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Nordling is curious, do Houstonians want AICN Screenings? How about GREEN HORNET this Thursday?
All right Houstonian fans of Ain't It Cool News... for so long you've heard of amazing screenings happening in Austin and Chicago and L.A. and you've wanted to be there in the worst way. Well, guess what. Now Houston's on the screening map as well! I'm so excited to be working my first Ain't It Cool screening, and it's for a movie I dearly love... THE GREEN HORNET! In 3D no less!
That's right. This Thursday, at 7:30pm at the Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks, we're going to be screening Michel Gondry's THE GREEN HORNET, a really fun movie that I has a blast with when it played BNAT in December. But unfortunately for me, I didn't get to see it in 3D. Well, it's 3D all the way this time, baby!
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Nordling is giving away free seats for a 3D GREEN HORNET Screening at the Houston Alamo!!!
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is in Houston???
What's the background? Working at the Alamo at West Oaks?
Too bad I moved to Ann Arbor (home of the fictional Dharma Initiative, a founder of Photoshop and a major player at ILM - John Knoll, and the setting for the bookends of "Men Who Stare at Goats"...
Get some stuff going here! It's a huge college town. Much like Austin. -
It's at 7:30 PM Thursday night. Sorry about that.
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Jan 03, 2011 1:13:53 AM CST
For all non Texans not familiar with Houston
by wilford_brimleys_diabetes_rage
Seeing as the city of Houston Texas is literally the bus stop to Dante's Hell anyway, Please remember to hand over your wallet,car & sexual innocence to the first gang member you will encounter
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Houston's not that bad. I live here. It's not as cool as Austin, granted, and I'm sure Harry can attest to that; but it's not the Road Warrior scenario you paint it as.
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Never heard of yah
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Man I really hope I sent my request in fast enough. Missed the story by five hours. Think it's too late?
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Whenever there's a crisis or an evacuation escape alert happening this city has your back no matter what... Houstonians will band and come together giving out a helping hand...
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Forbes just ranked Houston #2 for best places to live for young adults. Four Texas cities are in the top ten, dipshit. You might know that if you ever pulled your head out of your ass long enough to acquaint yourself with the facts about the Lone Star state.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/12/15/best-cities-young-personal-finance-unemployment-nightlife_slide_10.html
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....but not the GREEN friggin' HORNET. Gag.
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At least Houston has professional sports teams and doesn't have to pin all its hopes on college ball. Plus, we may have a lot of gang problems, but in Austin you guys can't fart on the street without it hitting a self-centered yuppie. And if you don't hit a yuppie, you'll hit a douchebag fratboy that will protest things he doesn't understand just because it makes him look involved.
However, you DO have Amy's Ice Cream and Barton Springs and about half my relatives, so you're not all bad.
Oh, and Houston also has amazing food from just about every nation you could think of, we've got teenage spanish fly spots like the waterwall, a world-class theater district and orchestra hall, world-class museums, a world famous rodeo, and a hell of a lot less smarmy politicians walking the streets. Yes we have crime, murder, gangs, and police corruption. But as one of the largest cities in the country, that's kind of like an entry fee (just like Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, etc.). -
Pros: (1) No zoning, which lends itself to affordable housing prices. (2) A multicultural choosing of hot Houston women. The Indian women are particularly stellar. (3) Homemade breakfast tacos that come to your work. (4) The first openly (and effective) lesbian mayor. (5) The Heights, perhaps the coolest neighborhood in Texas. Cons: (1) No zoning, which lends itself to building low income apartments and as Lewis Black puts it: "Two Starbucks facing each other." (2) A multicultural choosing of asshole teens who scare off whitey to the suburbs. (3) A line of illegals next to the breakfast taco stand who wishes to jump in your truck cab even though you stressed that you don't need your roof repaired anytime soon. (4) A lack of manners and incessant talking at concert venues, driving Jenny Lewis to stop playing in midsong last year. (5) The Woodlands, a suburb so plastic, vain, and Tea Party crazy that former scarred resident Win Butler released an entire album about it.
