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Wonder Woman 1984 first trailer, U.S. premiere on June 5, 2020.
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And in a breath I remember again why she's been my favorite hero since I was 3. I love her so much.
I am sure someone is going to say it looks cheesy, but f+*+ yeah the golden wing armor. It's wonderful. Don't @ me. (Also, the boots are camp as f*~$ and I am HERE for them.)
Kristin Wiig as Barbara Minerva looks incredible. She is going to be amazing.
Not sure who the businessman dude is but I'm laughing because he vaguely looks like young Lyle Waggoner as Steve. ETA: Actually read the description text. It's Max Lord. Damn.
Love the lasso effects.
Expecting there's a huge catch to Steve Trevor's reappearance. Magic. Illusion. Something. There is probably going to be a sad ending to this. (Also as Cheetah's story is pretty tragic there's that too.) I'm still in for this ride 100%.
Bonus points for the trailer not starting with a single note played on a piano. ETA: Apparently the music in it is this actual song from the 80s.
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^ Agreed!
& The track is so '80s! :D
I do hope they still keep/use the "Wonder Woman theme" somewhere in the movie... Even if just as an intro or leitmotif (like in both Batman vs Superman & Justice League. Or maybe even 'updated' to an '80s' aesthetic?
It has just become so iconic to the character in a way that few other superhero characters (Spider-Man being a notable exception) can claim!
Looking forward to it! ^^
Carry on,
--C.
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Is no one going to point out how smoking hot Gal Gadot is in this trailer?
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^ Isn't that a given?
And surely not just in this trailer??
Plus she's AWESOME as Wonder Woman!
:D
And in a breath I remember again why she's been my favorite hero since I was 3. I love her so much.
I am sure someone is going to say it looks cheesy, but f%+& yeah the golden wing armor. It's wonderful. Don't @ me. (Also, the boots are camp as f&~+ and I am HERE for them.)
Kristin Wiig as Barbara Minerva looks incredible. She is going to be amazing.
Not sure who the businessman dude is but I'm laughing because he vaguely looks like young Lyle Waggoner as Steve. ETA: Actually read the description text. It's Max Lord. Damn.
Love the lasso effects.
Expecting there's a huge catch to Steve Trevor's reappearance. Magic. Illusion. Something. There is probably going to be a sad ending to this. (Also as Cheetah's story is pretty tragic there's that too.) I'm still in for this ride 100%.
Bonus points for the trailer not starting with a single note played on a piano. ETA: Apparently the music in it is this actual song from the 80s.
^ Isn't that a given?
Actually no. My point is "How very amazing she is looking."
And surely not just in this trailer??
Plus she's AWESOME as Wonder Woman!
Yes she is!!
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I agree that observing Gal Gadot looks and is amazing in all ways is sort of like observing that water is wet. But yes, she is incredible.
I'd like to note many mothers of two (and more or less) children look amazing, even if they are not shaped like Gal Gadot. If the observations is, "She has (continued to) work(ed) out," well, yes, obviously. :)
Also did I mention THOSE BOOTS?
Psiphyre, I am with you on the theme song. After all 1979 is not so far from 1984...
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I'd like to note many mothers of two (and more or less) children look amazing, even if they are not shaped like Gal Gadot. If the observations is, "She has (continued to) work(ed) out," well, yes, obviously. :)I am sure that having a staff of servants (including a Nanny) helps quite a bit.
Also did I mention THOSE BOOTS?
Indeed you did. :)
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I just kept thinking about how ugly the cars were.
Blue Monday is a classic '80s song and an excellent choice for the trailer, even though it was a remix/cover used and not the original version.
Remix/cover, doesn't matter. Still sounded 80s to me.
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Here is the (excellent) orchestral version used in the trailer, arranged by Sebastian Bohm.
And because my link above went dead, Here is the (remastered and also excellent) original by New Order.
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Blue Monday: Because after Atomic Blonde used a cover of it, it's firmly in our comic book movie zeitgeist as a piece of 1980s stuff.
