Walking out the door

[cleolinda]

T-minus thirty minutes until lunch! And after lunch, an hour of waiting in the theater for the movie to start and/or dodging Twihards! I SAY THIS IS A DAY WELL SPENT.

And then I will go home and start writing. Pray for me.

Tomorrow: recording the Made of Fail podcast.

Also, my mother would like you to know that she so is NOT a TwiMom, is NOT is NOT IS NOT. "I'm just saying that I can see why fourteen-year-old girls would like him! He looks like James Dean! HE'S YOUR SISTER'S AGE." Um, that has not stopped thousands of other women your age from acting a damn fool, Mom. (Should I twist the knife and show her some of the interviews?) So are you still sticking to this wanting-to-see-the-movie thing? "I just want to see it WITH YOU so you can tell me HOW STUPID IT IS." Wouldn't you rather see Quantum of Solace ? "Is he still blond? THEN NO."

‘Twilight’ Finishes Friday with $33 Million with ‘Bolt’ and Bond Battling for Second. On the bright side: it's the biggest opening for a female director ever.

And finally: THE BEST AUDIENCE EVER.

Comments

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

GODSPEED YOU, CLEOLINDA

(Dude, my social life has been next to nil since August? And yet in the past week there have been four separate friends asking if I want to "do" a movie this weekend, and I'm like NO NO NO I KNOW WHAT YOU REALLY WANT but my little Sims-like social meter is getting into the red and I'm just TORN. TORN LIKE AN OLD SWEATER.)

(Also, it is freakin' cold out there.)

[divadeanna.livejournal.com]

Seeing it in two hours. :)

I agree with your mom. I've been saying he looks like James Dean ever since I saw the gravity-defying hair in this (http://www.hisgoldeneyes.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=78&pos=11) picture.

[diddakoi.livejournal.com]

He's not *that* blond. Like, it's not Draco Malfoy blond. I think it works.

OT (off twilight)

[manekikoneko.livejournal.com]

I know the Times and MSNBC are probably more prestigious, but Neil Gaiman linked your post on the Coraline mystery box (http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/11/on-not-doing-alan.html), which I think is probably the next best thing to actually getting it. Yay you!

Re: OT (off twilight)

[ofshoesandships.livejournal.com]

linked as "that everyone else with access to a search engine has:"

Congrats

[robinmc.livejournal.com]

Good luck to you. To each person seeing it this weekend: you are a braver soul than I.

If you do show your mom Twi-mom interview footage, could you maybe draw pictures of her facial expressions?

[threeparts.livejournal.com]

To each person seeing it this weekend: you are a braver soul than I.

And I! Checking my flist, one of the mothers there just got back from taking her kid to see the movie. Looking back she says, "I would have rather fought with 300 Spartans. Naked." than deal with the 300 girls who squealed at Edward's every move.

I'll just be right here. Under this blanket. Fearing the reactions to Twilight getting the 15-minute treatment.

[prncssaurora.livejournal.com]

HAVE FUUUUUUUUUN! :D

[meganwrites2.livejournal.com]

LOL on your Mum. I didn't like the book but thought the film was okay. Can't wait to see your 15 Minutes. :D

[3llacumber.livejournal.com]

"I'm just saying that I can see why fourteen-year-old girls would like him! He looks like James Dean!"


James Dean?! I find that insulting to the Dean legacy.
Best of luck at the movies :D

[threeparts.livejournal.com]

Still don't think RPattz is good-looking. He's awesome and all, but... no. I don't know. Maybe I'm weird. Not happy about having to wait until 11 December to see it here, though. I want the sparkles nooow.

Good luck and godspeed with the fangirls, Cleo. We're all hoping you make it out alive.

[waterdaughter.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see what you think. Ahaha.

I saw it yesterday (and kinda got paid to do it; doing trailer checks for a company), and spent most of the time writhing in my seat from the OVERWROUGHT DRAMA. It was pretty hilarious. And, as I described to my boyfriend later, so full of Fail that it shot all the way off the edge of the chart and was edging back around to Win. GIANT SPARKLY TWINKIE.

At least Alice continued to be awesome.

Oh, and I think I missed most of the crazy by seeing it during the day yesterday. I was in three different screens for the trailer checks, and none of them were full. Although the one I watched it in was full of preteens who kept thundering down the aisles to run to...the lobby? The bathroom? Man, I don't know.

[trinastar.livejournal.com]

Your Mom - would probably be made of awesome if she did become a lower level Twi-mom. But yeah, the worst one I met was the one who told me in the bathroom that she was letting her kid skip school to see the movie. A total stranger was told that... and not just that, a total stranger who works in the same bloody mall. Makes me glad it was just one theatre with four showings going... I don't think I could handle it if it was any more publicized.

As far as your PSA, I and my 'date' for the evening were actually really well behaved (mostly because I knew I had to behave before work, and I wanted to set a good example for the poor staffers I teased earlier in the year). But yes we didn't say anything loud, we actually were uber discrete and both fangirled over James and Edward's crazy hair. As well as the lines obviously not in the book. But still it was good for a laugh and I'm looking forward to it coming out on dvd so I'll be able to enjoy deleted scenes. But at least I still have the book.

[demonoflight.livejournal.com]

Cleo, no offense, but are you aware of how crazy your mom sounds?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Would I be telling you this story if I didn't?

[melayka.livejournal.com]

My mother would like you to know that she so is NOT a TwiMom...

