Stupid White Man can't save movie

So, the line for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a few hundred metres long. Borat himself is there, with a donkey. I was too far down the line but I think he actually rode the donkey.

And then the movie plays. The theatre seats 1200, and it's full. Two sections, ground and verandah, and we're on the verandha. The Midnight Madness dude does his intro, then Borat appears to much applause and does his, and then the movie starts.

And then the movie stops, twenty minutes later. Twenty really, really fucking funny minutes later. But the projector didn't like it, so it stopped.

Nobody's happy, and then Borat reappears to appease everyone, and it works. That's down the bottom section, where the verandah crew can't see. Shortly after he's left again, on my section, Michael Moore walks past. Michael Moore and an entourage including who I thought was a rabbi, and they go into the projector booth.

And then Michael Moore starts trying to fix the projector.

This goes on for a while and everyone is chanting and taking photos. The projecter, by the way, is behind a big sheet of plastic. It's not just the lens poking out of a hole at the back of the theatre, you can see the whole room from the theatre.

After a while he fails, and walks back out again. A minute later, he appears on stage, with the rabbi. Only he's not a rabbi, he's the director, Larry Charles. So Moore and Charles start doing a Q&A while the projector is being fixed, and they're both pretty funny. Then the Midnight Madness dude keeps giving updates, white are "one more minute", then "five more minutes", then "it may have to be rescheduled".

Moore and Charles also point out Jay Roach, who produced, and who directed the Austin Powers movies, and, unfortunately, the Meet the Parents movies. Also pointed out is the agent who was the basis for Jeremy Piven's character in Entourage.

Michael Moore doesn't get any boos for his politics, or for being a loudmouth. Although he does cop some for asking everyone to leave Tom Cruise alone.

Then Borat reappears and starts to do his Q&A, and also asks a girl in the audience "how much?"

The film, in the end, doesn't work, and will be repeated tomorrow at midnight. But hopefully there will be more than one repeat, because I have The Host at that time. I'm sure they'll take into account how many people have midnight madness passes, though.

So, only got twenty minutes of a movie, but it was the nuttiest movie screening I've ever been to. Thanks, Toronto.