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Move Over Karaoke...Hello Movieoke
cb8100 writes "Fox News is reporting about a new bar game called "Movieoke" in which participants act out scenes from their favorite movies -- karaoke style." Totally not a surprising development, but I imagine this can be quite fun. Or quite terrible depending on who's "Playing".
Apparently it's a smashing success among morbidly obese teens.
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Does it really deserve its own name? I mean people have been doing this for ages. They think of a scene and just act it out. Its great fun, but movioke is going a little to far...
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Well, it all depends on the scene, now doesn't it? This, for instance, might be an interesting choice . . .
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Another way for drunk people to embarrass themselves.
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have been doing this for years. We've come up with many creative names for it so the kids don't know what were talking about. I guess we can add movieokie to the list
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
I played movieoke once.
All was well until my friends got too drunk and suggested we perform a scene from "Debbie Does Dallas".
I have since decided it's not the game for me.
Reminds me of this obligatory Homer Quote:
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Seems like this would be a natural in some clubs in the big cities, at least in the days of Plato's. Or is this too scary to contemplate?
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At the risk of being modded Redundant because someone else happens to be typing this at the exact same time that I am, we used to do something like this every weekend at the local showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Fun!
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Wonder how much this film would be done . . .
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What if people start movieokeing there favorite porn movies? What if it is some from slashdot? What is the sound of a bar-room puking?
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heh....lots of things are "funny" and "enjoyable" when hammered. This is another one of them.
less offensive than people not being able to sing. At least here, only one aural facet would be present, bad verbal acting. The rest can be easily ignored. With singing, there are so many facets that assault the ears, from not being able to carry a tune, to false notes, to bad rhythm, to... I know there's more...
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
A couple of years ago I went to Disney's California Adventure with my fiancee. They had this sort of animation adventure house. At one area there was a setup where you could pick a scene from a disney movie and speak the lines as they came up on the screen. It would record your voice and play it back with the recordings synced up to the animation. Pretty fun actually. Mufasa, mufasa, mufasa!
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Has anyone ever has the misfortune of seeing Rocky Horror Picture Show at a theater? It's this cult thing where people act out the movie. It's horrible. Hopefully this is better than that.
So it's like role-playing but without [most of] the creativity?
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Rocky Horror fans have been doing this for 20 years or more.
Nothing new here.
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Early returns indicate top rentals are "Debbie Does Dallas" and "Deep Throat". What, you thought people'd pay money to pretend to be in Star Trek 3?
This is nothing new. But do Movieoke'er bring props?
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They could try this: http://www.pornaoke.com/
I think the TV show M*A*S*H was the first to do it. They had two episodes in which Movieoke was performed while the camp showed a movie. In one scene, Hawkeye and (I think) Trapper John stood in front of the screen, and acted out a Humphrey Bogart scene. In another, everyone in the camp theater participated in the shoot-out at the OK Corral.
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If all we're looking for is embarassing things to do while drunk, why don't I just piss my pants.
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The next thing you know is that Fox will be making movie-theme version for American Idol series with people trying to be actors. I wonder who would be a good judge like Simon Cowell. :P
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What's more fun is making up your own lines. I saw a chick do this at a party once... total improv.. very early in the a.m. some old tv show on and she was hilarious.. doin all the lines.. mind you, we were.. umm.. very stoned.. but that was years ago... ;-)
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There was something like it on TV in the 1980s.
Videoke: 3 minutes in the spotlight while no music plays, so everybody must sit quietly while you and your loser drinking buddy attempt to play Mr. Pink and Mr. White from Resevior Dogs. If you act badly, it's beyond tedious. If you act well, nobody cares.
I think it's obvious which will still be around in 2 years.
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Will my participation in this movieoke in anyway harm the income of all the countless hands of people involved in the production of a movie? Jack Valenti teaches me to consider these things. He is old and wise beyond all mortal beings. And he'll probably sue my ass for acting out my dream scene from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
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>> At the risk of being modded Redundant because someone else happens to be typing this at the exact same time that I am, we used to do something like this every weekend at the local showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
:)
That's exactly what I thought when I saw the article. RHPS was pretty wild for people not expecting flying toast
Seems to be pretty popular around here for people to try and reinact the most popular scene from the matrix; The one where Neo falls backwards dodging the incoming fire from the agent. It's not too complicated, and can be realitively easy to re-inact given you have the balance nessicary (but of course, you can't keep from hitting the ground as long as he did.. that was movie-magic->time-dilation(); )
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...It was called "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
With that said, please cue up "Wrath of Khan" to the scene where Kirk was on the radio with Ricardo Montebahn...
