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Star Wars Premier: The Line People
proudtobeageek writes "A friend of mine, an attendee of a midnight opening of Star Wars Episode III, took the opportunity to conduct a short documentary/interview of the costumed movie goers. He has his short movie available here on his blog."
It's a trap!
I prefer the insightful documentary made during Episode II's release by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
An article, about a website, about a video a guy made, of people in costumes, waiting to see a movie.
Ya know it's a slow news day WHEN...
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
sorry.
:wq
I started to d/l this, and then I realized that I don't care.
I'm already tired of all this starwars crap.
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This movie sounds interesting. Conan O'brien made one a few years back as well. Unfortunately, I can't see this one because I've had a lot of problems in the past with the Quicktime plugin.
Any chance he can convert to another format? I hate installing quicktime, maybe it has something to do with the way it interacted with some old versions of firefox, but it has a way of invading my system and setting itself as default for everything that I don't want it to.
When can't get enough of them in the movie, just check out the lines to the restrooms. Otherwise, Vader might be your... uncle!
Movie Tickets - $10.00
..
Stale Popcorn / Watery Drink - $25.00
Custom Sith costume - $175
Lightsaber Replica (that you REALLY REALLY wished it worked) $75
Getting made fun of on Slashdot because you're a LAMER standing in line IN COSTUME for a movie
PRICELESS..
= Grow a brain...
Reminds me of Triumph the insult comic dog's attack on Star Wars fans waiting for Episode II...
Have you seen my stapler?
You see the problem is George Lucas is inherantly evil, notice the striking similarilty between George Lucas and Sien Fienn's Gerry Adams:
Gerry Adams
George Lucas
Man, you know you're truly hopeless when you are being mocked as a pathetic geek... *on Slashdot*
Well, now that I know that I can post videos to my Xanga and get it published on Slashdot, I'm going to post my vids of the Gigli premier.
Hopefully won't be slashdotted... http://coyote.ycp.edu/~hwhitney/Ep3-TheLinePeople. mov
Reminds me of the short film done on Late Night with Conan O'Brien featuring the dog with the cigar. He spends all day taking the piss out of a line of Star Wars fans dressed up waiting in line to see one of the earlier Star Wars flicks.
My friends and I were at the 12:05 AM showing. We saw 0 people dressed up for it. Talk about disappointed! What's the point of going to see starwars at 12:05 AM is you don't get to see/make fun of people dressed as imperial stormtroopers?
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
So, to email you we need to deGauss your signature? Cool!
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
"P.S.S. to all Slashdot visitors: The Hamster has kindly provided ANOTHER DOWNLOAD LINK. Please don't kill my server... But thanks for the visit!"
HAHAHAHAH, begging for mercy is not a thing a respectable Jedi Knight would do.
Slashdotters charge up their Death Star of DoS Doom...
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
I know it's probably a bad thing to look down on some of these people and quite a bit hypocritical seeing as I'm posting on a site billed as "News for Nerds", but I feel really bad for some of these people. Not all of them, mind you, but there are a handful of people who seem so far removed from reality and that actually fit into the "35-year old unbathed computer nerd living in parents' basement" stereotype that it makes one wonder where we as a society have let these people down.
Do I have better things to do than criticize Star Wars/Star Trek/LOTR fans? Yes, of course. And that's what I think sets me apart from these (for lack of a better term) "losers".
But their "loser"-status can't be all their fault. At some point, we as a society have turned them into these monsters by shunning them, excluding them, or mocking them for their odd and sometimes strange behavior. Perhaps it's some mild autism that they suffer from, or maybe some other neural disease that makes them "different" from most of us (and I use the word loosely) "normals".
A quarter of a century ago many people lined up to see Star Wars. The theaters were sold out. But they were sold out to relatively normal people. This week's Star Wars opening was sold out to a group of weirdoes who have lost touch with reality.
But perhaps it is us, the rest of the world, who has lost touch with them. And that is the real shame, I think.
I thought the dialogue in Episode 3 was extremely poor. Until I saw those interviews. "News" shouldn't be this cringe-worthy.
of all the people who are currently waiting in line to watch the movie. I will attempt to interview all 900,000 geeks who are currently destroying the edu link that was provided. Included commentary will have at least 20 "It's a trap" jokes, 12 "In Soviet Russia, line waits you", and 294,812 "all your bandwidth are belong to us" cracks.
not worth a /. article
:P
not worth a download
Can I get those 10 minutes back?
and WTF with the please type the text shown in this image BS?
Hey, slashdot editors. Consider updating the story with the coralized version of the URL:n mast.com/tangentideaproductions/Ep3-TheLinePeople. mov
http://redirect.nyud.net:8090/?url=http://www.rya
Just a thought. I'm surprised you guys don't just do this automatically by now.
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-- I beleve you'll like this -->
A friend and I were standing in line that wrapped around to the back side of a dome-style theater and some jerk forced the line to move up against the wall because he wanted to drive his SUV on through. I know this is California but driving a SUV doesn't give you the right to drive through a Star Wars line! Too bad no one had any working light sabers...
