Oh and Wolfian, 180 (three triple 20’s) is the most points you can get in a round of darts in a game like 301. The British like their darts. 
Ok, this needs a little background. It was nearing the end of an Ohio winter, at that stage where even many folks who like winter are starting to get sping fever. I’m at the theatre with some friends, and up comes a trailer for The Day After Tomorrow. This was a just a teaser trailer that was pretty much some ominous text, followed by a shot of New York City buired in the snow, followed by a “Coming this May” screen.
I said (about normal speaking voice volume), “Oh great, just what we want in May. A movie about snow”.
Well, my friend thought it was funny at the time.
Not exactly on-topic, but I thought I’d share another recent theatre-going-experience anecdote. My somewhat-old-fashioned-at-least-in-terms-of-morals grandparents and I went recently to see the Phantom of the Opera. Neither of them had been to see a movie in a long time, and really got a kick out of things like the automized curtains (you know, that move to expose the edges of the screen for widescreen movies). One of the trailers was for the upcoming Constantine movie, which involved lots of fighting, explosions, demons and/or ghosts, that sort of thing. My Grandma was absolutely shocked by this preview and leans over to tells me: “That’s absolutely terrible. They shouldn’t even be allowed to make horrible things like that. Do you like movies like that?”
Wow. Talk about you loaded question.
After the movie, I made comments about how for a few scenes, there seemed to be some problems with the theatre’s sound system. My grandpa (who’s deaf in one ear) said: “Oh, I thought it was just the guy behind us crinkling his sack”. I think he meant “bag of popcorn”, but had a hard time supressing my laughter at another possible interpretation.
I usually object strenuously to talking in cinemas ('cept midnight shows of cult classics, where it’s practically expected), but the scene in “About Schmidt” where
Kathy Bates drops her robe and gets into the jacuzzi with Jack Nickelson.
The guy in front of me yelled “My eyes!” and clutched his face. His girlfriend/wife proceeded to slug him.
Stranger
UK cinema. Trailer for ‘Free Willy’.
Woman’s voice shouts:
“I’ll 'ave some of that!”
Indeed we do (well sort of).
In particular there is a darts commentator (called Sid Waddell, I think) who has an easily imitatable voice - and he gleefully calls out ‘wun hun-dread and aaaaaaaa-ty!’ whenever those 3 darts score the maximum.
This happened at home in front of the TV. Some years back, we were watching A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott as Scrooge. It had come to the dramatic scene after he’d been with the third spirit and was suddenly back in his room, on his knees, wailing and gnashing, and emoting all over the place. I found myself saying “I do believe in spooks. I *do * believe in spooks. I do. I do. I do.”
Hubby and I had a good laugh over that.
Well I knew that (minus the announcer’s name), I was just being polite and letting ianzin have something to fill in.
( and I forgot that that was the important bit while posting 
)
As the end credits started rolling for Boxing Helena, I stood up to leave and said “Dear God, please tell me that I just dreamed that I paid $7 to watch this piece of crap”. The friend I was with thought it was hysterical.
And truly, I hope for your own sake that you didn’t get that…
I tend not to speak in the movie theater, though I do whisper to my fiancee is the mood strikes me.
Still, the big two I can think of came from movies watched on the small screen.
In Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me, there is a part where Chris Isaac purposefully spills coffee on someone. In a pseudo-Elvis voice I say “That was a wicked thing to do.” Basic joke but got surprising laughs.
We were watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with the subtitles and our daughter was watching with us. After a character spoke, she leans over to us and says “He said ‘What up.’” She was all of five at the time. The kid’s a genius.
That makes sense. In fact I knew that, but I couldn’t make the connection. Thanks, mate.
In LoTR, when the fellowship was forming and the charactors were swearing their comitment to the quest. Gimly steps up last and says “and my axe”, My son said in a quizical kids voice, “but he broke his axe”
Chuckles from just about everone near enough to hear it.
When Return of the Jedi came out ( which ever one has the Ewok Infestation)
I was at the movies with a friend.
One of the ushers that worked there was a midget.
During a particularly tense scene (can’t remember) , he would jump up from a row of empty seats before a bunch of high schoolers and scare the beezeuss out of them.
That is one of my favorite movie memories.
