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WHOISRIVER

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:36 AM (P)

http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/movies/show/serenity/

Edinburgh Film Festival. Serenity. Completed film. Joss Whedon. Joss Whedon documentary ("Reel Life"). August.

Book Friday.

Edit: You may need to goto "find films" and enter "Serenity" to see it - Fireflyfans.net forum software is messing up the link above.

TRASK43

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:39 AM (P)

That is just too shiny. Any idea on a number of tickets that will be available.

www.summer-glau.com

PHOEBE

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:29 PM (P)

I don't BELIEVE it *wails* I'm in Spain the 18th-28th.

*wanders off up a corner to cry(*

HUITZIL

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 1:01 PM (P)

sorry, doubled up the thread again - think i'll just wait for you to post first gossi!

Quote:
Originally posted by Phoebe:
I don't BELIEVE it *wails* I'm in Spain the 18th-28th.

*wanders off up a corner to cry(*

I'm sure (fingers crossed) there will be more preview screenings at various dates and locations across the UK.

___________
All guilt is relative. Loyalty counts. And never let your conscience be your guide.

EXCITINGNEWCRIME

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 2:00 PM (P)

Wheeee! I'm on holiday in Sunderland til the 22nd, so I'll just mosey on up right after! This is awesome! *and* I'm off work Friday so I can spend my day booking tickets :D

FANTASTICLAUGHINGFAIRY

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 2:13 PM (P)

OMG - that is SO shiny! I hope I'll be able to make it! Will there be other screenings nearer the rest of the country (as in Wales/Manchester/Liverpool etc.)? Keep me posted!

...and we will call it...this land...

PHYSCHICK

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 2:45 PM (P)

Hmm, does anyone know how far ahead of the wide release the "World Premiere" usually happens? Could we possibly be getting Serenity at the end of August?

DIETCOKE

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 2:50 PM (P)

Does anyone one else find this interesting that they are having the World Premiere in Scottland at a film festival? Showing it twice?

I'm not sure what it means....anyone else?

NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

EMMA

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 3:06 PM (P)

I have no idea what they mean by World Premiere - I suppose it might mean that it will be the first time the film will be shown in its complete version.

Tickets go on sale on the 15th but bloody hell - Scotland! I hope they announce more places.

gorram it hotels will be booked up or way too expensive - f*@k a duck

extremely dimensionally transcendental

COSMICFUGITIVE

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 3:21 PM (P)

BLOODY HELL!!! *Jumps up and down with excitement*.

I have to book a ticket NOW! I need to sit down... (Wait.. I am sitting down.. ) This is too gorram shiny. Thanks for posting WhoisRiver!

- Cos.

EXCITINGNEWCRIME

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 3:23 PM (P)

I'm a member of staff at one particular hotel chain and can (hopefully) get staff discount on a twin room. I've checked, and they have rooms available, and it would be £90 for two nights (I don't want to book a room til I've got tickets booked, just in case! *g*) so I'd be looking for someone to share - in effect, paying for a night each.

If I get my staff discount, it'll probably work out at around £50 for two nights.

Edit: When I say £90, I mean for the room, not per person. So £45 each. £25 each if I get the discount. The issue with the discount is, they only have a certain number set aside, and sometimes in the busier months they don't allow it at all.

Edit again: Gorram it, my employers are trying to bankrupt me - they meant £90 per night! *dies* So back to the drawing board - I also will be looking for somewhere to stay :D

BROWNCOAT1

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 3:24 PM (P)

You lucky Scots! My two favorite things, Serenity and Scotland together. Shiny!

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COLONELBLUEHANDS

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 3:29 PM (P)

damn...have to make a plan!

"Two by two, hands of blue..." River Tam

IAMZOE

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 4:05 PM (P)

Quote:
Does anyone one else find this interesting that they are having the World Premiere in Scottland at a film festival? Showing it twice?

I'm not sure what it means....anyone else?

It is interesting they are having the world premiere in Scotland (one 't' there) - but only from my personal point of view that it is so close to me that attending is easy - assuming I can get a ticket!

The Edinburgh Film Festival is huge, and part of the still huger Edinburgh Festival, where the population of the city pretty much doubles for one month. It is a crazy time, and no fun to be a local (except from the increase in jobs). One year, when I still lived there, I was late almost every day for work. I just gave up the day a troop of penguins crossed the road in slow motion in front of the bus. That's people dressed as penguins. They close the high street completely, and everything is just chaos and madness. An inordinate amount of English university students who want to be actors and Americans who want to go to the theatre drink all the bars dry and talk in incredibly loud and heavily accented voices and kiss all the time.

