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."
Obligatory... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Obligatory... (Score:3, Funny)
"Download Episode III"
Get Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Watch on your PC. Burn to DVD/VCD.
Ok, so maybe Lucas is moving fast to release the DVD and get the money before he dies... but come on, what gives?
Re:Obligatory... (Score:5, Funny)
You got your 15 minutes of fame in Wichita, Kansas? Dude, someone owes you about 14.8 more minutes in a real city somewhere.
Re:Obligatory... (Score:3)
Me in the Newspaper
It was fun being on every newscast. People I've never met before recognize me.
yes, but did it score you a girlfriend?
comedy (Score:5, Funny)
Did they do one for episode 3? (Score:2)
Re:Did they do one for episode 3? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:comedy (Score:5, Funny)
Only on Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)
Ya know it's a slow news day WHEN...
Re:Only on Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)
KFG
Re:Only on Slashdot... (Score:2)
Who was it that said, to know recursion you must first know recursion?
Re:Only on Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only on Slashdot... (Score:5, Funny)
Worse. (Score:5, Funny)
From the website:
"To slashdot users:
Please don't kill my server" lol
Re:Only on Slashdot... (Score:3, Insightful)
Funny? No.
Witty? Hardly.
Informative? Not Quite.
Worthy of
A pathetic attempt to plug an otherwise unremarkable blog? Bingo.
you mean... (Score:3, Informative)
sorry.
Whoop-de-doo. (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm already tired of all this starwars crap.
Re:Whoop-de-doo. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Whoop-de-doo. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Whoop-de-doo. (Score:3, Informative)
However, I have a sister in High School and one in college.
Yes, you missed the memo.
Star Wars is not cool -
and it hasn't been for about a decade.
Anyone with strong feelings about Star Wars is a geek, like the rest of us - which isn't cool.
It has also, however, fallen out of favor with the uncool and now resides in the land of the truly emotionally handicapped whose identity is defined by their worship of it.
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.
Re:Another format please? (Score:2)
Re:Another format please? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Another format please? (Score:2, Insightful)
It's not that easy (Score:2, Flamebait)
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 aft
Star Wars Freaks... (Score:5, Funny)
I object to your use of the word, Freak. (Score:5, Funny)
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"
I don't get it.. (Score:5, Funny)
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..
Re: (Score:2)
Re:I don't get it.. (Score:2, Funny)
Not Star Whores.
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
Re:I don't get it.. (Score:3, Insightful)
A Friend my ASS (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A Friend my ASS (Score:2)
Re:A Friend my ASS (Score:3, Informative)
Actually a number of stories are posted in areas other then the front page. Look on the left side of the screen under 'Sections'. Each of those sections contains articles, many of which never reached the main slashdot.org page...
Bottom of the Barrel (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bottom of the Barrel (Score:2, Insightful)
There've been worse... (Score:3, Funny)
Direct download link (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Direct download link (Score:2, Informative)
I was disappointed (Score:2)
Re:I was disappointed (Score:2)
Re:I was disappointed (Score:2)
Re:I was disappointed (Score:2)
Re:I was disappointed (Score:3, Funny)
It would be even funnier if I acted really surprised that the movie showing was Star Wars... Or if I got a really hot-looking chick to go along with me dressed as Janet. Maybe even bring along all the usual Rocky Horror props (newspaper, toast, squirt guns, rice, etc.)
Hmm... note to self in case Lucas ever changes his mind and makes films 7-9...
Re:I was disappointed (Score:3, Informative)
Would that not be Republican Storm Troopers? As of Episode II the Republic was still intact.
On his website already: (Score:5, Funny)
HAHAHAHAH, begging for mercy is not a thing a respectable Jedi Knight would do.
Slashdotters charge up their Death Star of DoS Doom...
Re:On his website already: (Score:3, Funny)
Coralized version of the URL (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
SUVs are bad for lines... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:SUVs are bad for lines... (Score:3, Funny)
"Lord of the Sith on board... NOW how's my driving?"
Re:SUVs are bad for lines... (Score:2)
Re:SUVs are bad for lines... (Score:2)
The Torrent is here (Score:5, Informative)
http://mininova.org/get/45884/Ep3-TheLinePeople.m
Enjoy, although it's not very good in my opinion.
Costumed lineups (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Costumed lineups (Score:2)
I wonder why Uncle Vader was hanging out in the restrooms.
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.
I had a costume (Score:2)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
"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.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 e
Re:In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm going to have to skip this one, no matter how much it pains me. I'm saving my money to stand in line for the Carrot Top-Pauly Shore remake of "Cool Hand Luke."
KFG
Re:In other news... (Score:4, Insightful)
So, the title should have been "The Revenge of the Movie Industry" or "The Cash Sucking Machine Strikes Back"?
oblig. (Score:5, Funny)
Come on guys (Score:4, Insightful)
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!
Retarded (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Retarded (Score:5, Funny)
I was just taking an english lit class from someone who worked at a bookshop where Douglas Adams came for a signing. While she was helping with the signing, a very ditzy very attractive fan came through line and said, without a hint of sarcasm in her voics, "Mr. Adams, I brought a towel with me for you to sign, has anyone else ever done that?"
Mr. Adams looked her in the eye, and with a completely straight face, said, "No, you're the first one" than signed the towel.
Talk about standing in line... (Score:4, Funny)
This is a good thing(tm) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is a good thing(tm) (Score:3, Insightful)
C'mon! We're the ones reading slashdot!
