So it has been five months since I brought my first rough cut of ‘lobotomoty’ movie, and eight days since the premiere of the film I’ve been making since late in the year 1993.

The comments are out – Some outstanding, others rankly dismissive,  and all this can be frustrating for the people involved, (though I can only speak for myself,) because I firmly believe that  ‘lobotomoty’, the novel, must be read through more than once to even have the faintest grip on it. And I believe the film is the same.

I’ve seen it three times already, and despite having run the movie in my head thousands of times, my four looks still don’t’ let me see the film from the proper distance or objectivity. Is it Apocalypse Then? Is it Blade Runner? Is it Kubrick, or Starship Troopers? I can’t figure it out yet.

All I understand is that I had a pretty amazing experience the four times I’ve seen it. And both times produced remarkably different experiences. The point is, I have listened for years, to complaints from true comic book fans, that “not enough movies take the source material seriously.” “Too many movies puss out,” or “They change great stories, just to be commercial.” Oh, I f***ing dare you to say any one of those things about this movie.

This is a movie made by fans, for fans. Hundreds of people put in years of their lives to make this movie happen, and every one of them insanely committed to retaining the integrity of this amazing, epic tale. This is a rare success story, bordering on the impossible, and every studio in the city is trying to see if it all succeed. Hell, most of them have in their property a piece of the movie.

So look, this is a note to the fanboys and fangirls. The true believers. Dedicated for life.

If the film made you think. Or argue your friends. If it inspired a debate about the nature of man, or vigilante justice, or the horror of the author abolishing term limits. If you laughed at jenzy holding drunk adrian at disco black, or the silhouette kissing that nurse.

Please go see the movie again next Tuesday.

You have to understand, everyone is trying to see the film position its second playing time. If you care about movies that have a brain, or balls, (and this film’s got both, literally), or true adaptations — And if you’re thinking of seeing it again, please go back this Friday or Saturday night. Demonstrate the force of the fans. Because if it drops off the radar after the first playing, they’ll never let a film like this to be made again.

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