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Augustus Gloop on OctoButt-Numb-A-Thon's Geek Bags, Line-Up and tidbits...
Hey folks, Harry here... I've now been up for 32 and a half hours straight with no sleep and am just now getting ready to turn in. The event went off great - Fantastic and amazing. Our guests this year included Craig Brewer (director of HUSTLE & FLOW and BLACK SNAKE MOAN), Bill Condon (director of GODS & MONSTERS, KINSEY and DREAMGIRLS), Seth Rogan (brilliant comedian/actor of KNOCKED UP, FANBOYS, 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN), Ernie Cline/Matthew Perniciaro/Kyle Newman (writer/producer/director of FANBOYS), Zack Snyder (DAWN OF THE DEAD remake, 300 and the upcoming WATCHMAN film) -- then on dvd with special intros to the audience was Sylvester Stallone and Joe Carnahan. Check out Matt Dentler's IndieWire Blog for a more detailed account of the line-up, though not complete.
If you attended BNAT and would like to send in your comments on the fest - drop an email to Harry at AintitCool.Com - and that'll make sure that Quint, Moriarty, Merrick and I will get it so we can post it up. We saw 7 great early peeks at films - most of which are coming in 2007! So stay tuned for more.
An Additional note - not all the Geek Bags had the same stuff. And not all the postertubes had all the same stuff. I love the 5-25-77 one sheets I got and can't wait to see the film.
Thank you thank you thank you, Harry!!! You *completely* out-did
yourself with this year's installment of BNAT. I just got home,
and operating on basically zero sleep in the last 30 hours (except
for about 10 minutes here & there)
This was an extra-special BNAT for me in many ways. First, it was
my first BNAT as an official listed attendee. I made it into #6
through the standby line, but being on the list meant I could
relax and get to know some of the other Attendees better. Second,
everything seemed to line up perfectly for this one. Work schedule,
gift-wrapping, traffic, everything just seemed to fall in place.
I was even offerred a trade in seats with someone so I got to sit
on the couch in the back (which I'd been secretly hoping for). The
lineup was great and well-paced. I got to spend breaks with my
friends and made a few new ones (which involves a LOT of effort,
because I'm so terribly shy).
Everything was working out SO perfectly, nothing could go wrong...
until actually after the show. I had just met Laura Harris (aka
Daisy Adair from "Dead Like Me"), which just happens to be about my
favorite show no longer on TV (seriously, I go around looking at
people to evaluate whether they might be reapers), and who I hope
to have a chance to chat with at some future point. The encounter
was exceedingly brief, amounting to a "Hey, aren't you Daisy Adair?"
"Yes, I am." "I just LOVE that show!" "Thanks!" My first real-life
encounter with a not-really reaper. Anyway, I say goodbye to
everyone, get in my car, and check my voicemail, at which point I
find out that a gentleman who I've worked with for five years was
in a motorcycle accident and joined the ranks of the un-living on
Friday night. We weren't exceedingly close, but we'd worked together
for a long time, and after 30 hours of no sleep and in excess of
two actual gallons of Diet Coke consumed, it's needless to say I'm
a little fucked-up over this. Sleep will help, but in the meantime,
I've got a motherload of goodies to take my mind off things. Here,
for the curious (and the envious) is my complete inventory of swag.
(BNAT line-up and reviews to follow separately)
OctoBNAT Swag (Complete Listing)
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DVDs:
1) Captain Blasto
2) Ted Leo / Pharmacists Dirty Old Town
3) Drop Box
4) The Films of Matthew R. Day
5) Drive Well, Sleep Carefully, on the road with Death Cab For Cutie
6) Poultrygeist Eggs-clusive Preview DVD (I'm *SO* excited about this one)
7) The Web's Best Lightsaber Videos
CDs:
1) The Colour, "Devil's Got a Holda Me"
2) "A Name For Evil" original soundtrack recording
3) Caroline Distribution presents catalog VS catalog round 2 mixed by Caps and Jones
4) Astralwerks Fallwerks 2006
5) Alex Keller, "The Four Hundred Boys"
6) Attila & The Huns, Octobuttnumb-a-thon compilation
Books:
1) Psy*Comm
2) Random Encounter Volume 1
3) Chasing the Dead by Joe Schreiber
4) The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont
5) Viper Comics Presents "A Dummy's Guide to Danger" (Murder! Intrigue! Ventriloquist Puppets!