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Re:I don't get it (Score:4, Insightful)
Not only is it insanely expensive ($15 / ticket now at the movie palace in my city! I can buy a DVD and own it for unlimited viewings for that) and you have to sit through 1/2 hour of commercials for coke, msn and countless cars plus the movies themselves are commericals now with all the blatant product placement
Why on earth anyone actually pays for that kind of experience these days is just beyond me.
I love movies but I'd rather rent or buy a DVD and kick back at home in my underwear where I can watch the whole movie through and not have to worry about other people killing it for me.
Whatever happened... (Score:4, Interesting)
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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. :)
Re:Amazing (Score:3, Funny)
Man, I love it when the humor is that subtle.
Re:Amazing (Score:3, Insightful)
-WS
Re:Amazing (Score:4, Insightful)
I still get weirded out by Leia kissing Luke in the first one, now that we know the real relation.
And my favorite all-time classic movie moment comes from 'Jaws'. The police chief (Roy Scheider) is chumming, while Quint and Hooper are arguing inside the boat. The shark surfaces, and then Scheider's character backs into the room, cigarette dangling from the bottom lip, he says, "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
God, I love that scene. Quintessentially perfect. The cigarette. The delivery. The expression. They should have given him an oscar just for that one scene.
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.
Re:It's sad, in a way (Score:5, Insightful)
I.e., enforcing conformity (Score:3, Insightful)
It all boils down to enforcing conformity. If you don't ac
Re:I.e., enforcing conformity (Score:5, Insightful)
You bring up a lot of good points... people are often cruel and the pressure to conform can be overwhelming. But this isn't about being sheep; my board-game/Magic/role-playing buddies and I all thought the Triumph [amazon.com] Star Wars video was hilarious. Hell, many of the Star Wars fans were cracking up while they were being mocked. Triumph has the same effect when he makes fun of Bon Jovi and their fans, Hollywood Squares, American Idol, and Hawaii. He could target jocks and prom queens and it'd be just as funny.
We're all absurd in our own ways, so lighten up and enjoy the ride.
I just don't find outright insults funny (Score:3, Insightful)
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 [dilbert.com] manages to _occasionally_ be funny, even in all its sheer anti-management bitterness. Wh
Re:I just don't find outright insults funny (Score:3, Insightful)
you messed up some golden punch lines
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."
First of all, jokes don't all have to rely on irony or subtilty, they can rely on TIMING.
He asked when she was due... she told him and he said that she would remember it
Re:I.e., enforcing conformity (Score:5, Insightful)
Fantasy worlds come in all sizes and shapes (Score:3, Insightful)
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
Re:Fantasy worlds come in all sizes and shapes (Score:3, Insightful)
Some humans find comfort in the familiar. Things that are different, or apart from the herd, are disturbing and to be avoided.
Your comment reminds me of a sci-fi story I read where the basic premise was that most humans in the future rode around on all-terrain wheelchair-type vehicles. They depended on them so much that their legs atrophied and they couldn't walk anymore. When these people saw someone walking (they had an insulting name for them I cannot recall) they would actually try to run them over
Re:It's sad, in a way (Score:2, Redundant)
Don't blame society because someone's parents didn't kick the lazy kid out on his arse to find his own way around this world.
"Son, you have a car, a nice computer, and a cell phone. You need a place to keep it all now."
Re:It's sad, in a way (Score:2)
Thanks.
Re:It's sad, in a way (Score:2)
Why don't you just use the one in the line above?
Hey! Where'd it go?
Re:It's sad, in a way (Score:5, Insightful)
Come on, isn't that a *tad* too much? Their behaviour is strange to you; they are happy, they have fun and they don't hurt anybody. Why bother? You said it yourself, you have better things to do with your spare time than critizing movies. They don't, they like it. Tastes vary.
Oh, and it's not a disease; these people are not sick. They just engage in activities most people find odd.
GO TO OPRAH, GO TO OPRAH (Score:2)
Ahem...
Re:It's sad, in a way (Score:2)
As an admitted dweeb[1], I have only one response:
Reality Is Overrated!!!
Next!
[1] but not necessarily a Starwars dweeb
Re:It's sad, in a way (Score:3, Insightful)
How dare you judge these people. Who are YOU to judge them. You're the one posting on here about them despite claiming to have "b
Re:It's sad, in a way (Score:5, Insightful)
WHY is it a problem? (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
Re:What a good story....for me to POOP on! (Score:2)
Re:That was so (Score:2)
Also I was ready to ridicule the shit out of these unknowing folks but the material just wasn't there. Kids
Re:Quicktime sucks (Score:3)
Beyond that, it's a good way of ensuring that people on both Windows and Mac platforms can watch it. What would you prefer? wmv? ogg? When you're aiming for the maximum audience then Quicktime isn't bad. Not perfect, but not bad.
Repeat after me: QuickTime is NOT a codec! (Score:5, Informative)
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 [mplayerhq.hu] players [videolan.org] that will also play QuickTime contained multimedia.
Re:Image "captchas" are an accessibility nightmare (Score:3, Funny)
I'm confused. I thought you said your friend was legally blind... but you use the screen reader?
In any case, if you were using a screen reader, you'd probably hear the text that is contained in the ALT tag for the image:
FYI - you don't get the captchas when you are logged in (even if you decide to post AC), so you could help your friend register for an account too.