Cool! Serenity trailer during Alias tonight. It almost seems like U is going super-overboard on the advertising so no craxy fans can come back and say "it's all your fault for not doing x, y and z" (ala Fox).

Not that there will be cause to blame, understand.

The optimist in me hopes that Serenity will sell out this weekend, and the pessimist in me feared that I might not get in to see it, so yesterday I went to buy my ticket in advance. I walked up to the counter and said to the teenybopper, "I'd like a ticket for Friday, please... Serenity, seven o'clock showing."

She popped her gum, blinked, and tapped at her ticket machine. Then she said, "Sorry, we're not showing any movie called Friday."

It took her three tries to figure out what I was asking for.

Oy.

I was mentioning the movie to my coworker when we were discussing weekend plans, and he recognized it from the commercials! He said it sounded like a lot of fun, and mentioned the the Mal/Wash Yes! No! Yes! No! bit from the ads.

"Sorry, we're not showing any movie called Friday."

dies from the laughing

Oh, dear. I kind of want to tag Confused Teenage Theater Employee. Is that wrong? It's just so funny. Poor dear.

Watching the premiere of Night Stalker, which is not impressive so far, but one of the main characters - a guy - is named "Jayne".

Now where did I hear of a guy named Jayne?...

Last weekend a couple of my friends who've only seen the occaisional episode of Firefly and enjoyed it, but never really got hooked quoted Mal and Jayne's "Do you want to run this ship?" "Yes!" "Well...you can't!" bit at each other out of the blue, which made me happy.

Tuesday I got tickets for the 7:15 show tomorrow for me and two friends. My friend EJ is so excited about the movie, she's insisting we get there around 6 so we can get in the theater as soon as possible to get good seats.

She called either today or yesterday to try and get another ticket for someone else, but told it was sold out! I'm not sure if it's for the whole day or just that showing, but she's already a talking about buying an ticket for Saturday or Sunday, or maybe next week when we get to there. Or maybe tickets Saturday or Sunday AND next weekend.

Oh, my gosh, I didn't even think about the possibility that it might be sold out! Gah... maybe I should buy tickets from Fandango now.

Eek, I hope that doesn't happen here. I've roped 10 people into going with me tomorrow night at 9:30. (I'm also seeing it at 3:45. *cough*) I got my ticket and one for someone else because they're coming from NYC and don't know when they'll arrive, and I know at least one other person in my group got an advance ticket, but that would be awful if the others got shut out of the same screening. It's still up on MovieTickets.com, so it looks good for now.

I'm worried that all of the theaters local to me may not be showing it. So far, Serenity isn't listed at the three closest theaters. One theater mentions it as coming soon this Friday on their phone recording, but I guess I'm going to have to wait until tomorrow to know for sure. Or, I could, you know, speak to a human there.

If all else fails, Fandango shows a theater an hour from me running Serenity tomorrow, so at least I have hope.

Edit: Dammit, the human at the theater says they're not going to show Serenity tomorrow. Just wait till Monday when the numbers come in, they'll be sorry. Well, at least the theater an hour away is most definitely showing my movie.

Stupid rural area... ::grumbles::