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Move Over Karaoke...Hello Movieoke

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hide-your-copies-of-the-holy-grail dept.

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".

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  1. There will be XXX Movieoke, yes? by mbrother · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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  2. How d'ya do, I see you've met my faithful handyman by The+I+Shing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  3. Disney's California Adventure by bravehamster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  4. M*A*S*H Did it First by Urantian · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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  5. tvokie? by mrbcs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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  6. Hotel California equivalent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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"

  7. Porn version already exists by teneighty · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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).