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May. 27th, 2005
Fun with Filters, part the second.
May. 27th, 2005 02:11 pmIf you can't see my previous post (Fun with Filters, part the first) and you have already seen the movie Serenity let me know so you can be added to my spoiler protection filter.
OK, first some non-spoilery type stuff.
As I said in last night's post, Ron Glass was here in Minnesota!!! I met him & got his autograph & sat 5 seats from him! Would have only been two but I was in the middle of our group.
What I have gleamed from whedonesque is that:
Sacramento got Nathan Fillion!
Washington DC got Morena Baccarin (and her mother, Brazilian film actress Vera Setta, was with her)
Chicago got Summer Glau
Denver got Jewel Staite
Portland had Executive Producer Chris Buchanan. Alan Tudyk was going to be there, but had to be in NYC for Spamalot.
It appears that Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin, and Sean Maher didn't attend any of these screenings. Disappointing, but...
We met Ron Glass!!
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hellbob got to the theater around 7:00 and he was first in line! It was only a line of about 10-15 people when I joined him at 7:30ish. As the line got longer people would ask Rick what time he got there and it got earlier & earlier each time he said it:
"I've been here since 6pm"
"I got here at 5"
"I've been in line since 3:30"
"The line started at noon"
It's a good thing we got to go in when we did or it would have been "I got in line when they cancelled the show"
Those of you who want to see Serenity but haven't yet, make sure that no power in the 'verse spoils you for this movie. You don't want to know anything before it happens. Joss's writing is brilliant. He can make you laugh and while you are still laughing, make you want to cry, and then as you are still wiping the tears, make you laugh again.
This is why I actually created a separate filter for any spoiler posts I make, and I'm going to put them under cuts in addition. Because I went in having watched all the DVD episodes and knowing nothing about the movie. I only watched the trailer once so I didn't even remember what was in it going into last night's show (there are positive things about my faulty ADD memory wiring!). The only thing I remembered from the trailer was that I hadn't seen Shepherd Book and I'd heard a rumor waaaaaay back when movie talk first started that they hadn't gotten him to come back, so I was very pleasantly surprised when he walked into the theater, and when I saw his name in the opening credits!
Those of you who don't want to see Serenity, what are you doing here? You are no longer welcome here! hee hee. Just kidding. I WILL convert you!
I felt watching the movie that Joss did a good job introducing you to the characters if you had never met them, and showed you new things about them if you had. There weren't really any points I can think of that I thought "I'd have no clue what was going on if I hadn't seen the show" but if you have seen the show there were lots of wonderful details that just made you feel all happy. I really don't think this is spoilery because it's not a plot point, but those details I'm talking about are things like Wash's dinosaurs are still on the bridge. If you haven't seen the show they look like quirky decorations like a person's fuzzy dice in their car or their assorted doo-dads in the work cubicle. But, if you have seen the show, the first thing you think of in that first bridge scene where you see them is Wash playing with them in his down time. Those are the things that make Joss our God!
This movie to me is exactly what all the Star Wars fans wanted Phantom Menace to be.
Dammit! I need to make me a Firefly/Serenity icon!! or two... Yes, I know I can find a TON of them on the browncoat site, but I'm always just so proud of the ones I make myself even when they aren't as good as some others. And darn it, I have a full legal registered copy of the entire Adobe Creative Suite. It deserves to be used!
As I said in last night's post, Ron Glass was here in Minnesota!!! I met him & got his autograph & sat 5 seats from him! Would have only been two but I was in the middle of our group.
What I have gleamed from whedonesque is that:
Sacramento got Nathan Fillion!
Washington DC got Morena Baccarin (and her mother, Brazilian film actress Vera Setta, was with her)
Chicago got Summer Glau
Denver got Jewel Staite
Portland had Executive Producer Chris Buchanan. Alan Tudyk was going to be there, but had to be in NYC for Spamalot.
It appears that Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin, and Sean Maher didn't attend any of these screenings. Disappointing, but...
We met Ron Glass!!
hellbob got to the theater around 7:00 and he was first in line! It was only a line of about 10-15 people when I joined him at 7:30ish. As the line got longer people would ask Rick what time he got there and it got earlier & earlier each time he said it: "I've been here since 6pm"
"I got here at 5"
"I've been in line since 3:30"
"The line started at noon"
It's a good thing we got to go in when we did or it would have been "I got in line when they cancelled the show"
Those of you who want to see Serenity but haven't yet, make sure that no power in the 'verse spoils you for this movie. You don't want to know anything before it happens. Joss's writing is brilliant. He can make you laugh and while you are still laughing, make you want to cry, and then as you are still wiping the tears, make you laugh again.
This is why I actually created a separate filter for any spoiler posts I make, and I'm going to put them under cuts in addition. Because I went in having watched all the DVD episodes and knowing nothing about the movie. I only watched the trailer once so I didn't even remember what was in it going into last night's show (there are positive things about my faulty ADD memory wiring!). The only thing I remembered from the trailer was that I hadn't seen Shepherd Book and I'd heard a rumor waaaaaay back when movie talk first started that they hadn't gotten him to come back, so I was very pleasantly surprised when he walked into the theater, and when I saw his name in the opening credits!
Those of you who don't want to see Serenity, what are you doing here? You are no longer welcome here! hee hee. Just kidding. I WILL convert you!
