Man has bad acid trip at theater showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey

Scary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPmjIXMFZnA

Scary for him maybe. Fucking pissing everybody else off.

What is he saying?

he's saying "everybody" a lot

Oh it's some deep shit, man, too bad you can't understand him

well I had to keep the sound down, my wife is sleeping

I heard "everybody"

"Get rid of your drugs!"

He seems to have become convinced he's in great danger from the authorities, which I'm sure made him eve more fun to bodily lift and carry out of the theater.

I think I did hear "Don't tase me bro!"

He must have been making a scene for a couple of minutes before someone decided he was worth filming. Unfortunately, people on a lot of acid are difficult to knock unconscious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAHDf1ZHG18&feature=related

For the first couple of minutes I was thinking 'someone should punch him in the face'

And then someone did!

Also he sounds a bit like Penn Jillette.

Sounding like Penn Jillette is good reason to punch someone in the face even if he's not on acid.

S- do you solve every problem by punching it in the face?

when you've got a fist all ur problems look like faces

but I can't turn my face into a fist

As someone who has heard "PLEASE" in the exact same tone, from a loved person who is desperately interpreting a limited version of reality, I can't really join all of you in wishing a SOLID PUNCHING-OUT on this person.

"what is in this movie!? look. we are all human beings."

is life a comedy?
what were we doing? before we took drugs, what were we doing?

so he was playing it by ear, get fucked up on acid at the cineplex that's playing 2001 and see how it pans out?

if so i'm with the punch out ppl

What I meant to say was that this dickfuck should be lowered (slowly) into an acid bath while we all gather around and savor his screams. Maybe then we can enjoy our movie!

As someone who has heard "PLEASE" in the exact same tone, from a loved person who is desperately interpreting a limited version of reality, I can't really join all of you in wishing a SOLID PUNCHING-OUT on this person.

kinda with you on this. but then i wasn't sitting in a pricey theater watching one of my favorite movies of all time having to listen to this guy likely shouting intermittently through most of it. but, yeah, mostly still with you on it.

Good to see Rafa Benitez helping out around the 4:40 mark, maybe the critics will get off his back now

It's not the Cineplex, it's the Egyptian
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did u eventually come down adam

that was more annoying than anything to watch cuz I can just imagine how pissed I'd be that some idiot was ruining the night. and the poor movie theatre employee had to proceed with caution cuz they always tell those type of employees not to physically intervene, lest they risk losing their job. he did a good job tho.

Didn't Stern talk about taking acid and seeing 2001 in Private Parts? He freaked out too iirc!

crazy. i hope the theatre offered to show the film again (from the beginning), give refunds, or give passes to another screening.

Waiting for Morbs to weigh in on the virtues of seeing movies in altered states.

Also waiting to see how many ways he imagines vivisecting this guy in full view of hundreds.

I freaked out on acid at Total Recall (not my choice, mind), but had the good sense to silently walk outside and hug a tree (yes) in an adjacent vacant lot til the emotions subsided. Just lucky my friend (also dosing) was able to find me afterwards.

people being mean to people on acid is kind of mean.

I wonder where the guy is now. Not in jail I hope.

Going to the theatre on acid?! Who does this? Who has such easy access to acid that they'd waste it on banal shit like this, and not have the psychonautic chops to handle a full-blown public freakout?

I get the feeling this guy didn't understand the ramifications of the drug he took. Damn sorry waste of acid.

Jeez, fuck people for getting all uptight over this. What, none of them had ever seen 2001 before? It was the end of the movie anyway. And it's Hollywood. It's 2001. You're supposed to do shit like this at 2001. You can't turn Hollywood into a Disneyfied tourist trap forever. Eventually the real Hollywood will bubble back up through the surface and drive all of these assholes back to the midwest.

