Trilogy Tuesday can SUCK IT

So this Saturday evening or sometime at any point Sunday (as I just discovered that I have the day off!), I'm wanna find a movie theatre where I'll be able to see GRINDHOUSE and HOT FUZZ. I predict these will be the 6 greatest hours I shall likely ever spend in a theatre.

I actually have a handful of free passes to GRINDHOUSE, supposedly good for any theatre showing it. Yes, my comic store receeved a stack of "Movie Cash" flyers, good for up to a $12.00 ticket. I have to wonder if this is part of Harvey Weinstein's backwards freaking-out response to the movie utterly bombing: "People didn't come see this movie! I know, we'll give out free passes! Then people will come!" "But how will we make a prof--" "Yes, free passes!"

Maybe he just loves the movie so much he wants people to see it. That's probably not the case, as that's obviously a shit business decision, but lord knows that's what I'd do. In fact, if anyone wants to tag along, I'll grab a couple more of the free tickets. But I'm not gonna use them. No, I absolutely love and believe in this movie enough that I am fully willing to shell out the nine bucks to support it. If the theatre were more like this, I'd go every weekend.

Idiotic frelling American moviegoers, loving their NORBIT and WILD HOGS (and even 300, which was fun and had comic book cred, but was totally empty... the first half of GRINDHOUSE blows everything 300 did out of the water).

I'd opt for Sunday afternoon/evening, but I can race from work Saturday at 6ish to get where I need to. Also, I need to smuggle in a thermos of beer or something. This venture requires beer. Beer and Buncha Crunch.

But I just can't do this alone. I need to share the geek vibes with you, my geek peeps.

EDIT: it looks like our best choices are Georgetown, Silver Spring, and Rockville. What think you?

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.

Up until yesterday, aside from movie geeks like me who frequent sites like aintitcool.com and chud.com, the vast majority of America had never heard of Park-Chan Wook's excellent and (understandably) overrated film OLDBOY. And now, thanks to a media far more interested in giving an evil, screwed-up little psycho exactly what he wants by plastering him all over the news, making this story more about the killer than the victims... that's all started to change.

I remember when I first saw those pictures of Cho with the hammer and the gun, I thought to myself, "Oh, shit." Besides that, CHUD.com has expressed my thoughts on this particular matter first here and then followed it up with an editorial here.

Once again, let's all jump on the blame bandwagon. Let's all point fingers. Let's all blame art. Let's all have our heads up our asses so we can do this all over again the next time some senseless tragedy happens. Let's make sense of it by ignoring all logic. Many people won't be like this. But many will. The fact that enough average people will think this way to actually matter depresses me deeply.

If there's an upside to this, it's that this will now almost certainly guarantee that the OLDBOY American remake ain't ever gonna happen. Thank fucking God. When Justin Lin, director of ANNAPOLIS, was behind it, he wanted to replace the octopus scene with a taco. A fucking taco, people.

No word on how this will affect the Bollywood remake of OLDBOY, though.