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Impressions from SPACED-NUMB-A-THON...
Hey folks, Harry here... I spent the better part of 8 to 9 hours tonight at the Alamo Ritz watching the entire series of SPACED with Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg and a couple of hundred Peggsters, Spaced folks and just fans in general that wanted to experience this marathon with a pair of talents that they sincerely admire.
What a fucking blast!
I've seen SPACED several times. I can quote episodes, do routines from the show and I feel it is the single best show about people like me... Geeks. A generation that love the pop culture that sprung them to adulthood with an effortless collective connection to a series of sounds, images and information that unifies them into a strange evolved state of Geek.
SPACED is a truly great television show - and watching it play out from the first episode to the last with a full standing room only audience that came from Austin and parts from throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada.... well it was something special.
I asked Simon if he sticks to his belief that odd Star Trek films must suck. He feels that this is not the case anymore. As Edgar pointed out - Star Trek 10 blew... which threw the whole theory into cosmic shift. Coming off of a double negative, mathmatically - the next one must Rule. Simon feels the next two at least will rule, because he'll be in both of those. Cheeky bastard.
The questions were about 98% from the audience and they were all sorts of fun. Hopefully we'll have some footage for y'all... But the best moment of the night was when a fella from the audience asked if there was a chance of watching Simon and Edgar in a Slo-Motion Pantomine Gun Battle... which quickly became the entire theater audience vs Simon & Edgar in the WILD BUNCH of Pantomine Gun Battles. Sadly - our Ernest Borgnine and William Holden substitutes had a similar fate - though they took a great many of our brutal audience with them. It was classic hilarity.
I'm sorry all of you couldn't be there, but I do want you to know there are a limited number of SPACED event posters for sale at MondoTees.Com which you can click there for - or the Tyler Stout poster at the top of the page. Personally - I had Simon sign my Chris Pine as Kirk STAR TREK teaser poster with, "Harry, I'm Givin' Er All I Got Ensign - Scotty - SIMON PEGG" - somehow that makes me smile.
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The suckage of Nemeisis just proves that every 5th movie will suck more than the usual bad Trak-movie. And every 4th one will even get much love from non-Star Trek Fans.
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Wish i could have been there, love Spaced
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Odd movie = Bad
Even movie = good
Every 4th one = Is even a hit among "normal" audiences.
Every 5th one = Worst Trek movie ever.
My mathematical theory. -
...but I went to Lazer Blazer/J&SBSS for the signing. It was a treat to get Jess's autograph on my copy of Confetti, and to reminisce with Edgar on how Eli Roth crashed the Shaun Q&A at Comic-Con '04. My biggest disappointment was when Simon told me he wasn't working on Ant-Man with Edgar--"I'm too old to be Ant-Man!" Then WHOM, Edgar, WHOM did you have in mind for Henry Pym? No reason in the world he couldn't be a late-thirties/early forties Englishman (especially with that name!)...I mean, RDJ was 43 when Iron Man came out, and Norton was 38 when Incredible Hulk came out. Simon Pegg right now is 38. Avengers Assemble!
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Wish i could've been there...
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has its downsides - sounds like an awesome time.
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I'm letting it finish uploading, but there should be some on my flickr acct tagged as "spaced"
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When is this series going to be released in Australia, damnit!!!! As for the Star Trek flick. Man, cannot wait. I love that trailer!
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Can somebody make some please? No, not you Abrams.
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Jul 28, 2008 5:49:29 AM CDT
Everyone in the cinema doing the Slo-Motion Pantomine Gun Battle
by theboyfromulster
That just sounds embarrassing.....
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ok, ok, obviously I'm joking.
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...come back and revive the franchise "just one more time!" He told me Paramount hasn't contacted him. Shame.
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You must upload it. You must.
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Have you even seen an episode of "Spaced"???
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Would have loved to have gone to this screening. My wife and I have been watching the series on DVD for the last week. It has lived up to all the hype. There have been more than a few times in each episode that just toook my by total surprise. Very funny stuff indeed.
Thank god McG isn't going through with the Spaced Rape. I mean, how could an American version possibly improve upon it? -
just got a DUI!!! Bwa-HA HA HA HA
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... that's better than a show about geeks watching shows, it's a marathon viewing session of geeks watching a show about geeks watching shows.
