SXSW Blog: Day 1 - Kumar, Online Gamers, and the Opening Night Party
FirstShowing, Neil and Brian from FilmSchoolRejects and Kevin Kelly from io9 worked on their respective websites.
A surprise e-mail from King of Kong star Billy Mitchell made for great conversation (and later a news posting). No one could believe the extent of Billy Mitchell’s douche-ness, and we spent a good half hour researching Jonathan Brandis for no reason. Did you know that Jonathan Brandis auditioned for the role of Anakin Skywalker in George Lucas’ Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and that he went to the high school prom with Brittany Murphy. Shockingly the Brandis/Chuck Jones Karate Kid rip-off Sidekicks is getting a 3.8 on imdb?!
I kid you not). We blogged and ate food, but not at the same time.
Ain’t It Cool a call to confirm this fact, and discovered the screening didn’t actually begin until 6:00pm, which gave us 30 minutes to make it across time. Five minutes later after hailing down a cab, we’re stuck in traffic, doubting that we’ll ever make it on time.
We run into the movie theater, and Quint saved us four seats (thanks Quint!). The Alamo Drafthouse is one of the coolest movie theaters I’ve ever been to. There is a counter in front of each row of seats. Before and during the movie you can order food and beverages, and even alcohol (hey, it is a drafthouse). Me and Neil ordered a pitcher of Diet Coke for like 5 bucks and Neil somehow talked me into getting a Pulp Fiction-ish $5 Shake, which I probably shouldn’t have had, but it was awesome none-the-less. Weird vintage Grindhouse-esque drunk shorts play on the big screen as you wait. The film reel got their late and the screening didn’t start until almost an hour after schedule.
The movie was okay to good, but not great. Neil, Brian and Alex seemed to like it more than me and we argued about te film while catching a cab outside the Drafthouse. We even took our argument to twitter. Apparently it turned out to not be the cab we called for and we were kicked out of the car two minutes later. Quint from AICN drove by laughing at us, as he should have. Our cab eventually shows up and all of us decide to ditch 21 for the Second Skin premiere.
Twitter Page know that I decided to wait until the morning to make a decision on if I would post this or not. And I think it’s fun enough.
We decided to crash without posting any news updates, the night was over hours ago and everyone was tired. It’s now clear to me that SXSW is completely different from Sundance. I expect most days will probably go as follows: screening films from 2-10pm, going to a party, blogging, and then waking up at noon. Sundance was more about waking up early in the morning for a screening and sitting in dark pseudo-ovie theaters until well past midnight.
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Thanks to Brian and Neil from Film School Rejects for some of the photos (the better quality ones). You can see more photos from our adventures on their Flickr page.
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