Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Monday, March 23, 2009

Twilight Craziness

For those that have no clue about the Twilight movie, 4 book saga by author Stephanie Meyer, and have no clue who Robert Pattinson is, if you read further you will probably think I have lost my marbles. For those that do know what I am talking about, you know that this past Saturday the movie was released on DVD. Well I was a newbie to all the craziness surrounding Twilight, until I saw the movie about a month ago, and then read the first 3 books in a week (they are addictive) So when the Borders near me had a midnight release party organized for the DVD, Brendan and I decided to go. It was insane, very busy, but fun. Some people came in costume, a lot were wearing Twilight T-shirts (my personal favorite "I heart boys who sparkle") and there was even a woman who had fake bite marks on her neck.
The Borders staff had giveaways and had organized Vampire Baseball, Twilight Movie Awards, and even a Twilight themed Scavenger Hunt, which saw us all running around Borders trying to fine certain books. They played a message from the cast of the movie and the whole place went nuts. By 11:20pm the festivities had finished and people were told to line up ready to get their copy of the movie. Well the cheap Mommy that I am decided to first of all give our ticket/wristband away, we were #127 and I was not going to wait forever to get the movie. So off we went to Walmart (personally now wish I had stayed at Borders) thinking that it would be quiet, plus movies are cheaper at Walmart. Oh was I wrong about the quiet part, it was worse than Borders, atleast Borders had organized the whole thing, Walmart was a free for all, you took your life into your own hands!

I grabbed this shot from my cell phone just as they took the cardboard down from the display, it was insane. I managed to get a copy of the movie, but I really don't think I will be doing this again!
For those that haven't seen the movie or read the books, it is a love story with a bite!