I really doubt that Joss is so tired that he would let it slip that he KILLS OFF THE STAR OF THE MOVIE.
I mean, does he want to make a sequel?

Heh. Joss, what a funny guy.

[ edited by electricspacegirl on 2004-06-04 08:17 ]

electricspacegirl | June 04, 10:16 CET

Yeah, I don't really think it's a spoiler. I'm sooo excited to have a date to mark on my calendar now! Maybe I can break my record of how many times I've seen a movie in the theater, which has held steady at 7 since Jurassic Park came out in 1993. If there's one movie I'll want to see 8 times, it'll be this one.

MindPieces | June 04, 10:21 CET

one other film has been currently confirmed for an april 22nd release and that's the joaqiun pheonix/reese witherspoon drama 'walk the line'

hopefully it will be the only action-ish film released around that time so we can get a lot of the general audience as well as all the fans

aapac | June 04, 10:27 CET

It's Joss's well known sense of humour so I've removed the tag.

Simon | June 04, 10:36 CET

Oh, how I love the Joss. Come, Joss, come to me and dazzle me with your witty reparteé...

*puts on JossWorship robe and hurries down the winding earthen steps to the JossWorship altar*

TheJoyofZeppo | June 04, 10:54 CET

So mark your calendars, Browncoats, 'cause if you're planning to get married on April 22nd 2005, you better change the date. Seriously. Who gets married in April? Just change it.

Oh. my. GOD! And also, HEY!

April 22nd, '05 will be my eighth wedding anniversary. No dookie, ya'll! (And it was a lovely day for a wedding, Joss, I'll have you know.)

[squee] Honey? Guess what we're doing to celebrate our nuptials this year...[/squee] :)

Wiseblood | June 04, 11:12 CET

Hehe, he got me for a moment there with that 'Mal's death' thing, but then it's late. Yeah, definite Joss joke there. So, April huh? Is that a quiet time movie wise? No serious competition gives it a bigger chance to score it big. (Hey, I love it to death already but if it had to open against a Spiderman or Harry Potter it'd be dead in the water ya know?)

Ah man Joss sounds so excited and happy. I really hopes this is a hit. (Btw Joss? You can take a day off in July...really....to GO TO THE FRIKKIN' SAN DIEGO CON!.......and no I'm still not off that....)

EdDantes | June 04, 11:16 CET

I'm already on agony imagining how long after the US release that Universal (distributed by UIP if I'm not mistaken) will decide to release here in Brazil. I doubt they'll do a massive world wide premiere like they just did with Van Helsing, but just hope they don't take long.
It's 6 am in the morning here, and my day just started right.

[ edited by Numfar PTB on 2004-06-04 13:07 ]

Numfar PTB | June 04, 12:30 CET

What a f'ing wonderful good morning! I'm on a cloud! And I got you beat MindPieces--when I was a kid I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark 19 times in the theatre.

marmoset | June 04, 15:30 CET

Yippee!!! That really doesn't seem so far away! Less than a year! I guess I can live with that! Now, isn't that the week of April vacation for the kiddies?!! I know what me and my kiddies will be doing on that day! That's a good sign that the studio has confidence in the movie if they release it during a school vacation, right?! I am so excited about this and it will be hard staying away from the spoilers but I will stay strong!

Firefly Flanatic | June 04, 18:40 CET

"Knowledgablosity." I love that man.

FearsomeBrowMop | June 04, 20:02 CET

marmoset, original Star Wars, 1977, in the theater, twenty-seven times. My high school buddies used to take me just to hear me recite the lines. I knew the entire movie.

Willowy | June 04, 20:23 CET

I remember when one of my friends told me he saw The Matrix two times in a row, I thought it was a little excessive. But now I'm having thoughts like, "just how many showings will there be on opening day, cause I'm gonna buy a ticket to every one. Not to mention at least one showing a day for the next week (or three)." ;)

KernelM | June 04, 20:29 CET

I don't normally see movies in the theater more than once...except there was that one time with The Blair Witch Project...oh, and The Ring. But 3 times has always been my limit.

But this time, I think I want to go at least once a week for a month, maybe more.

electricspacegirl | June 04, 21:36 CET

Star Wars 11 times when I was a kid (want me to recite Princess Leia's hologram message to Obi-Wan?). The Empire Strikes Back about 7 (and I cried every time Han Solo got frozen). The last multiple viewing was Amadeus 3 times (hey, it was Mozart and had beautiful production design). It's too expensive to do that now, so I guess that's what DVDs are for.

bloodflowers | June 04, 22:45 CET

bloodflowers, I feel the same way about Amadeus. It was one of the first dvds I ever purchased.

Beautiful production, impeccably acted, and what can you say about the man's music?

Willowy | June 04, 23:26 CET

Willowy-- I can say one thing about his music. The first movie I saw after learning that Angel had been cancelled was The Triplets of Belleville. There's a scene where an incredible journey is made across an angry ocean with the Mass in C Minor on the soundtrack. That image and that music somehow expreseed the enormity of what I was feeling at the time. It made me feel something other than stunned and heartbroken.

bloodflowers | June 04, 23:48 CET

Amazing how powerful Mozart's music is, undiluted by time or trend.

Does anyone know if he has any blood kin alive today? Progeny, I mean...

Willowy | June 05, 00:40 CET

Willowy: according to the Wikipedia article on Mozart:

He and Constanze had 6 children, only 2 of whom survived infancy (neither child, Karl Thomas [1784 - 1858] or Franz Xaver Wolfgang [1791 - 1844], married or had children).

That's yer basic genius progeny discussion, in a nutshell.

bogu_salias | June 05, 01:42 CET

I think I never watched a movie more than 4 times in the theather, if I did really happen to love the movie I'd purchase the DVD. Maybe I'll make an exception for Firefly, if it does happen to be as good as I imagine it will be. At least 5 times.

Numfar PTB | June 05, 01:57 CET

Speaking of watching over and over. Sat with a group of BtVS fans last night and watched Once More With Feeling. Lots of chuckles, sighs and "did you catch thats".

Can't say I've seen a movie at the theatre more that twice. At home is a different story. My "most" multiples are: Contact, Grosse Point Blank, The Matrix, the LoTR films, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. DVD is good.

redfern | June 05, 02:18 CET

Thanks bogu.

Man, don't you think they'd realize their responsibility to the world? To possibly continue the genius? Nahh probably not, Things were so gross and scummy back then ( open sewage filled the streets, nobody bathed regularly, rampant disease), they probably just worried about living themselves. What a trip.

Anybody know if Stephen Hawking has kids? (Geez, WAAAY off topic again, I'm sorry mods!)

Willowy | June 05, 05:41 CET

Word to the nerd on the Star Wars thing. I was seven when it hit my country, and it was the first movie I ever saw twice at the theatre (ah, those bygone days of the Cinerama, with it's delightfully disreputable spacies arcade). The last one was the last temptation of christ, for some reason that I probably couldn't coherently explain at the time and certainly couldn't now. Last except for LOTR but that's a New Zealand thing. And possibly Matrix 2, because I saw it at midnight first, after having spent entirely too much time at the pub, and suspected, when I woke up, that it was just a bad dream. Apparently not.

Willowy: Stephen Hawking has three chldren. And one grandchild. Just saying.

But back to the topic at hand: Yay!

giles (yes, it is my real name) | June 05, 07:44 CET