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Aug 23
2011
11:26 AM ET
PopWatch Confessional: Your most embarrassing reaction in a movie theater
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I sobbed like a child at Phenomenon – you know, that awful movie with John Travolta, where he has brain super powers or similar, and it turns out to be a brain tumor? I mean, I was messy, just SOBBING, for the last 40 minutes of the movie. Then, in the bathroom, all the women who had seen the movie were looking at one another, red rimmed eyes and red noses, and there was shame. There was so much shame.
My Girl…when Thomas J. dies…and Veda freaks out because he can’t see without his glasses (i’m crying typing it) – well the people in front of me ran to get me tissue because I was seriously beside myself and I cried so hard I got the hiccups for about four hours. Ugliest cry I ever had!
One time when my nephew was 3 or 4 he asked me if he could try on my glasses and I told him, “I can’t see without my glasses.” I had to excuse myself from the room because just uttering those words made me think of Thomas J and brought a few tears on.
I teared up just reading that!
Dang it! Tears…..just reading that.
I moved to the UK after living in Los Angeles, where people routinely cheer during films, and even during trailers. Before I realised that people are SILENT during movies in the UK, no matter how exciting – I let out a whoop during a trailer for an upcoming Harry Potter film when the familiar John Williams score began to play. Something that would not have been out of place in LA…the ENTIRE movie theatre turned around and stared at me like I was diseased, after that I shrunk into my seat and silently watched the film
My friend from the UK saw the premiere of the Lion King in the states and was just shocked by all the noise. I’m not even sure he watched the movie because he was so distracted by people – and he was most shocked by the fact that at the end, people stood up and clapped. He thought that all movies must be like that, and I told him that was a particularly odd show to go to when you’re used to total silence the whole time. I can so easily imagine your situation since he would’ve been one of those people staring at you.
Saw the premiere of HP6 in Holland, when visiting, and I loved all the noise and fanfare when the movie began. Then saw HP7 P1 and P2 in Canada, and it was a little sad that no one whooped like the Dutch do!
When I first saw Armageddon, I was in eighth grade. I cried so hard at the part when Bruce Willis shoves Ben Affleck in the space shuttle and then talks to Liv Tyler, his “little” girl, that the whole row of seats was shaking. I was just sobbing – snot, tears, the whole thing. My best friend, who saw it with me, still makes fun of me when it comes on TV.
I was in my 20s when I went to see it. The part that REALLY got me was when he was saying goodbye to his daughter and she said “Daddy, No!” Ugh! I just got chills. I was crying so hard that at the end, my guy friend turns to me and says “Do you need a beach towel to wipe your face?”
My husband still cries at that movie…Every time!
my dad, my brother and i watched that movie at home, and we were all sitting in the living room bawling, when my mom comes in, looks at us, snorts, and walks out. at least i wasn’t the only one crying.
Jaws… I jumped so high I nearly hit my head on the theater ceiling (and loved it, buy the way!).
I’m so glad this is an anonymous post: I used to take my little sister to all the Disney movies when she was little. She refused to go with me any longer after Pocahontas. I bawled so hard at the end, that I had to wait 15 minutes before I could drive her home. To this day, she brings it up as HER most embarrassing movie experience.
Omg i thought i was the only one! I was 12 when Pocahontas came out, knew nothing about the real Pocahontas, and was sure they’d be together, because, hey! This is a disney movie! They always have happy endings. Cut to me ugly crying, loud sobbing, snot everywhere. Totally embarrassing. There was a 8 year old kid in front of me who was looking at me like i had some sort of exotic disease.
I took my niece to see Toy Story 3 last year. Only being 4, she didn’t quite get the emotional impact. As I was ugly-crying my eyes out at the end, she turned to me and loudly said “Why is your face wet?”
Everyone around me laughed, but they were crying too!