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... it's an article written by geeks read by geeks about geeks gathering to watch a show about geeks watching shows. This actually maybe works better for MST3K, but the odd meta reality is there.
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I prefer Father Ted. For me Father Ted is the Funniest thing ever written! even funnier than The Office, Fawlty Towers, Cheers and The Simpsons all rolled into one big comedy ballblobThey should do a SPACED Movie though! Why don't they do a SPACED fucking Movie!? shoot it cheap and cheery like the Serieses. I'd see that because there can't be a Father Ted Movie I'd settle for a SPACED filmFuck!!! Just remembered PeepShow is better than SPACED! Peepshow is almost as funny as Father Ted!God sorry to piss on SPACED in a pro SPACED talkback! I love SPACED and I LOVE the Peg and the Frost and Jessica whatsit but everyone who hasn't seen PeepShow should do so!Harry watch Peepshow! your Geek love will implode!
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I missed that announcement.
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and watched it over the weekend. Great show.
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I figured you'd be in here trolling at some point!Care to grow a pair and actually make an intelligent and reasoned point? If you don't like something then thats fine, but posting in every Spaced thread is just pathetic. If you don't like the show then don't post, and go back to your beloved Joey DVD box set instead. Or, heaven forbid, actually try to make a point without being a cock.
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I didn't think it possible to top the Guillermo del Toro event. Nor did I think it possible to render my meeting Kristen Bell down to a ho-hum moment. But last night the Alamo and Harry delivered. Sure, I left the place with Spaced, Hot Fuzz, the poster, and Shaun signed, spent nine hours watching the series, jumped to my feet and gave a bullet spray during the gunfight pantomime--but the best part of the evening?--sitting directly in front of both Simon and Edgar as they ooh'd and aaah'd, and what sounded like amazement at the crowd reaction. I heard a "They apparently liked THAT episode!," and "...perhaps not as much" at other times. Simon elbow deep in both nachos and beer. The only disappointment was not having Jessica there. But otherwise a great night.
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could have made me miss this one. That said, I did tear up a bit when I read the geeky glee in Harry's review. I love Spaced and was sorry to have missed it. But I'm glad it was fun. When I feel sad, watching a couple of episodes cheers me up... So that audience must be the happiest group ever to leave the theater.
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Well, seeing as how J.J. Abrams has a multi-picture deal with Paramount and is currently MAKING a Trek film, why the fuck do you think Paramount would contract Meyer?
But hey, the collective intelligentsia of the AICN talkbacks has proclaimed that the Abrams Trek film will suck, so clearly that's what will happen. So I can see why you're worried about where the next good Trek might come from. -
My conversation with Meyer was years ago, long before Abrams was in the picture. I'm actually an Abrams fan since Alias (never could get into Felicity) so I'm holding out hope.
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Just fucking watch it and you'll see! You never know you might like it... Oh no, almost forgot, you HATE EVERYTHING!
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Didn't she help write the shows episodes? And she was one of the main characters. She didn't seem to move to teh big screen with edgar and simon and never seems to be about at spaced stuff.
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I think Jessica just moved on... she's been in some pretty interesting stuff, including playing the mother in Son of Rambow (I barely recognized her). This happens.
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It's cool and all, but where's the tank?
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so stoked
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This show was even better than I had been led to believe.
How about a SPACED movie? -
Twiglets are marmite-like crispy snacks and are the food of the Gods, right alongside Quavers and Frazzles. I love these snacks like Amy Winehouse loves crack !!
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Marmite is a yeast extract that is great on toast or in a sandwich. Its very much a love/hate thing.Quavers are light cheesey crisps (or chips as you might call them!)Frazzles are bacon crisps (chips) that look like streaky bacon.All of the above are lovely! And very bad for you.
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Chips are thick chunks of fried potato and served with fish, or kebabs on a Saturday night. Fries are thin potato french fries and Crisps are thin potatoes served in a sealed bag and come in flavours like salt and vinegar. And the only person allowed to use their hands during a game of Football is the goalkeeper !!!
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Bitches eat that shit up!
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Thanks Harry for getting me in to this mind blowing event.I'm just commenting now because its a hell of a long drive to get back to Mexico.
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I had a blast. [I have been realy busy all week so this is my first chance at a talkback]
Edgar and Simon were great!
the phantom menace story was one of my favorite bits.
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