# Countdown to ROTK!!!!!!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195 "2003-12-15T21:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/21 "2003-12-16T07:18:42Z")
Aw, man! Why do us west coasters always get everything last? 24 hours, 40 minutes for me. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/22 "2003-12-16T09:04:04Z")
23 hours for me. 12:01 showing. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/23 "2003-12-16T14:31:38Z")
Tonight! WOOOOO! 10 PM for ROTK, according to the theater! Yeah, I’m doing the Trilogy thing. Why, yes, I AM a geek. But my mom (whose birthday present this is) is geekier! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/24 "2003-12-16T14:58:31Z")
32 hours, 30 minutes. …tick. tick. tick. tick… ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/25 "2003-12-16T15:27:53Z")
25 hours!! Eeeeee! The commercials are keeping me sane for the duration. Though I have this nagging fear that I’ll be in a car accident or a Nor’easter hits tomorrow morning and I’m snowed in, kept from my _precciousssss_. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/26 "2003-12-16T16:01:39Z")
As much as I’d like to join the party, I don’t think I can handle the geek fest at our local midnight showing. I may have to give it a few days rest before I can brave the theaters. Does that make me a bad person?🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/27 "2003-12-16T16:10:41Z")
I actually came into CS to see if there was a ROTK Squeeeeeee!! thread going…I’m glad to see I’m not disappointed. 😃 Oh…less than 24 hours for me now. I have tickets for the 11am _and_ the 3:20pm show tomorrow. I figured I’m going to be a sobbing, blubbery mess the first time through, so I need the second viewing to pick up what I missed. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/28 "2003-12-16T16:11:42Z")
29 hours for me. My local paper gave it 4 out of 4 stars this morning…I’m so proud of my boys. ---
**Author:** ![Eman\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Eman\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eman_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/29 "2003-12-16T16:17:04Z")
74 hours for me… I’m seeing 10:30 Friday morning. You’d think there wouldn’t be so many freaks at 10:30 am showing, right? …right? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/30 "2003-12-16T17:52:41Z")
Well, I think most schools are out on Friday, so you’ll probably be looking at a kiddie fest at the 10:30am showing. ---
**Author:** ![RogueRacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/31 "2003-12-16T18:45:16Z")
11 hours and 15 minutes… I’m going to brave the 12:01 geekfest. ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/32 "2003-12-16T18:49:10Z")
22 hours 40 minutes. The 11:30 AM CST showing. Tick… ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/33 "2003-12-16T19:30:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jsc1953 \* > \*\*29 hours for me. My local paper gave it 4 out of 4 stars this morning…I’m so proud of my boys. \*\* SJ Merc? I read that review, too. I’m rethinking and maybe will head “over the hill” to see it tomorrow. Maybe fewer crowds there. ---
**Author:** ![Eman\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Eman\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eman_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/34 "2003-12-16T21:36:22Z")
Oh, forgot about the kids. I just have hope the experience is better than the disaster that was watching The Two Towers… Cell phones, laser pointers, crying babies, and some 5 year old walking up and down the aisles in what appeared to be tap-dance shoes. _prays quietly_ ---
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/35 "2003-12-17T00:29:51Z")
I don’t know about over there, but kids in this area don’t finish classes til Friday. PLUS, no children will want to be awake that early if they don’t have school. So I wouldn’t worry too much if I were you **Eman\_Bruin**. 🙂 18 hours, 14 minutes to go! ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/36 "2003-12-17T00:32:27Z")
24 hours for me. Have to go after work. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/37 "2003-12-17T00:42:27Z")
21 hours, 46 minutes. …tick. tick. tick. tick… ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/38 "2003-12-17T01:22:07Z")
4 hours 20 minutes. Four teenagers in costume and me, the designated parent. I don’t know who’s more excited. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/39 "2003-12-17T01:24:22Z")
14 hours, five minutes, 42 seconds… 41 seconds… 40 seconds… ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195/40 "2003-12-17T02:53:08Z")
2 hours. And I snagged midnight showing tickets. Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas to the RickJays! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/countdown-to-rotk/219195.md?page=3)