This post is about Serenity.  If you have no interest in Serenity, Firefly, Joss Whedon or the general idea of Westerns In Space, you should be hitting page down about now.  Everyone else should be clicking on the picture link...

Erin and I went to see Guy X, which was a pretty good movie about a soldier accidentally posted to Greenland rather than Hawaii, and what happens to the people stuck up at this outpost at the edge of everything, where it's daylight half the year and night the other half.  Worth going to see, if not quite as good as Buffalo Soldiers.

Anyway, we came out, perfectly timed (thanks to Erin's detective efforts) just as the cast of Serenity were arriving on the red carpet for the world premier.  We were on the inside, they were on the outside, and the walls of the cinema are made of glass.  I only had my camera-phone with me, which explains the low quality of the pictures, but we had a really good look at them, huge grins plastered  on our faces.

Eventually someone noticed that unlike everyone else about, we weren't VIPs, so we got shuffled out the door onto the concourse, where the _huge_ queue was.  Which was just fine by us, because 7 seconds later, Adam "Jayne" Baldwin stepped out the same door, causing a spontaneous, simultaneous orgasm in the first 70 feet of the queue.  The queue was about 15 feet back, so he waved at them (causing more moistness) and went for a wander down it.  It was on his way back that Erin, unencumbered by being behind the queue-barrier was able to pounce on him and get him to sign her autograph book.

We then watched the rest of them go past and into the cinema (Mal and Simon arrived after we were shuffled out, and Wash didn't seem to be there at all), and then they let us back into the cinema.  Erin sprinted for the returns booth, they made her form the start of a queue (with the 5 people who arrived moments behind her) and then said "Do you have a concession?", which, although she didn't, was possibly the best thing they could have said to her.  I didn't get a ticket, largely because I already felt somewhat nauseous and headachey from the earlier film (damn handicam!) and partially because that was the only one they had at that precise moment - the other people there were almost certainly much bigger fanboys than little old me).

I took Erin and her prize golden ticket to the queue and stood with her for 10 minutes, bumping into fandom grandee Ian Sorensen and his harem, and also Debs from work (another rabid fan).  And then I headed for home...

The photos, by the way, are here.  Warning, I was taking them with a phone, through a glass wall, which had earlier been rained on.  The quality is not high.  But I've labelled them carefully, so you can tell which blur is which.

Just watched the trailer for V for Vendetta and _it_ looks good.

Now, if they can just make the film that good then I might actually be happy...

Review of the Spielberg version.

Review of the faithful period-piece remake

No spoilers in either, if you know the original plot.

King Kong trailer here.

Looks like the best special-effects-movie-with-dinosaurs-in-it since Jurassic Park (which, yes, I loved, and saw three times at the cinema).

Today was a mixture of great and terrible.  I got up at 8:30 this morning and popped out to pick up the SCART box from the post office (see previous post).  Having been cheered up by that, I wandered out to gaming with pisica and aitkendrum, left my phone on a bus and had to stop off for 15 minutes along the way to phone tisme and get her to try and track it down.

She'd failed to do so by 4:00, when I got out of gaming (the phone went from not answering at all to being off), so I headed off to the Orange shop and tell them to kill it, derailed only by bumping into poisonduk literally as I was leaving the game.  I'd previously arranged to meet her, but having lost my phone had no way to get in touch and arrange specifics.  By sheer coinidence her and her man-thing pulled into Bucchleuch Place just as I walked through it.  So she gave me a lift across town and then loitered in HMV while I sorte things out.  I now hve to talk to the police and report it lost, so I can get a lost-property number for Orange.  _Then_ I have to go to the bus Lost Property offices on Monday and see if they have it.  If they don't I report it as totally missing and they send me a new one.

Anyway - to flashback slightly, the game was good fun.  Started a bit slowly with lots of introduction, but once we got into the whole 'investigating a graveyard to find Ghoul tunnels" followed by "Try to avoid the mob, who also seem to have an interest in the graveyard" and "Try to avoid being killed by the mob, who seem to be really keen on us not going anywhere near the graveyard, or indeed, having a nice meal in a decent restaurant" sections it was rather good fun.  I tried not to monopolise too much, but I have what work refers to as a "Preference for Action" and therefore tend to want to Do Things.  I am such a 6 year old.

Anyway, flashing back forward again, tisme came and met us at the cinema, where we watched "We Don't Live Here Anymore", which was slow, but I rather enjoyed.  Two couples who are being unfaithful with each other slowly tear themselves apart, with some people putting themselves back together, and others realising that apart is better.  Nicely done, if nothing terribly new.

However, me and tisme fancied more cinema, and so headed for the UGC, to make use of our passes (£10 a month for all you can watch).  There was nothing I fancied apart from Kung Fu Hustle, which was absolutely perfect in every way.  I plan to write that up separately, so you'll have to wait for that...

Anyway, now seems to be bedtime, which will mean disturbing the purring fluffball on my lap.  Wish me luck.