Advanced Movie Screenings
0Anyone ever attend advanced movie screenings? I'm currently in line for Sex Tape. I've been to a lot of these. What was the best one and what was the worst you've attended? For me, the best was Moneyball. The worst was The International, Grown Ups 2 and After Earth.
And if you've never been to one, check this site out: www.advancescreenings.com
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The International was hilariously boring. Most of the movie was the bad guy walking fast behind the good guy.
The International made me physically ill in how awful and plodding it was. Plus, the ending sucked. Not as bad as the ending to Arlington Rd
I went to one of the myriad advance screenings of Serenity. Jewel Staite was there to introduce it and she stuck around to sign autographs for everyone afterwards. But it didn't have all the effects in and it kind of just worked as one huge spoiler for the final, so I won't be doing it again. Unless Jewel Staite is at another one, I suppose.
@BillLehecka you can't have three worsts. You must pick one, please.
But they're all so bad for different reasons!
After Earth wins for me. That was just an appallingly bad movie, made worse by the waste of quality performers .
@moondrake Honest Trailer After Earth It's one of the better ones.
@Teripie Man, you just stole an hour from me. It took a major ego roll to stop watching those honest trailers. Thanks! The one that made me laugh the most was the one for Pacific Rim, mosty because it captured the weaknesses of the film while also recognizing why it is one of my all time favorite movies.
I've only been to one, Whip It. I played roller derby at the time and was head of PR for my team. How do people normally find out about, or access, advance screenings?
The comic book store I frequent has passes from time to time.
Check out www.advancescreenings.com www.seeitfirst.com and www.sonyscreenings.com for starters.
Oh, and www.gofobo.com, even though studios are starting to abandon them.
Thanks! I'll check into it.
I always do GoFobo. They're usually fun to go for like a super crappy movie that you'll never pay money to see. But the more popular movies are like zombie apocalypses.
FYI, Sex Tape is kinda meh. Not terrible, but not great either. Very middling.
I think the last time I went to one was in high school when I wrote for the school paper. I don't remember them all but I do remember going to see Black Sheep. I was expecting it to be up to par with Tommy Boy & I was sorely disappointed.
I remember seeing I Love You, Man via advanced screening. Liked it so much I went again and paid.
So in Dallas, I bet you could do this every week--and for some good movies--but we finally gave up because you have to be there super early (usually an hour or two) and it's a pain because you're just standing in line or sitting on a hard floor. My time is worth more than that. We did attend an AARP screening for which the wait was not at all painful, but the movie itself was horrid.
Us small town Redneck Rivera looses out. Hell, "Boyhood" never played here!
Gonna go see DUFF tomorrow (designated ugly fat friend).
I live near the (new) AMC World HQ, and we get invited by friends to a lot of these, and we use GoFobo a lot. The best advance screening I attended was hands down Star Trek (very early 2009 working print). We sat right behind J.J. Abrams and did a Q & A afterwards. That day was dripping in awesome sauce. The best recent movie was, of all things, Paddington, which I actually liked about as much as my son did, and he thought it was amazingly funny. We previewed it just prior to the UK Christmas release.
Since we are now in DVD screener season for the Academy Awards, there are not as many opportunities to attend the type of screenings we usually get invited to . . .
By leaps and bounds, the absolute worst advance screening was "A Walk on the Moon" in late 1998 or early 1999. The reviews were mixed, but the screening I attended absolutely sucked ass. Granted, it was a full length work-print, but that movie is one of only two movies I have ever walked out of before the credits (the other being Prêt-à-Porter).
My best advanced screening was Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, which was because there was a surprise Q&A with Ewan Mcgregor with afterwards. Turns out he was watching it with us the whole time in our normal ass AMC theater at Pacific Place in Seattle. That was pretty dope.
I saw a screening of "The Passion of the Christ" with Mel Gibson, in person, giving a Q&A after the movie.
The only advance screening I've been to is Star Wars Episode 3.
@dashcloud I'm sorry.