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Well, It's nearly here SO who is rushing out to their local cinema this Friday ?? I'm planning on purchasing copious amounts of popcorn and various carbonated soft drinks and hopefully watch  2 times on opening day (in 2 different cinemas).

Really can't fricking wait   ;)

Can't you simply walk around the theater between showings, buy more popcorn/soda/crackerjacks and then walk back in for the next showing?
Sortof the double feature of olden days

Olden days !!! What's that ? Like vinyl, and live gigs without autotune etc......  :lol

1 - don't have a cinema in my town (pop. 38,000)...

2 - closest one actually showing it is a good 40 miles away...

3 - work dictates that watching it on the 10th is very, very unlikely...

4 - my interest in the band isn't what it was anyway.

Yet you seem balls to the wall excited about Mike's book and rumblings of a solo musical project.... ;).    Something is rotten in Denmark.

I've booked my tickets for Friday night in Glasgow.

I saw it a few weeks ago at the UK Premier in Edinburgh.  Can't wait to see it again though! ;D

1 & 2; is there time to do a kickstarter to pay for the bus ride and ticket?

3; knowing your reputation as THE UK Beach Boys historian, how could your employer not let you out for the opening? 

4; Fortunately for you, L&M is mostly about Brian, not the band ( but you knew that) 

According to one Dennis Carl Wilson - and I think he'd know - "Brian is The Beach Boys. He is the band. We're his fucking messengers. He is all of it. Period. We're nothing. He's everything".

Will catch it eventually, but the old urge to have/hear/see everything NOW ! has faded of late. It's not that important any more.

I dare you to tell all that to myKe luHv tomorrow when you talk to him.   :p

In a similar boat to Andrew. No local showings - nearest is 30+ miles away on July 31, at 11am on a work day.

That said my obsession with Brian and the band is not diminished… just restrained by kids.

My nearest showing is a bit of a trek, think I'll just wait for the damn thing to come out on dvd.

Like Andrew, my closest cinema that's showing this is at least an hour away and I just can't be bothered to travel that far when I can watch it on DVD! If it was closer I'd be first to see it on Friday but there you go.

It's showing quite a few places near me.  There's even a parent and baby screening down the road, so I'll see if the wife's up for that.

I'm seeing it in Leeds on Friday evening. Also taking someone along who's knowledge of Brian/BBs is limited to the big hits so it'll be interesting to get that perspective too.

Lucky UK. As for the Low Countries.... It seems... Well, this is the sentence in Dutch, as I found it:

De film draait niet in de nederlandse of Belgische bioscopen

Which when translated literally says, "The film is not being shown
in Dutch and Belgian cinemas". It would be nice to believe they mean
"not at the moment" but I'm rather afraid that's not what they mean. :=(

Well, the nearest showing for me is 30 miles away in Bristol so I'll have to wait

Annoyingly, all the cinemas near me are showing The Minions back to back.
Which would be fine but I went on the opening day expecting it to be The Wrecking Crew film*




*Disclaimer: This is a joke. I fully understand their importance in music history. Probably**

**Please don't ban me

:lol

(I recommend the Minions btw, great fun!)

Will be Monday before I get to see it. Unless I get the 10:00 showing on Saturday before work. Got to travel to Birmingham no showing in Wolverhampton.

For those saying they're waiting for the DVD, I implore you to find any way to see this in the theaters. Visually, it's amazing to see on a big screen, but the real magic is the booming sound of a cinema.

I'm up in Berkeley (Glos) , so going to a Bristol VUE ( Longwell Green) about 20 odd miles away (there maybe more local screenings ie Gloucester, but I haven't checked) - That way I can pop in and see my old dad who lives just down the road from the cinema

I've read somewhere that the Watershed in Bristol is showing it from Friday too
I'm in Bath and just seen that our Little Cinema is showing it from Friday and all next week-3 showings a day so I should get to see it-hurrah!!
To celebrate I'm going to wear a fireman's helmet

Andrew - I drove 60 miles to see it on day 2 of the U.S. release.  It was far shorter than distances I've gone to see either BW/BB or those in their performance sphere. It was focused, and meticulously true to the studio work, and, overall does a "public service" in the manner a family member or friend may have to go in order to battle "the system" to assure that this person doesn't "fall through the cracks" of said system.  