At a showing of Sam Peckinpaw’s Straw Dogs at MIT – Dustin Hoffman plays a theoretrical asdtrophysicist working somewhere out in the country in Britain. At one point he has a fight with his wife, and she stalks off past the blackboard he has set up, and which has a long equation on it. She goes over, unseen by him, and erases a “+” sign somewhere in the middle and replaces it with a “-”.
Someone in the audience stands up and says: “I’d Kill Her !!!”
A friend of ours went to see Dragonslayer. At a point later than the one referred to above, Peter MacNicol is back in the Dragon’s Lair, and throws some magic powder into the Lake of Fire. Nothing happens, except that the flames go out. At this point, our friend pipes up with:
[Marvin Martian] “What happened to the KABOOM? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering KABOOM!”[/Marvin Martian]
This is an obscure one, but we really loved it. Empty theater, only 3 people in it.
Sean Connery in ‘Zardoz’. Huge long scene where one of the godlings gives Sean a magic leaf to help him out of any situation. Things begin to happen and then get very serious, it looks like the end for ol’ Sean and he’s losing. He fights and fights and gets badly beaten up. Can nothing help him?
Finally, from out of nowhere comes a voice, “Eat the leaf, stupid!”
Watching Wild Things in a packed theater at a late-night showing. At the scene where
Matt Dillon is about to have a three-way with Neve Campbell and Denise Richards, when up until that point they’s been enemies
A lone voice in the back of the theater drawled out, “Daaaaayyyaammnn!”
The whole theater cracked up.
While watching Lord of the Rings: Return of the King with my brother and his family we got to the late scene where Gandolf and the rest are standing before the gates of Mordor (or wherever it is that the evil eye lives) and I quietly whispered to my brother in my best John Cleese French accent “Hello, English knnniggits”. My sister-in-law hit me without even hearing me. She knew what I said just from the response of my brother and the guy behind us.
Saw Return of the King once in the theatres on opening day, but a few of my friends waited until it had reached the two dollar show. No wait, we’d all seen it, we just had to see it again.
Anyway, we’d been loud for most of the film, making bad jokes, laughing almost to the point of lung collapse at Frodo’s line “It’s sticky! WHAT IS IT?!” Keep in mind that most of us had read the Very Secret Diaries at this point and knew that Sam would kill anyone if they’d tried anything, and pointed it out regularly.
But the bit that almost got us kicked out and/or beaten up was when Sam picks up Frodo to carry him up Mt. Doom. As he slings him over his shoulder, I say in a very loud voice “Grope, grope!”
When I saw Fatal Attraction at the cinema, it had been on for some months. There was only about 10 people at the screening we went to. During one of the more notable scenes, we see the camera moving in slowly on a pot boiling on a stove, accompanied by suitably scary music. A girl in the cinema who I presume had already seen the film yelled out “Aaaargh… Its the rabbit!!” And it was.
During Batman and Robin, when the two of them are arguing over Poison Ivy, my response was, “Oh, you boys aren’t fooling anyone – now kiss and make up!”
This thread cannot be considered complete without reference to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. For you uncultured barbarians who haven’t experienced this event, the idea is to shout witty lines that fit either before or after actual dialogue in the movie. Of course, different regions have their own favorite lines, so going to a different show can be interesting.
A few samples:
BRAD: I’m Brad, [ASSHOLE!] and this is Janet. [SLUT!]
Riff drops a glass of wine.
[Riff can’t hold his liquor!]
Dr. Frankenfurter (Tim Curry) gets in the pool.
[Hey waiter, I didn’t order the curry!]
[This salsa’s made in New York City! Get a rope.]
A rope falls from a scaffold.
DR. FRANKENFURTER: [Hey Frank, where do you get your drugs?] Colombia. [What color is your period?] Magenta.
[Hey Frank, what’s your last virgin orifice?]
Dr. Frankenfurter touches his ear.
Frank is giving a longwinded speech about creating the spark of life.
[Who gives the best blowjobs on the Enterprise?]
DR. FRANKENFURTER: SPAAAHRK!
Janet holds a newspaper over her head in the rain.
[Get an umbrella you dumb slut!]
A projection screen displays the RKO Radio Pictures logo.
[RKO? Does that stand for Reak Kinky Orgasm? What the fuck’s a radio picture? A picture of a radio?]
[Get that Smurf! Get it!]
Various characters pound their fists on tables or other surfaces.
[Damn, it got away!]