Just made ito v.torrent
http://mininova.org/get/45884/Ep3-TheLinePeople.m
Enjoy, although it's not very good in my opinion.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Q: What's the difference between a line of costumed Star Wars fans entering the premiere of EpIII and a line of costumed cardinals entering the conclave to pick the new pope?
A: The Star Wars line has a higher concentration of virgins.
A /. article... about a PERSONAL website... with VIDEO.
:-P
From the website:
"To slashdot users:
Please don't kill my server" lol
What a shitty movie... (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 22, @10:27PM (#12609942)
Seriously this thing is utter crap. How does this end up on the front page?
s/front page/movie screen/;
Sums up just about every SW flick after Empire.
Are there anything for episode 3 as spoofs/jokes? :( I was hoping there would be one for episode 3. That Comic Dog was so funny!
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This is just getting rediculous. When will people stop using such a shitty codec. I stopped the download as soon as I seen it was in Quicktime. I refuse to watch that peice of junk
Oh my God, that was so lame, it scared me.
And now I feel really old - I saw the first bloody movie when I was the age of some of those kids there.
We also queued up outside the cinema, about 5 of us, in Bangor, England.
Nobody had a movie camera. Nobody was dressed up. It was raining.
The movie was brilliant.
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
As (a friend of) a fellow who is legally blind, I find it disgusting that Slashdot has implemented a required "type the text shown in this image" to post.
I use a screen reader, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO USE THIS?
if his server dies i got another torrent at: http://xbmodder.us/ep3.mov.torrent Lets see how long? last time my server took 5 minutes or so to go down. I've tripled the capicity. Now what?
I had a costume; I wore a black suit when I saw S.W.E.III.
"Revenge of the Sith" rang in a whopping $50 million on its opening Thursday, a single-day record boosted by eagerly anticipated midnight showings, and its total receipts since then beat the four-day $134.3 million opening of 2003's "The Matrix Reloaded." The George Lucas film has also grossed $144.7 million overseas for a total of $303 million worldwide.
"The reaction to the movie is absolutely spectacular," said Bruce Snyder, president of domestic distribution at Twentieth Century Fox.
Theater owners, studios and marketing partners were pleased to see "Star Wars" jump-start the summer movie season. "It's a very strong start to what will hopefully be a very strong summer," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office tracker Exhibitor Relations. The Adam Sandler-Chris Rock remake of "The Longest Yard" and the animated zoo tale "Madagascar" open in wide release during Memorial Day weekend, traditionally one of the busiest movie viewing times of the year. But "Star Wars" - which has sold an average of eight tickets per second online at Fandango.com - could remain at the top of the box office despite the competition. "I think we have a shot to be No. 1 next week even with two giant pictures coming out," Snyder said. The third and final installment in the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy chronicles the transformation of the heroic Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker into the villainous Darth Vader. Studio exit surveys showed the audience - usually dominated by men for sci-fi films - was 58 percent male and 42 percent female, with nearly half the viewers under age 25, Snyder said. "Revenge of the Sith" is the first "Star Wars" film to earn a PG-13 rating.now which one of these buttons calls your parents to come pick you up?
"solution: do not fuck up the point-and-click install next time"
It's not a question of fucking up anything. Dunno about him, but let me assure you _I_ know where the associations and options pages are on both. It's either Firefox or Quicktime that's fucked up, or some unholy interaction between both: it forgets those options.
Actually, I suspect it's Firefox, seein' as even after I set it up to open MPEGs with DivX Player, it occasionally gets a brainfart and shows them with Quicktime embedded. Usually after I used CTRL-F a few times.
Also, more like wishful thinking than real hating Quicktime or anything, but I instinctively dislike _any_ program that wants to keep itself loaded in the tray. That includes Quicktime, Real Player, Open Office, Sun's recent JVMs, and anything which tries to stay there just to seem like it loads faster, as opposed to being _needed_ all the time. (E.g., video or sound drivers.)
I don't want half my RAM full of programs I use at most once a week. Even if I was a secretary, I wouldn't need Open Office in RAM all the time. And I'm still drawing blanks what-the-heck-a-profession would use the Real or Quicktime _viewer_ hundreds of times per day, so 1 second loading time makes a difference. Porn site reviewer maybe?
It's getting to the point where you can get your machine just as stuffed without even needing spyware. All those programs "helpfully" preloading themselves can already put a low end machine into swapping.
And what really bothers me is that it's invariably a way to hide crap programming.
It used to be at some point that code quality mattered. True, sometimes you had to end up with a larger program for extra speed (e.g., unrolling loops or special cases as separate functions) or for extra functionality. But not with stuff like loading 100 MB of Java VM, and several seconds of just pure initializing that, just because that's the buzzword of the day. And in any case, if your program took too painfully long to even load, it used to be _your_ problem, not the user's.
Now we just preload it and act like, w00t, our bloat loads instantly. We're so l33t. Too bad the user's machine now swaps, but now it's suddenly the user's problem, not ours. We can just call the user an idiot and move on.