The film festival is one of the best bits. They often show films two or three times if demand is high. Last year, I saw a screening (which was the second or third due to demand) of the Metallica film 'Some Kind of Monster' - it was one of the weirdest queues for a film I've ever seen, and so funny.

Other big previews are often held too - one year Rushmore was the big one. There's always a lot of good European stuff too - the programme is usually excellent, often a bit quirky. Seems like the perfect place for 'Serenity'...

DIETCOKE

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 4:10 PM (P)

Well, thank you. I'm beginning to understand why they are doing it. I'm also curious about the documentary. Be sure to give us a full report.

Sorry, for spelling your country with two "T". Won't happen again!

NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

IAMZOE

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 4:25 PM (P)

Sorry for the spelling checker!

Partly obsessiveness (is that spelt right?) and partly touchiness...

Here's another link, to a bio one of the best Scottish film reviewers (in my opinion, anyway) - check out what she has to say about the Edinburgh film festival:
http://scotland.ideasfactory.com/writing/features/feature3.html
She also has some interesting comments about working in Scotland. If you can find any of her film reviews online (try through the Glasgow Herald newspaper), they are usually quite good - she did a fantastic one recently panning Vera Drake.

NIKNAK

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 4:31 PM (P)

Just recieved this from the cantstopthesignal.co.uk mailing list:

Quote:
[Serenity UK Screenings] Edinburgh Film Festival screening

Two, in fact, of the finished film. Joss at the first screening. In August.

Info and tickets: http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/movies/show/serenity/

Q&A with Joss.

Also, a documentary on Joss Whedon is screening.

Tickets go on sale Monday morning.

Screenings around the UK will follow shortly after.

Kev

So it looks good for other screenings. Note that edfilmfest.org.uk says tickets go on sale Friday and not Monday as it says in the email.

I'm now considering having a holiday in Scotland around the showings - assuming I can get tickets before the sell out.

DIETCOKE

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 4:36 PM (P)

Does anyone know anything about the documentary he is going to be showing? Is this the one about the fans?

NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

ZOL

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 5:00 PM (P)

Great Stuff,

I`ve secured a couple of days off, although I will be gutted if I can`t get tickets.

Thinking of driving up there but may just take a slow train.

I hope that everybody will be sinsible about purchasing tickets and not have the eBay debarcle happen in the UK.

If you get tickets and find you can not go, offer them up at the list price and not go through eBay - be a good Browncoat & not a profiteer (even if you only want to sell one ticket, it`s still profiteering off others)

Darin (Zol.)

WHOISRIVER

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 5:04 PM (P)

press release: http://www.cantstopthesignal.co.uk/pr.html

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CAPNERIC

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:46 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by iamzoe:
It is interesting they are having the world premiere in Scotland (one 't' there) - but only from my personal point of view that it is so close to me that attending is easy - assuming I can get a ticket!

Hi, Lady! I am sooo jealous of you right now. I've really no reason to be as I can't get the time off anyway. Besides, it's only fair - you flew down for Starfury.

Stay shiny!

"How drunk was I last night?"

"I dunno, I passed out"

THESTEVE

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 8:19 PM (P)

Man are you lot jealous!! hahaha Guess who has delegate passes for the festival. Shiny!!!!

We deserve after rioting all last week by anarchists. You guys get 99% of world premiere's in the states. share the love

ZOL

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 8:25 PM (P)

Anyone seen signs of Pixel? there seams to be a few regulars who are miussing that would surely like to know about all this.

unfortunetely Petit_rhino is still up in the shetlands and I think may be leaving before the premier. she`s not easily contactable

I`m goingf to try my damdest to get tickets, but as it`s in the middle of a work day and I will be winging my way to Torquay it will be quite difficult (although not totally impoossible)

Darin (Zol.)

p.s. the problem after getting a ticket(s) is hotel or guesthouse accomodation - it`s not cheap and there`s bound to be quite a few places already booked up.

GROUNDED

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:25 PM (P)

Well if I don't get somewhere to stay I'll be knocking on my mate's door come the night of the 21st ;)

SIMONWHO

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:31 PM (P)

Oooh, this is exciting. Severely tempted to book tickets just on the off chance that things work out that allow me to go. I do know the odd person in Scotland that might let me crash at their place. That or take the "when in Rome" approach and just drink my way through the night.

