• rumba@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    80
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 day ago

    Opening for the Matrix. Sitting in a packed theater. Phone rings, Trinity dashes for it, picks up the line and the truck smashes through the booth.

    Theater was dead silent, everyone was in awe.

    I called out damn, should have used *69 got a decent uproar of laughter.

    (iykyk, iydk, *69 on a landline used to call back the last person that called you. It was all over commercials.)

    • GraniteM@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      44
      ·
      1 day ago

      Similar experience: Watching The Matrix in theatre. Neo and Agent Smith face off in the subway.

      Right as the newspaper blows by, someone let out an absolutely perfect Ennio Morricone whistle from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Legitimately impressive whistling skills, great volume, perfect pitch. Got a huge laugh.

    • Albbi@piefed.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      57
      ·
      1 day ago

      I also have theatre joke story.

      Opening for Jurassic Park. Packed theatre too. Triceratops is sick scene where they go to look at the droppings.

      This scene comes up:

      My younger brother who was probably 6 or 7 yells out “That’s even bigger than mine!” and the whole theatre bursts out laughing!

      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        1 day ago

        Lol, kids are funny like that. I went to a museum this weekend. It was kinda boring for the kids,but the tour guide tried to include them as much as possible. At one point, this kid also made a funny comment, I can’t recall it,but it’s funny in how genuine it was.

    • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      1 day ago

      Pet Semetary, 1989, packed theater. During the scene where the resurrected toddler is chasing Fred Gwynne with a scalpel, a baby suddenly cries out in the back of the theater. The entire audience jumped then burst out in laughter.

      Who brings a baby to a Stephen King movie?

      • rumba@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 day ago

        That’s amazing. Our youngest could have been taken to any number of movies, if it’s dark and cold, he would sleep. Still not a good idea just in case he wakes… but he would have probably been fine.

      • Dhar@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 day ago

        I have a couple theater stories:

        1986, The Fly. Movie starts, title sequence comes up, “The Fly”. Guy in the back of the theater lets out a huge, throaty “YEEAAHH!”. Whole theater cracks up.

        1996, Independence Day opening day (July 4). Audience is totally engrossed, edge of their seats. The explosion is racing through the tunnel, the dog jumps through the door just in time, and screen goes black: “July 3”. Audience goes fucking APESHIT, the highest energy I’ve ever felt in a crowd in my life.

      • binarytobis@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        1 day ago

        Watching LotR in a packed theater, get to the part where Frodo gets just speared in the back by that bigass spider. I wasn’t prepared for that fatality so I let out an involuntary mini-laugh/snort. Guy directly behind me, as loud as he can, screams “Shut the fuck up!” directly into my ear. Murmurs of agreement all around.

        Dude just basically assaulted a kid who was quiet the whole rest of the movie, but OK.