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    I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans

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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/24/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    "but it's also kind of awesome that there's such enthusiasm for something like this, you know?"


    no, i in fact do not know how it can be any kind of awesome that this kind of enthusiasm is being generated for something as tawdry as the twilight series. the fact that a large number of fans can generate this level of enthusiasm for something this raffish is the opposite of awesome.

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    Image of Arkaina Arkaina
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    My theatre had almost something similar. Everyone was a fan safe for me, my 6 friends and one person across the room who had this wickedly loud laugh. I'm surprised we didn't get kicked out we were laughing so hard, and got told to shut up a few times, as well as a few stares thrown our way. It was great! And I mean, how can you not laugh, the sparkling momments actually had a twinkling sound effect, come on!
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/23/08

    @Arkaina: OMG! yu R sooooo Mean!


    j/k. I like the cut o'your jib. good job.

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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    I went to see it also.... it was bizarre.... the movie and the experience. I thought I liked Twilight, but compared to those rabid little girls, I think I must actually hate Twilight, because their infatuation is at a level I can't even process.
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    Image of Alchemistmerlin Alchemistmerlin
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    Who's pocket do I need to line to get you people to stop putting up articles about this trash?
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    11/23/08

    @Alchemistmerlin:


    Hahaha. You sir, are a king among men. Seriously. All this Twilight crap is driving me insane!

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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/24/08

    @Alchemistmerlin: maybe throw in a few bucks extra to stop the updates on knight rider?
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    This is exactly why I don't go out to major movie theaters anymore. The last film I went to see was The Simpsons Movie, and the kids in the theater would not shut the fuck up. It was constant babble, and screaming and giggling. So much that I couldn't even hear the damn movie. Which is wild because the sound was loud as all hell.


    Now I just stick to 21+ theaters. Pizza, beer and a movie = FTW.

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    Image of Quilt Quilt
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    ...but was the movie any good?
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    People who scream "shut the fuck up, I'm trying to watch the movie" have obviously never been to a midnight screening before. You don't go to a midnight screening to watch the movie. You go to a midnight screening to make an ass of yourself. I've done it plenty of times before, and I've had grand fun. I remember at the Star Wars III midnight showing a couple years ago, Darth Drunk (who was wearing a Vader "who's your daddy" tshirt) had a lightsaber duel with a Jedi in the aisles of the theater. Good times. :)
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    11/23/08

    @meirelle, Commander Closet Commie: I remember at the Star Wars III midnight showing a couple years ago, Darth Drunk (who was wearing a Vader "who's your daddy" tshirt) had a lightsaber duel with a Jedi in the aisles of the theater. Good times. :)


    Who won?

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    Image of bitsytimelord bitsytimelord
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    Dear Joss Whedon,


    Prepubescent girls love vampires again apparently. With that in mind I shamefully ask the following:


    I can has Buffy movie?


    Obsessively Yours,


    Bitsy

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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/23/08

    @bitsytimelord: My wife had a coworker who was about 20 and was prone to wondering aloud why they hadn't made a Buffy movie yet. Ha! Young people.
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    Image of Kishi Kishi
    11/23/08

    @Moff: It's like the people I overheard in the bookstore a few years ago who were surprised to hear that they made those Lord of the Rings movies into books.
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    Image of bitsytimelord bitsytimelord
    11/23/08

    @Kishi: Perhaps I should have specified and said "I can has GOOD Buffy movie?"
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/23/08

    @bitsytimelord: See, that (which was implied when you directed your desires to Joss initially) is totally fair. I am just wondering how many of the kids out there are in the camp analogous to the one Kishi is referring to. It's a testament to Mr. Whedon that he has eradicated the film so completely from the cultural memory.
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    Image of Mister Adequate Mister Adequate
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    "two guys in the row behind me, uninterested boyfriends who'd been dragged there by their excited other halves"


    Dear sweet merciful God above. Hell exists. Those poor bastards deserve medals.

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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    11/23/08

    @Mister Adequate: That could've been me or you! We are truly lucky men.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    there is NOTHING worse than a pack of teenage girls. nothing.
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    11/23/08

    @GreyHammer:


    Agreed.

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    Image of W10002 W10002
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    Wow, this is like Comic-Con all over again. It was pretty much the same experience I had at the Twilight panel, except maybe 1/3 of the audience were screaming middle-aged moms. Now THAT was scary.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/23/08

    @W10002: Screaming middle-aged moms? Sounds like my bedroom.
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    I'm old enough to remember Beatlemania. People who seemed otherwise reasonably bright and self-aware allowed themselves to be swept up by the hysteria.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    11/23/08

    @Mathmos: Yes, but wasn't that justified because the object of said hysteria was actually pretty good?
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/23/08

    @lightninglouie: Yeah, I don't think we want to compare this phenomenon to Frank, Elvis or JohnPaulGeorgeandRingo. Do we?
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    Image of vurtscribe vurtscribe
    11/23/08

    @RAHfanboy for one, welcomes his Marxist overlords.: It's the first place people go to explain any crazy fandom/hysteria though.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    11/23/08

    @vurtscribe: Tulipomania would probably be a more appropriate comparison (I guarantee acres of remaindered Mormon vampire crap at B&N this time next year), but the traditional media is still run largely by aging baby boomers trying to relive their youth through their children, or someone else's children, so Beatlemania it is.
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    Image of Starwatcher-23 Starwatcher-23
    11/23/08

    @lightninglouie: But do you think the screaming teen girls largely were there for Elvis or the Beatles because they thought the music was brilliant? Watch clips of them performing sometime.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    11/23/08

    @Starwatcher-23: You know, live sound recording has come a looooooooong way in fifty years.
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    Image of logicbox logicbox
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    i can deal with shouts of applause at the beginning of a really exciting movie ive been looking forward to (and it's opening night, of course) but incessant little girl screams just bugs the shit out of me, almost as much as mopey-teen-vamp-drama-dawsons-creek type of crap. when did vampires become such wussies?
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    Image of Necrosynth Necrosynth
    11/24/08

    @logicbox: around 1996, i believe. Ann Rice ruined it for us all.
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    Image of B B
    11/24/08

    @Necrosynth: I thought Ann Rice made vampires gay, not wussy.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    Now that I've read the post, I realize I am surprisingly happy to have learned all this, and equally happy not to have learned it firsthand. You are a brave soul, Graeme. We owe you our heartfelt thanks.
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    11/23/08

    @Moff: Yes, maybe we should pool our funds and buy her a token of our appreciation. Earplugs, maybe?
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    Image of Anto103 Anto103
    11/23/08

    In reply to I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
    I swear if my little sister, began to act like that I would have to fling her into the canal. Of course she hated the Harry Potter films and the unfortunate events film, you know that awful film with Jim Carrey, there's no way she would like this thing. Hopefully...
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    Image of B B
    11/24/08

    @Anto103: You are wrong about A Series of Unfortunate Events being awful.
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