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Originally posted by Mr. Ambulance Driver:
Was it actually viewed by Human eyes?

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2:05am Well kids, I have seen Christmas On Mars, the long-fabled Flaming Lips movie that's attained almost mythical status for the seven years it's supposedly been in production. I can assure you that it exists: I saw it tonight at a screening inside a tent with a specially designed—and yes, very impressive—surround sound system, introduced personally by Wayne Coyne himself. But what I can't tell you is what it's about. And I don't mean that I'm not at liberty to divulge plot information; I mean I really don't know what the hell I just saw. Contrary to early reports, Christmas On Mars is not a rock opera, or even a visual approximation of the high-concept weirdness of albums like The Soft Bulletin or Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. Instead, The Lips have made a low-budget sci-fi movie that's something akin to Dark Star as directed by David Lynch, a ponderous tale of space madness set inside an orbiting craft filled with foulmouthed rednecks that includes disturbing visions of bloody fetuses, squirming brains and other assorted viscera, and even "vaginal-headed marching bands from hell." But while that all sounds perfectly fine and whacked-out on paper, for all of its occasional flashes of surrealism, it's mostly just kind of a slog: Other than a few bursts of the Lips' signature candy-colored weirdness, the primarily black-and-white Christmas is often as ponderous as your average student film, drunk on its own philosophical pretensions and befouled by dumbed-down dialogue—not to mention an unfortunate scatological obsession that wouldn't be out of place in a Troma film. While it's somewhat amusing to see Coyne playing a stoic alien sporting cheap latex antennae who may or may not be God, and cameos from ringers like Adam Goldberg (owner of the only solid performance in the film) and Fred Armisen (the only one who does any singing, by the way), Christmas On Mars was neither as funny or—as Coyne put forth in his infinitely more entertaining intro—as freaky as one would expect. It does, however, make for a pretty good mindfuck at 2 a.m. But then again, I'm so sleep deprived at this point, that goes for pretty much everything.

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Originally posted by Annon:
I drove all the way from Oklahoma to see of and didn't know you needed a ticket for the screenings, which were supposed to start at midnight. I left the cure at like 11:45 to go get in line for the first showing, but it had been moved up to 10, and all they had already given out all the tickets for the 12:30 showing. I got a ticket for the 2:30 am screening, but the festival came and shut it down! Apparently the festival has a hard curfew that they didn't bother telling the lips would interfere with the screening. That is why the first screening moved up. They couldn't have any screenings the next day because they were setting up the UFO.

So I drove all the way from Oklahoma to see the premier and I didn't even get to see it Not all bad though, I talked with the crew about Oklahoma stuff and kliph came out and apologized when security handed down the verdict at about 1:30. It totally wasn't the lips fault. I guess I've got a pretty cool collectors item in a ticket for the third screening that never happened.

The lips need to have an oklahoma screening! I may have to go to wakarusa now if I want to see it.

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Originally posted by when you:

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Originally posted by Annon:
I drove all the way from Oklahoma to see of and didn't know you needed a ticket for the screenings, which were supposed to start at midnight. I left the cure at like 11:45 to go get in line for the first showing, but it had been moved up to 10, and all they had already given out all the tickets for the 12:30 showing. I got a ticket for the 2:30 am screening, but the festival came and shut it down! Apparently the festival has a hard curfew that they didn't bother telling the lips would interfere with the screening. That is why the first screening moved up. They couldn't have any screenings the next day because they were setting up the UFO.

So I drove all the way from Oklahoma to see the premier and I didn't even get to see it Not all bad though, I talked with the crew about Oklahoma stuff and kliph came out and apologized when security handed down the verdict at about 1:30. It totally wasn't the lips fault. I guess I've got a pretty cool collectors item in a ticket for the third screening that never happened.

The lips need to have an oklahoma screening! I may have to go to wakarusa now if I want to see it.

i didn't realize there would be a screening at wakarusa is this true?