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Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

Rollie Hawk writes "More than a month before the premiere of Revenge of the Sith, fans are already lining up. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, eleven diehard Star Wars fans (i.e. lifelong virgins) are waiting for tickets to go on sale. Unfortunately, it appears that the guys with girlfriends will have the last laugh as the Chinese Theater isn't even premiering the film."

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  1. Line Films by zoomba · · Score: 4, Informative

    This will be the first SW Movie since they started the re-releases I won't be in line for. Though that's more due to work than a lack of desire to be out there camped in front of the theater. Though my stays (2 days 1 night) were never as long as these guys out in CA, they were long enough to get the most enjoyment out of the experience.

    The line is more fun than the movie, by far. Everyone out there is there because they're dorks, nerds, geeks. They enjoy Star Wars, and a film premier is likely one of the few times they get to gather with other fans and geek out about their hobby. It's always a good time with people sitting around playing cards, eating pizza, drinking soda, playing board games (video games one year when the theater owner rolled out a TV on a cart for us to use) etc. Essentially the line ends up being a day or two long party.

    So many here love to mock the line goers, but how many of those people have been to a Linux, gaming or hacker convention? How many have gone to some sort of industry conference? It's the same thing. Lots of geeks gathering in one place to talk about the stuff they enjoy.

    The line is more fun than the movies ever are. By the time the opening crawl starts on the screen, I've been awake for 2-3 days and soon I'm nodding off. I don't care though cause I know I'm not missing anything, I already experienced the most fun part.

    While I won't be in line this year, I will be thinking of my friends back home who will be.

  2. Their response by Vamphyri · · Score: 4, Informative
    The fans in line have heard your pleas and have answered with the following rfom liningup.net :


    Liningup.net is staying in the spot where we have great relationships with the theatre, the local businesses, and the Hollywood Division of the LAPD. We are lining up at the theatre where the first Star Wars premiered in 1977, where all of the prequels have played, where George Lucas, R2D2, Harrison Ford, and Darth Vader have their footprints in the world-famous "Forecourt of the Stars".

    We are raising money for an amazing charity, Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation, that works to brighten the lives of seriously ill children. We've only been in line for 3 days and we have already topped more than $6200 in donations, with hopefully tens of thousansds more to be raised.

    Twice before we've lined up at Grauman's Chinese Theatre without confirmation that the films would play there. Twice before, we've been told it was going to play somewhere else. Hopefully, our luck holds out for a third time. If not, we'll still have an incredibly fun time relaxing with other Star Wars fans and raising both funds and awareness for the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation.
  3. Re:Hey, wait a minute by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Informative

    Speaking of call...

    (323)462-9609

    This is the number to the payphone outside of Grauman's Chinese Theater.

    Enjoy.

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  4. Re:Not virgins... by geoffspear · · Score: 4, Informative
    Completely off-topic (and pedantic) here, but "Immaculate conception" does not refer to a conception that takes place without sex, and is only related to the doctrine of Virgin Birth vaguely.

    The conception of Jesus was not the "immaculate conception"; the conception of Mary was; even though she was conceived through normal means, the Catholic Church decided that she'd been given a singular gift of Grace, making her the only person ever born without the stain of Original Sin, to explain how she could possibly be a suitable vessel for Jesus before he died to forgive that sin.

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  5. pictures of the fans waiting in line by huphtur · · Score: 3, Informative

    star wars line

  6. HERE is Black Wolf the Dragon Master's website... by blakespot · · Score: 4, Informative
    His site is down now, but the Way Back machine to the rescue:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20040921083255/http://d arkchambers.tk/

    Enjoy. This guy was insane.

    Here's a few other links:
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  7. Re:Not virgins... by glesga_kiss · · Score: 4, Informative
    "Immaculate conception" does not refer to a conception that takes place without sex, and is only related to the doctrine of Virgin Birth vaguely.

    It's also a typo. In the original Hebrew, the word used meant "without child" or "young girl". Basically, "not a mother", nothing to do with "not had sex", or "a regular on slashdot". So, one of the cornerstones of Christianity is a translation error.

    Makes you think...

  8. Considering... by Svartalf · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...that Luke and Leia are brother and sister, wouldn't playing Luke and Leia would be like...um...you know...

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  9. Re:Shortest reigning pope in history... by Digz · · Score: 3, Informative

    A bit off-topic, but hey..

    The tradition of popes taking names from predecessors dates to an early time in the Church when a certain man named Mercury became Pope. As he thought it inappropriate to have the head of the Christian Church named after a pagan deity he took the name of a predecessor. The tradition stuck.

    So a pope taking a name such as that would be rather preposterous. ;)

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  10. Got a link? by infinite9 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm very interested in bible translation issues. And since this is a new testament concept, how does hebrew play into this? And was the error caused when going from aramaic to greek or greek to english?

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    1. Re:Got a link? by giantsfan89 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Check out Curt Niccum's blog. He's a big Greek nerd that knows a ton about Bible translations. He has even worked on translating parts of the Dead Sea scrolls. Incredible guy.

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