Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
The online trailer gives me no love. I'm a technodummy.
Are you broadband or dial-up? I was trying to watch it last night, but it was so slow to be playable (I'd get like another 3 seconds for every minute or so I waited to hit play again) that I gave up. Hopefully, I'll see it before HhG2tG.
I'm on broadband. But my version of Windows is ME (the suckiest of the suck) and I'm not sure I've got all the codecs. I'll check and see if I have the latest Quicktime version.
When I click the link on the trailer site it takes me to Apple's site that wants me to download ITunes. WHICH DOESNT FUCKING WORK WITH WINDOWS ME.
Yeah, SF is sold out. IMAgine my surprise. No geeks here; nope nope nope.
I know Deena posted some lj icons based on the trailer but I found some straight screencaps here: [link]
Yup, Boston's sold out, according to Fandango.
I'm curious how many were available to the public. It would be a way to guesstimate how the the movie is going to do.
Has anyone else gotten tickets?
Now I'm wondering if I should have bought more than one in case it's sold out for other Chicagoistas....
I got 2, which was the limit. Everyone needs to send larger-theatre-ma in the direction of the Hollywood 24 in NE Atlanta. Apparently Universal told them to show it in a small room, but after it sold out so quickly they were going to ask Universal to let them move it into a larger one.
I called Ginger as soon as I found out the limit was 2, and she left home before I could call her back to tell her that it had already sold out. She is at the box office awaiting the word from Universal.
Time for a delurk, I think.
I have mixed feelings about going to the Chicago advanced screening. It'd be awesome to see the movie NEXT WEEK! But it'd be very difficult for me to get home from there due to lack of a car, plus there's the whole being exhausted the next day thing. Also, I'm thinking I really want to have a big party opening weekend and go see it with all of my friends, especially since I can make it a dual Serenity/birthday party (mine's the 15th). And if I'm going to see it with friends, I think I'd rather be seeing it for the first time.
So right now I'm leaning towards not going. But oh, it's very tempting. It feels like something special, since this kind of thing doesn't happen everyday (well, advanced screenings do, but rarely are they announced beforehand like this).
Two thoughts on the trailer: The scene where River's kicking ass in the bar. Is it just me, or does it look like she's dancing? I can imagine it coreographed to a jukebox or live band.
Also, someone somewhere (definitely on another board, but possibly also here; I am Scrolly Girl because I have a ton of work to do) commented on the sound in space thing. Maybe this has already been mentioned, but I'm wondering if that was the choice of the trailer editors. Aren't trailers normally edited by the studio, and not the film's producers? I'm really hoping they'll be no sound in space in the actual film, but I can understand if they choose to add sound because that's what movie audiences expect.
Text of Joss's message re: screening: [link]
Pretty funny.
eta: looking at the comments, it looks like most cities are sold out (many sold out quickly).
Looks like Chicago's sold out now, too. Damn.