The Notebook: the woman who is in love with Gosling’s character has what must have been a hella awkward meal with him and McAdams’ character, like, right after they DO IT and then, as she’s leaving, she’s all ‘She’s so great that I’m totally fine with you having used me for so long! Bye!’. I paraphrase, but my friend and I both yelled out ‘Bull$hit!’ really really loudly at the exact same time. The enraptured teenage girls around us were not impressed…
One time me and two friends went out for dinner, and decided to catch a movie. Against all better judgement, and my stated disagreement, we chose Norbit. Yes, I know. So, anyway, i decided to be a good sport and enjoy the absurdity of it all, smiling weakly in extremely ridiculous moments. What I didn’t expect was that at some point, I think it was when Eddie Murphy slides down the water slide and breaks through a wall (or was it something with a bra? or was it the same one?), I would just lose it all together and start laughing and shaking hysterically, irradicating all sign of self respect. My friends looked at me with such amazement: they’re used to only see me laugh in sophisticated comedies, and have a very dry sense of humor, so they were evidently amused at my behavior. Since then I have no claim to have taste in comedies.
The best reaction I ever heard of in a movie was during the showing of one of the second Excorist movie. The movie was creeping on and the house exploded or something and Richard Burton said the line “Now I think I understand.” A genius in the audience, who deserved an ovation then said “I wish someone could explain this movie to me.”
The theatre erupted in laughter and cheers. It was great. Whoever is was had a better line than any in the movie.
I didn’t see this in theaters, but when Iw as young, maybe about 8, I had the biggest crush on Macaulay Culkin. I saw The Good Son for the first time at that age, and when the mother let go of Macaulay’s hand and let him fall off of the cliff, I ran under the kitchen table – sobbing.
Didn’t happen to me, but during “The Da Vinci Code”, my friend sitting beside me legit yelled “OMG” during a suspenseful part and I (and a few others sitting around us) couldn’t stop laughing
I have a few. In the early 1990′s some of my college friends and I went to see the movie “Philadelphia” with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. That movie hit me VERY hard at the end. When the kids were watching the tv screen and there were old movies playing of Tom Hank’s character while that Neil Young song was going I sobbed in the theatre loudly. Actually there were many scenes in that movie that I lost it. My friend was asking me if I was ok. I said yes but give me a moment. Another movie I watched recently that I sobbed loudly was “Nights in Rodanthe”. Ok, maybe I should have read the book first but (spoiler alert) I had no idea that Richard Gere’s character was going to die and leave Diane Lane’s character alone. My god, I’m a sap. People were looking back at me in the theatre wondering who the h@ll was making that noise. On a lighter note I remember seeing “The Hangover” for the first time and I laughed so hard I actually belched! Ugh, I was SOO embarassed!!!
The book was so much better than the movie…as most are. And they totally changed so much of it. You would enjoy the book more.
Rayann, you sound like you’d be fun to go see a movie with! Philadelphia made me cry, too, and that song by Neil Young still makes me cry whenever I hear it.
I’ve got a few…
* Laughing at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, at the guy who got his arm blown off, and just picking it up and walking off with it. Reminded me of the SNL sketch where the weightlifter’s arms fall off.
* Guffawing at Jim Carrey’s line in Dumb and Dumber, “The Monkees – they were a big influence on the Beatles.” I was the only one who even had any reaction at all.
* Sobbing uncontrollably during Mr. Holland’s Opus during the footage of the tributes after John Lennon’s murder. I was in college and knew he’d been dead since I was six, but I guess I didn’t really mourn him openly until then.
* SQUEALING when I saw Winona Ryder’s name in the credits for Beetlejuice. I had never seen my name anywhere else up to that point.
Weird that you mention that… In the movie “Caveman” (yes, that horrible thing) I saw it when I was like 13 and in the credits there’s someone with my FULL name. I got such a kick out of that.
When my parents went to go see the third Indiana Jones movie in theatres they happened to go to same night as my grandparents. During the scene where the truck falls off the cliff and Indy goes over the side, It was dead silent in theatre and my grandfather yelled “He’s hanging off the side of the cliff” very loudy
Your comment made me laugh!!!!