Journal Jaguar777's Journal: Great Movie, and how to avoid lines(successfully) 1
The lines shouldn't be too bad at all. I live in Indianapolis, and a quick check of Fandango revealed that most of the theatres in the area were having 2 midnight showings. The local news was showing the usual shots of people lined up outside in many places.
About 10:15 I called the theatre I was going to and asked when they would begin seating for the midnight showings. The helpful clerk told me that there were a lot of people in line, and they would be begin seating as soon as the other movies were done playing, and that would be about 30 minutes. So we showed up about 10:45. The line was gone, and the lobby empty. We walked right in, and found two decent seats about 2/3 to the back and about 4 seats away from center. Suprisingly we had about 5 or 6 girls sitting in the center of our row next to us that were there when we arrived. A few of the girls had on Jedi robes and homemade Star Wars shirts.
Unless you are with a large group of people I would suggest doing it that way. You don't have to stand around, and you still get decent seats. Also the theatre staff mentioned that the theatre would continue the midnight showings for about a week.
We had to wait an hour, but we were sitting in comfy chairs, and we had fun observing the antics of other Star Wars fans(hilarity ensued). Plus since it was a midnight showing everyone there was at least a teen, and there were plenty of people there older than me(27). The later you go the less rugrats you will have to contend with.
The movie was great, and my wife thought it was great too. Kevin Smith was right. Roger Ebert was also right. The first "romantic" scenes weren't so hot, but as the movie progressed they thankfully improved. The Wookies felt like they were forced into the movie just to have them, but other than that everything in the movie seemed to have purpose, and belonged. Even the 2 second silent cameo of Jar-Jar at the end fit in fine. Most of the humor was in the very beginning. At first it seemed like to much at once, but then I realized there wasn't much room for humor in the rest of the movie so I let it slide. There are some haunting and tragic scenes in the last half hour. I heard a couple sniffles of crying coming from the group of girls in our row.
I give this movie 3.5 lightsabers. I guess the short Yoda saber would be the
Excellent. (Score:2)