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I live in Houston, and as a film buff, I'm not a fan of Houston. Yes, the Alamo is awesome, and I literally live less than 5 miles from the West Oaks Alamo, but with the Angelika closing earlier this year, the only other art house theater seems to be River Oaks, and that venue can only host a few movies at a time. Hopefully I made it in time to get a ticket for Green Hornet. Curious to see Gondry's take on a superhero movie. If these screenings continue, it'll make Houston a little more awesome
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Like any good Rogen and Goldberg movie The Green Hornet is best viewed as a platonic buddy romance, and the scenes between Britt and Kato are the best.
I can't give away too many details yet, but I'll say this. Jay Chou is so funny, even without a full command of the language, that he clearly has a big future in the U.S. -
Well, I have heard good things about this flick, and I used to go to the West Oaks ADH all the time until I moved out of Katy, so this is a good chance to get back to it. AICN: Also consider Studio Movie Grill, they do a lot of screenings in Houston as well..
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I can only imagine the pwesents you guys must be getting to be pushing this anal polyp that absolutely NOBODY gives a shit about.
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Just read your post. Funny stuff. To wit: Cons: (1) No zoning, which lends itself to building low income apartments and as Lewis Black puts it: "Two Starbucks facing each other." That had me ROFL. Thought about over by the River Oaks Landmark Cinema where there are literally two Starbucks facing each other. Hilarious.
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Isn't that often that there is a good screening in Houston. Hoping I got in on this early enough.
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There is an Amy's Ice Cream at Shepard and 59, right next to Freebirds.
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We've had the Drafthouse at West Oaks for almost a decade (and the one in Katy for a few years too), which I have been a fan and referred many friends and co-workers. The location has provided guess like Jim Kelly, Lou Ferigno, and Stephen J. Cannell; beer tastings with Real Ale Brewing Co.; Spaghetti Western with Spaghetti; and many more features in addition to 1st run flicks. I am all for additional screenings at the Houston and Katy locations or for more Drafthouses to open in Houston (North) or for it to move into the now vacated Angelika Theatre in Downtown Houston. AICN and Alamo keep those screenings and marathons (perhaps a half-ass-numb-a-thon to it older butt-numb-a-thon brother?).
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I saw her at the West Oaks Mall Alamo Drafthouse.
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Saw the flick at an advanced screening 2 weeks ago, and I can't stand Seth Rogen. But really enjoyed the flick..it was an old school buddy action movie and was pretty funny. In fact I haven't seen a movie that was just fun for I don't know how long that didn't have dark hero angst and wasn't dark and even more dark and depressing.
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Black was referring to those Starbucks as he was driving to the Laff Stop.
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Thanks for throwing Houston a bone though. Hope this is successful enough to do more AICN screenings in the future!
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Jan 04, 2011 12:37:35 AM CST
I've been to Houston a few times and I will say this -
by professor_monster
The women there are FUCKING HOT! And I mean HOT HOT HOT! Hotter than Austin - Hotter than LA (which by the way is packed with pretty ugly ones - go figure?). Take a stroll through the Houston Galleria and get ready to welcome your dick back from the dead. Ignore the imported fat ass New Orleans blacks and the extremely high quote of Rio Grand tri-atheletes and you'll see some girls that will make you wish you had duct tape and rope in your trunk. That was the first place I ever had Blue Bell ice cream and man, that shit has to have cocaine in it - it's as addictive as cigarettes.
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Screw the rest of you!
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You guys should count yourselves lucky to even get screenings! I live in Idaho, where we VERY rarely get screenings, and if we do they are usually ran by radio stations. Ugh. On a side note, I will GLADLY submit movie reviews and host screenings in Idaho (we even have an Imax! ha ha) if someone at AICN wants to set me up! I'll do it for free (okay, for free movies)!
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I can open this frickin page... and now it's too late. Oh well, thx at least for showing Houston some love.
Oh, and we've been named by Esquire as one of the top 10 food cities in America. Suck on THAT, Austin! ;)
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