Anybody else headed out to HP 6 tonight?

Dead. To. Me. I am in the theater. Woo hoo.

 

My teen daughter is making the ultimate sacrifice, doing something nice for her friend in terms of waiting until her friend gets home from vacation so they can see it together. Won't be until next week.
All in my family have re-read HP6 over the past month in preparation for the movie and Sunday night there was a 15-minute preview on, I think, one of the HBO channels. We watched that and my kid said, "Epic."

 

I didn't end up going last night. She actually did say I could go at the last minute, but it turns out I'm old and can't stay up that late very easily.

 

The wife is going in for the 11:15 am showing. I'm not into it, but my sister took the day off from work.

I hope it's worth it for them.

 

My daughter works at our local theater and said that they were getting in line at 3PM for the midnight show yesterday. She said some were dressed up. It was 104 here yesterday so that could not have been comfortable.

 

People. Are. Idiots.

 

We all more or less make our living on the interests of people who take fandom too seriously.

Rick
(Who wouldn't stand in line for 9 hours to see the movie, but has many other stories of obsessive HP fandom in his past)

 

I drove 200 miles for a Pat Benatar concert in 1981.

I wrote a fake concert preview to land three close seats to an Olivia Newton-John concert in 1982. (Every bit as ingenious as it was unethical, I must say)

That is the beginning and end of my obsessive fandom behavior.

 

Yeah, well, whatever.

And it was really, really good, except for the muppets up front who insisted on screaming any time anything remotely romantic happened.

 

The biggest cheers (and the biggest boos) were for the Twilight preview. Several hundred teenage girls shrieking never fails to leave me deaf momentarily.

The flick had a lot of funny moments in it, which kind of balances out the death at the end of it. Helena Bonham Carter just looks like she has soooo much fun with her character.

 

Which movie franchise is worst about this, HP, Star Trek or Star Wars?