How excited is everyone?/Multiple viewings/City Paper and civil rights

[Barb]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "David" <dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Cindy C." <cynthiaanncoe at h...> wrote:
> > How enthusiastic is everyone about the movie, on a scale of 1-10?
> > 
> > 10 would be perhaps planning to see the very first possible 
> > showing, maybe already having tickets, maybe going multiple 
> > times.  5 is going to see the movie when the crowds thin a bit, 
> > maybe see it 
> 
> I think my score will be about 5 - we won't particularly wait for 
> the crowds to thin, but I couldn't imagine watching *any* movie at 
> the cinema twice, since the invention of the video.  I would guess 
> we'll go in late November.
> 
> But we'll probably eventually get the video - *if* we liked the 
> movie.

My anticipation is in the 10+ range.  I plan to check out the NY 
list, which some of us from the Philly area have joined, to see 
whether folks want to get together during the day to see it (I don't 
have Thursday classes!).  Hopefully this won't involve anyone playing 
hooky from work or school. ;)  Then, on the following Sunday, we plan 
to take our son, Ben, and our daughter and a few of Ben's "select" 
friends for a combination birthday celebration/HP movie outing (his 
9th birthday is tomorrow, but he's willing to wait almost three weeks 
to have a gathering of this sort so it can include the HP movie).

I usually don't see movies in the theatre more than once, but when I 
was younger I did go to see E.T. and the first Star Wars movie 
multiple times.  I cried at the end of E.T. each time. Gah!  Such a 
sap I am!  I had just started working (still in high school) and I 
suppose having so much disposable income (compared to a VERY paltry 
allowance) made it seem like I was spending my money well.  Go 
figure.  The only movie in recent memory that I've seen more than 
once in a theatre is The Sixth Sense, but I'm hardly alone in that.  
Industry wisdom credited return viewers with the very high box-office 
receipts.

Since I've already got two Philadelphia mentions in this mail, I 
might as well go for a hat-trick (Sixth Sense was the second one, in 
case you couldn't tell).  I forwarded to my husband the url for the 
article in the (Philadelphia) City Paper about the poor guy who was 
prevented from flying home to Phoenix (Joywitch posted it to the 
Announcements list on Wednesday).  He forwarded it to our friend who 
is the head of the local ACLU chapter.  Sometimes the scary people 
are the ones who are supposed to be trying to protect our civil 
rights...

--Barb