So I lined up for a midnight opening of Revenge of the Sith. I guess being disappointed with a film at 2:30am is some how better than being disappointed with it at a more reasonable hour.
This was the first time I have really lined up for a film, waiting outside in the cold for two hours. The line I was in for the opening of one of the Matrix films doesn't count because it was inside and warm and it didn't seem to take that long.
It turned out be to quite social experience and not quite as hideous as I thought it might have been. All the people that dressed up made it a bit of a freak show.
There was the power-tripping security guard demanding that no one so much as take a recording device into the theatre (that meant I had to put my camera back in the car...) or hold a cell phone up to the screen or this or that... Basically if you looked suss they would just throw you out, no refunds, no re-admission. No one liked this guy and everyone made it clear.
The highlight of the line would have been either the high calorie/caffeine food, or perhaps more line specific: Two costume dorks walked past each other near a kink in the line (so lots of people could see) and one of these dorks was dressed up like a sith guy and the other like a jedi. Some one started yelling 'fight fight fight!' soon the whole line was calling it out. The two guys obliged in some tame toy light saber action, it was lame but funny.
I will never do this sort of thing again.
