“No!”
“Don’t, don’t, don’t.”
“Don’t, he’s behind the door.”
“Turn around!”
“Turn around, turn around, turn around!”
“Now kiss her, you idiot.”
AWESOME!
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August 24, 2009...12:01 am
#694 Screaming at characters in movies to do things
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August 24, 2009 at 12:27 am
“KEEP IT UNDER 50, KEANU!”
August 24, 2009 at 1:40 am
I once sat one row in front of a woman in a theater who spent the whole movie yelling at the screen. The best part was when she started clapping and hollering: “Shoot ‘im again! Shoot ‘im again!”
It was strangely AWESOME!
August 24, 2009 at 2:04 am
It’s one of the reasons why Mystery Science Theater 3000 was one of the best TV shows ever made.
August 24, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Robot roll Call!!!! Cambot! Gypsy! Tom Servo!
Crrroooowww…
How i long for the saner days of bad theater….
April 20, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Seconded.
August 16, 2010 at 3:45 pm
thirded
August 24, 2009 at 2:29 am
I do that with the game shows all the time. Why do they keep going on for more money and are not happy with $250,000?
August 24, 2009 at 3:51 am
I was once watching the new Bond movie (Brosnan series) and there were like 8-10 guys (around 25 yo) in the theater who stood up and clapped and cheered whenever Bond did an amazing stunt.
it was hilariously AWESOME
August 24, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Haha, that’s the kind of audience noise I can actually appreciate.
August 24, 2009 at 5:36 am
DON’T OPEN THE CLOSET!!!!
August 24, 2009 at 8:06 am
I love the Bloor Cinema!
August 24, 2009 at 9:10 am
I do this a lot which is why I have to watch a lot of movies at home instead of the theatre…I get dirty looks :-)
August 24, 2009 at 10:20 am
No, this is NOT awesome, it is childish and rude to other moviegoers. If you want to talk during a movie, get the DVD and flap your mouth at home. Idiots.
November 17, 2009 at 4:05 am
The post neither said nor implied that it was AWESOME to do this in an actual theater.
July 31, 2010 at 3:50 pm
i completely agree i didn’t pay to watch some idiot interrupting the movie every time something “cool” came up. and it’s the worst when it was over nothing and you miss something important. no strangers happiness is that important to me ;)
August 24, 2009 at 11:19 am
Completely agree with ABG. I HATE when people yell during movies. It’s really inconsiderate to the people who are trying to enjoy what they just paid $15 to see. And I’m the person that’s going to tell the person shouting and they always complain when you tell them to shut up. AHHHHH!! 100% NOT AWESOME
August 25, 2009 at 8:59 am
you’re partially right. which means you’re aprtially wrong.
another example.
we wanted to watch Aladdin (animated). we were just about to buy tickets for a late night show when a friend proposed to buy for matinee.
at first we didn’t like the idea (being in early twenties) but we realised later how right he was.
there was a gazillion kids from 3 to 5 years old (with parents, which didn’t matter). they were screaming at the characters all movie, being afraid of the same things as main character, booing the bad guys…
we enjoyed every single moment of the movie.
it was the best movie experince ever I’ve ever had. even better than Bond.
September 27, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Awesome! :)
December 5, 2009 at 7:27 am
aw that’s pefect, stupid people that winge like c’mon it’s just $15 move on
August 16, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Where do you guys live?! $15!!!! $20!!! egad, I only pay $6!
September 2, 2010 at 9:43 am
I only pay $4. Tuesdays are bargian nights – $2.50 per seat.
And the large popcorn is only $2.75.
August 24, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I thoroughly enjoy shared audience reactions to the action on the screen. In fact, that’s one of the reasons I choose to “pay $15″ to see a movie in the theatre. There’s something about the crowd dynamic that adds to the experience. For example, when several hundred people all cringed and yelled “Oh my God” in unison after that unforgettable closeup of the zippered frank ‘n beans in “Something about Mary”, that was worth the price of admission! Best of all, though, is sitting near a really funny heckler at a bad movie.
August 24, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Totally agree. Plus, the electricity in the crowd for big “event” movies on opening night is terrific. Seeing one of the Lord of the Ring movies on opening night while you’re surrounded by people in costumes who are all cheering at the heroes holding back the Uruk-Hai hoards is one of the better movie experiences I’ve had.
Maybe the people that want to watch a movie in complete silence are the ones that should be staying at home with the DVD. There certainly won’t be any “idiot mouth flapping” going on there!
