As reported earlier, My Name is Bruce is getting a theatrical release this fall and winter. While it’s not a huge release and isn’t playing everywhere all at once, it will be screening in select cities as part of a national tour.
What I just found out today is that Bruce Campbell himself will be at the later screenings for each day in each city (roughly the 7pm and 945pm screenings). This is not a “signing” as he mentions on his web site, but The Chin will be introducing the film and giving a short Q&A afterwards.
So yeah, my calendar is marked for Dec 5-7 in Minneapolis. You can check the schedule we put up earlier, or if you don’t trust us, head over to Bruce’s site to see if it is playing at a theater near you anytime soon. Monday just got a whole lot better for me.
trailer tucked under the seat…
ALSO, if anyone cares and is in the Toronto area, Bruce Campbell’s fabulous, “Bubba Ho-Tep” will be playing this Thursday night at the Bloor cinema in a double bill with “Mr Vampire III.”
It’d be nice to see this movie in any capacity at this point.
Geez, I’d settle for another medium, even. Maybe a full length novel? Come on. Something.
Boo hoo no Toronto dates for My Name is Bruce. No Canadian dates at all actually.
I’m hoping to catch Mr Vampire III on Thurs, but I wish it was the early show I’m not watch Bubba Ho-Tep again.
Word around the campfire is that My Name is Bruce is terrible, and I don’t mean that in a good way.
That’s what I heard as well. Seems that Mr Chin is not the greatest director around. It is kind of strange to direct a film about yourself that you also play the lead in.
He tried that in book form with “MAKE LOVE, THE BRUCE CAMPBELL WAY” and it was an epic fail. Curiously, his autobiography, “IF CHINS COULD KILL” is a delightful and very good read. He seemed to do his best work with The Coens, Raimi and Coscorelli (all three very talented directors).
I loved “make love the bruce campbell way”. Had me in stitches for the entire read. Had to put it down on a few occasions, cause I was starting to fell sick from the laughing.
I will say, I loathed “The man with the screaming brain”. That film has Campbells fingerprints all over!
MAKE LOVE was so blunt and strained as a story, and it had none of the goofy, insider stuff that CHINS had.
Found out today? Hmm … I smell shananigans.
Yeah, I had no idea until I went to the Landmark web site.
Is that your final answer?
Bought my ticket for this last night. I will be meeting Bruce on Sunday at 9:40pm.
Nice.
You won’t be meeting him Andrew, just a Q&A.
Oh ye of little faith.
Ooooo. Colleen is going to be LIVID with jealousy.
Also Andrew, at around 2pm I’d call the Lagoon and double check that he will still be here on Sunday. I’m about 99% sure he won’t be, at least not for the 9pm show.
And trust me Andrew, you won’t be meeting him. His people have been altogether douchey about this whole thing. Hopefully once he actually gets here everything is cool, but we have been led to believe that it won’t be.
The Lagoon told me and told me again that he was scheduled to be there. I double checked again today and they said yeah, if not, I want my money back. I still want to see the movie, but there are other things I need to see first.
And why do you guys gotta ruin things all the time? Of course I won’t be meeting him in person, but when I see a celebrity talking at an event, that counts as meeting him.
He’s definitely trying to not do a Q&A for the 9:40. I don’t know how hard Landmark is leaning on him to do it. If he doesn’t you won’t be the only one demanding their money back.
Haha! Fuck you guys – as Bruce walked down the aisle for the Q&A, he stopped right at my row, picked up a hat that was laying there, looked me directly in the eyes and asked if it was mine. Then he said, “you’re already wearing a hat; it’s not yours is it?” I said no, and he looked to the other side of the aisle and gave it to some lady. We spoke, we met, fuck you.
As I mentioned before, “Ye of little faith.”
I’ll have things to say about My Name is Bruce and also Bruce’s Q&A on the next show. He’s quite funny.
Nice! Seeing Bruce live is a blast, he’s a great public speaker. I enjoyed both his books, and will ignore all the bad buzz I’ve been hearing about MNIB until I see it for myself.
I didn’t think it was bad at all. I’ll try to get around to writing up the review sometime today.
Cheers!
and yes, he’s a great speaker.
Yes, saw B.C. when he was touring with Bubba Ho Tep. Nice fellow, that has a pretty solid relationship with his fan base, kinda like Kevin Smith.
Nice fellow
You guys are really trying to get me to burst your collective bubbles.
Andrew, you never wrote a review on this, did you?
The movie was awfully underwhelming.
I’m a huge Bruce guy. You could have called me a die-hard at one point in my life, since my early years of elementary school. Yet when I watched this today, I found a surprising lack of laughter and an even more surprising amount of forced laughter.
Since I know and love Bruce, I obviously understand the movie’s intentions, but I just thought it was executed poorly and the film and little winks to those that “get it” run dry pretty quick. Overall it didn’t do what the movie should have: make me laugh.
Maybe it was the fact that we had to wait so long to see this. It had some great B-movie moments, but overall, pretty disappointed. I just need to pop in some Evil Dead or Bubba Ho-Tep again to wash the salty taste out of my mouth.
Exactly what you said Jonathan, is what the film looked like from the get-go. Part of the reason why I avoided it, and hearing Andrew and others talk about it. I’m glad I didn’t waste my time.
It’s too bad about the differences between Bruce Campbell and Don Coscorelli, because I’d like to see what they could do after the success of Bubba Ho Tep.
The real fun of the movie was easily the Q&A afterwards. Campbell is still the man in my book. His Q&A is very Kevin Smith like.
agree with Jonathon. i went it not with huge expectations, but fairly high, even after the really bad trailer we saw. this was just not funny. the jokes and “satire” were not clever (i mean, the dance scene with all the falling down? wtf?) and it was just plain boring overall. i think i laughed three or four times, which really made me feel awful after.
i’m not sure if it was more the script or bruce’s directing, but i like to think the script, since bruce didn’t write that.