The arrangements are fabulous and I found it very fair to the personages in the BB/BW sphere. If you can make the time to see it, I think you will be similarly impressed.  Almost everyone I spoke to at the show last week had already seen the film which really connected and enhanced the live show experience.  ;)

Fille- though 60 miles in the USA and 60 miles in the UK is technically the same distance, it feels very different. I think as nations we have very different concepts of distance. It could be the roads being less straight here, or more crowded, or fuel being more expensive, or simply a cultural thing from living in a tiny tiny country.

For a film that has garnered countless positive critic reviews, a mass of positive public reception, I think that in this instance the worries of distance/culture/winding roads should be set aside.

Granted, Andrew never said he wasn't going to see it in the theaters, just that he possibly wasn't going to see it on the 10th. I do hope you get to see it soon, Andrew, and that you'll share your review with us here!

Yeah, I don't go 60 miles easily.  Any film that wants me to see it, or any live act that wants me there has to put in some of the leg-work and come near me.  Living in London means they usually do.

I see my kid is actually too old for a parent and baby screening, so that's that out of the window, but he's still too young to keep quiet at a standard showing, so I'd have thought the concept would be much the same.  Shame.  I'll see it at an Odeon near work, maybe Friday, maybe some other day.

Unreased backgrounds - I do agree it is a different feel in Europe having driven several thousand miles in France (once with 3 kids!) but I drove to a theater in a more remote (non-metropolitan) area to see it.  

And, yikes, gas/essence/gasoil/pétrole is very expensive! (On coûte les yeux de la tête!)   ;)

Okay, just seen that the film opens Friday at the Leeds-Bradford Odeon. If I could get there so the kids could see Paddington, then sure as Hell I'll find a way to see this before the weekend's out! SURF'S UP!!!!!




Counts to ten… exhale…

If you folk out there really can't go then you really can't go. If you would like to go but are not real worried about it either way then you really do need to reconsider. This is a quality feature film about OUR guy. That has never happened before and will never happen again. You may be disappointed as some here have been, but most really liked it and many loved it. The theater sized screen and surround sound cannot be over stated. So, as Craig and Charlie put it, walk 500 miles, then walk 500 more if you have to. The fact that you know this board exists means you owe it to yourself. That's all.

I hope you love the hell out of it – I think you will.

 :h5

I understand your sentiment but I have to say that if you agree with Dennis' conceit and I'm sure you do, this film was made for you.  It isn't like any other biopic you've ever seen about a beloved artist.  There's a thoughtfulness and level of artistry that typically are not present in this genre.  

It's something of a masterpiece of its' kind.

Just to add to the chorus of Americans singing "You have to see this movie" in multi-part harmony...

I've seen L&M 3 times (I'm very lucky that I live in a city that has had the film in multiple theatres, and that I also got to see a sneak preview in May).  I have never in my 43 years seen a movie in the theatre 3 times.  I'm not a movie fan - I don't follow any particular actors or directors.  I've only seen a handful of movies in the theatre over the past 15 years, and most of those were special reissues or events like the Monty Python Live simulcast last summer.  I don't even watch movies at home that much - I use Netflix mostly for TV shows and documentaries.

What makes L&M different?  Paul J said above, "This is a quality feature film about OUR guy."  Yes.  We've been wanting this for so long, and it could not have been done with more care and attention to detail.  There are many goodies for the fans - little things that only we would notice and appreciate.   It's so full of emotion that it will break your heart.

It's like this...think back to how you felt the first time you heard the 1967 "Surf's Up".  Or how you felt the first time you heard Brian sing "All those people, they made me feel so alone" in "Midnight's Another Day".  This movie is like that.  

Bully for you. As it happens, I don't drive.

You might have clarified that, Andrew.

You enumerated miles, but omitted your non-driver status.

And, the average distance among the presenting theaters was in that general range for non-metropolitan areas.

You assumed. Everyone does.

Well I'm sure there are still trains that run through England that could get him there. This movie is worth hitch-hiking for.

No, Andrew.

It was a reasonable inference.  ;)

You'll note I suggested a bus ride( I don't have knowledge of same, but presuming they have such a bus )

Good news, L&M is showing near me at the local arthouse/indie cinema so I'll will get to see it on the big screen this weekend.

