Anyone else ever stop and think about just how weird the in-universe explanation for mischief movie night is? So you want to go to the cinema, but you dont feel like watching any of the new big name releases, and indie cinemas doing re-runs still aren't quite personalised and obscure enough for you.
So instead, you, and an audience of about 100 other people, simultaneously decide to turn up at the house of autism-man™, who invites all of you into his home cinema, and gives you a pop-quiz of open ended questions, for which, regardless of the specificity and absurdity of your answers, he garuntees he owns a dvd.
And this goes right down to the title of the movie. So this man, or person cus sometimes you go to Emmy's house instead, for, variety? ig? has, for every possible movie title, a film of every possible genre, in every possible location, etc etc.
Then as if that wasn't enough, they're running some sort of mentalism stich, and reveal to the audience that they knew in advance which movie they were going to vote for (because lets not forget that theres a democracy angle to all this), and had in fact decided on it the night before, when they loaded it into their dvd player to begin with.
What on earth are the implications of all this? Are there plants in the audience to suggest the genres and titles they want? Do they invite stooges to their own house?? Is their home cinema really open entry?? If it was invite-only surely they wouldn't feel the need to introduce themself to the audience.
They then spend the entire movie pausing to give comments on the actors and fun facts about the production, not to mention cutting randomly to directors cuts and other short films. You know, the optimum viewing experience. And the audience loves it, some of them have seen the film before, certainly many of them come back over to their house over and over again, and nobody ever asks for a film they've seen before! The audience are always ravenous for something new and obscure, but really, they're there for Oscar
hey guys if i were to make a slideshow of all the data i've collected on relationships/pairings in mmni wrt actor parings and their frequency, queer vs straight movie composition, and overall stats and noticings would that be cool??? would that be fun??
Everything I remember from mischief movie night last night!!
Last night (13/8/24) was 'In-Tents Love' a rom-com set in a summer camp for troubled youths featuring a Parisian anime scene. Because.. of course.
Henry Lewis Oscar!! Bro was having so much fun with this, he was just grinning at his castmates the whole time
Cast was Shields, Josh, Niall, Bryony, Susan and Ellie!
Started with someone suggesting Hull as a location which got a round of applause and Henry Lewis to say 'we never should have written that fucking line'
Whole cast were very scared by the anime suggestion
The movie started with a song which started with Niall singing 'IM TROUBLED' and everyone sung about what they'd done to end up here and that there's gonna be troubleeee for me! And troubleeee for you!
Shout out to the late comers in the front row who got pointed at and told there would be trouble for them
Niall (Bobby) hugs things so hard they die
Bryony (Mary Sue) sets stuff on fire and lives alone in a tent
Josh (Tommy) I actually don't remember
Susan (Sue?? Was referred mostly to as mystery girl) seemed to be there for no reason
And Ellie (token Penelope) stole 1000 bees
Shields (Richard) was in charge of the camp
After the song Bobby and Tommy had a conversation and it was implied that they would be the love interests until it was revealed that Bobby killed Tommy's dog by hugging it too hard, still were potential love interests until Bobby said 'how's dad?' And Oscar had to call a pause and yell 'THEYRE BROTHERS'
The other characters are getting to know each other by the river, Mary Sue sets a fire and Mystery girl (who maybe had a name by now idk) doesn't know what it is and kept touching it (fire admirably played by Niall and the blue cloth)
Its revealed that Penelope has a crush on Tommy! The others tell her she needs to go for it. She decides she's gonna give him a dead bee.
It is revealed in this scene that mystery girl is here for a reason and its actually because she has loads of underage sex
Cue Josh joined quickly by Shields and Niall chanting 'sex~' while doing a camp little dance
Cut to a directors (Josh) interview where he was asked why he decided to have 3 grown men chanting sex in the back of this scene and he said he went to an all boys boarding school and that's just what they did there. He was promptly arrested.
The girls sing a song about the birds and the bees which turned into a sing along chorus where we all had to go 'what about beeees? What about beeees? What about bees? And Birds!'
Bobby and Tommy are about to have a breakthrough and say they love eachother when Penelope goes along and interrupts the brotherly bonding by giving Tommy a dead bee on a piece of string as a ring. He is disgusted and then into it and they go on a date.
Bobby is heartbroken bc he has a crush on Penelope and Richard gives him some advice - you miss all the shots you don't take. During this they were playing basketball and Richard was very good and didn't let anyone else have a turn. When Bobby did have a turn he missed.
It turns out Richard read Bobby's diary to learn about his crush and the Parisian anime scene is him trying to find it - cue Shields doing dramatic moves and a strong French accent trying to find 'La Diary!!!' When he found it, it granted him 'POWER'
The bee was apparently 'Einstein's bee' and when asked to explain, the director said he sneezed on the keyboard and kept it in, he was then asked where the bodies were.
The next scene started with Tommy doing an odd ballet dance which Oscar promptly paused
Tommy and Penelope were on their date on a boat, during the set up for this scene Bryony whacked Ellie in the head with a walking stick (oops)
Penelope only knows how to row in circles
The two talk and Penelope is too eager, telling Tommy she loves him, he doesn't like this and jumps off the boat and swims away. Penelope gets stuck going in circles.
Cut to Bobby and Mary Sue having a nice chat, they decide to be friends and sing a song about how amazing it is to be friends! This is interrupted by Tommy who asks Mary Sue on a date and Bobby is broken hearted a second time
Neither Josh nor Susan remembered Mary Sue's name and tried several ways to get around it, interrupted by Oscar, until they ended up saying she had 'Marie energy'
Mary Sue and Tommy go on a fishing date where Mary Sue throws rocks into the river to kill the fish. Tommy says how much he likes her and She doesn't like it and runs away.
Penelope is distraught and goes to Richard for advice, she's upset that everyone is pairing off and she doesn't have anyone. There's an interlude where Richard is met by Lord Gerald who runs all of the summer camps and wanted to check up on him. It seems there may be something there until the police arrive questioning Richard's intentions - Oscar interrupts this so it doesn't descend into madness and the scene continues with Gerald repeating Richard's name several times, as up until this point he didn't have one.
When Gerald leaves, Penelope is upset because Richard was supposed to be giving her advice! He gives her the same advice as he gave Bobby and its a sweet scene until she eats the bee and spits it back out. She takes a shot with the basketball and also misses.
The girls meet up by the river again and agree that boys are bad. The mystery girl introduces the concept of lesbianism and Mary Sue has a bit of a realisation - this looks like it might turn into another song until Bobby interrupts to say Tommy is hanging off the balcony
Tommy is upset and claims the balcony is his safe space - everyone agrees this is not a very safe space actually.
They try to calm him down and Bobby eventually tells Tommy he loves him, they get Tommy down and they have a hug, which doesn't kill anything this time.
Its revealed that Richard has actually been reading everyone's diaries and was trying to get them all to have sex the whole time. He learns about the concept of familial love and decides to turn himself in
The kids decide they aren't gonna go back to their horrible home lives and that they're just gonna stay at camp actually, they learn they can choose their own family and its very sweet
It ends with a song about the birds and the bees again, which goes 'the birds and the bees, the bees and the bees! What ever you please at summer camp!'
