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trollprincess, and I fangirl the apocalypse. But you knew that already. What you didn't know was that when I was browsing through the DVD racks at FYE today, I found a copy of The Day After and squealed out loud.
This, mind you, while an employee was standing right next to me. It's easy to explain a squeal when looking at Pirates of the Caribbean or A Knight's Tale or any Lord of the Rings movie, but it's kinda difficult to explain mindless glee over finding a DVD of a twenty-year-old TV movie featuring nuclear war and Steve Guttenberg.
I simply had to have it. I've never actually seen it (dude, I was six when they showed it on TV) but for fifteen bucks, I won't even care if it sucks. You know, just as long as there's lots of dead people when it's over.
Also picked up a few extra clothing bits -- underwear, a pair of khakis, a couple of tops -- and a pair of sneakers and a pair of fuzzy-soft tangerine flip flops (because the shoes were "buy one, get one free" and those tangerine flip flops love me). Then I stopped at the Hoffman AMC and picked up my Spider-Man 2 ticket for tomorrow. Since I got the last of the first showings, I won't even have to wait in line outside. (Although I will have to wait in the theater if I want a good seat, but as long as I bring my Alpha Smart and my minidisc player, I can kill all sorts of time.)
Now, if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to curl my hair and watch the planet get nuked.
trollprincess, and I fangirl the apocalypse. But you knew that already. What you didn't know was that when I was browsing through the DVD racks at FYE today, I found a copy of The Day After and squealed out loud.This, mind you, while an employee was standing right next to me. It's easy to explain a squeal when looking at Pirates of the Caribbean or A Knight's Tale or any Lord of the Rings movie, but it's kinda difficult to explain mindless glee over finding a DVD of a twenty-year-old TV movie featuring nuclear war and Steve Guttenberg.
I simply had to have it. I've never actually seen it (dude, I was six when they showed it on TV) but for fifteen bucks, I won't even care if it sucks. You know, just as long as there's lots of dead people when it's over.
Also picked up a few extra clothing bits -- underwear, a pair of khakis, a couple of tops -- and a pair of sneakers and a pair of fuzzy-soft tangerine flip flops (because the shoes were "buy one, get one free" and those tangerine flip flops love me). Then I stopped at the Hoffman AMC and picked up my Spider-Man 2 ticket for tomorrow. Since I got the last of the first showings, I won't even have to wait in line outside. (Although I will have to wait in the theater if I want a good seat, but as long as I bring my Alpha Smart and my minidisc player, I can kill all sorts of time.)
Now, if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to curl my hair and watch the planet get nuked.
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:11 pm (UTC)Seriously.
I was in two crowd scenes.
I was eight months pregnant.
Heh. Just thought I'd share.
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 08:21 pm (UTC)I'm in a three second shot where Jason Robards looks out the window toward the end of the movie. However, the bulb on the camera burned out. That three second shot took like six hours to film. The crew was so desperate to keep people there that they were raffling off their hats and things to keep us there.
I'm also in the crowd scene at the very end of the movie when Steve G. is wandering through the make shift hospital looking for the girl. In fact, I almost made the close up shot, but was one row too far over.
A funny antedote. Now. LOL. Like I said, I was 8 months pregnant. They told us to wear old clothes. When I showed up with my husband and sil, the casting director was estatic that I was pregnant. LOL! They made us put mud on our faces and arms. Then we were told to go to a waiting area, which was inside the college's sports arena. We sat there on benches for two hours. Finally, we were allowed down on the floor where all the make shift beds, etc. were. However, by the time our group got down there, all the mattresses were taken. My back was killing me. I hurt all over and I was upset. I kept telling my husband I wanted to go home. One of the assistant directors came over and asked what was wrong. When he saw that I was pregnant he was horrified that they had made me sit on the benches so long. He shoed a group of people off a mattress and I got to lay down, with my husband and sil sitting beside me.
Anyway, that's my big Hollywood experience...well big for Lawrence, Kansas that is. LOL!