"KHAN!!!!!!"
Oy. I need to find something more productive to do with my afternoons...
Who did what now?
The Holy Grail version. Has suddenly been sold out, this of course corresponding with the Slashdot coverage of the news story.
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what does this have to do with SCO?
Anyone care to guess what the Movieoke equivalent to "Hotel California"? By that, I mean, a morbidly popular movie scene which is actually a little boring and longwinded even if it's done well.
My guess: Some horrible Robin Williams improvisation, perhaps from "Good Morning Vietnam"
Involves films by Charlie Chaplin.
why are people from all over the world contacting the so-called inventor?
all you need is a large screen, a dvd player, a mic and speakers, since movies on DVD come with subtitles most of the time.
unless his system has some sort of highlighting function to signal to the "actors" when each word is spoken, like those karaoke systems?
If you google this (too tired to suggest any terms) you'll find it. I recall reading articles about this at the end of last summer. Nothing new.
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Considering the fact that I'm boycotting the RIAA and the MPAA. Haven't seen LoTR yet...just read the book. Don't own a CD/DVD player or TV. Watch a few broadcast channels on my PC (TV Tuner card). Haven't bought CDs/DVDs for about a year now (and download only legally free stuff).
I'm pretty sure that the bar has to pay to obtain permission to play the movie/videos on the screen. Ofcourse, if we vote with our wallet, and don't encourage anything RIAA/MPAA related, they will just fade away.
Not trolling...every fact in the first paragraph is true...I enjoy the Internet/books much better than other media anyway.
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I enjoyed reading the link in the story about StareMaster much more, instead.
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"Wow, movieoke! Now I can impress her with my knowledge of Monty Python and Star Wars..."
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I think the humor might have been to subtle for some, but I loved it...
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This is the worst idea since "Aurthur 6: Revenge of the Liver"
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It's called movieoke-Okie-gnocchi-karaoke.
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Haven't they heard of The Rocky Horror Picture Show? The outcasts of society have been doing to movies for years, but now it's the "in thing" and the geeks (freaks?) who started won't get the credit.
I guess nothing changes.
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For something to catch on it needs an identifiable label, and slapping 'Movie-oke' on it will inform Mr. and Ms. Ignorant Masses that there's a new trend in fun and lively entertainment to follow. Just remember to wear a mack if someone's doing John Belushi from Animal House.
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Wayne's World has that great scene where Wayne, trying out the vintage Fender Stratocaster is stopped abruptly by the clerk, who points to the "No Stairway to Heaven" sign.
"What?! No Stairway?!? Denied!"
The idea is this song is so vastly performed by everyone trying their hand on a new axe, it's become redundant and painful for the guitar shop employees.
I can already see a "No Jerry McGuire" sign in countless movieoke bars.
"But you had me at hello!"
So Movieokie might be called "MTV" which is actually affliated with music instead of movies. Ahh, the irony.
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Yes the original Movieoke!
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I've got visions of that Conan O' Brian, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog short on the people standing outside Episode II, dressed up in Obi Wan garb, acting out the scene where they swim in Episode I. It was pathetic. I can't wait to see self-respecting people doing this.
It's probably a little tough to get your lips to sync with the soundtrack just right. I guess it'd be best to pick movies that were originally in a different language. :) Karate movies, here we come!
Past experience suggests if there is a market for movieoke actors to help, it will arrive. The virtualization part only needs R&D and time.
No longer is it just enough to talk louder or put your fingers in your ears at your corner bar, you'll have to cover your eyes too. I'm gonna need a straw for my beer.
I know I girl I wouldnt mind acting out a scene with....;=)
What is sad is that I can see myself in a crowd of friends doing a backward shuffle while Stealers Wheels "Stuck in the Middle With You" is playing
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While setting up and testing the inl=laws new DVD and surround sound system I had to do a sort of movieoke myself. I was testing it out with the Braveheart DVD and while I was behind the entertainment unit trying to figure out the mess of wires occasionaly there would be no sound (note to wanna be technicians like me: read the manual in full, plug everything in properly, then turn it all on ... do as I say, not as I do). So having seen the movie 10+ times I kicked in with what was happening, what was being said and perhaps some of the soundtrack until the sound came back on. Now if only I could get that Scottish accent right.