Vicery OTM, and I rather disagree with the premise that you are supposed to do shit like this at a screening of this or any other movie. I think the person trying to turn the theater into Disneyland is the idiot who said, "Duh, let's drop acid and go see 2001, that'll be totally bad-ass high-five good times."

the last two posts are basically the two extreme poles of a dialectic within which my feelings about this video circulate
xpost well the last two before kenan's

on the one hand: don't be that guy
but on the other hand: don't let that guy get to you

witnessed a similar-ish thing at a showing of the second lord of the rings film in liverpool where i was at uni at the time. drunken scally lad about 17 starts barking "queg!" (liverpool slang for gay guy) every so often during the film, 3 or 4 of the friends he's come with finding this highly amusing. people start groaning, murmuring and tutting but nobody actually says anything until he starts making this long farting noise like a trumpet and shouting something that sounded like "patties!" or "batties!" like "brrrrruuuppp... bat-TIEES!" so some quite posh middle aged guy sitting a few rows ahead of him turns around and says "excuse, we're trying to watch a film please, can you be QUIET?!" so the kid stands up and starts threatening him, "eh... don't talk to me like that yer fucken faggot, i'll a've yer off, ya little knob'ed!" etc, etc. this brings back the general groaning and exasperated murmuring in the crowd, only even louder. he looks around and shouts "come on den, yer not gonna do nothin, yer all little FAGGOTS." by this time two ushers are standing at the end of his aisle and are trying to get his attention, but he's ignoring them. he starts doing this little bez-dance and laughing while going on about how this is a shit film and we are all little faggots/quegs etc and how he doesn't give a shit. eventually two large security guys walk in and ask him to leave, he says "nah, mate... s'alright, gonna watch the film now, i'm hust sitting here chillin." looks lke there might be an altercation but him and his mates eventually walk out laughing and gooning around after one of the guards promises not to touch them or do anything if they just leave.

probably more entertaining than the snooze-fest film itself, imo.

Will Ferrel has basically made a career out of being this guy.

I like watching movies/TV on acid but comfort of own home obviously.

Ate a great big chunk of dope before going to see Naked Gun 2½ at the movies tho then laughed like a dick all thru.

seems better not to be punching people in general and especially not when they're obviously in a fragile mental state but just a gut feeling you know

I would not call it a good idea, but I would certainly be sympathetic with the impulse.

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Derrick1842
20 hours ago 25

Deal gently? You have no idea how bad it was. You can't tell from the video what was happening. I was a row behind. The guy manhandled a kid and hit people. I doubt this was acid- more like meth. The police tazed him 5x outside & he was still going. Dude who punched him did it to stop him from strangling a man- & it worked. I'm appalled by how many cowards and enablers there were in the theatre, laughing while this jerk tried to hurt others. I'm glad SOME people had guts & stopped him.
Derrick1842 20 hours ago 25
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zbilson
1 day ago 15

@9999alphaomega The theater's employees were on the floor trying to get the guy out of there like everyone else. There are no security guards at relatively small theaters like this one, but the cops were called as soon as he started screaming. The Egyptian theater actually handled the situation very well, pausing the movie, getting him out of there, and then rewinding the reel to the part before he started screaming.
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Dammit can't find a Youtube of that scene in Airplane! where they queue up to slap the hysterical woman.

oh yeah obviously plenty of things about people trigger the punch impulse don't need to provide a list

Having seen the video, Derrick1482 sounds full of shit.

if he was actually strangling somebody, then i think a punch to stop him was reasonable. and i can't imagine someone punching him just because they really, really like sci-fi movies.

I can.

Tho I'd probably be more likely to let the cops do the dirty work for me.

was gonna say "dude doesn't know any SF fans"

I wonder what Notting Hill is like on acid.

The only time I've seen Ghost I was tripping. Great movie.

Wk's post is insane. I don't care who wants to do acid but um if I pay good money to see a classic movie in a theatrical setting I don't enjoy watching someone act like a banshee. Not to mention concern for his personal safety and others.

ilx on collective mature attitude to acid non-shocker

best post was the will ferrell one

A+++ THREAD WOULD POST IN AGAIN

wk otm

Wk's post is insane. I don't care who wants to do acid but um if I pay good money to see a classic movie in a theatrical setting I don't enjoy watching someone act like a banshee. Not to mention concern for his personal safety and others.

Concern for his personal safety is one thing. Whining about missing the ending of a 42 year old movie that gets shown at least annually in L.A. at these types of revival screenings is silly bullshit.

Complaining about acid freakouts @ 2001 is equivalent to asking for spoiler alerts in a discussion of Citizen Kane. Besides, 2001 should be seen at the Cinerama dome, not the Egyptian.

