Mal ,'Serenity'
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A friend of mine once cracked the crowd up at a theater showing Legend. When Mila walks through the gauzy-floaty things wafting through the forest, he yelled out, "She's innocent already, we GET it!"
He also name checked the Rolling Rock fairy.
He was much more amusing than the movie.
HP: Prisoner of Azkaban definitely brought out the 'my people' thing. Lot's of costumes and in-depth conversations about canon.
I've never been to a midnight show at Arclight but I suspect that would be intense. I did see a Friday night show of Dawn of the Dead in the Cinerama Dome that was probably the most fun I've ever had at a horror movie.
H and I saw Flash Gordon in the theater. There was a couple behind us who MSTK2000'd all the way through the film. Years later, when we got all nostalgic and watched it on cable, SO many scenes we remembered as hysterically funny just fell flat, without the onsite commentary. Finally, when the princess was screaming, "No! No! Not the Borer Worms!" H and I chorused, "Yes! Yes! Let's have the Borer Worms!" and felt marginally better.
ETA: The movie has marked us indelibly, too. What's for dinner? "HASH! AH-AHH!" That movie with Tom Hanks and the mermaid--"SPLASH! AH-AHH!" Alan Alda's old show? "M*A*S*H! AH-AHH!" And so on.
Community film events:
I still laugh over my date to the Serenity preview asking me if Simon was supposed to be gay, and telling him "Oh, they butched him WAY up from the TV series!"
I laugh over my date to the Serenity preview being shanghaied by screams of "Best Patrick ever!"
I was NOT there. IJS.
He is the best Patrick ever, because he's the only Patrick that then went over to Alexis Denisof and Alyson Hanigan to chat. I don't ask for much from my Patricks, but I do like me some of that.
Buffista game if you are so inclined. A millionaire financed a low budget "Atlas Shrugged" movie that was a critical and financial disaster. He had a chance to make it with Angela Jolie who is a big Rand fan, but she would not let him include ENTIRE Galt speech and in other ways would have interfered with the purity of of the propaganda content so he did it without her and pretty much without much professional input of any kind.
It occurs to me that "Atlas Shrugged" done right could make a good trashy (non-satirical) movie. (I could totally see an intentionally comic version but that is a different film.) So the question is: who could do it right?
Director? Screenwriter? Casting: Reardoe? Dagny? , D'Anconia, Wyatt? Mouch? James? etc..