This sounds like a great time at the movies!

[BurtWorm]

Remember to wear shoes with non-slip soles. :popcorn:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/127-hours-causes-fainting_n_779118.html



'127 Hours' Causes Fainting, Vomiting, Seizures

'127 Hours' has gotten audiences fainting, vomiting and worse in numbers unseen since 'The Exorcist' - and the movie has not even hit theaters yet.

James Franco plays real-life rock climber Aron Ralston who made headlines when he resorted to self-amputation to free himself from a boulder that pinned his arm to a canyon wall for five days in 2003.

The scene has caused viewers numerous physical reactions, and Movieline.com has put together a time line. Here's what happened at just one screening:

Oct. 28 - London Film Festival
A report in The Sun claimed that "<h>orrified film fans threw up and fainted at the premiere of Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle's shocking new movie," which closed the London Film Festival last week. The bad news: As you might expect from The Sun, the specific number and nature of the cases was not determined. There is this, though: "Boyle looked on as paramedics treated fans struggling to cope with gruesome scenes." And the person sitting near Daily Mail reviewer Chris Tookey "left just after the most gruesome bit and never came back," apparently rebuking "the most harrowing bone-breaking and amputation scene in the history of cinema."

[CBGLuthier]

1. You can Not Buy Publicity Like That.

Keep repeating to yourself,

It's only a movie. It's only a movie.

[Duer 157099]

2. But it really happened

I remember seeing a documentary about him. That was bad enough, but a full length film? eww

[BurtWorm]

3. Keep repeating to yourself: I will not throw up... I will not throw up... I will not throw

:puke:

[jpak]

4. "Mark of the Devil" did that 40 years ago

except it sucked

[bikebloke]

5. Are they going to hand out barf bags?

Back in the 70's, some flick advertised that barf bags would be handed to customers in theaters because of the horrible nature of the film. Don't Look in the Basement or some Last House on the Left rendition. A friend who went to see it said it was like a kiddie matinee with people playing with the bags because the flick was so bad.