Dial 911 For ’127 Hours’ Screenings

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• Oh good grief. If you feel that a movie is getting too intense, leave the darn theater. I remember working at a theater as a teen, and a woman FLIPPED OUT over Kill Bill. Like she was in the bathroom crying and having a panic attack over the violence. I had to calm her down, for real, and go get the people she was with and tell them (thus disrupting those around them), all because this woman didn’t see the R rating and didn’t know anything about Tarantino and figured it’d be a Disney flick I guess.

  Some people just need to do a quick minute of research before they go to see a flick that will be intense, violence, perverted, or whatever else and stop disrupting everyone else when they can’t handle it.

  Comment by hna — Sunday October 17, 2010 @ 4:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I can top that, speaking of not reading reviews (or paying attention to ratings for that matter).

    I and a friend who regularly go to see films together happened to take her 13 year old daughter with us to see of all things, Bruno, based on our experience with Borat and the Bruno trailer.

    To put it mildly, that wasn’t quite the movie that I imagined, but she and we survived intact, albeit some brain bleach would have come in handy.

    Washed it down with a viewing of Duncan Jones’ “Moon” with Sam Rockwell, which was a promising start for his directing career, and Rockwell was excellent.

    I’ll definitely be seeing “127 Hours” when it arrives. Looks to be a standout performance from James Franco, and the story deserves time on the big screen.

    Comment by tmay — Sunday October 17, 2010 @ 5:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Geez. If this is the direction the marketing and PR campaign is going for this film, I will cut my own arm off.

  Comment by Poisedwithknife — Sunday October 17, 2010 @ 5:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • That was my first reaction too.

    Comment by denis — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 9:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• Well, one things for sure. That will be the last time a theater is packed to see 127 Hours. This will absolutely bomb at the box office.

  Comment by Thomas — Sunday October 17, 2010 @ 5:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• And people say that Jackass is too much to handle. LMAO

  Now this is a movie going experience that’ll fuck you up!

  Comment by Drew — Sunday October 17, 2010 @ 5:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• SUIT #1:
  Oh, fuck. See those two over there?

  SUIT #2:
  The ones who fell asleep? Yeah.

  SUIT #1:
  This doesn’t look good.

  SUIT #2:
  Jesus, what if Nikki Finke finds out?

  SUIT #1:
  It’ll be all over Deadline. 2012 comes early for us.

  SUIT #2:
  Maybe I can accidentally-on-purpose spill Coke on them?

  SUIT #1:
  (pulling out cellphone)
  No, I got a better idea.

  Comment by Tarantino'd — Sunday October 17, 2010 @ 5:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What is the sound of one arm clapping?

  Comment by Paco — Sunday October 17, 2010 @ 6:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I shudder to think how that same audience would react to a screening of “A Serbian Film.”

  Comment by Rszanto — Sunday October 17, 2010 @ 6:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• danny boyle has made another masterpiece…so has rodrigo cortes (“buried”), another film that will effect you emotionally AND physically!

  Comment by artanis — Sunday October 17, 2010 @ 8:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I really don’t understand all the fuss around the cortes movie. If someone’s kind enough to explain.

  Comment by denis — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 9:44am PDT  Reply to this post

• It still astounds me that a movie was made about this subject anyway. The guy isn’t some kind of hero or inspiration. He’s a MORON who had to cut his own arm off because of poor hiking decisions! At best this should have been a dark comedy.

  Comment by Mike — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 10:16am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Hopefully it will serve as a reminder for others so they don’t have to go through an ordeal like this hiker did.

    Comment by Infinite Guy — Tuesday October 19, 2010 @ 6:16am PDT  Reply to this post

• I recall stories like this being reported after “Born on the Fourth of July” came out. I remember saying “give me a break..the movie with Tom Cruise?”. But when I finally saw the movie, I found the hospital scene to be pretty intense and almost needed to walk out.

  When a movie effectively shows real-life (something close really happened) intense human suffering, it’s hard not being hit in the chest by it when its done effectively. Not every movie pulls it off, but when they do, it can be intense.

  Regarding this story, I remember when it was in the news. I can’t recall how he got stuck, but accidents happen and this guy needed to endure a lot to survive. Hat’s off to him.

  Comment by splinter — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 12:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Mike – I respectfully disagree. This movie is incredibly inspiring and life affirming – about a guy who learns to value and apppreciate everything in his life. Everyone faces obstacles, and this is a universal story about learning to overcome what holds you down. Please see it before you make stupid comments.

  Comment by Todd — Monday October 18, 2010 @ 1:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Actually 4 people fainted at the Pixar screening and these are people who work on movies!

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday October 19, 2010 @ 11:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I screened Uwe Boll’s movie Attack On Darfur with some friends, and the reactions were intense. Some people couldn’t handle it and others like me cried. Its still an incredible movie, and its a must see because its about an important conflict that we shouldn’t be turning our eyes away from. If the film is too hard to handle, imagine actually being there. I completely agree with Todd and think that these kinds of movies are important to watch and hold an important moral value. I am definitely going to see 127 Hours.
  Check out Attack On Darfur, its easy not to care when we’re comfortable in our nice houses and nice lives, but watching this film certainly awoke an activist in me.
  http://www.blockbuster.com/browse/catalog/movieDetails/492994

  Comment by Caitlyn Pezza — Wednesday October 27, 2010 @ 1:13pm PDT  Reply to this post