I’ve accepted that I’m a slightly excitable person, meaning: If I like something, I really like it; and if I don’t, I can still usually find something to appreciate in it anyway. I suppose it’s even one of the qualities I’ve come to like most about myself in recent years. But this past week, I’ve had such strong reactions to things that I’ve begun to question whether I’m normal. As usual, I turn to you, PopWatchers, to make me feel sane. I share my moments, you share yours.
• Last Saturday, I saw my first ad for the July 7 Lifetime Movie Network premiere of Destination: Infestation, a film about an airplane overrun by ants. ANTS! It stars Antonio Sabato Jr. (pictured), and did I mention that it’s called Destination: Infestation? I got chills and sat there repeating the title to myself, out loud, for a good ten seconds. (Note to LMN: You really should be advertising this on your website. I would’ve linked.)
• On Monday, NBC should have had a camera on me while I watched episode 2 of Age of Loveand put the live feed in a little box on the bottom left of the screen.It was the best workout I’ve had in months. I was beating the couchwith a pillow (when I wasn’t using one of my hands to press the mutebutton — like when Tessa said she had "great morals and greatthoughts"). I then called my friend Eva in L.A. and spent anotherhour convincing her that she had to watch, if only to see what I mayhave called "the best moment of TV ever" — the scene in the hot tubwhere bachelor Mark Philippoussis and his bikini’d twentysomething"kittens" sat in painfully awkward silence as he looked like he wantedto kill himself. (Watch the episode here.)
• Finally, on Tuesday, I went to a screening of the upcoming feature documentary King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters(in theaters August 17). It’s the story of two men’s epic battle to berecognized as the highest scorer on Donkey Kong. At one point, whenchallenger Steve Wiebe prepares to do battle, "Eye of the Tiger" plays.I was so pumped up for him that I air-boxed to the opening beats. Whoam I? And if any of the four other people in the screening room wererooting for gaming legend Billy Mitchell, I apologize if you overheardme turn to my friend Ian and say, "Suck it, Billy!"
Your turn. Have you had a strong reaction to a TV or movie moment that kinda scared you?
please review Chris Brown’s remix of “Umbrella!!” I know it has nothing to do w/ this post, but it’s horrible!!! Like the remix of “Girlfriend.”
Mandi-
Never fear, your PW friends are here!
My BF makes fun of how spazzed out I get for movies I am really excited for. For example, the first time I saw the Transformers trailer, I jumped off the couch, screaming and replayed it about 90 times.
It is still awsome.
The down side to this is that the movies sometimes are not all they are cracked up to be. (See “The Hulk.”)
I will also laugh hysterically at Kathy Griffin’s Bravo Show and will replay the really great moments on “Footballer$ Wive$” – Why, oh Why can ABC not make this show work in the US??
For starters, Lost’s 3rd season. No season of tv has made me yell at the screen more often than this frustrating mess that has made me feel like they make it all up as they go along. And this crap with the Others, who IMHO are the lamest villains ever invented has been making me so mad! How can the Losties be so naive about the Others, and why didn’t Jack kill that stupid cult leader when he had a chance? I HATE the Others with such a passion that I’m still 7 episodes behind on the finale (on my tivo). I can barely sit through an episode without yelling obsenities and feeling the need to blog the next day titles like “I’m no longer drinking the Lost Koolade”.
Firefly got me jazzed up enough to dress like Jayne Cobb at a few comic book conventions to help promote “Serenity”.
Oh, and I yelled out an audible “doobie Doo” when the Burn Notice ad showed Bruce Campbell. I dig that crazy fool enough to tivo anything he’s in.
Deal or No Deal has the power to turn me into a complete lunatic! I will scream at the tv “TAKE THE DEAL” or cover my eyes with a pillow before they open the case.
Anon – right there with you on Transformers. My brothers think I am a complete nerd b/c since I saw the trailer and everytime I see it on TV, I can’t shut up about how excited I am to see the autobots and decepticons on the big screen!!!
