Grew up in the UP where the only television station was CBC... so first memory of TV was snowy black and white Hockey Night in Canada with my parents
shouting at the screen.
For one veteran left - wing journalist in the screening Total Politics attended, it was overwhelming: he was
shouting at the screen halfway through.
It is a film of many a missed chance and I often felt like
shouting at the screen to make them listen to sense.
The horrible Hawaii suggests that crimefighting has degenerated to idiotic levels since «Hawaii Five - O» and «Magnum, P.I.» The new protectors of paradise work in such stupefying ways that you want to
shout at the screen, «Book»em, Danno!»
Everything shuffles along without too much cause for concern until the mid-way point, when you'll be
shouting at the screen from behind your cushion.
But hey, we the smart audience know — because we've been shown — and our smarts compel us to
shout at the screen.
Finding its way to the DVD format just a couple of weeks before another haunted house flick (Cold Creek Manor) debuts on the big screen, veteran television director Dan Curtis's horror quickie is one of those comfortable relics that doesn't scare so much as mildly chill, offering countless opportunities to
shout at the screen without any sort of discernible payoff — until the end, that is, but even that shocker of a conclusion has been telegraphed since at least the midway point of the first act, muffling its surprise.
In the spirit of public service, here» s some advice
shouted at the screen.
Re: No Child Left Behind: every time Diane says, «they» (those who wrote it),
shout at your screen «we.»
More than once did I find
myself shouting at the screen when a game I had released nearly scored perfect tens across the board, only to be foiled by that pratt at Informed Games who gave it a nine.
For the first time, maybe in the history of sport,
shouting at the screen may actually make your favourite athlete or team perform better.
At one point I heard Kiki and Mr Tatters in the same room, I just accepted I was dead and waited for the inevitable fright and
the shouting at the screen that followed.
The change of pace is appreciated, but the inclusion of obstacles that instantly kill me — forcing me to restart the level an arduous amount of times — make these sequences needlessly frustrating, especially one towards the end of the game which had
me shouting at my screen.
But unlike a slasher film, you don't have to sit idly by and just
shout at the screen telling them to «look out behind you» — you're in control and can actually play a role in their survival, or their death.
Before you start
shouting at the screen, we're not saying you should throw away ALL greetings cards... just 99.9 per cent of them.
Not exact matches
Most people do this from the comfort of their armchairs,
shouting at Question Time or changing the TV channel when a particularly annoying politician crosses their
screen.
The students say they face accusation of being «rape apologists» and «haters of gays» and that other students
shouted abuse
at them during a recent
screening of one of the US presidential debates.
Greg Bear, then living in San Diego, told me that
at one of the many Cinerama
screenings of 2001 he attended, some guy, clearly high on something, perhaps LSD, walked up to the enormous
screen during the «trip sequence»
shouting «IT»S GOD!»
Frustratingly, this predatory aspect of their relationship is mostly ignored, in a sunny tale that is packed with laughs (albeit fewer than you'll find
at an actual
screening of «The Room,» where people throw things
at the
screen and
shout the dialogue's quips on cue, a la «The Rocky Horror Picture Show»).
For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as
screen -
shouting, football playing, throwing spoons
at the
screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically
at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.
A teen girl is connected to scanning cables and she
shouts at a woman behind a glass wall, pulls loose and runs through shattering glass, unharmed; as the girl reaches the woman, the woman dissolves into silver confetti and the girl flies out a crumbling skyscraper, falls past skyscrapers that fill the
screen with crumbling concrete and she hits the pavement, which breaks into pieces.
She wastes opportunities, repeatedly reconciling with Jeff, persuading the viewer to
shout expletives
at the
screen.
«Breaking In» far too quickly devolves into unintentional laughs provided by the henchmen, complete with long stretches of near silence, affording the smart alecks in the audience the chance to half -
shout, «She's gonna ELECTROCUTE him,» or «There's ONE IN THE CHAMBER» and «Shoot SHOOT»
at the
screen.
Introducing his cast prior to the
screening, Affleck gave a special
shout - out to Victor Garber, a native of Canada, saying, «he is A, Candadian, and B, he officiated
at my wedding.
They
shout a repertoire of canned and spontaneous zingers
at the
screen.
I've
shouted obscenities
at the
screen after a sudden death and thrown my fist in the air after taking down a particularly challenging boss.
Do keep in mind that a lot of the current showings are interactive
screenings where people
shout and throw things
at the
screen - it's an extremely fun way to see the film, just be prepared.
At one point in the conversation, Lupita gave a
shout - out to the film's set decorators, clothing designers and hair stylists for giving the film its singular look on -
screen.
It's definitely funny and the chemistry between the actors is easily perceived on the
screen but
at the same time the story is very confusing and for the first time ever I found myself almost
shouting «what the...?!»
The other has Jobs's inexplicably - loyal assistant Joanna (Kate Winslet) throw a tantrum so that her boss will pay for his daughter's tuition, and offers one of the great
screen monsters in recent memory a kind of Sorkin-esque redemption, hard - won
at the end of a massive
shouting match.
I love you for
shouting out
at the theater, for
shouting out
at the
screen.»
They also perform skits,
at one point gathering
at the bottom right of the
screen and
shouting,» Down here, Tommy!»
Screenings are often highly interactive, with audience members
shouting in response to particular lines and throwing plastic spoons
at the
screen.
The ending was effective enough to leave the audience
at an advance
screening shouting a collective «Aww!»
Before you start
shouting at your computer
screen, hear me out.
Attack of the Earthlings is a game that really grows on you; flavor dialogue, weird loading
screens, and even the weird way the robotic Mr. Motivatio
shouts «encouragement»
at the office workers or the human drones waving their arms like crazy to distract the normal humans all work together to flesh out the enemy characters and story in a hilarious way.
Daunting for the first few hours as you stare
at screens of games, modes, loadouts and then you get in a game with explosions going off, people
shouting.
Only time will tell... Straight from the first loading
screen A Hat in Time
shouts fun
at you in a colourful and brilliant way.
I was busy
shouting and throwing things
at the
screen.
I know this game inside - out and have completed the original countless times, but found myself
shouting «FUCK»
at the
screen when Danny was killed.
It is however a somewhat vague system, that leaves plenty of room for (mis) interpretation and confusion, while you
shout at your 3DS»
screen as you watch your fellow players do the exact opposite from what you need them to.
As such game - devs can concentrate on making actual games without worrying if we want to wave our hands in front of the
screen,
shout at our printer or stick unsavory parts into the CPU cooler.
Elsewhere, patches of green and yellow
shout at each other from opposing walls, and printouts of
screen - grabs form a rudimentary punctuation to it all.
Presented in two ceiling hung
screens, they feature a single shot video of women
at the Mahrajan Abha theme park in Saudi Arabia that «forbids screaming and
shouting on rides and «careless» lifting of abayas.».
However, the recent «Celebrity» Big Brother (CBB) controversy had your correspondent jumping up and down in her seat
shouting most unladylike things
at the TV
screen.
Sherman is an athletic blonde woman who hosts regular «Music Legends» rides and who has a remarkable ability to
shout out
at riders who have accomplished anything remotely standout during a class — whether it's a 100th Peloton ride, a notable
screen name, a birthday.
Starting apps by voice is fine most of the time, but if you're in any situation that makes
shouting at your wrist awkward or impossible, you have to open the search
screen and scroll all the way to the bottom to get to the app list.
iOS still feels like a static mess in some ways, full of stolid, uncaring icons, red badges
shouting at me to clear them, and a home
screen completely unwilling to work with my aesthetic sensibilities.