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I can't avoid remembering the good laughs I had when Episode II came out and Triumph the insulting dog did this video.
To do list for Windows
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
Ahem...
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I brotha tha insightful documentary made dur'n Episode II's releaze by Triumph tha Insult Comic Dog Pusha.
in Erie PA a 60 mile drive for me I figured testosterone fest but actually their were more woman there than guys or at least thats how it seemed their was even this blonde babe (seriously ) dressed in the Leia bikini from the Jaba's palace scene though I think this version was cut a little different because it showed more cheek this could be because she had a softer not fat body. wish I had brought my camera
i went and saw this movie opening night in san antonio texas. Me and my friend were dressed up as sith lords but no one else at the movies was dressed up. Some of you may call this a blessing but i was seriously disappointed at the lack of star wars fanatics in the crowd.
...How many Slashdot posters are suddenly thinking they are too cool for Star Wars!
Knock it off! All I read about on here are how 'these people need to get a life,' or somebody complaining about 'this or that' shouldn't be on Slashdot... Like it's a shock that Star Wars would be on Slashdot. Maybe you are confusing this site with boingboing.com?
Stop acting too cool for grad school
Hmmmm. Should I avoid typing negative comments such as Why is this posted on Slashdot? Is this really news? WTF am I doing at 2:43AM EST on a Monday morning or should I find something positive such as... The ingenuity to grab a camera and capture a once in a lifetime specific event, put it on a web site and literally having it downloaded throughout the world overnight to possibly more viewers than saw the movie this weekend? Underneath this "lame" story there is something bigger. BTW I am a script reading robot :-)
I'd made myself a lightsaber out of hardware store items, and while not authentic it worked pretty well. (A chrome table leg, cut ot size, and then various bits of wire and plumbing supplies glued on - it's easy to make something that looks quite reasonable!) My partner made me a cloak, and I think I did quite a good job - certainly among the best Jedi costumes there, if I do say so myself.
But, as the subject line promised, the best was a male Princess Leia, complete with danish pastry hair and pointy breasts...he would have been quite becoming were it not for the stubble. Or have I said too much?
It's funny - I'm not really a huge Star Wars fan, but I do love the atmosphere of a midnight screening. There's something pretty awesome about seeing it, and having everyone cheer for the LucasFilm logo!
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Mystery solved. Get 'em George!
My brother works for an anime company as a sales guy. When they do the conventions, they're always stuck in the elevator after hours on their way to dinner with someone dressed in evangelion or whatnot, going to the allnight showing marathon.
His joking reaction? a gutteral 'Freak!' or 'Ner-urd!'
(sounded like a fog-horn)
Last time, his sales partner put his hand to his elbow, with a smile, "not freaks, revenue."
So now, he says "dude, did you check out that revenue?!" laughing all the way...
Terrible, I know. but please, rename your post, "Star Wars Revenue"
This isn't newsworthy. It's stupid and boring. Since when did /. become "News for Star Wars fanboys"?
For the record, the story about Star Wars Episode 3 being downloaded a lot? Same category. Dunno if any of the admins have been paying attention, but movies get downloaded once in a while and at least one or two of them have nothing to do with Star Wars.
I'm all for posting a story about the release of the film. It's a geek film. But half a dozen of the stupid things in a week is just plain rubbish. Slashdot is rapidly working it's way off my list of daily reads simply because I'm sick of reading the same articles over and over again. Seeing the same three articles every week is kinda boring: "Check out this Star Wars [blah]", "Google are about to take over the world", and "Microsoft sucks because Penguins are cute".
BORING!
Some of these guys are really, really lame. They kinda remind me of an episode from Sweden: Some Star Wars fans were camping out for a month in advance to see episode 2 and were excited as hell to get the first tickets. When they went inside and the movie started the theatre wasonly slightly more than half-full.
Furthermore the costumes are lame, lame, lame. When you are a smelly 37-year old nerd, you do not look even remotely like Amidala og Anakin.
Besides, everyone that matters knows the only thing you really need to bring to a premiere is a towel.
The video codec is Sorenson Video 3
The audio codec is Qualcomm PureVoice
If you don't like the QuickTime player there are many other players that will also play QuickTime contained multimedia.
Check out User Friendly before you mod me down. :P
Is it just me, or did Ryan Mast (the editor) seem to show alot of that "older" girl for their film?
LOL:
Ryan and the Star Wars geek girl,
sittin' in a tree,
doin' an interview-i-n-g.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
Last time, his sales partner put his hand to his elbow, with a smile, "not freaks, revenue."
;)
Only the marketing department would worry about the difference between freaks and revenue when talking about the same thing.
Think of it as population control. After being seen like that, you know they're not going to be procreating any time soon, if ever. ;)
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
I can't avoid remembering the good laughs I had when Episode II came out and Triumph the insulting dog did this video.
