Just got home!!! The Philippine Breaking Dawn Part 1 Premier was wild, utter chaos and as usual so much fun to be part of.
Now that I'm fed, watered and on leave tomorrow both in work and auntie/nanny duty I'm so ready to do an all nighter again. Let me just tell you my experience tonight and I'll leave anything spoilerish in the spoiler thread
I did mention that the venue of the premier was on the other side of town from where I work. Usually it takes at least 1 1/2 hours to get there even when one take the metro train but guess what yours truly made it in 50 minutes tops with 1 bathroom break. I stop pretending to be busy at around 4pm
, that is such a hard task to prove besides one of my officemate outed me by asking what time the screening is in front of my boss
. So from the moment the clock strikes 6 I'm already out of the office and as soon as I'm out of the elevator I was literary sprinting the 3 blocks distance to the metro train. It's a good thing there is no dress code at the office so I can wear jeans and sneakers on a Thursday which makes it comfortable to run. 6pm is the height of rush hour here and I come prepared by purchasing prepaid tickets last week to the metro train which means I don't need to get in a long and slow line to get one. Then once I'm inside the station, thankfully I don't have to wait long for the train and the 1st car is usually reserved for women, children and the seniors are not too full so I was able to get in. Then another short bus ride and I'm at the venue, after a short bathroom break I'm running again to get to the theater which I expect was now full of people. And I'm not disappointed, the waiting area is jam packed and the lines are in a very long crazy zigzag. So I got back to end of the line and waited patiently with the rest. It was past 7pm at that time and there are still a lot of people coming in, what surprised me more is that there are lots of males in line. During the previous Twilight movies there are only quite a handful of them, some that I saw back then were boyfriends or husbands coming with their girlfriends and wives to indulge them or dads with their younger kids but tonight there were literary groups of guys from different age brackets. Wow!
The organizers are running a bit late, it was past 8pm when they started letting us in on the theater. And by that time it was starting to get chaotic outside and some are getting restless. Our tickets is supposed to come with a free BD 2012 calendar that was to be given before we enter the theater but at the door there are a lot of people who inspects our tickets and at that time I was more concerned in getting good seats than finding out where the guy who's supposed to be giving out the freebies so I just let it go
. I get good seats, not the best considering there are lots of people inside by the time I get in, but still good. There's a short program/ticket raffles from the sponsor then the customary trailers showing. No Hunger Games trailer for us though. Then at around 8.40pm the movie starts. As soon as the theater dims their lights there were a lot of cheering and cat calls and whistles then it all quiets down to a hush as the opening credits rolls in.
I always liked watching Twilight movies during the premier and sponsored screenings than the normal screenings. The crowd is so different, its a different experience watching the movie with the fellow enthusiasts. Those who understands the deeper meaning of the saga. I don't mind hearing some comments in the crowd during this time because there is some actual sense with what they're saying. It always annoys me when I hear teenage girls giggling at my back to "how beautiful Taylor's abs is". Come on!!
So all in all it was a great premier experience I can't wait for the finale next year. It's bound to be more epic...
Oh and even though I didn't get my free 2012 BD calendar I manage to score 2 new BD posters in exchange for the Eclipse poster that was ruined when we moved to our new house. 1 is in glossy form, hard paper and printed back to back and the other 1 is the typical BD movie poster. And because I could help it here I took a picture
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poster 1 front
poster 1 back
poster 2
Anyways I better head to the spoiler thread. I'm sort of tired. I still have 2 screenings tomorrow, or should I say later today. 1 in the afternoon which is just a regular screening and 1 in the evening which is the block screening sponsored by Twilight Coven Philippines. Which reminds me I also need to review BD book they always have games right before the movie started and they give awesome prizes for this games.
To all of you ladies who would be watching later today. Enjoy your screening and may I remind everyone to not leave your seats even though the end credits are rolling. Stick until the very end. 'Nuff said...
Laters.
