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10 Days Early, Star Wars Fans Started Camping Outside 'Rise of Skywalker' Premiere (cinemablend.com) 60

Posted by EditorDavid from the Beggar's-Canyon dept.
Anticipating next week's release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 20 fans are already camping out in front of Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre, reports Cinema Blend: The tight-knit group of fans have brought along their sleeping bags, tents and Star Wars pajamas to the location for 20 years (since 1999's The Phantom Menace) to get ready for the release of another Star Wars movie. They pass the time by playing games, working on Star Wars LEGO sets and raising awareness for the Starlight Children's Foundation.

Check out one camper's update on Twitter. He's been hanging out in Hollywood for four days and is prepared to wait six more...

The superfans have set up a Death Star rug over handprints of iconic celebrities and are playing a game of Sabacc... [A] little over 100 more are expected to join them in the coming days. The stars of The Rise of Skywalker are expected to walk a red carpet close by on Monday when the world premiere takes place. One fan hopes Disney invites the campers into the screening as the studio did back in 2015 when The Force Awakens premiered.
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  • Ten days? (Score:3)

    by Oligonicella ( 659917 ) on Saturday December 14, 2019 @02:12PM (#59519012)
    Definitely no life.
    • People can have a hobby

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Z00L00K ( 682162 )

        Given the leaks that have been and "The Last Jedi" it's a great risk that they will be disappointed.

        • No, they're probably all retired by now.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by rtb61 ( 674572 )

          After the last bunch fo star wars or star trek movies, the thought of another just makes me nauseous, just eww, I just prefer the time line where only the old movies exist. Now I will just have go through the annoyance of many arsehole influencers being paid to generate noise all over the internet about another craptastic release of a series of no great value any more, they bloody squeezed that sucker dry, talk about strangling the chicken to death, wont nuthin more cum out of those fuckers.

        • I'm hoping it's even worse than the leaks.

          A Palpatine not only undoing the Skywalker legacy, but even taking their name away from them.

          It's the celebration of pure evil!

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by theCoder ( 23772 )

          No, the people camping out for Rise of Skywalker are the true believers. They will love the film regardless of its quality, and post on the Internet that anyone who doesn't like it is a sexist, racist.troll.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Dunbal ( 464142 ) *
        Usually people do their hobbies on the weekends or after working hours.

      • Yeah it's called being an asswipe. You know these people probably smell even when they aren't camped on a sidewalk for 10 days. I'd go as far as giving them mental heal evaluations.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by lgw ( 121541 )

        People can have a hobby

        Job, not a hobby. These are Disney employees. Disney has a track record of fake hype, of mass ticket buys to ensure opening night is sold out, and all that sort of marketing. Can't fault them for it when people fall for it.

        Hardcore fans who have been closely following development of this movie are staying away in droves - all the news is dire. There was hope for a little while, as Lucas wrote one attempt to save this trainwreck, and apparently the Lucas cut did very well in audience testing, but all the

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Baleet ( 4705757 )
        Since when did media consumption qualify as a hobby. Isn't a hobby more of an activity in which you do, make, create, play, or some other activity? Making Star Wars models would be a hobby. Watching Star Wars movies falls a bit short of that, doesn't it?

      • It's not a hobby by day 2; it's a lifestyle.

    • "Definitely no life."

      Sure, but don't they have school or something?

    • Their parents told them so many stories about camping outside of theaters that they're just trying to recreate the experience for themselves. Might be worth an Instagram story or two.
  • Idiots :)

  • Homeless? (Score:4, Funny)

    by DatbeDank ( 4580343 ) on Saturday December 14, 2019 @02:14PM (#59519024)

    Are you sure these aren't homeless encampments? Ever since the rain, they've been popping upately.

    Sounds like the reporter got punked.

    • Up lately*

    • Oh good, they must have moved. Around here they were at an unprecedented level all summer, but when the rain started most of them left town.

      You must be south of me. LOL

    • To be fair, it's rather difficult to tell the two apart because the bathing and grooming habits of the average nerd are indistinguishable from the average homeless person. If the person starts incoherently yelling at you when you get too close to them, it's probably a homeless person, but if they start incoherently yelling at you in Klingon, then it's probably a nerd.

  • Which of the three original films is this another remake of?

    What will this version's "Death Star" be called? The "Second Death Star" and "Starkiller Base" have already been used.

    • What will this version's "Death Star" be called?

