"Is that Obi-Wan Kenobi?"
-as Alec Guiness makes his first appearance
"There's no way that was three and a half hours long. It felt like half of Return of the King."
"That was good stuff."
-some guy to his dad
Me: "What'd you think?"
Girl with a Guy: "It was really good, I couldn't believe that I'd never heard of it before."
Her Date: "Well, now you have."
after Separate Lies....
A Wife: "That poor man."
Her Husband: "Well honey, he was sorta a asshole."
Me: "Who? Bill or James?"
The Wife: "Both."
The Husband: "The kid? He was a sonuvabitch, but the older fella, his wife never really gave a rat's a--"
The Wife: "Harold, let's go."
The Husband: "What? Oh, fine."
Me: "What'd you think?"
Older Lady Who Obviously Hadn't Had a Chat With a Guy My Age in a Long While: "It was sad, but it was smart, and it ended real good."
Me: "What'd you think?"
The Girl My Age: "Like, it gives you a lot to think about. I really had no idea like, you know, where it was going. You know?"
After exiting the theatre, I overheard her starting the "we need to talk" conversation with some hapless bastard on her cell phone.
Good Night, and Good Luck.
after the film....
"I forgot McCarthy was that much of a bastard."
"That's the best movie I've seen in a long time."
"I wish they made a TV show like that, then I'd have somethin to watch."
Older Jewish Lady Who Stayed For the Credits: "Did ya like it?"
Me: "Yes, very much
Older Jewish Lady: "Ya should bring awl yeh friends teh see this moovie, sweetie. Then maybe they learn somethin, yeh?"
Me: "I'll do my best."
Shopgirl
"Mirabelle has really bad taste in clothes"
"I mean, he's kind of cute, but he's way too old for her."
-on Steve Martin's Ray Porter
Girl 1: "What'd she say?"
Girl 2: "I don't know."
Me: "Fellatio."
Girl 2: "What's that?"
Girl 1: "Something sexual."
Girl 2: "I'll look it up later."
Me: "It means giving head."
Girl 1: "Oh, I know what that is."
"'Now I'm your watch', what kind of line is that?"
Ray Porter: "You look beautiful."
Girl 1: "Yeah, no shit."
"It was good, it was just strange."
Girl 1: "Oh my god is he hairy!"
-on Jason Schwartzmann
later-
Girl 1: "Watch him still be hairy."
Girl 2: "Oh my god, is he hairier?"
Girl 1: "Oh Jesus, he is."
Girl 2: "Well, nobody's perfect."
Kong Trailer
afterward-
"Oh shit, bro, that movie's gonna fuckin' <em>own</em>."
"People really do talk this way."
-me, to a friend next to me
"How do all those people hit all that C4 with bullets and none of it explodes?"
"Dude, it's just a fucking movie, relax. Who cares?"
"I care."
-two guys debating whether or not everyone should have died at one point
"Oh my God do I wanna do that Puerto Rican guy. Ay papi."
"Isn't he Venezuelan?"
"Nah, he's Cuban, man."
-some hispanic girls just as the credits rolled
"He shot him in the arm. Twice."
"That guy's lying."
"Oh, shit, she was naked, bro."
-our audience narrator
"Should I add Chinegro to the list, or Hispasian?"
-a friend commenting on the race/ethnicity choices in the post-show report he was filling out
"That battery would be dead by---oh...."
-most of the audience, said as soon as Drew reaches to plug his cell into the charger, lest it die on him
"That was so real"
-the girl sitting to my right with her boyfriend, who wept through most of the movie, and steadily doing so from the moment Drew speaks in front of the crowd
"I bet that soundtrack is like eleven CDs"
-a girl in front of me as she got up to leave at the beginning of the credits
"God this is depressing"
-after the boy drowns in quicksand
"I really like how they don't force him into the sensitive hero bullshit."
"God, like, what is his <em>issue</em>?"
-after Lawrence orders the "No prisoners" charge
"Oh come on, like they had road signs."
-after the camera catches a road sign for Damascus
"I'm glad it wasn't hopeless, but it stayed real and stuff."
-a student exiting the theatre
"So, was he like...gay?"
-a very confused girl who was text messaging throughout the almost four hours of runtime
"That was like, the worst 3 1/2 hour experience of my life...ever."
"There were things I didn't understand, like why it ended the way it did, but it was really interesting."
"God, what a bitch."
-one of the other three people watching Junebug with me, about Madeline (Embeth Davidtz)
"God, what a bitch."
-the same person, about Peg
ten minutes earlier:
"I thought this was gonna be funnier, dude."