New Moon

On Friday night Jana, Azure and I braved the giddy teenagers with their Twilight tote bags and Team Jacob tee's to see "New Moon". As we waited outside our theater to be let in, we had to receive instruction from local law enforcement on how to enter the theater. Thanks for that, sir. Thanks to your instruction we made it into the theater unscathed and found great seats.

I love getting to the theater early for two reasons. The first and most obvious is getting a good choice of seats. I prefer to sit toward the top. Anything below middle ruins the experience for me. The second (and most fun) reason - people watching. People watching at movie theaters is the best and even more so at shows like this one. You get to see the teens overflowing with excitement, the women who obviously either had to bribe or threaten their men into coming, the couples, like the one in line before us, where the man finds it necessary to loudly vocalize that he "didn't even want to see this movie", and we can't forget the men who wouldn't miss seeing it on opening night and they don't care who knows. Then you have Jana, Azure and me (the normal ones) - 2 friends and a baby just out for a good time at the theater. :-)

After we'd been sitting for a while, a skinny teen sitting a few seats down from us came up, camera in hand, and asked to take a picture of Azure. I moved out of the way but she instructed me to get in the picture. We felt a little like celebrities. I could sense the people around us trying to figure out why we were so important and if they should get their camera's out too. I mean, this is a small east Texas town, but maybe it's possible someone famous would come here to the Hollywood 14 to see the movie on opening night. Yeah, not likely. Anyway, we sat chatting, waiting patiently for the movie to start. The lights dimmed, the opening credits began and the crowd went wild. I'm not exaggerating. We heard screams and shrieks of pure delight. Now, don't get me wrong. I was excited too but I didn't vocalize it at that moment. I'm not that person. The movie started and Jana, Azure and I settled in to see if our expectations would be met or exceeded or if we'd come away feeling let down. I'm happy to report that it was actually pretty darn good. Overall, a much better movie than the first. The special effects were so far above the first movie, the acting was a little better and Jacob didn't get on my nerves this time. It could have been the muscles, but whatever it was, I really liked the movie. However, I did have a problem with one thing - the kisses. I mean, come on. You love each other, right? You can't live without each other, right? So give us a little more in the lip lock department. You thought she was dead! Plant one on her already. Give her a REAL smoocher! Ugh!

Anyway, good movie. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it. Go team Jacob!

Here are the celebrity, baby wearing movie goers in all their glory.