Soooo??? Charity Showings? Who Went?
POSTED BY: SameErtia
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 5, 2006 01:49
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I went! I just got back from the Portland one at Cinema 21. Made me happy and, more importantly, giddy enough that I realized I really really wanted to get back into the internet community. So that's why I'm, um, here! Anyway, it was fantastic. I suspect most of the people are still out partying, but my ride had to leave. If anyone went, I was pretty obvious before hand, in the line, what with dancing and running around and being really tall.
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Pasadena, CA sold out. I just got back.
As a recently recruited browncoat who missed seeing Serenity in theaters the first time (I knew about FF and didn't want to see the movie before the show) I would like to extend my sincerest thanks to all the SoCal Browncoats for making the screening happen.
It was truly a wonderful time!
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Bumping, so we can hear all the stories!
"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal
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Hey all! I went to the Thusrday evening Pittsburgh showing and Shindig. Not sold out but a fine crownd off 100+ Browncoats. It was great seeing the BDM with a large group of just plain folk who "get it!" Stay shiny.
Mark
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I'm amazed that nobody's reported in from Boston yet. Well, here goes!
We had an absolutely swai event! Big kudos to the folks at New England Browncoats who organized it.
The Coolidge Corner theater sold out well ahead of showtime. I'm gonna estimate the crowd at about 500 Browncoats... well, somewhat less than that before the movie started, but all 500 were 'coats by the end!
My group of 'coats arrived an hour before showtime. Already by that time, there was a "Sold Out" sign up, and folks were being turned away -- thank Buddha we got our tix in advance! -- and a huge line of fans was standing in the "Serenity Ticket Holders" line. Outside. Down the block and around the corner. In the rain. And all were in great spirits! The line doubled in size before the doors opened. Someone passed a couple giant birthday cards down the line for the fans to sign for Joss. Sorry about the water drip spots, Master!
As the crowd filed in, we got a sneak peek at the upcoming "Done the Impossible" fan documentary. We also got to see a short feature in which Joss was presented an award from Equality Now. He gave an amazing and hi-larious acceptance speech.
NE Browncoats had arranged a bunch of door prizes, ranging from theater passes to actual props from the movie set. My good friend (who has posted here a few times as MakesUsMighty) won a framed piece of Alliance currency from the bank vault scene! 500 Credits. I'm not jealous at all! It's a beautiful thing. It's just amazing the attention to detail that went into our BDM. (IIRC there's a picture of this bill, or an identical one, in the Visual Companion.)
And then, of course, came the screening of some strange little movie called "Serenitance", or something like that. It was so fantastic to see it in a theater packed with 'coats! We laughed, we cried, we applauded... well, you know. The theater was great, with excellent sound and a big (though not gigantic) screen.
There was no announcement of the amount raised for EN, but based on my guess at the size of the crowd I'll estimate it at somewhere around $4000 on ticket sales alone. (Don't know whether the theater took a cut of that for the film rental.) Add to that some direct contributions and T-shirt sales and, well, let's just say I'm proud of my fellow NE 'coats -- I think we held up our end.
Hooray for Serenity Day! Yay Serenity Day!
Note: edited because my Mandarin is embarrassingly weak.
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I don't disagree on any particular point.
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Chicago rocked. I loved the theater. It was vast, with ornate cieling work. I was in awe. I noticed so many little things on the big screen I never saw before. People broke out in applause after Kaylee's "I'm gunna live"-line 
and also during River's bloody scimitar/reaver carnage - shot
. It was so worth driving through chicago traffic. Joss should film in chicago.
"How'd ya like a bite a' this green apple America?"
voshExeter
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I went last night! The Alexandria VA BDM was a sold out show. It was also held at the Arlington Drafthouse, so there was food and beer as well as the BDM! Thank the BDH's I ordered my tickets on-line the first day they were available!
The entire audience cheered, clapped, laughed, and sighed along with each other. There were several poeple in hand-knit "Jayne caps" and they looked very cunning. I had brought along about two dozen Fruity Oaty Bars and was giving them out with every $5 donation to EN, but they went in about 30 seconds (not an exageration!). People kept on donating anyway. 
We were thinking about going out for a shindig after the show, but couldn't find anywhere that would allow "Browncoats - party of 250" after midnight.
Goramit, we had a great time!
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流口水的婊子和猴子的 笨儿子。
Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh bun ur-tze.
"Stupid son of a drooling whore and a monkey."
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I made it to the Philly one - stadium-style theater that was almost sold out!! 
Ran into some old friends and some new ones, met some fellow costumers; yes, once again I was in my very nearly complete Mal costume (or Reynolds Wrap as I like to call it 
). In fact, pretty much the only crew members missing were River and Book! The guy cosplayed as Simon looked awesome - rosy glasses and all. I'll have to see if one of the pictures taken last night have been posted online anywhere.
And you have truly not seen the BDM until you have seen it on the big damn screen, my friends. Any of you still haven't? Well, Serenity Summer is far from over! Rustle up some 'Coats in your area and try to pull another one together. It'll be worth every coin and that's a fact. Plus, point of interest, it'll be a galaxy of fun, I'm here to tell you!
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'Eta Gorram Na Smech!'
(That's gorram ridiculous!)
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Sigh and slight sob- missed it for family trip which my husband got sick on and we came home from way early and if I had known that I would have insisted on staying home and doing the charity showing...however we did buy tickets and our Utah group did raise about $3000 for it so :)
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