Most of our categories are strict, so things like Dead Calm are firmly thriller, but not horror.
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
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Daisy Jane - Oct 28, 2009 1:09:18 pm PDT #4672 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Daisy Jane - Oct 28, 2009 1:11:01 pm PDT #4673 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Also Horror is a Major cat unto itself, while thriller and man vs. nature are sub cats under Mystery & Suspense and Action and Adventure.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2009 1:28:50 pm PDT #4674 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
One of my best times in the theater was watching Tremors at the bargain theater,
The Goonies. Packed theater, lots of school-age kids, hooting and yelling the whole way through. Awesome.
Amy - Oct 28, 2009 1:34:37 pm PDT #4675 of 30000
Because books.
My favorite memory like that is seeing Rocky II when it was first out. Small theater, pretty packed, and at the end every was on their feet cheering and crying.
I was only ... thirteen at the time? It was awesome in the true sense.
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2009 1:37:59 pm PDT #4676 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
LoTR movies opening morning. God bless geekery. Serenity premiere. Because. Batman Begins and Dark Knight--both had geeky great audiences. Actually, so did the original Batman movie which I saw at the initial showing while clutching a life-size Wolverine cutout.
I guess my fandom is showing.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2009 1:44:16 pm PDT #4677 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
One of my favorite movie-watching memories is seeing Strictly Ballroom in pouring rain, with everyone clapping and stomping their feet in time during the climactic dance sequence.
Scrappy - Oct 28, 2009 1:48:44 pm PDT #4678 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Seeing Singing in the Rain in college. I had talked my friends into going, and we were amongst lots of cranky dance majors (and Bennington had LOTS of dance majors) who did not want to see an "old" movie. Of course, people LOVED it. Afterward, everyone poured out of the theater is a happy daze, and we were all dancing down the dark path and leaping off of benches and it was magical.
Glamcookie - Oct 28, 2009 1:57:52 pm PDT #4679 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Not a movie, but one of my fave movie moments was the first time I saw the trailer for the first X-Files movie. Dark screen and then, "Mulder?" And the entire place went wild. It was great!
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2009 1:58:09 pm PDT #4680 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, college movies. I watched Princess Bride every time they showed it at McGill and it was a great atmosphere except when people laughed at me for gasping when Count Rugen pulls the knife out of his boots on the spiral stone stairs. But that bit still gets me.
That crowd was a great crowd to see stuff with. Also saw their every showing of A Clockwork Orange. It's where I first heard Singing In The Rain, so my dance probably doesn't look like yours, Scrappy.
Kathy A - Oct 28, 2009 2:45:12 pm PDT #4681 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
College movies -- classic films category: both Blues Brothers and Monty Python/Holy Grail were rocking good times. Slightly older (less than five years old) films category: for Ghostbusters, they handed out bags of marshmallows, which, of course, were tossed all over the theater beforehand and then thrown at the screen when the Columbia lady showed up.
Contemporary films category: not a fun time, but the most moving experience was for The Killing Fields--packed house, a few guys making noise at the beginning of the film, and then dead silence throughout the rest of it, except for moments when you could hear the sniffling noses and outright sobs, especially at the end.