Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?

'Smile Time'


Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape  

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Gris - May 05, 2008 12:03:39 pm PDT #5503 of 10000
Hey. New board.

Okay, see, I was seriously imagining that the "problem" would be that people would be so engrossed in playing the game that they wouldn't leave the house to go to the movies.

I'm surprised it wasn't. I had no problem imagining scores of thousands of people saying "Oh, Iron Man looks pretty cool. I'll go next weekend. This weekend is totally GTA time."

'swhat I'd've done if there'd been a new Final Fantasy game.


Atropa - May 05, 2008 12:06:51 pm PDT #5504 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

they're probably not the getting-out-of-the-house-much audience to begin with.

Bwah-hahahahahahaha!

He did leave the house this weekend. And did stuff around the house that was NOT playing GTA4. I swear.


Frankenbuddha - May 05, 2008 1:09:44 pm PDT #5505 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Metropolitan-Governed Sewers.

That's Grand Theft Sewer Urchin.


Jessica - May 05, 2008 1:18:22 pm PDT #5506 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

GTA V: CHUD City


Nutty - May 05, 2008 2:26:34 pm PDT #5507 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

the theatre two blocks away was showing three prints on four screens.

So...how does this work? Do they have a mirror to split the projection of one of the prints so that two screens can show it at once? And is one of the viewings thus completely flipped left/rightways??

Or else I am imagining an hilarious caucus of the poor employees, finishing the reel on one screen, rewinding it, running down the hall to the next screen, and starting it up, just in time to do the same thing for the next reel that finishes. Like musical chairs!


Ailleann - May 05, 2008 2:32:55 pm PDT #5508 of 10000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Not Laga, but projectors have an add-on piggyback system, so that the film will run from one platter (the thing that holds the print), through the projector, over to the other projector, through it, and then onto that projector's platter.


Laga - May 05, 2008 2:35:51 pm PDT #5509 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

what Ailleann said. And also you need two projectionists to say, "one, two, three!" And hit both start buttons at the same time. The potential for errors is high. It's called interlocking and we hates it.


Nutty - May 05, 2008 2:40:24 pm PDT #5510 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

So really, the mirror thing might be better overall. Anyway, less stressful on the projectionists.

So what if the main credits are backwards! Nobody reads them anyway.


Tom Scola - May 06, 2008 2:32:39 am PDT #5511 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Teaser for The Spirit, directed by Frank Miller: [link]

Except for the fact that it says WILL EISNER in the credits, I didn't see anything that would connect it to the source material.


Miracleman - May 06, 2008 3:22:19 am PDT #5512 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

Except for the fact that it says WILL EISNER in the credits, I didn't see anything that would connect it to the source material.

He still wears a tie...

...nah, I got nothin'.