Up: Positive Early Buzz

childeroland · #1 (**permalink**) 13th April 2009, 04:12 AM

From MPR Movie Matters, via SlashFilm:

Twin Cities gets first sneak of "Up" in entire country

A group of about 70 people holed up in the AMC Southdale Thursday became the first members of the general public to see "Up" the new offering from Pixar. The movie is likely to be one of the hot releases when it comes out in late May.

Thursday's screening wasn't without a little drama though. It started more than three-quarters of an hour late, which is never good when a large proportion of your audience is under the age of 10, as was the case yesterday.

Let's just say there was a lot of energy in the theater, and a lot of popcorn on the floor.

The delay it turned out was because the movie was so new it was delivered on a hard-drive handcuffed to a security guard. Actually the delivery was on time, but the package lacked the vital cord which the theater staff needed to download the movie to the theater's server.

Someone was dispatched to the local Radio Shack to get a replacement, but the film was still downloading when the audience arrived. The gathering press reps were all advised about the delay and the mass of youngsters inside, and some of us decided to take advantage of the pleasant weather outside for half an hour.

It has to be said, the wait was worthwhile. "Up" is at times quite breathtaking. The film was so new it didn't have credits at the end yet.

After the show the security folks watched as the movie was erased from the server, and the drive was handcuffed again to the minder, and off it flew again to Pixar HQ.

The_Disturbed_One · #2 (**permalink**) 14th April 2009, 04:16 PM

Geez, man. That's a little extreme for a kids film. Who would want to pirate that? The only people who are going to see it will be parents and their little darlings. It doesn't look to be that funny and the story is kinda lame...of course it is a kids movie.

childeroland · #3 (**permalink**) 14th April 2009, 08:27 PM

Pixar has a pretty good history taking lame-sounding ideas (rats in a restaurant, father fish searching for his kid) and making them interesting.

The security seems a bit much (gotta watch those 10 year-olds) but considering what happened with Wolverine and now Caprica...

The_Disturbed_One · #4 (**permalink**) 14th April 2009, 08:33 PM

Well, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a big film that's not targeted at just kids. Its supposed to be one of the films that starts up the summer blockbuster rush. I'm not saying its going to be an amazing movie, but there is definitely a higher base of people who would pirate the film than a Pixar flick. And I liked the first maybe 3 or 4 Pixar films, but the last few have left me kinda high and dry.