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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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 Posted - 11/17/2006 : 12:40:28
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Went to see Casino Royale today with my Dad. Was really enjoying it (and I'm not even a Bond fan), when all of a sudden, mid-movie, the sound goes. So the next few minutes were ruined, then apparently it was revealed that they couldn't run the film back. So we left. Fucking ridiculous.
That got me thinking, I'm sure people have got a few bad cinema stories up there sleeves. People talking and/ore acting rowdy (who hasn't had a movie-going experience spoiled by such behaviour?), the projector breaking down, and the like. I remember going to see Heat and having outside construction work drown out some of the film. I also remember having to leave No Escape, a cheesy 'futuristic-prison-island' movie (not Ray Liotta's finest hour), due to feeling sick-I puked in the train station on the way home (it may have been the dodgy combo of greasy chips+cappuccino I'd had earlier, but I like to think it was because the film was so bad, heh!). |
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
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Posted - 11/17/2006 : 12:42:31
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star wars episode 3, the sound get kept cutting out on one side, and there were loads of cracks and pops, annoying.
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2006 : 13:01:08
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I just had that happen to me the other day. I should've complained but it was in the ghetto second-run theatre so whatever...
If that happened during a big movie like Bond, Star Wars, et al, I would've been livid.
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pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/17/2006 : 14:04:33
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I once got mugged and had my phone stolen on the way to the cinema about 6 years ago.
Also, about 5 or 6 years ago I went and saw 'The Family Man'. That was an annoying cinema experience.
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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
2002 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2006 : 14:43:07
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Same thing happened when I was watching 007 The World Is Not Enough. Film broke right before the climax, and we all had to get our money back.
Back in '81, was watching Raiders of the Lost Ark in the theatre, and the film broke right after the first PARAMOUNT PICTURES PRESENTS. 20 minutes later, they got it working, only to have it break right after the title for another 10 minutes.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 11/17/2006 : 14:50:31
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i made a crappy student film about this very subject once. when i was a student.
recently at THE DEPARTED there was a woman behind us who was talking to herself the whole time. only, she wasn't talking, she was narrating what was happening on screen. play by play, "oh my god he picked up the phone. oh, now he's walking outside".. it was driving us fucking nuts. i (and several people) shushed her several times. then this girl (who was directly in front of her) lost it and screamed at her. she was finally quiet after that.
after the show we realized she was at the theatre with a blind person.
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2006 : 15:10:18
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Wow, Transmarine. At least you didn't know what you were missing with Raiders.
Also, Floop, is that really true? I would probably have lost it too, luckily I wasn't there. That said, I'm not convinced you don't have the right to see the movie without distraction, however benevolent.
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TRANSMARINE
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 11/17/2006 : 15:14:46
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Originally posted by floop
after the show we realized she was at the theatre with a blind person.
at least that's what your mom said
That RIGHT THERE deserves a home-made dummy!
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mantaraysallright
- FB Fan -
USA
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Posted - 11/17/2006 : 15:55:10
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| I can't remember the movie I was watching but I remember about 8 years ago being in the theater and having the power go out in the middle of the movie. I think that it went back up and we got to finish but we waited a long time. I also recently saw "American Hardcore" (a documentary about Hardcore music) and sat behind some girls who thought that the people on the screen could actually hear them so they were yelling/cheering throughout the movie...really annoying. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 11/17/2006 : 16:44:18
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Originally posted by TRANSMARINE
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Originally posted by floop
after the show we realized she was at the theatre with a blind person.
at least that's what your mom said
That RIGHT THERE deserves a home-made dummy!
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what doesn't though?
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 11/17/2006 : 16:47:00
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Also, Floop, is that really true? I would probably have lost it too, luckily I wasn't there. That said, I'm not convinced you don't have the right to see the movie without distraction, however benevolent.
yes, true story. and yes, i agree with you re: distraction. for a moment i felt kind of bad, but then i was kind of like, "wait for dvd"..
it truly ruined (part of) the movie for me. just the anticipation of her narrating was more annoying than her actually narrating. and on top of that, at the time, i was wondering what kind of crazy person felt the compulsion to narrate everything out loud (after being shushed). i was genuinely curious
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Luis Bunuel
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Posted - 11/18/2006 : 01:39:55
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| I went to 'L'Armee des ombres' this summer and some hipster intellectual type college students were making out a few seats away. I'm not some kind of prude, but the last thing I want to listen to is a couple of jerks cooing and slobbering over one another all the way through a movie. What the hell kind of person do you have to be to make out during a flick like that anyway? |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2006 : 01:53:49
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A horny one, I'd guess...
It's like that Seinfeld where they make out during Schindler's List.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2006 : 06:21:39
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I once saw that Kevin Costner film where he had gills.
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Llamadance
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/18/2006 : 07:18:18
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We went to see Se7en and I just happened to have this huge, bulging over the seats, fat guy sitting next to me. He fell asleep and snored through the whole goddam film, thus missing the ironic deaths of gluttony and sloth (did he die?). How I wished it were that guy.
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zub_the_goat
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
639 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2006 : 07:47:15
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
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Posted - 11/18/2006 : 07:57:54
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I've been to 2 movies that were pretty much soldout and had to sit in the very front row.
One was Saving Private Ryan and I felt sick and disoriented after it because we were so close.
And then Borat the other day. We looked like idiots trying to read the subtitles.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
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Posted - 11/18/2006 : 12:36:32
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walked into nutty professer 2 *shudder* and were to embaressed to walk out of it...2 hours of farting hamsters
yeah that film is really giving the farting-hamster genre a bad name.
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Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 11/18/2006 : 13:53:08
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Star wars, the return of the Jedi, rereleased maxi version.
The film started and Gosh! That was SO boring...
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Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 11/18/2006 : 14:00:43
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Oh yeah... And that other trilogy, "Lords of the ring of the flies and whatever"... Brrr...
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Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 11/18/2006 : 14:02:56
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And that cronicle of this trash-blues band...
Gloomy...
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zub_the_goat
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
639 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2006 : 14:56:49
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Originally posted by Newo
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walked into nutty professer 2 *shudder* and were to embaressed to walk out of it...2 hours of farting hamsters
yeah that film is really giving the farting-hamster genre a bad name.
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you know whats worse?....i think i was lying and it was dr dolittle-im confusing my eddie murphy films
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prozacrat
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1186 Posts |
Posted - 11/19/2006 : 03:23:47
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My friend and I went to Hostel last winter. On President's Day. Went to the 3:00 matinee. Thought we'd be able to enjoy it. If you're not familiar with Hostel, it's easily one of the goriest, most violent, most sexually explicit movies I've seen in wide release. I loved it. However, my friend and I would have enjoyed much more if it weren't for the four busloads of high school students packed in the theatre with us. And not just regular high school students. The most notoriously misbehaved students in the state. I guess they were on a field trip. WHO THE FUCK SENDS THEIR STUDENTS TO "HOSTEL" FOR A FIELD TRIP?!!!! They were yelling and laughing and getting up and moving around the theatre through the whole movie. Easily my worst experience going to a movie. There was quite a bit of irresponsibility going around with these folks.
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 11/19/2006 : 09:31:01
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In an ironic twist, perhaps their gap year trips to Europe will contain an unpleasant surprize!! ;)
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2006 : 07:36:09
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Problem Child 2.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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