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Coming back to the US was crazy... I was supposed to meet Ashley and Chelle at a movie theater for episode 3 at
:)
midnight. Little problem being, my plane would have arrived at 11:30 which gave me no time to go home, drop my bags
and go there.
So what do I do? I asked them to give me a ride home so I could take a cab from the airport directly to the theater
and put my bags in their trunk. What happened instead was that I was told that Ashley was sick and they would have
had to go to a hospital.
I was worried, so I figured I'd try to divert to Austin to see if they needed a hand and to talk to a couple of
friends there to see if they could crash for the night. I picked a big argument with a homeland security guy over
some signatures to try to get on an earlier flight (NOT a good idea btw), and since that wasn't feasible either, I
persuaded the flight from newark to san antonio to land 20 minutes earlier (You should never try to talk to the
captain on an airplane unless you're younger than 12 as it looks very evil, but you can talk to them before the
flight). That allowed me to drop my bags at home and then go either to austin or to the theater in time. I woke up
my landlady and she told me that there had been no health emergencies, so I was glad that Ashley and Chelle made it
to the theater after all!
I saw their car while parking mine and made my way to the theater, but I couldn't find them. So I called out for
them and waited to see a wave. Since that didn't come, I went through all the screens with star wars in it, and
called out every time. Some people thought it was a staged event... crazy. One guy stood up and yelled "I'm here and yes I will marry you!" which prompted a lot of laughters. One other guy gave me his lightsaber to help look, but I guess it was in the wrong projection room. Still no answer.
Anyway, since at that point I knew that they were in the building but not in any of the screens (with the movie
about to start) I panicked because I guessed that they had gone to the movie, BUT Ashley was sick somewhere in the
building! So I got theater staff to look thru all the bathrooms. They didn't find anyone and I was stressed out
enough that I collapsed and missed a bit of the movie.
Then it turned out that Ashley and Chelle were in the right room all along and somehow didn't hear me, and now
they're both mad at me because I embarassed them. I sure embarassed myself in front of maybe a thousand people
but hey, I was trying to do the right thing. At least it's the right movie for that sort of message...
This all leaves me very confused, we did say we'd go see the movie together and I was trying to (1) reassure myself
that Ashley wasn't sick and (2) keep my committment to be there.
Does anyone have any advice on what to do? I still don't understand what had gone wrong, I have a pretty loud voice,
but I was polite about it and didn't interrupt anything more important than a couple of commercials.
why did he have a camera at a star wars?
;)
NOW we know where that torent cam came from....
Man...what a disappointing video. I was expecting something cool from the Hollywood line or something, but all I got was Mini-Mall USA with unaudible questions that didn't change. ::Sigh::
When I want to see a movie, I wait at least a few weeks before I can see it, so the theater is almost empty.
Nothing better then seeing LotR in a big theater when there are only 5 people in it. Nobody is kicking mty chair, nobody is asking stupid questions and nobody comes in late.
Yes, I go alone to the movies. I want to see the movie, so I do not give a rats ass if I know the person who sits next to me.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
and Wales is definitely not in England. Wales, FWIW, is where Alan Cox is from. Next time, check your geographical facts and do try not to offend people when you post.
good way to make your point... if i had mod points I would mod you underrated.
That's more or less what I wanted to post, especially seeing all the sad posts cheering that other lame dog-with-a-cigar video. I'm not even a SW fan, but I found that video lame and not funny. I just saw a lamer not even making jokes, but outright insulting people to their face because of their passtime didn't match the prescribed role for their age and social category. (Eew! They're playing Risk! That's a game for 12 year olds!) If that's funny...
It all boils down to enforcing conformity. If you don't act and dress like your prescribed role, you're an evil monster and a "loser". If you have a different passtime than the category you're pegged into, you're an evil monster and a "loser".
If you play Risk (or god forbid Warhammer 40k or Battletech) instead of Chess, or MTG instead of Bridge or Poker, you're a "loser" and an evil monster. If you spend 4 hours a day in front of the TV with a console game and a controller in hand, instead of 4 hours a day on the same TV but on sports channel with a beer can in hand, you're a "loser" and an evil monster. If you spend all weekend working on your computer, instead of working all week on your car like a Real Man (TM), you're a "loser" and an evil monster. And god forbid that you dare wear anything other than the approved uniform for your category, because that _really_ makes you an unholy monster.
If you don't want to be an evil monster, then, see, you have to dress like this, hold the beer can and remote like this while watching sports on TV, go to the same pub all the neighbours go to, etc.
Even if you want to be a rebel teenager, see, you can't just go ahead and do it your way. Nosiree, bob. Only "losers" do things their own way. To properly be a "rebel" you have to mindlessly conform to the "teenage rebel" role. Here's the approved list of rebel clothes, music, passtime and conversation topics.
Welcome to being sheep.
And it seems to me like WTH is the problem with these self-appointed guardians of conformity? Do their property values go down because someone two streets away spends too much time with a computer or watches the "wrong" movies, or what? Seems to me that whether I wanted to wear a business suit, or a spandex super-hero suit and cape, or a Jedi robe with "I went to the dark side and all I got was this stupid robe" on the back (never wore any of the three, but just saying), it ought to be noone else's business.
