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Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater
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."
I can only imagine what Triumph the Insult Comic Dog would to have to say about this group.
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Take that for not having a girl friend!
That's funnier than any joke I could attempt to post here!
You are confusing Star Wars fans with Slashdot posters. I know quite a few female SW fans. Many of them even have kids.
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Evidently the author of the article isn't aware of how desired the Star Wars Kid is...
In other news, 600,000 Catholics are in line at the wrong basillica....
Hilarious.
... so wait, are they still waiting?
Not only does he have a bit of a geeky tag, the reason he's waiting isn't to see the films but, well, to wait.
if I feel a little better about myself after reading that?
If they don't have internet access, and no one tells them... how long will they sit out there?
And then what type of a fit will they throw when they go to the correct theatre and there's already a line.
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Maybe they are doing this just for the sheer enjoyment of it?
I saw Episodes 1/2 on opening day and waited in line about 6 minutes combined. So it's not like they NEED to camp out to get tickets. Which come to think of it makes the whole idea of them standing in line for tickets anywhere, let alone a theatre that isn't even showing the movie... downright sad.
What I'm looking forward to more than the movie is the comedy bit where Triumph the Insult Comic Dog shows up and tells the line camping nerds how nice they are... FOR HIM TO POOP ON!
eleven diehard Star Wars fans (i.e. lifelong virgins)
Uh, hello, Kettle? This is Pot, returning your call....
... in a way. I just played the PS2 game Star Wars: Lego, which lets you play a very accurate game based on episodes 1-3. Episodes 1 & 2 were very accurate, so I'm assuming that Episode 3 was accurate, too. If that was the case, then Obi-Wan follows Annakin to some volcanic planet, where they have a fight, and Annakin ends up losing and falling into lava. Obi-Wan thinks that he's dead. The Emperor finds him, and restores him as Darth Vader. Darth Vader gets pissed as soon as he wakes up with his new body, and smashes all of the machines. There was quite a bit more, too. All in this game that was released some time back. I thought it was one hell of a slip on somebody's part.
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The best place to be when one of Lucas's abortions is released is in a cinema showing something else.
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"The force is EXTREMELY WEAK with this crowd!"
Are you sure the Chinese theatre wasn't showing Space Balls or something??? I mean, really, this is something QUITE obvious. You'd think these people would at least make sure they're at the right theatre!
{shakes head} Damned Lemmings...
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When we're mocking stupid Star Wars fans while we all wait on bated breath for the next story to appear, so we can karma whore.
Is it me or is this one hell of a frontpage troll? It reads likesome jock found a news story and thought he'd put the boot into us geeks.
If this is the case then please fuck off to somethingawful or whatever the hellhole is you hang out because here we're beyond judging people on how many women they have fucked or gone out with.
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Thats not very appropriate.
Hrrm... I usually just sign my name.
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.
Cheers,
Ian
I mean, really, this is something QUITE obvious. You'd think these people would at least make sure they're at the right theatre!
Please RTFA.
The Chinesse theatre has shown all of the previous star wars movies. When the last movie came out there were rumors it wouldn't be playing at the Chinese theatre, but it ended up premeiring there despite those rumors.
AFAIK, the Chinese theatre is a single screen theatre a few blocks away from a huge super-mega-multi-omni-ultraplex. Said plex is trying to work a deal to be the exclusive premeire of the latest lucas craptation, but no deal has been inked as of yet.
The fans in front of the Chinese theatre are standing there, in part, to protest an exclusive deal at the super-mega...-plex. There's something special about the Chinese theatre, I'm sure tradition and what not, and something about the plex-theatre having assigned seating with tickets sold on line, rather than sit where you like, or something. I'm not all knowing, but for christ's sake, RTFA before you post your garbage!
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-You spend 6-8 week in line for movie tickets to Star Wars and no one at work really misses you. /.), you overlook the possibility that this theatre may not premiere your beloved movie.
-While you're in line, your mom is just glad to have your ass out of the house so she can fumigate your room.
-In your zeal to be "first" (you're probably the same geeks that post "first post" trolls on
-Even slashdotters make fun of you.
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
They could actually end up seeing a decent movie.
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Nerd: very smart with poor people skills
Dork: dumb with poor people skills
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I saw Episode IV (the first one, at the time just called Star Wars) on its premier at the Chinese Theater (then called Mann's before the name went back to Graumann's). We didn't camp out but we did spend a couple hours in line.
Science fiction wasn't a big deal in those days. Probably the biggest sci fi film previously was 2001 from almost 10 years earlier. The last "line around the block" movie was Love Story. I was hoping it wouldn't be too crowded, but the weekend before it opened Time magazine had a big spread on the movie, with pictures that made it look fantastic. So we did have to wait pretty long.
But we got good seats, and as the lights went down I heard a couple of guys talking in the row behind us. Apparently they were in the industry and had already seen the movie in pre-release.
"I really envy the people here," he said.
"Why?" asked his buddy.
"Because they're about to see Star Wars for the first time."
Since moving to LA I've enjoyed many films at the Chinese Theater. In my opinion, it's still the best screen and auditorium in town. It seems like at the Chinese you're more likely to have a good crowd that's really into the film and having a good time. (The room holds close to 1500 people and the energy levels can be contagious... I always get a smile on my face when people start cheering the THX trailer before the film even starts...)
The one downside is, sometimes they book utter crap onto their main screen. A showing at the Chinese should be about spectacle. It's not where you want to see a small, intimate romantic comedy. It's where you go when you want to see things get blown up and have the speakers blast you out of your seat. As much as the Arclight tries, it really doesn't have the same impact as the Chinese, IMHO.
If Paramount is indeed a co-owner of Mann's, as the article mentions, that might explain some of their poor booking choices. No, I'm not in line, but I kind of agree with the guy interviewed. If it's not going to show at the Chinese, why bother seeing it on the big screen at all? Any other theater would pale in comparison and not be as enjoyable a movie-going experience.
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You know, I thought the preview looked pretty good too. But I don't trust George Lucas. You don't know the power of his urge to make shitty movies! Hayden Christenson will be a whiny bitch, there's going to be some sort of "American Idol" in-joke, and you're going to be so surprised, and you're going to bring your abused, broken heart here, blubbering your sorrow all over another thousand-comment thread, and you're going to receive the biggest "I told you so" ever fucking constructed.
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Still, I don't understand why people find it so strange that a small amount of hardcore fans dress each two years like their favorite hero but then, never make fun of the thousands of stupid jocks that paint their faces and go dressed in a clown looking way to their favorite football game every Sunday.
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