:) For a full day of fun, totally worth it. For seeing a movie, not worth it.

Believe me, you are glad you weren't in the car with us.

Of course, the key is simply getting there early enough. I have to admit getting off work at 6pm in Orange County is not the way to go. But getting there from West L.A. at 5:30 meant I found an easy parking space, and - though we ended up way in the back - I had a most pleasant time* ... and I only knew it was ultra crowded by looking around at all the people.

For something I'd actually be motivated to see, I'd just get there a bit earlier. Last night's 5:30 for a 7:15 gate was not a bad wait at all ... but you have to be able to do that as a minimum. For something special, I'd consider getting there a couple hours earlier than that.

But for ultra mega-popular screenings, its become the kind of crowdmassive I don't much like to deal with, either.







* For a vast amount of people, last nights cemetery screening was blessed with one of the most mellow crowds ever. People were not inappropriately loud or disruptive during the film, there wasn't constant screen-block traffic to-and-from the restrooms. It was atypically placid.

Which is why it was so odd when a girl stood up for a moment, and some crochety old guy yelled from the back, "Hey, could you not stand there please, sitdown!!" And a minute later, a young crochety guy walks over to the people in front of us and scolds them for a bout of laughter when someone tripped over them in the dark, telling them earnestly, "Um, you know, this is motion picture and we're all trying to watch it."


:rolleyes: Sheesh, What the Fvck??


Other than that, everyone seemed in a delightful mood of happy moviefest picnic time. And I genuinely like the vibe at the cemeterey screenings almost every time I go.



Last night was actually stellar in that regard when nearly the entire crowd got up and danced to Michael Jackson.
It was radtastic. :cool:

Yeah, no more racing there from work for me. I'll only go if we can get there very early, park on the street, and hang out in line.

Maybe Sunday the 12th Wickerman screening will be different because that's not one I want to miss.

Oh, that's this coming Sunday.


Naked Pagan Fest at the cemetery???

Sounds like fun. Shame I won't be able to make it. Have we determined which version of the movie will be shown?

Well, laying aside the remake, were there multiple versions of the original Wicker Man?


Maybe they're making that a Sunday speciality. There were, of course, many versions of the movie shown last week, Brazil. I wonder which one of those was screened. Maybe that's the gimmick to get people out there on a Sunday night.

There are two distinct versions of the original Wicker Man. The original release version, and the shorter "one night" version that most folks saw in the theaters. Home video restored the original cut, but if they have a vintage print, it's quite possible that it's the shorter, inferior version.

I was disabused of my fantasy belief that they used "prints" of films at the cemetery screenings, when there was a rather obvious DVD problem with East of Eden a couple of weeks ago.

Bah.

The 1970's version of the Wicker Man they will be showing is 100 minutes long. Don't know which version that makes it (other than it is not the remake).