*sigh* Guess I might as well become a misanthrope now and avoid the christmas rush.
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To the posters who feel the need to deride the people in the video: Look in the fucking mirror!
What's really sad is that this video has more personality and livelier people than the movie they're on line to see.
Like, embarassing, and I am sitting alone.
someone in a black cloak once spent an hour explaining how its "dark lord" and not "dork lord".
no sense of humour.
...to the guys lining up at the wrong theatre? Did they get a showing?
But perhaps it is us, the rest of the world, who has lost touch with them. And that is the real shame, I think
I'm sure calling them losers is bound to help.
"But seriously, there is a problem. Over 40% of males end up living with their parents into their twenties these days."
No, I don't live with my parents, in fact I live half a country away. Even visiting each other occasionally is a bit inconvenient. But I'm still left scratching my head "and the problem with being a family is...?"
See, virtually all cultures and societies used to be centred around the family until recently. Whether it was a farm or a medieval blacksmith's shop or whatever, it was _normal_ for a house to be the home for a whole extended family, and it was _normal_ at least for the firstborn to stay with the parents until they die.
E.g., when you read about the Vikings who sacked England or ended up elite bodyguards as far as Byzantium or Baghdad, those weren't really the cool ones. Those were the disinherited ones who had to fight or starve to death. The "cool" ones were those who inherited their father's farm and didn't have to fight. The ones who, in fact, lived with their parents not only into the 20's, but all the way until the parents died.
The craze about being on your own, and thinking you're so cool because you have no support, and your starving or not depends on a PHB's whims is an industrial age invention. I.e., a very recent one.
Is it really that much better. Yes, you're so cool, you live on your own, you have a big house and a car of your own. And it'll be so cool until you're old and sick. Then your choice will be to die lonely and abandoned in your home, or half-starved and still abandoned in the cheapest asylum your kids could find. Because now it would be sooo _uncool_ for your kids to have a parent in _their_ house.
We churn generation after generation who _will_ spend the last decade of their life abbandoned among strangers, and die among strangers.
Not saying that I have a better solution or anything, but it makes me sorta idly wonder... is it really that much of an improvement?
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All I have to say is that the moderators must really be looking hard for uses for those mod points for this to get modded +5 Insightful.
Of course being a Star Wars fan is not a disease and I didn't mean to imply that such was the case.
Rather I meant that rates of diseases like autism seem to run pretty high in the geek community. Aspergers is the most commonly mentioned mental handicap around Slashdot, and it is closely related with autism. The people who have Aspergers typically withdraw from normal interaction and as a result get pigeonholed by "normal" people as being weird and strange. Rather than being seen as victims of a disease, they are treated like monsters, avoided and mocked.
Anecdotal evidence aside, I'd love to see the rates of Aspergers/autism among those camping out to see Star Wars/LOTR/etc compared to the general populace. It would even be enlightening to see those rates compared with those who work in the IT industry at large.
Does somebody remember the old Sev Wars parodie of Episode I?
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It is also damn funny:
http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/atom_12
Hey, you just assume that I went to school! ;) Anyway, Mr. AC Troll, I will pick up your bait: you are mistaken in claiming that Bangor is not in Wales and that Wales is in England. Let me quote from the Collins English Dictionary:
Since the original poster (that wasn't you, was it, AC?) had said "England", I was fairly sure he was not talking about the Bangor in Northern Ireland, but rather about the Bangor in the part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain known as "England and Wales", which must never be shortened to just "England" because Wales is indeed a separate nation, if not a sovereign state. Wales even has national sides in soccer and rugby, just as Scottland and Northern Ireland and England do. FWIW, the Welsh won the last Six Nations, defeating England (another nation) in the process. OK, I think that's enough now.
BTW, you didn't have to insult me in order to disagree with me, did you? And, actually, if one were to assume that you went to school, then your claim that Bangor is not in Wales and that Wales is in England... well, never mind -- I don't want to play this game with you.
However, as a Brit, we have problems with violence on our city streets at night due to excessive drinking, we have to heavily police soccer matches to stop rival fans from waging war on each other, we have joyriders stealing cars and endangering themselves and every other user on the road, we have kids believing it's humourous to walk up to someone and just slap them purely to capture the event on a mobile phone camera...
So while the people queuing in the documentary may be seen as "wierdos" or "geeks", they're probably people that also don't get involved in the type of antisocial activities that I described above.
It's the "cool" people, in their constant strive for recognition amongst their peers, who usually end up being the antisocial people, not the geeks who queue for Star Wars and play Dungeons & Dragons.
If anything, geeks demonstrate they're intelligent enough to have enough individuality to just go do their own thing and enjoy it.
I say good luck to them...
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There is a lost art to making fun of people, or mocking them. It involves some subtlety. You know, stuff like irony, sarcasm, insinuation and/or goading them into acting like fools themselves.
