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[movie] [preposition] [place]: The Alamo Game!
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
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
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I believe they've done that Deliverance showing, right?

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This is a movie about characters who have more important things to do than be characters in an action thriller.
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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
'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)
'Trust Us, This is All Made Up' at The Hideout
'Jurassic Park' at Kualoa Ranch, in Hawaii (where they filmed parts of it)
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"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.
"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.
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"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.
"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.
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"2001 A Space Odyssey" on a shitty TV in my bedroom, which is just a mattress on a floor
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http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=4587hujhax wrote:I believe they've done that Deliverance showing, right?
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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
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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.kbadr wrote:How 'bout in *the* hotel..."The Shining" in a Hotel
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'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
'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
"Every cat dies 9 times, but every cat does not truly live 9 lives."
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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...
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...
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