Conundrum

Whew! Haven't blog'd in a while. Long story short: I made it home (after a few more cancellations, ending in Delta putting me up in a hotel for the night), had a rockin' good time, slept in every day, ate too much, etc.

Now I'm back in school! I love Oregon--I'm convinced the Northwest is Utopia--but it's nice to be home in Provo again.

Okay, now for my dilemma:
I have long been looking forward to the upcoming adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, which is coming out later this year. It has ROBERT DOWNEY JR. cast as Sherlock Holmes, which basically means that it's going to be hardcore and awesome. I mean, come on. IRON MAN playing Holmes. As if that weren't enough, Mr.-unbelievably-attractive-and-debonaire-Jude Law is playing Dr. Watson. What a duo! So unexpected, and yet I anticipate it to be genius.

I am frankly in love with Sherlock Holmes. I've read every case, as well as seen them depicted by both Jeremy Brett and Basil Rathbone (Don't ask me which one is more awesome. There's no way I could ever decide). The Great Mouse Detective was, and continues to be, one of my favorite movies. I mean, come on. My roommate and I went as Holmes and Watson for Halloween.

So. That being said, you'd think that nothing, nothing could get in the way of me and the midnight premier of Sherlock Holmes, wouldn't you? Well, my loyalty was tested when I found out that Sherlock Holmes was being released on the same day as NEW MOON. November 20th.

Good fan that I am, I decided ahead of time that I'd just pull a double feature. Sherlock Holmes at midnight (because let's face facts, it takes priority over Twilight) and then New Moon at 3am.

BUT, here's the kicker. It turns out the midnight release of Sherlock has been bumped up to Nov. 13th, so no worries! I guess that's what I get for trying to plan my life 10 months in advance. :P

Twilight at Midnight

TWILIGHT.

I have to say, the Twilight movie was amazing. Quite well-done, and very well-adapted. I think we can all agree that certain movies, aka Harry Potter, were crap at following the books, but Twilight accomplished it most excellently.

I honestly was preparing myself for pure cheese covered in corn, and - I kid you not - I thought Edward was literally going to be covered in glitter due to low budget issues, but... it was fantastic! The casting was perfect. I wouldn't have changed hardly anything, with the exception of Jacob Black's wig (HEINOUS! I was more scared of that wig than I was of James).

For your amusement, here is the breakdown of the audience - roughly:
Total seats in theater: 1,960
Number of empty seats: 0
Percent who were female: 92% (I was surprised at how many guys there were, actually.)
Percent wearing twilight t-shirts: at least 40%
Number of capes seen: 2 (one was red and sparkly, though, so that counts as extra)
Average age: 12-16 yrs.
Number of morbidly obese people seen: 14 or so
Number of people who went strait to IHOP after the movie: 44

Number of times we had to listen to David Archuleta's Crush while waiting for the movie to start: 19.
Granted, we were in our seats for about 3 1/2 hours before the movie started, but still, that means Crush was played about 5 times an hour.


Oh, just some other quick facts.

Numbers aren't concrete yet, but last night, in midnight showings alone, Twilight is reported to have made "north of $7 million." It's predicted that it'll hit $60 million over the weekend. (Dateline Hollywood)

Wednesday Morning, the day before the movie came out, 2,000 midnight showings were sold out across the country.

As of Friday morning, Fandango was selling 5 Twilight tickets per second.

Twilight took #3 for most advanced tickets sold on Fandango. It beat out Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Lord of the Rings. #1 and #2 are Star Wars III and Dark Knight, respectively.

34% of polled moviegoers said they took time out of school or work to see Twilight.


If Twilight made $7 million just on midnight showings last night, it's well on track to make bank. At the West Jordan, UT theater alone (where I saw the movie), there were 7 showings last night. Only three of these were midnight screens (12:01, 12:02, and 12:03). The others were in increments of 15 minutes after that but they still looked like full showings.

Basically, I LOVED the movie. I was very much pleasantly surprised, and I have very few complaints. Catherine Hardwicke did a fantastic job, the actors were phenomenal, and I am still jumping up and down like a little girl.

YAY TWILIGHT.

I'm not even ashamed.

So the movie 'Twilight' comes out tonight at midnight. I'm not going to lie - I'm going. Three hours early. In costume. Not only that, but all 6 showings in town were sold out, as were the theaters in American Fork, Orem, Springville, and Payson. So... just to make my day that much more fangirly, I'm driving an hour up to West Jordan, just to see Twilight.

That's right, I'm a Twilight fan (or Twilighter, Twi-hard, fanpire, whatever classification your prefer. My personal favourite is 'Cullenist'). Honestly, it's not something I generally broadcast. One of those guilty pleasure things. Like my love of Gwen Stefani.