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So Did the Hordes Really Skip out for Episode 2?
gabec asks: "A few days ago Slashdot reported that thousands of people were going to call in sick so they could go check out the new Star Wars movie. Virtually the entirety of the computer services department at my university is taking the day off in unison to go see the show. I expect the whole school to implode that day. So my question is, how many Slashdot readers really did skip out of work for Star Wars Episode 2?" Those wacky geeks over at General Protection Fault probably said it the best. I think a high truancy rate was only to be expected. Funny thing to note: timothy and I went to see Spider-Man, yesterday and we were the only two people in that theatre. Three guesses where everyone else went, and the first two don't count.
But only because I was very sick with a 100 degree + fever =( I didnt get to see it until yesterday (Friday) and I didnt think it was that great of a movie. A lot of things were unexplained (like Count Ducoo or whatever his name is) and it seemed like there were an awful lot of scene changes???
Oh well... ITS STARWARS!
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I booked two days holiday so I could see the midnight showing at Leicester Square, London.
Steve.
Sounds like this might have been better handled through a slashpoll. else we'll get 1k people just replying with "No"
a great excuse to not go to work if your boss is understanding.
timothy and I went to see Spider-Man, yesterday and we were the only two people in that theatre
Nice yo! Last time that happened to me and my girlfriend we had sex for the entire movie, and didn't even watch one bit of it.
and you and timothy do anything... oh wait a minute, nevermind.
Wouldn't this be better as a poll?
Did you miss work to see starwars
O Yes.
O No.
O Cowboy Neal went and told me what happened when he got back.
My vote is "No"
The theatre I went to was filled more with high school kids and handicapped individuals than with people who had real jobs, except for a few of us.
Of course I also went to see the 12:01 screening, where 4 theatres were sold out. But during the 12:30 show the truants were high school kids more than the regular working class.
Then again, not a lot of tech jobs in the town where I went to see the movie.
We did the midnight showing and I got home about 4am. We just all showed up at work late, but still made it in. Barely.
I had the 16t scheduled off fo months. My friend tried to get the 16th, but could only get the 17th off.
I would have skipped out of work to go see Episode II, but I had an important companywide meeting that I had to be at.
Of course, the companywide meeting just happened to located in the theater that was showing AotC, and lasted exactly the length of the movie.
"If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for everyone else."
Okay not really, but most of the people that work for me that did go were real nice and asked for a day off or even a half day a few weeks back. I supposed that they'd be in the majority though.
I really hate Dan Patrick.
We can always watch this movie at night. There are lots of movie theatres featuring it here. Is there any reason why americans should watch it at day?
I actually ditched work for an entirely different reason on Thursday (car repairs), and decided to kill the six or so hours I had to wait at the mall. As luck would have it, I wandered past the theater and noticed that Episode II was playing. I didn't think it came out til Friday, so I was surprised. I siezed the opportunity presented by the surprisingly short line and went to see it. It was better than expected, but not perfect by any means.
How can this hurt the economy? The largest pool of unemployed labor is out spending money!
Yes, I am a CS guy. Yes, I am unemployed. Yes, I spent $8.50 to see AOTC. Yes, I payed to much for refreshments.
honestly people! skipping work? its just a movie!
spend money here
I've seen the first trilogy. In theaters, and on video. I've suffered through Episode I. I actually saw it twice since I was interested in looking at the movie with a fresh viewpoint two months later, mostly to see for myself if Jar Jar was indeed as obnoxious as everyone was whining about. I didn't actually pay much attention to Jar Jar the first time around, and was caught off-guard when the hollering started, so I wanted to see the movie again.
Anyway, I haven't skipped out to see the flick, and I haven't even seen it. I'll go and see it in a few weeks, when all the crowds leave. I hate crowded theaters. I'm going to see Spider-Man later tonight, since I'm now guessing all the hoardes will be stuffing themselves into Episode II's screenings.
Off-topic: I heard that AMC Empire 25 in NYC's Times Square has a digital projector. Anyone know if it's running Episode II in digital?
Yeah I skipped a class at school and a few hours of work to go see Episode II. It was well worth it.
:)
Of course my company continued to operate without me being there. Even if we lost 2 or three of our main servers while I as at the movie, the company would continue to operate and the remaining servers would pickup the load.
Good admins always have automated backup systems that kick in when a failure happens. Having the entire tech industry take a day off wouldn't ruin the world as predicted
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I saw Attack of the Clones on Thursday at 11:45, but I was not missing work because I am taking a, umm, sabbatical from my chatper 7 workplace.
1. Didn't count
2. Didn't count
3. Everyone except Cliff and Timothy noticed it was the Promiscuity Day and got laid?
Carry on.
I'm currently in between jobs, so I had time enough to go see it.
All I could think when I entered the theater was "I have a bad feeling about this."
He acquired the tickets and arranged time off for his folks to see it on premier day. I even got to bring my wife!
If you are reading this Larry: Thanks!
I skipped my last 2 days of junior year in high school to see it.
Once at a regular theater and the 2nd day at a digital.
My company's entire IT department left to see it.
I was disappointed.
Many people I know went on Wednesday night, and then called in sick the next day in order to catch up on their sleep. Slightly less than half of the people I personally spoke to had been honest with their bosses, saying things like: "Face it -- it's Star Wars day. It is my desssssstiny to miss work."
I work freelance, so I was able to go both on Wednesday night and then wake up Thursday afternoon and go again. Both theatres were about 80-95% full, but not sold out.
A few friends who made sure to be there on Day One for TPM told me they would be waiting a few weeks to see AotC, partly to avoid the crowds but mostly because they feared that the movie would violently suck.
Judging from the very vocal audiences I was a part of, it looks like AotC has made a pretty favourable impression, and seems to suck very little. Canadian audiences are often reluctant to make noise during movies, but the final climatic light-sabre battle in the movie drew many involuntary gasps and cheers from even the most stoic viewers.
"Die, Jedi dogs!" -C3P0
I am from a small, grease-loving country in the north called Ca-na-da.
My manager (a genuine SW fan) organized a trip to the theater to see SW:AotC on opening day. The company didn't pay for the tickets, but everyone was excited to:
a) see Star Wars before everyone else did (including their kids)
b) spend some time together where there was no pressure to perform
As an employee of a company that has seen 4-5 layoffs over the past year and a half, and a member of a group that recently completed a very stressful project, I can say this trip was the best thing anyone has done for my group's morale and general stress level in at least six months (and it didn't really cost the company anything). Of course, that probably means we should have been doing stuff like this all along.
Stephen
P.S. For those about to say that it cost the company 20 man hours for my group to go see this movie, just take it out of my 'overtime account'. There's about 500 unpaid hours in there already for this year.