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the reenactment of Star Wars Episode 1 that I remember seeing. If you have watched Triumph the insult comic dog when he made fun of everyone waiting in line for the opening of Episode 2 then you know what I am talking about. They were trying to act as though they were swimming. I appreciate a few well acted lines and I can do some pretty goofy things, but that was sad to watch.
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Would be the last couple minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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I think they should call it "karaseiyu". Kara means empty and oke means orchestra.
Empty actor, I believe, would be karaseiyu.
Movieoke is cute, though.
I don't know japanese though, any corrections?
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Hey, if you think about it, Video Kareoke is "unofficially" done all the time.
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movieoke sounds really lame.
...then it might have some relation to karoake, which means off key.
Is there a word for "bad acting?"
Get a pile of geeks together and you have Spock, Kirk, any of the Pythons, and so on. You don't even have to go anywhere, as you find it all over the internet in blogs, USENET, personal web pages, and so on.
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There is a much more creative variant of this game. Just set the basic scenery (like 'this is a railway station') and pick a character (like a police man). People from the audience are welcome to join at any time as any character and interact with other characters on the stage.
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The line "Mind if I smoke while you eat?" was a classic!
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We played this back when I was elementary school. So their doing it in bars now? What is there to say? It's cool? Nope - an adult would have to be drunk to do it. It's fun? Dancing on tables and shaking your fist at trees is fun when your drunk too. Just another filler story, move along...
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As if the long haired guy in the tight tapered stone-washed jeans and the long hair with the polaris or fox racing hat on and the huge old school 80's style reebok's belting out Creed tunes at the top of his lungs wasn't enough to make me drink at the bar, now I have to watch a bunch of drunk a$$holes act out the infamous scene from taxi driver over and over, and a bunch of 23-30 year olds acting out scenes from pulp fiction and reservoir dogs over and over and over.
Yeah, its called "Rocky Horror Picture Show" Been there, done that. But it would be cool to expand on it. Aliens would be a fun movie to do and most people seem to already know all the lines.
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Now, I'm not a native Spanish speaker, but I did pretty well in the subject in school. From what I remember, cajones means "drawers," like the things that go into a chest of drawers.
I think the reporter should have checked a dictionary and determined that the source was actually saying/attempting to say cojones, which, as we all know courtesy of Madeline Albright, means "balls" (i.e. testicles).
Either that, or Fox's "fair and balanced" editorial style determined that drawers weren't getting adequate coverage in the media. Talk about affirmative action!
it's called AiY +/-OAa (jaeng ban keuk jang) or "metal cooking pot lid theater". celebrities grouped into two teams have to act out famous scenes from korean movies or tv series. if a team messes up at any point (script or action) a metal cooking pot lid (large but light) is dropped onto each team members head and the other team gets to try. one of the funny aspects of the acting is that it never recreates the scene exactly - they put a comic (and sanitized) spin to it every time. for example, in typical korean-protestant style, romance scenes involving kissing are reenacted using a balloon or a smiley face on a plate. there's also a karoake version called AiY eae (jaeng ban norae bang) or "metal cooking pot lid karaoke". yeah, same idea except you only have one team and limited number of tries. and in typical korean teamwork style if one person messes everyone gets the jaeng ban! such a fun show...
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Karaoke (ka-ra-oh-keh, not kah-ri-oh-ki btw) means 'empty orchestra', with the kara being the same one you'll find in Karate (empty hand) and oke being an example of the Japanese habit of borrowing a word, mangling it via katakana and then slicing the end off; the word in question being, of course, the English word 'orchestra'.
So movieoki is a horrible example of international misunderstanding and the current alliterate trends of concatenating, misspelling and generally being a total twit with words. May the perpetrators (mostly marketing buffoons) wither and rot like the malodorous proto-monkeys that they truly are.
I can see it now, Star Wars Cantinas opening up around the nation. Geeks from all over the land will venture to these Cantinas and try to impress the females (who are also geeks) with their knowledge of the Star Wars script. I guess I can't talk - I would probably be one of the geeks in the Cantina.
Karaoke can be great fun. There's a rule (or "theme") - good songs don't necessarily make good karaoke. "Come on Ilene," Dancing Queen" and Bon Jovi are examples of songs that are good to karaoke to - the people in the bar get into it. Songs that require great pipes are awful for 95% of the population to sing.