/. that episode 4 was nothing special, and Obi Wan holds his lightsaber like he'd hold his *ahem* tool when peeing. That everyone only liked episode 4 because they saw it when they were 6 years old. I'm not really SW fan material.
E.g., Jay Leno, back in the 90s when I still bothered watching TV at all, was funny. He could bring up all sorts of mean stuff, but... without coming and spewing insults as such. He let you fill in the dots yourself.
E.g., Dilbert manages to _occasionally_ be funny, even in all its sheer anti-management bitterness. Whereas the average "my boss sucks donkey balls and should die" blog isn't.
Just outright insulting people to their face isn't the same thing. It lacks any kind of finesse.
There is no insinuation or irony in telling a pregnant woman that her unborn son will be a nerd and never even see female genitals. It's just a very very nasty thing to say to a mother. It ranks almost up there with saying "I foresee that your son will die of cancer."
And dunno, maybe I'm just deffective or not judgmental enough to find that kind of thing funny.
And again, it's not even about SW and its fans, seein' as I'm not one. You know, I'm the guy who posted on
I'd still find it not funny against anyone, though. Jocks, prom queens, rappers, bad managers, you name it. E.g., God knows I've posted a lot against bad management, but if anyone went to a management convention and started outright insulting random managers... dunno, I don't think I'd find that funny either.
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http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyondergames/ trailers/ROFL.STARWARS.NERDS.wmv
Featuring Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
And what's left on the loan or runs your school is the principal. A concept is a principle. A big letter is a capital. The white marble round thing is the Capitol. When you don't win you lose. Not to be tight is loose. If something isnt yours it's theirs. Where they are is where they're. let's work on this, people.
I'm sick of hearing people complaining about slashdot.
Another one was Carrie Fisher in the slave costume in Return of the Jedi.
Hard to believe Mark Hamill is in his late 50's with kids of his own. He's done well as an actor.
Lucas came out pretty well, too, with a personal worth of around 3bn. I could live on that. :)
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
... parents' basements across the nation were rocking!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
http://coyote.ycp.edu.nyud.net:8090/~hwhitney/Ep3- TheLinePeople.mov
..these people would never leave their parents' basements...
You might enjoy Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes. It was a Yahoo! pick recently.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
These people are rediculous. What goes wrong in your life that allows you to become so obsessed with a movie that you dress up to go see it?
Does anybody see the irony in this kid having the camera inside the theatre? Past the part where you pay that is. I'm sure the staff wasn't asking any questions regarding the potential bootlegging. I guess someone beat him to the punch anyways. Bootlegs were out within hours of the opening show.
Examples:
The moral of the story - everyone can "geek out" about something, but it takes a true nerd to do it in public.
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-- In Soviet Russia, radio listens to YOU!
You just gotta wonder: with no new Star Wars movies on the horizon, where will these ppl find good movie lines to stand in?
First of all, both Battletech and Chess are board games, played with pieces over a board. Face to face. Both MTG and Poker are card games. That's why I paired them like that: because the medium isn't _that_ different.
Chess is no more and no less a wargame than Battletech or Warhammer: it was in fact designed to be a wargame from the start, modelled after the real armies of that era. (The "bishop" was a war elephant, pawns were footsoldiers, etc.) When two people meet to play chess, it's no more and no less playing a battle than in Battletech. Except one makes you some intellectual elite, the other makes you a loser.
I'm not even talking about playing the online versions of either. (Although I can vouch for at least MegaMek as an excellent online implementation of Battletech. Open Source too. Check it out on Sourceforge.) In both cases the people are face to face, but in one of the cases that makes them nerds without a life or something.
So why is it that spending the weekend playing Poker is OK, but spending the weekend playing MTG past an age would get half the people looking down on you? Heck, if anyone heard that a co-worker lost $2000 at poker, they'd probably pat them on the shoulder and show some compassion. (Even if the kind of compassion to an addict.) But if anyone heard that an adult co-worker spent $200 (i.e., a tenth of that) on MTG cards, chances are good they'd think "gee, what a loser nerd".
Why?
Or how about football? Don't tell me that's not escaping reality, even though it doesn't involve stormtroopers or dwarves. (Although it does involve equally silly outfits.)
Now if I gathered myself and three friends on the couch and watched some good ol' american football, it would be ok and socially acceptable. But if the exact same 4 people, on the same couch, and in front of the same TV, played a 4-player game of, say, Gauntlet Legends, it would be a case of "gee, such nerdy losers. Grow up, get out more."
Why? What's so different between the two. What makes one an ok and socially acceptable way to spend your life, and the other some pathologic refuse for losers? It still involves the same people, they still meet in person, etc. Why is one of them somehow so unsocial, and why does meeting people count as "hiding from people"?
Or ok, you've met with your friends in a park, or at a cigarette break at work, and you're talking. Social enough, right? Yes, well, if you talk about yesterday's football game, it's social. But if the same people talk about yesterday's RPG or video game session, you're a bunch of nerds and losers.
