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[SteamWake]

Twilight fans :o

http://thechive.com/2010/06/24/i-still-dont-understand-any-of-this-12-photos/

[GoldenRivet]

Im going to straight away get to work on a totally retarded script which revolves around some sort of supernatural love triangle of some sort.

these women are absolutely stupid beyond any measure and would probably buy anything we write. :nope:

hell, i say we make a movie out of the "four word story game" thread and these dumb asses would be lined up spending several nights outside a theater in the pouring rain crying their eyes out in anticipation.

[Platapus]

I don't understand the logic of waiting like that for a movie.

Unlike a stage production, each viewing of a movie is exactly the same as all the others.

Back when I was a grub, we waited in a long line to be one of the first to see the movie "Capricorn 1". And I in the first audience in the nation to see that movie (it was a special showing).

Big whoop :nope: I am sure that you are all soooo impress with me now that you learned that. :nope:

It is the same movie everyone else saw the next day... nothing changed.

My life was not improved because I was one of the first to see the movie. I no longer put that on my resume. :DL

All this combined with my opinion that there is not a movie made today that is worth waiting in ANY line for, makes me wonder why these people do it.

Was there not a story about when one of the the new star wars movies (the crappy ones) came out that there were people sleeping on the sidewalks in front of the wrong theater?

[Gerald]

Twilight fans :o

http://thechive.com/2010/06/24/i-still-dont-understand-any-of-this-12-photos/ wistful whoop :hmm2:

[Platapus]

Some of the girls there looked pretty hot. Of course many of them are jailbait teenagers.

I bet some halfway decent looking teenage boy dressed up could make out well in those tents. :yeah:

[Platapus]

http://thechive.com/2010/06/21/its-monday-you-could-use-some-motivation-24-photos/motivational-lols-16/

[Castout]

Those girls need to get a life. Crying and camping over a flick?! WHY??!!!!

[frau kaleun]

Was there not a story about when one of the the new star wars movies (the crappy ones) came out that there were people sleeping on the sidewalks in front of the wrong theater?

Don't know about that one, but I stood in line for several hours (I was #565 IIRC - and yes, someone in the crowd actually counted) for the presale of tickets to The Phantom Menace (the first SW prequel).

Disclaimer: yes I know how many old-school SW fans feel about the prequels and I agree that they do, for the most part, suck. However TPM is IMO the best of them and at the time no one knew just how much the prequels would end up sucking. It was the first new SW movie in a loooooong time and for someone like me, who saw the first SW movie on the day it opened in our little local theater in 1977 (and around 15 additional times in various locales after that over the following months), TPM was a very big deal.

My office is basically across the street from the theater where TPM opened here, and the day the presale began I planned to run over there after work and buy a ticket. Before I even left for work that morning, my boss called me at home and said she'd seen on the news that there were already people getting in line. Some had even tried to spend the night in front of the place and been run off by the cops, but once the sun came up and employees starting arriving at the theater they gave up on keeping people away. She kept asking me if I was SURE I wanted to come to work, or if I wanted to take a vacation day and go get in line ASAP. I said, no, I don't think it'll be that big a deal, I'll wait til after work.

At noon she went to lunch and turned on the TV in the break room and then came back to report that the local news shows were now reporting a crowd of anywhere from a couple hundred to almost a thousand people waiting in line. Tickets weren't even supposed to go on sale until 3 PM. She told me she thought I'd better eat lunch, finish up whatever I was doing, and get over there, otherwise I might not get tickets.

So - what could I do? My boss, who was not even a SW fan and had never seen any of the movies as far as I could tell, was basically TELLING me to take a half day off and go stand in line for tickets. :D

And I must say, it was one of the most enjoyable experiences, despite standing around in a blazing hot parking lot for what turned out to be a little over 4 hours... everybody was so totally mellow, people were passing bottled water and snacks and cell phones around to those who needed them (this was back when owning a cell phone was still something of an anomaly). Some folks got blankets, pillows, and lawn chairs out of their cars and then happily shared them with or surrendered them to people who were more in need of a sit-down than they were. Somebody fired up their car stereo and popped in the CD of the movie's soundtrack, which had already been released. Some people were tossing footballs and frisbees around, and if anyone wanted to leave the line to join in or needed a potty break, those around them gracefully held their place in line until they returned.

I saw people of all races, ages, sexes, and social backgrounds coexist in the most civil and fun-loving way possible. And at the very least I can go to my grave knowing that I participated in one genuine cultural phenomenon, lol. It was like a small-scale Woodstock for geeks.

As the guy next to me in line said, "I pity the fool who calls for tech support today!"

:rock:

[UnderseaLcpl]

Some of the girls there looked pretty hot. Of course many of them are jailbait teenagers.


I think some of our members may not understand the difference between "hot" and "jailbait teenagers". Could you please elaborate in case some of them can't tell the difference... I mean..hypothetically...of...course.

[Sailor Steve]

I made a point of seeing the original Star Wars the day it was released in 1977, having seen a preview several months earlier. This was before it was renamed 'Episode 4: A New Hope'. The theater was less than half full, as the movie was unknown and word-of-mouth hadn't taken hold yet.

I tried to see the 'second' one the same way, and gave up when I saw the lines. Ever since then I always go to movies on a Sunday morning, when most of Salt Lake City is in church. Never had a problem.

