When Brad Pitt caused a walk-out 

Yep, a friend of mine made a point of going to see A Phantom Menace with *ZERO* prior knowledge. He did the opposite - he was one of the people that walked out of other movies until the trailers were over.

My high school English teacher (who had an Obi-wan standee in his class) arranged for all of his seniors to ditch school and watch it with him and his wife at 8 am the day it came out. We still love you Mr. Ferrari.

I went to the cinema with a friend to see Troy, and we were both quite surprised when the trailer for Troy was shown. Then the film started with an incredibly violent scene and we realised it was Kill Bill 2. Our tickets weren't for the same day but for a month in the future, and neither we nor the person checking the tickets had noticed.

The time frame being 1998 is immediately why I thought that SW:Episode I was probably the culprit. I was on the other end though thinking that people were walking out during the trailers so they didn't get anything about the movie spoiled by the trailer, and then returning to the movie after the trailers were over.

As someone who dislikes trailers, the concept of going out of my way to watch one is very weird to me.

Tom said "Duel of the Fates" and that's stuck in my head now.

6:07 I'm a similar age to Dani and had a very similar opinion of the film at the time! No intention at all of watching it as an adult and realising how awful it actually is

I've just listened to this question on the podcast for the first time and I immediately said Mighty Joe Young! Both films were in cinemas around Christmas 1998 so I can see some being confused. I remember my brother saying he saw Mighty Joe Young and I said "the one with Brad Pitt?" and he said "no it had a gorilla though". Ever since then I've gotten the two confused. Never watched either!

Great work with the subtitles as always.

I love the Australian guests.

I am so annoyed at how close I was. Remembered why people were there and left, misremembered what they actually came to see. (Had it in my head it was for The Matrix, which also could have been it, since that released a few weeks prior to TPM.)

I guess a food analogy would be when McDonald's release some kind of limited edition toy etc with happy meals. I remember news stories of people stocking up on happy meals, then just throwing the food directly into bins and keeping the free toy thing. 🙄

Guessed this one immediately. But I have a great story about Meet Joe Black. I had been corresponding online with Ron Osborne (who co-wrote the movie with his long-time writing partner Jeff Reno) because he would come online as a writer for the great Duckman animated series and chat with fans. He was nervous about how the movie would do because it's incredibly long, and I told him "Hey, I can go to the preview if you'd like and report back how the audience reacts." He said that would be great and I did that and the audience seemed to enjoy the film and nobody walked out (during the movie, anyway!) So he was happy to hear that. He then told me he especially appreciated my effort because he was kind of bummed out, as he had just been fired from his other TV job by the producer, a young whippersnapper named Rob Thomas (who would later on become famous as the creator of Veronica Mars). I happen to know Rob from way back, so I called him up at his Hollywood home next door to Britney Spears's house and asked him about the situation. Then I sent another message to Ron saying "Hey man -- Rob says he loves you guys and he never would fire you! That decision came from higher up." And he just about crapped his pants, because he had no idea why this oddball Duckman fan from Austin, Texas was calling his (ex)boss at home in his 8 million dollar brand new Hollywood mansion!!! I love it when the world gets small like that!

I got to see the trailer as a special event, because my friend worked at the local cinemas and got me a seat at the staff screening.

Tom, I understand you want to build an audience outside of RU-vid, but maybe releasing the video episodes weeks or months after the podcast releases?

Why would you upload clips only?

I never enjoyed Star Wars but for some reason I went to see the premiere showing of The Phantom Menace at my town's cinema. The auditorium erupted with cheering when the film began. I thought that was weird.

full episodes on youtube please

In 1989 thousands of baseball fans showed up for a baseball game in Oakland but the all the fans left after the game was canceled. Everyone was badly shaken up.

Where can I watch the full ep with the visuals?

The trailer was awesome ... All the best bits of the movie .... in 2 minutes, which is why ...

Being of similar vintage to Matt, as soon as he mentioned being a nerd and the timeframe, I immediately remembered the lengths people went through to see Phantom Menace trailers.

The only thing to beat Phantom Menace -> Meet Joe Black was a few years later when gamers bought the Halo demo that also came with a full copy of Crackdown :)

6:10 I was 7 when the original Star Wars came out.

Well the novelty of something new with Star Wars wasn't quite how Matt described as they had just created and released the monstrosities that were the the Special Editions in theatres in 1997.

This reminds me of a story from back in the day. The Beatles repertoire was going to be released on CD starting in February, 1987. In November, 1986 due to a manufacturing error some copies of Beatles CD's got put into Kate Bush "The Whole Story" CD covers, and Beatlemaniacs were buying Kate Bush CD's in the hope of getting a Beatles CD early.

So this is how I find out there was a snafu with the podcast release and I didn't actually download the correct Episode 7 but probably Episode 8. At least it was an easy question about films to figure out while wondering about it's origin and not about flags. 😕

Please upload on Google podcast it still has the wrong one

I thought there was a guy in the cinema, who just greeted them "hello, i am joe black" and they thought it was a prank and there will be no movie, and left

a Minions movie scored by Colin Stetson is what the world needs

This is the first time I immediately knew one of these (although I wasn't around back then) :)

I almost got that - but thought it might have been The Matrix instead.

Can you add episode numbers in the highlight description?

Initial thoughts: it either had a preview/trailer, or a first part of a double feature, that people really wanted to watch and didn't care about the Brad Pitt film part.

I remember people doing this in 2015 so I got it immediately

I remember this happening

suggestion: put the episodes on youtube, but with no editing; just the four facecames

I remember hearing about it but had forgotten all about it; I tear up on the Force Awakens trailer still myself, when the falcon flies in the desert and the slow theme comes over, it just feels like I'm home finally after a very long and rough trip.

Are there full video episode? No? See you later I guess

Pleeeeease give us full episode videos!

Full ep

Full episodes

Full episodes on yt

you know what I'm here for. please please please video uploads

The title is inaccurate - Brad Pitt didn't *cause* the walk-out, it was just that he was in the film that happened to be on after the trailer.

full ep on youtube or I'm burning something

Full episodes on RU-vid

He's obviously not interested in our feedback or wishes for full episodes. We tried. Unsubbing and moving on.

Still the same disappointment that the decision is business over brand integrity.

Tom don't you have a dormant Nebula account? Maybe you should upload there, just to troll the beggars

It's funny how I guess i've purged I, II and III from my mind. I remember seeing Joe Black in the theater and think it should stick out in my mind that I had also seen the trailer for new, decade long awaited and anticipated Star Wars. But, I guess since Phantom turned out to be really, very bleh I've banished memories of it and anything related to it from my mind.

Folks, Tom's explained several times why he can't put full episodes on YT. I don't like it either, but he's not avoiding it because he wants to. Go back and read his explanation on earlier clip episodes if you haven't seen it.

I must preface this by saying I am a huge fan of your work. How have you managed to upload over an hour of highlights when you have only released one 40 minute long episode? Are you ever going to release more episodes instead of spamming us with this rubbish or should I just unsubscribe now? Did you ever intend to upload more than one episode? This bait and switch is deceptive.