Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a 94-year-old woman who went to the movies for the first time in 84 years and don't believe she enjoyed the experience as much as everyone hoped she would.
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00:00a michigan woman celebrated a big birthday she turned 94 and she did something she hasn't done
00:13in chuck what's wrong with you something she hasn't done
00:19in 84 years oh that's a long time go to the movies hasn't went to the movies she hasn't
00:28she was 10 when she went to a movie theater and she never has been back since do we know what she
00:34saw the first like the last time here's the story from fox 17 i was waiting for something good
00:42oh wow served in a bucket of nostalgia just listening to it you're immediately teleported
00:53to specific moments of your past maybe a night out with some friends or a fun family gathering
00:59all experiences shared at a special venue the movie theater but these are memories one woman
01:05in ionia cannot relate to why didn't you see a movie in the movie theater for for so long
01:11dave dave i don't know those are some loose teeth the movie you saw when you were 10 years old must
01:19not have been very good to make you want to keep coming back dave yes right dave yeah you heard that
01:25right justina thalison has only been to the movies once in her life that was in 1938 thalison was 10
01:33years old she was on a class field trip with her elementary school and she came right here
01:38to the ionia theater but after 84 years the exact movie has and of course the films were in black
01:46and white so you can imagine watching c2 felt a bit different we enjoy it because it's cold now
01:55enjoy a lot more than it's black and white the ionia theater had a showing on tuesday specifically for
02:01thalison and her friends at just like home there were times when it may have been a bit much
02:06turn it down
02:08why in the hell did they bring this woman to this it's causing her organ failure oh my god why did
02:26they do this and knock your teeth loose she wanted to go help help me god bless america help
02:35i'm being tortured
02:38it's too much for her it's too much for her it's too much oh what what is this a cartoon looney tune
02:44why did they give her a cartoon it's basically like watching a nuclear explosion
02:48it really is compared to what the other movie experience yeah the five-cent movie
02:53yeah she saw she saw a five-cent movie and then they took it to the most incredible entertainment
02:59experience you can have turn it down did i not play it again yeah play it again go back let's hear
03:07let's hear this current blood curdling scream would be quiet and just enjoy the movie the movie hurts her
03:14yeah here we go here we go
03:16the ionia theater had a showing on tuesday specifically for thalison and her friends at just like home
03:24there were times when it may have been a bit much
03:26oh no
03:31oh no
03:32she had the worst news interview
03:33it's really a terrible thing
03:35i can't believe they wheeled her out in that kind of shape
03:37they really did i mean i don't get it at all
03:41i don't think she's gonna see 95
03:43i think you're right
03:45i think this movie and this interview was a big cause of it
03:48yeah
03:48i've had nightmares ever since
03:51a weird uh like a goat looking man with a guitar
03:55loud super loud
03:59that's what they showed her
04:02they showed her same to the animated movie where the animals sing and perform
04:06shut up turn it down
04:09oh the animals are alive
04:11the animals are alive and singing
04:14i mean she was it was really like it was hurting her
04:18it was she was in pain
04:19she didn't want to say it that loud
04:21turn it down
04:23for her for her to yell like that took everything in her right
04:27it took everything she had to scream that loud
04:29like a year of her life
04:31her teeth must be probably saw her too
04:33in the row in front of her
04:35those teeth are gone
04:37those teeth are loose
04:39turn the lights up we've lost her teeth
04:41i don't use the fix-a-dent
04:43she doesn't
04:45may have been a bit much
04:47shut up lady
04:49oh god that's hilarious
04:51we're trying to enjoy the movie lady
04:53it's a nightmare for her
04:55the sitting animal movie is a nightmare
04:57it's so crazy to me like how good intentions can just sometimes be the worst thing you can do for someone
05:03i just take her to the movies
05:05you don't got to do a news story on it
05:07no
05:09she's not in good condition to be shown on the news
05:11no she is not
05:13turn it down
05:15she can't even look
05:17guys
05:19she can't look up to the screen
05:21i would pay money
05:23to just have the footage of her watching this
05:25oh my god
05:26the whole thing
05:27the reaction
05:28just a camera on her
05:29oh she's down and seeing ground lights
05:31she fell asleep too
05:32she sees ground lights
05:33and there's horrible crazy noise
05:34it was too loud for her to sleep
05:35that was the problem
05:36that's right
05:37she was probably asleep
05:38and then heard all of a sudden
05:39some loud song
05:40and thought she was taken in a ufo
05:42heard a goat sing U2
05:43and it just scared me
05:47help
05:48i'm inside of a spaceship
05:49oh my god
05:51they got me
05:52help
05:53i can't see anything
05:54it's so dark
05:55where am i
05:57i have been a bit much
05:59oh her teeth came
06:02did you see the end
06:03you can see the teeth come right out
06:05that's pretty often
06:06she's watching the movie like this
06:08all she sees is lights on the ground
06:11and then she hears what she thinks is explosions
06:13or her
06:14she says
06:15yeah
06:16it's all right
06:17put it down
06:20that was her part
06:21oh man
06:22she was in
06:23she was in nothing but pain there
06:25that was so loud
06:26it rattled her
06:27rattled her bones or something
06:29you know every time someone calls into the show in there
06:31they've got us on
06:32oh yeah
06:33we gotta have this
06:34it may have been a bit much
06:35put it down
06:36yeah
06:37yeah
06:38play that
06:39she said she's in pain and her voice is crazy
06:43turn it down
06:46ow ow ow ow
06:48it hurts
06:4994 years
06:51honestly if i was sent out to this scene
06:53they were like all right chuck you're doing this reporting stuff
06:56you're doing this thing on this lady
06:59i'd have such a hard time
07:01cause i'd be like i know what this looks like
07:03this looks terrible
07:05it looks like we're torturing a woman
07:07yeah especially the first time her teeth start to fall out
07:09oh my god
07:10hey can maybe one of you assistants help the woman with her teeth
07:13so her teeth aren't falling out
07:14every time i ask her a question
07:15that's just her
07:16that's her
07:17look
07:18like watch her teeth right at the end of turn it down here
07:20there's no way she needs popcorn
07:21turn it down
07:23there they were going
07:24if they gave her popcorn she'd choked it down
07:26that would have had a horrible ending
07:27yeah
07:28well you just suck on the popcorn until it gets soggy enough to swallow
07:30oh my god
07:31well i think you'd have to just stick the whole bucket right under
07:33i don't know if she has any use of any arms
07:36i didn't see anything moving
07:38i saw nothing moving
07:39oh she's in
07:40she's in bad shape
07:41that's what she wanted to do though right
07:42but she didn't realize
07:43that's how dangerous a movie theater is
07:44she didn't realize it was like
07:46some kind of
07:47she had no idea what she was getting into
07:49clockwork orange torture
07:51yeah this is it
07:53this is our future
07:54turn it down
07:55fix a dent
07:56jesus
07:57just think what like the sound of a movie will make you
08:00just have horrible writhing pain
08:02terrify you
08:03yeah i absolutely terrified
08:04yeah i absolutely terrify you
08:06yeah i absolutely terrified you
08:08yeah