Gigem314 said:
helloimustbegoing said:
Went to see it today with wife and friends, sat through the 19 previews, screen goes dark, and we see a ship in frigid waters and the tagline "Bering Sea". Since I saw Jurassic World less than a week ago, I quickly deduced what was going on - they had put the wrong movie on - but I didn't say anything, allowing me to relish in my wife freaking the **** out when a Mosasaurus breaches the surface of the water and attacks the fishing boat in what she thought was some sort of Naval rescue mission to begin "Maverick".
Ha, I actually had this happen to me when I saw Fallen Kingdom in the theater. I was like "Wait a minute! Why is The Rock in the new JW movie?". They'd put in Skyscraper instead, and I had to walk out to tell someone they were playing the wrong movie.
Around 2000 Cinemark College Station did a fall throwback series where they would play an old movie one night a month with the screening starting at 11:00 PM. When the series started they began to hype up that the finale would be a screening of Top Gun on the biggest screen. We bought tickets and patiently waited.
I believe it was a Saturday night in early December when the showing was scheduled. My group of friends along with pretty much everyone else that had tickets headed to Northgate to get our drink on before the need for speed.
Everyone shows up to the theatre adequately hydrated and ready to rock. Lights go out, everyone goes crazy, opening scene comes on, Danger Zone rocks and the crowd is hopping. About 10 minutes in Take My Breath Away comes on and Maverick and Charlie start getting it on. The crowd is abuzz wondering if we had forgotten the order of the movie. While the buzz is growing Charlie finds her little paper swan and it cuts to Goose ejecting into the canopy and dying. Now a theatre filled with a bunch of drunk college kids begins to go crazy.
The lights come on in the theater and this poor employee has to walk to the front of the theater and tell everyone that the reels came in late and they had to guess which order to splice them in and they had obviously chosen poorly. The theater turns into a melodrama with popcorn being flung cokes going through the air, etc.
The employee says that as an apology everyone would receive a free ticket good for any movie with no expiration. We collect ourselves and start filing out of the theatre where they are handing passes out at the door. We each get one and then walk around to the other door and go back in to re-enter the line. We each got 5+ passes before they discovered our routine. Good times.