Well, I tried...
:)
- called the boss saying I had to go to the doc
- got the Jedi outfit
- went to the movies looking like a retard
- tickets sold-out five guys in front of me in line.
- went back home and contenplated suicide
- girlfriend came over and felt kinda hot for the jedi outfit
happy happy end
The company I work for started a tradition with Episode I in that they reserved an entire theater on a Friday afternoon and took the whole company (excused with pay). So this week we did the same thing with Episode II. Granted we're not a huge company, 130 people or so, but that's a bit of a productivity hit.
I think the moral and team building boost was well worth it. If people can't have any fun with their co-workers, then they AREN'T going to enjoy their work either.
I didnt, i saw the telesync VCD on my computer (With TV-out) many days before.
is booking an entire movie theater this coming friday, for all the year 1, 2 and 3 students to go watch AOTC as a whole school, as part of their post-exam activities. I and the rest of the year 4 students don't get to go though, cos we still have more (major) exams coming up.
Star Wars isn't worth to skip out.
This stuff will show up on TV in few years.
Mainly because it has only TV and not real movie qualities.
So why offer a joyful day at work for a low quality flick ?
Ok., it has nice pictures but the story sucks donkey balls.
I can't understand these people who are so hot at Star Wars.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
I planned my vacation in advance. :)
I just bought a ticket on-line for the 7:45pm showing in Redwood City, got there an hour early to wait in line to get in, found a nice aisle seat when I did and saw a kickass film.
Which it really is. All this complaining about the wooden acting and cheesy dialogue...has anybody ever considered that maybe Lucas is writing the dialogue intentionally to keep the series feeling like the old-time Saturday Morning serials, complete with shiny spaceships, red planets, ripped tops and, yes, oftimes grandiose and stuffy dialogue. And Ebert can stuff it. He gave TPM *three* stars and this one *two* stars. If he honestly thinks AotC is a full star worse than TPM he's completely out of his mind. Go see it. Go see it again. Oh and the guy who ruined parts of it for me with your fuckin' sig, I got people looking for you. )
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The call sought to entice me to subscribe to AT&T's cable modem service. I was already a customer, so I was baffled as to why they didn't have a cross-check system to prevent calling their own customers. But more importantly, their use of an ADAD was illegal in California, if they were calling non-customers.
I made a lot of phone calls and eventually spoke with AT&T Broadband's in-house legal counsel in Colorado. To his credit, he immediately recognized the legal issue and promptly ordered that the campaign be suspended pending his investigation.
In the end, his investigation determined that the ONLY people being called with the sales pitch for AT&T Cable Modem service were existing customers of AT&T's cable modem service. While this meant that the calls were technically not illegal (since it is legal to use ADADs to call your own customers), it was obviously a colossal waste of time and effort, which could only serve to annoy existing customers.
Naturally, the intent of the marketing team at AT&T Broadband was to call their cable-TV customers who did NOT already have cable-modem service. However, it turned out that the company had internal "checks and balances" that prevented the "cable modem" people from getting access to the "non-modem cable" customers.
Later, AT&T used the same ADAD technology to call its customers on Saturday, December 5 to inform them that the @home service ended on December 4 (as if they didn't already know) and several days later, the ADADs were used to notify cable modem customers that service had been restored through AT&T Broadband's own network. Now there is a valid use of ADAD technology.
Note that currently, since the switch from @home and until the Comcast merger closes, AT&T Broadband Internet is essentially a completely independent and unrelated entity, with no connection except name and ownership (and wires) with AT&T Broadband (cable TV).
The only other ADAD call I've ever received that made sense was the medical-appointment reminder call I get from UCSF several days before each doctor visit.
At least once a month, I get an ADAD call, always in violation of California or federal law, but the calls are always Caller-ID blocked and don't identify the caller, so I haven't been able to do anything about them.
-- http://www.MarkWelch.com/ Pleasanton California
I can't speak for others, but here at Yahoo!'s user experience group we all went en-masse. They paid for our tickets, (waiting in line *for us* two weeks ago) and we all took three hours out to catch it.
Nothing like a little off-site to keep morale high!
Kevin Fox
I work for a small IT firm in Virginia. The boss knew most of the employees were planning to see either a midnight show or one of the early shows that day, so he took a lead from an IT firm in L.A. (from what they did for Episode I), declared the day St. Lucas Day, and gave everyone in the firm a paid day off. We all went to see an early showing together. Aside from us, there were only 5-10 other people in the theater for that showing (this is in Richmond, VA).
personally (no pun intended), i took a personal day on thursday, and went to the midnight show on wednesday night...it was a great movie, plus then i got to sleep in...killed two birds with one stone...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
the small amount of posts on /. today?
Seems like school and work were not the only places suffering a darthvaderosys outburst...
You cant SKIP work. You have responsibilities.
Its just not right, skipping school harms no one, skipping work, that can harm thousands of people.
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Our CEO took the whole company in the middle of the afternoon. Otherwise, well - I'm sure some of us would have been missing.
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I went last night with my brother. It was showing for the first night here in The Netherlands, but there were only 15 people watching it. I can't understand why there weren't more people, but it was nice and quiet ;-)
People with real jobs are important, they are needed.
Now ok if you have a generic helpdesk,QA, or SA type job go ahead and skip, but if you have a real job, its a bad idea.
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I won tickets to the premiere on Wednesday, and then skipped work with my entire section to see it again!
Now I just have to convince boyfriend that it is a cool movie...
I really wonder why Lucas releases the movie in the middle of the week. He knows that so many people will skip out of their job/school to see it. Is this just a way for him to show how much power he has?
Calling in sick seems a bit much, but a three hour lunch worked out nicely.
Anyway, most of our office rationalized that we put in long enough hours normally to do this once, (and the fact that we all found out the amounts of this year's 'raises' Thursday morning was at least timed nicely -- it provided enough motivation even for the ones who would never do something like this otherwise).
Smart of the movie theatre to schedule a 12pm showing. 400 seat theatre 75% full.
To top if off, the executive director strolled into the office after his all-day conference just 10 minutes after we got back! Very satisfying. Getting away with it made for quite the bonding moment. (I'm thinking of billing it to the company under team-building exercises.)
(Then again, 10 minutes does seem suspicious... wonder if he was there, too? hmmn.)
I used to be a projectionist, and was able to see EP1 before everyone else, without the crowd for free :)
I do sysadmin work now, and did not skip for EP2. I did see it right after work though.
chris@xanadu:~$ whatis /.
/.: nothing appropriate.
I missed work, so did some other guys, including our boss..
Then again I came back and worked late...
stuff
Actually, I went to see SW Ep2 on Thursday the 16th at midnight :)
;)
Ep1 at 21h00 (15th May) and Ep2 at 00h01 (16th May).
