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Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 09-20-2002, 01:31 PM:

Attendance 1: 2002/09/13 19:20, Regal Hollywood 18, Huntsville, AL, Auditorium 10, Digital audio

Attendance 2: 2002/09/19 21:10, Carmike 10, Huntsville, AL, Auditorium 5, THX, Dolby Digital

These two attendances were extremes in terms of the audience. The first attendance, as my thread in Ground Level indicated, was full of trouble-making, rowdy teens. I got to see the first 39 minutes of the movie in the first attendance before liquid came flying over the rear stadium wall onto me and 7 or 8 others from some problematic teenager. I got into an enjoyable conversation with the manager and never went back into the movie.

I really wanted to see the entire movie, so I went to Carmike 10 last night, and I was the only person who showed up. I had the entire auditorium 5 (a THX one) to myself for the entire show. No ushher felt the need to come in to see if I was causing any problems for other patrons.

This was a Tom Green movie, but I liked it. When I went to the Hollywood 18, I was mainly going to see it out of morbid curiosity, but I liked what I saw enough to make me want to know how everything worked out after seeing the first 39 minutes.

One of the most funny scenes was the one where they rob the store with the toy guns. I loved it when the high-school-looking guy shot at them with the shotgun, then shot out the sign, then saw the camera pointed at him.

The plot at least had a few places where something from an earlier scene came up and affected things later. It was a little better than I had expected.

I decided to stay until the end of the credits, figuring this might be a movie with something at the end, and there were several minutes of outtakes. As the thread on this movie in the Print Information forum indicates, it appeared to be spliced on as an afterthought because there was a flicker and audio pop when they started.

Has anyone besides me bothered to see this movie yet?

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site

Posted by Sean McKinnon (Member # 612) on 09-21-2002, 02:39 AM:

Yes I did Evans and I thought it was crap. I saw it for free at a theatre in my company but I still wanted 8 bucks for having wasted my time

Posted by Don Anderson (Member # 397) on 09-21-2002, 12:00 PM:

Funniest scenes were in the trailer. Otherwise, it was a major disappointment.

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 09-22-2002, 02:55 PM:

Yes folks, I made by review a little more positive than I should have because I knew it would probably have been the only semi-positive review out there. I knew no other film-techers would like it.

I admit I don't really like Tom Green. The movie was mostly OK through, even though it could have been a lot better, especially if they had replaced Tom Green with Jason Mewes or Ben Affleck or something.

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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site