Monday, May 14, 2007

28 margs later

On Friday, I went to my pal Emily's birthday dinner at a Mexican joint in Tribeca.

28 margs later, three other gal pals (all my friends are bloggers, apparently) and I assembled to see 28 Weeks Later at my local rowdy theater. Actual quotes from the crowd:

"Ah shit!"
"You're fuckin' done, man."
"Don't open that door!" (I'm not kidding)
"Oooooooo" (in a bit of a singsong)
"OH!"
"Ohhh noo"
"Damn"
"Oh HELL no" (this is a perennial favorite of mine)
"Oooooooo" (same person/intonation as before)
"Day-um!"
"Fuck this shit!"
"This kid always gettin' lost."
(and concluding the movie:) "Oooooooo"

Awesome.

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posted by Colleen @ 7:12 AM  

14 Comments:

  • At 7:53 AM, Blogger Clinton said…

    See, I can't handle that kind of in-theater behavior. I'm the cranky old man who shushes people all the time and I don't even care anymore.

    Needless to say, I see a lot of movies during the day to lessen my chances of rowdy audiences.

    Or I just wait for video, that way I only have to shush my girlfriend.

     

  • At 9:14 AM, Blogger lioux said…

    I refuse to go to theatres anymore, just because of this stype of behaviour.

     

  • At 9:14 AM, Blogger lioux said…

    Okay.

    I meant "type".

     

  • At 9:23 AM, Blogger Colleen said…

    You either love it or hate it, I find. I'm sorry you guys don't enjoy fun.

     

  • At 9:48 AM, Blogger lioux said…

    Fun sucks.

     

  • At 10:36 AM, Blogger Clinton said…

    Too much fun gives me a rash.

     

  • At 11:18 AM, Blogger Irish and Jew said…

    I took my youngest brother to see the first Harry Potter movie back in the day and ironically had the same reactions from the crowd...

    ~Irish

     

  • At 11:18 AM, Blogger Preworn said…

    If you can't see a film like [i]28 Weeks Later[/i] with people shouting out at the screen, you need to loosen up even more.

    People shouting at th screen during films is one of the best Brooklyn things ever. Because 9 times out of 10, what they say is right!

     

  • At 11:20 AM, Blogger Colleen said…

    It's true! That kid was always gettin' lost!
    Stupid kid.

     

  • At 6:06 PM, Blogger Jules said…

    I'm with Clinton and Lioux. It pisses me off. We never go anymore. After the time Pete had to ask some girl to please be quiet and she said incredulously "But I'm on the PHONE", we were done.

     

  • At 6:37 PM, Blogger Colleen said…

    Entirely different scenario--I would hate that, too. I'm sayin', let's compare a horror movie audience to a rock show audience. A theater full of silent people during a scary movie is henceforth going to seem as lame to me as a club full of stock-still, silent rock fans.

     

  • At 5:34 AM, Blogger lioux said…

    OMG!!!

    One time at the theatre, I was with BFF Bryan and he was annoyed by the chatty, whiny girls in front of us [we both were really] and when the lights came down he quickly kicked the chair in front of ME to the point where the girl fell forward off her chair.

    They both turned around and thought I did it and were all like "W.T.F." and I told them both "Maybe you should S.T.F.U."

    I heart BFF Bryan.

     

  • At 5:51 AM, Blogger Helen the Felon said…

    That's the kind of review that sends me straight to the theater. With a bottle of scotch in my bag.
    Sweet.

     

  • At 7:02 AM, Blogger Colleen said…

    Yeah, Helen!!! How'd you know one of us had a 40?

    Lioux, omg! Classic BFF Bryan. That reminded me of the time in high school Kartek & I were at the movies with that weird older guy, being our usual obnoxious selves, probably setting off our cicadas from Nature Company and what have you, and he told us to STFU. Forever after that, we called him STFU.

     

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