So I was watching the movie Apocalypto in the theater. The first half of the movie is good, but if you’ve seen the second half, it really gets ridiculous, what with the little guy who’s pincushioned with spears and arrows outrunning twelve other guys through the jungle. I was by myself in the theater, so I started riffing on the movie to myself, MST3K-style, and one of the things I thought was, ‘Oh now what? Christopher Columbus shows up?’
And a few minutes later, that’s exactly what happened!!
That my derisive comment had come true struck me as so hilarious that I started laughing and I couldn’t stop. I tried to, but the theater was mostly empty, and nobody seemed to care anyway.
I tend not to be too moved by movies regardless of how much I enjoy them but a good martial arts movie has me looking to pick fights in the parking lot afterward (which let me tell you would be a very bad idea for my continued health)
Funny!
Have you ever blurted something out loud in a theatre, esp. at the end of a movie? My friend P.S. did that when we saw Eyes Wide Shut. It ended rather abruptly, and she said "THAT’S IT?!"
On a sort of related note, I saw the 2004 version of The Manchurian Candidate, and at the end, some guy in the theatre yelled out, “George W. Bush has a chip in his brain, and Dick Cheney and the CIA put it there. Vote that piece of shit out of office!”
I didn’t want him to hear me laugh, so I kept quiet. It was in interesting afternoon.
At the end of Star Wars 3, when Darth Pussy stands up and shouts “NOOO!” I laughed and said “Are you shitting me?!?”
Actually, my boundless, endless rage directed towards Star Wars (in general and Revenge of the Sith in particular) is probably a bit ridiculous. I’m sure a rational person could argue George Lucas isn’t the worst person alive, but I’m still secretly convinced he is. (Not a bitter fan, btw. I hate all the movies based on how much they suck, not because I have some weird sense of betrayal over the fact that a talentless hack made 3 comparably worse movies than the first 3 pieces of crap he inflicted on the world).
I tend to blubber at any movie that attempts to tug at heartstrings, even if I know I’m being manipulated, but two times I went on hours-long bawling, sobbing crying jags that seem pretty over the top in retrospect:
The end of ‘Return of the Jedi’ when Luke sets Darth Vader’s pyre aflame. Darth Vader was my favorite character, and not only was I a wreck the rest of the afternoon, I actually couldn’t watch that scene without welling up for at least two decades.
‘Lilo & Stitch.’ Yeah, the Disney movie. I rented it just on a lark and almost had to take the next day off work, my eyes were so swollen. I can’t even remember what was so upsetting about it, but I’ll never watch it again to find out.
In the first case I was fourteen. The second, my mid-thirties. I might have been premenstrual, but that’s all I got.
I was a trainwreck after Dances With Wolves but I don’t consider that to be a ridiculous reaction. I was so traumatized by it that I barely remember anything about it–I’ve quite literally banned it from my mind.
When I first saw The Patriot, I was a screaming, sobbing wreck when Gabriel died. Luckily I was at home watching it on DVD, and not in a crowded theater.
Also, a TV example I mentioned in another thread: when I first saw a clip of the climax scene of the Doctor Who episode “Blink,” I had trouble SHOWERING that night. I had to keep my eyes open the entire time, which got difficult when it came time to wash my face. Sometimes I STILL wake up in the middle of the night expecting to see this thing standing over me. (God, I’m almost too scared to even post that image, knowing what the angels are capable of in the most recent episode. :eek:)
And when I went back and watched the whole episode later, I had to resist looking over my shoulder every few minutes. No episode of any TV show, ever, has made me react that much.
As an ex military parachutist it made me sick to my stomach watching the American Paras unavoidably landing in the square at St.Mere Eglise due to pilot error in the Longest Day.
Also watched Saving Private Ryan with two other ex soldiers and we were incredibly subdued when we left the cinema.
There’s a hospital scene in the movie Big Fish. While it is sad, it’s not the saddest thing I’ve ever seen. (And most of the movie is pretty upbeat and funny.)
I was a hot mess. Sobbing, weeping, big tears. I pretty much completely broke down.
In my case, it was all situational - my mother had just been in a car crash and had been in some pretty severe trouble there for a bit. SpouseO had taken me to see the movie because it was supposed to be this uplifting, happy type show, and it has Ewan McGregor, which is definitely a selling point for me. And it did take my mind off things, until I saw that damn hospital bed.
That reminds me: when I saw Final Destination for the first time, I literally could not step into the shower for three days afterwards. I kept trying to force myself to put my leg in, then the scene where Todd slips on shampoo and gets strangled kept popping into my head, and I just couldn’t do it. I also felt uncomfortable getting onto planes for a few years. Good movie, but it got under my skin for some reason.
“The Ring” disturbed me for weeks. I’d lay in bed and couldn’t get the image of the dead girl in the closet out of my mind.
One of the “Planet of the Apes” movies, I think it might have been "Escape from. . . " showed a bunch of good apes on a ship and one of them has a baby wrapped in blanket and she and the baby get shot and you see it floating in the water. Made me absolutely hysterical. I guess I was about five at the time so I suppose it’s not *that * ridiculous. If it had been a human baby I don’t think I would have had the same reaction, but seeing that little baby monkey dead and floating all alone like that just destroyed me.
Antoher young childhood one - “Grizzly” is a cheesy movie about a giant bear that terrorizes some mountain community. There’s a scene where a little boy is out playing alone and the bear rips his arm off. For some reason I felt like he resembled my brother when he was young (the boy not the bear)which is weird because I would have been and infant when he was that age, but for whatever reason I equated them and I was devestated. I don’t remember making a scene in the theater but I did cry to my mom about it later.
Bridge to Terabithia freakin’ *destroyed *me. I’d never read the book, and the movie was marketed horribly- I thought it was another movie in the vein of Narnia. Holy crap was I wrong. My wife still hasn’t forgiven me for suggesting that we go see it. To this day she still refers to it as “THAT movie.”
In Bolt, right at the end, when Bolt stayed with his human in the burning building… and then used his “super bark”… I’m tearing up just remembering the scene.
I’ve seen Good Will Hunting maybe 4 or 5 times now, and it never really affected me. But I saw it again last night and I couldn’t keep from welling up. Yeah yeah, the “It’s not your fault” scene was kind of expected. But the scene that really got to me was the one where Dr. Sean talked about how he met his wife. I actually almost picked up my phone to call my ex.
Of course the saddest thing was seeing how good Ben Affleck used to be.
After seeing Blair Witch Project, I freaked out every time I saw an abandoned building.
The most violent emotional reaction I’ve ever had to a movie happened while I was walking out of the theater after Cold Mountain. Even though I knew it was coming, it just seemed so unfair that Inman dies.
I was sobbing - complete with snot and spit - while my boyfriend and I walked to the car. I think it continued for at least 20 minutes.
Same reaction after Life Is Beautiful, but luckily I wasn’t out in public. And I kind of think that one was justified.
