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Paul Harnden
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From: Chandler, AZ, USA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 06-06-2002 12:33 AM
Well this isn't a story about sexy-named films, but it has to do with the title. When Episode 1 came out, we played the movie three different screens. The titles put onto he tickets by the managers looked as such: Phantom Menace
Ep-X
X=the number of the print in the theater, in this case Auditorium 1 had print 1, Auditorium 2 print 2, and auditorium 4 print 3. We never really had a problem with the system except for one gentlemen who bought a ticket in Auditorium 2 thinking he was going to see episode 2 (remember now, this is during episode 1). Now I could see where he got the idea of it saying episode 2 off of the ticket, but unfortunately he wasn't too happy when I explained that it would be a couple of years before his desired show was released.
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Chip Gelmini
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Posts: 8
From: Mashpee, MA, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 06-06-2002 11:09 AM
I don't remember what year it was, but the big hit was Stanley Kubrick's, THE SHINING" with Jack Nicholson. I was at a mall going by the theater building. And the marquee REALLY HONESTLY said, "THE SHITTING." It was one of those times I wished I had a camera. It would have been published in MAD magazine.
We also had fun where I worked labeling the tail ends of prints in a humourous way. The idea was, only projection staff would play along, and it would never been seen by the public. Take the name of the movie, and change the title for fun, as a play on words. We kept it clean though, just incase the boss walked through. In some cases it was just reversing the words within the title, and sometimes it had something to do with a REAL situation in the news at the time the movie was released. Some examples from my memory:
DANCES WITH WOLVES became SNAKES CAN SKI. It later became LAMBADA WITH LIONS
Raiders of the Lost Ark BECAME Raiders of the Lost Narc (a theater employee had been caught and arrested for posession of illegal drugs)ET stayed ET but the question was how to spell it correctly
GHANDI became a 10 foot piece of masking tape label: "On a cold winter's night he went out looking for a gallon of goat's milk. As he was leaving the tent, he stopped and looked at his Mother. She asked if he had forgotten anything. he replied, "Yeah...Mahatma." (My - hat - Mom) This answered the burning question, how did he get that nickname?
BIG NIGHT be came BIG NIGHT - COLD SHOWER
THE ABYSS was labeled THE ABITCH (We had a manager nobody liked)
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER became SATURDAY NIGHT SNEEZER (We had a concession girl who had trouble with hayfever...so she said)
and so on. I know some of these are dumb but it made for some interesting conversation when it happened. And just like cue foil tape, the labels were left on the prints when they left our theater! CG
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Dave Williams
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From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 06-06-2002 11:44 AM
Normally I am not this stupid ..> BUT...When I went to see SW2 at the Villa in SL Utah, a single screener... I had this to say... when I got the tickets, they said "STARATTACK"... I am dyslexic... so naturally I thought they said startrek... I actually said... and I feel so smart for this... "Hey, are these for the right show?" Remember its a single screener.... We all brain fart at least ONCE in our lives... Dave
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