I went to a New Bedford, MA movie cinema to watch ALIENS, when it first came out. Five tough guys came in and sat a couple of rows behind me. They were all brave and talking like they were the baddest bunch around. I figured they were too young to have scene ALIEN in a theater-like setting and had only seen it on a little TV, and wondered if they were ready for the ride of their young lives at that point. So, not too long into the movie I noticed they were quiet as church mice and had lost all their bravado. I didn't hear anything else from them until the drop-ship returned to the Sulaco and the alien queen made her surprise entrance, which made one of the now vanquished, tough guys yell out with this voice that was quaking with fear, "AINT THIS MOVIE EVA GONNA END". The feeling must've been a mutual one for everybody in there, because nobody said a word after their initial gasps. I laughed a little on the inside, but I have to admit to sharing those feelings, after all my heart-rate had to have been pegged at 120+bpm, from about the time the Marines first entered the atmosphere processor.
I've never, to this day, heard anybody as scared as that at the movies, and I will never forget the sound of that guy's voice.
"That's it man! Game over man! Game over! What the *beep* are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?"
"Maybe we can build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don't we try that?"
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