[movie] [preposition] [place]: The Alamo Game!

York99 · Post by **York99** » July 16th, 2010, 10:17 am

Recently Kareem was schooling me on the Alamo's Rolling Road Show. He told me how they had a viewing of 'Jaws' in the middle of Town Lake in the dark while the watchers floated in rafts. He later told me about a viewing of 'Blues Brothers' in Joliet Prison in Illinois. Pretty cool.

It got me thinking of other fun/cool/interesting places to watch certain movies. It sounded like the kind of fun thing that people here like to participate in, so I decided to throw it out there for all to obsess over. Here are some of mine:

'Die Hard' in a vacant office building
'Deliverance' in the woods
'Dazed and Confused' from a moon tower (private screening)
'Home Alone' in your home, alone
'Back to the Future' in 1985
'Avatar' in a vacuum cleaner warehouse

hujhax · Post by **hujhax** » July 16th, 2010, 10:38 am

I believe they've done that Deliverance showing, right?

--
peter rogers @ work | http://hujhax.livejournal.com

This is a movie about characters who have more important things to do than be characters in an action thriller.
-- Roger Ebert, reviewing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » July 16th, 2010, 10:42 am

'The Abyss' in a submarine
'Trust Us, This is All Made Up' at The Hideout
'Jurassic Park' at Kualoa Ranch, in Hawaii (where they filmed parts of it)

acrouch · Post by **acrouch** » July 16th, 2010, 10:50 am

Groundhog Day in the Punxsutawney town square

Post by **Jon Bolden** » July 16th, 2010, 11:00 am

"The Shining" in a Hotel
"Clifford" at Dinosaur World
"Wet Hot American Summer" at a Cabin

On another note, this same concept is even neater with books. When I went to Amsterdam, my buddy Dave ready "The Diary of Anne Frank" on the plane and in the hotel at night and he said it was really amazing when he finally visited the house with details freshly on the mind.

Asaf · Post by **Asaf** » July 16th, 2010, 11:05 am

acrouch wrote:Groundhog Day in the Punxsutawney town square

I think it would be one of those back-to-back marathon screenings though.

Asaf · Post by **Asaf** » July 16th, 2010, 11:08 am

"Rushmore" in a high school auditorium
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" in a bookstore where all the books' spines are turned away
"The Matrix" in pods
"Amelié" in love

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » July 16th, 2010, 11:21 am

"The Shining" in a Hotel

How 'bout in *the* hotel...
http://www.originalalamo.com/show.aspx?id=3847

mpbrockman · Post by **mpbrockman** » July 16th, 2010, 11:23 am

"A Fish Called Wanda" and "Big Fish" (double bill) at the aquarium.
"Harold and Kumar..." at White Castle.
"Copycat" in several places at once.
"The Illusionist" in my other hand.
"Apocalypse Now" at the end of all things.

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » July 16th, 2010, 1:27 pm

"2001 A Space Odyssey" on a shitty TV in my bedroom, which is just a mattress on a floor

Post by **bradisntclever** » July 16th, 2010, 1:29 pm

hujhax wrote:I believe they've done that Deliverance showing, right?

--
peter rogers @ work | http://hujhax.livejournal.com

This is a movie about characters who have more important things to do than be characters in an action thriller.
-- Roger Ebert, reviewing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=4587

Post by **bradisntclever** » July 16th, 2010, 1:39 pm

kbadr wrote:
"The Shining" in a Hotel
How 'bout in *the* hotel...
http://www.originalalamo.com/show.aspx?id=3847

That hotel was the inspiration for the book and the interiors were used for the weird ABC miniseries movie. For the film, they used a hotel in Oregon for the front exterior shots and then built the interiors on a soundstage in London. It doesn't stop The Stanley Hotel from being any less creepy, however. Check it out if you're ever in the area. They do tours often.

York99 · Post by **York99** » July 16th, 2010, 1:46 pm

'Seabiscuit' at the track

'Up' in a hot air balloon

'The Deer Hunter' in the same basement where they are simultaneously having showings of 'Fight Club' and 'Wayne's World"

'Annie Hall' at Grand Lakes University's Annie Hall auditorium

'JFK' in Dealey Plaza

'The Piano' on a paint drying observation deck

'Pulp Fiction' at gunpoint

Lants · Post by **Lants** » July 16th, 2010, 2:43 pm

"Milk" at a Cookie Factor
"Powder" at a Dunkin Donuts
"Batman" at a Red Robin
"Scream" at an Optometrists office

Spaztique · Post by **Spaztique** » July 16th, 2010, 3:08 pm

Are we limiting these to realistic or anything?

For realistic...
"Snakes On A Plane" on a plane (with complimentary gummy snakes)
"Fight Club" in an abandoned basement (with live fighters shadowing the actors)
"High Fidelity" in a record store (with the soundtrack booming over the speakers)

For unrealistic...
"Snakes On A Plane" on a plane with real snakes
"The Room" in both an actual San Fransisco apartment room and a studio designed to look like a room, just to compare the difference between the two. Also, random people come in an out of these rooms with no motivation whatsoever.
"An Inconvenient Truth" on an ice shelf... if we can still find one to screen it on...