But yeah, I'm here for this. While the Superman and Justice League stuff has been "meh" at best, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman is lightning in a bottle- their first clear-cut success (even if the third act of her first movie is kind of... pants), and hands-down the best part of the team-up movies that have included her.
We know Steve is almost certainly gone by the 21st century- and that the picture she keeps is the one from 1918. Speaks volumes to me.
But yeah. Diana in her Kingdom Come armor? Hell yes. Bring it, from the actual moral center of the DC movie universe.
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But yeah, I'm here for this. While the Superman and Justice League stuff has been "meh" at best, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman is lightning in a bottle- their first clear-cut success (even if the third act of her first movie is kind of... pants), and hands-down the best part of the team-up movies that have included her.
I was in Target the other day, and they're selling a newer version of the BvS DVD.... and I laughed out loud, because the cover art now features Diana front and center with the actual protagonists shoved way off to the side. (Earlier cover is just Batman and Superman facing each other grimly.) It's like, "Hey, remember she was in this first! Those 10 minutes she appears are why you want to buy this, right? RIGHT???"
(Batman and Superman deserved so much better.)
We know Steve is almost certainly gone by the 21st century- and that the picture she keeps is the one from 1918. Speaks volumes to me.
It's moving. (And yes indicating he's not sticking around.) But seriously girl, it's been a hundred years (as of Justice League). Time to move on. Steve Trevor has never been in any universe worth that much angst.
But yeah. Diana in her Kingdom Come armor? Hell yes. Bring it, from the actual moral center of the DC movie universe.
"Hell yes" seconded. All those in favor?
But yeah, I'm here for this. While the Superman and Justice League stuff has been "meh" at best, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman is lightning in a bottle- their first clear-cut success (even if the third act of her first movie is kind of... pants), and hands-down the best part of the team-up movies that have included her.I was in Target the other day, and they're selling a newer version of the BvS DVD.... and I laughed out loud, because the cover art now features Diana front and center with the actual protagonists shoved way off to the side. (Earlier cover is just Batman and Superman facing each other grimly.) It's like, "Hey, remember she was in this first! Those 10 minutes she appears are why you want to buy this, right? RIGHT???"
(Batman and Superman deserved so much better.)
The problem being that Warner Brothers is actually right. She is in the best parts of the film.
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I was in Target the other day, and they're selling a newer version of the BvS DVD.... and I laughed out loud, because the cover art now features Diana front and center with the actual protagonists shoved way off to the side. (Earlier cover is just Batman and Superman facing each other grimly.) It's like, "Hey, remember she was in this first! Those 10 minutes she appears are why you want to buy this, right? RIGHT???"
(Batman and Superman deserved so much better.)
I was at a wake for a friend who was a comics/movie buff, and everyone was wearing superhero/movie shirts, and I loved how many Wonder Woman shirts were around. Yeah, there were a couple of Batman and Superman shirts, too, but it was a treat to see Diana so well represented.
Last time I was buying DC T-shirts, it was before the WW movie, and my choices were Batman, Superman and the Joker... :/
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I was in Target the other day, and they're selling a newer version of the BvS DVD.... and I laughed out loud, because the cover art now features Diana front and center with the actual protagonists shoved way off to the side. (Earlier cover is just Batman and Superman facing each other grimly.) It's like, "Hey, remember she was in this first! Those 10 minutes she appears are why you want to buy this, right? RIGHT???"
(Batman and Superman deserved so much better.)
I was at a wake for a friend who was a comics/movie buff, and everyone was wearing superhero/movie shirts, and I loved how many Wonder Woman shirts were around. Yeah, there were a couple of Batman and Superman shirts, too, but it was a treat to see Diana so well represented.