August 24, 2009 at 3:07 pm
It’s really cool to feel the shared emotions of the audience too. The hush when something terrible happens, the laughter and outbursts at the funniest parts, the cheering at the end. AWESOME indeed! :)
August 24, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Yeah, that really sucks, I agree. I remember watching ‘Rocky’ in the movie theater when I was a kid, and everybody cheered when he won that one fight. It sucked.
By the way, it seems that the awesomeness of the entries here is gradually going down anyway. 1000 awesome things might have been a good idea when it started, but after the first 25, you really had no idea what to do, right?
August 24, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Stupid behaviour sucks, especially in public. Not awesome. Nobody said a movie audience should watch “in complete silence.” If it’s funny, laugh! If it’s scary, gasp! If it’s weepy, weep! But don’t go shouting things or chatting or texting, etc! Jeez!
August 24, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Yeah this is really awesome for me propably the most awesome things i’ve seen here :)
August 24, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Ugh, more lame “awesome” things. No, talking/yelling in a movie theatre is NOT awesome. It’s rude and disrespectful. This blog is going downhill, FAST.
August 24, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Wow.. what’s with all the bad vibes? If you don’t have something nice to say, keep it to yourself :) And by the way, Schop, when Rocky wins the last fight and everybody stands and cheers, that’s AWESOME!!
August 25, 2009 at 8:23 am
I thought it was dumb. But I was rooting for the other guy anyway.
August 25, 2009 at 12:37 am
NO Harry!! Dumbledore told you NOT to do anything!!
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August 25, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Is this a joke?
“You know what’s awesome? Ruining movies for people. It’s great.”
I hope you get your ass kicked by a group of gay bikers next time you do this in a theater.
August 27, 2009 at 7:30 am
Yeah for some reason I’d love that. But again, it depends on the movie and the kind of yelling or screaming people make. If it’s not in the place, then it’s terribly annoying. Take it for example, you were watching a horror movie then the sound got creepier. Nothing happened yet but there is a girl screaming like at the top of her lungs. That is annoying.
August 31, 2009 at 6:34 pm
you realize neil didn’t say screaming in a movie THEATRE, nor did he make mention of a movie theatre in the post. the title is “screaming at characters in movies to do things” not “screaming at movie characters in a movie theatre and annoying the rest of the patrons.”
just thought i would point that out to all the people with the free-flowing negativity..
September 1, 2009 at 1:02 am
What the heck, being loud in theaters isn’t awesome. Let the rest of us enjoy it!
September 1, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Some friends and I went to the movies to watch The Mist when it came out
There were approximately 15 more people in there with us
We all cheered and clapped when they finally shot the “leader” =P
September 3, 2009 at 12:07 am
I do this at home, especially if I watch Serendipity. I am a mess of tears, sobbing my eyes out at the end, “Go to the park! She is waiting for you!”
September 4, 2009 at 2:57 pm
I don’t do this…but my husband does and it drives me crazy. He is so loud I can’t hear the movie. I guess it is awesome to him cuz he does it all the time.
September 5, 2009 at 11:07 pm
The post doesn’t say “in a theater” anywhere. Yes, there is a picture of a movie theater, but a picture of someone eating take-out in his/her PJs would be more boring :)
So to all those people flipping out saying “OMG HOW RUUUUUDE,” just chill.
October 5, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Anyone who does this is a douche.
October 7, 2009 at 6:01 am
While sitting in a full theatre watching Twilight.
“Eww Twilight.”
Followed by the response we all know and love,
“Shh.”
November 17, 2009 at 4:52 pm
The best is when you are in the theatre and the audience is losing interest because the movie does not live up to expectations (think Spiderman 3), and there is a particularly stupid scene (think the dance scene in aforementioned Spiderman), and you yell a sharp witticism at the screen which is rewarded with a bigger laugh by your fellow moviegoers than anything that has happened in the last hour of the movie. It is the best when this then precipitates a free for all of general abuse from the entire audience at the sub par movie – it becomes a tag-team effort, and widespread one-upsmanship ensues.
March 26, 2010 at 2:07 pm
If it’s the right movie this is really awesome. Seeing Paranormal Activity, when it was still limited release, and the theatre is packed to capacity, it was a schmozzle of screaming and crying and jumping, made the movie even better than watching alone.
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April 13, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Getting so caught up in a movie and yelling advice to the characters. The first time I did this was during Sleeping with the Enemy with Julia Roberts.
Shoot him ! shoot him! shoot him!
And she did. Very satisfying.
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