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trinityvixenIt's about the previews I saw before House of Wax.
Michelle came into the city to see this with me, which was very nice of her and Ben for picking her up at the end of it. Our show at the E-walk was sold out, so we went and found a later one at the Virgin Megastore. Seriously, I think I'm setting up all of our movie outings to that place from now on. Not only did we ruck up to the theater all of ten minutes before the show and still get a ticket, it was a virtually empty theater. Under twenty people, including us, and it was a decent theater size, too. Plus, I got to browse for two seconds through their DVD sale (everything's $10!) for a Mother's Day present.
So, we go down to the theater and the first best thing that happens to us is there are only two or three ads before actual previews began. That's amazing to me, and it's really more like one or two ads if you don't count the tie-in ad/preview for Unleashed (it was a giveaway related to the film, but it was basically a preview). Another point in the megastor theater's favor. I'm thinking people just don't remember, despite the giant electricity-sucking marquee that says LOEWS LOEWS LOEWS MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES outside, that there's a theater in here. Most people going in go to shop, and most people going to the theater aren't looking to shop and thus don't go to the Virgin Megastore. Maybe it also has to do with crowds in Times Square, though I think the E-walk sees as much or more traffic than we encountered on our way to Virgin.
The second best thing that happened were the previews. With a horror movie, you expect nothing but more of the same. Woo nelly, did we get better! We saw the trailer for George A. Romero's Land of the Dead and I started flipping out the moment the line "they're coming to get you, Barbara" happened. I'd seen it online before, but really, up there on the big screen? Whoa. Michelle and I agreed that we approve of the revitalization of the zombie-horror genre.
Next up was the latest Batman Begins trailer, which, again, I'd seen, but ayyyyyyy to Christian Bale with his shirt off and another node of concurrence between Michelle and me for saying Katie Holmes is not welcome in the role she's in. Too young, or at least too young-looking. But Christian Bale, still the hotzors. I had to remind her who was playing Jonathan Crane aka the Scarecrow, and we drooled over him (another zombie movie connection!) on the walk to Wendy's after the film.
And we end with probably the best trailer of the evening surprise-wise because it was the only one I hadn't seen: The Dukes of Hazzard. Oh, it sounds bad, I'm sure, another adaptation of an old TV show fated to be as genuinely enjoyable as, say, Starsky and Hutch (was not into that one), but it has Seann-en-en-en Willaim Scott in it! I've confessed my suspicion here before that I will watch any movie he's in and I'll say it again: I'd go see The Dukes of Hazzard because he's in it being stupid. I wouldn't necessarily pay to see it, but since I was in a theater where I'd paid to see House of Wax I can probably justify seeing that in the theater, too. Plus the trailer was genuinely funny, despite Jessica Simpson (or, in Michelle's case, because of her) and Johnny Knoxville (never was a Jackass fan). But yeah, Seann-en-en-en William Scott, with funny hair, a silly accent, being stupid in a car, what's not to like.
Oh, I lied, here's a little snippet about House of Wax: As it's rated R, the gore was upped tremendously, which shocked and surprised me. I'd gotten used to PG-13 horror's pseudo-gore: man grabbing victim, victim reappering bloodied up and dead, villains mostly threatening survivors with torment and death rather than inflicting real pain. The killers in House of Wax were not subtle or hesitant about their violence, the main girl and guy got some brutal injuries (the girl especially) that occured on camera, realistically so, and the killers went for not only painful injuries but useful ones. In the town full of wax people and things, they'd managed to 1950's Disney animatronics it up so that some people looked alive at a distance or quick glance, which the killers managed to set up as the only kind of looks the victims got, which is impressive. Are they the brightest killers ever? No. Are the among the smartest you've ever seen in a horror movie? Yes, actually, very surprising.
Then again, when your competition is Paris Hilton and the neanderthal from the WB, I guess anyone would look like a brain surgeon in comparison.
Michelle came into the city to see this with me, which was very nice of her and Ben for picking her up at the end of it. Our show at the E-walk was sold out, so we went and found a later one at the Virgin Megastore. Seriously, I think I'm setting up all of our movie outings to that place from now on. Not only did we ruck up to the theater all of ten minutes before the show and still get a ticket, it was a virtually empty theater. Under twenty people, including us, and it was a decent theater size, too. Plus, I got to browse for two seconds through their DVD sale (everything's $10!) for a Mother's Day present.
