tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post1750269863672828448..comments2024-03-27T15:16:57.305-05:00Comments on F This Movie!: Riske Business: My 10 Weirdest Moviegoing ExperiencesPatrick Bromleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00771837625286775607noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-63002533030717961162013-07-26T20:07:26.751-05:002013-07-26T20:07:26.751-05:00Either that, or somehow that second guy truly was ...Either that, or somehow that second guy truly was spoiled (only watched "A New Hope" before seeking out "Revenge of the Sith"?) and was *pissed*. But neither option really makes any sense!Randihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12915608964779281298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-21014276429400651172013-07-26T08:09:05.802-05:002013-07-26T08:09:05.802-05:00Do you suppose that guy actually thought the first...Do you suppose that guy actually thought the first guy had spoiled something? "Dammit, don't give away the end of the movie!"Steve K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02141959251034133806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-7470840396747790382013-07-25T23:57:25.603-05:002013-07-25T23:57:25.603-05:00I was at "Revenge of the Sith," and afte...I was at "Revenge of the Sith," and after the previews ended, just before the movie started, a guy near the front yells out, "Anakin becomes Darth Vader!" Most of the theater chuckled, but another guy got really pissed off and threw something (not sure what) at him. An usher hurried over before it could escalate further, though.Randihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12915608964779281298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-37136931121975548512013-07-25T22:43:07.253-05:002013-07-25T22:43:07.253-05:00I love the instinct that tells you to say "Yo...I love the instinct that tells you to say "You're on a person." This is how my nightmares begin.Mark Ahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00695975412662760562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-15779935251137823972013-07-25T21:15:25.401-05:002013-07-25T21:15:25.401-05:00I've heard it happening every so often with th...I've heard it happening every so often with the syringe scene. What I heard was that it is because the scene operates in relation to brain wave activity in the same way that Japanese Manga/flashing strobes can trigger epilepsy. As the shots tick over from one to the other it apparently syncs up with some part of the brain so when the cuts stop with a jolt the brain has a mini seizure which appears like a sudden fainting spell. The girl in our class said she wasn’t disturbed by the scene and that it was all very sudden. I wonder if it’s an editing style Tarrantino favours which was somehow replicated in Kill Bill.<br /><br />Alternatively the people I've heard that from may be all full of shit. Its possible. I tend to hang around with a lot of bullshitters. I really should stop doing that.Brad Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18426952757794850746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-86046550087796871682013-07-25T20:58:49.646-05:002013-07-25T20:58:49.646-05:00Flawless Victory Sol!Flawless Victory Sol!Adam Riskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165600746796326821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-87021611583178435162013-07-25T20:53:51.706-05:002013-07-25T20:53:51.706-05:00Nice story! Your brother sounds like a cool guy :-...Nice story! Your brother sounds like a cool guy :-)Adam Riskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165600746796326821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-67631777402258706012013-07-25T20:50:59.868-05:002013-07-25T20:50:59.868-05:00I really love that The Secret Garden story. I really love that The Secret Garden story. Adam Riskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165600746796326821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-81177918183885634132013-07-25T20:08:44.279-05:002013-07-25T20:08:44.279-05:00So I guess the scene that made me faint is not in ...So I guess the scene that made me faint is not in the full-length version of Dumplings. It's only in the short version from Three Extremes. Adam Riskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165600746796326821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-90005184311413588702013-07-25T20:01:00.265-05:002013-07-25T20:01:00.265-05:00And that kid grew up to be James Bond #SkyfallAnd that kid grew up to be James Bond #SkyfallAdam Riskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165600746796326821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-24156739171450575872013-07-25T20:00:12.062-05:002013-07-25T20:00:12.062-05:00Fainting at a movie is a badge of honor. Fainting at a movie is a badge of honor. Adam Riskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165600746796326821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-1622500475863348422013-07-25T19:18:03.220-05:002013-07-25T19:18:03.220-05:00Three Extremes is quite good but the title is not ...Three Extremes is quite good but the title is not a euphemism.Joseph Finnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17168159790992899470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-90913681831721482932013-07-25T18:01:38.408-05:002013-07-25T18:01:38.408-05:00*Sniff* that was so beautiful *wipes tear**Sniff* that was so beautiful *wipes tear*Brad Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18426952757794850746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-79321678609373507872013-07-25T16:12:45.857-05:002013-07-25T16:12:45.857-05:00I fainted at the movies once too! It was during t...I fainted at the movies once too! It was during the brain-eating sequence near the end of Hannibal. It sounds like you were alone when you fainted, Adam, but I was lucky -- I was with JB. When I started to fall out of my seat, he lovingly (and by "lovingly," I mean "without taking his eyes off the screen") reached over with his free (i.e., non-popcorn) hand and propped me up. I was just coming to when an usher approached us and asked if we needed help. "Her? Oh, she's okay," I heard JB say... right before I passed out a second time. WHAP! He caught me again, right on the sternum. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is movie love.janbottighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00126929026388305201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-9273822617841571612013-07-25T15:07:32.002-05:002013-07-25T15:07:32.002-05:00Thank you, Brad.
