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Pre PAX Movie

proXimityproXimity Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in PAX Archive
Anybody have any idea what crappy movies are coming out in August, or is it too soon to know?

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  • parabolaparabola Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    proXimity wrote: »
    Anybody have any idea what crappy movies are coming out in August, or is it too soon to know?

    The Dark Knight should be out around PAX time.... Not so crappy movie.

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  • sobjwsobjw Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Yeah, it'd be nice to see a movie in an actual nice theatre as opposed to the ones in my town.

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  • DreamwriterDreamwriter Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Live-action Dragonball starts August 15...not even Dragonball Z! Even with a $100 million budget, that movie's got great potential for cheese. And opening August 8, Journey to the Center of the Earth...in 3D! And starting August 29, Babylon A.D...a sci-fi action flick starring Vin Diesel!

    Lots of potential for cheesy movies during PAX.

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Maybe our chances of finding a completely empty theater (or a theater with people willing to join us in mocking the movie) would be higher if we found one of those $1.50 "after theater" theaters?

    You know the ones, where they show movies that are like a year old in the theater, but the tickets are dirt cheap and almost no one goes to them. There's one just down the road from me here in Sacramento, and sometimes if you go there you'll be the only person there. Or sometimes, for a particularly bad movie, the people there are already thinking the same thing (heckling, that is).

    If there's still one around in Seattle, that could be a plan...?

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  • Qs23Qs23 Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    From what the Studios have officially announced, here are all the release dates for the month of August up until Thursday, Aug 28th (The day the Pre-PAX movie would be):

    Aug 1st:

    The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    Choke
    He's Just Not That Into You
    Swing Vote

    Aug 8:

    Blindness
    Pineapple Express
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    Eagle Eye

    Aug 15:

    Dragonball
    Towelhead aka Nothing Is Private
    Wild Child
    The International

    Aug 22:

    Case 39
    I Know What Boys Like
    Fly Me to the Moon

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  • RowdyTheDogRowdyTheDog Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Qs23 wrote: »
    Aug 8:

    Blindness
    Pineapple Express
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    Eagle Eye

    :winky:

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  • RelativioxRelativiox Halo Nerd Forerunner shield world OnyxRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    VThornheart wrote: »
    Maybe our chances of finding a completely empty theater (or a theater with people willing to join us in mocking the movie) would be higher if we found one of those $1.50 "after theater" theaters?

    You know the ones, where they show movies that are like a year old in the theater, but the tickets are dirt cheap and almost no one goes to them. There's one just down the road from me here in Sacramento, and sometimes if you go there you'll be the only person there. Or sometimes, for a particularly bad movie, the people there are already thinking the same thing (heckling, that is).

    If there's still one around in Seattle, that could be a plan...?

    Usually this isn't a problem as the we go to the movie quite late. I went to the one in 2006 and there were maybe 6 other people in the theater and that was at the downtown Bellevue theater.

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  • BrokenAngelBrokenAngel Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Relativiox wrote: »
    VThornheart wrote: »
    Maybe our chances of finding a completely empty theater (or a theater with people willing to join us in mocking the movie) would be higher if we found one of those $1.50 "after theater" theaters?

    You know the ones, where they show movies that are like a year old in the theater, but the tickets are dirt cheap and almost no one goes to them. There's one just down the road from me here in Sacramento, and sometimes if you go there you'll be the only person there. Or sometimes, for a particularly bad movie, the people there are already thinking the same thing (heckling, that is).

    If there's still one around in Seattle, that could be a plan...?

    Usually this isn't a problem as the we go to the movie quite late. I went to the one in 2006 and there were maybe 6 other people in the theater and that was at the downtown Bellevue theater.


    Last year it was >.>

    Most all of us got thrown out for being annoying to the other patrons. It sucked. :(

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  • RelativioxRelativiox Halo Nerd Forerunner shield world OnyxRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    BrokenAngel wrote: »
    Last year it was >.>

    Most all of us got thrown out for being annoying to the other patrons. It sucked. :(

    Sorry, I didn't go last year. I'll shut up now.

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Well, maybe last year they didn't go late enough? Something must be possible to allow it to happen... either going to one that we know will be empty/full of hecklers anyways, or renting out our own theater room for a private showing, or something.

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  • collinccollinc Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I think with Bumbershoot being the same weekend Seattle is going to be pretty packed. I don't think we have a great chance of finding an empty theater.

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  • Qs23Qs23 Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Plus, no matter how much I love MST3K... I'm not going to want the movie to get in the way of booze. So there goes the later showing.

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  • mentok1982mentok1982 I could never leave you PAX baby. BaltimoreRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Qs23 wrote: »
    From what the Studios have officially announced, here are all the release dates for the month of August up until Thursday, Aug 28th (The day the Pre-PAX movie would be):

    Aug 1st:

    The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    Choke
    He's Just Not That Into You
    Swing Vote

    Aug 8:

    Blindness
    Pineapple Express
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    Eagle Eye

    Aug 15:

    Dragonball
    Towelhead aka Nothing Is Private
    Wild Child
    The International

    Aug 22:

    Case 39
    I Know What Boys Like
    Fly Me to the Moon

    That is 15 movies. Narrow it down to 10 movies and then we ask Moe to make us a Pre-PAX movie poll.

    The ones I am into are:
    The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    Dragonball
    Blindness

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  • randomguyrandomguy Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Why are we excluding probably the biggest Sci Fi movie for that weekend opening the weekend of PAX !!?!

    Babylon A.D.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364970/

    two words: Vin Diesel

    plot: "Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop (Diesel) takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah."


    HELLO ?!


