ATLANTA SCREENING PRE-PARTY
POSTED BY: fidoone
UPDATED: Thursday, May 5, 2005 14:50
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I can vouch for Fuzzy's. One of my favorite local singers used to perform there on Monday nights, so I visited there pretty regularly. I've never been to the 57th or Scores. There are a handful of bars and bar & grills (and no - I'm not referring to THOSE ones) on Cheshire Bridge, which is three exits South of the theatre. Another North Druid Hills option is The Rusty Nail. It's a standard sports bar. Decent burgers. And yeah - the parking lot is massive and often quite crowded. You could probably get away with tailgating ok there. I personally would be up for hanging out close to the theatre in hope of scoring a ticket! But that's just me...
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I would have loved too... but I have to work that night.... I went mad trying to find a ticket myself..... so slow! (me that is)
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Unforunately it seems the movie parking-lot is going to be out of the picture like I feared. A user on the OB said he had a long talk with the manager from Regal and that the manager had made it very clear that the police would question anyone who wasn't standing in line for the movie, and that line would form no earlier than 2 hours before the showing. That may have been grand-standing from the manager's part but it does sound like they won't take kindly to the people coming to hang about in the parking lot (*grumble* ungrateful little... 
*grumble*).
Auraptor, thanks for the extra options as far as dining/drinking establishments are concerned... Between ya'll and the OB I'll have to let you guys decide... What do you think the best place would be for a bunch of people with, uhhmmm, geekish leanings, to hang out and walk around in comfort? I'm thinking some place where we can stand as well as sit - so we aren't divided up by a lot of booth tables or strung about a long bar that is meant more for drinking than conversing. Would love to be in a place were we can amoeba into a group without fear of scaring the locals. How would Fuzzy's be for that type of atmosphere Slaythis?
Okay, so scaring the locals is unavoidable, but a lot of them have done their fare amount of scaring me, so they kind-of deserve it. 
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It's been a while since I went to either Fuzzys or The Rusty Nail. Fuzzy's probably tops my list, but sometimes the parking there might be a bit tricky. Any guess as to how many we're looking at here ? I'll rely on help from Slaythis on whether 10-20(???) folks could be accommidated at either place on a Thurs nite.... around 8-ish?
If we're talking 25-? folks, then what? I'll go by those places and scope 'em out. I'm going to see HHGTTG today anyway.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Auraptor,
I really don't know; I would expect 10-20, but with this sort of thing my guess is that we'll have five people show up or fifty. If it's a logical choice, my guess is we'll have a handful of people showing up before the movie that never hit the boards. If you have a chance to do a drive-by, than by all means, please do; would be wonderful - we'll see what we all think on Monday.
I'm not too worried about it - anything more than three people will be a good time, and if we do get a lot of people, it *is* a Thursday, and whatever we choose would be happy to tackle a 'we have too many customers' problem, I believe[hope].
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Sorry to be lazy, but I just posted this on the other board:
There are two more restaurant options that the folks at FFF.net have been talking about: Fuzzy's and 'The Rusty Nail'. One user said he/she may have the chance to check out those two joints in person today and report back on how well they would be for a gathering.
We want a place that will allow us to stand, chat and/or sit down, not an atmosphere that forces us to divide up to booths. A lot of bars don't have a good atmosphere for non-intimate groups over six.
With that in mind, the current choices seem to be:
Fuzzy's
Rusty Nail
57th Fighter Group
Mo's Pizza
We'll make a definative decision on Monday, and bump the hell out of this message after that (thanks Jenny!). Personally, if the user at FFF.net looks at a couple of those and says one is better than the other for this sort of thing, I'll be prone to go with his/her opinion.
If any one has any other places to recommend, now is the time!
P.S. I'm assuming there are a bit of lurkers about - everyone is welcome, ticket holders or not, and this may be your only option if the 'Regal being an arse about hanging about in the parking lot' thing is true. By *no* means required, but if I could get a show of hands of how many people think they can make it, that would be vunderful. Something like 'I hope to go' would be great, as that can help me get a minimum number. Anything over three people will be a good laugh, but it'll be difficult to keep everyone happy if sixty people show up when we were expecting ten.
Uhhmm, for the record, I'm going.
Auraptor,
That is NO pressure on you to take a peak at this stuff - if you can't no worries at all... I'd try and do it, but I get lost *everywhere* and would most probably get so turned around that I wouldn't find my way back to Georgia by the 5th [and that isn't too much of an exaggeration].
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Auraptor,
That is NO pressure on you to take a peak at this stuff - if you can't no worries at all... I'd try and do it, but I get lost *everywhere* and would most probably get so turned around that I wouldn't find my way back to Georgia by the 5th [and that isn't too much of an exaggeration].
Translation: The burden is yours and yours alone. Failure to come through on this task will not only affect your standing on this board, but will follow you around where ever you go for years, decades to come.
But hey, no pressure.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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If I could get my hands on a few tickets for the band and staff. I could talk to the band Emerald Rose about "maybe" playing at a prescreening party. I am a friend of theirs, though I don't want to speak for them. If any of you went to DragonCon last year you may remember them. None of them or their friends were able to get tickets. I know that they were very disapointed.
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Fuzzy's would definitely be more accomodating than Rusty Nail in terms of sitting at large tables and walking around versus sitting at booths. Again, however, if there are more than 25 folks, it could get a little tight. There is a band playing that night, but they start at 9:00. I imagine we'll leave before 9 to secure a place in line? I've not been to the 57th or Mo's, so I can't speak to either of them.
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