Last time I was buying DC T-shirts, it was before the WW movie, and my choices were Batman, Superman and the Joker... :/
*nods* I collect female action figures and Wonder Woman merchandise in particular. Until summer of 2017, I struggled to find a lot of good stuff. Some nice action figs and maybe the occasional t-shirt from specialty comic shops, if I was lucky or went out of the way to special-order. I could usually find a t-shirt or two, maybe a button or something, from Six Flags amusement parks (which has a license from Warner Bros to have DC heroes as mascots and DC-hero themed rides). But I remember even in September 2016 my local Comic-Con had only a few things of Wonder Woman and very little else of other female superheroes to boot--and of the things available, it was often from fan artists rather than official merch. In September of 2017, on the other hand, Comic-Con was plastered in Golden Ws. Lots and lots of WW merch started taking up more shelf space in specialty shops, and it was more and more visible in non-specialty stores--loads of WW stuff at Target and the bookstore, etc. As time has past, same for a lot of other female heroes (of course as of this past March, loads of Captain Marvel abounds). The nearest Six Flags has a whole Wonder Woman-themed ride (several do; confusingly they are all called "Lasso of Truth" but are different rides in every park -- e.g., a gravitron, a swinging pendulum, whatever the high up swing ride should be called, and a roller coaster).
It's so wonderful the movie was good, and that she's not only enjoying this rebirth, but also helping get visibility for other female heroes as well.
(Sadly, while Black Widow was in the movies recently for longer, Ike Perlmutter's refusal to let her show up on any merch for so long, outside of some very specialty figures and the like, meant her visibility in the films did not have the same effect on merch, and of course she wasn't (until a few months from now) a lead character, so it's not the same.)
I can't wait for this one, Godzilla vs Kong, and Ghostbusters Afterlife.
*nods* I collect female action figures and Wonder Woman merchandise in particular. Until summer of 2017, I struggled to find a lot of good stuff.
As a Mary Marvel fan, I still lack options. Can't even find a DC Bombshells sticker of Miriam Marvel to properly Bomber Girl my kayak...
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Yes please, right now, please.
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Yeah that looks really good!
My concern is that it’s supposed to be released in theaters In Oct? From the sounds of it, the Covid situation here in the US may well get worse. Even if theaters are allowed to be open, many people are not going to go to them. I feel really bad for movies like this one right now :(
While of course safety is paramount, both Black Widow and WW84 are the movies I've been most excited about for YEARS, so I am super bummed at their delay (we would have seen both by now otherwise). There's nothing coming up after that that's been announced that has me nearly as interested; certainly nothing on the Marvel side, and Suicide Squad looks cool but I'm not excited in the same way (though I expect it will be quite good).
While I really like to see these in the theater and want to support my local theater when I can, I also worry that loss of buzz for waiting will also hurt these films. At the same time, putting them in theaters now (in the fall) means poor turnout and putting those who do attend at risk (I would think theaters would have to sell only every other seat to keep people safe, so you can only have half as many tickets sold per showing).
I'd rather a sensible digital option (although paying $30 plus a subscription fee, as Disney is doing with Mulan, seems astronomically ridiculous. A movie ticket where I go usually costs $11. The only way I could see a cost like that justified was if you could also digitally download it). When theaters open when it's safe, release them again--I expect if they're good, folks would still see them anyway.
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I'd consider Disney's digital release of Mulan as an experiment. If it doesn't pull in enough money that way, they might try again with another movie on all of the standard digital movie platforms (Google Play, iTunes, and Amazon, etc.) where you wouldn't need a subscription and could straight up buy it. I haven't heard or seen any reports on how Mulan Disney+ exclusive has worked out for them, but I suspect it wasn't as strong as they'd hoped, between the premium price and the fact that I don't think Mulan had the same kind of anticipation and fan base that some other movies do.
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Mulan is a movie where, were we not in the darkest timeline and it was safe to go to the movies, I would probably have gone to see it in the theater. It is DEFINITELY not a movie I'd pay a $30 premium to see on my 19 inch computer monitor at home. I know a lot of folks are excited about the movie for nostalgia reasons as well as just the fact it looks like a good movie, that they probably have a large audience, but yeah. It'll be interesting to see the responsiveness.
