Ripvanryan Digressions of a Listless Film School Drop Out
Sundance '10: Tucker and Dale vs. Evil 2:56am, January 24, 2010
With a decent-sized snowstorm moving into the canyon, the drive from Salt Lake City to Park City was not a relaxing one. Normally a hotbed of winter car crash fatalities, Parley’s Canyon was particularly treacherous this year. As a result, foot traffic on Main was relatively sparse. My socks were soaked balls of ice inside of 20 minutes.
With the blizzardy conditions, I had a hard time spotting any celebrities. Although I did see Shawn Doyle (Big Love) in the lobby of the Park City Marriott. But that’s about it.
The shuttles were running incredibly slow, with the exception of this one driver, who skidded in and out of traffic like he was trying out for Nascar. After freezing my ass to the bone on Main for a few hours, I made my way to the Library Theater for a midnight screening of Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. A stoney-looking snowboarder immediately approached me in the parking lot and asked if I would help push his car out of the snow so he could pop it into gear. (That’s me on the right.)
It didn’t end up working out, the thing just wouldn’t pop, so I ended up abandoning his plight in favor of a good spot in the ticket line. Alan Tudyk wandered around the snack bar for a few minutes before hopping up on a chair and offering a few brief words of gratitude to the ticket holders. It was a touching moment. Well, not really.
Following the screening Tudyk, Tyler Labine (Sock from Reaper), and director Eli Craig answered a bunch of dumb-ass audience questions about the movie (seriously, somebody has got to pre-screen these people). One solitary dude in the crowd yelled out “Sock”, which made me sort of proud.
Wait, is Sundance that low budget? What they filmed the movie and moved you all into the storage room for some Cokes, Hebrew National hotdogs, and hillbillies?
Very nice. Can't wait to see this. Tudyk and Labine are cool. Fuck, I miss Reaper.
And the movie was......?
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