February 21, 2008 --- approx. 7:24 pm, Greenlake, under a blood red sky....
Gladys D. --- So, JB....just how many times HAVE you seen U2:3D?
JB B. --- Lemme put it this way...I'd be unable to count the number of times....on one hand.
(Thanks to Joss Whedon, comic book /TV show idiot savant...haha j/k for providing the "template" that i'm now COMPLETELY plagarizing....)
Hi, my name is JB Bonifacio. Before we begin this special blog, I have a little story I want to tell you. It's about a film called U2:3D(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2_3D. U2:3D premiered on the silver screen a few weeks ago and was instantly hailed by critics as one of the most un-seen shows of the year (at least in MY immediate circles). It was ignored and abandoned and the story should end there...but it doesn't...because the people who talked about the show and the people who saw the show (which is...roughly...the same number of people) fell in love with it a little bit...too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood (and in life, as I am reminded....constantly), people like that are called 'unrealistic' ... 'quixotic' ... 'obsessive'.
In my world, they're called 'fans'.
Whether you've watched U2 before, or saw the DVD's, or whether you've never set foot in their universe before now, the fact is they've been rocking their anthemic sound in upwards of 30 years; that is a little bit remarkable. This movie should not exist. Aging rock stars don't get major motion pictures unless
the creator, the band, and the fans believe beyond reason. It's what I've
felt....It's what I've seen...
And yet it is, in an unprecedented sense, up to the non-fans to see this movie get its deserved national exposure...which means, if it fails, it's your fault....lol.
You let us down, but let's not dwell on your failures because the work is not done ;)
Once we are finished, we have to get people to see it. Now, obviously the studio is going to do their thing. There will be ads and trailers and all that joy, but this movie doesn't have Katherine Heigl and it isn't Step Up 2 or even
Hannah Montana 3D (ugh...). What it has is us (well, Dustin and myself, and to a lesser extent, Matt H and Chris A.), the people who believed....unreasonably.....
And now...here we are,
If this movie seems appealing to you, let somebody know. Let everybody know. Make yourselves heard. If you don't like the movie, this is a time for quiet, silent contemplation....haha.
But, when the credits / closing song finally roll, if you still call yourself a U2 fan,
remember the millions of people who
don't...who might.
U2:3D has since been removed from the Boeing & Eames IMAX theatres in favor of "The Spiderwick Chronicles: the IMAX Experience"
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