Awesome! Same thing happened with me and Hunger Games. Sadly, I have not taken the 4th off, so I will settle for opening night!
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Polter-Cow - Apr 27, 2012 2:32:53 pm PDT #19640 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
EpicTangent - Apr 27, 2012 2:51:58 pm PDT #19641 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I'll be DAMNED if I won't take advantage of it and get my geek on.
I'm doing the all-day marathon on the 3rd, then taking the 4th off. I felt rather like you - it's just been too long since I had a full-on geeky day. So I'm having one! (Pray for me...or at least my backside).
Frankenbuddha - Apr 27, 2012 2:54:34 pm PDT #19642 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I haven't seen a midnight show since Dark Knight, so I'm kinda psyched.
About seeing it as a midnight movie, I should say. I've been stoked for the movie for a long time.
EpicTangent - Apr 27, 2012 3:01:43 pm PDT #19643 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Serenity was my last midnight showing (well, that and the Buffy sing-along before the production company shut him down).
I'm getting more psyched as the date is creeping up (and as the positive reviews start rolling in).
Frankenbuddha - Apr 28, 2012 6:19:42 pm PDT #19644 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Finally saw HUNGER GAMES. The camera-work only bothered me a little, but mostly because I kept thinking someone had seen too many Lars Von Trier movies and thought it would make things SERIOUS if they filmed it that way. I get why most of the violence was filmed that way given that there was no way they'd be allowed to go with an R by the studio.
That said, I did dislike the removal of a lot of the horror elements that came into it (namely the muttations and what they really were), but I loved most of the additions since they weren't going to go with a Katniss voiceover (thank the lord). I think it was good to set up Snow earlier than the books did as a major force of evil, and I loved what they did with Seneca Crane.
I think all the actors were spot on. Gale might have been the only one I'm not sure about, but mainly because he didn't have anything to do (and seemed 5 or so years older than Jennifer Lawrence, and given how much she was playing younger that's something). I liked the actor that played Peeta a lot, but for some reason I kept seeing him as some cross between Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion, so I spent a good deal of the movie wondering what Joss would have done with this series.
For a 2.5 hour movie, though, it just blew by like gangbusters.
le nubian - Apr 29, 2012 7:56:53 am PDT #19645 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Um, I didn't know "The Avengers" has already been released overseas! Holy shit.
It has made a SHIT TON load of $$ too.
Steph L. - Apr 29, 2012 8:02:53 am PDT #19646 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Um, I didn't know "The Avengers" has already been released overseas!
I was saying last night that I can't remember the last time I was this excited about a movie. ISTG, it's like waiting for Christmas morning as a kid.
DavidS - Apr 29, 2012 8:04:32 am PDT #19647 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Um, I didn't know "The Avengers" has already been released overseas! Holy shit.
Emmett was complaining bitterly about this.
$178.4 million already. I don't think it will have that much trouble raking in $800 million, and could break the billion mark.
le nubian - Apr 29, 2012 8:07:29 am PDT #19648 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I am *way* more excited about Dark Knight. I am looking forward to seeing the movie Friday night tho!
Steph L. - Apr 29, 2012 8:09:23 am PDT #19649 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I am *way* more excited about Dark Knight.
I'm excited about DKR, but Avengers just looks like it's going to be so goddamn much fun, I can't stand it. Plus, it's like pretty + pretty + pretty + pretty + pretty. And then more pretty.
I think maybe the last movie I was *this* excited about was Spider-Man. Or possibly Spider-Man 2.