6) "Smokin' Aces"
7) You'll Have That, Vol 1, a comic strip by Wes Molebash
8) Graphic Illusions: Studios presents "the Rift" Vol 1 & 2
9) Dreamgirls photo album
10) And of course the BNAT8 Yearbook
Toys/Misc
1) Transformers Decepticon Starscream
2) Shrek the Third ogre ears
3) Tiny Fez
4) The Hollywood! Card Game
5) Abita Light Beer neoprene koozie
6) Turistas turkey-baster-shot-dispenser
7) Smokey The Bear pin
Small Posters
1) "Devil in the Flesh"
2) "Almost Human"
3) "Dark Waters"
4) Leif Jonker's "Darkness the Vampire Version" (Autographed)
5) "Happy Feet"
6) "Bug"
7) "Dreamgirls" (3 versions)
Deena Jones & The Dreams The Farewell Tour
James Thunder Early
8) "Ironman"
Large Posters
1) "The Transformers"
2) OctoBNAT Official Poster (by Cartuna?) (AMAZINGLY Beautiful!)
3) "Dreamgirls"
4) "Perfume"
5) "Zodiac"
6) AICN 10th Anniversary Poster (ANOTHER Incredible piece)
7) Shooter
Complete Lineup as presented (Barring any accidental omissions)
1) Chirpy (short)
2) Stunt Rock (trailer)
3) Raw Force (trailer)
4) Teenage Tramp (trailer)
5) The Telephone Book (trailer)
6) Black Snake Moan (Feature)
7) Dreamgirls (Feature)
8) Panama Blue (Trailer)
9) Female Animal (Trailer)
10) Baby Love (Trailer)
11) Girls are for Loving (Trailer)
12) Underage (Trailer)
13) Once Upon a Girl (Feature)
14) Inherit the Wind (Feature)
15) Rocky (Trailer)
16) Rocky II (Trailer)
17) Rocky III (Trailer)
18) Rocky IV (Trailer)
19) Rocky V (Trailer)
20) Introduction & BNAT Greetings from Sylvester Stallone
21) Rocky Balboa (Feature)
22) Fanboys (Extended Trailer)
23) The Mafu Cage (Trailer)
24) The Buttercup Chain (Trailer)
25) Pepe (Trailer)
26) Matango (Trailer)
27) Knocked Up (Feature)
28) Teen Wolf (NOT!)
29) Zwartboek 'Black Book' (Feature)
30) In the Nick of Time (Trailer)
31) The Informer (Feature)
32) Challenge of the Lady Ninja (Trailer)
33) The Legend of Hillbilly John (Trailer)
34) It Came Without Warning (Trailer)
35) Cannibal Girls (Trailer)
36) Curse (Trailer)
37) Raw Force (Feature)
38) Smokin' Aces (Feature)
39) Introduction/BNAT Greeting by Smoking Aces Writer/Director Joe Carnahan
40) 300 (Feature)
-August Gloop
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flarp
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not this was a talkback to be first in! What about the flicks?
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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril is fantastic...
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Congrats to all the bnatters!! I hope you had as wonderful time as gloop. Happy Birthday Harry...sounds like a great lineup!
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Congrats to all the bnatters!! I hope you had as wonderful time as gloop. Happy Birthday Harry...sounds like a great lineup!
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i'm impressed guys. someone there has great taste.
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Tell all!!!
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Holy shit, I knew you guys were going to see it.
TELL TELL TELL.
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was the bloodiest indi movie I've seen. Cool that you got a poster to that rare film. How the hell did you carry all that cool swag around?
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Details, please!!!
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Dec 10, 2006 5:35:41 PM CST
HARRY,Can Next Year's BNAT PLEASE be after Dec 15??!!!!
by george newman
I'm sure that at least half of the AICN population is in college, and school just doesn't wrap until after about the 15th! We can't travel half way across the country for the weekend, Harry, when we have papers and test the following Monday. I've been coming to the site for almost 7 years now (since 10th grade), and your Fantabulous Fest has always fallen on during final exams. For the love of all that is holy! Please!
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zwartboek as ....black book, the one with sebastian koch? cool. 300---mmhhhhh
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as in exhausting
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It's funny, this is the first year I haven't had finals/papers on that weekend, but I just assumed I would as I have in past years so I didn't even apply. In the words of Jack Bauer... DAMMIT!
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That's the second somewhat cryptic reference to that film I've seen since BNAT ended. Is there something we're missing here?
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It's probably a new film that they are required not to talk about.
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but now I'm not as depressed after seeing the line-up - no offense Harry; rest assured I would have much rather been at BNAT then with my girlfriend's parents yesterday night.
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This line-up might be a bit much. a questionable God-fearin' man's cure-all, darwinism, porn and greeks.
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May have been a "prank" introduction for a bigger film like KNOCKED UP. It's happened in the past. And the only film that I am REALLY jealous about IS KNOCKED UP. I cannot wait for that film.
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Just submitted my full reviews of everything to Harry, but he's probably somewhere on the Starlight Express. Personally, I LOVED 300. LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED it. So did the audience. However, there were a few who had their own ideas about just how the film should've been made, and it didn't work for them. The print we saw is 99% complete, but I honestly couldn't see a single thing to change.