Also of peripheral interest is the fact that Kinky Boots is also being shown at the festival, starring one Chiwetel Ejiofor. Certainly a change of pace for him and the film is currently scheduled to be opening oppposite Serenity in November.

Interestingly, the site has a "show me films like..." option, presumably to let you make random choices but still in genre. One of the films listed is Blade Runner. No, Serenity isn't linked to that one. Instead it is linked to 'The Silence of the Lambs'. Um...

Plus a little warning; the description of the movie gives spoilerish hints. Best just to go straight to booking. On July 15th. After I have booked. Yeah.

ZOL

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:46 PM (P)

It will be great if some of the regulars on here get tickets, I`ve also looked attravel arrangements too although everythingh hangs on getting a golden ticket

Darin (Zol.)

EXCITINGNEWCRIME

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:43 PM (P)

Yeah, I lurk here a lot more than I post, but I'd like the chance to run into a few people to add faces to names!

NWUKSTEVE

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:51 PM (P)

Cost of movie ticket : 7.50

Cost of return train ticket : 18.00, and >2.5hrs each way

Cost of hotel (1 night) : ~50.00?, if find someone to share?

That's a lot of money and effort for one film, but I am SO tempted. Hopefully all the movie tickets will have gone before I get one!

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SOUTHERNSLAYER

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:30 PM (P)

IAMZOE

Thursday, July 14, 2005 6:28 AM (P)

I am so excited about this! I am even online in the morning, just to make sure noone went and put the tickets on sale early... look, does everyone want to just hold off booking on Friday till I get my tickets? Just for an hour or so?!

Seriously, if anyone is thinking about coming up to Edinburgh for the event, accomodation costs should be factored in: the city and surrounding area are always fully booked for the festival - often years in advance. I work in tourism, and have heard stories about people showing up in Edinburgh, going to the tourist office looking for accomodation and being told the nearest hotel with rooms is in northern England. This is the biggest festival in Europe, if you count everything in it. Accomodation is probably still available (just), but prices could be high - all discounts are probably out, and anyone with a flat/room to lease for the month of August makes up for the enormous disruption to their city by charging extortionate prices. There are even landlords who specialise in renting accomodation just for the festival.

Incidentally, if Misters J. Whedon or N. Fillion or any of their close friends are looking for a place to crash, I can offer a sofa-bed :)

HUITZIL

Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:59 AM (P)

if you want to keep your costs down there are a couple of youth hostels in central edinburgh - more like £12 per night

___________
All guilt is relative. Loyalty counts. And never let your conscience be your guide.

AVANI

Thursday, July 14, 2005 8:46 AM (P)

Oh this is just too shiny!!! I live in Dunfermline, which is just across the forth from Edinburgh and i have that week off as we were planning on doing the whole festival thing that week anyway....

Now all i need to do is get my paws on a pair of tickets :)

Avani

CALHOUN

Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:13 AM (P)

Sounds like a lot of you are poms. I'm an Australian so Scotland is a bit further for me... but while I am here thought i'd comment on the English cricket team, losers! Gawd I love beating the Poms at cricket. Rugby union and League too for that matter.

Well you lot are annoying me with Serenity screenings and such.. seems only fair to mock your sporting prowess(or lack thereof). Hehe

SIMONWHO

Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:39 AM (P)

Well, I guess England can't beat Australia at cricket, we have to leave it to the giants of the game like Bangladesh and Somerset.

By the way, did you enjoy it when we went right to your home and kicked you from one end of the field to the other to win the Rugby World Cup? Your Prime Minister didn't look too happy about it, what a shame.

How are your football team doing? Still slightly worse than Kuwait? No wonder you invented 'Aussie Rules' to replace soccer's skill and talent with people punching each other.

Plus your TV's crap. Except for the Micallef Programme. Now that was funny.

NEPHRON

Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:05 AM (P)

There are Greater Union cinemas claiming to have advance screenings on the 4th of August. They're taking bookings and all.

???

ETA: the one I was particularly looking at was in Western Australia- the Innaloo Greater Union

NEPHRON

Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:05 AM (P)

Sorry, double post. Can't find a delete button, only edit.

