You can buy tickets on line and pick them up at a kiosk in the lobby. Just scan the bar code on you printout.
It’s not the line for the tickets that is so long. You buy your ticket and THEN go stand in line. My kids dragged me to one of these openings once, not a midnight opening but a regular time opening. We had purchased our tickets on-line.
Oh, and there are alarms on the emergency exits and there were guards stationed in front of each emergency door.
Oh, and there was no way that we could get a parking spot anywhere near the theater. That was odd, also. I’m wondering if the car was illegally parked or parked there ahead of time, way ahead of time.