Your Life Is A Movie
October 3rd, 2008 by WHO WAS PHONE?
There’s a movie theater in downtown Phoenix, Arizona that only plays movies from 1987. If you pay for 3 tickets and buy a large popcorn, they will play a film that shows you your future. If you watch the entire film completely, you will have sleeping problems for the rest of your life.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I lol’d.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
But my life isn’t a movie. It’s clearly a Neil Gaiman novel. :p
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
But…I already have sleeping problems D:
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Too vague to really be unsettling.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
…this is just a little pathetic
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Took me a second to get that last sentence.
Very clever. xD
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I think this pasta would be better if it were something like this:
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There’s a movie theater in downtown Phoenix, Arizona that only plays movies from 1987. If you pay for 3 tickets and buy a large popcorn, they will play a film that shows you your future, starting from when you sit down. You will see your life getting worse and worse, all because of one tiny, small decision you made, totally unaware that it would affect you like that, that things could get that bad from a single choice.
In the last scene you see yourself, grinning with a bleeding mouth, your descent into insanity obvious. You croak out five words before shooting yourself, blood and gore splattering the screen.
“That film started it all…”
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That’s just my thoughts, though.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
This pasta wasn’t that creepy.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Dunno if my last post showed, so if I double, I’m sorry =\
I think this pasta would be better if it were something like this:
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There’s a movie theater in downtown Phoenix, Arizona that only plays movies from 1987. If you pay for 3 tickets and buy a large popcorn, they will play a film that shows you your future, starting from when you sit down. You will see your life getting worse and worse, all because of one tiny, small decision you made, totally unaware that it would affect you like that, that things could get that bad from a single choice.
In the last scene you see yourself, grinning with a bleeding mouth, your descent into insanity obvious. You croak out five words before shooting yourself, blood and gore splattering the screen.
“That film started it all…”
—
That’s just my thoughts, though.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
It would totally be better that way.
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I can already see my future.Cancer at 30.That large popcorns not going to help.lol
October 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Sleeping problems? That’s it?
Needs a rewrite.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Hello.
This is clever in ways many are not giving enough credit for.
Still, the imagination is not effectively stimulated to create the deeper levels of fear.
Regardless, such a theatre does indeed exist.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
That’ll be one shortass movie because I plan to die when I turn 25… after a tragic car accident.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 pm
if i watch the ENTIRE film COMPLETELY…
mmmm, interesting…not really =\
October 4th, 2008 at 12:22 am
I did this. Only instead of me, it was Nicholous Cage. And it wasn’t my future, it was Nick using his psychic powers to save San Fransisco from a Nuclear device. Good movie though.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:34 am
I shat myself!
October 4th, 2008 at 1:20 am
I like Keisyl’s version better.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Well, of COURSE you’d have sleeping problems. You just sat through a film a few decades in length. That has got to be a SERIOUS case of sleep deprivation.
Unless it’s only a highlight reel.
In which case, it’s more of a teaser of your life than a movie per-se, innit?
Wonder what the trailer looks like.
A laundromat, focused on a spinning clothesdryer…
Then, cut to title:
“Your Life”
Fade out, then fade in to:
“Get one soon”
October 4th, 2008 at 1:46 am
This pasta was sucky
October 4th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Wait…I wasn’t alive in 1987…
OH SHI-
I just blew my hard-earned cash on 3 tickets and a bucket of stale popcorn.
To watch a blank screen.
Two. Thumbs. Down.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:58 am
I think I’d have a little bit more to worry about than sleeping problems if my future could be fit into the time it takes to show a movie.
October 4th, 2008 at 2:59 am
No, the twist is that the movie only shows what’s happening 3 seconds in the theatre in real time. Like your movie self takes a swig of soda 3 seconds before you do. Then that raises another question: If your movie self gets up to leave, and yet you don’t, what would happen? Would the screen go black and say “Go away a-hole”?
October 4th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Due to the contradictions and other issues a lot of comments have noted, I almost want to say the author intended for this to be a joke.
October 4th, 2008 at 8:04 am
The point is if you watch the whole film, you’ll spend the rest of your life doing so. The movie is your lifetime long. You won’t sleep BECAUSE you’re watching it.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Not bad, but pretty vague and very very short. Had a lot of potential.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:00 am
i think it could of been scarier
October 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
watching the film would take a life time so you would die in the seat =_=
October 4th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
eeeh. could have been better.. although it’s still kinda interesting.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
@ moomoon
wow i never thought of that, that is very true
October 4th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
…But if you’re watching the movie and it takes an entire lifetime to watch, then wouldn’t the movie be nothing but you sitting in a movie theatre? That sounds like it’d put anyone to sleep.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
@ Keisyl: thanks for the pasta. that one was really good
at first i thought that the fact that only 1987 movies are shown had smth to do with the whole future thing, but i cant make sense out of it. if its just part of the description of the place, it shouldnt be there cuz its really confusing><. aaaand sleeping problems cuz u saw ur future? bleh.
October 4th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
@ FCF: Ha, no problem, I like writing pastas. Maybe one day I’ll get one on here
And now I understand the original point of this pasta thanks to Sara. This one was vague, but after consideration not too bad.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Dea I was thinking the same thing. All you’ll be watching is yourself in a movie theater watching yourself in a movie theater watching your self in a movie theater and so on,it’ll go on and on till you die
October 5th, 2008 at 3:12 am
I already have sleeping problems so SUCK ON THAT!!
October 5th, 2008 at 4:04 am
Hmm, you think they have a DVD version of my life?
October 5th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Comments made my day. I ended up laughin my head off reading the comments. Thanks, guys xD
October 5th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Makes me think- why would I want to do that?
October 6th, 2008 at 2:53 am
I went, but my childhood was so damn boring that I sneaked out and saw the double feature of Robocop and Evil Dead II instead. The only sleeping problems I have are from regret that I didn’t see Ernest Goes to Camp on the big screen.
October 7th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Yeah right, you just want my money >.>
October 7th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
and you would also be watching yourself sitting in the seat >_>;
October 7th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
The sleeping problems thing isn’t necessarily true. Since it shows every second of your life, then you could sleep when your past-self slept.
I have a better question though… Who filmed the entire thing?
October 8th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Finally got it, but it tries too hard I feel. So it is a meh pasta.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Sleeping problems!
OH NOES!!
LOL.
I think this one’s just silly.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:00 am
I just got it!
“You will have sleeping problems the rest of your life!”
Because you won’t sleep… Because you’re watching your life. I’m tripping myself out.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:01 am
And to number 42.
I did! I’m a creepy stalker. >:)
October 13th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
$30 for tickets and another $30 for popcorn just to watch a boring movie about nothing?
October 17th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
the reason youll have sleeping problems if you watc hthe whole thing is becuase if your old it will take a long time to watch you whole life and you wont be sleeping if your watching your whole life…..duhhhhh
October 29th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Haha, at first, I thought that when it said it’ll show your future, I thought that I would be watching myself making children with someone, then I thought i’d be watching porn XDD
Buuut, im slow and i just got the real meaing of the story.
October 30th, 2008 at 3:44 am
The last line sounds like a fortune cookie
October 30th, 2008 at 3:45 am
And saying ‘Entire film completely’ is redundant