BECSTHEBEAST

Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:31 AM (P)

just to let you all know - i was up in edinburgh for the G8 stuff recently and we stayed in a youth hostel called budget backpackers - but you will have to book right away as it gets really busy up there around festival time
it cost £12 a night in a six bed room - so i'm sure if browncoats got it together then we could get in the same rooms

'forgive my rudeness. i cannot abide useless people'

INARALOVER

Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:10 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by nwuksteve:
Cost of movie ticket : 7.50

Cost of return train ticket : 18.00, and >2.5hrs each way

Cost of hotel (1 night) : ~50.00?, if find someone to share?

been at the shiniest event in the verse : priceless

somethings money cant buy for every thing else thers mastercard

ZOL

Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:03 PM (P)

I`m working on this whole thing, definitely a Priceless Moment to be up in Scotland (Going where no Zol.has gone before!) & trying my best to get everything sorted - I`m laying the Emergency `Red Phone` line uptoi Edinburgh, you knopw, it`s the one that comssioner Gordon contact Batman on

Darin (Zol.)

BECSTHEBEAST

Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:34 PM (P)

can't find on the website what time stuff goes on sale - any ideas? - have managed to negotiate time off so i wanna try my best to get tickets

I'm slow today - just found an info phone line - if anyone else was wondering its 12 noon

'forgive my rudeness. i cannot abide useless people'

NIKNAK

Thursday, July 14, 2005 5:09 PM (P)

Yup 12 noon. I emailed them to ask and you just beat me to posting it.

EMMA

Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:40 PM (P)

Well I'm out. Flights between Amsterdam and Edinburgh are very expensive at that time - the cheapest flights I could find were about £100. When you add the additional travel costs, hotel, food and stuff it just becomes too much. Pooooooo - I hope you all get tickets though.

May the force be with you

extremely dimensionally transcendental

CALHOUN

Friday, July 15, 2005 8:41 AM (P)

Quote:
SimonWho wrote:
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 23:39
Well, I guess England can't beat Australia at cricket, we have to leave it to the giants of the game like Bangladesh and Somerset.

By the way, did you enjoy it when we went right to your home and kicked you from one end of the field to the other to win the Rugby World Cup? Your Prime Minister didn't look too happy about it, what a shame.

How are your football team doing? Still slightly worse than Kuwait? No wonder you invented 'Aussie Rules' to replace soccer's skill and talent with people punching each other.

Plus your TV's crap. Except for the Micallef Programme. Now that was funny.

Typical whingin Pom... Had a bath lately?

I liked Micallef too, particularly his "high horse". hehe

SIMONWHO

Friday, July 15, 2005 9:54 AM (P)

Everybody ready? Starter's orders in just one hour.

BECSTHEBEAST

Friday, July 15, 2005 10:10 AM (P)

omg omg omg!!!!!
i am getting a touch over excited - sitting down here at work in my dungeon and no-one else is around!!!!!

'forgive my rudeness. i cannot abide useless people'

KITTYKAT

Friday, July 15, 2005 10:35 AM (P)

Quote:
I'm slow today - just found an info phone line - if anyone else was wondering its 12 noon

*sigh* I'm so dumb. I stayed up 'til gone midnight to see if I could get tickets. Then one of my friends was up til five checking out the website. And I've been on all morning at work refreshing whenever no one else is looking.

Unbelievably excited at the prospect! It's going to cost me about £50 for my train from London and we're planning on just pulling an all-nighter and sleep on the train home on Tuesday.

Pretties! http://icons.funkydory.net/firefly.htm

PAULROCKS

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:03 AM (P)

Go go go go go!

KITTYKAT

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:06 AM (P)

*screams in anguish* Damn site! Give me my gorram tickets and stop giving me errors!

Pretties! http://funkydory.net/firefly.htm

PAULROCKS

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:11 AM (P)

I know, I've got 5 windows open constantly switching between them trying whilst ringing but still getting nowhere :(
They just weren't ready for the Browncoat invasion :)

GROUNDED

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:12 AM (P)

Although the site says Friday for tickets, didn't the official release say Monday? Either way the booking option isn't available right now and it's past midday on Friday...

KITTYKAT

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:13 AM (P)

I can't call. I'm at work and I've already been involved in some slightly dodgy chicanery just to get the time off. If they find out I haven't already booked my tickets, they may just kill me. Or at least, it'd definitely hurt my promotion chances!

Quote:
Although the site says Friday for tickets, didn't the official release say Monday? Either way the booking option isn't available right now and it's past midday on Friday...

The booking screen IS up now - it's just giving a lot of errors.

Pretties! http://funkydory.net/firefly.htm

PAULROCKS

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:15 AM (P)

Arrggghh!

I do like the "I'm sorry Dave I can't do that" error message though :)

KITTYKAT

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:17 AM (P)

That does amuse, yes :D

Pretties! http://funkydory.net/firefly.htm

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:19 AM (P)

This is ridiculous! I finally got through on the phone only to get an answer phone message telling me that booking opens at midday on Friday! Argh!

