# DFW Dopers: Bubba Ho-Tep is coming **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355 "2003-10-19T13:26:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/1 "2003-10-19T13:26:43Z")
This is for all you Bruce Campbell fans. Okay, there’s really only one big fan and that’s **Psiekier** , but the rest of us have developed an appreciation for the man. _ **Bubba Ho-tep** _ is coming to the Angelika theater on Mockingbird in Dallas. Here’s a quick summary of the movie (stolen from the **Bubba Ho-Tep** website at [http://www.bubbahotep.com](http://www.bubbahotep.com)): > [@](#): > > Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by acclaimed author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis. > > ``` > We find the King (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds… > > ``` So, do we want to make plans to see the movie? It opens at the Angelika on October 31st. I don’t know how long it’ll run, but I know I’m interested in seeing it. ---
**Author:** ![Moxmaiden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Moxmaiden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moxmaiden)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/2 "2003-10-19T15:16:45Z")
Sounds like fun to me. I will have **Mtgman** drop in to catch the details. Melissa ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/3 "2003-10-19T18:35:17Z")
Count me in. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/4 "2003-10-20T01:18:31Z")
I’m game. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/5 "2003-10-20T02:03:32Z")
[Groovy](http://www.freecfm.com/p/psiekier/GROOVY.WAV). I’m going, but I’m already booked Saturday night (November 1st). I’m sure they have shows in the afternoon, too; that’s how I saw _Cowboy Bebop_. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/6 "2003-10-20T08:24:08Z")
Just saw it in Chicago Friday night (and Bruce Campbell was at the screening :)). Definitely a fun movie, but it’s also suprisingly serious and poignant at times. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/7 "2003-10-20T11:57:15Z")
I have never heard of this story (or film) before, but I just read a review in the Boston Phoenix, and now I have to see it. It hits on all my “bad movie” chords – my apologies to fans of the film and the story, but it’s true. Dan Coscarelli ( **Phantasm** ) directing, that way-out plot, Bruce Campbell starring… It’s just an off-the-wall film-lover’s smorgasbord. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/8 "2003-10-20T13:00:54Z")
I’ll need to double check with my uh…calendar; yeah, calendar, but we(being my calendar and me) should be able to make it. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/9 "2003-10-20T13:00:58Z")
Absolutely! That’s why I want to see it too. And because of that whole Elvis thing. Bruce Campbell and Elvis. It’s the perfect film for the DFW Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/10 "2003-10-20T15:48:08Z")
I’d just like to point out that _Bubba Ho-Tep_ is also part of the [Deep Ellum Film Festival](http://www.def2.org), which opens with _ALIEN: The Director’s Cut_. _Bubba_ screens on Oct. 30, with the director in attendance. And _Prison-A-Go-Go_ should be, um, interesting, considering the director’s [previous effort](http://www.filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?Id=2243). ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/11 "2003-10-20T19:17:46Z")
Crapmonkey. I just checked with the calendar and she pointed out I’m on-call that week. I’ll have to join ya’ll some other time. ---
**Author:** ![Aglarond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/12 "2003-10-20T19:18:03Z")
Crapmonkey. I just checked with the calendar and she pointed out I’m on-call that week. I’ll have to join y’all some other time. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/13 "2003-10-21T18:27:58Z")
I’m in if I can swing it. Let me know the day and time. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/14 "2003-10-21T21:34:25Z")
Halloween probably isn’t good especially since some of our folks have kids. How about Sunday, Nov. 2? ---
**Author:** ![Moxmaiden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Moxmaiden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moxmaiden)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/15 "2003-10-23T01:17:45Z")
The 2nd would be ok depending on the time. Our oldest gets back from camp on Sunday. I will let **Mtgman** know. Melissa ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/16 "2003-10-23T01:20:13Z")
> [@](#): > > We find the King (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds… Damn that Hollywood. Won’t they ever come up with an _original_ idea? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/17 "2003-10-23T01:33:40Z")
It’s kicking off our [IndieMemphis](http://www.indiememphis.com) film festival too. I can’t wait to see it, even though the IndieMemphis selection committee was apparently too dense to perceive the subtle genius of the silent slapstick comedy I made and submitted this year. Ahem. But I’m not bitter… ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/18 "2003-10-23T17:55:25Z")
So, does anyone have any conflicts or are we going to try to do this on the 2nd? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/19 "2003-10-23T18:46:29Z")
The 2nd works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355/20 "2003-10-23T19:23:33Z")
This might be a good excuse to meet up with you crazies 😉 Let me pencil in the 2nd … [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dfw-dopers-bubba-ho-tep-is-coming/208355.md?page=2)