Star Wars Premier: The Line People 379
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."
Another format please? (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
It's sad, in a way (Score:1, Interesting)
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.
SUVs are bad for lines... (Score:2, Interesting)
Geeeeeks ! (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Re:In other news... (Score:3, Interesting)
WRT the movie take, I can't believe how many news stories I've seen about the evils of piracy (omigawd, there's already copies on the net!) followed or preceeded almost immediately by stories about how much money this movie has taken in.
No matter how much protection is put in place, people who want to see the movie for free will see it for free. People who believe in paying for what they get will continue to pay for what they get. And as long as the quality of a movie is good enough, the ratio of payors to non-payors will remain good enough that there will be no reason to cry for the producers, who will inevitably be sleeping on beds stuffed with money.
I'm not totally against DRM, but when it's totally invasive (if the fingerprint stuff takes off, I'm switching to shadow-puppets for entertainment!), it's worthless. And when our lawmakers are wasting time on protecting the wealth of billionaires instead of educating our children and providing for the health care of the masses, I wonder where we all went wrong.
OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.
Re:Only on Slashdot... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Did they do one for episode 3? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I don't get it.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Movie Tickets (for two): 15.00
Fresh Popcorn / OK drink (for two, free refills): $8.50
Getting to watch people in costume whack each other with light sabers, not to mention the Storm Trooper hired for "crowd control": Free
Not standing in line because we had reserved seating: Priceless!
Not that standing in line can't be fun. I've done it for every other Star Wars film (except the first), for Batman, and a few others. But I'll take the reserved seating any time.
I've now seen every Star Wars at the first (local, open to the public) showing. The first one the theater was almost empty, walked in slightly late to see the big cruiser rumbling overhead just before it captures Leia's ship, then of course I had to sit through it a second time since I missed the first few minutes...I'm pretty sure that was the last movie I saw where they let you sit through a show as many times as you wanted - it was common practice to arrive at the theater pretty much any time, watch the last part of the movie, then watch the first part and leave when you got to the part you walked in.
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Whatever happened... (Score:4, Interesting)
Are you sure it's not a disease? (Score:1, Interesting)
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.
Re:It's sad, in a way (Score:2, Interesting)
The thing I don't get is there are plenty of people that get at least this crazy about sports or other things every damn day and thats considered normal. Us as fans don't have events that happen every Monday night for weeks and weeks every year. So it all gets crammed into this time period that is relevant to something we enjoy. Its not like all every star wars fan does is watch and talk about star wars for our whole life. This was just an excuse to do that for a short period.
Anybody who has ever had any passion for anything in there life should have some understanding of what goes through the minds of a person who would wait in line for a movie. And such a big part of the whole thing is doing with other people and having fun together. In my opinion being passionate about a movie means you are probably also passionate about other things as well ( career, family, or even sports. )and passion about something put into positive use is what drives us as humans ( If I can get 'deep for a moment')
Re:Only on Slashdot... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Obligatory... (Score:2, Interesting)
Me in the Newspaper [livejournal.com]
It was fun being on every newscast. People I've never met before recognize me.
Amazing (Score:5, Interesting)
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. :)
Our theater - Hubba hubba! (Score:3, Interesting)
She pulled it off admirably well. But the whole 'clone trooper' thing muddies the issue somewhat. Perhaps there was a bored lab tech worker.
Pretty Sad Theater (Score:2, Interesting)