On Monday MySpace and TechCrunch will be showing a special free screening of the new Angelina Jolie movie Wanted at the AMC Metreon in San Francisco. We gave out 200 tickets earlier this week (they were gone in 15 minutes, the wait list was full right after).
We have a few more seats in reserve, and we want to make sure that anyone who really wants to see the movie a full four days before the official release has a shot at it. Tell us why you want to attend in the comments below. The best five answers get two tickets each. The movie starts at 7:30 p.m. (you can arrive as early as 6:30).
Answers will be judged on comedic content, originality and sarcasm. In particular, if anyone can prove that bullets can actually be curved, they get in. Video comments get bonus points.
Details:
AMC Loews Metreon
Monday, June 23
101 4th St
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 369-6201
I need these tickets because I’m Angelina Jolie’s long lost adopted son and the only way I can “keep in touch” with her is by watching her movies.
Kewl I would like a Ticket mostly because she super Hot!!
I want to get tickets for Wanted because Monday is movie night and oh god, the thought of being forced to watch Sex in the City is making me throw up a little in my mouth.
I’ve paid 10.25 to see Baby Mama, Don’t Mess with the Zohan, and The Hulk. All three were disappointing. The trailer for WANTED is absolutely thrilling and I have been waiting for another great action flick! CURVE THE BULLET!!
I dont want any tickets CA is a bit to far off from Germany for a screening, though the trailer is very good.
I’d love some tickets, because I’m usually in Amsterdam but will be flying to San Francisco for the first time tomorrow!
I just want to find out what “curving the bullet” means.
I have always sat in a movie theater with full of ghetto @$$ people (Emeryville and Oakland). I just want to see how it feels to watch a movie with a bunch of high tech geeks and professionals. Maybe I won’t hear any random screaming and cellphone ringing this time!
I run a business, a household with a 2 and 4 year old, and 2 rockin’ blogs. I could REALLY use a date that entailed more than dinner and reading blogging books at Barnes n Noble!
Plus…I have an alter ego “NikNIk” ….the sassy re blogger by day…and crazy tech agent by night! Oh, and I don’t look half bad in a mini!
Did I mention I’m her long lost ASIAN adopted son. Yeah, I’m that guy.
I want it because I was signing up but got stuck on a (rather useful) call in the middle of signing up and totally forgot about the it. It was too late by the time I remembered.
1. My tiger scratch tattoo is almost done, and I think that with a few more minutes of studying the original on the big screen, I’d have all the details just right.
2. I had a Viper poster up on my wall way before Angelina even thought of hanging off of the hood of one wielding a shotgun, so I’m hoping to see that they give the car chase scene justice.
3. My bullets are still flying straight, so I’m hoping they give a few more tips, because I’m quickly running out of volunteers.
I would love two tickets to Wanted. Monday is Funday and nothing is more fun than the movies. My boyfriend loves Angelina Jolie and I want him to have a good present.
Bullets can’t curve, they’re just scared of hitting Angelina Jolie’s goods.
I want to go so I can boo and hiss at that husband stealing wench. I’m not bitter.
I should have them because this is the first time I’ve ever commented on Tech Crunch. Ever.
mike…
curved bullets…
do you mean the bullets that come out of the manufacturing process and the QA has screwed up.
or are you referring to what we used to call guys in gym who were a little to “bent” in the shower….
or are you referring to the trajectory of the path of a bullet after it’s fired from a gun. in this case, it’s pretty easy to prove that bullets curve. it has to do with this new thing called gravity. here’s how you can prove it. fire a gun.. watch the bullet as it moves on the path. now, and this is important, make sure no objects (live, or otherwise) are in the path (you might try this with that guy who does the sock puppet routine, it should still work) … eventually the bullet will no longer be moving at it’s initial height..
at this point, get a measuring tape and measure the distance of the bullet to the ground (gotta be kind of quick here… might need a friend to help measure)
repeat this process a few times.. your data should show that the bullet’s height is decreasing over time, as a function of the bullet’s speed (or velocity). plot all this out on a sheet of graph paper… you should see a curved graph. use the axis (time, height of bullet)
there you go.. qed as we used to say on our math solutions/papers,,,
any other questions!!
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Do not try to curve the bullet; that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: There is no Wanted screening.
Funny. I was on the street with my wife when they were filming the scene with her leaning outside the car and shooting at the delivery van. I’ve got pics. Traffic was stopped and drivers were getting pissed, because they kept resetting the scene. I see that they also have lower Wacker, where the Batman chase seen was also filmed.
The double that they had was a BUFF girl. Lots of muscle.
Anyways, here is a link to where that scene was filmed; http://is.gd/Cf3
I can’t make it to San Fran, but this is going to be a hit movie!
I NEED to go and see what this film is really about, because Ted Murphy’s henchbloggers have it hyped like the second coming of Jesus!
I am a scout for a secret society of angel investors. In order to keep the economy healthy, we target and destroy certain “problem” companies. Liquidate one firm, save a thousand.
