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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.)
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!
I, as a kid, once said in a cinema "woah, that's a huge TV".
My parents and uncles wanted to go underground lmao.
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.
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.
Wasn't that supposed to be that exact call back?
Well there were three dudes in the showdown at the end of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. But it's definitely referencing western showdowns in general.
Newspaper is the urban tumbleweed
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.
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?
Someone who wants to freak out the audience, obviously.
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.
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.