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[exsequar]

Well this blows!

I bought my ticket for OOTP because I saw the other times were selling out, then I told my friends to do the same, and when they tried a few hours later.... our time was sold out.

GREAT. So now I'm the only one in our group with a ticket, which cost 14 freaking dollars, to a movie that's 45 minutes away. I highly doubt they'll give me a refund. If they will, great, then I'll just go on Thursday to see it on a normal screen and maybe go to it on IMAX in a couple weeks or something, because I still think that would be awesome. But if they won't refund me I'm seriously considering going by myself. Is that lame? That's really lame. But um. HARRY POTTER. On a screen as big as a HOUSE.

So uh. Yeah. *FACEPALM*

Comments

[wolfling]

Not lame. I go to the movies by myself all the time. (if I waited to try and match up schedules with my local friends, I'd never get to see any movies)

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Oh, hm. I don't think I've ever gone to a movie by myself. That does make me feel better, though it's still driving 45 minutes each way by myself too :P

[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

I don't think it would be lame to go by yourself at all. [Harry Potter. A SCREEN AS BIG AS A HOUSE.] Is it in Harrisburg? We could always do something before or afterwards if it is. I'm sorry your plans got messed up, though. :/

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

It is indeed in Harrisburg, at 9:15, so we could totally meet up before! What would you want to do?

Harry Potter is such a group experience though, I'll be sad not having someone to flail with afterwards. Unless you wanted to meet after, at like 11:30? I'd be up for that if you were :)

[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

We could meet up before, after, or both! I think I'd probably prefer before, because 11:30 is kind of super late for me (I'm definitely having moments of "what am I doing going to a midnight showing? AAAAH!") but either or both would be fine-- I can adjust.

...Now I have to figure out what I'm wearing to the movie. Bugger.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Before would be fine! Would you want to meet at your house and hang out or something? Do you know how far your house is from the Whittaker Center on Market St?

[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

Not far at all. Maybe 15-20 minutes depending on traffic. The best thing to do would be to Mapquest it. And I have to clear it with my parents (and uh, clean up my room) but hanging out at my house should work out fine.

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

What's lame about going to a movie by yourself?

I do think women are allowed to go out without a chaperone these days, even to something so scandalous as those newfangled moving picture shows. ;)

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

It's lame in the sense that I'll be driving an hour and a half total by myself to do it, which, boring, and I also love discussing movies after I see them! So not lame in the sense that other people will thing so, but lame in that the experience will be lacking.

Yeah yeah :P I would have gone with my friend Fei and my roommate and others! Damn fans buying tickets and all that nonsense! *shakes fist*

[wendy.livejournal.com]

One of my most fave things in the WORLD is to go to the movies by myself. Seriously.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Really? Huh. I can honestly say I have never done it before. Oh except maybe once, I think I went to RENT by myself.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, I go to the movies by myself ALL THE TIME. It's great. You don't have to share your food with anyone, you don't have to worry that anybody's going to whisper in your ear halfway through the movie, you can totally focus on the movie ... and for IMAX? Oh, GO. You have to! Moral imperative! :)

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

All good and valid points! *laughs* I think I will go, thanks! Though I'm going to desperately want someone to flail with afterwards - OR, maybe I'll just want to sob by myself in my car because IT'S GOING TO BREAK ME *clings*

[hopelessfangirl.livejournal.com]

"But if they won't refund me I'm seriously considering going by myself. Is that lame?"

OH MY CHRIST, NO, IT AIN'T LAME. O_O I went to License To Wed by myself just this weekend cause my friends didn't want to go to that one, and the degree to which I was excited about that movie is nowhere NEAR the degree of excitement about Harry Potter. As long as there's no other reason for you miss it, I definitely say GO. \o/

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Oh! Okay! I don't know where I got this bizarre idea that it's weird to go to a movie by yourself. I always always went with my family as a kid (and by as a kid I mean... through high school, lol) and so it was always a group/social affair of some kind. It just seems really strange to me! Huh. But I think y'all are def convincing me to go :)

Btw: ICONLOVE *squees into fists* I get so fucking sick and tired of the HHr persecution that pervades every corner of this fandom, it's so good to see a compatriot *clings*

[shotofjack.livejournal.com]

Why is going by yourself lame? I go all kinds of places by myself especially the movies. It is pretty fun actually & at the movies you can lots of times get a great seat because people leave one empty.

Go!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I don't know! It's just something I've never done! If I want to watch something by myself, I'll do it at home, not spend the money to go out. I've always seen the movies as a social excursion as much as anything else. A shared experience, if you will. But I am seeing the error of my ways! I will go!

[weasleytook.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's not lame. Unless... I'm incredibly lame and don't know it. I go to the movies alone ALL THE TIME. I did it last week to see Live Free or Die Hard and the week before that to see Evan Almighty & Nancy Drew. :) I like seeing movies in theatres and I like going often and if I don't go by myself, I'd only go see whatever my friends want to see and they have weird tastes.

In fact, I'm going to see OOTP by myself in the morning. I don't have anyone who is able to go until like Saturday and I don't want to wait that long! So I'll see it tomorrow by myself (same as I did for PoA for the same reasons). Of course, then my friends here will want to go on Saturday so I'll go again. And then I'm going again when I go to California to visit my best friend the week of Deathly Hallows. LOL.

So yeah, I'm a geek. :P