The Return of the King (with pizza!) Wooo! Midnight premiere of LotR:RotK last night at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. I went there, showed them the receipt I got at Midnight Comics (which hosted the event), got a paper orange band around my wrist, and went in.
In the back of the theatre, they had a hot table with pizzas, a bowl of ice, a stack of cups, and various pitchers of soda, lined up by brand & type. (Unfortunately, there was one pitcher that had been placed halfway between the "Dr Pepper" row and the "Diet" row by some idiot. I didn't know what it was and didn't touch it.) I got some pizza and a Dr Pepper, and spotted Paracelsus and Aisha (local furries; in fact, Paracelsus was the guy I heard about the event from.) I joined them and some of Josh's friends (a clever way of saying "Paracelsus's non-furry friends", clever except for the fact that I had to explain it just now) and we sat down. The seats have tables in front of them to put your food and drinks on.
At midnight, before the movie started, a guy stood at the front of the theatre and welcomed us all, and then introduced two guys, one dressed as a warrior of Gondor and the other dressed as an Orc, and they fought. (Because it was midnight, they could get away with stuff like the Orc giving the other guy the finger and shouting "Fuck Gondor!") The Gondorian won, of course.
Then the movie started! Wait, no, the previews started. One of the fun things about seeing a movie with an all-geek crowd is, people aren't afraid to yell funny comments at the screen. During the Spiderman 2 trailer, when Mary Jane says to a reluctant Peter Parker, "Kiss me", someone yelled, "If you don't, you're an asshole!" There were also trailers for "The Butterfly Effect", in which Ashton Kutcher gains the ability to change the past, yet inexplicably does not go back to prevent "Dude, Where's My Car" from being made. Um, and some other trailers I don't remember.
Okay,
then the movie started.
( Spoilers beyond this cut. )So anyway, is Return of the King worth seeing? Oh HELL yeah!
Current Mood: Well, I'm back.