Warning: I watched 'The Room' at a midnight showing in Austin and it broke my brain

I was at the Alamo Drafthouse last month for their weekly bad movie night. They played 'The Room' and the whole crowd was yelling lines and throwing plastic spoons at the screen. I went in thinking it was just a dumb movie, but seeing it with 200 people all in on the joke changed everything. Now I can't watch a bad movie alone, I need that group energy. Anyone have a favorite theater that does stuff like this?

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abbychen1mo ago

Wait, they throw spoons? What's the deal with that?

the_thomas1mo ago

Yeah, the spoon throwing thing is a real shock at first. In my case, it was a weird tradition at this summer camp I worked at. The deal was, if you left your dirty spoon at the lunch table, someone would chuck it at you later. It sounds silly, but honestly, it worked. You only forget your spoon once. It made everyone clean up after themselves real quick. Your mileage may vary, but that was the logic behind it.

sanchez.blake15h ago

The spoon thing is just one example of how random traditions pop up to make boring things fun again. It reminds me of how people in my office started doing this thing where if you microwave fish in the break room, you have to buy donuts for everyone the next day. Nobody wrote it down anywhere but everyone just knows the rule now. That's kind of what the spoon throwing is about, it turns a basic movie into a shared experience with its own weird rules. Humans just naturally find ways to make things more interesting when left to their own devices.