Let me start out by saying I totally did this shit like 5 or 6 years ago. I had to watch Lone Wolf McQuade 3 times (2x to make the cards and once at the actual viewing), but it was all worth it. Laughs ensued and we got to watch Chuck Norris form an unlikely bond with a street kid while kicking the shit out some loathsome drug king pin, all while wearing a sweet Canadian tuxedo. This was fairly manageable event with about 10 people and easy to clarify when questions occurred as to whether or not something really qualified as a roundhouse kick
The Hollywood theater’s B-Movie bingo is exactly how it sounds. You watch an utterly awesome early 90’s and 80’s action movie filled with clichés that occur throughout and you mark your square if you have that cliché on your card. Trust me, there are a lot of awesome action movie clichés out there. The most standard involve violence, roundhouse kicks, getting thrown threw an unseemly delicate brick structure, decapitations, grenades, massive gun fire, explosions, etc. There are also more subtle(or not so subtle) character interactions like, gettin’ chewed out by the chief, partner bonding moment, love scene, etc.
Last night venture, 1993’s Hard Target starring JCVD introduced me to a whole new slew of action clichés I has missed in my own imaging of the game. Some ones I enjoyed included inside information from a bum or prostitute, falling over railing, and cleaning or licking off blade. Hard Target which I now believe to be the inspiration for Hostel, is about rich assholes that hunt down like Navy Seals and Special Opps guys(now homeless and desperate for cash) in the urban jungle known as New Orleans. JCVD plays the hero with pretty much the sweetest mullet I have ever seen in my entire life and Wilfred Brimley (yes, the Di-a-beetis guy) plays his Cajun uncle with a fondness for moonshine and arrows. Lance Henriksen plays the bad guy who you know is bad because he stares at himself intensely in the mirror while playing Bach. There are helicopters, rattlesnakes and Mardi Gras floats. It’s the shit.
I was wondering how the experience would play out in a large theater with a large crowd with such a high potential for possible Bingo’s and the ever nagging issue of whether or not the action in the movie fits the description on the card. 3 guys in the style of MST3k are regulating the whole time, helping you out when something happens to alert you that it is time to check your card. They are also there to pass judgment when you yell out if you think something happened but they did not call it. I had to do this once when the partner had obviously been injured in shoot out and the guys failed to mention it.
However this forum also allows all those people that you hated in class because they loved the sound of their own voices so much to speak up and also add their own commentary. I was fortunate enough to sit next to one of those asses, lucky me. The first three bingo’s they stop the movie and those people get a kinda nice gag gift. After that, you don’t yell out bingo but simply go up and receive a bag of grandma themed candy. I was the “lucky” recipient of a sandwich baggie filled with caramels, taffy and a bunch of other shit that is going to rip out my fillings and caps. But hey, they are trying.
Overall, this was right up my alley and I would totally go again. I think it happens every Tuesday, or maybe just the first Tuesday of the month. Either way, czek it out. Hollywood Theater, $7, $4 for a beer which you should totally have to enjoy this to the fullest extent.
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