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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
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.
Thankfully we still have silicate pouches available
Referring to this?
Id be using the hell out of payphones if they still existed. They just seem convenient and i have too many quarters
fun fact: pay phones in australia are now free, because it was costing Telstra more to go and extract the money than they were making from phone calls. So they're all free now.
Do they still get maintained or just rot away slowly?
Not entirely sure tbh. Probably they are maintained
We got rid of our landline because scammers kept calling me daddy. Got tired after about 6 illegitimate children popping up and asking for alimony.
Huh?? What's the scam here?
maybe you shouldn't have been such a stud in your youth
There’s still a pay phone near me! Always know your exits in case of an emergency.
There's a chain of gas stations near me that has a payphone and a map right next to the front door of every shop, just in case someone is having a real bad day.
There are no other colas in mainstream supermarkets in the US because Coke doesn't let them sell there
Bitch, we talking to you through your phone's keyboard's predictive text and by rearranging your social media feed and you think that's mysterious capitalism doing a magick psychic instead of, like, us.
Lmao conspiracy theorists be like:
"The PhD mathmaticians and neuroscientists will spend their entire lives on writing theses,
and then programmers and engineers will spend months to apply those and decades to improve their applications,
AND all of this effort will be used to make billionaires more money, plus some government propoganda."
Do people really believe this shit?
I'm pretty sure I remember them using a cell phone late in the first movie(?).
I've got clear memories of it falling and spinning because it's not tethered
Reread the post. They never leave the matrix through cellphones, only landlines.
They communicated with that phone. That they can do anywhere. They communicated through Neo's computer, suggestion, and many other ways.
They could not extract someone plugged in from a cell phone. Had to be a landline.
Well, dying also gets you out.
Isn't The Matrix just an allegory about being transgender?
No, there was reading material attached to the script and it was mostly metaphysical and philosophy. Not sure the watchowskis actually understood what they wrote by the end of 3, they maintained it wasn't ALL the matrix even though that seems to be what they wrote and fits with the books they pulled inspiration from
What do you mean, there's only 1 Matrix movie? Do you mean the Animatrix?
Not the entire thing but there were some characters in there that were meant to be trans. Switch, for example, but the studios cut it.