Wonder Woman.... I am a BIG Wonder Woman fan. If it were the ONLY way... I might consider it but I'd still need probably more incentive to pay that much. And even if I were willing to pay it, I'd be probably part of a smaller group that is THAT enthusiastic about Wondy to justify the cost (or a parent of a million kids where $30 at home is cheaper and easier).
I feel the same way about seeing New Mutants. But yeah, WW 1984 looks like one of those movies you kind of HAVE to see. That and Black Widow of course.
I am sooo jazzed about Cheetah. I have a feeling she's going to be amazing.
Dune should be good, but yeah paying 30 dollars for WW tickets...isn't in my budget right now. Paying 15, sure.
Is the 30 bucks to buy the movie, or is it just a single viewing or a time period like 24-48 hours?
Note this is talking about the movie Mulan.
For Mulan, as I understand it (based on a very quick Google), you have to be a Disney+ subscriber and then pay a $30 premium to see Mulan. However, you can watch as many times as you like, and apparently you can still watch it even if you cancel your Disney+ subscription (but you still have to be a paying subscriber to get it). Apparently (someone who is a Disney+ subscriber can confirm) Disney+ allows you to download stuff for viewing later--so perhaps this will also be an option with Mulan as well. If it is available as a digital download I can understand the premium price much better (but I'm not sure I'd still pay it, personally).
Disclaimer: I don't have Disney+ and am not 100% the site I just looked at has the correct info; I urge you to seek out your own information.
Wonder Woman 84 is still scheduled to appear only in theaters. We were speaking hypothetically if it would be worth it if it became also available for digital release, given that COVID-19 is not likely to suddenly disappear in October, which is when WW is scheduled to release---and we don't even know if movie theaters, apart from drive ins, will be open.
(Now if it does release in October and our local drive in gets the rights to show it, I'm damn well going there.)
Anyways, I'm at least glad they got Maxwell Lord's character right. He's just the right amount of smarmy from the trailer.
Is the 30 bucks to buy the movie, or is it just a single viewing or a time period like 24-48 hours?Note this is talking about the movie Mulan.
For Mulan, as I understand it (based on a very quick Google), you have to be a Disney+ subscriber and then pay a $30 premium to see Mulan. However, you can watch as many times as you like, and apparently you can still watch it even if you cancel your Disney+ subscription (but you still have to be a paying subscriber to get it). Apparently (someone who is a Disney+ subscriber can confirm) Disney+ allows you to download stuff for viewing later--so perhaps this will also be an option with Mulan as well. If it is available as a digital download I can understand the premium price much better (but I'm not sure I'd still pay it, personally).
Disclaimer: I don't have Disney+ and am not 100% the site I just looked at has the correct info; I urge you to seek out your own information.
I have Disney+, so I just looked in the app, and this is what it says:
Disney
Premier Access
Available September 4, 2020 for $29.99
Watch with Premier Access before its release to all Disney+ subscribers.
Requires an active Disney+ subscription. For more info disneyplus.com/mulaninfo.
...if Maxwell Lord is in it, does that mean we get Ted Kord and Michael Carter?
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...if Maxwell Lord is in it, does that mean we get Ted Kord and Michael Carter?
Maybe not in WW84, but could pave the way for them to appear in present-day DCEU? Or indeed, any other day DCEU, in the case of Booster Gold.
Is the 30 bucks to buy the movie, or is it just a single viewing or a time period like 24-48 hours?Note this is talking about the movie Mulan.
For Mulan, as I understand it (based on a very quick Google), you have to be a Disney+ subscriber and then pay a $30 premium to see Mulan. However, you can watch as many times as you like, and apparently you can still watch it even if you cancel your Disney+ subscription (but you still have to be a paying subscriber to get it). Apparently (someone who is a Disney+ subscriber can confirm) Disney+ allows you to download stuff for viewing later--so perhaps this will also be an option with Mulan as well. If it is available as a digital download I can understand the premium price much better (but I'm not sure I'd still pay it, personally).