Bad news, whilst checking to see where L&M was on I saw the same cinema showed The Wrecking Crew movie tonight (one showing only) and I missed it gaaaah!!!

Why would a "Fully signed up and accredited employee of Team Love" want to see L&M?? ;)

I'm sure it is, but I doubt it'll vanish like Brigadoon before I get a chance to see it. Like I said, the need to have something new NOW !! has faded. It'll be the same in a week/month/year as it is now. Which I'm given to understand by a host of folk I trust implicitly is astounding. I look forward to seeing it. Just, not right away. I have a book to read...

Saw it this evening in London's fashionable London.  As a somewhat fussy person when it comes to film, I think I could have taken it half an hour shorter, but there are some truly remarkable performances in there, and oh my, those studio scenes, good Lord.  I'd say more but I see that it's currently the 'in' thing to maintain an air of aloof indifference.

Well Wait;  It's Wednesday here and it's already Friday  there? 

See it at the movie theater if for no other reason than to experience the audio in full surround sound as intended. Try to sit closer to the screen and in the middle of the aisle because the soundtrack will envelop you and you'll hear it as intended. It's the most jarring and most creative soundtrack I've heard in a long time. The scene near the end where a collage of video and audio takes quick-cut edits through decades of Brian's life...not a spoiler...is stunning. It's meant to be seen and heard on the big screen, in (loud) surround sound.

I guess sitting in the back of the theater ( twice) was a bad idea?

AGD:  Out of curiosity, how did you get to the convention in Connecticut a few years back?   Thanks for signing of your book for me.

From experience - yes.  ;D  The first time I saw it, I was in a theater that didn't have all that great of a sound system, and I didn't know this going in. I sat a few rows up from the open aisle that sits about 1/4 way up from the screen, when you first walk in. I was a few seats away from the left-side wall, and the sound just wasn't delivering for me.

I went back again, to another theater. I assumed they'd have better sound, as it was an IMAX chain, different from the first one. I was right. I sat in the dead center of the aisle, not too far from the screen itself. And the sound was so much better, it was like hearing all new audio and experiencing the film as it was meant to be.

If that says anything, that's how much of a difference both the theater's sound system and where I sat in the theater made on the experience. The soundtrack is crucial to this film.

At one showing, though, a room close by was running the new Jurassic flick in IMAX, and during quiet moments of dialogue in L&M you'd hear the damned dinosaurs stomping around.  :)

Playing pretty much everywhere here in Ireland.

Seeing it this weekend, can't wait  ;D

 :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol  (he doesn't drive???????????????????)  ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???

That was probably just Landy's ghost...

When you live in the U.S., it seems pretty straightforward to travel to a nearby town to see the film.

I spent six weeks driving all over the UK and her neighbors a few years back. One of the big things we discovered in our travels abroad is that it generally took us a lot longer timewise to get from Point A to Point B over there than in the US. The road systems are just different.

So it may not be as easy to get to a theatre that's showing L&M, as you might think from looking at a map. When our overseas members do get to the theatre, I hope they'll find the film worth the effort. (I did.)

The theater I work at is losing it tomorrow. I happen to have tomorrow off. I will be catching the final showing at 4pm (my fourth time), then sticking around for the premiere of "Minions" later in the evening.

And I should be getting the display poster on Friday!   :afro

Just the UK being ahead of the curve as usual.  In fact it was a private members-only strictly-by-invitation elitist insider old-boys-network nudge-nudge-wink-wink-say-no-more sort of an advance screening.  I'd feel smug about it if it weren't for the fact that everyone in the States saw the thing weeks ago.

OK, this is a UK thread, but I wonder what the situation is like in other European countries...

Rocker, do you know if German cinemas are planning to show it?

Dunno about Germany overall but there was no shortage of options to watch it in Berlin with posters all over the city.

Ireland has spotty coverage, lots of places in Dublin but a bit limited around the rest of the country.

I guess this isn't guaranteed to be comprehensive or 100 % accurate:

IMDb: Love & Mercy (2014) - Release Info: Release Dates (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903657/releaseinfo#releases)

Okay, thanks guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noH3E5EAnDs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noH3E5EAnDs)

Cool "exclusive" scene from Sony Pictures UK.  See if you recognize the tune Brian is playing.  This is a very powerful scene that leads into an even more powerful sequence recording the tune Brian is playing.

