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tyndalecode) wrote2008-07-15 01:10 am
tyndalecode) wrote2008-07-15 01:10 am
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I thought some might be interested to know that I saw the Dark Knight tonight. I went to the premeire and got incredibly lucky. It was a cool fandom night. I legitimately spoke with both Kevin Smith and Christian Bale. Even though with Christian I sounded slightly mentally ill because I was thinking about how incredibly hot he is at the same time.
There are days when I absolutely love living with the city just thirty minutes away. Today was one of those days. My friend Noelle and I had been planning to go to the Dark Knight premier for awhile now, but we thought we'd just be going to see the stars, not to actually see the movie.
Well, we saw the stars. Sat next to the stars. And saw the movie with them. In the same theater.
I'm still a little high from it all.
I had a fucking legitimate conversation with Kevin Smith. As in like Kevin Smith of Jay and Silent Bob. I was sitting with one person in between us! Christian Bale was like five rows ahead of me. I got to talk to him too.
And I should really try explaining this in order. That would help.
Noelle and I got to the theater at around 4pm. There weren't many people there and the people that were... you could tell they were fans. There were a few Joker faces, but mostly a lot of 'I Believe in Harvey Dent'. People were completely decked out in the stuff. It was all sorts of awesome. Because we got to go into the theater though, I'm glad I bypassed decking myself out as a fangirl. I looked normal and neat and put together, which was good. Anyway, so we stood out there with everyone and talked away the two hours until six when the celebs started showing up. The sidewalk outside of the theater (the IMAX at 68th and Broadway-- where I'm seeing it on Friday morning again) was closed off and there actually weren't TOO many people there. It was nothing like War of the Worlds was and I'm pretty sure that was on purpose, because the celebs didn't spend too much time signing things. But they did sign things, which was cool.
We were standing RIGHT next to the red carpet entrance, so everyone passed by us was they walked in. Noelle got better pics than I did of everyone except Christian, so I'll post more when she gets those up on Facebook. Michael Caine arrived first but he didn't bother coming over at all. The Aaron Eckhart showed up and he wanted to come over, but his handlers wouldn't let him and he yelled out 'sorry' before he walked into the red carpet tent. But THEN Christian Bale arrived and everyone went fucking NUTS. He came over and signed stuff. But the only pictures he took were with these two little kids. The security guards let them in to take the pictures which was srsly cute and adorable. After Christian left Maggie Gyllenhaal arrived and she actually looked pretty good, which was surprising. The only one from the cast we didn't see was Gary Oldman, but we heard he was there. Then all these random celebs started showing up like Blake Lively, Lauren Conrad, the Speed Racer kid, Josh Hartnett, and some more Gossip Girl people. I'm pretty sure we also saw Heath Ledger's family.
So after everyone had arrived they started to disperse us, but they also started handing out tickets to certain people. Including me and Noelle. We thought they were free tickets to opening night at first, but no. They were for tonight. I think they needed to fill the remaining bits of the theater. We promptly started flipping out, and upon seeing us flip out a bunch of reporters descended on us, which was funny because other people had gotten tickets too. I think we must have just been shrieking the loudest. We were interviewed by FOX, the AP, ABC, one of those Access Hollywood or Extra shows, and someone else who was local.
The seating was assigned once they started letting us in the theater. We had to check everything at the door, but then they gave us free popcorn and free sodas so it didn't matter that I didn't have my wallet (I was parched after being out on the street for three hours). Noelle and I had to split up once we were inside of the theater. My seat was reeeeeally good. Perfectly in the center and then just before the lights dimmed I realised I was sitting one seat away from Kevin Smith. I could see the back of Christian Bale's head too. And Noelle was sitting further back but she was sitting with a bunch of the Gossip Girl people and Lauren Conrad from the Hills.
Then the movie started.
I'm still absorbing and I don't want to tempt anyone with spoilers. All I'm going to say is that it was everything I went in expecting. It fulfilled every hope and dream a comic geek could have had for a Batman movie. Heath Ledger's Joker was PHENOMENAL. There were overhead shots of Gotham/Chicago that were absolutely GORGEOUS. The movie itself was just shot so beautifully. The Soundtrack was perfect. EVERYTHING was perfect.