Disclaimer: I don't have Disney+ and am not 100% the site I just looked at has the correct info; I urge you to seek out your own information.
I have Disney+, so I just looked in the app, and this is what it says:
Disney
Premier AccessAvailable September 4, 2020 for $29.99
Watch with Premier Access before its release to all Disney+ subscribers.Requires an active Disney+ subscription. For more info disneyplus.com/mulaninfo.
Hey, me too! We can be Disney+ buddies!
As long as I don't have to pay for premier access.
Yeah I don't see Ted and Booster showing up in this movie. I DO fully expect (if WW 1984 does even close to as well as its predecessor) we might get a DCEU appearance or two in some movie or other.
Hey, me too! We can be Disney+ buddies!
As long as I don't have to pay for premier access.
Let's sing the D+ Friendship Jingle!™
♫♪ M - I - C - K - E - YNothing in this world is free! ♪♫
*sigh*
I mean, I guess the good news is I probably won't have other plans for Christmas given social distancing is still in place.
But if they had stuck to October, it would have been plausible to go see it at the local drive in. But I don't think they stay open in winter, when it would be too cold to sit in your car for 2+ hours. (They won't let you leave the engine running to run the heat, because then you'd have a parking lot full of exhaust.) Plus ordinary theaters that are open will be MORE dangerous than now because again, it's cold, and all the people are are still camping and hiking and doing other outdoor activities will be taking risks to do activities indoors. As far as spread goes, I'm not really sure things will be much better in October than in December. Not unless a huge chunk of humanity gets a massive common sense boost, and I am highly skeptical of that.
I could use a hero representing hope, truth, and peace right about now. Oh well.
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*sigh*
I mean, I guess the good news is I probably won't have other plans for Christmas given social distancing is still in place.
But if they had stuck to October, it would have been plausible to go see it at the local drive in. But I don't think they stay open in winter, when it would be too cold to sit in your car for 2+ hours. (They won't let you leave the engine running to run the heat, because then you'd have a parking lot full of exhaust.) Plus ordinary theaters that are open will be MORE dangerous than now because again, it's cold, and all the people are are still camping and hiking and doing other outdoor activities will be taking risks to do activities indoors. As far as spread goes, I'm not really sure things will be much better in October than in December. Not unless a huge chunk of humanity gets a massive common sense boost, and I am highly skeptical of that.
I could use a hero representing hope, truth, and peace right about now. Oh well.
Well the good news is that it's still likely to be further delayed and could come out in the spring/summer of 2021, so you won't have to worry about it in the cold. It's unlikely that 30% of the screens in the US will re-open before then, and the initial releases lately haven't done so great globally, even with little else in the theaters (such as Tenet and Mulan internationally).
Having to wait even longer for this is not the good news. There's a point where the hype train derails if people have to wait long enough for it to come into the station, and then people just don't show up. I mean, there is no good solution here. I work in public health (as a nonessential worker), I do not want lives to be risked so people can go see a movie, even if that movie is about my most favorite heroine I've had since I was three years old. Because lives are lives and movies are much less important than that.
I'm just still majorly bummed out and I don't think they are going to recoup losses no matter what they do. It'd be better to figure out a digital release, IMO. (But not the way they've done it with Mulan, which also hasn't done well due to various controversies unrelated to the medium of its release.)
Just think... if they had kept it at its originally planned release date of November or December 2019 we would have been fine...
I'm running out of things to look forward to.
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Having to wait even longer for this is not the good news. There's a point where the hype train derails if people have to wait long enough for it to come into the station, and then people just don't show up.
I think this might be an exception to that. They start up the Hype train before whenever the movie is actually released and people will remember why they want to see it so much.
Hopefully :-).
But they definitely should (mostly, at least) turn OFF the Hype train right now. Keep people aware that it exists but don't hype it very much.
