Movie Hype and that sort of type

I think that the Twilight series may very well be more popular than religion! The amount of advertisements I've seen in the last few days is incredible.

Next week, almost every movie theater on the island will be running a Twilight marathon starting with the original Twilight movie, immediately followed by New Moon and then Eclipse starting at 12:01am on opening day. So people will be able to see all the movies one after the other. I do have to say that this is a pretty cool idea and it's something I might just consider, but HOLY CRAP!!! Practically everybody is sold out and its like a week away. Do these people really have nothing better to do in their lives than to spend 9 straight hours in a movie theater in the middle of the night?

So here's my summer schedule as far as movies go:

Twilight
The Last Airbender
The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Then Harry Potter in the Fall.

Notice that I didn't put specific dates near those movies. Because I really don't care to be the first person to see it or anything. I just want to go see them at some point. Tickets for Eclipse have been the prizes of radio stations for the last week and thousands of people called in. I was one of them because I wanted to see if I could even get through.. NOPE. Busy signal the entire time. The funny thing is that people are going to be lining up at the theater for probably at least 12 hours before Eclipse starts, which seems to be the custom with movies with that much popularity. But then I sit here and I think "Are these people nuts?" Because I bought my ticket on Fandango 2 weeks ago and when I get to the theater, I'm going to skip right past the people who have been waiting for hours and use the automated ticket machine. I sure do love technology, especially when using it gets you dirty murderous looks from people. It's just a movie people, chill.

The Last Airbender is a different story though. I would wait all day for that one. It's based off a Nickelodeon show called Avatar. It's an anime type show and it spanned 3 years to get the entire story across. I'll be very interested to see how they can get the entire story into one movie.

Now for the Sorcerer's Apprentice.... Well I've always been a fan of Nicholas Cage so to see him as a wild eccentric is going to be quite amusing for me. All three of these movies are playing within a period of 2 weeks. So I'll be pretty busy the first couple weeks of July. I've been looking forward to these movies for over 6 months.... but no... i'm not going to wait in line for 12 hours.

I'll be sure to take some pictures of the people waiting in line and see how many people brought tents and sleeping bags etc.