Cap_Ironman NYC Movie meetup! Come for Captain America and/or dinner!

[grey-bard.livejournal.com]

A mixed pile of slashers, ficcers and Captain America fans is having an evening, after-work expedition to eat good Chinese food and then see Captain America THIS THURSDAY! Seriously, it doesn't matter if you've never met me or any of the other guests at this before - the more the merrier!

Dinner is at Grand Sichuan at St Marks at 6:30. (23 St. Marks, a block from the Astor Place subway) Yes, they specialize in spicy, but I'm a wimp and can testify to the tastiness of their non-spicy foods. They also have vegetarian options. Better yet, they like geeks (they're the traditional afterparty for the monthly KGB readings), they're set up for groups, and they encourage family-style sharing for the table! (Keeps the price down)

We will then proceed to the AMC Empire 25 theater for the 8pm show, NOT IN 3D, Buy your tickets ahead of time, people, or I am not responsible for your miserable fate!

You can have dinner and no movie! We're happy to have you! You can have movie and no dinner, that's cool too! Mix and match time!

Interested? Comment here, PM me or email me at fitzrose@ email.msn.com

Comments

[ruggerdavey.livejournal.com]

I wish I could come or that there were someone doing this in my hometown. It would have been nice to go with some other fangirls/boys. Oh, well. Hope y'all have fun.

[grey-bard.livejournal.com]

What's your hometown? Maybe there are other fans on here who live near you!

[ruggerdavey.livejournal.com]

*points to icon* Louisville, Kentucky. Not actually my hometown, but it's where I live now.

[liarashadowsong.livejournal.com]

Erm... I'm far closer to you than to NYC, but there's still 100 miles / 2 hours drive by I71 between Louisville and Cincinnati. Feel free to let me know, regardless, if you locate more people in our neck of the woods who may be interested in trying to set up a Midwest version of the NYC movie meetup?

[ruggerdavey.livejournal.com]

Ditto. There is that massive theater at the Florence Mall if more people up by you were interested.

[liarashadowsong.livejournal.com]

I have no idea where that is (I've lived in this area for less than a year, and spent most of it too busy with graduate school things to see any movies; I never even got around to seeing Thor, which I really should do if it comes out on video before Avengers hits theaters ..... aaaaand fandango says it's still showing in a theater in Florence, KY, which is where you were talking about, wasn't it? hm... well, I'm working Friday-Sunday, but I have Monday off, so I may have to go down there to see Thor, hehehe...). I saw the Captain America movie Sunday of opening weekend with my father and younger brother while visiting my parents in my hometown... But I had originally planned to just go to the theater in Newport, since the sites I checked didn't indicate the movie starting opening weekend anywhere closer to Cincy proper than Newport or Mason, although it's apparently showing in more theaters actually in the city now. >_< ...I wish more of the people I know IRL liked superheroes. I mean, I love my dad dearly, but he didn't even catch on that Howard Stark is Iron Man's father until I told him. On the other hand, I don't know if he ever saw the IM movies, so he probably didn't know Iron Man's not-so-secret-identity is Tony Stark. On the other other hand... he puts up with taking me to every halfway decent science fiction or superhero movie that is playing when I come up to visit, so I can have someone to watch with (would never think of subjecting him to the Green Lantern film!)... yeah, I don't think I care if he doesn't catch things like that without me saying.

[ruggerdavey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I suppose if you actually live in the city and you're new there, you wouldn't need to know about Florence. It's on that stretch of highway where 71 and 75 are combined - there's a big water tower that actually says "Florence Y'all" on it.

If they've got Thor showing, you should totally go see it. I finally got around to seeing it myself at a local discount theatre here in Louisville just the other week - it's really good. I enjoyed it. I still have to see Iron Man 2 before next year, as I haven't seen it yet.

I wish I had more people to see stuff like that with too....or, you know, that the friends I have who DO love superheroes and all that actually lived anywhere near me.

[liarashadowsong.livejournal.com]

...LJ just totally deleted the long-ass response comment I'd written. Damn. But to get to Florence, basically, I just make like I'm going to Newport, and then keep driving until I see the amusing water tower? Yeah, since I'm off work Monday, I might just have to go see Thor then. Especially since, knowing my luck, it'll go on video right during exams or something.