    *NEW* Edit

    As Qs23 and I discussed on the IRC. This movie does release the 29th, a day later. There could be a midnight showing the night before, not sure cause I do not live in the area and I am not sure the name of the shitty theater in the mall we were all kicked out during the Invasion. One old woman comes at 4 pm to watch a movie and we have to suffer ! She should have known.

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited February 2008
    Oh man, if we do a midnight show, we'd probably already be drunk from the bar crawl...


    This could end badly.

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  • Atlus ParkerAtlus Parker Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Eight Underscores Moe wrote: »
    Oh man, if we do a midnight show, we'd probably already be drunk from the bar crawl...


    This could end badly.

    Or it could end well.

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited February 2008
    1. 6pm - Pre-PAX Dinner
    2. 9pm - Bar Crawl
    3. 12am - Pre-PAX Movie (note that the theater in the Westlake center sold beer. IIRC)
    4. 2am - ???
    5. PROFIT

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  • MonoxideMonoxide Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2008
    There's a theater out here that's BYOB. They used to let you smoke inside, too, before Illinois imposed the public smoking ban. If only these were a national phenomenon.

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  • GertBeefGertBeef Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Monoxide wrote: »
    There's a theater out here that's BYOB. They used to let you smoke inside, too, before Illinois imposed the public smoking ban. If only these were a national phenomenon.

    You are a traitor to your own smoking kind.

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  • MonoxideMonoxide Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2008
    GertBeef wrote: »
    Monoxide wrote: »
    There's a theater out here that's BYOB. They used to let you smoke inside, too, before Illinois imposed the public smoking ban. If only these were a national phenomenon.

    You are a traitor to your own smoking kind.

    What?

    Man, I quit two months ago.

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  • GertBeefGertBeef Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Monoxide wrote: »
    GertBeef wrote: »
    Monoxide wrote: »
    There's a theater out here that's BYOB. They used to let you smoke inside, too, before Illinois imposed the public smoking ban. If only these were a national phenomenon.

    You are a traitor to your own smoking kind.

    What?

    Man, I quit two months ago.

    is that why you have been so drunk lately?

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  • MonoxideMonoxide Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2008
    I'm always so drunk.

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited February 2008
    Man, last weekend I was so drunk I fell down, bruised my hip, my friend broke his finger in the same fall, then I came home and played terrible drunk rock band drums.

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  • MonoxideMonoxide Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2008
    Eight Underscores Moe wrote: »
    Man, last weekend I was so drunk I fell down, bruised my hip, my friend broke his finger in the same fall, then I came home and played terrible drunk rock band drums.

    yes you did. I did the same last night, minus the falling. And with more singing than drums. At 6am.

    my roommate didn't think my rendition of cherub rock was worth listening to at full volume.

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  • GertBeefGertBeef Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Monoxide wrote: »
    Eight Underscores Moe wrote: »
    Man, last weekend I was so drunk I fell down, bruised my hip, my friend broke his finger in the same fall, then I came home and played terrible drunk rock band drums.

    yes you did. I did the same last night, minus the falling. And with more singing than drums. At 6am.

    my roommate didn't think my rendition of cherub rock was worth listening to at full volume.

    I can't imagine how terrorfying meeting you guys in real life is going to be.

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited February 2008
    It will be terrifyingly intoxicating. You are coming, right?

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  • GertBeefGertBeef Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Eight Underscores Moe wrote: »
    It will be terrifyingly intoxicating. You are coming, right?

    Most likely. Who wants duty free booze?

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  • MonoxideMonoxide Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2008
    GertBeef wrote: »
    Eight Underscores Moe wrote: »
    It will be terrifyingly intoxicating. You are coming, right?

    Most likely. Who wants duty free booze?

    Only if it's Fosters.

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited February 2008
    Bring some mystery liquor that we don't get over here too.

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  • GertBeefGertBeef Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Monoxide wrote: »
    GertBeef wrote: »
    Eight Underscores Moe wrote: »
    It will be terrifyingly intoxicating. You are coming, right?

    Most likely. Who wants duty free booze?

    Only if it's Fosters.


    How about some Bundaberg rum? Fosters is easier to get in Canada than here.

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  • GertBeefGertBeef Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Eight Underscores Moe wrote: »
    Bring some mystery liquor that we don't get over here too.

    Emu's choice strawberry snapps.

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  • MonoxideMonoxide Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2008
    Yeah sure whatever. As long as it's not made with kangaroo or something, I'll drink it.

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited February 2008
    Man, if you've got liquor made out of kangaroo, I want some.

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  • GertBeefGertBeef Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Kangaroo tastes like steak actually.

    Back on subject. Lets invite everyone but atlus.

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  • Atlus ParkerAtlus Parker Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    GertBeef wrote: »
    Back on subject. Lets invite everyone but atlus.

    Considering at least 2 people are planning to throw up on me I thought I was already invited.

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  • MonoxideMonoxide Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2008
    nah you're not invited

    I was just going to start drinking a bunch of Skol vodka if I ran into you

    It's like ipecac but it also gets you drunk

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  • GertBeefGertBeef Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Monoxide wrote: »
    nah you're not invited

    I was just going to start drinking a bunch of Skol vodka if I ran into you

    It's like ipecac but it also gets you drunk

    Absolut and beer is like that for me. It's like pure death! The day after that is.

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  • bowlofpetuniasbowlofpetunias Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    talks of drinking and rowdy movie watching already have me all kinds of excited for this.

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  • BrokenAngelBrokenAngel Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Drunken movie time = Win <3

    I am so up for this.

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  • ZineZine Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I won't participate in the drunken part but I will take part in the watching the movie part. I shall be the guiding light and make you people do bad things while you are drunk. It shall be a grand old time!

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