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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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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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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...
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It's all about marketing.
Something tells me you are the guy that is always annoying people at parties by trying to act out Frodo and Gollum fighting over the ring on Volcano mountain...
"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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I know I girl I wouldnt mind acting out a scene with....;=)
However, I've found that playing anything axed by Randy Rhoads can really turn some heads.
Diary of a Madman, Crazy Train, Over The Mountain, Suicide Solution... good stuff.
So I think you'll see the following happen - anything like Jerry Maguire or Cast Away (WIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLSOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!!!) will get over done (along with anything by DeNiro).. and those that can pull off, say...
Sling Blade, for example - will be the ones that impress.
Besides, who doesn't like french fried pertater's with mustard. mmm hmm.
"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.
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Would that be for breakfast, lunch or dinner? Would you serve him with a side salad?
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