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[SteamWake]

Twilight fans

http://thechive.com/2010/06/24/i-sti...his-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.

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 I am sure that you are all soooo impress with me now that you learned that.

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.

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?

[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.

[Platapus]

http://thechive.com/2010/06/21/its-m...ional-lols-16/

[Castout]

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

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by Platapus

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.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

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

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

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Platapus

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.

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!"

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Platapus

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...
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

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Twilight fans

http://thechive.com/2010/06/24/i-sti...his-12-photos/

wistful whoop