Sunday night for me and its a strange one....

 Me and the missus, after 6 years and 2 kids have decided to split up. Although the BB/BW obsession is mine, she's been very understanding and long-suffering and has started to like it herself. So, we are having a 'closure date' on Sunday, finishing what has been a mostly excellent relationship with a film we're been anticipating for ages. Gonna be mixed emotions....  :'(
 

I think Banana is picking up good vibrations.

sorry to hear Rentatris..I worked with a marriage attorney....always bad days....paralegal...  glad to move on to a better job.  You and the children..best of days for the future.

Flew to Philadelphia, Amtrak to New Haven, nice dude called David Caporcado (sp. probably off) stood us breakfast and drove us there.

You will just LOVE the Minions movie. Stay right to the end of the credits.

Had two spells managing gas stations, and what I've seen would be enough to put Fangio off driving. Doesn't matter how good a driver you are - or think you are - you can't mitigate for what the idiot behind/in front/either side might do.

And everyone over 55 should be tested yearly... and no-one over 70 should be allowed to drive. Old drivers are an utter menace.

  Your driving days would soon be ending if such a law existed.  :lol :lol

Hell, I'd be out of business in two years! Hasn't anyone heard, 87 is the new 70!

As stated previously, I don't drive. Should have added that the condition of both cars and drivers was also a factor. I recall a TV show back in the late 70s where they offered peripheral vision tests to older drivers at gas stations. One old boy, 72 or so, was proven to have, essentially, tunnel vision: when he was asked if he'd now consider stopping driving, given this news, his reply was "No... no, I don't think so, I'm a careful driver". Good old Bob, still driving at 83 and never had an accident. Caused quite a few, mind. This isn't me (as usual) being ornery for the sake of it, it's over fifteen years of daily observation.

Just as its starting in the UK, some questions about the US release....

http://www.showbiz411.com/2015/07/09/beach-boys-movie-love-and-mercy-sputters-to-an-ignominious-end

Sad. Very sad. Anyone here with a better knowledge of the movie biz than I (that is, any at all), why wasn't it released nationwide from Day One, given the overwhelmingly positive reception in Toronto ?

Interesting and very sympathetic comments but this observer is obviously unaware of two very key points:

1) While the Beach Boys are indeed still touring widely they and Brian seem effectively to be estranged, so there's little of no chance of a few songs from them to promote the film.

2) As for the lack of publicity and promotion, Brian has cancelled his September UK tour to take care of that, so everything's gonna be okay and there's no need to worry.

I would, but I've got this book to read.

I almost got into an accident on the way to work today by some lady who looked about 5 years younger than God, who was veering between lanes like she was driving a Zamboni, so yeah, I would agree.

Didn't this exact same article get posted word for word at another site, by a supposedly different writer, about two weeks ago?

The movie is a substantial success. This is the model used for low-budget indie films these days -- narrow releases, then slightly broader, then disc and streaming.

The business has changed substantially within the last five or six years. These kinds of movies are  fortunate if they're in  theaters at all.

Oh most definitely. I wish I would have had the chance to see it in the theater. Money issues and other things coming up prevented it, but hopefully it won't be too long before it's streaming and available on Blu-Ray, if this indeed the last week.

Wow i thought i was the only BB/BW fan in wolverhampton! Im goin to london to watch it today with a friend to make a day of it. Looked at dudley but its not showing. Try cineworld in bently bridge

Roger Friedman (Showbiz411) does make some good points.  However, he has been kind of a negative Nancy for several weeks now about the handling by Roadside Attractions.

I think probably the reason the Lions Gate, which owns N. American distribution rights, held the release is because of several notable music biopics in 2014 that didn't go over so well.  Plus, Brian had a new album out in the spring and – at the time – still had the biography due this fall.  Still unclear of the actual release date on the biography.  At any rate, I guess that's why June 2015 was chosen.  Counter programming to Avengers and Jurassic Park.

The film is still playing in 2 theaters in my city and doing a quick cursory search of Fandango, it is still playing around the country.  Without any facts to back it up, I would imagine it's still in roughly 400 theaters which is only slightly less than it started with in the first place on June 5th.  

