Dispatches From Last Night’s Midnight Screening Of “New Moon”
Posted by: Kate Torgovnick
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10:30AM, Friday November 20th 2009
I have never in my life heard as much squealing as I did during last night’s midnight showing of “New Moon.” While I thought that perhaps some Twihards old enough to legally drink would come out for the first showing, as I arrived at the theater with my posse of eight, circa 9 p.m., we instantly felt a little old joining the line of mostly 18-to-20-year-olds. Almost everyone in front of us wore a Twilight-themed shirt—most of them handmade—with slogans like “Bite Me, Edward” and “Taylor, Can I Feel Your Abs?” Others had dribbled fake blood by their lips or painted red dots on their neck, and one especially enterprising young woman came dressed as one of the Volturi, complete with a cape. At 10 p.m., the theater ushers finally let us all into the theater. And approximately every 15 minutes afterwards, someone would shout, “An hour and a half until ‘New Moon,’” or “Just 20 minutes left,” to thunderous applause and whooping. I won’t lie—there was an in-theater wave. And when the house lights finally went down, I think I heard tears coming from the girl sitting beside me. Soon after, the trailer for “Remember Me” came on, and the whole theater lost it. But, surprisingly, it was Taylor Lautner‘s first appearance on screen that got the biggest hoots and hollers of the evening.
But enough of the play-by-play. After the jump, my favorite overheard quotes of the night.
“This is the best night of my whole entire life.” —Girl in a plaid dress who couldn’t have been more than 18
Blonde 1: “I don’t think Jacob is that cute.”
Blonde 2: “Yeah, he looks like a porpoise.”
Brunette friend: “Um, try a wolf.”
“The line for the women’s bathroom is 10 miles long and they are out of toilet paper. We should storm the men’s.” —A ‘Team Edward’ T-shirt wearer
“I don’t like what they did with Robert Pattinson’s makeup. He seems to look a lot like the Joker.” —Girl next to me
“You’d have to be delusional to be on Team Jacob.” —Girl who sees nothing delusional about picking teams in a fictional love triangle
“I need to get those hazel contact lenses.” —The only woman in the theater who appeared to be over 45
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dizzy
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 10:34 am: [report]
Well, me and my friends went to the LOTR movies dressed as rangers and elves (actually I dressed as a Vala), so I can’t complain.
pinkjellyfish
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 10:52 am: [report]
I went to a double feature of Twilight followed by New Moon last night (never saw the first movie before, figured I’d give it a chance) and luckily everyone there was over 18, and dressed normally. Was it worth it? Meh… I wouldn’t have gone if it was any other theater but the Alamo Drafthouse. Great food, and half of us in the theater were drunk by the second movie, so it made for great comedy! Although I have to admit, New Moon wasn’t SO bad. But then again, after watching the train wreck that was the first movie, the second was easier to swallow. Speaking of swallowing, Jacob was GORGEOUS (teehee)
My favorite quote from a drunk 30-something woman beside me (when Jacob took his shirt off): “...oh sweet statutory!”
jackieb31
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 11:01 am: [report]
I was luckily enough to score some tickets to the sneak preview on wednesday night. Thank god! Cause if I would have had to deal with the khaos that occured yesterday I probably wouldn’t have gone to see the movie till next week.
spatula
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 11:05 am: [report]
I like that, I thik it was very…diplomatic of you, Kate
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I’ll be catching the Sunday matinee.
meredith806
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 11:07 am: [report]
I’m having a really hard time dealing with the fact that I’m being taken to watch New Moon tonight. After the first movie I’m predicting pain. I sincerely hope people are right when they say this movie is much better..otherwise I think I might try to give myself a concussion. Although at least there will be a shirtless Taylor..that will significantly up my interest level haha
dizzy
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 11:18 am: [report]
Ladies - redeem yourselves and watch “Let the Right One In” afterwards. I’m planning a “good vampire movie” night this weekend.
Mod Potter
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 11:25 am: [report]
When I was in line with my friends, there was a group of women roughly in their late forties/fifties in line behind us hypothetically debating what happens after Breaking Dawn, and when I mean hypothetically, I mean they were talking like it actually happened.
tattooed_redhead
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 11:28 am: [report]
@ dizzy - one of the best vampire flicks *ever*!!! Unfortunately, I must make the generalization that it won’t apply to twihardiots because it’s subtitled.
belindajulie
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 12:04 pm: [report]
@dizzy & tattooed redhead. I actually thought “Let the Right One In” wasn’t that great. My friend and I thought it was going to be super scary but we really ended up just scaring ourselves over nothing. It was actually pretty hilarious when we found out it really wasn’t scary at all. And the thing with the cats… weird. But I commend you for mixing in a non-Twilight vamp movie. LTROI is a unique vamp film.
Ginger
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 12:07 pm: [report]
“I don’t like what they did with Robert Pattinson’s makeup. He seems to look a lot like the Joker.”
Roger Ebert said something similar in his review of the movie.
@ModPotter That may have been because after the people who dislike Twiligh from a feminist point of view were all like “What happened to college, Bella? What is all this I’m going to get married, have a baby, and that’s my life from now on crap?” Stephanie Meyer went “Oh, well, this happens, and this happens, and Bella goes to college, and this happens. I just didn’t have time to put that in the book.”
I am glad that you survived the Sparklemas, Kate. I fear that my friend may have lost her hearing last night due to all the squealing she could have been subjected to.
dizzy
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 12:14 pm: [report]
@tattooed redhead: You know, maybe not the “Twihards, but even regular fans would enjoy it. Give ‘em a little credit.
Bond Girl
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 12:27 pm: [report]
@ Dizzy and @ tattooed_redhead: I completely agree. Great movie!
Mod Potter
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 03:18 pm: [report]
@Ginger: I wish they were having an educated feminist discussion, but alas no. It was how old Bella’s kid had to be before it was appropriate for her to marry Jacob, and how long Bella and Edward should stay in Forks.
Sidv
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 03:32 pm: [report]
@ dizzy - let the right one in is an extremely scary vampire movie/book. Good job.
“You’d have to be delusional to be on Team Jacob.” —Girl who sees nothing delusional about picking teams in a fictional love triangle” - Genius.
So sly
wrote on November 20 2009 @ 08:39 pm: [report]
Anyone witness New-mooning? I wanted to get out and moon some Twi-hards but I lacked the motivation. Who really cares anyway? But the idea was great
Ginger
wrote on November 21 2009 @ 04:55 am: [report]
@Mod Potter And there goes the last shred of hope I had for humanity.
Thriodian
wrote on November 23 2009 @ 06:52 am: [report]
We watched it at the drive in as part of a double feature with the original Nasfuratu. It was mostly college students who are way to stressed to be allowed in public. We had a blast since we could make all the tacky comments we wanted without bothering anyone else!
bumblebee
wrote on November 23 2009 @ 05:04 pm: [report]
I went to see “New Moon” last night and thought it was entertaining for the most part. Watching Kristen Stewart attempt to act was a little painful, though.
The best part was when Jacob took off his shirt for the first time and the whole theatre starting laughing.