How To Be
So Brittany and I went to see the screening of How To Be in DeLand. It was amazing!
THE TRIP THERE: We had to drive through the middle of No Where to get to this place. I was like "MapQuest where are you sending me????". We went through Palatka, where I read recently that two inmates got out and killed an old woman in her house and stole 2 cars. Brittany and I decided that if we encountered these "zombies" we would have the advantage and just run them over, we could confuse them with the radar detector noises, and we would have no fear of zombies with guns because that defies the rules of zombies :)
We also saw signs for polar bear crossing. The only bear we saw was Smokey the bear warning us about the level of risk for fire. I believe it was 'moderate'.
The radar detector kept going off to automatic doors which was okay going through town, however if it went off during our drive through the woods, I think I would have been a little worried.
WHEN WE GOT THERE: I found out where Stetson University is, and it's a very pretty campus. Anyway, we found parking and what do you know. I ended up parking behind someone who had a sticker on their window that said "I drive like a Cullen", and a bumper sticker that said "I <3 Boys that sparkle". Oh JEEZ. I figured there would be people like this there, but I had no idea the extent of obsession these people would have. Well it ranged from moderate (us) to frightening (them). There were also a lot of 'older' women there. CREEPY.
WAITING FOR THE MOVIE TO START:The place that we watched the movie in was a really cool renovated theater that was originally built in the 1920's, and had balconies and cool sculptures of dancing women on the ceiling. Brittany and I found good seats (we should have sat in the very front though, then we could have gotten our pictures and gtfo'd), we took turns getting snacks/drinks, and then people-watched. When Brittany was getting her snack, I saw some girl in front of me pull out an Edward Cullen figurine and hold it up so that the dancing ladies were in the background and snap a picture of him. Wow. Then when Brittany got back, one of the cougars pulled out black book and opened it up. What was inside disturbed me. It was a scrap book of Robert Pattinson. The first picture was a manipulation of a naked picture of him. Enough said. Then before the actors came out, the awkward host said that a raffle was going to be held after the movie and the winner was going to get a How To Be poster signed by Robert. There was literally a collective gasp of the entire theater. It was pretty hilarious. I thought scrap-book lady was going to have a heart attack. I figured she would buy 20 of the $5 tickets, but turns out some emo 13 year old won.
The actors came out and introduced the movie (YAY).
MOVIE: It was hilarious. However, it seemed like every with every word that Rob said was accompanied by overly zealous laughter (especially from some lady behind me). Part of the time you couldn't hear what was being said because she was laughing so loud. But yeah, the movie was great :) Definitely worth the trip.
AFTER THE MOVIE: The guys came out and did a Q&A. The first question was asked to the director by some blonde, slightly intoxicated, 40 something yo. She asked: "How much like them are you?" And Oliver (The director) was like... I wasn't in the movie hahaha. But the rest of the guys (Mike=Nikki Fierce, Johhny=Ronny, and Joe=Score writer/cameo) answered the question. It turns out that Oliver had already cast them, and pretty much wrote the parts for the actors. Johnny was like "Hey!" (He was cast as the weird agoraphobe). I loved how awkward he was on the stage :), and Mike was just really funny.
After the Q&A they moved us around like 3 times when we were trying to get signatures/pictures. I only got a sig/pic with Johnny, and Brittany got one with him and a sig from Joe. Our picture with Johhny was perfect. I also got a good picture of all of them together. I really wanted to meet Mike, but pushy people were all over him. Oh Well :( We so wanted to have a little dance party right there. That would have been epic. Oh and some little girl sang... hahaha
DRIVE HOME: After leaving (a little disappointed that I didn't get to meet Mike, this might be an understatement) we decided to go to Sonic. YUM. They didn't have eggs, and when Brittany tried to order some onion rings they were out of that too. She said "No freaking way!" then he goes "Yes way". Brittany was like "Thank you for replying to that" and he was like "your welcome". It was pretty awesome. So we ate (om nom nom), and then drove back via the scaryish road. We "jammed" out to Katy Perry. It was fun.