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:26 AM (P)

Hmmm, okay... Tickets are now in my 'shopping basket'... slight hitch in that the checkout page isn't loading though :S

EXCITINGNEWCRIME

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:28 AM (P)

I've got tickets in my basket for the Joss thing, having trouble purchasing, though. The 22nd screening is showing Sold Out.

PAULROCKS

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:28 AM (P)

Arrghhh, so close, I finally got into the system but it failed after I put in my address and that I wanted the tickets posting to me :(

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:32 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by PaulRocks:
Arrghhh, so close, I finally got into the system but it failed after I put in my address and that I wanted the tickets posting to me :(

Yep, same here! A pain, isn't it? That error page will be the death of me!

EXCITINGNEWCRIME

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:32 AM (P)

Mine's failing on that, too.

DEFINEINTERESTING

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:34 AM (P)

Yeah, same.

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:36 AM (P)

I'm just worried that if I haven't got them within 20 minutes they'll disappear out of my basket! Can't allow that to happen! Might have to add some more random films to make sure it doesn't... :S

EXCITINGNEWCRIME

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:37 AM (P)

I'm having that exact worry. Aaargh!

That Dave thing, not so funny once its ALL YOU'RE SEEING for half an hour...

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:38 AM (P)

I have payment details! :D

PAULROCKS

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:39 AM (P)

lol, agreed on all fronts. I worried that the system is so screwed that it doesn't matter about the tickets being in your basket and that it's already sold out.

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:41 AM (P)

No, I think that once they're in the basket they're yours... I hope anyway! The payment details is now telling me that my credit card number is invalid. Hmmm... It better bloody work after spending 45 minutes on it!

EXCITINGNEWCRIME

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:43 AM (P)

Unless your twenty minutes is up. Someone on the UB has had that problem, their basket got emptied because it constantly crashed for 20 minutes.

Mine's almost gone, I can feel it...

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:45 AM (P)

All of my cards are being rejected! Why?!?

PAULROCKS

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:45 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by robsthell:
No, I think that once they're in the basket they're yours... I hope anyway! The payment details is now telling me that my credit card number is invalid. Hmmm... It better bloody work after spending 45 minutes on it!

Ditto on all fronts, was considering trying a different card but I guess it's just another problem with the system.

PAULROCKS

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:48 AM (P)

This is mighty frustrating. I can't give up as long as the tickets are in my basket though!
Come on damn you, work!

SIMONWHO

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:50 AM (P)

Yup, I had tickets in my basket, all ready to be checked out and then "this card is invalid".

The phone lines are all permanently engaged and the website is breaking in other areas too.

Perhaps if these people can't run a professional operation they should step aside and let someone who can take over.

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:52 AM (P)

What do we do now?

It's like they're figuring out how to do stuff as they go... first no tickets... then get the tickets but no checkout... etc. etc. Useless egits!

EXCITINGNEWCRIME

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:53 AM (P)

Well, there's professional, and then there's "When the Browncoats are on the loose"....

;)

DEFINEINTERESTING

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:54 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by robsthell:
What do we do now?

It's like they're figuring out how to do stuff as they go... first no tickets... then get the tickets but no checkout... etc. etc. Useless egits!

Then I suppose we have to keep trying!

FRAY101

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:54 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SimonWho:

Perhaps if these people can't run a professional operation they should step aside and let someone who can take over.

Hey, be fair - this happens to Ticketmaster and most other such sites. Of course it's frustrating but with the demand I fail to see that any other organiser's website or telephone lines would be any more reliable.

Having said that, the invalid credit card message people keep getting is just silly...and goodness knows there's nothing more heart-breaking than actually getting the item in your shopping basket and then losing it.

Good luck everyone - stick with it!

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PAULROCKS

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:54 AM (P)

Now I know what it was like for the the folks from the US trying to get tickets for the screenings. At least they weren't just trying 1 place though.

I just don't think they were prepared for how desperate we all our to see our BDM.

DEFINEINTERESTING

Friday, July 15, 2005 11:58 AM (P)

I don't fucking believe it. It cleared by basket.

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:01 PM (P)

Shit... just lost my tickets. Apparently my 20 minutes are up... Gutted.

KITTYKAT

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:02 PM (P)

I'm going to cry. I've not even managed to get to my basket yet.

