laughs and points at putative second city
Sod off - it's playing on the Magnificent Mile. Is is playing any place magnificent in SF?
Zombies! Hyena people! Snyder!
Student ,'Touched'
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tommyrot - Sep 24, 2004 8:50:06 am PDT #4080 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 24, 2004 8:50:08 am PDT #4081 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
WTF?? Shaun of the Dead is not playing in Chicago?
Huh? Ebert reviewed it in the Sun Times and he doesn't do that if the movie hasn't opened yet (as opposed to his show where he does).
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2004 8:51:33 am PDT #4082 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, I was relying on Yahoo Movies. Fandango found one theater in downtown Chicago.
Kathy A - Sep 24, 2004 8:57:41 am PDT #4083 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Use the Metromix page at the Tribune's website to get a pretty accurate movie listing for Chicago and 'burbs--it's got Shaun of the Dead in 24 theaters in the area.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2004 9:00:48 am PDT #4084 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh duh. There's more theaters listed on the next page at Fandango. But I avoid going to 'burbs other than Evanston.
I guess the moral of the story is that I cannot be relied upon for accurate information on showings of Shaun of the Dead in Chicago.
lisah - Sep 24, 2004 9:03:33 am PDT #4085 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
And in this very thread, from me. Go see it! It's brilliantly funny.
Am going to Shaun of the Dead tonight based on your review! And the very funny interview with the filmmakers in the paper yesterday in which they referred to a Zombie zeitgeist.
Hayden - Sep 24, 2004 10:00:54 am PDT #4086 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Shaun of the Dead has Dawn (whose real name is Lucy Davis) from The Office in it, too, apparently.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2004 10:06:34 am PDT #4087 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Shaun of the Dead has Dawn (whose real name is Lucy Davis) from The Office in it, too, apparently.
And Tim, briefly.
Gris - Sep 24, 2004 10:12:17 am PDT #4088 of 10001
Hey. New board.
I said I would get back to you on the quality of Blockbuster Online in comparison to Netflix, and now I am.
As far as I can tell, the service is at least as good as Netflix, with very quick delivery and turnaround, at least in SoCal. The DVDs seem to generally take two days to get from the distribution center to my on-campus mailbox and one day to get from the on-campus outbox to their return center. As far as I can tell, their selection is as large as Netflix's EXCEPT for the lack of NC-17 choices. They don't stock NC-17 movies as policy, so if you think you might want to watch movies of that rating then you'll need to stick with Netflix. They do stock "Unrated" DVDs, like the Unrated version of The Girl Next Door that's in my queue, so lots of movies that could have been NC-17 but were originally released as R edits are available.
For me, it's a bit better than Netflix because it's $2 a month cheaper AND the two in-store rental coupons a month is a really nice perk. And I only use it to watch old TV shows, mostly, so the NC-17 thing is really not a problem.
So, yeah. I like it. Recommended.
Lee - Sep 24, 2004 11:30:13 am PDT #4089 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I just did a trial period with Blockbuster, and I didn't like them as much as Netflix, both because of the NC-17 thing (I don't watch that many NC-17 movies, but I have issues with companies deciding such things for me) and because even though the two movies I got from them were mailed out on the same day and had the same expected arrival date, one of them showed up 4 days before the other.