When the movie ended I realised that my heart rate was up way higher than it should have been for the past two and a half hours. I also really had to pee. But I realised that no one else seemed to recognise Kevin Smith. So I pretended not to really recognise him either. And I turned to him and was all, "wow, that was really good." And he was like, "Oh, I've seen it twice already." And from there I said something about how good the Joker was and how it was so true to the eighties version of him, and he said something about the Killing Joke, and I was all, "that's one of my favorite Batverse stories." and then he says, "a girl comic geek? some guy's going to fucking love you." And then I was all, "*starts stuttering* You're kevin smith right?" Then there were some pleasantries exchanged and I said, "so, um, I really like Reaper, do you know anything about next season?" and he said he didn't. And then we were sort of separated by the crowd, but he held the door for me to walk out of the theater.
So I met back up with Noelle in the theater lobby, and we got majorly turned around. We accidentally went out to doors the celebs were going out through >.> It led straight onto the street pretty much and all their black SUVs were parked on the other side. Noelle and I walked out and pretty much ended up standing like a foot away from Christian Bale and his wife, 'cause we were all trying to cross the street. So at this point I start to internally freak out and finally I was like, "Um, I really liked the movie >.> It was really good and you did a really good job." It was something to that effect. I said all this sounding partially mentally handicapped, I swear. But he looked at me and smiled and said, "I'm glad you enjoyed it."
At that point my life was pretty much complete. It totally didn't matter that my pictures weren't that great or that no autographs were had. This night was like... omg, it was perfect. It was one of the best days I've had in a damned long time. In fact, I should have days like this more often.
I'll post more pictures once I have Noelle's as well. There's one picture of us holding up our tickets (which, YAY, they let us keep!) which I'm definitely going to stick up.
So, yeah. Tonight was just fucking awesome.
(xposted from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cajun_chick411)
The movie really got my Betty juices flowing. In a bad, bad way. And for some strange reason I had an idea for a Superman ficlet as well. I don't even like Superman D:
Anyway, that was what I did this evening. Hopefully this post makes up a tiny bit for the wait between stories.
There are days when I absolutely love living with the city just thirty minutes away. Today was one of those days. My friend Noelle and I had been planning to go to the Dark Knight premier for awhile now, but we thought we'd just be going to see the stars, not to actually see the movie.
Well, we saw the stars. Sat next to the stars. And saw the movie with them. In the same theater.
I'm still a little high from it all.
I had a fucking legitimate conversation with Kevin Smith. As in like Kevin Smith of Jay and Silent Bob. I was sitting with one person in between us! Christian Bale was like five rows ahead of me. I got to talk to him too.
And I should really try explaining this in order. That would help.
Noelle and I got to the theater at around 4pm. There weren't many people there and the people that were... you could tell they were fans. There were a few Joker faces, but mostly a lot of 'I Believe in Harvey Dent'. People were completely decked out in the stuff. It was all sorts of awesome. Because we got to go into the theater though, I'm glad I bypassed decking myself out as a fangirl. I looked normal and neat and put together, which was good. Anyway, so we stood out there with everyone and talked away the two hours until six when the celebs started showing up. The sidewalk outside of the theater (the IMAX at 68th and Broadway-- where I'm seeing it on Friday morning again) was closed off and there actually weren't TOO many people there. It was nothing like War of the Worlds was and I'm pretty sure that was on purpose, because the celebs didn't spend too much time signing things. But they did sign things, which was cool.