Mandi, I can feel your pain, because that’s EXACTLY how I felt the first time I went to see the first Pirates of the Caribbean film. I sat in the theater on opening day hoping to God the film didn’t stink because all the press I read had zero faith in it, and I love Orlando and Johnny to death. I sat there with goosebumps for two hours because the film was so awesome and perfect and exciting and I KNEW it was going to be a huge success. The day they announce there will be a part four I’ll be jumping up and down like a 7-year-old and I can’t wait!
I am a huge Pirates of the Caribbean fan, so I was thrilled when my husband and I went to see the third one. About 10 minutes or so from the end of the movie I understood what would happen with Will and Elizabeth and I bawled the rest of the movie. I then got up before the movie was fully over and stormed out of the theatre. When my husband found me, still crying and very pissed off they would end a Disney movie that way, I explained that their relationship hit too close to home. He had no idea what I was talking about and still makes fun of me for it.
jpt: That is so sweet! Did you see the last Will/Elizabeth scene after the credits? At least it put a positive spin on the ending. I also felt heartbroken when Will was stabbed. I love Orlando, and I can’t bear to watch someone run a sword through him, even tho it’s just in a movie.
thanks for the spoiler sans a warning, sarah =\
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I get violently angry when characters I love are killed. Here are some that have boiled my blood:
Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) on Lost. I swore, from season one when he almost died, if they kill my Hobbit, I will forever boycott this series. He’s the reason I started watching Lost, and now it’s over for me. So bite me, JJ Abrams!!! Should’ve offed Matthew Fox instead. He’s annoyed the hell out of me since Party of Five!
Edgar on 24 last season. So unnecessary.
Haldir in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. It should be illegal to kill elves, especially since they weren’t even at Helm’s Deep in the book.
Norrington in Pirates: At World’s End. He so didn’t deserve that.
ugh: I apologize for the spoiler. I got a little carried away there.
Oh Mandi, I love ya Mandi, because if you didn’t know my middle name is “strong reactio to tv or movie that scared me” I have so many examples, but one stands out, years ago when the Kenneth Brannagh film Frankestein came out I went to opening night at one point the monster kills a child, and the nanny of the child was blamed, and rushed through the movies only high impact scene towards a rope high on a tower, where she was going to be hanged. I couldn’t believe it, she was innocent and with my heart racing I proceded to let the entire theatre know it by standing up and top of my lungs screaming at the screen “SHE DIDN’T DO IT! MY GOD SHE DIDN’T DO IT!” Let’s just say my friends don’t like going to the movies with me because of the way I react to them.
Like anon, I got WAY too excited when I first saw the “Transormers” trailer…now whenever my brother and I are in a theater or at home and we see a trailer/commercial for it, i grab him by the front of the shirt and yell “Transformers!!”…(I think this tactic even got my girlfriend halfway interested in the movie)
I also got pumped up after the first full-length trailer for “Live Free or Die Hard.” The ads for that movie have become the stuff of semi-legend for me and my brother. We’ll randomly quote stuff to each other like bust out “Command Center?! (hearty laugh)” Yeah, we’re weird.
I’m well known amongst friends for being way too much of a spazz at times. I’m not really “allowed” to watch the Oscars and other awards shows because I get way too emotionally involved. I express my upset verbally when the people I feel are deserving don’t win and I get way too excited when the people I like do win.
I still go into a bit of a tantrum whenever I talk about the 3rd Harry Potter movie (Prisoner of Azkaban). I was so frustrated by that movie. My fiance says I’m only disappointed in it because it’s my favorite book of the series, but I really don’t think that’s the case. I think it was just badly done and the director was totally wrong for Harry Potter. They didn’t explain who the Marauders who created the Marauders Map were, for crying out loud!!!! Why????
I also saw “Apocalypto” for the first time last weekend, and a random part where a snake takes a chunk out of some guys neck actually made me look away and scream out “Oh…myGod!” (snakes creep me out).
It was notable because it was the first time I’d shown fear while watching a movie with the gf.