REVENGE. my roommate always spoils every movie by shouting out the ending after he comes home from the theater. he’s done this about 40 times. he’s been wanting to watch this movie since the first trailer and i hope techcrunch gives me the opportunity for revenge. i hate him.
I would like 2 tickets to see the movie because James McAvoy has a great rack!
I’m getting married in Jan’09 and the clock is ticking!! I need all the thrill and excitement I can get before the fire in my eyes glaze over and I become another one of those mini-van driving guys. (^_^);
I need these tickets (and a flight to San Francisco) because a major scene in this movie was shot withing 500 feet of my residence!
They did the shoots in the middle of the night for a week with “simulated gunfire” for several nights in a row. Crazy stuff for a residential area!
Alternatively, I’d love them to have a screening in Chicago for the people in this neighborhoods it was shot – that would be the right thing to do.
http://www.davi...orhood-filming/
I need tickets, becasue I have a VERY rare heart disorder that subtracts a minute from my lifespan for every minute that my heart rate (heavily influenced by arousal) drops below 120, and viewing any movie with Angelina Jolie in typically keeps it above 130! Unfortunately the tolerance effect is kicking in with existing (rentable) movies and I need a new, more potent “drug” aka a new movie!
Because I am a girl whose has actually read the comic book before there was even a mention of the movie adaptation. Geek cred- I haz it.
Angelina Jolie has what my friends and I call “DSL.” And despite the tech blog context, no, we are not referring to Digital Subscriber Lines.
Think about it.
Oh, and in the case of Bullets v. Laws of Physics, the defense rests:
http://www.yout...h?v=cMDSFV5Py10
Curved bullets, shooting wings off flies, jumping into Vipers, running faster than the Flash…what’s not to like?
I fell in love with the movie since that Super Bowl commercial. In fact, I kept on rewinding it on my DVR to see it over and over again, much to the disdain of my fellow Super Bowl watchers.
Ever since, I’ve been telling friends, family, co-workers, everyone, that this is the must see movie of the year.
Wouldn’t it be awesome to see it before everyone else?
Hook it up with some tickets, TechCrunch!
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I’d love to see the flick and believe I should win because, true story, I once got a BJ from Angelina, saw her a few times after, and then never heard from her again. Year was 1999 and I had worked on the film The Bone Collector. True story, no joke.
I would like the tickets because the doctors say I have a rare condition that can only be cured by injecting Billy Bob Thorton’s blood into my earlobe. I’ve tried Billy, but he wouldn’t go for it – so I’m hoping Angelina still has that vial and wouldn’t mind parting with it.
A pair of tickets for Mr. Newton and Mr. Einstein, please. A sufficiently massive object near the bullet’s path will “curve” the path, as shown in Ms. Jolie’s above documentary. She is just exceptionally good at finding really dense actors to shoot around.
This also explains the whole “bullet-time” phenomena. Time slows [relatively] near any super-massive object, such as a black hole. Getting said hole to sit still is not easy, let alone keeping it from eating the entire set, which is why A-List Hole Wranglers (sometimes abbreviated as PAs) get paid the “big bucks.”
So you see, Mike, proving bullets can curve is a solved problem. Unfortunately, I can’t attend the screening due to some inadvertent time dilation. But if you can kindly give Ms. Jolie my phone number, we’ll call it even.
if (movie_date equals ‘June 20, 2008′) then
print “Have to watch the movie of Angelina.”;
print “I have seen all the movies of Angelina!”;
else
print “I cannot get those codes out of my head and will go nuts.”;
print “I have NOT seen all the movies of Angelina.”;
I want them so I can laugh at how piss poor this movie is going to be.
Because there’s more to life than just having fun
Haven’t seen the movie, but theoretically you can curve bullets. In physics, the Magnus Effect is used to explain the curve on tennis, soccer and table tennis balls. The following equation determines the force necessary to curve an object:
F= 1(over)2pV(squared)ACl
F = lift force
ρ = density of the fluid
V = velocity of the ball
A = crossectional area of ball
Cl = lift coefficient
Even in completely calm air, a bullet will experience a small sideways motion. Your main problem in replicating the movie is that there is not enough force in the human arm to generate enough velocity (V) to “curve’ a bullet. A machine, however, (or Steve Ballmer hopped on steroids) could potentially do so.
This movie looks HORRIBLE!
Even with free tix, I wouldn’t go!
No thanks. I would rather play games at HarryBalls.com.
How many corporate atrocities in the third world does it take to bring Angelina Jolie to your country? if you want the answer you will offer me tickets.
I’m anticipating a mob of geeks deciphering the binary code tattooed on Angelina’s forearm on the fly, only to be saddened by their inability to just as easily unlock the mysteries of the latch on a bra.
I want the tickets so I can pitch my startup to everyone at the premiere.
I absolutely do not want a ticket . Reverse psychology by the way
I also have a rare medical condition. Mine forces me to reenact every movie afterward in a bikini with a water gun.
Ey what the shit man
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What kind of jenky comment system is this?