In yesterday’s post about Solo: A Star Wars Story,
I forgot to recount our near encounter with a fiery death right in the middle
of the movie.
OK, there was no actual fire but the fire alarm
did go off during the movie.
We got to see the Kessel Run….twice!
So here’s where we were. The unrefined coaxium
ore has been loaded onto the Millenium Falcon. Because unrefined coaxium ore is
very unstable, our gang needs to get it to the mining planet really quick. But
stuff has gone wrong: Lando has been injured, L3 has been destroyed and there’s
a big honking “we brake for nobody” Imperial cruiser in front, spitting out
what looks like hundreds of Tie fighters. And to get to the mining planet before
the unrefined coaxium ore goes BOOM means taking the Kessel Run which is 20 parsecs
long, a bit too long a distance to travel before the unrefined coaxium ore goes
BOOM!
We need a short cut! But the reason the Kessel
Run which is 20 parsecs long is there is a bunch of dangerous space shit to go
around. A short cut means going THROUGH the dangerous space shit.
Well, that’s a lot of for Han, Chewie and the
gang to cope with. And then an alarm goes off! What the hell is going on now?
The alarm is not happening in the movie.
The noise of the alarm is not all that distinct
from the movie soundtrack but the lights flashing the corners of the theater draw
attention to it. The fire alarm is going off.
NOW? The Kessel Run is about to start! We’ve
been hearing about the damn Kessel Run since 1977! We’re about to see the damn
thing finally and there’s a fire alarm going off? Really?
Dutifully, we exited the theater in an
orderly fashion where we were informed by a staff member that there is no fire
and we can return to the theater. I asked about the part of the movie we just
missed and the staffer said they would replay that part.
As we entered the theater once more, Han’s ready
to shave that damn 20 parsec Kessel Run down to 12.
The alarm continued to beep for a while as
the lights kept flashing. Then the alarm stopped and then the film stopped,
then jumped back to the scene just before the alarm went off. Pretty cool. Then
the film stopped again and the film jumped a lot further back. OK, we’re going
to be here for a while. Randie took this as an opportunity to get snacks.
When the movie was over for real, everyone in
attendance received a free pass to the theater, thanking us for putting up with
the fire alarm going off. Well, that was nice of them.
And this was our 2nd interrupted
movie in two days. The night before, we were watching Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy at the Fortress of Ineptitude when a storm hit about mid-way through the
movie and our power got knocked out. We had to “rough it” for about an hour
before power was restored and we resumed our movie.
We enjoyed the movie with Martin Freeman perfectly
cast as Arthur Dent and Zooey Deschanel, America’s Sweetheart, as Trillian. If
you know the story of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy based on the books,
the BBC TV series or BBC Radio productions, the movie represents a different
spin on events. But that goes with the territory when it comes to Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy, perpetually being reinvented.
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