The fourth installment in the Twilight saga opened at 12:01 a.m. Friday to packed theaters teeming with fans from all walks of life.
I wandered into the Marquee Cinemas well before my showtime at 12:30 a.m. just to scope out the situation. It was crowded, to say the least. The theater was showing The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 on all the screens.
I think we're going to need a bigger theater...
There were many young fans but also older fans(I swear I saw a grandmother and her granddaughter both wearing “I like boys who sparkle” t-shirts). There were ladies inside having a girls’ night out and others accompanied by boyfriends.
Team Edward made themselves known but were not outdone by the Team Jacob crew. Personally I’m Team Jasper (he’s got the most interesting, but under utilized back story IMO), but after this movie I’m throwing some support to Team Seth.
Some fans spent the day at the movies catching up to where Breaking Dawn would begin, at Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen’s (Robert Pattinson) wedding.
Great Escape Nitro 12 and Marquee Cinemas, I’m told, offered the previous three movies, Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse, all day Thursday. The Nitro theater also participated in Twilight Saga Tuesdays all month where they showed a different movie from the series every Tuesday night leading up to the premiere.
Katie Hodges, a 15-year-old home school student, took advantage of the Twilight marathon with friends and her sister. They planned to stay through the midnight premiere.
Katie wasn’t into Twilight when it first came out but her sister went to see it and she enjoyed it.
“I watched it on DVD after it came out and was pretty much obsessed,” she said Thursday from the theater. She didn’t get to see Twilight in the theaters but did catch New Moon and Eclipse.
She said she was both a fan of Edward Cullen, the vampire who lives on animal’s blood played by Robert Pattinson, and of Jacob Black, the shapeshifting wolf played by Taylor Lautner. She called it Team Edcob, but after watching Breaking Dawn she said she was firmly in the Team Jacob camp.
Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) have a friendly discussion outside of Bella's house.
The movie is also her new favorite of the series, bouncing New Moon from that position. She said Breaking Dawn was her favorite of the books.
Another fan, Cecilia Jones, 37, of Charleston, was at the movie with her husband Mike. They saw the first three movies when they premiered and decided to make it four for four Thursday night.
“He acts like he doesn’t like them, but he really does,” she said. “We argue about them all the time, who should have done what and who should be with who.”
The couple said they enjoyed the movie although there were a few things that they could have done without. They were happy to finally have faces to put with names of the Denali clan from Alaska.
Katie and Cecilia were upset that the book had been split into two movies but Cecilia said it gave her something to look forward to.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 in t-minus 364 days.