But people who say "hey, let's drop acid and do x or y" are pretty dumb and are asking for trouble. I have never wanted to take any drug and go into a movie theatre, they're just that oppressive. The only level of intoxication I can manage before a movie is a couple of pints. Enough to get an anxiety- and claustrophobia-reducing buzz with no weird mental fx.

Never mind the fact that this dude likely has some underlying mental health issues to be addressed.

xxp and they didn't even miss the ending! they just wound it back to when they guy started freaking out and restarted it -- so technically they got to see some quantity of the movie >1.0 (altho I guess maybe some people were late to their post-movie engagements...?)

all that being said, my degree of sympathy for dude would vary greatly depending on whether this outing was 'pre-planned' or like, just hangin' with my bros, droppin' some acid, some dude goes "oh shit check it out, 2001's playing!", etc

Never mind the fact that this dude likely has some underlying mental health issues to be addressed.

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Wk-you almost seem to be suggesting that the fault lie with people who didn't drop acid. Besides, what the fuck is the point of going to a movie if yer attitude is "eh this movie is 42 years old, I don't care if a bunch of people rape giraffes in front of the screen during it". You see no value in a public screening of the movie...they did. Ergo, the problem does not lie with them. Ffs I'd be equally annoyed if he just shouted through the movie even if he wasn't on acid.

all that being said, my degree of sympathy for dude would vary greatly depending on whether this outing was 'pre-planned' or like, just hangin' with my bros, droppin' some acid, some dude goes "oh shit check it out, 2001's playing!", etc

heh. I think it's HIGHLY unlikely that they were already on acid and then decided to check out local movie times because they were getting a little bored. "We should go to the movies." "We're never going to get out of this room alive, man! Is life a comedy? Are we in hell? Everything is so red in here."

Of course it was pre-planned.

IDK I did 2ci once and we moseyed over to a friend' house, who drove us all to a midnight showing of "Night of the Living Dead." SO these things happen, and I can tell you, I handled it like a champ in spite of thinking the stranger next to me was a man I made up in my own mind.

so we can all agree it was an error in judgment poor guy

It was an error in judgment either way.

Wk-you almost seem to be suggesting that the fault lie with people who didn't drop acid.

In general, I think that's a good assumption to make in any circumstance.

Besides, what the fuck is the point of going to a movie if yer attitude is "eh this movie is 42 years old, I don't care if a bunch of people rape giraffes in front of the screen during it".

Hey now, I draw the line at giraffe rape. The movie has to be over 50 years old for that shit to slide.

You see no value in a public screening of the movie...they did. Ergo, the problem does not lie with them. Ffs I'd be equally annoyed if he just shouted through the movie even if he wasn't on acid.

This wasn't some kids talking through Avatar or something. It was a guy having a serious issue beyond his control. During a movie that was, on its initial release, an event known for people going to see it while tripping. If I had been there I would be telling my friends "some guy freaked out at 2001, it was crazy," not "OMG, some jerk was yelling during the movie and I couldn't hear what HAL was saying and they had to replay the last reel and we missed our dinner reservation."

It was a guy having a serious issue beyond his control.

I think I know how he could've controlled it.

xp You seem pretty down on people who have dinner reservations.

wkotm

dinner reservations = bourgeois
making an ass of yourself on drugs = stick it to The Man

But then, I'm just cranky about Hollywood in general. Acid casualties screaming in public places used to be the norm, and there would only be ten people at a 70mm screening of 2001. Now it's all a boring shopping mall for yuppies and tourists.

re: dinner reservations: so leave the damn theater and ask for your money back.

Xxpost yea I think this dude was def a victim of the gov't's mandatory acid policy

I mean FFS make it sound like dude was having a heart attack and not suffering the effects of a drug he willfully ingested.

He's a representative of what Hollywood is really all about, and he's kind of a hero, and we need more like him, because people like him are what are going to frighten all the stuffed shirts out of town and return Hollywood to the way it should be, run down, foul-smelling, and with used needles on the sidewalks every few steps.

I have seen 2001 tripping, I did not freak out. Like 2/3 of the audience was tripping and people were huffing nitrous in the theater. It was a midnight showing though, so I doubt anyone had dinner reservations afterward. People could barely figure out how to leave the theater when the movie was over: "HAL, open the airlock!"

is San Te roger adultery

yes

I realize I'm probably totally in the wrong here. I'm just having trouble understanding the point of view of people who A: haven't already seen 2001 800 times and B: have never freaked out and started yelling in public.