That needle scene REALLY bothers...Thank you, Brad.<br /><br />That needle scene REALLY bothers people.JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17076030814908114779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-71700219081297236782013-07-25T15:06:45.875-05:002013-07-25T15:06:45.875-05:00I went to see the original Poseidon Adventure when...I went to see the original Poseidon Adventure when I was nine. I was so taken with Gene Hackman hanging from that steam vent at the end that I leaned forward in my seat and whispered to my Mom, "Is he going to make it?" (Spoiler Alert) The guy in front of me turned around in his seat and said, "No, he dies. I saw this already!" and turned back around.<br /><br />Gee.JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17076030814908114779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-50254494400969050312013-07-25T12:52:09.746-05:002013-07-25T12:52:09.746-05:00Great Article Adam. You have "special" ...Great Article Adam. You have "special" luck. My weirdest was opening day of the Love Guru(midnight screening no less [I know...]), there were only a handful in the theater, but the guy behind me downed the better part of a fifth of vodka. He kept making incredulous comments as he was legitimately confused by what he was seeing. Normally I would be put off by this kind of theater behavior. On this night I was very jealous.Matt Sollenbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088555561067804979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-78280512506263169972013-07-25T12:32:16.878-05:002013-07-25T12:32:16.878-05:00Great stuff, Adam. One of my favorite movie-going ...Great stuff, Adam. One of my favorite movie-going stories...I went to see Home Alone in the theater. As I was walking out, a kid turns to his brother and says, "I would have done the exact same thing."HannahTallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05764621956259683781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-81534477009663728122013-07-25T11:28:52.373-05:002013-07-25T11:28:52.373-05:00@Myke - I've seen the same kind of thing happe...@Myke - I've seen the same kind of thing happen at Monster's Ball. About half the theater left after they got what they came for. They had to really work for it, that movie's DARK. I also remember seeing a bunch of people leave during Baby Boy but that was because Snoop just got shot and they weren't having any of that. It was pretty funny.Adam Riskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165600746796326821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-32170927280283596892013-07-25T10:49:23.340-05:002013-07-25T10:49:23.340-05:00When I went to see Fincher's version of Girl w...When I went to see Fincher's version of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I noticed at least half a dozen separate heavyset men- all wearing sweatpants- file in and take seats behind me. I didn't dare turn around to look at any of them. After the scene (you know which one I'm talking about), four of them got up and left, never to return. Do I want to know what was going on back there? No.Mykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07889247350189136670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-88998250165405328132013-07-25T10:01:51.073-05:002013-07-25T10:01:51.073-05:00I can totally sympathize on Dumplings. I think it...I can totally sympathize on Dumplings. I think it took me three nights to get through that in chunks, great as the lead performance is (Miriam Yeung, playing WAY above her actual age of 30 at the time). Joseph Finnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17168159790992899470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-15137688115378426052013-07-25T10:00:39.923-05:002013-07-25T10:00:39.923-05:00Turtle Power! Turtle Power! Brad Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18426952757794850746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-26028815212956948772013-07-25T09:59:32.734-05:002013-07-25T09:59:32.734-05:00Not in the cinema but related to your Kill Bill st...Not in the cinema but related to your Kill Bill story, when we were watching Pulp Fiction in Media Studies class in year 12 (yeah, our teacher was pretty cool, not JB cool, but still pretty cool) a girl fainted during the adrenaline shot scene right at the moment that the syringe hit Mia. We stopped the video to look after her and when we started again the first thing that played was Rosanna Arquette saying "that was trippy" and I remember thinking to myself "yes. Yes it was".<br /><br />In cinema though. A group of us went to see Space Jam after smoking a lot of weed before hand. One of our friends who was having her first weed experience threw up in the middle in the movie. When we stopped laughing we just moved over a seat or two and kept watching the movie. Brad Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18426952757794850746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-71698788271450576562013-07-25T09:20:43.141-05:002013-07-25T09:20:43.141-05:00I'm sorry, but the guy that said "Sorry, ...I'm sorry, but the guy that said "Sorry, your highness!" is awesome. Stuff like that and most of your other hilarious stories just don't happen that often here in Canada.<br /><br />As such, my experiences have pretty much all been uneventful but I've got one:<br /><br />When I was about 10 I went to see <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</i> with a buddy (sidenote: he made a huge bag of popcorn at home that I used an old TMNT bookbag to sneak in - figured I'd just look like a fa...n). Anyway, during the movie, some older kids started razzing us about something and were throwing popcorn at us so I chucked my 1/4 full thing of pop at them. After the show, as we were waiting for our rides outside, they started threatening us and one of them grabbed my bag and started trying to hang it on something out of reach. I was pumped from the movie and I did like a jumping sidekick at him and he was like, "What do you think, you're a Ninja Turtle or something?" Then the theatre owner came out and chased them off. It was pretty rad.Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03114869401584310369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-71812954201809278512013-07-25T09:04:52.981-05:002013-07-25T09:04:52.981-05:00For the most part all of my memorable film-going e...For the most part all of my memorable film-going experiences are so because of an exceptionally annoying patron. My brother, Marlon, tells of an experience that he had that allowed him to be downright heroic.<br /><br />On one of his first dates with a girl, he took her to see Aladdin. There was a trio of Indian girls aged about 6-10 sitting in the row ahead a few seats over. A pair of white girls sat directly in front of him and then proceeded to antagonize the Indian girls with “dirty Paki” remarks. The oldest of the Indian girls swapped seats with her younger sister to put herself closest to the instigators to take the brunt of their harassment. After observing this for a few moments, Marlon was feeling guiltily apathetic. He kicked the offending girl’s seat hard enough to bounce her out of it and when she turned around to see what happened he gave her the ole’ “I’ve been watching you” look. Afterwards she sat back down and behaved herself. And Marlon had earned himself some good points in the eyes of his date, now his wife.<br />Darren Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15683665414007012419noreply@blogger.com