Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Monday, July 19, 2004 The Pitch: It's like The Sequel to the Last Post! So Edi and I are at the sneak preview of Spider-Man 2, sitting pretty in the dead center of the theater, surrounded by a few industry types (and a guy and his squirmy six year old who kept standing on his red plastic high chair and asking, "Where's Spider-Man, Daddy? Where's Spider-Man?") and the lights go down and the crowd goes ape, and a preview comes on.It's for an upcoming movie with Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis--a comedy about a couple who decide to skip Christmas when their teen daughter decides not to come home from college for the holiday. Insane, wacky hijinks ensue--the sort of thing where soon Jamie Lee Curtis is yelping and Tim Allen is mugging, and Christmas trees are being knocked aside and people are falling off roofs with short-circuiting lights trailing sciatically behind. It's called (and bless the trailer people who figured it best to announce this last, as if it would be the last inarguable reason why this movie had to be seen) "Christmas with the Kranks." And as the very last bit of over-orchestrated Dolby-heightened Christmas music faded, leaving a full theater utterly still in its horrified distaste for what it had seen, the guy sitting behind me, in perfect sotto desperation, said to his companion: "Please tell me that's not one of ours. Please tell me that's not one of ours." "That's not one of ours." The relief in the man's voice was genuine. "Oh, thank God." And this was somehow so funny (in such a perfect contrast to shrill unfunniness that had just victimized us), Edi and I laughed our way through most of the much-improved credits for Spider-Man 2. posted by Jeff Lester | 8:32 AM | |
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