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Octo-BNAT Complete Lineup (Barring any accidental omissions)
1) Chirpy (short)
2) Stunt Rock (trailer)
3) Raw Force (trailer)
4) Teenage Tramp (trailer)
5) The Telephone Book (trailer)
6) Black Snake Moan (Feature)
7) Dreamgirls (Feature)
8) Panama Blue (Trailer)
9) Female Animal (Trailer)
10) Baby Love (Trailer)
11) Girls are for Loving (Trailer)
12) Underage (Trailer)
13) Once Upon a Girl (Feature)
14) Inherit the Wind (Feature)
15) Rocky (Trailer)
16) Rocky II (Trailer)
17) Rocky III (Trailer)
18) Rocky IV (Trailer)
19) Rocky V (Trailer)
20) Introduction & BNAT Greetings from Sylvester Stallone
21) Rocky Balboa (Feature)
22) Fanboys (Extended Trailer)
23) The Mafu Cage (Trailer)
24) The Buttercup Chain (Trailer)
25) Pepe (Trailer)
26) Matango (Trailer)
27) Knocked Up (Feature)
28) Teen Wolf (NOT!)
29) Zwartboek 'Black Book' (Feature)
30) In the Nick of Time (Trailer)
31) The Informer (Feature)
32) Challenge of the Lady Ninja (Trailer)
33) The Legend of Hillbilly John (Trailer)
34) It Came Without Warning (Trailer)
35) Cannibal Girls (Trailer)
36) Curse (Trailer)
37) Raw Force (Feature)
38) Smokin' Aces (Feature)
39) Introduction/BNAT Greeting by Smoking Aces Director
40) 300 (Feature)
Oh, how I wish we could still bring in laptops so an on-going tab of BNAT could be kept online.
I know it sucks to have to wait to find out what you missed.
-Gloop
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They edited the article to include the lineup which I'd submitted separately, so I didn't notice it was up there. (That explains why you all are asking about Teen Wolf, hehehe) This is my first time posting in talkbacks, BTW. -Gloop
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By far the one film i need to see. Anybody on this site give a go at the trailer contest? Got to moanmovie.com to check out submitted trailers. If your wondering the song playing over the trailers is "When the Lights Go Out" by The Black Keys form their record "Rubber Factory".
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My reasoning: Augustus only lists 11 features and Harry lists 12. Since Teenage Mother is clearly Knocked Up, Black Book and I Was a Teenage Werewolf have no connection. Since I Was a Teenage Werewolf was a big double feature back in the day with I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, I'm guessing that the hint pertained to the double feature aspect of the clue and not the werewolf aspect. And since Planet Terror is on the Grindhouse Double Bill with Death Proof Im guessing that's what "Teen Wolf" is....
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Teenage Werewolf = Teen Wolf
As my review will explain when posted, this was a joke on the audience and more specifically one friend of Harry's who's been trying to get him to show Teen Wolf for years. It was only the first 2 minutes or so of Teen Wolf. -
Knew that had something to do with SW :)
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Very interesting lineup. Glad to see Black Book snuck in there. Is it me or were there more new movies than usual this year? Be interesting to see if this is the direction BNAT's headed in...
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Another year I sit at home... totally envious! Man, you lucky sons of ... Wow, now I'm actually getting upset (it's become an annual thing) that I wasn't there. Not to mention the Jets got smacked today. Argh. Not feeling good right now. But hey, this sounds as if it was yet another classic event. One of these years I'm gonna take some time off and (hopefully) get down there. Peace.
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and nobody is telling us what they were like???did you all sign confidentialiy contracts?? what was rocky like...black snake...300....dreamgirls....come on...what were they like?!?!?!
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but seeing Knocked Up, 300, Black Snake Moan, and Smokin' Aces early really would have been nice.
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Stallone's Q&A is completely different from him doing 5 minutes on Leno or Letterman. He never answers those type of questions, it's great that AICN has a forum for him to do so.
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I guess I have a little bit more faith in the guys who run the site. I mean, they are fanboys first and foremost and all the choices sort of make sense if you follow Harry's tastes. I guess it's hard to resist when guys doing projects that you're interested in offer to let you have first dibs on screening their movies. It's hard to pass up on. Still, it'd have been nice to see him pass on a couple of the new films and keep the ratio about even. But it's his party.
Oh well...at least we can still count on Quentin even if Harry's seems to be getting sucked into Hollywood. -
I think he was just wondering whether or not Harry's birthday bash is just turning into another way for studios to hype their new movies (ie the seemingly unnecessary screening of Dreamgirls)
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So what if this is a forum for Hollywood film makers? If they want to take the trouble to bring themselves and their films to Austin like Snyder did, then great for the Bnatters. They get to see old film gems and a few new greatly anticipated features. Whiners like tailhook just want everything their way or they dump on everyone elses fun. I would have given a quart of blood to see 300 before March 2007, so bug off and take your mopey attitude with you.