Um no I'm not Roger Adultery, I'm Bo Jackson Overdrive

And yes, you're right, I have caused a commotion and yelled in public and required restraint...when I was 7 years old.

Man I haven't dropped acid in a while...I wouldn't watch 2001 on it, it's so boring. I'd rather watch Mary Poppins or something.

I'd watch Tales of Hoffman.

2001 is not boring, but very unsettling. I don't see why you'd want to subject your psyche to that in such a fragile state.

My ex went to see Melt Banana while on acid, last year.

Come to think of it he saw Autehcre on acid as well. Dunno how he manages it.

Can You Take The Acid+2001 Test?

I agree with the person who hollers (paraphrased) Why don't you just pick the fucker up and put him outside?? Maybe he did punch people and get Tasered without effect, I don't know. It's a bad idea to drop acid and go see 2001, but I still feel sympathetic toward this guy as I would for anyone else who clearly out of control, even if he brought it upon himself.

My first acid trip was when friends and I went to a (cringe) Pink Floyd laser show at a planetarium. It was boring and I had much more fun watching my cigarette burn down on the car ride home. Oh, and trying to purchase a Dr Pepper at the gas station was unforgettable.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4985118516_e2bdd6b1a6_o.jpg

:D

For me acid always rendered any film or tv incomprehensible and/or frightening, I don't get the appeal

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I think Three's Company might be interesting on acid.

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By heads, for heads.

watched The Holy Mountain on acid w/my friend and enjoyed the hell out of it

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Babyhead Sun

xpost to self: but really no acid needed to render that film "incomprehensible and frightening"

http://vimeo.com/8736202

i can't imagine how annoying this would have been to witness while enjoying one of my favourite movies but you guys are kinda making me side with the annoying acid guy tbh

The key is to see it in a city where a 70mm presentation of the movie would play to an almost empty house. As was my experience.

that is your tip for avoiding acid freakouts at theaters?

best thing to do on acid is go to the park/woods/go hiking and anyone who disagrees is a goddamn fool.

Now just think about how FUCKING TRIPPY it must've been to be on acid and watch the final chapter of 2001 REWIND back to its BEGINNING.

The only movie I've ever seen while tripping was this one, and man, let me tell you, i haven't quite ever recovered.

IDK I did 2ci once and we moseyed over to a friend' house, who drove us all to a midnight showing of "Night of the Living Dead." SO these things happen, and I can tell you, I handled it like a champ in spite of thinking the stranger next to me was a man I made up in my own mind.

This. Once I was on the upper floor of some friends' house and there was a guy in the apartment foyer/lobby across the street, staring at me through the glass door and wearing a fucking paper bag on his head. I knew for a fact he was only trying to mess with us because we were tripping. He never gave up the act though.

Next day I go over there on my way home, and the man turns out to be a yellow legal sheet of paper taped to the door, warning residents not to prop the door open or some shit.

"We should go to the movies." "We're never going to get out of this room alive, man! Is life a comedy? Are we in hell? Everything is so red in here."

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there are like ten videos of this on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TgDCbXv_UY&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxViLpD7MGE&feature=related

Only movies I've seen on acid are The Matrix (no real memories) and Say Anything (scenes would play forward - and then backward, a couple of minutes at a time, then in my mind it would move to the next scene and do the same thing again)/

Both in private, because I was always too scared to do hallucinogens in public. If I'm getting fucked up, it's with friends at someone's apt/house.

LOL, guy's voice at 3:50 of max's first video sounds like Robert Osborne. TCM presents the history of dropping acid while watching 2001.

EVERYBODY

I'm now remembering that aforementioned ex also said he wanted to watch fucking fear and loathing in las vegas on acid. I mean WTF.

the moral of the story is that cellphones need infrared cameras

and i can't imagine someone punching him just because they really, really like sci-fi movies.

hahaha

all these cameraphone guys better not have been trying to bootleg 2001

I can tell you, I handled it like a champ in spite of thinking the stranger next to me was a man I made up in my own mind.

The Hitchhiker's Guide explains this: "It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds. So if every planet in the universe has a population of zero, then the entire population of the universe must also be zero, and any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."

Just like how I can handle ILX like a champ in spite of your posts.

rawr!

Shouldn't that be "Meeow!"

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