I still remember going to see the first LotR movies late in the run. I went into an almost empty theater and spotted a row of teenage girls who, on a second look, were wearing elf ears.
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
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Toddson - Jun 14, 2011 7:47:08 am PDT #14937 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Laga - Jun 14, 2011 7:51:16 am PDT #14938 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
awwwww!
Frankenbuddha - Jun 14, 2011 7:52:14 am PDT #14939 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The preview showing of Serenity I saw definitely gave me a "my people!" vibe.
That's a special case, though. Not quite the same vibe as the noir festival, I suspect.
I was also glad I saw the opening midnight showing of Dark Knight. It was worth the sleep dep.
beekaytee - Jun 14, 2011 7:52:41 am PDT #14940 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
A friend of mine once cracked the crowd up at a theater showing Legend. When Mila walks through the gauzy-floaty things wafting through the forest, he yelled out, "She's innocent already, we GET it!"
He also name checked the Rolling Rock fairy.
He was much more amusing than the movie.
beekaytee - Jun 14, 2011 7:54:11 am PDT #14941 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
HP: Prisoner of Azkaban definitely brought out the 'my people' thing. Lot's of costumes and in-depth conversations about canon.
Laga - Jun 14, 2011 8:11:16 am PDT #14942 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've never been to a midnight show at Arclight but I suspect that would be intense. I did see a Friday night show of Dawn of the Dead in the Cinerama Dome that was probably the most fun I've ever had at a horror movie.
Beverly - Jun 14, 2011 9:19:35 am PDT #14943 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
H and I saw Flash Gordon in the theater. There was a couple behind us who MSTK2000'd all the way through the film. Years later, when we got all nostalgic and watched it on cable, SO many scenes we remembered as hysterically funny just fell flat, without the onsite commentary. Finally, when the princess was screaming, "No! No! Not the Borer Worms!" H and I chorused, "Yes! Yes! Let's have the Borer Worms!" and felt marginally better.
ETA: The movie has marked us indelibly, too. What's for dinner? "HASH! AH-AHH!" That movie with Tom Hanks and the mermaid--"SPLASH! AH-AHH!" Alan Alda's old show? "M*A*S*H! AH-AHH!" And so on.
§ ita § - Jun 14, 2011 9:49:36 am PDT #14944 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Community film events:
- films at McGill. When they'd reshow movies, the atmosphere was convivial and communal. And mocking, of me, when I gasped when Rugen pulled the knife out of his boot.
- first Batman movie, first showing. For unclear reasons I took my life-sized Wolverine cutout, and it generated a wee bit of conversation.
- all the LotR movies, first showing. No need to explain.
- Serenity premiere. As you could guess.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 14, 2011 9:59:07 am PDT #14945 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I still laugh over my date to the Serenity preview asking me if Simon was supposed to be gay, and telling him "Oh, they butched him WAY up from the TV series!"
§ ita § - Jun 14, 2011 11:10:35 am PDT #14946 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I laugh over my date to the Serenity preview being shanghaied by screams of "Best Patrick ever!"