So that I did not have to skip my job
theefer
But yes, I did go see SWEP2: AotC yesterday afternoon. Since I'm a consultant, I didn't have to "skip work" or call in sick to see the movie.
(My timing was off on Thursday -- the early-afternoon shows were sold out -- so I bought an advance ticket for 2:10pm Friday. The theater was only about 10% full.
My goal was to see the movie before school got out because the teens are often rude and obnoxious. As it turned out, there was a rude and obnoxious guy in the row behind me anyway (sitting by himself), making loud annoying comments. To his credit, he mostly made the rude comments during the incredibly-lame romantic-dialogue segments, but it was so annoying that about a third of the way through the movie, I got up and moved several rows away.
After seeing the movie, I am somewhat more inclined to agree with "The Case for the Empire."
-- http://www.MarkWelch.com/ Pleasanton California
...because I organized a trip of about 30 people from my company to see the digital-projection version, and it ended up being the NON-digital-projection version!
All I had to give up was $4.50 to watch it on a digital screen with THX. The movie would've been lame if it hadn't been for Yoda. Yoda can kick Darth Maul's ass any day...!
Nope, no way.
The HR person later asked why I was taking the day off, and I declined to tell her (citing "personal reasons").
(The kicker is, I saw said HR person in the theater. I think *she* actually "called in". Oh, sweet irony.)
Look, I have read every CS/math book I could lay my hands on. I have been
coding since I was 13, and missed all my highschool home-comings while coding
(I didn't miss my prom.) I am also a 3rd year college student, majoring in math.
I have never seen a single star wars movie, never watch an anime, not even a comic
book. I hate computer games (specially multi-player games) but I don't mind trying
some galaga while I am waiting for my pizza at pizza hut.
Can someone tell me, what do being a geek and being a fantacy freak have in common?
Am I the only realistic geek in this world? I would rather play with my obselete
machines than spend few hours watching a friken fantacy.
Get real guys.
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I wonder...
My manage was inviting everybody in his department to see the movie during bussness hours. After spending almos 21 hours in the ofice the day before, I told mi manager that I was planning on staying at work because I had a lot of shit to do. He told me NO!!! that I'm going to the movie an that the end of that and that after the movie I should go home get some sleep.
:)
Ive only been working with this guy for three weeks now, but I think Im going to like it
Yeah, like web-browsing, game "testing", phone call making, time-card fudging, etc.
;)
I know, I've been to plenty of QA depts.
See: QA confidential Be sure to read the whole strip to "get it"
signal, noise, to me it's all the same.
See, my school got out at 11:45, a minimum day, on Thursday, because the Seniors had their Senior Projects to present.
Besides that, I was taking an AP test. So I didn't see school that day (but I wasn't marked truant!)
In conclusion, the AP test got out in unison with the school, and my friends and I legally skipped down to the brand-new-just-opened-on-Thursday-coincedentally theater, and got our tickets without waiting in line, and sat in a clean, stadium seating, Dolby 5.1 theater to see Star Wars. Mmmmm... quite a reward for a hard day's testing.
Now we know why so many companies go out of business.
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So where did he come from?
I got laid off on friday, so although I got time, now I don't have any money to go to the movie. Life is sweet.
Whats even funnier is that the projector operator was getting paid to watch you and your girlfriend have sex from his own private skybox.
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... but then again, most worked that evening until 9pm when we normally leave at about 5:30. "Skipping work" doesn't have to mean screwing your company. (Although, the sales people know you are there until 9.... they think you just ditched.)
NB: Thi is extra bad because Dooku isn't introduced until 20 minutes before they have to fight him so he's the worst villian in the history of film
If u actually saw the movie u would know that he was actually introduced the beginning scroll down...and that summary sucks ass go and see the movie i can say that u won't be sorry.
Off-topic: I heard that AMC Empire 25 in NYC's Times Square has a digital projector. Anyone know if it's running Episode II in digital?
/. thread a few weeks ago was just plain wrong in many ways, so use this link instead.
This page at starwars.com lists the theaters that are playing it in digital. The Wired article mentioned in the
Be warned, many theaters that are listed only have one digital theater but are playing AOTC on several screens, so you need to find out which times are for the digital screen.
Lastly, as you might expect, the digital ones sell out quickly. I went Friday for a noon matinee an hour and a half early only to find out all digital shows were sold out for 2 days! Bottom line you need to plan ahead or wait for the rush to subside.
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I just used the force to look into the future and watch it from the comfort of my own home.
I saw it at midnight BST, didnt get home until 3am and was off the next day.
I saw it first! ner!
Incidentally, did anyone else notice that in Spider-Man, when he's swinging down Silicon Alley, there's a banner for "Webstrands Platform"?
I saw the vcd and the divx and they sucked. The movie content was ok, but the video/audio quality was horrible. Worst cam cap ever.
My highschool Prom was on Tuesday (Which I did not attend), this is followed by Wendsday is Kennywood day (Our school (Public) kinda rents an Ammusment park for the day, and then everyone skips the day after kennywood for rest. So being that no one was in school on thursday where I was anyways, me and 2 of my friends skipped, but to the best of my knowlege, we were the only 3 who skipped for starwars.
why my sister in law didn't believe me when I told her I was *actually* sick on Wednesday and Thursday.
Really... I was!!
GJC
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Anyone who waits in line to see Star Wars 2 for months is a Loser with a capital L. Get a life. I like Star Wars also, but I'm not going to camp outside Regal Cinema to be the first one in. The movie will be just as good in two weeks, when its less crowded. What would really really be funny is if one of these losers got to the front of the line after waiting 3 months and realized (s)he'd forgotten his or her wallot. LOL. Now that would be funny. Anyone who waits in line 3 months is probably a jobless bum. But, hey, "The force is with them," right?
On a sidenote, what really amazes me is how a stupid comic-book based movie like Spiderman can actually pull in more the first weekend than real good movies like Jaws, Jurassic Park, Titanic, Star Wars (IV - VI), or the Indianna Jones trilogy.
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
Went to the midnight show on opening day. Stood in line for an hour and a half outside the theatre even though we had tickets already. Then, had to wait an hour INSIDE the theatre as they got everyone seated in the three sold out auditoriums in a sane and orderly fashion. The natives grew restless as the start time for the movie went by. A theatre employee came in and said the movie was going to start 10 minutes late because they were still seating people. All in all it was definitely worth the wait, though.
-Sam
Funny thing to note: timothy and I went to see Spider-Man, yesterday and we were the only two people in that theatre. Three guesses where everyone else went, and the first two don't count.