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Inherit the Wind is by far the best of the bunch.
That said, of the new films, 300 is okay. It has pacing problems and the CGI doesn’t always work. Also, it is a celebration of fascism in the end, which is troubling. But it is pretty cool.
Knocked Up is…well, the cut I saw was really rough. It was over 2:15 and it sure felt it. It is sporadically hilarious, and Rogen gives a solid performance, but Rudd is just repeating his act from “The Oh in Ohio.” It wasn’t funny then, it’s not funny now. There are subplots that are forgotten about with no resolution whatsoever and other “twists” that just make no sense. It could be good with some solid editing. But right now, it’s pacing is worse than 40YOV’s unrated cut.
Smoking Aces was cool. Good action, funny dialogue. Nothing earth shattering, but fun. Hopefully it will do alright at the box office. Cranahan has great things ahead of him.
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Because Austin already has events like that every year (SXSW, Fantastic Fest among many others). In the past, BNAT's been about getting a few great new movies and then a bunch of old stalwarts. Take one look at past BNAT lineups and I'd hope you'd geek out at the kind of lineups Harry put together. The past couple of BNAT's have become increasingly stuffed with new films that are coming out in the next couple of months anyway. Not saying this is a bad thing, just pointing out that people are using the event to hawk their new films. It's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just a little disappointing for those of us who want to go to a BNAT that's a little more geared towards pleasing the film geek who cares about more than getting to see the next comic book movie 3 months before the final effects are applied...
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If you don't want to see those new films, lots of others do. My suggestion would be to skip them and take a nap or get a glass of OJ. Maybe there should be room for all kinds of films and all kinds of geeks there. My opinion only, I guess.
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300 is actually pretty good though. it is definitely a "geek" film and Zach Snyder is definitely a "geek director" (and all around great guy, as a sidenote). maybe cut rocky part 6, or dreamgirls, or even knocked up...but 300 makes sense.
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This lineup kinda blows. Way too heavy on the trailers, Harry.
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I'm going to make it to BNAT...I say that EVERY year but one of these years i"m going to make it
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...I'm not altogether excited about it as say Black Book, but it's still sort of an event for Harry to snag. And like I said before, if Bill Condon, Sylvester Stallone, Craig Brewer and Joe Carnahan all wanted me to show their movies at my 24 hour movie marathon birthday party, it'd be pretty damn hard to say no.
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Actually, I'd hoped for more trailers, but BNAT usually runs behind schedule. Many of the films went from one right to the next, with NO trailers, or with a 5-minute pee break in between. The Fanboys trailer was originally scheduled to be a feature, but the movie wasn't finished enough to show.
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That movie was really cool, and the last scene had a bajillion exploding heads. I wish more press was given to independent films, and real spy scoops, and less to corporate nonsense. Where, oh aicn, is thy soul?
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is a fantastic indi student film kind of thing. But it's not really a movie, and more of a really long gore reel.
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The most interesting thing on the list is of course the thing not listed on IMDB. But maybe it is: Did you possibly mistakenly write "Panama Blue" when you meant "Panama Red?" It's by some exploitation director named Bob Chinn so it seems likely....
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Hope you BNAT'ers got a kick out of the Smokey Bear stuff direct from NM State Forestry.. What does that have to do with movies? Who the hell knows, but I thought it would be cute...
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I lol'ed
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It has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It is a movie, dude. You're right, though, it's got a lot of gore.
On another note, count me in as one of the stoked for 300 people. I am extremely jealous of the bnat attendees, and feel righteously snubbed by the bearded chubby one (and I don't mean santa). -
I could have gotten some of those Shrek ears...
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So BNAT is evolving, so what? The only ONE person its there for is Harry - the rest of us should just be so lucky to get invited. You want to see more old films? Get off yo lazy ass and go rent some out then - or would that get in the way of sitting at your PC bitching about everything else in the world?
I thought the line-up still had a good mix. The Spencer Tracy film is the one I'd have liked to have seen the most - but just reading about it is enough to make me go hire it out now. Hey Gloop - what was Piven like in Smoking Aces? His character sounded like it had the most potential when I heard about this film back in the day. Can't wait to see this movie and 300. -
Yeah, Doc, it's Harry's gig. I wasn't directly referring to BNAT. I was talking about the site, in general.
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I saw a feature about Hardin only last month - nice work :) And I was more aiming my comments at some of the other guys further up the TB, not you so much Hardin. Guess my aim ain't so good after all....
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Couldn't resist. Thanks. Hardin was a bad ass. By the way, I just finished a script on the life of Doc. Interesting story.
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...in that case you ought to know they were ALL facing me when I pulled the trigger...they just turned their backs on me real fast is all....
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