Popcorn Time

You get all kinds of movies - funny, romantic, corny, kinky, scary, wannabe-scary, action, blah...

But sometimes it's not the movie that makes it worth watching, but people's reactions to it.

Take, for example, my mother.
She's the most entertaining movie-goer of all time.

Watch a comedy that's not even funny, but her cracking up hysterically leaves you crying and shaking with laughter alongside her for the whole period of the movie.
Observe her during a horror movie, though, and completely revel in the hilarity - she will cover her face with her hands, peeking through her fingers, sit in a crouched position with her legs up, clutching her body, rocking back and fourth. She even gasps and jumps up at all the right moments, sometimes even falling off the couch.

According to my friends, I have inherited my mother's talent for being a spectacle during movies, only instead of enhancing the experience, I tend to spoil it :P
*romantic movie: I shake in my seat while I sob wetly, crying with renewed energy every time something of note happens. My best friend finds this hilarious.
*horror movie or terrible moment: Due to my dark sense of humor, I always laugh at the most inoppertune moments. A great example is when I watched The Pianist with some classmates upon studing the Hitler-Nazi-war-thingy in History. Anyway, a scene comes up when all these Nazi soldiers intrude upon a Jewish home, and bark at the little family to get up. Fearfully, all of them get to their feet except for one old man. He can't stand - he's in a wheelchair. So the soldier promptly pushes him out to the balcony and tips the wheelchair over. Yes, I know it's supposed to be all shocking, but I couldn't help but burst out laughing at the falling wheelchair guy! It looked so funny!
*action or serious movie: Taking Pelham 123 is a great example of this. Personally, I found the movie excruciatingly boring, so I took to making sarcastic comments at everything that happens, enjoying myself immensely. Sometimes I even added little theme tunes to people when they walk, which I must admit is hilarious :P My friend Alyss, though, not to mention the movie theatre, was totally engrossed in the movie and oohed and aahed and gasped in all the right places, glaring at me whenever I said something obscene or added background sound effects like saying "boom" "pow" "doosh" every time someone hits somebody else. Anyway, there's this one part in the movie, this utter shocking climax, where John Travolta loses his temper and manically starts shouting at everyone in his train, waving his gun around and apparently dishing out his finest fury-act. And then *building suspense* he screams and shoots the one guy *pew! pew! pew! SPLAT!* The audience is silent, shocked. I cheerfully exclaim: "Someone had bad sex last night!"

My all-time favorite types of movie, though, are the completely corny ones - Indian films and Asian films!

Have you ever noticed how Bollywood movies ALWAYS include at least one love scene where the hero and heroine run dramatically towards each other across a flower field?
His shirt would be open, exposing his chest. The wind would blow his hair back. He would have that manly expression of manliness on his face. He would be standing on a mountaintop, and he would sing jarra jarra samoosa or something in a surprizingly unmanly voice in contrast to his appearance.
Her sari would be fluttering in the wind, managing to match traditional Indian wear yet showing a hell lot of skin for the sweet character she's playing. Her dark hair blows over her face, she flutters her eyelids and suddenly five hundred look-alikes pops up behind her and sings along to the chorus.
And you wonder, how do the two ironically, incidentally, somehow casually end up in the same flower field, and how can there be so many people popping up out of nowhere in the middle of nowhere? I don't care. I love it. It never grows old.

And then there's the asian films. Have you noticed that in almost every single kung fu movie, the line "yu kill fatha, i kill yu" is involved? Or even, funnily enough, "I am yu fatha" ...can someone say Star Wars?
I love the way the lines disagree with the vocal movements of their mouths, and the way they make sounds during swordfighting which mysteriously sounds more natural in bed.
The best, though, is the fact that they can fly stiff-legged in mid-air for five full minutes of the movie before they land the actual kick. Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is absolutely fantastic.