For those of you that are curious, it is available for pre-order on iTunes & Google Play in the US.  Amazon, Best Buy both list the DVD/Blu-Ray release date as September 15th, as well.

Found my showing…

http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2015/jul/10/love-and-mercy-video-review (http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2015/jul/10/love-and-mercy-video-review)

For our friends across the pond, video review on The Guardian website.  Happy release day!

Blissed out. Gorgeous film. Glad I saw it on opening day with my gal. More thoughts when collected, in the appropriate thread.

As I said before, that Friedman guy is a blowhard who is known for taking small kernels of a non-story and turning it into a big epic controversy. And yeah, that article is pretty much a re-write of the same thing he wrote however many days or weeks ago.

He continually ignores what the budget was for the film or what their expectations were or are. That's a HUGE part of how one gauges the financial success of a movie. And that's not even getting into the critical success and awards possibilities, which often have little to do with the box office gross. I think films have taken in less than L&M and still garnered Academy Awards.

As others have stated, this film was targeted as an "indie" release. Really, I was surprised it got as wide of a release as it did. Months ago, I expected it would hit the festival circuit and maybe have a super-limited engagement in some big cities, and then hit the paid streaming market. There are many other movies of a generally similar sort who have had a smaller release in theaters than L&M got. There's a whole market now for in-theater movies that are also tossed up on Amazon paid streaming as "See It While It's In Theaters!" titles for a slightly premium price (usually $6.99). I thought L&M might quickly go to that. That this thing managed a multi-week run in US theaters, and even built in theaters in its second week, is quite surprising.

Oh for sure, in my daily Google searches on the topic of L&M, I'll read him writing roughly the same thing probably ever 5-7 days. 


I think THE HURT LOCKER only grossed like $15 or $16, if memory serves.  And that won Best Picture, of course.  Films like THE ARTIST and BIRDMAN benefited greatly from Golden Globes and Academy buzz.  Their grosses rose substantially after being nominated and subsequently winning.  L&M will be remembered at awards time if for no other  reason than Paul Dano.  He crushed it.


I think in one of the L&M threads there was some discussion about the release strategy.  I think I wrote something about how I knew Lions Gate had only purchased the distribution rights for like $3 million.  River Road (e.g. Bill Pohlad) self financed the thing.  This was always going to be a small indie film.  I think a movie like RAY or WALK THE LINE could have been made about Brian but then it wouldn't be LOVE & MERCY which, in my opinion, is on a whole other level artistically than those two biopics.

So they may have already reached the point of profit for the film (depending on the production and advertising budget), and it's still in theaters in some markets and hasn't even reached the home video/streaming phase which will bring in more money.

Wonder what will happen to it here in the UK? Steph and I, and one bloke who arrived late and left early, were the only ones in the screening, one of four scheduled for yesterday though the fourth had already been cancelled. The young guy who checked our tickets asked what the movie was about and when I explained said he'd have to watch it himself as he was a big fan of the band and their productions. Not a single poster for the film anywhere in the cinema, no mention of it in the cinema's own "what's showing"-type 'zine.

If I hadn't known it was on, I wouldn't have known it was on.

Still, Brian's cancelled his arena tour here to look after all the publicity arising, so things should be okay.

The barbed comments and thinly-veiled sarcasm are my domain, sirrah. My man will meet with your man to arrange the time and date. Satisfaction, I say ! Satisfaction, sirrah !!

:lol

But my man will drive while your man takes the bus, and by the time your man gets there my man will have had his satisfaction and be long gone. ;)

I went to see it in Glasgow with my wife.  Went for a meal beforehand in a restaurant across the road. The guy serving us asked if we were going to the cinema.  When I said yes and we were going to see Love and Mercy he said, "oh that's that Beach Boys film?"  I was pleasantly surprised he knew about it.  Then he said his pal wanted to go and see it but they wold need to be quick as it "might be one of those ones that are only on for a week".

No posters anywhere for it in the cinema.  Despite that, it was reasonably busy with a wide demographic represented.  With more publicity it could easily draw in more people.

**Mild spoiler alert**

I finally saw the movie last night at my local picture house.

