the screen 🍈🍈 👀 😎
When the Irishman turned up on screen, the whole place was delirious.
Just before each really-gross scene, she passed word down the line, and we heard the stage-whispers "Good part" "Good part" "Good par—
On the Devil's side, there was the Exorcist II screening with the reels in wrong order. Correcting the order didn't improve the story..
dome in 2017. during intermission, a man stood up in a “#freestormydaniels” t-shirt to lecture about how scientology destroyed kubrick’s life. everybody listened politely until he shouted AND LET’S MARCH ON THEIR HEADQUARTERS RIGHT NOW, then it was a mad dash to the bathroom
There's a small 100-seat theater at the film museum there.
Friends once rented it and showed all three Lord of the Rings movies (with interruptions for power failures and dinner break.)
I've also been at film festival movies with power failures.
At the LION KING on the UWS, the packed audience was breathless after the stampede scene. Then, as we all took in the body of Mustafa, a little boy in front of me said in a thin wavering voice, "Mommy, is he dead?" And the whole theater burst out laughing.
Halfway thru, following the elevator stomp the younger one exclaims.
“I’m so sorry, everyone.”
Hashtag he's just a raggedy man
https://youtu.be/NbqHZiap_u4?si=F3sT3IROHnV0IIVv mom was MORTIFIED
I got up, went for help and got a round of applause when I went back in 😂
Conversely, The Sixth Sense had a jump scare that ONE WOMAN found so startling she shouted "oh jesus Christ!" and the entire cinema audience broke into laughter