Same goes for movie scenes. I can see acting out scenes from Swingers ("You're so money!"), Star Wars (Luke/Vader father revealing) and Jerry Maguire ("Show me the money!" - overdone but still fun) can be fun. But certain scenes are classic, but just AWFUL when people muck them up:
(Al Pacino in Scarface): "Seh elloh to mah leetle friend!"
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So have fun, but leave the classics to the pros, or the very few that can do them justice...
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Now we can see Gigli performed even worse .....or maybe better ......hmmmmmmmm
Something to the effect of:
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Anyway, RHPS was the first thing I thought of, thanks for stealing my +5.
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... as unlike singing & other musical performances, acting requires no skill or talent.
as a musician, i will be very glad to see kareoke go by the wayside.
Thank you slashdot for keeping me current with the absolute latest in trends.
Like so many people, I rely on the mighty Slashdot to stay current and wearing the coolest clothes, reading the coolest books, and now doing Movieoke to stay ahead of the all-important trend-waves that hit my area. I'm even considering subscribing so that I can get the scoop on what's cool before even the general crowd that frequents this site!
Thank you Slashdot for keeping me current with the latest, breaking trends. Without you, I would be, in a terribly uncool fashion I might add, persisting with Karaoke (god forbid!)...
That is, if my local, bland, conservative newspaper hadn't reported on Movieoke, oh, about three weeks ago!
I pity those sad fools only just looking for their local Movieoke bar while the hippest have moved on to the very latest thing -- Pornoke.
Stay tuned on Slashdot for more on Pornoke (in three weeks, of course) and jump on that bandwagon by the time the action has moved on elsewhere.
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When I went to the Rocky Horror in 1986, they had Movieoke, and I ended up going out with one of the performers. That in Harvard Square, before they stopped allowing people to throw things.
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don't know which was out first but the movie "whats up tiger lilly" is a similar concept. woody allen dubbed over a foreign film with a whole new story line about a spys quest to steal the recepie for the best egg salad in the world. pretty funny stuff.
"Bookiokie" has been know to pop-up in the occasional library (after hours, of course).
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that happens to me all the time i drink. now i can do it more publicly i guess.
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"Movieoke" is a linguistic monstrosity. Can we please call it something like "karaeiga" instead?
karaoke = kara (empty) + okesutra (orchestra, from English)
karaeiga = kara + eiga (movie)
Seems like an appropriate name, as I'd imagine such a performance would tend to empty a theater quickly. But then again, people seem to enjoy karaoke against all reason, so maybe not.
"It gets even more fun the more beer you have," he said. Now all we need is for some drunk kid to put someone's eye out while re-enacting a scene from X-Men 2 while completely sloshed...
Interewsting concept. I could get the GF to act out Deep Throat or another porn flic.... Imagine the porn moviokie parties.
How completely retarded!
And to bring this full circle...my usual song on karaoke nights is "Sweet Transvestite".
It's like a Mobius strip of shame.
Hell thats nothing. Just look at what the Germans have been up to
Apparently a porn version of this is popular in some German nightclubs. Basically they play a scene from a porn movie with no sound and the participants on the stage have to provide the sound effects. The person who does the best sound effects wins ("best" being judged by audience reaction I guess?).
I think this would be great fun at parties - if this doesn't break the ice, nothing will (although a certain degree of inebriation might be required before getting things started).
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Didn't they do this too?
And some of the cast of "Who's Line Is It Anyways?"
They had a sketch/skit with that in it as well.
Its nothing new.
>Movieoke's 24-year-old creator, Anastasia Fite
Uhm, creator? Maybe nothing has been marketed as such before, but its been out and about for years!
So much prior art you'd think this Anastasia worked for SCO!
lets see here:
KARAOKE
from 'KARA' [japanese] = empty
and 'OKE' [short version of an english word adopted into japanese] = orchestra
...resulting in 'empty orchestra'.
goofy, but makes sense.
and now transform that mess into MOVIEOKE???
WTF:
'MOVIE' [english] = movie
and 'OKE' [japlish] = orchestra
...resulting in 'movie orchestra'...? WHAT?
it appears as if the people who came up with this are as dumb as the idea itself...
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. . . did the karaoke scene from "I Still Know What you did Last Summer"?
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I want something like this, only where you make MST3k'esque comments.
"Derp de derp."
