[HairOfTheDog]

Hi Scott! Thanks for thinking of me sitting awake watching a movie at a completely unreasonable time!

I didn't feel tired. I feel lousy now, body clock all screwed up, but that is temporary!

It was sold out already when we arrived at nine. There were about 20 people in line that had probably been there since noon. Feeling unthreatened by that, we went next door to a restaurant and had some food and coffee. Ramius had Wild Turkey! And he stayed awake!

There are a lot of odd looking people there, but I was the only one in a cloak. Heh. Two people in line for popcorn said they really appreciated it, and that I added interest to the scenery for them. That is a good thing. It was raining in line, so I was glad I had it, and glad it was fleece. Other people brought blankets, my blanket was just more tailored than theirs!

We watched a bit of disk 2 of FoTR in line, umbrella over the laptop... and some young grunge-band type kids (teens) gathered around us and watched too. One was a Tolkien geek, and two of them were uncertain about the names of the characters, "Yeah - that guy was cool, what was his name? - Yeah Gandalf". I was astonished that people who didn't even have the characters straight, let alone lines memorized, were waiting two hours before at the midnight show to see this. But then, maybe I have forgotten what it is like to be young!

During the previews we were a bit worried about the raucusness of the crowd... But they settled right down when the movie started. People clapped and cheered mostly when they should have.

[The Iguana]

I would just like to say for the record that if my experience on my second viewing today was any indicator of nationwide trends, this movie is going to have monster numbers for this weekend.

Friend and I hit the noon showing at the local megaplex. We saw it on the largest screen (500+ seats) and it was just about sold out.

We checked out the other two screens where it was showing - and they were in the same shape.

And the filmgoers were not retirees or kids out of school. Most looked to be "working age" - which means quite a lot of us took off work to see this thing.

[sneakers]

My husband and I just got back from the theatre. No, we didn't see TTT - it was sold out!!!! I'm going to the 10:30 show ALONE! I DON'T CARE! I've waited too long for this movie! My husband has to be up at 4:30 in the morning. I have an extra ticket for anybody in the Indiana, PA area! LOL!