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"Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"

February 12, 2009 9:44 AM

o, Mr. Vice, RPM, chelsadilla, and I all went to the Majestic Theatre last night to see dane101's showing of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon's NPH-starring musical bad guy thingy. As it turns out, the thing was awesome, and seeing it with a bunch of people who loved it only enhanced the experience.

I should note that of all of Joss Whedon's offerings, I have loved only one: Firefly and the movie it spawned, Serenity. I don't care for Buffy or Angel. Still, I really, really love Firefly and I had heard innumerable good things about Dr. Horrible's. As it turns out, they were all correct. The movie was funny--extremely so, in fact. It played on the whole good guy-bad guy thing just right while still providing interesting characters. It didn't take itself seriously at all, but it also wasn't frivolous in any way. In short, it was awesome. And the music was really good, too. RPM voiced was less thrilled with some of the numbers than others, but I thought they were all excellent. I'm actually wondering if there's a CD with all of the songs on it because I'd really like to be able to listen to them at will.

Of course, the only thing better than watching a good movie is watching a good movie in a huge room full of hardcore fans--I swear, nothing will ever match the awesomeness of the collective geekout that happened on the opening night of Attack of the Clones when Yoda used the motherfuckin' Force to bring his lightsaber to his hand and then ignited that thing. Everyone in the room needed new pants, and it was awesome. Where was I? Right, the fans.

So, yeah, it seemed like everyone in the room had seen this thing before. The result was that lots of people sang along or quoted the best lines. Some people--chelsadilla amongst them--were annoyed by this, but I thought it made the whole thing more fun. The excitement was contagious.

After the show, they had a quiz contest to determine who the biggest Joss Whedon fan in Madison is. Although Mr. Vice entered, he lost to a girl with an awesome t-shirt that read "Joss Whedon is my master now." A reference to both Whedon and Star Wars? Awesome!

All in all, an excellent evening. Too bad pH couldn't make it . . . .



1 Comments


Frank x. said:

You can download the songs on iTunes. http://drhorrible.com/. I wanted to end this post with something clever but I got nothing.

February 12, 2009 10:50 AM



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