Posted by keri-jade at ts3-14t-23.idirect.com on February 13, 2000 at 23:40:44:
In Reply to: Got that beat posted by Duke_of_Fluke on February 13, 2000 at 22:21:46:
: 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.
I love Twin Peaks. I wish I had been able to see that. I heard somewhere (no names) that "they" were bring out a new Twin Peaks series as a mid-season replacement on one of teh pay cable channels. I have no idea if it's true. probably not. I hope not.
My horror stories.
(Oh no! I tell way too many stories, ask Beav)
- the reel caught on fire at the end of Summersby (what happened?) ;)
- the reel broke in during the butterfly scene in The Craft. It was in the middle of a dusk to dawn drive in special. It took them almost a half hour to splice together the tape and get it rolling again. Thus the dusk to dawn was forced to end after the sun was up. (The last film was the Jurer, so thus, I cared not).
- When I saw Unforgiven (how much did that suck?), two guys who had seen it before got up in front of the screen before it started and acted out the film's main plot points and even quoted dialogue (sorta cool, but how much did those guys suck?)
- When I saw Terminal Vilosity some guys in the back thought it was cool to throw gummy bears at the screen. And they stuck. And so they threw gummies on and on...let's just say they had shitty aim and it rained down gummies in the theater.
- Seeing Varsity Blues, I had a whole row of pre-teens in front of me. They screamed and sobbed like they were at a Beatles concert (well, if it was 1960...anyway...), and one of them kept yelling "Dawson, I love you!"
- Scary Russian guy in the subway asking me out to see Pokeman.
- Going on a double date with my friend Karina and her new guy to see Enemy of the State and having my date freak out after some guy repeatedly kicks the back of his chair. Karina's guy decides he should act macho too. They start a fight and get kicked out. Oh well, it was after Lee bit it, so we didn't miss anything.
- My date (the same one as above), deciding to get high before seeing Dogma for the first time. The worst part was rying to get him not to blaze the reefer in the lobby.
That's all. There's achually another theater near where I live where they still allow people to smoke during the flick. So wierd...