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Altoids Addict ([info]altoidsaddict) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-03-18 22:35:00
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When Captain Screamy meets Dr. Loud Bang
Rainn Wilson has a movie out in which he is not Dwight Schrute. It is called The Last Mimzy. Rainn Wilson rocks.

Okay, now that that's out of the way... Over on [info]customers_suck, [info]blackfroggy complains about customers who didn't alert them that the previews on the movie were rated R and not PG. Or at the least, failed to alert the theatre quickly enough. The fiance in the post ([info]teenonfire4lord, which sounds like the title of the sophomore album for Faith Plus One; despite the username, he's 23) shows up to defend his wronged beloved and calls the customers who were slow on the draw both lazy and bad parents. Many people point out that customer service is usually the responsibility of the staff, but neither of them will hear anything of it.

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[info]greenling
2007-03-19 05:26 am UTC (link)
You would think the people would take their children out of the theater as soon as the first preview was ending.

You would, eh? I expect twice as much bitching, then, when whatever causes the fuzzy rabbit movie to be rated PG gets people throwing popcorn at him for "omg not telling us" it wasn't squeaky-clean. That's gonna be hilarious.

Anyone who's seen said previews or read the story mind spoiling me? It sounds like a neat movie, but it also sounds like a vehicle for somebody's personal beliefs, and I want to know if I'm being paranoid before spending my eight bucks on it.

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iwanttobeasleep
2007-03-19 05:42 am UTC (link)
I've no idea what it is, I just want to say that I'm utterly and completely shocked beyond words there's no Wikipedia entry for it that I can find.

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[info]greenling
2007-03-19 05:49 am UTC (link)
Probably because it's "Mimzy" rather than "Minzy", actually- good point, Wiki, thanks. :D

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[info]greenling
2007-03-19 05:52 am UTC (link)
...Gah. Not that it says anything useful.

Ah well. I didn't expect much if the thing isn't even out yet.

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[info]altoidsaddict
2007-03-19 05:57 am UTC (link)
Ah. I'd thought it was "Mimzy," but then the wank OP misspelled it as "Minzy," and I thought Well, she should know, working in a theatre, I guess...

If there's one thing to take away from this wank, it's that it's really your fault for not correcting me fast enough.

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[info]ghostmaster
2007-03-19 05:45 am UTC (link)
Something about a time-traveling, alien, stuffed rabbit that gives two kids special psychic powers or something. It looks considerably better than I'm describing it.

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[info]frequentmouse
2007-03-19 04:20 pm UTC (link)
Well, especially with Rainn Wilson and Tim Hutton, y'know...

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[info]ryuutchi
2007-03-19 06:51 am UTC (link)
It's here for now.

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[info]kaen
2007-03-19 08:54 am UTC (link)
Wow, that's not what I was expecting from the previews I've seen. Now I kind've want to see the movie.

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[info]black_spot
2007-03-20 06:32 pm UTC (link)
That reminds me of a story by Asimov with a mobius strip. The kid could give it an extra twist and vanish. That was a slightly happier story , because the father learned as well albeit slightly slower.

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[info]greenling
2007-03-21 03:24 am UTC (link)
Huh. That's pretty cool.

Less whinging moar shiny, IMO, but pretty cool. :D

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[info]onaga
2007-03-22 03:06 am UTC (link)
That was AWESOME. However I don't want to see the movie now, despite my great and abiding love for Rainn Wilson, because it has nothing to do with the story. Weepeth.

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[info]lindentreeisle
2007-03-19 05:35 pm UTC (link)
I just know am afraid to see it because it's based on a short story I love, but it looks like they threw in some bullshit about saving the world or something.

The story is called "Mimsy Were the Borogoves," and yes that is a reference to Jabberwocky. You should read it, it's delicious.

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[info]sesana
2007-03-20 03:00 am UTC (link)
Every single time I'd seen the ads for that movie, I was crushed not to see a reference to the Jabberwocky. I'm glad to know that there is a connection of some sort.

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[info]come_love_sleep
2007-03-20 06:54 am UTC (link)
*blink blink*
Holy shit, really?
That story's haunted me since I was like nine...

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[info]lindentreeisle
2007-03-20 12:11 pm UTC (link)
Mimsy Were the Borogoves? I guess it is kind of disturbing, but it probably helps that I read it for the first time in college. *shrug*

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[info]isntitironic
2007-03-20 01:37 pm UTC (link)
Oh, dear... that's very much the sort of story that can only be made into a movie by excising absolutely everything that makes it cool. I'd be really surprised if anything except 'toybox from the future!' survived.

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[info]lindentreeisle
2007-03-20 03:42 pm UTC (link)
That looks to be the case, sadly. And apparently the toys aren't even cool any more! And one of them is a stuffed rabbit that talks.

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[info]greenling
2007-03-20 05:36 pm UTC (link)
The rabbit is the Mimzy, apparently.

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[info]lindentreeisle
2007-03-20 06:25 pm UTC (link)
*facepalm*

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[info]jat_sapphire
2007-03-20 09:07 pm UTC (link)
But, but mimsy is an adjective.

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[info]greenling
2007-03-21 03:28 am UTC (link)
According to the preview, it's the future-people's psychic-power-granting last hope.

That or vegetarians. After reading the story I still have no idea what the fuck relation that first scene has to anything.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2007-03-21 01:52 pm UTC (link)
I CANNOT FIND THAT STORY. Well, somebody linked to it above, but what I mean is I KNOW we have it in a book of short stories, because I've read it before, so I collected all out relevant short-story collections, and I can't find it. There's one book missing, and it has to be in that one, and I CAN'T FIND IT ARGH.

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[info]lindentreeisle
2007-03-21 03:41 pm UTC (link)
*comfort* Sorries. I was gonna find a link to it but I guess you already have one...still, I KNOW that feeling of "ARGH WHERE IS IT" where you're going nuts because you KNOW you have it in print around someplace...

I myself have it in a spiral-bound collection of stories we had to read for a college class on Science Fiction. (Best class EVER.)

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