Plus, when the HHGTTG promo came on and the words Don't Panic! popped up in large and friendly letters, Hec and I were the only people in the entire (nearly packed) theater who made happy noises.

That's better than my experience. My friends and I were excited, but from the rest of the audience there were some grumblings and someone said "That was really stupid!" loudly.

My favorite preview experience was when the Escape from L.A. trailer first showed Kurt Russel's face and my friend shouted "SNAKE PLISKEN! I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!!!"

BWAH!

My most memorable preview experience was going to the midnight showing of Episode I. The most ridiculous amount of energy I've seen in a movie theatre (sad the movie didn't live up to it.) The preview of "The Beach" plays. Suddenly hundreds of geeks are booing Leonardo DiCaprio in unison and then his female costar appears on the screen in a bikini and the booing is immediately replaced by a Keaunu-esque "Woah."

hundreds of geeks are booing Leonardo DiCaprio in unison and then his female costar appears on the screen in a bikini and the booing is immediately replaced by a Keaunu-esque "Woah."

That, I would almost have paid to have witnessed.

I did attend a preview of the then highly anticipated Final Fantasy. The audience mood change from before to after the film--from eager to "That was three hours I'll never get back"--would only have amazed you if you hadn't seen FF yourself.

I would still have been amazed. I really liked Final Fantasy.

I stand with Sean on Final Fantasy. Not one of the best movies ever or anything, but I've played so many of the games I was hardly expecting a storytelling masterpiece. And it was simply lovely. I came out of it fully satisfied, and have watched it at least once since.

Though FFX was actually a better movie... heh.

my friend shouted "SNAKE PLISKEN! I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!!!"

I hope someone then said, "I'll kill the next man who says that."

t /John Wayne geekery

Not that I recall, but there were lots of titters from people who liked the original.

Another great preview experience was seeing what we thought was a Jurassic Park sequel trailer set in the New York Museum of Natural History, with the close-up on rippling coffee cups and such, and then seeing Godzilla's foot crash through the roof to trample a T Rex skeleton (accompanied by the oh-so-recognizeable roar). The crowd went wild.

Would that the actual movie had been as entertaining as the preview...

Hey, the Godzilla remake had cool French commandos in it.

I saw The Phantom of The Opera.

It's a pity they didn't cast singers. Otherwise, I couldn't be happier. It was loud. It was bombastic. Chandeliers fell. Organs crashed. The same. three. phrases. were played over and over. There was a duel by night in a snow-covered cemetery. There was an underground horse and an underground gondola.

You want to see this movie with a friend who will help you mock the mockable bits and enjoy the enjoyable bits, of which there are many.

I just saw the trailer for Mr. And Mrs. Smith, and I have to say, it looked pretty freakin' good.

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I'm excited for that too, Erin.

I just saw Elektra. It was okay. I'm not demanding my money back or anything, but I'm not real sure what the point of the movie was. For instance, why is the treasure important? If that other girl, Typhoid, was a treasure, well, she was killed easily enough, and none of her "kills" were permanent. What was so special about her? I was okay with the little girl dying, pretty much, and I don't think I should have been. It would've been sad, but I would have gotten over it. She was a pain in the butt, and if they hadn't kept telling me she was special, I definitely would not have known. I mean, she wasn't even that good at martial arts. So, I just didn't get it. Also, why didn't Elektra stay with her new friends? It seemed the point was she had now made a connection, and then she says that they'll find each other. But why? There's no need to find each other, when they're all in the same room together. They can make plans. That's what's great about face to face contact. And what was with the pool thing? Why did she have to keep doing that? Was she a treasure, too? Did her dad train her? And if they were going to keep doing the swimming thing, then why not have it be used later? I think she should have needed to swim for some reason in the final fight. Like, her hands could be tied, and then they should have knocked her down the well. And then all of the swimming stuff would have been paid off, when she could get out of it without using her hands. There just really was no point to anything done in the movie.

I don't know. It wasn't bad. It was just far from great. Or sensical.