Well, many thanks to everybody who came to the second Movies vs. Humans show! It wasn’t the show we planned, but it was a terrific and intimate time!

See, for those of you who don’t know, we found out Thursday afternoon, to our dismay, that our plans to screen Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu was in direct conflict with the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s plans to screen Hausu a number of times over the Halloween weekend.

Well, we lost that argument, and were unable to show the film we’d planned, and with hours to go before showtime, we did as much damage control as possible to let as many people as possible know that the plans were changing. Changing to what, we didn’t quite know yet.

We considered doing any of the dozen notorious movies we had on our laptops for future MvH consideration. These are movies that we’d heard about but not had the chance to watch yet. We thought that maybe it might be fun to have that communal experience with a movie that would be fresh to everyone in the room.

We also considered showing one of the movies that we’re already intimately familiar with, but for which we had not yet done the research and writing that usually goes into MvHifying a movie.

With time a-wastin’, and two fun but less-than-ideal options before us, we ultimately went with a more familiar and recently-made favorite of ours, and had a terrific time sharing it with our guests Mike Still and Adam Bozarth, and with the lovely but sparse crowd that heroically came out to take a chance.

What did we show?

The 2005 made for TV classic in which, to put it in Tropic Thunder terms, Rosie O’Donnell goes full retard, winning exactly zero hearts along the way, because in addition to being one of the most retarded characters ever put to film, she is also one of the worst, most manipulative, and most malicious as well. It’s a “movie” called Riding the Bus with My Sister

This very brave, very special film was made for the Hallmark channel, and also features Andie Macdowell as Rosie’s sister, an amazing photographer, who has to put her amazing photography career on amazing hold to take care of her challenged sister after their father dies.

Anjelica Huston is the director for some reason, and you can really tell that she’s a consummate actor’s director (in that she seems to be incapable of telling an actor, “No, don’t do that, that is offensive and insensitive, and horrible!”).

Riding also features a title sequence that prominently features the font Comic Sans, and a dynamic score, composed on a Casio keyboard by one of the great drummers of all time, Stewart Copeland of the Police.

So that was Movies vs. Humans 2! Keep it tuned to this website for more information about Mvh3, in November!