:)
In Australia, AotC has come out before SpiderMan. What will be interesting is to see if the reverse of this holds true - I intend to go see Star Wars again, and I'll do it once Spider man is out. If there are only two people in the theatre, I'll have a good guess where they've gone (and yeah, the first two don't count
-- james
I already had the movie and I *still* went and paid my $9 to do see cause I felt that it was an excellent movie. Seeing it at 352x240 just doesn't compare to seeing it on the big screen, so it was well worth the money but it was also nice to know that I wasn't going to go see a crappy movie (Days-of-our-Lives-esque love scenes aside).
Cheers,
jw.
"Has anything you've done made your life better?" - American History X
The employment firm that came up with those statistics had that exact same announcement when EP1 came out. Slashdot also covered it then too.
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I skipped work! For ALL people, the world will keep turning without you, if you skip one day every now and then. If you believe otherwise, you need a serious reality check.
(Although, the sales people DON'T know you are there until 9.... they think you just ditched.)
Yeah, put a *don't* in there and that makes some sense.
I informed my boss that I would be coming in four hours later that day... Luckily I'm only working part time, so I could fill in for those four hours the next day. :^)
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Of the 49 people in my startup fiber company, 46 went -- of the three missing, two were on a sales trip. I *love* working for a cool company. Go Xanoptix!
I just couldn't justify getting off work to see it, but I did have my tickets for yesterday (Friday night) secured online a week in advance, and very glad I did. Although the AMC where we saw it was not digital-equipped, the picture looked clear and fine, so I'm not sure what purists and Roger Ebert complained about. I'm still definitely planning to see it in our digital-equipped Showcase theater later, but I'm not expecting to notice that much of a difference. I think film projection can present this film perfectly in a nice theater with a well-tuned bright projector.
The good news for me is that I was really afraid I would hate it. Like most, I was disappointed by EP1, and heard that although this one was better, it wasn't much so. I would have to respectfully disagree with those opinions. This movie blows EP1 away, and although I have to see it again before figuring out where it stands in the rankings of the whole series, I'm definitely seeing it again. I'm pretty sure that having Jar-Jar on the screen for probably less than a minute total was significantly better than a movie full of Ewoks.
The battle scenes are outstanding, and I have no idea why some people said that only the last half an hour of the movie is "redeeming." I don't want to give anything away, but there are plenty of action scenes throughout the movie, starting out very early. Sure there is dialog and exposition interspersed throughout, but it's all very well done. For those of you who, like me, didn't like EP1 and had reservations about seeing it this weekend, I strongly recommend you check it out. Don't wait for video, or necessarily to see it in digital - it's a beautiful exciting movie that definitely needs to be seen on the big screen. Lucas has redeemed himself a little in my eyes, and I can't wait to see how EP3 will turn out now.
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Now establishing the legal department with the sole pupose of hunting people down and suing each sukkel one of them! Er, pardon my french;o)
Personally, I'm against using a direct medium for impersonal marketting. Here, in Wisconsin, the other land of Cheese-heads, we have similar commercials, but the only problem is that few people ever use the services. Atleast, by June 14th, a law will go into effect making it illegal to telemarket to people you don't have a current business relationship with. Just what we need, our own long distance company asking us if we want to switch plans....
"Yeah...it was the numbers that were irrational, not the murderous cult of vegetarians...." -- Hippasus of Metapontum
... but i am out of a job.
members are seeing something, your seeing an ad
To watch a two hour kids film? Did you all spend the rest of the day laughing chocolate milk through your noses while you quote The Life Of Brian to each other?
Some of you guys really live the wild life.
There were atleast 8 people from my employers IS Dept. (including myself) that took the afternoon off to drive to the good theater (stadium seating and THX surround sound) that is a 40 minute drive away to see Episode II. One of the guys had driven there the previous week to get us all tickets. The theater wasn't packed out, but there was a VERY large crowd there for 1:30 on a Thursday afternoon. :-)
Didn't see AtoC or Spiderman. Don't really want to support an industry that wants to stomp on me through lobbying the government with my movie ticket money to take away fair use rights.
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
Lord knows I learned a hell of a lot more by seeing Star Wars then going to physics class. When I came in late, one of my teachers asked "how was it?" (he knew). I said that my doctor's appointment had "amazing special effects".
I belong to the ______ generation.
Hmm. Well, I'd say 2/3 of our company (roughly 100 people) went off to see Episode 2 during the day.
One catch though - our company paid for three closed theatre showings, to which you could bring friends and family. One of which was at 12:15 (midnight showing), the other two were scheduled at more sane hours during the day.
For Episode 1 we rented one theatre @ 9am a couple days after the debut. But it was a big-ass 500+ seat theatre, for Ep. 2 we had to go with a small local theatre (hence the multiple shows) - of course, we had to do it this way this time around due to the Lucas' ego. The small theatre flew under his radar, whereas the big multiplex couldn't avoid it.
Everything said and done, I'm just happy I didn't pay for Episode 2, just like I'm happy I didn't pay for Episode 1. Heck, if George's head expands any further, he may have to start watching out for pointy objects...
Moof!
I went to see the midnight premier of AOTC at the Lennox 24 in Columbus. We arrived at 1100, and the doors were locked. The line to get in extended around the back of the lennox, and wrapped around the backs of all of the shopping center stores. It ended at target and started doubling itself back to the beginning. I'd say it was almost a 1/4 mile long. Just imagine the lines at the concessions and the 20 minute wait to get out of the parking lot at 330am. AOTC was showing on 12 screens, so there was around 5,000 there. Amazing, but it couldn't beat spider-man's opening day sales (or harry potter's for that matter).
My company threw in the towel and gave everyone the afternoon off. They even bought us tickets. While I know lots of people who would have taken a personal day to go see it, I probably would have waited till Tuesday evening or some other slow night to see it.
Midnight show, yeah, right. Sorry, but I'd like to be awake watching the movie (and driving home) rather than fight sleep at 2-3 AM in the morning. I'm not Jack Freakin' Bauer, thank you!
No no, what I did is walk down to the local cineplex the day before (no lines!), asked if they were doing avanced tickets and what times, and a quick cell-phone call to the missus later, and we had 7:30 PM tickets to a what-would-be sold out show. Then, the next day, my wife and I had *dinner together*, THEN we went to see the show.
Dinner _and_ a movie! Prearranged and preplanned, with my wife. And I didn't have to take off any time from work to do it. What a concept!
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Our CEO bought tickets for all of us and then went to the show with us. Our project manager even took the time into account for the weekly schedule. *That's* the type of planning I like to see...
We have flex hours.
So we went to see the late matinee, then came back for a few hours of work.
The matinee is less packed and cheaper, and the office is quieter in the evening, so everybody wins.
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* I am unemployed so took the day off from job hunting to see the movie.
