On Saturday night I went to see “Twilight Zone: The Movie” at IFC Film Center’s midnight series (35mm print!), with RogerEbert.com contributor Simon Abrams.
At the start of the second episode, Steven Spielberg’s segment, a guy came into the theater, sat in the front row,
and began laughing hysterically—really and truly giggling like a madman; I’ve never heard anyone in real life make noises like this man was making—at everything. Everything. Sometimes he laughed when nothing of any significance was happening. Also pointing at the screen. Clearly on some kind of powerful drug. Having the time of his life, listening to his synapses pop like Chinese firecrackers, I guess.
As Simon
later observed, everyone in the theater was too jaded or intimidated to
approach the guy at first…but then
somebody in the second row leaned over and told him to put a sock in it.
The guy laughed hysterically at that, too.
The guy went out. He came
back in. An usher followed. This was a burly guy with long black hair
and a mustache. He told the guy to come with him. The guy refused.
The
usher left.
About two minutes later he came back in and repeated, “Come
with me, you can’t be in here anymore.”
The guy laughed hysterically and
waved his arms.
The usher grabbed him by the wrists and gently but
relentlessly pulled the guy out of his seat and dragged him out of the
theater. BY HIS WRISTS.
The guy cackled the entire time. “Ah HAH HAH
HAHHHHHH!!!!” We could hear his laughter fade as the usher dragged him
into the lobby.
Then everyone in the theater had a good shared laugh of
relief and enjoyed the rest of the film.
Afterward I saw the usher standing outside of the theater. I said,
“You, sir, are a bad motherf—-r. I’ve never seen anything like that.
You should open up a school to train other people how to do that.”
He
thanked me, rather sheepishly. As Simon and I headed toward the subway, he called after
us, “I’m sorry it took me so
long.”
The entire episode lasted five or six minutes from start to
finish.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is customer service as it should be.
Source:: http://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/ya-wanna-see-something-really-scary