And you totally need to see Iron Man 2! I don't remember if I'd rented it, or, like, saw it at the discount theater in the town where I went to undergrad (maybe I got it with the pay-per-view thing on my parents' tv when I visited for a week last Christmas or something?), but I saw it and it was good. (Also, discount theaters are pretty cool, as long as they show decent movies. The one where I went to undergrad was in a mall that was right on the bus line, and student IDs pretty much functioned as semi-permanent bus passes. The tickets were like two-fifty max, and they sometimes had really good movies.)

And... Yeah, I've got one friend who likes Batman. Just Batman. I don't think she even gives a damn about the rest of the Batclan. She also goes to grad school on the East Coast, so I never get to see her anymore. I'm also moderately sure few or more likely none of my friends have ever even heard of Captain America or Iron Man, or at least hadn't before the movies came out. There's maybe a couple of guys in my university program who know who they are, though I don't think any of them would be members here, if you get my drift.

[ruggerdavey.livejournal.com]

Re: directions to Florence - yes! I am pretty sure there is even an exit sign for the Florence Mall (or at least Mall Road), but - yeah - the water tower is hard to miss. :) It's about 90 miles from me, so it shouldn't be far for you at all.

Iron Man 2 is actually available for streaming on Netflix, so I should be able to see it easily...it's just a matter of making the time. And as I am a teacher and the kids are back two weeks from Monday, the time is currently the issue. Definitely too late for the discount theatre on that one. :) Our discount theatre here in Louisville is pretty good - $3 a day with a $2 special on Tuesdays.

I've got friends geeky enough to go to ComicCon or other conventions. And for one of them, she and her husband actually have a "comic room" for all their comics and action figures and the like (doubles as an office, I think), but they live in Australia, so that's definitely not convenient.

[liarashadowsong.livejournal.com]

Eh, if I can't find it, my phone has a gps function, so I'm sure I'll be fine. It's only a half hour's drive, like 20-25miles, apparently. Sweet. And I don't have Netflix, but it would make perfect sense for it to be there.

Sounds like the school you teach at starts up pretty early; the university doesn't get going until a month after that, and I only work part time, so time isn't such an issue as long as I time my plans with regards to my schedule. Seems like you've got a pretty good discount theater, though. :P

...I've never actually been to a convention. And I don't think any of my friends have either. But I would love to go to one someday (given half a chance, I'd probably go in costume, even, haha, as long as I had the time to make one). Then again, I would be severely tempted to, like, go as pre-serum Steve Rogers, despite the fact that 1) I wear glasses and rarely my contacts because they make my eyes itch; 2) I'm a redhead, and in no way would consider using any sort of permanent dye even though my hair is the proper length; 3) I'm a woman (yes, I'm female and have hair that looks something like that of an American man in the 1940s). Plus, I wouldn't know where to get the proper sorts of clothes, since they don't really make trousers like that any more (and I really am not at all handy with my sewing machine for more than repairs), and I have no idea where they sell suspenders. And if I showed up to a comics convention in something that wasn't made of spandex, probably everybody would assume I was just dressed funny and not actually in costume. ;P

Ooh... Australia. I want to see Australia, someday.

[lady-death.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking the same thing. Maybe we need another post to see if anyone else lives near each other?

[ruggerdavey.livejournal.com]

I think that would be really cool.

[grand-duc.livejournal.com]

damn. I wish I lived in NY.

Anyone in Montreal?

[diagram12345.livejournal.com]

Hm... I might be there, although I'd be about half an hour late.

[grey-bard.livejournal.com]

Where there? Dinner or movie?

[diagram12345.livejournal.com]

Dinner

[diagram12345.livejournal.com]

I work in the city but I get off at exactly 6:30, so... yeah ;P

[liarashadowsong.livejournal.com]

Oooh... I wish I could go to this, it sounds like lots of fun. But I wouldn't get off work early enough. Plus there's that whole massive issue of living twelve full hours' drive away from NYC that would make it fairly impossible even if I had the day off. Damn. >_<