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And to all the naysayers out there: waiting in line with fellow SW geeks is almost as fun as sitting in a packed theater with them. My friend won an original 1970s Millenium Falcon toy, with box and instructions included. Sure, opened toys are worth less, but it's a KICKIN' centerpiece. Lightsaber duels happened almost hourly, and we had great fun mocking the people who drove by to mock us. The movie is that much more beautiful when sleep-deprived and living off of Doritos and pizza.
Can you tell me which is more pathetic...a person who can take three days off of their job with no one complaining to wait in line for a movie, or a person who goes out of their way three days in a row to drive by and yell "Homo" at those first people?
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At work we tried to talk the Boss into making Friday afternoon a team-wide AotC event, but he rambled about "that rubbish" and ranted on and on about how the last good sci-fi movie was 2001: A Space Odyssey.
With the office trip option not going to happen, I got to work early on Friday, finished my projects for the day, skipped lunch, and was out the door by 12:15.
And, if possible, I'll do it again in 2005.
"Geek" in its modern form is more of a title adjective. It refers to people who take extensive, possibly obsessive, interest a particular subject. This often associates with science and science fiction, but can pertain to a large area of subjects.
Your self-description is suggestive of one of the two most common geek architypes known, Computer Geek, with the other being the SSFF Geek (science/speculative fiction/fantasy). You may as well get used to the various forms of geeks and the worlds they associate themselves to.
I believe most people have an honest geekability within them, though I also believe that a large number of people have less thought of qualities. For example, the president in "West Wing" has a geek factor towards environmentalism, but specifically with state and national parks. The least geeky of geekisms, and quite frankly, the most fightening, would be the Bible Geek, people who can give out four interpretations for every chapter of ever gospel; thankfully, those types of geeks have reduced in numbers in the past century;o)
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I mean, did you meeting start at the same time that AotC start? That would have sucked if the meeting happened to have started half way through the movie and finished halfway through the start.
Man, what a bunch of wimps. In college, going to bed at 3am and getting up at 8am to do serious work is normal. Profs and TAs don't take excuses. Apparently managers do? Reading these stories about whole teams coming in late, "calling in sleepy", etc. is crazy.
Because I have a contract work so I don't really get paid vacation days/sick days. I would have done it, but since the job market is bad, I decided not to. It is weird that pretty much everyone at my employer, Symantec, was at work. And there are a lot of geeks!
:(.
Now that it is weekend, I have a nasty cold (aching body) and I can't go
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I got home about 4:00 am. I went to work and was there in body, but even less in spirit than normal. What do I count as?
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This all assumes that you have a job. I along with one of the people I went to see AotC with are both out of work and cannot find jobs (anywhere), thus the day was nothing more then a break from our normal days of job hunting.
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I had about 4 hours of comp time coming to me, So I spent all of it either a: waiting in line for the movie, or b: watching the movie.. 'course I had to go to work directly form the movie but it was worth it.. heh.. even for the "The hills are alive..." scene.
I can't believe you cited Total Recall as a reliable source of science. I just. Wow. I'm flabbergasted.
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I was driving through my old college stomping grounds of Ann Arbor, MI on Thursday, and decided on a whim to see if there was any chance whatsoever of getting tickets. I doubted that tickets would be available, since Ann Arbor is a geek-heavy town where students can skip class on a whim, let alone for an event as big as Star Wars. Needless to say, I easily got tickets 45 minutes before the 6:00 pm show. I remembered a sold-out theater for the first weekend of the original trilogy re-releases and Phantom, but the opening night showing of Clones was only half-full. Amazing. Apparently, people disliked Ep. 1 more than I anticipated, and decided that the effort to pre-order tickets or stand in line for opening day just wasn't worth it.
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I took that day off and went to a Doctor's appointment in the morning and then caught the 5:50pm show for only $3.50! Gotta love that "last show before 6pm" discount.
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nope. we all stayed. the boss was surprised by it, he figured at least 30 percent of us would go.
As Chief Architect I reminded both my development groups that they are paid to be at work and to act as highly paid professionals -- that they have responsibilities, not only to the firm, but also to their families and themselves.
As such, I made absolutely sure they were all in attendance at a mandatory 2 hour and 12 minutes design review and education seminar I had organized at 12:01 AM on Thursday -- for their co-operation I allowed them to show up after lunch that same day.
I'll be seeing it tonight with a sizable group of geeks, so I have yet to form an informed opinion of the movie. I'm not expecting much in the way of quality acting from Manequin Skywalker, but if the choice of R.A. Salvatore for the novelization is any indication, the fight scenes will be golden.
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I didn't skip work to see it. I just remembered after dinner that Ep. II was playing and that I had nothing planned. I bought my ticket expecting to be disappointed with the movie, waiting half an hour amid a crowd of rowdy teens and college kids, saw the picture, and was disappointed. Great action scenes, but I don't think I would bother watching it a second time. Just like when I rented the Ep. I DVD. The novelty of being able to watch cinema quality video on my pc was nice for half an hour, but then I got bored as hell. Man, I miss the first three.
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May the force be with you (check)
really cheesy line delivered by a male trying to get the interest of a female (check)
R2, what do you think you're doing? (check)
the dark side has cast a shroud over everything (stand up and shout BINGO!)
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Everybody I know who's seen it yet saw a midnight (or 12:03 or 12:05) showing. AFAIK every theatre in the Madison area (barring the $2 theatres that only show 6-month old flicks) had at least one midnight showing. (the place I went had it on 5 screens and the first 4 sold out)
Unless people thought it was so great they needed to watch it again the same day or they work third shift, I can't imagine that they would be skipping work to see it. Especially geeks.
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
Although 4 years ago we all skipped work for episode 1 this time none of us had jobs to skip.
You're not a real geek if you're not into any of those things. Not liking any one or even two out of the four things you mentioned is fine, but if you have distaste for all four then you're just an advanced computer/mathematics enthusiast.
Geekiness isn't just a field of academic interest, it's a state of mind.
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Saw it at 12:45am...in a theatre far far away... from my house. I saw it on one of the digital projector screens. I was curious why it wasn't in THX though. Hmm. Anyway, good battles. Disgusting Love story (w/ scene where Anakin seems like he is getting a bj from Amadala), and Yoda. Yoda really is the jedi *MASTER*. Good Movie, worth seeing. You already know what to expect and that's exactly how it is.
Christ what a bunch of children. I watched it on a 21" Sony a week and a half ago, just like ghod ment it to be viewed.
Sucked, no surprise, a bit better than Spiderman, which I watched 2 weeks ago, which sucked big time.
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...out on the movie that is. Star Wars is boring.
