![]() I’d run into McDonagh in the parking lot earlier in the day, shaken his hand (the dude’s got a grip that would break a lumberjack’s arm), and wished him well in his fight against Tim League later in the evening (as if he needed it). Next, I caught the Mondo screening of An American Werewolf in London (you can read my writeup on that over here), and once that was complete, I wandered outside to wait for the mid-evening screening of Knuckle, the Irish bare-knuckle fighter documentary starring James Quinn McDonagh. Yesterday, I was downtown at the Drafthouse for nearly 15 hours, running from one end of the South Lamar compound to the other in order to get everything I needed to done: in the morning, I picked up my “boarding passes” for the day, met up with Best Worst Movie’s Andrew Matthews for lunch, interviewed Tom Six and Human Centipede 2 star Laurence Harvey (both were extremely nice, and Six was gracious when I told him I didn’t like Centipede 2 nearly as much as the first one that interview will be posted October 2 nd), checked out the Fantastic Arcade, and then-finally-got around to seeing some movies. Make of all that what you will.īut let’s move on. ![]() If you’re playing along at home, that means that Fantastic Fest’s online ticketing system has something between a 50-75% success rate, depending on how you wanna look at it. So, day one was a success, days two and three were a bit of a wash (though I ended up seeing almost everything I wanted to yesterday thanks to some string-pulling), and day four was a runaway success. And lemme tell ya: if you end up 417th in line for anything, chances are you’re not going to end up getting what you wanted.Īll of that said, I managed to end up #8 in line this morning, which means that I landed tickets to everything I wanted to see today. ![]() Under the online ticketing system, a random number is generated for those “standing” in the virtual queue, which means that-even if you’re in the right place at the right time-bad luck might mean that you end up being 417th in line (as I did this morning). With the old system, getting in line early meant landing tickets that corresponded with your willingness to get up early and stand in line: if you were a die-hard fan (or really looking forward to something), you could all but guarantee your entry into the film-in-question by getting in line early. Now that we’re three days into the Festival, I can confirm that this sentiment has not changed: online ticketing seems like a good idea, but in practice? It’s been the source of some pretty serious frustration for those attending Fantastic Fest 2011 (particularly journalists and online bloggers). All I knew was, I didn’t wanna go through all that again, and the idea of being able to secure passes online seemed like a massive improvement. At least, that’s what I thought when Fantastic Fest 2011 got started.
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