For some reason I really got into the buzz surrounding 2007’s Cloverfield. The whole mystery surrounding the monster combined with the “reality” angle really hooked me. When the movie came out, Susan and I went on opening night. Despite all the film’s hype, we were one of only two couples in the entire theater.
Most of Cloverfield was filmed using handheld cameras (“shaky-cam”). It doesn’t bother some people at all. To people who are prone to motion sickness, it can cause headaches or nausea. To the girl sitting two rows behind us in the theater-style seating, it caused her to barf. All over the place. The sound of 44oz ounces of theater soda mixed with five pounds of butter-soaked popcorn splattering on the theater’s concrete floor echoed throughout the theater. The two of them left, leaving only Susan and I inside the theater to contend with the smell of puke slowly oozing down the stairs towards us.
I’ve watched Cloverfield a few times since then at home, but every time I do I can still remember the smell in the theater that night and that god-awful splattering sound.
Loved this movie! Took oldest daughter and stepson to it and I Am Legend double feature when they were out, was awesome!
Before I went to see it I had been arguing with some guy on the internet who hated JJ Abrams and thus movie had to suck. I’m like, he just produced it and you haven’t even seen it. Yadda yadda yadda. I went in annoyed. After the movie somebody else in the theater yelled out the movie sucked and, already being annoyed, said something back and we almost got into a fist fight on the way out.
Other moments…
Going to see Robocop with my parents and my dad passing out from the fake blood in the movie.
Going to see Misery at an all black theater and hearing somebody yell “How he walking on dem chicken feet??”
Going to see Batman Begins and watching a girl try to step over a chair to get to her row only to fall face first to the floor.
Going to see the Friday the 13th remake, moaning, groaning, booing, yelling comments and laughing at how awful it was and annoying everybody around me because the people I was with wouldn’t leave that idiocy.
Going to see the 2nd Matrix movie, it become the first movie I ever left early. Later found out that when I left it only had 5 minutes left.