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Topic: Weird Cinema Dreams
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Chuck Cook
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Posts: 66
From: Kentwood, MI
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted November 13, 2003 11:03 PM
What's the weirdest dream you've ever had about a cinema? Reason why I'm asking is because I had one last night.
I dreamt that I was at the Vogue Theatre in Manistee, MI (NOTE: I've never been there before in my life, though I know that it's a two screener on two floors) and went into the bottom auditorium. It was small, and it only had maybe 20 seats. To make things stranger, the screen was a 50's model TV, and the previews were all flat-screened. Suddenly, the main attraction starts to show, and the screen automatically expands, but the white part doesn't. So, seeing as though the screen's only 13", I move the frames myself.
Yours?
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Chuck Cook
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Posts: 66
From: Kentwood, MI
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted November 15, 2003 12:04 AM
Nope, my dream was on flat screen ![[Smile]](smile.gif) As for shrinks, there's too many who are jerks, IMO, thanks to the Dr. Phils and Dr. Lauras of this world.
OK, back to the topic...
I had another dream last night. This time, I dreamt that I was at the grand opening of a now-defunct six-screener in 1980 that was showing a then modern era version of "The Matrix". The theatre that was showing the film was so crowded, that I was seated right in front of the HUMONGOUS screen. All of the sound came from the screen, and it wa LOUD. So loud, I was able to find another seat. Oddly enough, two people brought their parrots to the show. Strange.
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Jim Rankin
(Jim passed away in December 2006)
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From: Milwaukee, WI
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted November 15, 2003 04:18 AM
This IS a strange topic, but then I guess that I'm a strange 'theatres nut' too, for I also had a Theatres Dream not once but several times. It was unnerving because after several nights of this I was convinced that there was a giant movie palace somewhere in Milwaukee that I had overlooked, and in my dream I toured it and marveled at the huge balcony, the gorgeous decor and the large cinemascope screen the width of the proscenium arch. This must have been before 1986 when "Milwaukee Movie Palaces" came out (now out of print but available through Inter-Library Loan) wherein author Larry Widen listed all the places that showed films, and of the 21 movie palaces, none where where I thought my 'dream theatre' was, alas. Prior to that time, such information I was able to get was sketchy, though I did supply what I had to Larry for his book, but I never could quite shake that image of a 5000-seater with the most gorgeous illuminated grilles (I just won a cash award from Theatre Historical Soc. ( www.HistoricTheatres.org ) for writing about them) and the most lavish draperies one can imagine. I guess it is a matter of the then unfulfilled craving for a glorious theatre at opening in the 20s such as none of us have experienced, sad to say.
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Paul P. Meyers
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From: Detroit, MI
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted December 02, 2003 02:40 PM
I had a 4 or 5 part dream last night and 3 parts involved cinemas. Why of course I don't know. Here is what I remember from this multiplex-dream.
1) I am in the middle of a full audience watching a film in a boxy rectangular theatre. Something, either an interuption in the projection of or something on screen makes the audience stir about, or start a discussion, also the lights are on or at least it is bright enough to know where I am. Flavor Flav, member of the old rap group Public Enemy, is sitting a few rows behind me, and says something. I agree with his sentiment about the movie, but I don't remember what he said.
2) I am floating or walking up a very wide and ornate hallway with plush red/orange walls and couches. It looks like a Kubrick movie. At the top of this hallway which goes up vertically, there is an entrance to a elaborate theatre not necessarily for movies only. An audience is leaving a preview or premiere. A teenage girl grumbles about the film, something about not liking the end, a boy dies (maybe young or teenage), "why did he (have to?) die?" Was it a sappy story with a bad ending? As I watched the audience file out I knew the story of the film was based on a story written by Philip K. Dick, so the ending was to be expected.
3) I am outside a large office tower on a street. There is a crowd lined up for a screening. There is something else they could go in for as well. Knowing that only people for the screening might only be let in, I go up to the attendant and without saying anything just go in to a big empty office lobby. In the middle of the floor is a pile of large posters for Ray Milland in "X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes". A woman in the crowd for the premier asks if I would trade passes with her.
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Arthur Allen
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From: Renton, WA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted November 03, 2004 09:34 PM
I finally registered just so I could respond to this thread. Who knew other people dreamed about movie theaters?
I have dreamt about drive-in theaters before and after I started researching them. Often I dream about theaters more rustic or multi-screened than those I have found in real life.
This week I dreamed about a theater that must have been based on a visit to the Rodeo Drive-In of Port Orchard, WA. Two years ago I went to see a double bill on screen 3, but noticed that Pirates of the Caribbean was showing on the main screen against a surreal backdrop of a full moon shining through rippled clouds. What an amazing experience it would have been to see that movie there that night, but I was already committed to see different movies. This week I dreamed I was back at the same theater, but the trees behind the screen were covered in snow and the edge of the screen was matted in ice. It was the perfect setting for seeing The Polar Express, or whatever winter-themed movie was showing. It didn’t even seem uncomfortably cold. Not long into watching this I thought I saw lightning striking the theater’s power supply, though it could have been the iced over transmission wires shorting out. The sparks seemed to happen rapidly in groups, like a machine gun fire. It slightly dimmed the screen image, but really affected the sound. Finally after a few cycles of this the operators managed to shut off the equipment and I soon woke up. It turned out I snored myself awake and incorporated it into the dream.
(I hadn't checked Rodeo's winter web page when I wrote this post. Little did I know they have posted a picture on the front page which closely illustrates my dream.)
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Scott D. Neff
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From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted November 05, 2004 11:42 AM
Another dream I've had is where I'm obviously on vacation, and I'm going to see a movie at some theatre cause I want to take pictures.
So I buy a ticket and I go into the auditorium but the theatre is carved up funny, but it's still just one auditorium. The same movie is playing on 3-4 different screens, at different angles, inside this maze of an auditorium. So I spend the rest of my dream trying to figure out HOW all these images make it to each screen, out of a projector port that doesn't face any of them, and there are clearly no mirrors. Then whilst doing that, I try to figure out the history of the theatre, as in, WHY IN THE WORLD?!?!?!?!? Would anybody do that to a theatre.
That's a distressing dream.
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that were so weird, but my last weird cinema dream was just last night. I was dreaming of a Cineplex in Toronto Canada that I visited for real back in the late 90's. It was a cinema that had 21 screens which is has been closed for over 7 years now.![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
