When my first daughter was three or four, I took her to see Fiddler on the Roof. Kind of a long movie for a child that age, but she suddenly became interested when the Cossacks started lining up to attack the revolutionaries.
“ARE THOSE THE BAD GUYS?” she asked, loud enough for everyone in the theater to hear.
I just shrugged and said “All depends on your point of view…”
That movie was called The Edge
Had to check to see if I’d posted in this thread before. Apparently not. Anyway:
We were watching Bram Stoker’s Dracula. There’s a bit in the middle where Lucy gets bitten, and it’s loud and there are wolves everywhere and curtains streaming from windows and Lucy is outdoors having sex with a vampire wolfman and suddenly glass explodes everywhere and then all is very suddenly silent.
Everyone in the theater was quiet, too, when one guy near the front said, in a conversational tone of voice, “Well, that was disturbing.” Wasn’t loud, but the theater was so quiet that everyone heard it and started laughing. Pretty sure that wasn’t what the movie intended.
First run of Bladerunner, audience riveted. Pris has Decker in the standing neck scissors hold and is choking the life out of him. From the back of the theatre somebody shouts, “Beam me up, Scottie! Right fucking now!” Kinda broke the mood…
Good lord, I hope I never find myself in the same theater with any of you :dubious: :o
Hey, I was just an innocent bystander!
I was living in England and my Mom flew out to visit me. Long before it became a big touring sensation, the Prince Charles theater in London did a weekly Sing-along Sound of Music. Knowing my mom’s love for the film (I find it unbearable), I thought she would get a kick out of it, so we went.
Just like Rocky Horror, it’s an interactive event with little props that are circulated to be used by everyone at the same time during different scenes of the film. This included a little party popper that was supposed to be set off during the New Year’s Eve scene. However, seeing an opportunity, I pretended to deploy mine but waited…
…for that scene in the church yard when the Von Trapps are fleeing the Nazis and they run into Rolf, the Hitler Youth who used to be sweet on the oldest daughter Liesl. Although I hate the film, I’d been subjected to it many times in my childhood so had a pretty good memory of how the scene played out.
Rolf has his pistol drawn and is pointing it at Captain Von Trapp. “Don’t move or I’ll shoot!” he yells. Hesitatingly, Christopher Plummer takes a cautious step forward, trusting that Rolf won’t shoot.
POP!
That’s exactly when I set off my noisemaker. And it brought the house down. 