So, we go down to the theater and the first best thing that happens to us is there are only two or three ads before actual previews began. That's amazing to me, and it's really more like one or two ads if you don't count the tie-in ad/preview for Unleashed (it was a giveaway related to the film, but it was basically a preview). Another point in the megastor theater's favor. I'm thinking people just don't remember, despite the giant electricity-sucking marquee that says LOEWS LOEWS LOEWS MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES outside, that there's a theater in here. Most people going in go to shop, and most people going to the theater aren't looking to shop and thus don't go to the Virgin Megastore. Maybe it also has to do with crowds in Times Square, though I think the E-walk sees as much or more traffic than we encountered on our way to Virgin.
The second best thing that happened were the previews. With a horror movie, you expect nothing but more of the same. Woo nelly, did we get better! We saw the trailer for George A. Romero's Land of the Dead and I started flipping out the moment the line "they're coming to get you, Barbara" happened. I'd seen it online before, but really, up there on the big screen? Whoa. Michelle and I agreed that we approve of the revitalization of the zombie-horror genre.
Next up was the latest Batman Begins trailer, which, again, I'd seen, but ayyyyyyy to Christian Bale with his shirt off and another node of concurrence between Michelle and me for saying Katie Holmes is not welcome in the role she's in. Too young, or at least too young-looking. But Christian Bale, still the hotzors. I had to remind her who was playing Jonathan Crane aka the Scarecrow, and we drooled over him (another zombie movie connection!) on the walk to Wendy's after the film.
And we end with probably the best trailer of the evening surprise-wise because it was the only one I hadn't seen: The Dukes of Hazzard. Oh, it sounds bad, I'm sure, another adaptation of an old TV show fated to be as genuinely enjoyable as, say, Starsky and Hutch (was not into that one), but it has Seann-en-en-en Willaim Scott in it! I've confessed my suspicion here before that I will watch any movie he's in and I'll say it again: I'd go see The Dukes of Hazzard because he's in it being stupid. I wouldn't necessarily pay to see it, but since I was in a theater where I'd paid to see House of Wax I can probably justify seeing that in the theater, too. Plus the trailer was genuinely funny, despite Jessica Simpson (or, in Michelle's case, because of her) and Johnny Knoxville (never was a Jackass fan). But yeah, Seann-en-en-en William Scott, with funny hair, a silly accent, being stupid in a car, what's not to like.
Oh, I lied, here's a little snippet about House of Wax: As it's rated R, the gore was upped tremendously, which shocked and surprised me. I'd gotten used to PG-13 horror's pseudo-gore: man grabbing victim, victim reappering bloodied up and dead, villains mostly threatening survivors with torment and death rather than inflicting real pain. The killers in House of Wax were not subtle or hesitant about their violence, the main girl and guy got some brutal injuries (the girl especially) that occured on camera, realistically so, and the killers went for not only painful injuries but useful ones. In the town full of wax people and things, they'd managed to 1950's Disney animatronics it up so that some people looked alive at a distance or quick glance, which the killers managed to set up as the only kind of looks the victims got, which is impressive. Are they the brightest killers ever? No. Are the among the smartest you've ever seen in a horror movie? Yes, actually, very surprising.
Then again, when your competition is Paris Hilton and the neanderthal from the WB, I guess anyone would look like a brain surgeon in comparison.
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Date: 2005-05-07 05:30 pm (UTC)I was pretty impressed with the intelligence of the survivors, personally. The girl actually did smart, useful things. The guy not so much, but whatever, he didn't do anything too idiotic.
And shut up. Jessica Simpson is so much less offensive than just about any of her peers. I just can't seem to hate her.
On a vaguely related note, I really wanted Paris to survive based on her Stupid Spoiled Whore powers. (Southpark reference, hee.)
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Date: 2005-05-07 10:18 pm (UTC)My problem with Dukes of Hazzard (which, in case you were unaware is secretly "Broken Lizard's Dukes of Hazzard, because everyone in Broken Lizard helped on the script and their director member is directing) is that the comedy wasn't funny enough, I thought. The action, on the other hand, looked fabulous. Thanks for throwing some cars, Warner, instead of just computering them in there.