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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Opening for the Matrix. Sitting in a packed theater. Phone rings, Trinity dashes for it, picks up the line and the truck smashes through the booth.
Theater was dead silent, everyone was in awe.
I called out damn, should have used *69 got a decent uproar of laughter.
(iykyk, iydk, *69 on a landline used to call back the last person that called you. It was all over commercials.)
I also have theatre joke story.
Opening for Jurassic Park. Packed theatre too. Triceratops is sick scene where they go to look at the droppings.
This scene comes up:
My younger brother who was probably 6 or 7 yells out "That's even bigger than mine!" and the whole theatre bursts out laughing!
Lol, kids are funny like that. I went to a museum this weekend. It was kinda boring for the kids,but the tour guide tried to include them as much as possible. At one point, this kid also made a funny comment, I can't recall it,but it's funny in how genuine it was.
Similar experience: Watching The Matrix in theatre. Neo and Agent Smith face off in the subway.
Right as the newspaper blows by, someone let out an absolutely perfect Ennio Morricone whistle from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Legitimately impressive whistling skills, great volume, perfect pitch. Got a huge laugh.
Wasn't that supposed to be that exact call back?
Well there were three dudes in the showdown at the end of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. But it's definitely referencing western showdowns in general.
Watching LotR in a packed theater, get to the part where Frodo gets just speared in the back by that bigass spider. I wasn’t prepared for that fatality so I let out an involuntary mini-laugh/snort. Guy directly behind me, as loud as he can, screams “Shut the fuck up!” directly into my ear. Murmurs of agreement all around.
Dude just basically assaulted a kid who was quiet the whole rest of the movie, but OK.
Pet Semetary, 1989, packed theater. During the scene where the resurrected toddler is chasing Fred Gwynne with a scalpel, a baby suddenly cries out in the back of the theater. The entire audience jumped then burst out in laughter.
Who brings a baby to a Stephen King movie?
Someone who wants to freak out the audience, obviously.
I have a couple theater stories:
1986, The Fly. Movie starts, title sequence comes up, "The Fly". Guy in the back of the theater lets out a huge, throaty "YEEAAHH!". Whole theater cracks up.
1996, Independence Day opening day (July 4). Audience is totally engrossed, edge of their seats. The explosion is racing through the tunnel, the dog jumps through the door just in time, and screen goes black: "July 3". Audience goes fucking APESHIT, the highest energy I've ever felt in a crowd in my life.
That's amazing. Our youngest could have been taken to any number of movies, if it's dark and cold, he would sleep. Still not a good idea just in case he wakes... but he would have probably been fine.
We got rid of our landline because scammers kept calling me daddy. Got tired after about 6 illegitimate children popping up and asking for alimony.
maybe you shouldn't have been such a stud in your youth
jokes on you, they've been a eunuch since they were 4.
pro move
Id be using the hell out of payphones if they still existed. They just seem convenient and i have too many quarters
I really preferred the workflow(?) / pattern(?) that only existed for a few short years when pagers were common and cell phones weren't. Someone would page you. You'd get it, decide if you needed to call them back, decide when to call them back, and where to do it.
You could do it from a payphone, you could wait until you got back home, or to your friend's house, or to work, or whatever. If you wanted to stay out of touch, you could do it.
It's the same reason that the children these days prefer to text rather than call. A text doesn't have to be acknowledged instantly. You can think about your response if necessary. If you want privacy for your communication, you can arrange for that.
fun fact: pay phones in australia are now free, because it was costing Telstra more to go and extract the money than they were making from phone calls. So they're all free now.
There’s still a pay phone near me! Always know your exits in case of an emergency.
There's a chain of gas stations near me that has a payphone and a map right next to the front door of every shop, just in case someone is having a real bad day.
Bitch, we talking to you through your phone's keyboard's predictive text and by rearranging your social media feed and you think that's mysterious capitalism doing a magick psychic instead of, like, us.
Lmao conspiracy theorists be like:
"The PhD mathmaticians and neuroscientists will spend their entire lives on writing theses,
and then programmers and engineers will spend months to apply those and decades to improve their applications,
AND all of this effort will be used to make billionaires more money, plus some government propoganda."
Do people really believe this shit?
Thankfully we still have silicate pouches available
Referring to this?
Isn't The Matrix just an allegory about being transgender?
It has been ruthlessly coopted by people who want to see it that way and refuse to believe that any other interpretation could possibly exist.
I freely admit that the the fact that the writers and directors later both changed their gender makes a good case that that was an element of the story.
But, this was also a huge budget action movie produced by a mainstream Hollywood studio in 1999 when the world was far less trans-friendly than even today. There's no way they would have OK'd a movie that could only be interpreted as a trans allegory.
No, there was reading material attached to the script and it was mostly metaphysical and philosophy. Not sure the watchowskis actually understood what they wrote by the end of 3, they maintained it wasn't ALL the matrix even though that seems to be what they wrote and fits with the books they pulled inspiration from
Not the entire thing but there were some characters in there that were meant to be trans. Switch, for example, but the studios cut it.
Given the watchowskis are trans, I'd say "not intentionally, but DEFINITELY subconsciously"
No, it's fully intentional.
From that article:
Lilly doesn't know "how present my transness was in the background of my brain as we were writing" The Matrix.
They weren't consciously making it a trans allegory. And, the studio would never have accepted it if that was all it was. In retrospect it's obvious that that was a major influence in the story they were telling. And, they're happy that in the present people are interpreting it that way. But, it wasn't as intentional as people like to claim, and that's far from the only possible interpretation.
Well, dying also gets you out.
Landline owners, assemble!
is it an actual landline or has it been converted to a digital subscriber line, because there is a difference.
Even most landlines today just relay to a fully digitalized VoIP infrastructure. The new stuff is just way more economical to run, even if the residences still run kilometers of old copper wire, the hubs have changed to microwave antennas or satellite uplinks, as they are much cheaper to maintain.
Its a bummer because it would be excellent to have the peoples internet again just running Gemini protocol and gophernet over dial up again.
I'm pretty sure I remember them using a cell phone late in the first movie(?).
I've got clear memories of it falling and spinning because it's not tethered
Gotten!
Thanks
They communicated with that phone. That they can do anywhere. They communicated through Neo's computer, suggestion, and many other ways.
They could not extract someone plugged in from a cell phone. Had to be a landline.