Yeah, I'm sure it won't go over too well when you say the line:
"Did you see a sign on my front lawn that said 'Dead Nigger Storage'?"
Howabout a dvd player with a wireless microphone that you can use to speak into and make rude comments about the movie you're watching?
Since the "oke" in "karaoke" is an abbreviation of the Japanese word for "orchestra", shouldn't this thing be called "karaeiga"?
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I'm going out on a limb and predicting that the famous scene from "When Harry Met Sally" is going to be the most popular.
you know in Japanes, karaoke means something like empty (kara-) orchestra (-oke). Japanese for movie is eiga, so I guess if we were to follow the Japanese roots for naming this new form of entertainment, would be kara-eiga. I bags being Col. Jessop first!
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So, for all you folks talking about Pron versions of this, it does actually exist, and it does actually pull in a crowd. Its not quite what you might imagine though... although its strong enough to get the Bar get a slap on the wrist.
Here's a write up and some footage of the original Chicken John's Porneoke.
Not sure I should advertise my favourite bar in the mission, but what the heck. It doesnt happen very often here, so dont come crawling round on Friday nights expecting to see it.
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If you're a Rocky Horror, Wayne's World, or Princess Bride fan, you've probably done this many many times.
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I liked movieokie better the first time when it was called charades.
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Well, at least now we're getting some variety. You can only go to the Rocky Horror show so many times.
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Let's start with William Hurt and Kathleen Turner in "Body Heat" - then we'll move on to Kari Wuhrer in (pick a movie) later.
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Check out the review here http://www.gamingnexus.com/Review.asp?ID=464 Doesn't seem too bad. Similar version on Shrek DVD and Goldmember DVD.
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AFAIK, "kara" is "empty" and "oke" is "orchestra". So, "movieoke" makes absolutely no sense, unless you're speaking of movie soundtracks. DISCLAIMER: I'm not Japanese and I can't speak the language.
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So will new versions of DVDs feature special sections where fans act out the sections? The Rocky Horror Picture Show DVD has footage of a following of people acting out sections of the movie in front of the movie screen. If you turn the feature on, at certain points an icon appears on screen - hit 'OK' on the DVD remote, and a section of said footage crops up, then afterwards returns you to the movie.
I know I'm late with this comment, so it'll probably be glossed over. This concept is not new though! The movie mentioned in the subject (obligatory imdb link : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117350/ ) already has this. It's a very crappy movie, not funny in most places, but they do have movieoke in there, with a hilarious performance by a Christopher Walken imitator doing a scene from, well, any of his movies I think (probably in the scenes during the credits, so feel free to skip to the end credits if the movie kills you). The movieoke shows up in a movie theme bar, where you also have people as movie characters (like the person minding the desserts 'priscilla, queen of the desserts')...
Totally not a surprising development, but I imagine this can be quite fun. Or quite terrible depending on who's "Playing".
Just like karaoke then...
If you live in Melbourne Australia, come to the opening night of
Glitch Cinema this Saturday the 6th of March.
Movieoke will also be a regular event on Thursdays from 15th April.
MOVIEOKE
Ever get the urge to act out your favorite movie scene? Well now is your chance to grab that 15 minutes of cinematic fame. With a little bit of subtitled help you can try anything from Taxi Driver's "You talkin' to me?" to Love Story's "Love is never having to say your sorry", all with the option of recording your performance for entry into the annual Glitchy Movieoke awards.
8.30 THURSDAYS FROM 15 APRIL
smile, it makes everyone else wonder what you're up to
Greg Bear predicted this one; the words "karaoke sitcom" appear in "Moving Mars." It's a bit of a throwaway comment really, there's so much inventive stuff in that book he didn't waste much time exploring that particular idea.
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I'm reminded of Triumph the insult dog's bit where he interviewed "Star Wars Nerds" in line for the premiere of Episode II and he shows some dork who looks somewhat like liam neeson and dressed as qui gon jin renact a scene from Ep.1. Wow was I embarassed for that guy.
I've embarassed myself plenty of times with Karioke(i have to be pretty drunk to get up there). I don't think I want to subject myself to even more embarassment by enacting movies.
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http://www.starvideosystem.com/
it's a home 'blu screen' video mixed
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Says who?
I went every Saturday for about four years. I'd still be going if the theatre hadn't closed down.
Says me. In any case, I knew someone was going to contradict me. I don't know why I went ahead and posted this.