Posted by Duke_of_Fluke at 194.129.43.14 on February 13, 2000 at 22:21:46:
In Reply to: A funny thing happened on the way to the cinema posted by Bezerker on February 13, 2000 at 21:47:21:
I once went to a 26-hour Twin Peaks marathon in London. It was a thing to promote the lauch of the series on TV, and someone thought, what the hell, let's show em all. And it's not often you get to see TV shows at the cinema, so off I went, clutching my log. So, about 9 hours into proceedings (I forget which episode), the show stops, the lights come up and we're evacuated. Turned out it was a bomb scare. An unclaimed suitcase in the middle of a Twin Peaks marathon, cos you just know those terrorists LOVE David Lynch and will use force to defend him. Or something. Bizarro.
Then there was the time they got the reels mixed up so I saw the end of Long Kiss Goodnight before I saw the middle.
Then there was the usher who told me to "watch my step" in a cinema without steps. I think he was trying to annoy me.
Plus the old guy who whistled the whole way through "Scrooged". Can't remember the tune.
Manchester Utd. Football Club (almost all of them) sat in front of me during "Weird Creatures", and only Eric Cantona laughed. We were nowhere near Manchester, obviously.
There was a guy who puked over at least 10 people during Born On The Fourth Of July, the guy who tripped and threw popcorn and coke over about 6 rows of people (Starship Troopers), The Night Where Everyone In The Whole Cinema Was Wearing Jeans Except Me (War Games - I was 7 and wearing a tracksuit) and the guy who was so annoyed by the ringing of a mobile phone, he pulled it off its owner and threw it at the screen (Jackie Brown).
And finally the UK Dogma premiere, when I travelled for 6 hours to get tickets, and made the world's shortest visit to Cambridge (15 mins).
Look out for "Duke's Cinema Anecdotes", available in all poor bookshops now.