That's a relief, because I can see your awesome mother becoming the TwiMom Overlord in about twelve seconds flat. That lady doesn't seem to do things half-way. XD

[lyrangalia]

Good luck, Cleo! (And maybe you should bring earplugs?)

Just a thought: am I the only person who got flashbacks to American Pie where Alyson Hannigan's character goes "Say my name! Say my name, b*tch!" during Edward's "Say it. Say it out loud" "Vampire." bit?

[sneakypixie.livejournal.com]

re: Also, my mother would like you to know that she so is NOT a TwiMom, is NOT is NOT IS NOT

If it helps at all, my mother had a dream last night about Bella and Edward riding on a white horse together. On the beach. Was his skin sparkling as the sun sparkles off the ocean waves? Yes.

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

I'm just curious...how do you do a recap if you're having one viewing in a cinema? Do you take notes in the dark? Do you have a small tape recorder you speak into along the lines of "note to self--"?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I took notes in the dark once (King Arthur), and that was totally useless. I just basically do my best to remember what happened, go over movie stills, maybe hit themoviespoiler.com if I get really desperate. So I do it all from memory, mostly. Actually, the last three I did, I came home and found low-res bootlegs to help my memory.

[nicominoru.livejournal.com]

I like that your mom would be okay with Daniel Craig if he would only dye his hair.

[pop-tothepeople.livejournal.com]

Oh my God! I am so incredibly happy for Catherine Hardwicke! She is an amazing director and totally deserves this! (I mean, I haven't seen Twilight, but Thirteen is one of my all-time favourite movies)

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

seriously!

she's not MY FAVORITE DIRECTOR EVER OMG, but i like that she gets what it's like to be a kid, and doesn't condescend to that, but rather makes some very good movies with it. and to see her go from doing relatively low-budget stuff to making something like this makes me happy. i hope, though, that she will pull a nolan and make a better movie between the success of twilight and full moon.

[sarahspat.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the Twihards!

I must say, the NYC fangirls weren't so bad last night when me and 5 of my friends from work saw the movie. Sure, there was squealing, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be...probably because we smuggled mini bottles of wine into the theater (cause we're classy like that) and were on our way to a really good drunk before the previews were even over. And to be quite honest, I don't think I could have gotten through that movie sober. I seriously have not laughed so hard in a movie in sooo long. During the sparkling scene, I screamed out a laugh, fell out of my chair, and spilled wine all over me. But the best part about it was the ENTIRE AUDIENCE had the same reaction. INCREDIBLE.

I'm tempted to go see the movie again when I'm sober, but I don't think anything can ever compare to witnessing sparkling while drunk on cheap wine.

[spacetomatoes.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is SO WEIRD. Do I know you?

I too saw the movie yesterday in NYC. With mini-bottles of wine. And a fabulous buzz. I too am considering seeing the movie again, sober.

Haha - if I don't know you, it sounds like I probably should!

And I agree, the NYC fangirl reaction was disappointingly tame.

[jrs1980.livejournal.com]

Well, I blame myself.

Summit officially green-lights New Moon. (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1130001163.html?categoryId=13&cs=1) So sorry, RPattz.

[giffydoll.livejournal.com]

Your Mom sounds awesome. Have fun at the movie. I'm totally making up a posse to go to it with when I get back to NZ and it is released. My friend even made me a great "Why so Sullen Edward Cullen?" T-shirt which I will totally wear to it. Currently wearing it while backpacking through Europe.

[duckiemegs.livejournal.com]

When we got to the theatre last night we kind of cut to the front of the line for a lack of a better place to stand. I told my friends that as long as we didn't make eye contact with the high school girls we would be okay. There were two HUGE lines to get into their biggest theatre and we got there maybe a half hour before it was supposed to start. There were also three creepy older men standing right by us waiting to go in also. WEIRD. Anyway, when the doors to the theatre opened there was an usher there with a broom. He held it up in front of the doors and was like, "Let us get through first! Stay back!" He was really funny. Then I ran. I think I did it more to avoid being trampled. It was scary.

There was screaming when the previews started, when the Summit logo came on the screen, during Kristen's opening lines, every entrance of every character and the theatre erupted when Rob came on, of course. I had to cover my ears. Some people would yell, "Shut the F**k up!" and I even yelled for everyone to shut up. Most of the yelling/screaming came from the back of the theatre. We had some comments like The Best Audience Ever but I can't remember them - sorry!

I had a good time and was not really disappointed by anything (well, besides the effects being rather cheesy - I can deal with that). I laughed during the sparkle AND meadow scene. I also found Edward's first whiff of Bella to be HILARIOUS as well as where he's sucking out the venom (hence the icon).

ANYWAY, I hope you survived the movie and had a good time regardless of whether or not you liked it!

[scarletsherlock.livejournal.com]

I know you'll get this in your feed, but SQUEE io9 SHOUTOUT! http://io9.com/5096763/twilight-makes-for-the-best-fanwank-ever

[gaminette.livejournal.com]

LOL - I was coming here to post the same thing! Wooo! Go Cleo! ^_^

[thebrightcity.livejournal.com]

My greatest audience experience was when a girl in the front of the theater yelled, "I LOVE YOU JACOB!" when he came on screen and a girl in the back of the theater yelled, "BITCH, HE'S MINE!"

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Did you see Neil Gaiman linked to you in his blog?