Slight derail, but I'm bringing it back to Wonder Woman. I worry that if Mulan streaming tanks, execs will take the wrong message from it. (I haven't seen the movie) Mulan has a lot of problems from a marketing perspective. I teach high schoolers and have two high school age daughters. Those kids love Mulan, especially the girls. But neither of my girls have asked to pay for the movie to stream it. They have heard or read that there are no songs, no Mushu, and that the nature of the character has been changed. We have Disney+, and I'd be fine with paying the money to see Mulan if they wanted to.
In comparison, they are both desperate to see Wonder Woman 84. My 14 year old watched all of DC Fandome in hopes of any hint of WW info (and Batwoman, but that is another story). She would pay $100 of her own savings to stream Wonder Woman (or Black Widow) right now.
For context, we are a big cinema going family. The four of us go to cinemas at least once a month, and the 14 year old and I as much as 3 times a month pre-pandemic. We haven't seen a movie in theaters since March, but we would pay to see these movies at home.
It should go without saying that if an effective, gone-through-reliable-randomized-controlled-clinical-trials vaccine does come, that will of course be deeply welcome on both a personal and global level. I was speaking in the context of needing some stories to inspire hope in the meantime, however long that meantime is. I've been depressed by various current events, as I expect many are, and we could use a good uplift, however imaginary or fleeting.
SuperTumbler, but they've never drawn ridiculously wrong conclusions about failures related to female action leads before!! That's why we had that glut of superheroine movies right after Elektra and Catwoman.... oh wait.
My nieces would love to see WW84 too... I think a streamable release done right could be profitable, and big screen releases that follow would probably still do pretty well.
So it appears that in the news today Wonder Woman 1984 will be available on Christmas day on HBO Max.
A few observations:
All of my tvs are Roku tvs or have a Roku Premier+ plugged into them that we use for streaming. This means that to use HBOMax we have to extend the display from a phone or computer. I will admit that my household is lazy enough that this makes a difference, and I am the only one of the four of us who wants HBO Max content enough to use this feature. At this point, I'm still subscribed only because signing up for a year of the service made it cheaper than HBO.
All of that said, when my two teenage daughters came home tonight and I told them the Wonder Woman 1984 news, one of them cried openly and audibly, and one of them cheered. We all agreed that we would be happy to watch the film at Christmas on HBO Max and pay to see it if they released it in the summer of 2021 if the whole vaccine works out.
TL:DR We love movies in my household, and we are delighted that this might be coming to us soon. We will believe it when we see it, because 2020 has taught us not to have hope.
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So it appears that in the news today Wonder Woman 1984 will be available on Christmas day on HBO Max.
A few observations:
All of my tvs are Roku tvs or have a Roku Premier+ plugged into them that we use for streaming. This means that to use HBOMax we have to extend the display from a phone or computer. I will admit that my household is lazy enough that this makes a difference, and I am the only one of the four of us who wants HBO Max content enough to use this feature. At this point, I'm still subscribed only because signing up for a year of the service made it cheaper than HBO.
All of that said, when my two teenage daughters came home tonight and I told them the Wonder Woman 1984 news, one of them cried openly and audibly, and one of them cheered. We all agreed that we would be happy to watch the film at Christmas on HBO Max and pay to see it if they released it in the summer of 2021 if the whole vaccine works out.
TL:DR We love movies in my household, and we are delighted that this might be coming to us soon. We will believe it when we see it, because 2020 has taught us not to have hope.
Well, HBO finally made a deal with Amazon this week to have HBO Max on Fire TVs, which makes Roku the only major holdout. I wouldn't be surprised if they make a similar deal with Roku before WW84 is out - HBO will want to maximize the impact of having their blockbuster movie on their streaming service, with as large a possible audience as possible and getting as many people to sign up for it to make up for all of the lost revenue which the theatrical release won't have due to closed theaters in most places.
This'd be an awesome Christmas present. Am looking into HBO Max. Am also considering local theater that will be showing it on the day, bearing in mind safety precautions. If it seems too risky for myself and others I'll stick to streaming, but this is a little local theater (not a big chain) I'd love to toss some money toward if I could.