Initially I feared I might struggle to 'suspend my disbelief' as, like many here, I'm very familiar with the stories surrounding the band, and the characters themselves - Brian Wilson in particular. Although physically a good resemblance, I found it difficult to reconcile Dano's portrayal with the BW I've seen and heard on sessions reels and in interview clips. Dano is very effective in portraying the fragile, sensitive, childlike sides of the younger BW, but I missed the goofy, humorous aspects that strike me as a central part of the young Wilson - BW the clown. I sense a lot of BW's clowning was a defence to hide his sensitivity, whereas the sensitivity in Dano's portrayal was a little too overt for my tastes. That said, it was clearly necessary to portray Wilson that way for the purpose of the narrative.

I had to remind myself that Dano's performance was never going to be a carbon copy of the real thing and once I could accept his performance on its own terms, I began to enjoy him and the 60s sections of the film very much. The strengths of those portions for me lay in all the period details, the sets and clothing. I'm no expert, but from what I've gleaned from Guitarfool's posts, they'd done their homework. It was beautiful to see photos we're all so familiar with (Brian leaning over the control desk, Brian's red velvet shirt, the Surf's Up piano performance, The Smile tape racks) brought to vivid, animated life! And the music!! The studio sections are wonderful and both my friend (moderate fan but big fan of Pet Sounds) and I were nodding in awe as those breathtaking melodies took shape on the screen.

So my advice to anyone approaching this movie expecting to see their Brian Wilson reproduced perfectly on screen, it may be worth dumping those expectations in the foyer and trying to appreciate each portrayal of BW more on its own terms.

Ironically, I found Cusack's lack of resemblance to Wilson made it much easier to accept him as the 80s incarnation. I could tune in to the performance itself much easier than with Dano, and Cusack's performance is fantastic. I thought Elizabeth Banks was also excellent in these sections of the film. Paul Giamatti did veer a little too close to cartoon villain at times (I cringed when he screamed "Or else!" at Brian)  but I think with this type of biopic subtlety is inevitably sacrificed at times to forward the story.

Despite my few minor criticisms, I found myself emotionally very involved in the story and the actors managed to create versions of Wilson that were believable characters in their own right, rather than just exercises in capturing likeness.

Finally, when cast shots were originally released I made some slightly idiotic posts about how the actor playing VDP had swooshy boy band hair and that this may potentially torpedo the movie for me. In retrospect I think I was overegging things a bit. Anyway, it's a moot point now  because I was relieved to see the VDP character's hair was absolutely fine and in keeping with other period details. I LOVED the smile sections of the film - The closest I will get to climbing inside a time machine and stalking Brian and the Vosse Posse c.1966!

A truly wonderful film.  I didn't go in expecting my Brian on the screen.  I'm not sure I have one.  But then in my sceptical view, what I expected was impersonations that feel faintly ridiculous all the way through, which is what tends to happen with the biopics I've seen (I'm Not There, included).  But that wasn't how this came across.  It was full-blooded inhabiting of the characters.  Terrifically compelling.  Cusack, I think, had a much harder job, but pulled it off well.

The session scenes and attention to detail was a fan's dream.  I agree it needs to be seen at the cinema, particularly for the soundtrack.  Unless you have a large telly with surround sound (many do, I suppose, though not I), it's going to lose an awful lot on DVD.

Note to Londoners - if you want a big screen, the Barbican's showing it in their Screen 1.  I've had trouble finding it in other places where it's not in screen 4 or 6 or something.

If the film was meant to be sort of triumphant at the end, I'm not sure they pulled it off.  But maybe that's not quite what they were aiming at.  Or perhaps it simply can't be pulled off.  It didn't feel like a huge triumph, really because although Landy was gone, Brian was still far from well and at the end he's still much the same, or at least you don't feel a real inherent difference.  On the whole, I thought it was a profoundly moving downer.  The breakdown was played and depicted so well, with all filmic elements playing their part to convey it.  Afterwards, I didn't feel like listening to Pet Sounds, or Smile.  I felt like listening to Friends, particularly, or to Smiley Smile.  I've often puzzled over the albums that followed the collapse of Smile, but after the film, I felt like I understood those albums of retreat and healing and peacefulness a little better, and like they've grown a little deeper.

Going again tomorrow.

 :lol :lol :lol

I still haven't managed to see the film yet as no cinema near me is showing it. Poor.