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Time to open up and share...

Monty Python last weekend was an awesome experience. One of my favorite of all time just for a shared theatrical moment. So I want to hear from you...

What was your favorite experience you ever had in a movie theater? Now I'm not necessarily talking about the movie you saw, but more along the lines of something that happened in the theater to make it a special unique experience.

I'll share one of mine...


I want to say it was 2003 and the movie was "The Ring". My brother encouraged me to see this movie with him because he loved the Japanese original as well as the remake. In the first 20 minutes of the film Amber Tamblyn is killed by the TV, and her body is found grotesquely withered in a bedroom closet. At the big reveal when they open the door and the corpse slumps to the side, a very young child moans wildly at the gruesome scene and begins to wail. One of us says, "Oh way to go..." and the other "yeah, nice parenting!" which starts a loop of uncontrollable giggling between my brother and me, to the point where i can no longer contain myself. I have to go sprinting up the aisle holding back complete spasms of laughter, tears rolling down my cheeks and I BUST out in the the lobby corridor and let out bellows of hysteria.

A cinema staff member, with the burgundy vest and all, walks up to me and puts her hand on my bouncing shouder and says very gently...

It's okay, it's just a movie, we all get a little freaked out sometimes, it's just a movie.

Which made it even worse, i missed like five minutes of that movie trying to get composed enough to go back in and sit down...


A similar incident happened this year when I saw SUPERBAD with my brother and a friend. I laughed so hard at the illustrations in the cafeteria scene. I fell out into the aisle. Except i was the second seat in and I rolled over my brother and out into the aisle.