I am not working, but I saw it with one my sibling, who is. My sibling missed no work, becasee, as responsible and dedicated star wars fans, we saw it at midnight. I really don't know why anyone would need to miss a day of work to see star wars. Unless, of course, there are kids involved, in which case I can see skipping out early for the afternoon. Or if one is old and cannot live on 4 hours of sleep :-).
On the other hand, if one has mental health days, there was no reason not to take it to see star wars.
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No need to skip work. My company rented out a mid-afternoon showing on opening day for us. As did a number of other companies in the area such as Origin and Dell.
Why skip when work will pay you to watch a movie?
:)
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I don't know about the rest of yall, but my friends and I decided to be the true warriors, and see it 0001. Who needs sleep anyway? Isn't that why god gave us caffeine?
Sorry, but I really don't understand this.
By taking time off work to see a film during working time you save how many dollars exactly on the price of the cinema ticket?
And the half day's income you lose is how much exactly?
Round here you'd lose even if you were unemployed, because the car parking charges during the day are so much more than during the evening.
If I had digital tickets the first day I would have. But considering that the digital theatres were sold weeks ago on opening day I waited until last night to go. I have to say digital theatres are very very nice, definitely worth the extra day.
Part of my job is providing social activities to a bunch of science/math high school students.
So I arranged to take a group of them to see Episode 2 and even got to count it as doing part of my job.
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After AMC finally decided to start the movie after about 30 minutes of previews. I ended up getting home at 3:30am. Woke up at about 10am and basically was dead so I called out. I got busted on the day after (They knew I went to see star wars).
I noticed something funny here in Norway. When Yoda started fighiting, everybody in the theatre started laughing! I laughed too! And when he was finished fighting, he took his stick and started looking old again.
What was lucas thinking of?
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(He also has a severe problem with grammar.)
I'd mod him down myself, but I don't have mod privs, 50 karma notwithstanding.
Mod him DOWN! I'd like to see this guy never be able to post at +2 again.
I guess that was a joke....it was pretty funny too, I thought
I've got plenty of time to see Star Wars over this holiday weekend.
There's gonna be nothing else to do on Monday.
Anyone else notice how terrible this movie looked visualy? It was like watching an MPG on a big TV .. Or a really bad converted DVD. Lucas needs to kill his digital film hoopla and go back to normal film print. Much better looking and quality. And those silly digital "zooms" were aweful. It was like watching a video game zoomer. Digital Film = Failure. Hope episode 3 is shot on REAL film.
I didn't have to. The managers in my department took our whole group out to see it Thursday, and paid for the tickets. :)
I guess it's one of those "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" things.
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Unless one of my notorious acquaintances snags it on high quality svcd. *shrug* s'how I saw FotR.
Frankly, if I couldn't be bothered to suffer through the idiocy of a theatre to see FotR, there's no way in hell that When Clones Attack! would get me there.
Simply put, theatres blow. Even if you've just got a small 24" TV at home, that tv is still plenty better than a theatre.
No $5.00 popcorn. No $3.00 'large' soda. No sticky floors, no tall people in front of you, no screaming children, no old people glaring at you when you're fondling your chick in the midst of on-screen boredom.
Plus, you don't need to deal with those idiots who think they're jedi and swing plastic 'lightsabers' at you.
I did see the Phantom Menace in theatre. I left a trail of shattered plastic behind me.
I took the whole day off, but told my boss I was going to play golf (guess what he loves to do!). Started playing golf at 9am, and my buddy and I went to see AotC afterwards. If you're going to waste a vacation/sick day to do something, you might as well make a day out of it. Thursday was the only good day of the week to go play here in Maine, so it all worked out.
We got there just as the movie was starting. The ushers didn't have a flashlight, but I had my Photon red LED flashlight, and caught an aisle seat right away. I'm going to shoot the guy with the bladder condition that sat in the middle of my row. Jerk got up 5 times, which means he also came back 5 times.
The theater was only about half full, and the ticket guy said they had not been very busy all day.
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I went to see AOTC Thursday afternoon. I didn't knock off work for that, I actually had a dental appointment and had the rest of the afternoon off anyway. (The dental appointment caused my headache instead of the half-fuzzy film, but that's beside the point.) I attended the 4PM showing and there were maybe 10, 12 other people in the 40+ seat auditorium - and probably half of those were children under the age of 10. I left around 7:00 and lines for the next showing at 7:15 were still quite thin. That's terrible business for a hyped new movie opening in the middle of the week during college spring break, in a medium sized mall, at the only theater in a town - on an 85-degree day in late May! Just by looking around my community I'm surprised that the movie has done so well.
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Fortunately, our management gives flextime. I attended the first regular showing, which was near lunchtime. Barley worth the matinee cost, due to the dull movie. Teatre not very crowded either.
...waiting for the DVD. Like the third movie will be released before the DVD, or something?
Unfortunately, we had planned a party at the company on that exact day! Daft...
Am still trying to sneak in to see Black Hawk Down. Reality beats fiction, hard!
I'm in a Unix state of mind.
Too bad AotC sucked...
I did go to see the 12:01am show on Thursday, but I didn't skip work.
:-)
Drank 3 cups of coffee on Thursday morning and afternoon, though
I went to the campus pub for a Guinness instead... Then I went home.
Of course, watching it earlier in the week on VCD may have influence my decision not to wait in lineup for hours to get a crappy seat.
I'll wait a few weeks until the lines die down then go to see it in the local digital projector theatre.
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I guess I should break it down further as two types of geeks, R-Type and S-Type, from the "Star Trek" Geeks that prevail the two categories, trekkeR and trekkieS.
In the universe of Star Trek, the R-Types (trekker) are so hard core that even the suggestion that any part of the Star Trek universe has been changed upsets them greatly and they will resist the change. For example, the contemporization of the Star Trek timeline resulted in one slashdot R-Type to make a relatively large posted with an ending thesis, paraphrased thus, "Real fans know when they're being screwed." The R-Type can be broken into two classes, Zealots and Academics. A Zealots will stand behind the ideas and concepts within their geek subject, even when serious doubt is cast upon them. Trekkers, for example, will often claim "warp travel" to be perfectly portrayed, and furthermore, as the possibly the only valid means of interstellar travel. Academics, on the other hand, appear somewhat more open minded. They are often found pointing out flaws and seem uninterested in the overall experience. However, though they often show an interest in various concepts, but end up having the tendancy of staying with whatever concept got them to a specific point first. The archetypical R-Type Academic is "The Simpsons"' "Comic Book Store Guy."