      YADS [wiktionary.org] - Yet Another Death Star

    • There's a lot of pointless bullshit. They ride space horses, C3P0 gets red eyes and goes evil for a bit (again), Rey goes evil but it's just in some bullshit vision, and without so much as a Stallone training montage she becomes the stronkest ever. Hux gets a bit of screen time, but it's only there so they can say his character had redemption/closure before his pathetic death (which you see coming a mile away).

      You can cut the actual plot of the film down to about 14 minutes:

      There's a tracker McGuffin (aga

      • and force fucks her back to life

        WHAAAAT??!? Star Wars 9 is now a porno?! Count me in!

        Oh, so it's *just like* a porno, no plot anywhere. And most of the plot is centered on a magic dildo? No, thanks though. I'll go re-watch the actual FIRST three released instead. At least there's an overall _plot_ there.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        Why get so upset over something you have already decided you are going to hate though?

        I mean I didn't get upset over the holiday special or the Ewocks cartoon. Just ignore it.

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by Anonymous Coward
          So, are the EU books and such continuing? How has the PnP RPG been affected?
          Or has the Disney 'reboot' and Disney protectionism killed it?

          If so, then there is something to hate...your beloved franchise has been killed, its corpse violated and paraded around...and if you dare criticise the movies for shitty plot/acting..it's actually that you hate women/blacks/something, and are toxic.

          The Life Day cartoon was shit, but it didn't 'erase and prevent' the parts you did enjoy. Nor did it get all this hype w

        • Why get so upset over something you have already decided you are going to hate though?

          I mean I didn't get upset over the holiday special or the Ewocks cartoon. Just ignore it.

          I'm not upset.

          But people are upset because a thing they like was actively destroyed. That's a normal reaction.
          The Holiday Special and the various PSAs were fucking Shakespeare compared to the DT.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

            You clearly are very upset by it though. I mean to describe the new movies are worse than the Holiday Special suggests an irrational hatred of them. They had their flaws but audience surveys of people leaving the cinema clearly demonstrate that most people enjoyed them.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Vrallis ( 33290 )

      This film's Death Star (other than the remains of a previous Death Star) is an entire fleet of Star Destroyers each with a Death Star cannon on board. The lead ship has two cannons.

    • It's star destroyers with death star lazers.

  • Having been there when visiting a friend who lived nearby, are you sure they aren't just bums who look like Yoda?

  • This is surprising. (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Seriously, people still give a shit about Star Wars after Disney ruined it?

  • You can reserve your seats now. I have mine. I will walk in 20 past the time, to skip the trailers sit down in my reserved seat right when the premiere beings.
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      • I know some Apple nuts, they really do voluntarily do that-- for anything free like a t-shirt. I don't know somebody who did it when it was just a launch without some kind of handout.

        Disney has massive resources in marketing; they create tiny AstroTurf social movements for movies if they think it'll work. They are too smart to pay for everybody directly to be in line; indirectly they might pay some of them...

        • I think it's high time these people have a mental health eval. :\

        • Correction: I do know somebody who does the crazy waiting in line at apple -- he was even 1st in line for the opening of a new store just to get a t-shirt... no new products!

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by antdude ( 79039 )

      It looks like they're doing it for charity?

    • It's a native ad.

      There is no point other than trying to get people to care about Disney Starwars.

  • Why? (Score:2)

    by antdude ( 79039 )

    TCL Chinese Theatre does reserved seatings.

  • Idiots. (Score:2)

    by Chas ( 5144 )

    No point.

    We know what the movie's gonna be.

    And it's crap!

  • Forget about the Clone wars.
    Understated acting, brilliant plot devices, new themes...
    Can't you see how awesome this is going to be?
    Killing off Palpatine was a mistake in the first place.
    The revival is a brilliant stroke of storywriting that will rival every past movie in the franchise.
    He'll carry half the plot, and together with the strong female lead they'll turn it into a real tour de force.
    If camping outside the theater wasn't necessary OR for the charity they should still do it.
    Since it does indeed hel
  • Whether man babies or paid shills, I'm just glad it isn't me.

  • adults?

    No, really, were there?

  • It's going to be beautiful!

    https://youtu.be/UCIYCaXNe88 [youtu.be]

    (claps...pardon waves hands enthusiastically).

    P.S. I personally owe so much to the new Star Wars! After all, imagine how much money and time I have saved since 25 December 2015 when, after watching TFA, I vowed never to go to cinema again. Total win!

  • Just to pull the rug out from under these losers they don't premier it there. They move it to Fords Theater in Washington DC.
    Someone says - How dare they!

  • Indications are that getting out of our current social realm it a desperate need!

    Star Wars producers can, in part, thank Mr Trump for being the root cause of the national divides.
    Divides that deeply adversely effects us as a nation, and a global community.

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