Oh me plums!

[Captain_Birdseye]

Cue the vocal chords for this much loved Tonyism for your first/next visit to see Indiana Jones 4 at the cinemas.

In a scene in the jungle one actor finds himself between two vehicles and comes into contact - regularly - with some bulbus plants... I only realised on the train home from the screening that I'd missed a golden opportunity to announce loudly to the cinema 'Oh me plums!' and would love to think that had I thought of it at the time - it would've struck comedic gold with fellow Getthisians - even if it has been 6 months since the show went off the air.

BTW if anyone has any contact details for TM or the like - I'd love to pass this one onto them as a 'nod' to their genius and let them know that the thoughts are still ringing around in our heads 6 months on...

Did anyone else notice that and find themselves thinking about stone fruit?

[kat-rant]

okay, what we need to do is organise a massive group to a screening somewhere, and just at that moment, a mass yell out of "OOOOH, ME PLUMS!!!" :lol:

[menagers]

I was too busy being grossed out by the man-eating ants. Having no 'plums', I'm rarely sympathetic.

[stupidmeatball]

I had the same thought leaving as well... and i was in the Triple M preview screening, so it wouldve been a golden opportunity!

[ShitScared]

I thought exactly that and said it when I went to the Triple M preview screening on the 19th.

I didn't say it loud enough, but the people around me heard it and some laughed.

[13 schoolyards]

Martin / Molloy fans planning to check out Sex and the City might want to practise shouting out (in the trademark slightly disappointed tone) "Hum-py!" For that damn dog has quite a role in the film.

[Bean Is A Carrot]

Yes, there is a bit of "Humpy" going on in that film!

[13 schoolyards]

I really liked the way a lot (okay, some) of the comedy was proudly low-brow. That trip to Mexico had one scene straight out of... well, something pretty lowbrow. Always good to see a rom-com with some actual com.

[Bean Is A Carrot]

Mind you, it was probably the only time an American comdy film had a "holiday in Mexico" plot without there being some kind of attempt to get busty chicks to take their tops off.

[kim]

Side note: I bumped into Kim Cattrall (Samantha) the other week in the west end. She looks as good in real life for 51 as she does in pictures.

[kim]

I found time to watch it over the weekend (it's long). OK, but nothing above or below what I'd expected from the reviews. I found stupid things that no one else found funny, funny (like Samantha's giant hat). But we all laughed at the iPhone 'gag'. Oh, how we laughed.
Verdict: A couple of notches above meh. Could have done without so much of that 'fashion'.
There were more blokes than I thought. Would Tony have gone with his missus?

The first and last thing I yelled out in a cinema was, "It's cans!" in 1994, when my friend and I watched Speed for the 2nd or 3rd time (it was the Keanu era). I think a bus was about to hit a baby carriage, which turned out to be full of cans.

[foolhardycousingeorge]

This talk about calling out things while in the cinema watching movies reminded me of Mick and Tony discussing Titanic ten and a half years ago.

Mick said he would go and see the movie. Then at the bit where Jack and Rose are at the front of the ship, doing that outstretched arms embrace thing, Mick would get up, call out "he dies!", then walk out.

I remember back in 1983 when Return of the Jedi came out, a friend of my brother was taken to see it with his Dad.

He told him that at the bit when Darth Vader saves Luke Skywalker by throwing the Emperor into the reactor core of the Death Star Mk 2, some people in the cinema called out;

"Yeeha", then

"Hallelujah, brother!"

[kat-rant]

i've never called out in the cinema, although i have laughed in inappropriate moments.....one of the more memorable times was when my sister's snobby private school friends looked at the two of us laughing uncontrollably at the crap overacting in Gorillas In the Midst when they were shedding tears. I've never been invited again in the last 20 years to see a film with them again, but man, that was worth it!

[13 schoolyards]

The best thing I've ever heard called out in a cinema was during a daytime screening of the amazingly crap Madonna "erotic thriller" Body of Evidence. The damn thing seemed to be dragging on forever when some guy down the front yelled out "Madogga!" as she stripped off once again and everyone else (all five or so of us) cracked up.

[menagers]

For some reason this cracked me up so incredibly at the time. It was 1991 during one of those 'Val Morgan Presents' things at the start, the one with all the stars you know? And our weird friend (who was great value - Yr12 she ran for school captain with a rap song: "Vote for me, I'm the way to go..", but that is another tale) shouts out "I feel like I'm in space!".

Well, indeed, I myself feel that way at the start of every Universal film. God I love that bit. What do you call those film company openers anyway?

Anyway, that ridiculous story is why I am always somewhat tolerant of teenage whippersnappers at the movies. It just seems like only yesterday...

[Mason Hell-Cat]

The best thing I've ever called out a cinema was before the start of 'Revenge of the Sith'.
It was a premiere midnight screening with stacks of Star Wars nerds (plenty in costume). This kid right down the front row was dressed (really badly) as Yoda, complete with green face paint and brown robes. He's down the front prancing about, and I stood up and yelled

"Sit down, Shrek!"

This made several rows of people crack up into laughter, and made the kid at the front slink back to his seat. haha - Take that, Star Wars nerd.

[baudrillard]

um, you were in the cinema watching it though? 8)

[Mason Hell-Cat]

yes well good point...but I was dressed as a jawa so you can hardly say there was anything wrong with me

[stupidmeatball]

Theres also a game called "Huzzah" to play at the cinema, where you call out said "huzzah!" when a character mentions the films title in dialogue, I picked this up from Tom & Subby a few years ago when they were filling in for Roy & HG on JJJ

[ShitScared]

My favourite one (which doesn't work as well anymore.. but you get the odd one falling for it) is when you're in the line for the movie like a blockbuster etc.. and you're talking to a friend and you announce you downloaded the movie last week and a main/supporting character dies at the end. You just want to watch it at the cinema to see if they deleted any scenes from the version you got.

[stupidmeatball]

how often does the downloaded version and the theatrical version differ to the point of a character dying or surviving? I know that there can be major differences but I've never seen that one before

[ShitScared]

how often does the downloaded version and the theatrical version differ to the point of a character dying or surviving? I know that there can be major differences but I've never seen that one before
Very little. It's screeners that are different to the main movie. One was the Butterfly Effect. In the main screen version, he dies, but in the screener I had, he survives.

Another one was for I Am Legend. Same deal.

[13 schoolyards]

Ah, The Butterfly Effect - what a great film.

28 Days Later also had the "dead /not dead" ending going on. Seems to be mostly fantasy films where that happens...

[menagers]

Ah, The Butterfly Effect - what a great film.

Good God, I pray that this was a gag. Turned me off Eric Stoltz forever, this flick.

[een]

No such issues with Ashton Kutcher, though?

[menagers]

Well, I thought it was a poor film exacerbated by his presence but moreover, it was a turning point for me. I can not sit through any type of child abuse (or horror either) ever again.