It’s 11:45 in the late evening and it’s Thursday, soon to be Friday. Not only are you planning to get down this Friday, but you are waiting for that movie. That movie that you and your friends have been anticipating since you first heard rumors about it years ago.
12:02 Friday “morning”. The lights begin to dim, the cheesy music stops, and the curtains begin to reveal the full length of the silver screen while you, your pals, and that weird guy who sat next to you, all begin to cheer!
Despite technically breaking their city-inflicted curfews, teens across America got special permission to be out into all hours of the morning. After all, after a two hour movie, what better idea for starving youngsters is there than a 3 AM trip to IHOP?
These times of lazy summer days leading into the never-ending nights, these midnight movies that screw up your sleeping schedule forever, these will remain a part of your best high school memories.
It became something of an epidemic this summer. If the movie wasn’t released at midnight, it was assumed by teens that it probably wasn’t worth seeing anyway. And the hype! The hype that surrounded a midnight premiere is something of a legend for the movie industry.
The midnight premiere of the final segment of the Harry Potter series sold more than twice the amount of tickets of any other movie this summer, in pre-sale tickets for the midnight premiere alone.
These are the memories that will stay with them for their entire lives.
What do you remember about Cowboys and Aliens? You may not remember half of the plot, but what about going to Del Taco afterwards where you were talking with your best friends until it was nearly time to call it “early” rather than “late”? That is something you will keep with you forever.
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