So yeah all in all it was pretty awesome.
The End.
THE TRIP THERE: We had to drive through the middle of No Where to get to this place. I was like "MapQuest where are you sending me????". We went through Palatka, where I read recently that two inmates got out and killed an old woman in her house and stole 2 cars. Brittany and I decided that if we encountered these "zombies" we would have the advantage and just run them over, we could confuse them with the radar detector noises, and we would have no fear of zombies with guns because that defies the rules of zombies :)
We also saw signs for polar bear crossing. The only bear we saw was Smokey the bear warning us about the level of risk for fire. I believe it was 'moderate'.
The radar detector kept going off to automatic doors which was okay going through town, however if it went off during our drive through the woods, I think I would have been a little worried.
WHEN WE GOT THERE: I found out where Stetson University is, and it's a very pretty campus. Anyway, we found parking and what do you know. I ended up parking behind someone who had a sticker on their window that said "I drive like a Cullen", and a bumper sticker that said "I <3 Boys that sparkle". Oh JEEZ. I figured there would be people like this there, but I had no idea the extent of obsession these people would have. Well it ranged from moderate (us) to frightening (them). There were also a lot of 'older' women there. CREEPY.
WAITING FOR THE MOVIE TO START:The place that we watched the movie in was a really cool renovated theater that was originally built in the 1920's, and had balconies and cool sculptures of dancing women on the ceiling. Brittany and I found good seats (we should have sat in the very front though, then we could have gotten our pictures and gtfo'd), we took turns getting snacks/drinks, and then people-watched. When Brittany was getting her snack, I saw some girl in front of me pull out an Edward Cullen figurine and hold it up so that the dancing ladies were in the background and snap a picture of him. Wow. Then when Brittany got back, one of the cougars pulled out black book and opened it up. What was inside disturbed me. It was a scrap book of Robert Pattinson. The first picture was a manipulation of a naked picture of him. Enough said. Then before the actors came out, the awkward host said that a raffle was going to be held after the movie and the winner was going to get a How To Be poster signed by Robert. There was literally a collective gasp of the entire theater. It was pretty hilarious. I thought scrap-book lady was going to have a heart attack. I figured she would buy 20 of the $5 tickets, but turns out some emo 13 year old won.
The actors came out and introduced the movie (YAY).
MOVIE: It was hilarious. However, it seemed like every with every word that Rob said was accompanied by overly zealous laughter (especially from some lady behind me). Part of the time you couldn't hear what was being said because she was laughing so loud. But yeah, the movie was great :) Definitely worth the trip.
AFTER THE MOVIE: The guys came out and did a Q&A. The first question was asked to the director by some blonde, slightly intoxicated, 40 something yo. She asked: "How much like them are you?" And Oliver (The director) was like... I wasn't in the movie hahaha. But the rest of the guys (Mike=Nikki Fierce, Johhny=Ronny, and Joe=Score writer/cameo) answered the question. It turns out that Oliver had already cast them, and pretty much wrote the parts for the actors. Johnny was like "Hey!" (He was cast as the weird agoraphobe). I loved how awkward he was on the stage :), and Mike was just really funny.
After the Q&A they moved us around like 3 times when we were trying to get signatures/pictures. I only got a sig/pic with Johnny, and Brittany got one with him and a sig from Joe. Our picture with Johhny was perfect. I also got a good picture of all of them together. I really wanted to meet Mike, but pushy people were all over him. Oh Well :( We so wanted to have a little dance party right there. That would have been epic. Oh and some little girl sang... hahaha
DRIVE HOME: After leaving (a little disappointed that I didn't get to meet Mike, this might be an understatement) we decided to go to Sonic. YUM. They didn't have eggs, and when Brittany tried to order some onion rings they were out of that too. She said "No freaking way!" then he goes "Yes way". Brittany was like "Thank you for replying to that" and he was like "your welcome". It was pretty awesome. So we ate (om nom nom), and then drove back via the scaryish road. We "jammed" out to Katy Perry. It was fun.
So yeah all in all it was pretty awesome.
The End.