But of course, if I was, I wouldn’t be typing this, now would I?
:sigh:
No big deal. I’ve only been looking forward to seeing the newly-restored Metropolis since August. I’ve only watched the trailer about a billion times since then.
I was supposed to go with a friend, my mom and my uncle. My friend cancels on me TODAY, and then my uncle does as well. Mom doesn’t want to go to downtown Detroit at night without a guy, so here I am, sitting. If the two people had just let me know YESTERDAY, mom and I could at least have gone to the matinee today.
Goddammit. Months and months of anticipation and having “METROPOLIS!” on every single damn calendar I own, for nothing. I don’t even know if the dvd is coming out within the next decade or five. It’s not like the dvd can compare with seeing it on the big screen with a frickin’ orchestra, but still.
I could have been doing something right now, too. I don’t know what I would have been doing, but it would have been more fun than working. Instead I’m at work because my pansy of a coworker is apparently unable to cope with something as simple as a deadly stomach virus, so I have to come in here and fill in.
I know this won’t help, but I saw it last month in a not for profit theater in Lewisburg, PA and it was INCREDIBLE!
The way the missing parts are integrated through subtitles in a different font works remarkably well, after about the third time it happened, I hardly noticed it.
Definitely so what you can to se it on the big screen, the leering guys during the dancing bit is hilarious:)
Meant to mention in previous post: I also saw the restored Metropolis, and was amazed by it. The added subplot cleared up a lot, or rather it strengthened motivation in some key scenes. Plus, heck, it’s one of those movies you’ve GOT to see on a big screen.
I saw it in Detroit with some friends on Friday night. I wish I would’ve known, we’d have picked you up!
It’s coming to the East Lansing Film Festival in late March or April, so if you can sit tight until then, you can park at my dorm and we can walk over and watch it together. Wells Hall ain’t the DIA theater, but you won’t even notice.
BTW, I absolutely loved it, as did the people I saw it with, who hadn’t seen the older version and didn’t quite know what to expect.
Mom finally caved into her own self-whining (;)), and we went. 'Course, she took so long debating with herself that we got there a half-hour late and missed a decent chunk :smack:, but I still got to see most of it!
I LOVED IT! Absolutely amazing. And I loved the shot of the leering guys, heh heh heh!
