Thursday, February 14, 2008

You're supposed to start the movie at the beginning


Last night I was talking to someone about the film Braveheart. That reminded me of the time I first saw the movie. It was all wrong.

Ummmm Spoilers?

It was back when movies came on VHS. Braveheart came on two tapes because it was so damn long. so I pulled out the tape in slot one and put it in the VCR. Then I went to the kitchen to make a snack and when I came back the movie had started. Some girl was walking through some trees so I sat down, thinking I had missed all the previews.

Then people started torturing Mel Gibson. I kept waiting for the flashbacks to begin to explain what the hell was going on.

Then he died.

And I went, What?

I put in tape two. Except it was tape one. I watched the damn movie backwards.

So I've never been able to fully appreciate the film because it was ruined for me from frame one.

During Spiderman 2 when Spiderman is being lifted by the people on the train car and crowd surfed to a soft landing my date leaned over and whispered, "The passion of the Spiderman," and I laughed. Except that now I can't watch that scene without thinking of the Passion of the Spiderman.

I saw Ransom in the theater. At the end when the cops shoot Gary Sinese's character a dude in the theater yelled out in a thick Southern accent: "Oh no! They shot Lieutenant Dan!" I can't watch that scene without giggling.

First impressions stick with you. I don't know that I had a point other than that.

I just mostly think it's kind of funny that I watched Braveheart backwards.

3 comments:

  1. SPOILERS

    I didn't see Bruce Willis get shot in The Sixth Sense (walked in late cause I was the projectionist in charge of starting all the films we were pre-screening that night), so I assumed he was a ghost from early on.

    BTW, that was a great line about Spidey 2.

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  2. I can't watch Fletch without feeling like I'm stoned, because, well, in high school...

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  3. Granted, this is a film that inspires laughter anyway, but I saw the original Ninja Turtles movie in the theater as a kid and at one point there's a "big reveal" that Splinter (the Turtles' humanoid rat mentor) fought with Shredder (the Turtles' arch nemesis) when he was still just an ordinary rat.

    A middle-aged woman in the theater, apparently totally into the story, screamed out: "Oh my god, it's the rat that scarred him for life!"

    Everyone busted out laughing. I felt slightly bad for her, but it was, admittedly, deserved.

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