Maybe it's the costumes that make it be bad? Well, no. Going in a stupid costume and with a flag painted on your face to a football match, now that counts as socially acceptable. Not the kind of "acceptable" you'd do at the office, mind you, but the kind where everyone understands "eh, people need to vent steam and act like fans now and then" or "eh, it's just a football game, it's normal". But if you go in a Jedi robe to a movie, or in a chain maille to LOTR, eeew, now that makes you such a loser.
Why? Both are wearing a costume to an event.
That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. Things that are basically not that different, one counts as OK, one makes you a "loser". Things that _are_ social make you "a lonely nerd" just because they're not _the_ prescribed social passtimes for the age and social group you're pegged in.
And I'd be damned if I find any other good explanation than mindless prejudice and conformism.
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(in Atlanta) We had a Female storm trooper. An initial doubletake revealed a, um, Breast Plate with a different profile, and an exposed middrift.
She pulled it off admirably well. But the whole 'clone trooper' thing muddies the issue somewhat. Perhaps there was a bored lab tech worker.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
OK, and old fogey of 41 lending his two cents here - back when Jedi premiered, I could somewhat understand people waiting in line and getting dressed up - Star Wars and Empire were a great couple of movies, there was a big clif hanger at the end, and six years of waiting was coming to fruition. But people that became fans only seeing the NEW movies in the theatre? WTF? Is there a certain subset of people that actually became interested in the series based on the "strengths" of Ep 1 and 2?
The triumph the insult comic dog version is better...
www.starterupsteve.com/ video/Conan-Triumph-Star-Wars.html
I can't believe I just watched that crap. What a waste of time and /. front page space.
(warning...mildly off-topic, and I haven't watched the vid, as I'm at work and most things here are disabled and blocked off) But what about those who went with something a little more permanent: tattoos! I mean, I'm in the midsts of doing Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire sleeves, but because role-playing doesn't appeal to me - and others like me - we're dismissed as childish zealots.
Who is the bigger fan, the guy who dresses up in a tunic and a robe that can be stowed away at the end of the evening, or the guy with several grands worth of tattoos that will be with him forever? I mean, don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against those who get their kicks by dressing up as their favorite character (and there were some pretty great costumes out there this past week), but to be absolutely overlooked as a true hardcore fan because I'm not in the local Stormtrooper chapter just kind of irritates me.
"How like you to drag your keyboard to a gun fight." - Aaron Bedard (BANE)
Who's the bigger loser, the nerd or the jock or mocks him?
No sig for you!!
-Find a large group of people having fun
-Grab a video camera
-Use a puppet to avoid having to film yourself
-Repeat the same virgin joke 27 times in succession
-Mix in a prerecorded laugh track
Why is this funny?
Yeah, the folks in costume are dorks. However, it's the people sitting at home watching TV trying to laugh at the moviegoers that are out socializing that have no life.
I happen to be very good friends with one of the professional costumers who does this in her spare time. I also accompanied her to this year's celebration 3. I had never been to one of these, but I figured what the hey, its the last movie and I grew up on this stuff, it'll be a fun vacation.
Well, you might have seen her on TV. She was dressed as Bousch(spelling?) the bounty hunter Leia was disguised as in Return of the Jedi. She was on MSNBC, G4(yeah I shuddered too), and multiple other networks. She even had a number of Lucasfilm and ILM VIPs come up to her and ask for pictures/compliment her on the authenticity of her outfit. She also happens to be about the exact same height and build as Leia in RotJ so, to say the least, she was pretty spot on.
Anyway, why does she do it? She does it because it is a fun hobby, and because she likes to see the kids smile. She's a school teacher too, again in large part because of the kids. That's why a lot of the professionals(like the 501st) are doing this. To these people it is a hobby just like radio controlled airplanes, model boat building, etc. Only they end up wearing the final product. And they do it for the reactions and to see the kids smile and the adults remember a bit of their childhood.
Now, that said, there certainly are a few nuts out there. A lot of the time these people will show up in these lines and such. These are the people who just threw something together in a day or less. These are kind of like the big fat guys with painted beer bellies you see at sports events. The professionals are more like your cheerleaders, and they take their job pretty seriously. They get some nice perks too, the professionals that is. My friend has had private sit down dinners with the likes of Peter Mayhew, Jeremy Bulloch, Ian McDermand, Ben Burtt etc. You get to meet some neat people apparantly
Anyway, it isn't something I would choose to do as a hobby, but I gained a lot of respect towards the professionals who do this in their spare time after my trip to Celebration 3. So yeah, laugh, smile, joke, or have fun with them all, thats part of why they are there. But, hopefully this will let you see the people who do this sort of stuff as a serious hobby in a bit different light. I know I did.
You are who you are, let no one tell you different. But, never close your mind to a new point of view.
"if anyone went to a management convention and started outright insulting random managers... dunno, I don't think I'd find that funny either.
Holy shit, that's the best comedy idea I have heard in years. Somebody tell Leno about this, it needs to be done!
Where are you when we need you?
