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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.
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.
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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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So it's like role-playing but without [most of] the creativity?
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Oh! Oh! Can I be Anakin Skywalker? Even if I have to lose a hand, it'll be worth it to kiss Nataile Portman. I promiss to even do a bit of improvising, and work in the hot grits.
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?
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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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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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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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?
"Wow, movieoke! Now I can impress her with my knowledge of Monty Python and Star Wars..."
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It's called movieoke-Okie-gnocchi-karaoke.
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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!"
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.
I know I girl I wouldnt mind acting out a scene with....;=)
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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Something to the effect of:
"She's lost that lovin' feeling Goose"
"No she hasn't"
"Yes, she has..."
"No... Shit, I hate it when she does that..."
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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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mostly.
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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.
And to bring this full circle...my usual song on karaoke nights is "Sweet Transvestite".
It's like a Mobius strip of shame.
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).
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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Would that be for breakfast, lunch or dinner? Would you serve him with a side salad?
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