Midnight Manor Boarding House's Living Room, Wednesday Night

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Okay, sure. Arden didn't know much more than what TV said about throwing movie nights, but surely she had the gist. Many moddable pizzas and sodas had been ordered from Pizza Planet - look, Arden loved sweet tea, but even she knew soda was necessary for movie nights. A truly disturbing number of bags of popcorn had been popped and put into bowls and a quick stop at T&C had been made to grab a couple of different popcorn seasonings in case people wanted to experiment with popcorn flavors.

All that was left was to wait for people to show up. She'd texted both Kamala and Cal in full capslock mode about the glory of this movie, and then had handwavily tried to contact as many other residents as possible to tell them about the movie night - texts, email, sign on the door, whatever. Sure, nobody had to come, but she at least wanted to make sure everyone knew they were welcome. She'd also invited Steven and Watts (while double checking that, yes, it really was okay to move furniture around the living room and also eat in there) and had made sure to get a few bags of unbuttered popcorn just for them. Did she think the butter flavoring had any actual dairy in it? No. But she was gonna be careful all the same.

Now she was just pushing the furniture around to make sure that every possible seat had a good view of the incredibly large TV and was in reaching distance of a bowl of popcorn and places to put their cups of soda and plates of pizza down. Midnight Movie Night was about to begin, showcasing the absolute work of art and cultural tour de force that 2 Fast and 2 Family 4 Oceans, the fifteenth 2 Fast 2 Family sequel that was also a prequel to the Oceans Edge series.

This was gonna be great.

[Open to all Midnight Manor Boarding House residents!]

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Arrive and Mingle

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Get some food, get your seat, get your chat on before the movie begins.

Watch the Movie

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Laugh! Gasp! Cheer! Cry? Debate the possible resemblance between Arden and the cool hacker chick!


[Okay, so we're basically going to be making up this absolutely stupid mashup of the Fast and Furious and Pacific Rim series, a prequel taking place before the events of Rim or Uprising. Rather than trying to make up the film shot by shot or ping by ping, we're gonna use an improv exercise, "My Favorite Part of the Movie," wherein someone talks about their favorite (or least favorite) part of the movie, which is now canon, and other people respond. People can argue, but not outright contradict each other - if someone says it happened, it happened. (So everybody be cool about declaring events, plot points, and themes, yeah?) Basically, ping around and lets see how ridiculous a movie we can make that still remains true to the spirit of its shared franchises. (Which includes shooting a car into space, so like...do with that as you will.)]

OOC

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

For the record, I have absolutely no idea what the meta'd names for anybody in this movie would be. Nor do I care. First person to name someone wins, I guess?

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[pocketpretzels]

Pleased to have been invited, Watts- changed back in to his customary suit from whatever the shenanigans had involved- arrived with Steven by his side. Please, contain your shock.

Good evening, Miss Finch," he offered.

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[hasaknightjob]

Indeed Steven was there with Llewellyn. He looked out of sorts. "Are you sure there's no need to bring anything?"

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Good evening, Detective!" Arden said, offering him a merry grin. "I'm so glad you and Steven could make it."

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Are you okay, Steven?" Arden asked, puzzling over his slight frown. "And no, I think I pretty much got everything..."

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[slothbabyproductions]

“I’ve never seen any of the previous movies,” Kamala said as she flopped on the couch. “Do I need to watch previous ones to understand or should I speed read through wiki summaries?”

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[slothbabyproductions]

"Hey, Detective Watts!" Kamala said with a wave from her spot on the couch. "Have you ever seen any of these movies before? I've seen the Kaiju ones but not the one with all the cars."

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[slothbabyproductions]

"Hi, Mr. Grant!" Kamala said with a friendly wave. "I seriously think Arden got everything covered. She seems pretty jazzed about the movie."

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[pocketpretzels]

"It was very kind of you to invite us," Watts replied. "Thank you."

"May I ask," he said, after a moment, "what genre this picture falls under?"

He didn't want to be so rude as to suggest to Steven they leave just as they got there, but he would if Arden's answer indicated this was the sort of picture that might make Steven uncomfortable.

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[pocketpretzels]

"Miss Khan," Watts greeted. "I am afraid I haven't seen a great many moving pictures in general; the vast majority of those I have being musical comedies, of which I am to understand this is not."

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[slothbabyproductions]

"No," Kamala said, laughing in amusement and pulled up a picture of Vin Diesel in his typical tank top t-shirt to show to Watts. "But I'd love to see him dancing and singing."

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[moreofaponchoguy]

Cal was still kind of staring at his phone as he and BD came in. "Apparently there's a movie I have to watch tonight?"

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"It is imperative, Kestis," Arden declared, maneuvering the couch into perfect movie-watching position. "For your own moral and emotional well-being."

Honestly, if it came down to it, Arden would put money on Cal becoming a 2 Fast 2 Family fan.

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Oh goddess, don't do any of that," Arden declared. "That makes it sound like any of the previous movies have things like 'continuity' going on with them."

And they really didn't.

"All you need to know is that there is a found-family of people who drive fast cars, ignore the concept of physics so hard it might be a superpower, and basically save the world by driving aggressively and yelling, 'Family!' at each other. It's bonkers, but it's delightful."

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Uhh...absolute nonsense?" Arden said, which was true but not necessarily helpful. "Action mixed with monster battling? There's gonna be a lot of fast cars, people yelling 'Family!,' and giant monsters that come out of the sea and that are going to rampage around until our heroes find a way to defeat them with the power of cars."

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[moreofaponchoguy]

Cal waved his hand at the couch to help her with the maneuvering, because he was a cheater like that. "Okay, well, you haven't led me astray so far, so I guess I'll take your word on this," he said. "Judging from the title, it's not a romance movie?"

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Goddess, that is so unfair," Arden said, shaking her head but smiling a bit. "But no, not a romance, but I'll keep an eye out for those now that I know you're into them."

Could she get behind a romance-inspired movie night with chocolates and stuff? Hell yeah.

"Nope this one is a bunch of people saving the world from giant monsters by driving fast cars and yelling, 'Family!' at each other. It's very educational. Did you know you could launch a car into space? Because they did in one movie."

Couch properly magicked into place, Cal was getting a hug and BD was getting a kiss on the top of his little, perfect head.

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[slothbabyproductions]

"Ooooooh. So it's like the total opposite of that superhero movie franchise with 30 something films and multiple TV shows," Kamala said, nodding in understanding. "I got it. Totally on board. I'm into it. Let's get this sucker started."

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[slothbabyproductions]

"Apparently it's about family, cars and tank tops," Kamala said looking at the poster of the film on her phone. "And giant monsters smashing various cities around the world."

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Or like Space Battles which I'm pretty sure is the exact same thing, but with space magic instead of superpowers," Arden said. "You know, where a random thirty second meeting between two characters in one show means you can't understand two wholeass movies. This movie will actually be way more enjoyable if you don't think too hard about the plot."

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[hasaknightjob]

Steven had come empty handed, Arden. It felt unnatural to him. He was fine otherwise though.

"If you're certain," Steven said. He smiled. "It looks wonderful. All the food and the like."

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[hasaknightjob]

"Kamala, hello!" Steven said. "Steven's fine, truly. Is this a new film for you as well? I've not seen it before."

Re: Watch the Movie

[hasaknightjob]

"I thought the way the teams worked together to operate the.. robots?" Steven wasn't sure if that was the right word. "Was interesting. Makes me wonder what it would be like if Marc and me did it."

Marc of course would never use a word like family but on the other hand surely he and Steven were Tokyo drift compatible? Or whatever it had been called?