Twilight Movie Craziness

Yep, last night I...me...Allison, went to the midnight showing of Twilight. I can't believe I was able to stay awake all night, that is a big feat for me. The best part about going to a midnight showing is being able to act like fools and not feel too stupid because everyone else is too. We made a whole night out of this Twilight Experience. First Stephanie and I drove to to Katy and hung out with Mckell for a while before driving over to Emily's house to make our matching shirts. Actually Mckell designed them all for us and made both mine and Steph's while we were at her house. The we colored in the hearts and wrote individual sayings on the back of our shirts. This is Shannon (I didn't know her before last night), me and Mckell.

Emily, me, Marci and Leighanna working on our shirts.

Here is what the front of all of them looked like: I love Edward Cullen. Except for Emily who likes Jacob so hers read: I love Jacob Black (or I heart JB).

Here are the back of them saying starting left to right:

I'd Rather be in Forks

Bite Me

Bite Me (Edward only Please)

Sorry, I've Already Imprinted

I'm only here for the Volvo

Mckell, ran out of time to write hers

And mine said, This Bella married her Edward

After making shirts and taking way too long goofing around, we were going to go eat at La Madeline. But by now it was 9:45 and it closes at 10:00 so we had to settle for Taco Bell instead. Emily drove us and was pretending to drive like Edward the whole time...she was hilarious. She insisted on driving her husbands Lexus, so we could pretend we were in Edward's Volvo the entire night. I was super impressed with all the girls knowledge of the Twilight Series. The knew so many details, and it made the night so fun.

Emily and Marci in the front seat.

Stephanie, Mckell and I in back.

It was FREEZING standing in line. We thought by getting there 2 hours early we were doing good. Little did we know the entire teenage girl population of Houston was going to be there too. We should have known. We had a fun time being part of the "older group" there and still showing our spirit with our shirts. Don't we look so cute. Great design Mckell.

Huddling together eating our Taco Bell, while our insides shivered uncontrollably. Soon after we took this picture the line started moving and they let us inside so we could spend the next hour and a half waiting in the theater.

As an avid people watcher, this was quite the location to be.
Still waiting.....it was fun to chat and get to know everyone I didn't know better and to catch up with Mckell and Marci.

After the movie, five of us headed over to Denny's at 2:30 in the morning to discuss our likes and dislikes of the show. We were full of energy and being the least knowledgeable about the books, I learned a lot and loved hearing all their insight.

My feelings about the First Twilight Movie: (don't read this until you've see the movie, IF you are planning on going to see it)

*I was lucky enough to have seen a picture of the trailer for the movie before beginning the book. Therefore, the person they cast Edward as fit the character for me. I REALLY liked him and thought he was perfect for the part, minus a few complaints.

1. I pictured him much more Marble-esque. Wasn't he supposed to be strong and non-hairy.

2. The book also describes him as gliding when he walks. This Edward was quite awkward to watch at times because of his strange stances. I never thought he glided like he should and like I wanted him to. He was beautiful though.

3. I also wanted him to react a bit more when he was around Bella. He did in the Biology lab, but that was just bad and awkward. Throughout the rest of the movie, I was waiting for him to have much harder time being around her, but they didn't depict that.

4. Oh yeah, one more that I'll talk about. The fight in the dance studio bugged me too when he sucked her blood, you'll see why.

5. I just remembered another one, the shimmering part when he steps in the meadow=very disappointing.

I was probably the least invested in the show because I have yet to finish the series, so going into it I wasn't expecting a lot especially since the book was so good I knew they couldn't compete. I wouldn't say I loved the show, but I was definitely entertained. I guess I just wish they would have made it into the next 6 hour cinema like Pride and Prejudice. I would have gladly watched the entire thing. I left this movie wanting so much more than I got, but still thought it was okay...Not Great.

I am going to cheat and tell you to look at Marci's blog for the rest of my movie review. I think she says a lot of good things and I agree with her assessment. Overall, it was a great night and I didn't get home until 4:30 am this morning and Jace woke up at 6:30 and barely napped today. He's sick. I'm ready for bed and it's only 8:00pm.