Pretties! http://funkydory.net/firefly.htm

PAULROCKS

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:03 PM (P)

Nooooo!
"Your shopping basket has expired"

Well that's that then :(

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:05 PM (P)

Is it worth getting whoever gets through to the booking page next to get more tickets than they need and sell them at the selling price to people on here? I know its a bit like touting but might be the only chance we get!

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:07 PM (P)

The phone is ringing... will it get picked up this time though, that's the question... Nope. Useless. This is a farce.

KITTYKAT

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:08 PM (P)

Roughly how many are wanted though? I know I for one am dangerously close to my overdraft limit and pay day's so far away. And I need four. Why it was me who was trying for booking in my group is beyond me...

Pretties! http://funkydory.net/firefly.htm

DEFINEINTERESTING

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:09 PM (P)

Add two for me please, if you get them

PAULROCKS

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:10 PM (P)

Surely it's sold out by now? Even with the choas it's only 1 screen so only needs a few people to get through and it'll be done.
I would of course be willing to buy for others or buy off someone given the chance however :)

ROBSTHELL

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:10 PM (P)

I need two as well...

SIMONWHO

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:11 PM (P)

Fair? I have no objection to the fact that they have lots of engaged signals and that it can be hard to get to the booking page. That is the natural blockage when 10,000s of people are trying to get to hundreds of tickets. I understand and acknowledge that.

What I object to is that when I and the others here manage to get through on the phones or the page allows us to order tickets, we are instead given an answerphone message or told that our credit card numbers are invalid.

If another fan gets the tickets before I do, that's fair enough, I can accept that. What I can't stand is that having gone through the hoops, there is a brick wall covering the finishing line.

If I was being unfair, by the way, the words I would have used include amateur, pathetic, shambolic, useless, arrogant, wasteful, disorganised and in honour of this being a Scottish festival, bunch of pish artists.

*carries on refreshing the page and dialing on two phones regardless*

KITTYKAT

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:14 PM (P)

Were all the tickets for the film festival going on sale at the same time? Maybe it's not just us - despite the crazed obsessives we are.

Pretties! http://funkydory.net/firefly.htm

EXCITINGNEWCRIME

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:15 PM (P)

I only need one.

PAULROCKS

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:17 PM (P)

To quote gossi:

" EIFF have confirmed the website/phone issues have been caused by Serenity... By the way."

I'm thinking it might be time to give up, over an hour of trying and after lots of little break throughs to have to start again with little chance of getting through is enough punishment for me I think.

EXCITINGNEWCRIME

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:18 PM (P)

So they managed to stop answering the phones long enough to talk to UIP, then! :D

ERYNKATHLEEN

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:18 PM (P)

I can't believe it! I really feel like crying, which just makes me angry with myself.

I've lost tickets from my basket too. I'm at work in Edinburgh at the moment, only 10 minute walk away from the Filmhouse/box office. I wish that I'd just taken early lunch and walked over there!

I'm new to the boards, by the way. Just thought I'd join in the commiserations.

HEB

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:19 PM (P)

keeep trying!

I just got 2 on the phone for the 22nds!

don't give up!"

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Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood
.................
I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

KITTYKAT

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:19 PM (P)

Never thought I'd wish that Firefly hadn't built up such a following.

Pretties! http://funkydory.net/firefly.htm

SIMONWHO

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:21 PM (P)

Well, let's hope if nothing else we get a news story out of this:

"Fans break Film Website - what is Serenity?"

FRAY101

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:23 PM (P)

Here's hoping...Ceefax didn't even mention Serenity yesterday (OK, I know it's only Ceefax, but still)

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BECSTHEBEAST

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:24 PM (P)

great to know i'm not incompetant and that there's a lot of people that wanna see the film

i too had two in my basket andtried three different cards

grrrr arrrrrgggghhhhhhh

'forgive my rudeness. i cannot abide useless people'

GROUNDED

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:25 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by erynkathleen:
I'm at work in Edinburgh at the moment, only 10 minute walk away from the Filmhouse/box office. I wish that I'd just taken early lunch and walked over there!

What on Earth possessed you to try booking online? There are always bottlenecks on opening day!

KITTYKAT

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:27 PM (P)

What are people getting when they call?

Pretties! http://funkydory.net/firefly.htm

DEFINEINTERESTING

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:28 PM (P)

Busy tone.

SIMONWHO

Friday, July 15, 2005 12:29 PM (P)

I got a ringing tone (after literally 150 calls to an engaged tone) and then it rang and rang and then an answering machine told me that I could book from 12 o'clock on the 15th.

Yeah.

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