great_badir
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ORIGINAL: sharkboy I remember when the Exorcist got its re-release after years of being un-viewable in the UK. At the screening I was at, there were a number of young couples who probably weren't even 18. Obviously the reputation of the movie to shock was well known to them all, but the had clearly never seen it before and were getting a bit restless (what can I say? These were kids who were brought up on Scream etc!), so there was a bit of bravado by the boys at times, for the benefit of their dates - laughing at the girls' reactions to jumpy scenes, mocking it for being dull not frightening, you know the sort. Then came the infamous head twist scene at which one of the noisier ones actually whimpered like a scared puppy, while the rest of them either issued a brief expletive or said nothing at all for the rest of the movie. The power of Regan compelled them to shut the fuck up! Pretty much the same happened when I saw it in Bristol (it was halloween as well, so it was 75% full of goths and people in fancy dress, which was a first for me at the cinema), however the head twisting scene was the one that that drew the most laughter. Slightly ruined the film for me forever more, that night. Anyway, not so much funny ha-ha as funny weird, but me and a mate went to see Orgazmo when it had its (very) brief run at the only cinema in Bristol that was showing it (Showcase). It was just us two (on opening night, as well), until this middle aged guy on his own came in. We were sat in our standard middle of the row, middle-back of the screen, and this guy, of all the other seats in the house he could have chosen, headed straight for the very front row, far left seat on the very end (so the front seat furthest away from the main entrance to the screen). Which struck us as...odd. Other than that, and aside from the usual cunts talking on their mobiles/chatting to their mate or partner, and shitty little kids walking into a film halfway through only to fuck around and annoy everyone, my visits to the kino have been pretty uneventful.
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