*** SATURDAY NIGHT *** (movie about the first SNL broadcast)

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Saturday Night
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27657135/
October 11, 2024
Theatrical Exclusive

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Saw it tonight and it's a lot of fun.

Fair warning, I would say it's maybe slightly more of a drama than a comedy, though, due mostly to the ticking clock element. Or, rather, while it obviously has a number of laughs, I just don't know that I'd categorize it solely as a comedy.

Also, some performances definitely work better and feel more natural than others. There a couple that, frankly, are super on-the-nose/run-of-mill impersonations, while others uncannily embody the original actors, and work far better.

Overall, I'd say the movie is more akin in tone/vibe to Steve Jobs than I was expecting. And like Steve Jobs, they pack a lot of somewhat unbelievable story into the final moments/countdown before a show, it's just that Steve Jobs was a bit more skilled at doing so. To be clear, though, writer/director Jason Reitman said everything in the movie actually happened in real life, it's just that not all of it happened in the 90 minutes leading up to the first show.

The craziest part of the night, actually, is that Reitman told us this in person.

I bought tickets a couple weeks back, and they since turned it into a Q&A screening, without any announcement that I was aware of. We showed up and there were six director's chair at the front of the theater, then just before the movie a theater employee came out and told us to stick around after for a live Q&A, to everyone's surprise. Turns out, it was Reitman and four cast members…

- Gabriel LaBelle (Lorne Michaels)
- Cory Micheal Smith (Chevy Chase)
- Kim Matula (Jane Curtin)
- Taylor Gray (Al Franken)

… all of whom were super cool/down to earth. Afterward, they even had literal film strips from the movie to give away, and the actors all waded into the crowd to hand them out to everyone, and then even mingled for a bit after (which is super rare for a Q&A). In fact, we ended up walking out with Cory Michael Smith and Kim Matula and told them what a great job they did, (truly, they give the two best performances, IMO).

That's movie going in LA. Every so often you randomly go to a movie on a Friday night, then ten minutes after it ends the star of the movie is handing you a film strip from the movie, haha.

But yeah, while not quite as great as the effusive praise from the festivals (surprise, surprise), it's a good time for sure and absolutely worth seeing in theaters, when it finally goes wide next weekend (which is literally the same exact weekend the show debuted in 1975)...

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Very cool, I'm jealous. Also somewhat related, tonight Nate Bargatze hosts and hopefully he can recreate the magic of his first appearance.

I hope I'm in a good mood for it (c'mon Ags!!!). ETA - I'm in a FANTASTIC MOOD!!!! WHOOP!!!!
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Tomorrow...

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Movie going in Houston means occasionally seeing someone get stabbed when a fight breaks out in the theater, like when I went to see He got Game.
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I liked this a lot, but I'm a sucker for Sorkin-like dialogue and whip-fast pace.

It's true that it was hard to feel like there were any stakes knowing exactly how it ends, and knowing that this probably in no way resembles the way the last 90 minutes pre-show went, but it was a fun hour and a half and absolutely flew by.
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That was awesome.
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Just got back, and that was brilliant! Each character did such a good job…. I walked away wanting more of each of them. The Gilda Radner actress was absolutely nails. I think she was my favorite, but I loved so many of the others. I have no idea how accurate this is, but it was just fun…

It was really funny, but not at all laugh at loud funny. It did have a couple of moments where I laughed, but, for the most part it was just funny because you can really imagine these things happening in real world time back in the 70's.

I loved it.
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