S-Type geeks, however, are far more interested in the overall experience. In refernce to the trekkies watching "Enterprise", they appreciate the contemporization of the Star Trek timeline. They also break into two categories, Loyalists and Objectivists. The Loyalists will enjoy their geek subject despite various disappointments and alterations and tend not to understand why so many people whine as much as they do. Objectivists consider not just the total effect, but elements and subjects. An Objectivist, though able to continue to like and enjoy all of this, will still compare their geek subject beyond its limited scope and make more fair judgements, but not as harsh as R-Type Academians.
You can guess what type and class a person is if they are a Star Trek fan about 75% of the time using this chart-ette:
R-Type Zealots prefer The Original Series
R-Type Academians will more likely enjoy VOYager, but claim The Next Generation as their preference
S-Type Loyalists will love The Next Generation and claim it above all as the best, but will consider ENTerprise to be quite enjoyable.
S-Type Objectivists (both of us) prefer Deep Space 9; Objectivists tend to be more appreciative of speculative fiction.
I think that covers my attempt at the classification of Geeks.
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Any true geek would see the midnight showing.
Any true geek can survive on four hours of sleep.
So honestly I don't see where the problem is here, most people can go to the midnight showing and still be up in time for work the next day.
Myself, I havn't gone yet. Living in New Zealand I could have been one of the first to see the film, but choose not to. Maybe Im just getting old (22).
I'd at least go do something FUN, not go watch a stupid kid's movie.
Work rented out the theatre and we were able to go to the 12:01 show or the 10:00 am show on opening day. It was pretty sweet...paid to watch a movie
Our dept. manager paid $4.25 x 30 employees to take the Help Desk dept. at our Fortune 500 company out for the 4PM showing on Thursday. And believe it or not, there were actually some Help Desk agents who turned the tickets down! We're obviously hiring the wrong kind of geeks.
So, did folks have a hard time reaching the IT Help Desk? I'm not answering that one. : )
We had to give away the extra tickets to folks in other departments... at least we could find some geeks in the server department.
You can say what you want about the dialog, I loved the film. Can't wait for Ep. III. Only... Where's Tarkin? If he's a crusty old man in Ep. IV, we should have seen him as a middle aged man in this one.
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My work (ascential software) sent all its software engineers to the movie on friday, and then we were given unofficial permission to leave work for the rest of the day.
Well, I just got home after watching the movie. If I'd had the option I would rather have worked. It sucked.
Jar-Jar Binks must die or I must get a job.
werk was lame waited until today to go see it..besides there is only 5 employees including me at werk.
*huh* Sig? WTF?
I'm a manager at the local 12-screen. I got to see it Tuesday afternoon at around 4:00pm, and again that night (Wed morning) at 12:30am. I think we blew a speaker on that "sonic bomb" scene, since we had it turned about 50% louder than we normally play it for a full house, and there were only 3 of us in there. I also got paid for both times I watched it.
:-)
And then, I had the joy of WORKING the midnight show, and telling everybody who asked, "It's good."
Hell, the braggin rights alone for seeing it two days early were enough, much less get paid for it
I planned to take the day off and everything, but my friend had a previous engagement he couldn't get out of. So we ended up going to a later showing at a shittier theatre. Definetly better than TPM.
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No, I stayed here.
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Before school starts, the school plays some dumb song over the Intercom. But the day Star Wars came out, they played the theme songs. I think it was pretty awesome, didnt know my school was that cool. Just my 2 cents....
george lucas is the anti-christ
I work for an ISP in Houston who shall remain nameless except to same that's it's Everyone's Internet, and they actually bought us free tickets for the midnight opening. They did add the caveat that anyone scheduled to work the next morning was still expected to show up and be *awake* and *alert* and capabale of working.
Those bastards. :-)
all i have to say is...what a bunch of damn tools you all are. so god damn gay.
I went to a 3pm show so I pratically took the afternoon off, but I also worked extra hours during the week to make up for it. I'd have to agree that skipping work doesn't mean you have to screw your company.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
I think it is to show the whole idea of you shouldn't believe what you see feel of the movie (like who is good and who is bad!).
People would see Yoda fumbling towards them and assume they can kill him easily, only to have him bounce over their head and kill them easily because they didn't expect that from an old rickety man.
BTW - Here in Australia everyone laughed at this point too.
I'm looking forward to seeing the movie as well, I will see it, but I don't really care if it's this week, next month, or next year. I'll get around to it. It'll be the same movie when it's playing in the discount theater for $2.50.
I'm planning on going to see LotR/FotR tomorrow, for the first time. At the $2.50 theater.
I also irritate my friends by refusing to buy book trilogies until all the books are in print.
Of course, if everyone were like me, the 2nd book would never get printed.
no it don't
The whole reason that Farenheit is better is because it is designed with the livability of humans in mind. A human can't survive below 0 degrees F for very long, nor over 100 degrees F. I'd rather have a temperature systems designed around my living conditions than the physical state of fucking water.
A person can't survive below 0 degrees C very long either, and that's warmer than 0 degrees F. The only reason Fahrenheit is "better" is because you, personally, are familiar with it, even if you can't spell it, and you refuse to learn anything different (maybe because the climate controls in your SUV use Fahrenheit).
Fahrenheit was not "designed with the livability of humans in mind". It was designed partially around the physical state of salty water, which freezes at 0 Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit set the upper end of his scale to what he thought was body temperature. He decided to use 96 since it has a lot of factors (2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 48) which is nice when you're putting tick marks on a thermometer. Except that body temperature is a really bad temperature standard because it varies from time to time and from person to person, and turns out to range from 98.6-99.0, nowhere near 96. Oops. Nowadays the Fahrenheit scale is defined by the freezing and boiling points of water, just like Celsius, except it doesn't make as much sense. To say this scale is "designed around your living conditions" is a real stretch- tissue damage occurs at temperatures outside the range of 39-115 F (or thereabouts). It's pretty obvious that your argument is centered around nothing but parochialism.
A temperature scale designed around your personal living conditions would use color codes, like America's Homeland Security system. (So when it's "blue" out, you know to wear a jacket.) Or it would at least set 0 as room temperature, so negative temps mean turn on the heater, and positive means turn on the A/C. At least that would make sense.
Funny, yes. Unrealistic, no. I remember seeing a demonstration by a competing team's fencing coach/master a long time ago. This guy was one of the best in the world in his prime, but well into his elder years spent most of his time just teaching and walking around with the assistance of a cane.
However, put a blade in this old guy's hand, and he was suddenly transformed from a decrepit-looking fragile elderly person into a graceful, dangerous foe. I saw him whip one of his own students who was at the time representing the US in the World University Games. After the bout, he picked up his cane and limped back to the sidelines.
"No, no, no. Don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."
Another team took off for a "long lunch." It was cleared with me, and they left behind someone to mind the store. I did, however, set a "no spoiler" expectation.
I don't get to see it until tomorrow.
