The theater closest to me here in DC (well, the closest multiplex, there’s a two-screen art house theater that’s even closer but it was never gonna show this movie) is doing the same thing it did last year for TFA.

They’ve got a 7pm 3D and a 10pm 2D. Last year this worked out perfectly since my sister and I had an event earlier that night and didn’t end up getting to the theater until 9 anyway.

This year (and this is probably a sign that Rogue One will do way better box office than I expected) I randomly got a mass text from one of my friends the morning after tickets went on sale saying that they’d already reserved seats for the 9am Saturday Dolby Cinema at Tysons.

There’s no way I was waiting until after Thursday night to see this thing. As it turned out, one of my friends works only five minutes from the Regal in Germantown, MD … and they were still selling tickets for 7pm in 2D. He’s got a ridiculously long commute everyday from Centreville, VA, so at least he’ll be able to drive back after rush hour’s ended.

I’ve already given the tickets to him and the mutual friend we’re seeing it with, just so I don’t have to worry about giving up my place in line just to give them their tickets. I plan on getting there at least an hour early, if not more.