I felt watching the movie that Joss did a good job introducing you to the characters if you had never met them, and showed you new things about them if you had. There weren't really any points I can think of that I thought "I'd have no clue what was going on if I hadn't seen the show" but if you have seen the show there were lots of wonderful details that just made you feel all happy. I really don't think this is spoilery because it's not a plot point, but those details I'm talking about are things like Wash's dinosaurs are still on the bridge. If you haven't seen the show they look like quirky decorations like a person's fuzzy dice in their car or their assorted doo-dads in the work cubicle. But, if you have seen the show, the first thing you think of in that first bridge scene where you see them is Wash playing with them in his down time. Those are the things that make Joss our God!
This movie to me is exactly what all the Star Wars fans wanted Phantom Menace to be.
Dammit! I need to make me a Firefly/Serenity icon!! or two... Yes, I know I can find a TON of them on the browncoat site, but I'm always just so proud of the ones I make myself even when they aren't as good as some others. And darn it, I have a full legal registered copy of the entire Adobe Creative Suite. It deserves to be used!
Again, a non spoiler one, even though I went to the trouble of making myself the Serenity spoiler filter!
I'm kind of afraid that this movie will get pirated out to the 'net with all these preview screenings going on, but at the same time the comments I've seen in the Serenity community at large imply that the Cult of Whedon is so devoted that we won't let it happen. I know that if I saw someone who had figured out a way to tape it I would turn them in. This movie is a labor of love and Joss and crew deserve every penny they get of every ticket!
For the most part security seemed very low key, especially compared to the preview of Mr & Mrs Smith that I saw at the same theater on Tuesday. At that one they checked every cell phone for a camera & made you take them out to your car.
But there was one incident with one security guard that royally ticked me off.
One of the security guys came in with two people helping them look for seats. This was at 9:30. There were two seats in the row wheremle292, squeaky, LHGB, etc were sitting. The seats had been taken by friends of theirs (2 people I don't know) EvilSecurityGuard (referred to hereafter as ESG) told mle292 that they weren't allowed to save seats. He refused to listen when they said they weren't saving them, the people who were sitting there were out in the lobby buying popcorn, and the coats on the seats belonged to those people. When LHGB tried explaining to the frelling ESG that those people were here and were out spending money at concessions he was told to butt out or he would lose his money because he would be asked to leave. The couple came back with their pop & popcorn to find that their seats were gone, their friends apologising that they couldn't stop it, and the ESG refusing to do anything about it. That couple who had been in line since 7:30 ended up sitting in crappy seats apart from each other. The ESG didn't help anyone else who sauntered in at 9:30 find a seat. I don't know who those two people were (I knew or recognised a good 25% of the audience) but I hope they really felt like crap. If it had been me, I wouldn't have been willing to stay in those seats. I would have apologized to mle292 & crew & slunk off to the crappy seats the others were relegated to. Grrr. Argh.
Other than that one incident that had our entire section pissed off the entire evening was one glorious Big Damn Movie! I really want to see it again.
Right as it endedhellbob yelled "Play it again!" But they didn't.
I'm kind of afraid that this movie will get pirated out to the 'net with all these preview screenings going on, but at the same time the comments I've seen in the Serenity community at large imply that the Cult of Whedon is so devoted that we won't let it happen. I know that if I saw someone who had figured out a way to tape it I would turn them in. This movie is a labor of love and Joss and crew deserve every penny they get of every ticket!
For the most part security seemed very low key, especially compared to the preview of Mr & Mrs Smith that I saw at the same theater on Tuesday. At that one they checked every cell phone for a camera & made you take them out to your car.
But there was one incident with one security guard that royally ticked me off.
One of the security guys came in with two people helping them look for seats. This was at 9:30. There were two seats in the row where
mle292, squeaky, LHGB, etc were sitting. The seats had been taken by friends of theirs (2 people I don't know) EvilSecurityGuard (referred to hereafter as ESG) told mle292 that they weren't allowed to save seats. He refused to listen when they said they weren't saving them, the people who were sitting there were out in the lobby buying popcorn, and the coats on the seats belonged to those people. When LHGB tried explaining to the frelling ESG that those people were here and were out spending money at concessions he was told to butt out or he would lose his money because he would be asked to leave. The couple came back with their pop & popcorn to find that their seats were gone, their friends apologising that they couldn't stop it, and the ESG refusing to do anything about it. That couple who had been in line since 7:30 ended up sitting in crappy seats apart from each other. The ESG didn't help anyone else who sauntered in at 9:30 find a seat. I don't know who those two people were (I knew or recognised a good 25% of the audience) but I hope they really felt like crap. If it had been me, I wouldn't have been willing to stay in those seats. I would have apologized to mle292 & crew & slunk off to the crappy seats the others were relegated to. Grrr. Argh.Other than that one incident that had our entire section pissed off the entire evening was one glorious Big Damn Movie! I really want to see it again.
Right as it ended
hellbob yelled "Play it again!" But they didn't.
Not just a movie yesterday...
May. 27th, 2005 10:22 pmBefore going to see Serenity I went to the member's preview of the new South American exhibit at the Minnesota Zoo. The cutest new animal there is the Cotton-top Tamarin. He's got big white poofy hair!
It look's a lot like Shepherd Book's hair in the "Jaynestown" episode ofSerenity Firefly:
Which just made it a big happy coincidence that Ron Glass was at our screening. I showed him the tamarin magnet I had and told him that my first thought on seeing them was "Too much hair!"
*edit* Jenwolf pointed out that the show is called Firefly, not Serenity. :) Yeah, I got the movie on my brain!
It look's a lot like Shepherd Book's hair in the "Jaynestown" episode of
Which just made it a big happy coincidence that Ron Glass was at our screening. I showed him the tamarin magnet I had and told him that my first thought on seeing them was "Too much hair!"
*edit* Jenwolf pointed out that the show is called Firefly, not Serenity. :) Yeah, I got the movie on my brain!