Disappointed in the Poll

Oh I know. I would have voted for him. Come on who wouldn't be bitter if their face turned out that way. I liked him more than the good guy.

Mmmm.....my DVD had a poll and I voted- in favor of Sardonicus! It was close, but he won by a single vote. Anyway, since Sardonicus won, my DVD had a much happier ending. Sardonicus enjoyed a hearty meal -including pizza and some Bud Light, and he engaged in a rather lusty interlude with that leechy maid and a couple of those busty farm babes. Oh, and he poked Krull's other eye out.

You would think that in this day and age, where cinemas run on digital format and practically every DVD has "Director's Cut" footage and alternate endings, a movie with multiple endings (like Mr. Sardonicus) would be quite easy to pull off.

I've been re-reading my copy of The Big Book of Losers (Paradox Press, 1997), and the "Movie Gimmicks Time Forgot" strip mentions several such movie gimmicks in cinematic history: Aromarama and Smell-o-Vision, Emergo, Percepto, the Coward's Corner and so on. But out of all those gimmicks, audience polls like Mr. Sardonicus' "Punishment Poll" is the only one that I'd really like to see come back to cinemas, complete with actual multiple endings (and, hopefully, a cooperative projectionist in the booth).

But then, I used to run with the Angels with Hard-Ons (a Rocky Horror Picture Show fan participation troupe) and I'm a big fan of movies and plays which feature audience participation. So I may not necessarily be speaking for the majority here.