The megaplex here had it on about 12 screens at 12:05.
I was chatting with a friend on line when I decided around 11:15 to see if they had tickets left. “We have 119 left and no line,” I was told. Apparently theater 12 was used to house the overflow from the other 11 screens, since 12 was only about half full. Took me less than half hour to get from the computer chair to theater seat.
Saw it at the same time as the geeks in NYC and other large cities who waited in line for hours and even days, but I had the comfort of shelter, family, and indoor plumbing up until 45 minutes before the opening crawl. 
Yep. The cineplex had a showing at 1201 tonight. It was my night off. I was able to get a ticket last week. I got out 3 1/2 hours ago. It was cool!
I went to a 12:01 showing. Got there around 7 PM to wait in line with friends who had picked me up a ticket and were saving me a place to assure us good seats. Lots of pleasant geek-bonding all around. The movie was by far the best of the prequels, and did a great job setting up the original trilogy. Of course, I’m already at work and going on 2 1/2 hours sleep, so I’m sure I’ll pay for it.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
Sorry, thought it was more of a poll than a discussion of the movie. Guess you’re paid the big bucks to make that determination, though, huh? 
12:01am showing, partially against my will. Working on 2 hours of sleep as well. Thinking that seeing it at 6pm tonight would have been just as meaningful, but, you know, gotta keep the friends happy.
Yep, I went – lined up at six o’clock with my hair in Classic Leia Cinnamon Buns (and how excited was I when I realized my hair was long enough to do it?). Our group was fourth in line, and there was a good five hours of that really awesome geekishness that only comes at a line party. Highlights included carving a friend a Darth Vader helmet out of a bucket with a carpenter’s knife and reenacting some of the more dreadful Padme/Anakin moments from Ep.II.
There’s a great energy of wholesome, pure excitedness at line parties to midnight shows, and I think the Star Wars franchise has the best fans for that sort of thing.
I went to a 12:20am showing at a theater in Richmond Heights, OH. It was showing on three screens, the 12:01 showing was sold out, but the 12:10 and 12:20 showing were only about 60% full. Only a handful of people dressed up in costumes, a pity!
12:02, baby. Started right after the 12:01 showing, so I wasn’t with the super hardcore nerds, but it was fun. When a manager came to stop a lightsabre battle at the front of the theatre, we booed him. Good times.
I had made a Vader costume, and was planning on going to one of the first shows. Around 11:00 AM on Wednesday, I commented to one of my office-mates that I would go to the midnight show if I could find anyone else interested, but that as it was, I’d probably just end up going to the noon showing today. Well, one thing led to another, and next thing you know, we’re downtown at the theater buying tickets for eight physics nerds. We got to the theater early (only one screen showing, but it was a big one, at the former opera house downtown), and waited in line for about an hour and a half. Apparently someone was projecting Ep IV onto the outside back wall of the theater, but we would have had to get out of line to watch that, so we just sort of stood around. I was very disappointed to note how few folks were in costume: I had admittedly limited visibility, but I only saw one other guy dressed up (a fairly good Obi-Wan). The folks I was with said they saw another Vader, but I missed him if so, and there were perhaps a dozen folks in the theater with lightsabres. There were cheers at a few of the previews (it took folks a while to realize what the Narnia teaser was, whereupon there was a wave of applause), and at a few great points in the movie (which I will not spoil).
I saw it at 12:01, in a theater that was running it on 5 screens, sold out. Stood outside from 8 - 9:15, then we sat inside and waited til midnight. I’m not a hard-core SW fan (I align myself with the trekkies, to be honest), but I like the feeling of midnight shows with tons of people in attendance. Best-behaved audience I’ve been in in a long time, too.
Look, gang, we got about half a dozen threads on this one. OK, I exaggerate slightly, but only slightly. Yes, sure, this is arguably different since it “who went” rather than “tell me about it”, but sheeesh.
My suggestion: everyone go to Thoughts on Revenge of the Sith. That’s the longest thread at the moment, and it seems easier to close this one and send you all to that one.
If you request, I may merge them all in the next day or so.