Excitement of the geeky kind

[dangermousie]

Yay!

I have gotten two kinds of tickets.

Firstly, I have bought myself and Husband tickets to the 12:01 showing of SWIII. In a theater I like quite a lot, though not my No. 1 choice, because my No. 1 choice is the glorious Loew's Uptown and none of Loews are selling SW tickets yet (why, I do not know. Don't they realize they will lose neurotic geekies like me who are too paranoid to wait?). But it is a theater with cushy seats and, more importantly, big screens (that is where katranna and I saw Phantom of the Opera). Seeing that it's going to be over 2 hours long (please let it be at least 2:20, please), plus trailers, I don't see us getting home before 3am. And we have to go to work the next morning. However, it will be totally worth it, uselessness at work or not. I love seeing movies with psyched-out crowds. This is only a third midmight showing for me: Saw HP1 at midnight and RotK as part of the trilogy marathon (talk about a psyched audience!). I hope there will be folk in costume as it would be fun to see.

Secondly, I have gotten myself and katranna tickets to this Saturday's showing of one of my very favorite Bollywood movies, Dil Se. At a gorgeous restored theater near my house. It starts at 2 pm, so katranna, you'll have to drag yourself out of bed at a reasonable time. :D Obsession, Indian terrorism, and dancing on top of trains, here we come.

Comments

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

We almost have the same tickets. Midnight for Weds (for me and two friends) and then Friday at like 1:15 (for mom and I). Psyched-out crowds are the best. I mean, especially at the midnight one, you know that EVERY SINGLE person is an uber fan. Not just someone who likes it and goes the day of it's release. No, we go a freakin' midnight.

I'm so giddy I can't wait.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know. I am going to have to be injecting caffeine into my veins to keep up, but it's worth it.

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

Nah, you'll be okay. I saw ROTK (which is much longer) at midnight and went to school the next day. I made it. The giddiness didn't even wear off until sixth hour. Just stock up on Red Bulls and Starbucks Double Shots. :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Red Bulls and Starbucks Double Shots.

*shudder*

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, you don't like any of those?

What about chocolate covered expresso beans?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh I love both the esspresso beans and double shots. But I drink very little coffee so these things are like a kick in the teeth and I associate them only with having to stay up late and work despite being zonked :)

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Wow! You live in the D.C. area? I lived there for 14 years but moved away last summer. My first AOTC viewing was at the Uptown opening day; they didn't have a midnight showing so it was at 8:30 a.m.. I saw it then went to work. It was like coming to the office drunk ;).

The Uptown crowd though was crazy. The way they cheered when Yoda kicked Dooku's old butt, you'd think the Redskins won the Super Bowl.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

You live in the D.C. area? I lived there for 14 years but moved away last summer.

I've lived here for 5 or so years. Love it.

I saw it then went to work. It was like coming to the office drunk ;).

I can sympathise. They had the LOTR trilogy screening there and it ended around 2 am. I had taken the day of the trilogy off, but I had to work the next day...it was like sleep-walking.

The Uptown crowd though was crazy. The way they cheered when Yoda kicked Dooku's old butt, you'd think the Redskins won the Super Bowl.

That is so beyond cool. I hope my crowd will be nuts (the one for LOTR certainly was. My fave was when PJ's first cameo came on, someone in the audience yelling "we are not worthy")

I wanted to see it at the Uptown for the first time as well, so I stopped by the BO today and the lady told me they had the phone ringing off the hook all day about ROTS (yay!) and they were going to show it but had no more details yet because Loews was still working out the details (whatever that means). I so hope they get it, as I'd rather see it there...

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

You gotta see it at least once there, if not the first showing. I saw TPM at the Uptown July 4 weekend, which was about the fifth or sixth time I'd gone to see it. There was still a line and it darn near sold out! It was great.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's my fave theater in the whole city and I am so glad it's showing ROTS...

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

I got mine, too!!! Not for midnight, though, because I had no one to go with me then...hehe

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Am so excited for you. When are you going?

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

At like 4 in the afternoon because it's the only time we could work out that was relatively safe regarding work/school schedules. :) I'm so excited, regardless!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

But that is so great!

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

Wheee! *dances* I want it to be May, now, though. I'm very impatient. I don't care if it's a Jedi virtue. ;)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

But we are not jedi, so it's OK. *whistles innocently, dons Sith cape*

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

That's right, I seem to remember we are cohorts in the Dark Order of shameless fangirling! ;) But shhhh, it's supposed to be a secret! *pulls cloak over head, joins the whistling*