We were standing RIGHT next to the red carpet entrance, so everyone passed by us was they walked in. Noelle got better pics than I did of everyone except Christian, so I'll post more when she gets those up on Facebook. Michael Caine arrived first but he didn't bother coming over at all. The Aaron Eckhart showed up and he wanted to come over, but his handlers wouldn't let him and he yelled out 'sorry' before he walked into the red carpet tent. But THEN Christian Bale arrived and everyone went fucking NUTS. He came over and signed stuff. But the only pictures he took were with these two little kids. The security guards let them in to take the pictures which was srsly cute and adorable. After Christian left Maggie Gyllenhaal arrived and she actually looked pretty good, which was surprising. The only one from the cast we didn't see was Gary Oldman, but we heard he was there. Then all these random celebs started showing up like Blake Lively, Lauren Conrad, the Speed Racer kid, Josh Hartnett, and some more Gossip Girl people. I'm pretty sure we also saw Heath Ledger's family.
So after everyone had arrived they started to disperse us, but they also started handing out tickets to certain people. Including me and Noelle. We thought they were free tickets to opening night at first, but no. They were for tonight. I think they needed to fill the remaining bits of the theater. We promptly started flipping out, and upon seeing us flip out a bunch of reporters descended on us, which was funny because other people had gotten tickets too. I think we must have just been shrieking the loudest. We were interviewed by FOX, the AP, ABC, one of those Access Hollywood or Extra shows, and someone else who was local.
The seating was assigned once they started letting us in the theater. We had to check everything at the door, but then they gave us free popcorn and free sodas so it didn't matter that I didn't have my wallet (I was parched after being out on the street for three hours). Noelle and I had to split up once we were inside of the theater. My seat was reeeeeally good. Perfectly in the center and then just before the lights dimmed I realised I was sitting one seat away from Kevin Smith. I could see the back of Christian Bale's head too. And Noelle was sitting further back but she was sitting with a bunch of the Gossip Girl people and Lauren Conrad from the Hills.
Then the movie started.
I'm still absorbing and I don't want to tempt anyone with spoilers. All I'm going to say is that it was everything I went in expecting. It fulfilled every hope and dream a comic geek could have had for a Batman movie. Heath Ledger's Joker was PHENOMENAL. There were overhead shots of Gotham/Chicago that were absolutely GORGEOUS. The movie itself was just shot so beautifully. The Soundtrack was perfect. EVERYTHING was perfect.
When the movie ended I realised that my heart rate was up way higher than it should have been for the past two and a half hours. I also really had to pee. But I realised that no one else seemed to recognise Kevin Smith. So I pretended not to really recognise him either. And I turned to him and was all, "wow, that was really good." And he was like, "Oh, I've seen it twice already." And from there I said something about how good the Joker was and how it was so true to the eighties version of him, and he said something about the Killing Joke, and I was all, "that's one of my favorite Batverse stories." and then he says, "a girl comic geek? some guy's going to fucking love you." And then I was all, "*starts stuttering* You're kevin smith right?" Then there were some pleasantries exchanged and I said, "so, um, I really like Reaper, do you know anything about next season?" and he said he didn't. And then we were sort of separated by the crowd, but he held the door for me to walk out of the theater.
So I met back up with Noelle in the theater lobby, and we got majorly turned around. We accidentally went out to doors the celebs were going out through >.> It led straight onto the street pretty much and all their black SUVs were parked on the other side. Noelle and I walked out and pretty much ended up standing like a foot away from Christian Bale and his wife, 'cause we were all trying to cross the street. So at this point I start to internally freak out and finally I was like, "Um, I really liked the movie >.> It was really good and you did a really good job." It was something to that effect. I said all this sounding partially mentally handicapped, I swear. But he looked at me and smiled and said, "I'm glad you enjoyed it."
At that point my life was pretty much complete. It totally didn't matter that my pictures weren't that great or that no autographs were had. This night was like... omg, it was perfect. It was one of the best days I've had in a damned long time. In fact, I should have days like this more often.
I'll post more pictures once I have Noelle's as well. There's one picture of us holding up our tickets (which, YAY, they let us keep!) which I'm definitely going to stick up.
So, yeah. Tonight was just fucking awesome.
(xposted from
cajun_chick411)The movie really got my Betty juices flowing. In a bad, bad way. And for some strange reason I had an idea for a Superman ficlet as well. I don't even like Superman D:
Anyway, that was what I did this evening. Hopefully this post makes up a tiny bit for the wait between stories.