[krashkart]

I remember going to see one of the earliest Star Wars when I was very little. Couldn't have been in '77 because I would have been in a diaper and unable to remember the toy motorcycle my father had bought for me that day... so it must have been the next one. The only movie I can remember waiting more than an hour in line for was Independence Day, and it was a fairly OK experience... but nothing to scream about, really.

The Twilight series... *groan* It seems that the average intelligence levels of the human species gets lower and lower as the years grind by. Must have something to do with runaway consumerism. :nope:

Ah, there's my lighter... http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=258&pictureid=2287

[Jimbuna]

I think some of our members may not understand the difference between "hot" and "jailbait teenagers". Could you please elaborate in case some of them can't tell the difference... I mean..hypothetically...of...course.

Oh really....can't be many members here who are blind and unable to read the text from the monitor :DL

Unless of course they had the same religious monastery based education I received...I'll phone the Abbot now and ask him for a brief explanation :hmmm:

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[HunterICX]

All this combined with my opinion that there is not a movie made today that is worth waiting in ANY line for, makes me wonder why these people do it.

I can say the same for the people that wait in line for the newest console, the latest apple product or OS (windows vista as a example)

Heck even the media pays attention to them, as the ''first'' buyer...:roll:
I don't get it, I think it's pretty sad to sleep in front of the shop's door for a night or 2 so you can rush in just to be the first....

HunterICX

[frau kaleun]

I made a point of seeing the original Star Wars the day it was released in 1977, having seen a preview several months earlier.

I was in junior high school, where we had a very cool young English teacher... I was never in his English class, but he was my study hall "teacher" for the '76-'77 school year. There were only 5-6 kids in that study hall, and not much studying went on - we would just pull our desks up around his desk in a circle and "rap" (that's what he called it, lol) for an hour.

He was also a sci-fi fantasy fan, and one day he handed me his copy of "The Illustrated Man" which began my long love affair with Ray Bradbury. At some point towards the end of the school year he saw an article in some magazine about this new sci-fi flick that was coming out that summer, and handed me that and said, "Keep on the lookout for this movie, it looks like it might be something interesting." That's how I found out about SW.

This was before it was renamed 'Episode 4: A New Hope'. The theater was less than half full, as the movie was unknown and word-of-mouth hadn't taken hold yet.

By the time the movie opened in our town I'd already bought and practically memorized the soundtrack and had read the paperback novelization several times, not to mention seen every interview and news report about it... needless to say I was totally stoked to actually SEE the film. But yeah, there weren't that many people at our town's first showings either.

*sigh*

That was a great summer. SW played every day, matinees starting at 11 AM - my mom was working two afternoons a week at an office in town, so she'd drop me off at the theater just before 11 and I'd sit through all three matinees and then stumble out blinking and squinting into the afternoon sunlight where she'd pick me up a little after 5 PM.

*sings*

Meeeeeemreeeeeeez... light the corners of my mind...

[Dutch]

lol as if 10-20 year old little girls needed any more help looking and acting dumb!

Don't get me wrong I love Star Wars(I think the new 3 are good, cause the truth is none of them are that good), but of course Star Trek kick its ass (don't care what anyone says), Terminator, 007, and lots of other movies I'm sure people consider geeky. But I will never camp out at a movie cinema just so I can see it right off the bat.

I fear this Twilight crap is going to do nothing but ruin movies. Why? Well if they figure out all they have to do is play on the demegog of 10-20 yr old girls and what they like *shudder* then they will make tons of money. Something tells me lots of people in this crowd voted Obama.........and people think its a right you have to vote...........

[frau kaleun]

I fear this Twilight crap is going to do nothing but ruin movies. Why? Well if they figure out all they have to do is play on the demegog of 10-20 yr old girls and what they like *shudder* then they will make tons of money.

I don't see how it's any different than all the crap shoot-em-up, blow-em-up action films that seem quite obviously aimed at the young male demographic. And those have been around for a while now.

And I also remember young girls standing in line to see "Titanic" over and over again, which may have been a better quality movie than the "Twilight" films in some respects but IMO wasn't really worthy of all the high-end awards it got.

The thing about saying that "movies/books/music/etc. today are mostly crap" or will become so because of some "new" trend that turns into big money for those that market it... well, I think the truth is that the percentage of popular "art" that is crappy probably doesn't change much from generation to generation.

The difference is that we see, hear, and hear about all of today's crap, because it's impossible not to, whereas all the crappy stuff that came out 40-60-100-200 years ago isn't around any more for us to see how crappy it was. Because it was crap, and if it was ever popular at all it was popular with a generation that is now gone or grown up past the point of caring about it any more.

It's easy to say that they made better movies years ago, but the truth is we only think that because it's the timeless classics - the good stuff - that still gets remembered and rereleased and reshown. We remember 1939 as the year of "Gone With The Wind" and "Wuthering Heights" and "The Wizard of Oz" and "Stagecoach" and however many other classics... but for every one of those classics, how many lousy movies were released and then went the way of the dodo? The crappy stuff is forgotten, as well it should be.

[Weiss Pinguin]

How Twilight Works (http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight)

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Eh, I saw the first one. It was every bit as depressing as I thought it would be. :nope: The music was actually pretty good, although several songs I might've liked are now ruined forever for me.