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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Aborted Spaceflight
I was one of the many people who signed up for the screenings of Serenity for bloggers. I found the link from Johnny B. and figured I'd go for a free movie. I've never seen the show the movie is based on but I figured since that's the case with many members of the public who are going to watch the film this weekend my perspective might be helpful.
I got an e-mail notice that said to show up at the AMC on Van Ness 45 minutes before the screening starts at 7:30 p.m. I showed up earlier than an hour just to be safe. There was already a huge line that extended past to the outside of the building. I waited patiently and at 7:00 the line started moving. People ahead of me were making their way into the theater but even though I was just about to get in the line stopped. We were told the event was overbooked and that no more people were getting in. Instead there were free movie posters and free passes to another movie. Many were disappointed but since all I wanted was a free movie I figured this was just as good. That was until they ran out of free passes. Keep in mind there were ten people in front of me at the most when they announced no more free passes and this wasn’t two minutes after they announced they were giving them away. There were a whole lot of people behind me who were angry, enough to fill another theater, but I just left lest I waste another hour of my life complaining to some studio employee low on the chain of the command that can't do anything.
I felt I should tell you my unsatisfactory experience with Grace Hill Media and Universal Pictures in case they do something like this again.
Not that the trip was a total waste. Any regret of mine was washed away with shots of Johnny Walker and bottles of Sam Adams at Tommy's Joynt across the street. Walking back to the subway station I went into A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books where I found this notice for an upcoming in-store event:
Sunday, October 23 at 5:00 p.m.
Comedian Chris Elliot makes his literary debut with The Shroud of the Thwacker, a hilarious historical crime thriller about a nineteenth-century serial killer named Jack the Jolly Thwacker.
Yes, yes FUCK yes.
I even got him to catch The Office with David Koechner in the Chris Finch role.
"Are you a big William Hung fan?"
"Why do people keep asking that? Who the Hell is that!?”
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