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
I don't like to make fun of lonely geeks. Yet they force me to laugh at them everytime I see a line of grown up men with kids toys and costumes. What the hell? I mean, really, grow up.
All my friends had their 15 minutes of fame as they went dressed as mexican jedis.....
RUPERT! I TOLD YOU TO WATCH THE BAGS! You were looking at the boys again, WEREN'T YOU.
WHat? What you say?
StarWars is of utmost importance to the lives of all this wasp skinny motherfuckers.
They have little other life whatsoever, give them a break.
I mean, are you shure you dont want to be posting in KewlCeos.com?
Go there you.... you... son of a suit!
NO SIG
He's not Triumph the Insinuating comic dog or Triumph the Ironic comic dog, or Triumph the Subtle comic dog.
If he weren't insulting people, he wouldn't really be living up to his name.
He's Triumph the Insult comic dog, and that's what he does. He insults people for comedic effect. If you don't find it funny, that's fine. I don't find Gallagher's brand of melon-squashing humor funny. But some people do. And to those people I say "Don't forget your raincoat!", not "You shouldn't enjoy his humor because it's not funny."
This was one pretty sad theater... we see like 2 or 3 people! I can tell you, the atmosphere was really twelve thousand times better than on that piece of video. Unfortunatly, video cams were not allowed in the theater, so I couldn't grab this wonderful moment. Where else can you see two people disguised as a AT-AT walker? I ask you!
What about the insult he gave the chubby guy dressed as a jedi, that he ate peanut M&M's throughout the galaxy? What about the joke about the guys spending their time playing stratego all day outside instead of inside? All the jokes did not have to do with virginity.
That clip was just funny. Comedy has to do with timing, and tone; Triumph just knows how to do comedy. He is funnier that GWAR.
And broadcast the results on pay-per-view!
"It takes a fragile person to crumble under an insult especially a funny one."
/. going depressed at some piece of news that a flame-retardant in their computer might cause mild autism. Telling someone basically "_you_ are the cause why your kid will fail" is a very nasty thing to tell a parent.
The fact is that on Earth people crumble every day from being insulted. I personally know people who have burned out and dropped a line of work because a PHB kept insulting their work. I know people who are still fragile precisely because someone found it supremely funny to mock them all through high school.
We churn generation after generation of those, in fact. And yes, invariably someone else -- sometimes the whole class -- found it way funny to play a cruel prank on someone. Again.
So if in your world it's a sin to be fragile and crumble under insults, well, dunno, I'd like to know which world is that. Because in the real world, repeated insults -- that kind of video being just one in a life-long series for some people -- does cause permanent damage. In the real world _very_ few people are strong enough to simply shrug off being told daily that their hobbies suck, their clothes suck, and generally their whole life sucks, without causing some damage.
"That type of fragile person is also the type that would not go out into public in an insult magnet of a costume."
Yes, as opposed to everyone who got sent that video making fun of one of their hobbies.
Or as opposed to those playing Risk. As I remember, those were _not_ wearing costumes, they were just passing the time in the line. Well, gee, we so need someone telling people what games are socially acceptable for an age group. What next? Make fun of people playing with a GameBoy in public, because it doesn't fit their age group? Yeah, looking at the walls for hours would be so much more fun and normal.
"translation: Get off my lawn"
No, translation: if it doesn't cause any damage to anyone else, it shouldn't be anyone else's business. So if anyone can document _how_ were they grievously harmed by someone's Jedi suit, I fail to see what business of theirs it is.
On the other hand I see a group of "cool" people who have to base their self-respect on victimizing others. Again, causing very real damage every day.
"as for comparing that to dying of cancer, I feel very sad that you consider yours, mine, and everyone's geekhood to be some sort of fatal curse. I consider it to be a welcome part of my personality."
Yes, and I suppose telling a _mother_ that her child will be an outcast, and because of her at that, is gonna be just as welcome. Right.
We've had parents of autistic kids even on
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
We had a small troop of Stormtroopers at our theater along with a few Ghetto-Jedi, a Maul, and an Amidala or two. But we did something different.
We dressed up a friend of ours in an old STar Trek the Next Generation uniform and pushed him out in front of the Stormtroopers. Of course, they wanted to kill him. But it was all in fun.
And yes, we took pictures. <URL:http://www.marachan.com/>
No fanboys were harmed in the taking of those pictures... well, maybe just a little.
Some people like it, some do not. It's the same reason some people brave the elements in the dead of winter to go to a football game. It adds to the experience when you're surrounded by thousands of screaming fans. Similarly, at a theater, if you're a big Star Wars nerd (like I am), the goosebumps you get when the opening story crawls across to the familiar Star Wars theme, accompanied by the cheers of many other nerds such as yourself, make the inconviences worth it.
We did something similar... we dressed up a friend of ours in a Star Trek uniform and pushed him in front of the STormtroopers. THey wanted to kill him of course, but it was fun anyway. We did take pictures! http://www.marachan.com/ He wasn't hurt... much.
Well, I played it without problems. It should be safe to just get the video file anyway.
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