The same thing happened at the local midnight opening showing I went to. I don't think there was a single person who didn't chuckle when Yoda took up the dragon stance and pulled a Neo on the count. We wern't laughing because it was bad, just because it was something we hadn't seen Yoda do before. I think everyone I went with agreed after seeing that scene that he is not someone we'd like to fuck with.
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episode I majorly sucked, and episode II also majorly sucks. Nothing ever happens, it's just two hours of backstory on the star wars trillogy for the second time. I am definitely making the move to NEVER see episode III. eat my shit george lucas!!!
I DO watch realistic movies, mostly old ones.
we showed up at the theater at 1130 and got tickets, saw the show went home, and played counter strike for the rest of the night (you know, becasue it is easyer to stay up all night than wake up early)
Me and some friends drove 10 hours to see Episoide II in a THX certified digital theater. It rocked! (We saw it again in a normal theater and it was disipointing-- especialy the explosions.)
But then the truth hit: it was just
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Well, I went to the midnight opening on wedensday night, with plans to my 9am lecture the following morning. Woke up to the alarm, way too tired to get up, so I slept till noon. Later that day, I was chatting to someone who went, and it turned out that the lecturer was an hour late as a result of sleeping in, and used the remaining hour to talk about human fallibility (this is an OOP paper).
Don't you remember when in Lion King, the old shaman monkey suddenly knew karate!?! And then he simply went back to limping with a cane.
Come to think of it, Simba kinda looks like Anakin...
As a disclaimer: I liked the movie a lot (more than TPM and more than I thought I'd like it). I'd have watched it again in any case; watching it in digital was a sweet bonus.
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I'm a supervisor at a call center that supports virtual ISP's. Almost a third of tonights (5/18) tech support shift didn't show up. Upper management sent an email indicating that anyone presenting ticket stubs on their paid sick leave forms were to be thrown out WITH their light sabers.
The paperworks gonna fly, though I think they should be a little more understanding. After all, if you hire alphageeks you gotta expect them to walk the walk. I think it would've been kind of cool for them to work it into the incentive structure at our call center.
Didn't go. I've got Gungan-o-phobia. If I see another kiddie-oriented sci-opera I'm shaving my head and paying a personal visit to Georgie. Episode 1 made me puke, overpriced movie tickets give me diarrhea, and I'm just about tired of these mega-hyped monstrosities that are usually little more than sugar-coated bullshit on film.
The last time I was really _really_ impressed in a movie theatre was when I saw Baise Moi ("Rape me") at a local indie cinema. That's an extreme movie in all senses, but it was more than a bunch of pretty faces going against a vicious villain. Anything hollywood-esque is so watered down and retarded, might as well watch "Days of our Lives".
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Didnt go... Several reasons:
1- Dont like crowded theatres
2- Dont like waiting in line
3- I dislike paying full price for a movie ($9.50 in this neck of the woods) [and this one is still in the "no-passes" state]
4- Dont care about spoilers
5- Sound quality is VERY important to me. I only enjoy the movie when I am in the "optimum" sound location in the theatre... which is hard to do in a crowded theatre unless you get there AGES or wait in line for a Long time.
So in about a week or two, i'll go see it on a matinee showing and be able to almost have it be like a private showing.... at a Digital Projection / THX theatre....
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I'm a unemployeed former network engineer for verizon wireless. Guess what I didnt have to take the day off. Verizon made it where I didnt have that small problem.
This might be considered off-topic but here is my story:
My friends and I were in the line on May 15 at 7:00PM. At 11:00PM, they started the seating so we went in and set down in the end row.
A group of 4 loud drunk friends sat 3 rows down from us. One of them had a ball and before the previews started, he threw the ball towards the front seats. Somebody got hit in the head so they threw the ball back and hit a lady in the row in front of us straight in the face.
Her boyfriend stood up and told the 4 loud friends to stop throwing stuff. That ignited the drunkest person in that group. She started screaming how weird and bad everybody is for being there.
She wouldn't stop so Harkins employees threw the group of 4 friends out of the theater.
Bright lights turned on in the theater and everybody started yelling "Jerry, Jerry" while the 4 Trolls were being escorted out. I can't even describe what a great feeling that is.
If they don't appear on the Jerry Springer show, they skipped work for sure.
I put that down to him acutally being old (850+; in Empire he mentions to Luke that "when 900 years old you reach, look this good you will not, hmmm?") and quite fragile.
But, when he needs to, he can use the force to make the cane redundant, and allow him to bounce around just as fast as he can imagine, and overcome the limitations of his old and fragile body.
Most of the time he doesn't bother though, 'cos it requires a load of concentration and it's easier to just hobble around with a stick. Being wise, old and a generally serene kind of guy, he doesn't feel the need to rush everywhere at top speed, and is content with that.
K.
Why doesn't the gene pool have a life guard?
I did not go see AotC and I will probably watch it the same way I watched Ep. 1: tape it off of broadcast tv and skip over the commercials.
Of course, being a RPG gaming geek, the rules for that are in the new star wars game.
The slight blur effect on the CG helped much to prevent it from looking too Perfect at times.
- Create an account using a recent birth date (making you a minor).
- Try to log in.
- Get the "you're too young" page.
- Attempt to validate your age with a credit card.
Unless something has changed recently, you'll get caught in a loop. Not a very satisfying user experience if you ask me.Same thing happened in our showing when Yoda did the Neo move, but when he got funky.... everyone was "Holy shit!", "hell yeah!", "oooohhhhhh!".
If after multiple movies refering to Yoda being a great Jedi master, and people are surprised by this (even after all the leaks), you just are not a fan. Anyone ever consider Yoda and his cane just to be an act? Or a convienence?
By far the best fighting scene, and I would never fuck with that green goblin... oh, wait wrong movie, that Jedi Master.
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
Who did you have to beat up to get it, monkey-boy?
I didn't skip out of work...but my boss did. Bastard.
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The rules only partially represent what the Jedi in the movie are capable of and Yoda pulled some Force tricks from under his robes that there are definitely no rules for. Of course, the rules were written using the existing body of work as a frame of reference and so show a great lack of imagination in actual application of the Force.
You folks are talking about blowing a whole day's pay on a fucking movie? Either you're getting a mere $1.00 per hour or you are so stupid that you should be.
Really, sign up folks, hold up your hands. Let's see just how many fools there are out there. Sheesh, no wonder we've got problems.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
- W. Wriston, former Citibank CEO
I was seriously going to skip out for an long lunch and see Ep.2 on Thursday, but the company I work for recently got bought out (again!) and the new company's auditors (including a real dick from IT) showed up on Tuesday and we were not stupid enough to skip out while they were here all week. Good think I didn't buy my tickets in advance!