in which darin and diane show no shame.
You might have heard that sneak previews of the Star Wars: Episode 1 trailer were being held at various theaters around the country today. That news was all over Ain't It Cool News and Yahoo! Movies, among other places. Darin, being one of those very excited by the upcoming prequel, wanted to go.
Problem: the trailer was being shown in front of three movies in our area: Meet Joe Black, The Waterboy, and The Siege.
My comment was: "Too bad we've already seen Meet Joe Black. Sure you don't want to sit through it again?"
To which Darin said, "No way."
We decided on The Siege and headed on over to Westwood. They had someone searching bags at the door for recording equipment. The theater--which is the large Village theater, near UCLA--is fairly large, the kind they don't make like that any more, and it had a good size crowd in it. I joked, "Yesterday, 5 people came to see this movie."
We saw the trailer. In case you haven't seen it or downloaded it or whatever, someone posted a description on Dark Horizons. The trailer we saw is a little different from this one. The source reports that the subtitle of the movie is not The Phantom Menace, but in the trailer we saw, it was. (I think the rumored title, Balance of the Force, is a way better title and I hope The Phantom Menace is a fake.)
The trailer is way cool. I am even more psyched to see the movie now.
(Best thing about this special showing of the trailer: it was the only trailer shown, and there was no LA Times ad.)
After the trailer was over, half the theater in front of us got up and left.
"Clearly," Darin said, "they didn't read the announcement carefully enough. Because they're going to show the trailer after the movie too."
Then we watched the movie. Ho-hum. Terrorism, freedom, what does the Constitution mean? Mainly the problem was there's a lot of politics and not very interesting politics at that. Political thrillers depend on two things: making the politics clear and making the politics simple. Also, Bruce Willis, whom I usually like, chews scenery like a starving man in this film. I wanted to slap that pout right off his face.
We sat through the credits. Two-thirds of the way through the credits, more people got up and left. I shouted, "They're going to show the trailer again!" but nobody slowed down.
And they showed the trailer again. Then we left.
A manager wants to meet with me. Whoo hoo!
I overslept today and missed my dentist appointment. This is bad, actually, because it means a)I didn't run and b)I didn't see the dentist, and I really need to. I think I have a crack in a tooth; I'm only using one-half of my mouth.
Rob has stopped playing Clan Lord. This is how he broke the news to me:
Rifkin gave all his money to Miranth and threw himself on a Tree Giant. He said something about "to much of a god damned waste of time". I'm not sure exactly what he meant and I can't find out because I seem to have accidentally deleted every copy of Clan Lord from my hard disk.
I know the feeling. I'm not opening it unless I'm prepared to sink 2 or 3 hours into it.
Of course, I played some Caesar III last night, fully intending to play an hour or two. I went to bed at 2:30 and so overslept. I'm not playing it again unless it's Friday or Saturday night.
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Copyright 1998 Diane Patterson
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