Second Chances

So Twilight came to The Byrd. For those of you who have never been to Richmond (or have been but somehow missed the oldest theater in the city) the Byrd is like our cheap theater, our Movies 8 if you will...except cooler because it's got history and on Saturday nights an organ and player rise from somewhere beneath the stage and plays before the movie showing. The Byrd is pretty sweet. Anyway, not the story here.

So I meet up with Claire and Gretel because they were appalled that after having seen the movie once I lost all interest and desire for the books. I really did, it was kind of sad and I was at the point that I wished I had never seen the movie because I really did like the books (with the exception of the last one...I only kind of liked that one). Claire had given me the soundtrack last week and my job was to listen to it without skipping any songs (except I was permitted to skip the Looney Tunes song - not the theme song, but you know how Looney Tunes always has that classical music throughout). The instruction to listen to it all the way through without skipping was just for the first turn, but I was actually too afraid to skip any until the 4th or 5th listen. Then I started to skip around and listen to my favorites (sorry gals, the Rob Pattinson one didn't make that list).

So I get to the theater, late I feel though I guess I wasn't and I buy my ticket and I'm looking for Gretel. I had seen her when I walked up to buy the ticket but now I didn't see her anywhere. So in my search for the familiar face I walk past the girl taking our tickets. I have to turn around and give her mine and she's like, "I know, it's Twilight" and I felt like telling her I wasn't one of those, I was looking for my friend. But what's the point right?

So we go into the theater and we sit, or should I say we tried to sit. The problem with being in the oldest theater in the city is that it was made a long time ago, before the days of really tall people. Ever been to an old house, and I mean really old, the doorways are too short and the stairs are steep and narrow. Anyway, that's why I say (without any other proof) that those were the days when people were shorter. That means that in order to sit comfortably in these seats I had to sit straight up, butt pushed back to the crevice where the seat and the back meet, just to have a little room for my knees. Only thing is that this is not actually that comfortable. So I started out with my knees pressed into the back of the seat in front of me and moved around the entire time until Gretel showed me that if you lean forward and rest your arms on the seat in front of you that you might finally find some comfort. Thanks G.

Well - so the movie, my second impressions? I guess it wasn't as bad? Edward is actually just creepy to me now, and Bella is back to bugging me (which I reminded myself I couldn't stand her in the books). I still hate the glitter and wind chimes. I mean the glitter isn't so bad, I have seen Legend so therefore I have seen worse, but the chimes do them in. Unless someone can prove to me that a fist full of diamonds would make a similar noise in the sunlight, I'm not buying into the movie enhanced chiming. Don't worrying, chiming is not the only reason I don't love the movie, I'm not that irrational.

I have to say though, I enjoyed the experience in the Byrd. We went to the 9:30 showing, and that means that we got the interesting crowd. Not as interesting as The Simpsons Movie crowd, but really, you can't top the anytime crowd for that movie. The guy behind us had some interesting things to say and that cracked me up, and of course when Edward's "father" says "Remember who you are" I cracked up, and that could just be because of the parental saying, "Remember who you are and what you stand for." I can see it now...the first LDS vampires.

So in conclusion, I no longer hate the movie, but I'm afraid it's not on my top 10, 20, or even 30. Probably because I can't put my finger on what genre it is (is it action? drama? ...comedy?). And I won't be owning it, unless I can buy it for 5 bucks. Then I'll own it. But hey, it moved up from a will not own to a cheap bin at Wal-Mart purchase. That's saying something!