STAR WARS...anyone else have tickets already?

[Out_to_lunch]

So how many other Star Wars dorks out there already have their tickets for the midnight showing? I got mine last week.

[Core Shot]

NNNEEERDS!!!!!!!!!!

[Duker]

Scored a freebie! Heres to hoping this one doesnt suck!

[iskibc]

You guys are dorks.










Will prolly pick up a ticket this weekend.

[Core Shot]

Anyone see the "nerd comic" on comedy central?

He loves to torture other nerds by driving up to the dweebs in costume lined up to see Star Wars
then he yells out the window "Star Trek sucks" and "Captain Kirk is a pussy"

[doofdoof]

Yep.

Will be seeing the midnight session on Wednesday night Aussie time, so I'll be about 17 hours ahead of you guys

[stump832]

Yep.

Will be seeing the midnight session on Wednesday night Aussie time, so I'll be about 17 hours ahead of you guys

No spoilers!

I couldn't bring myself to see the movie at midnight so I bought tix for 8pm next Thursday. I'm pretty sure that still makes me a nerd.

[powderwhore]

I'm getting my Jedi costume together as I type and am going to wait in line the next week so I'm the first one to see it!

[Arty50]

Hey look, it's Natalie O'Connor...

[doofdoof]

Mmmmm ... stubble.

[doofdoof]

Just got home. All I can say is

FKNA!

[Woodsy]

my dorkness
spent last night making brownies while watching new hope and empire with the person taking me to the midnight show tonight.
tomorrow @10 am I am taking my folks.
no costume but I do great wookie noises.

[pube-in-my-taco]

i wrote this at 3:00am

here's my report. a few observations about the new star wars movie. no spoilers, except ones we already knew about.

- Most importantly, It didn't suck
- The only tedious part of the movie was the dialogue between anakin and padame
- the CGI sequences were really impressive
- anakin's conversion to darth vader was believable and convincing, his behavior as darth vader wasn't as believable
- darth vader is one evil son of a bitch
- Padame's death at the end of the movie moistened the eyes of 500 hardcore male star wars fans, who quickly attempted to squelch them.
- two people (audience members) dressed up as darth vader, one as obewan. they had light-saber fights before the show started, and everyone in the theatre was into it. they were chanting "O-BE-WAN! O-BE-WAN!" I was trying to be cool, reading my backpacker magazine.
- i was, indeed, the only person in there with a backpacker magazine
- i was one of the only people who showed up alone. I was also one of the only people who wore a wedding ring.
- when 7 screenings of star wars gets out at the same time, the mens room line backs up pretty bad right when the movies end. interestingly, there was no line for the ladies room.
- like episode 2, yoda kicks some ass in this movie
- virtually no dialogue with jar-jar (sadly, jar-jar doesn't die)

- i appreciated the lead-ins to episode 4
.obe wan handing baby luke to his uncle (where he stayed to 'watch over the child)
.said uncle (and wife) looking at the two suns set in exactly the same way luke did in a famous scene in episode 4
.yoda teaching obe wan to communicate with dead jedis before he went into exile
.a few scenes in the exact same hallway where you first see darth vader in episode 4
.the emporer's transformation from an old man to a really ugly wrinkley old man
.darth vader getting the helmet and black costume, and the revelation of why he wears the helmet and black costume
.first appearance of chewbacca and his wookie friends


there's probably a lot more, but i'm getting too tired to remember.

definitely best of the 3 in the modern series.. better than jedi, not better than hope or empire. so out of the six, it's the 3rd best.

[Dexter Rutecki]

Movie kicked much ass. Possibly second only to Empire.

[Jumper Bones]

Yeah. Wow.

Caught the midnight premiere....tits, fuckin' tits I say.

[doofdoof]

Movie kicked much ass. Possibly second only to Empire.

Agreed. Almost on a par for me.

It is all about betrayal, that is what makes a Star Wars movie for me.

[peterslovo]

Yeah. Wow.

Caught the midnight premiere....tits, fuckin' tits I say.

From the reviews, Episode 3 sounds sweet. Got my tix for tonight's showing at 7 pm EST...stoked...

Tried to rent episode 2 to remind myself of all the damn political implications of the 2nd film (which was a bit too tedious in that aspect), but couldn't find it in stock at any of the video sotres. Oh well, gonna have to rent it after seeing episode 3.

[Will]

Ass it does kick.

Most importantly because unlike the last two films it had an emotional plot in addition to a mechanical one. In Phantom and Clones there was no conflict or drama, so the films were just an exercise in moving people from one place to another and setting them up to be in the right position for this film. Now Sith comes along and finally we actually care about what's happening. People are changing, there's disagreement and character development. And like the original three films there's a classic near-mythological story behind it all.

Awesome.

[stump832]

TFSB.

Went to a 6:20am showing here in the SLC. Not sure hwere I rank it right now, but somewhere near Empire sounds about right.

[altagirl]

I am a nerd.

Stump e-mailed me yesterday and said there were still tickets for this morning's 6:20 am showing...

And it kicked ass.

[VTskibum]

Skipping out of work to see it tomorrow, pretty stoked to hear how much better it is than the previous two.

Slightly Off-topic:

First 3 films animated in Flash and scripted in Gangsta Rap style:
(Note very large Gold and Silver Medallions)
http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/co...gangsta_rap_se


Posted a link to this one time before, though it got lost in the Padded Room pretty quickly...

[Jumper Bones]

Not sure where I rank it right now, but somewhere near Empire sounds about right...

I'd definitely agree. While I liked ROTJ more than any of the original 3, 'Revenge' certainly does have the emotional element that 'Empire' did, in a big way. Very sad story, but excellent flick overall.

My only beef is that in today's CGI-heavy shots, it's possible to move things rather quickly, and that they do to a big degree - it's hard to follow some of the characters as they flip & spin in lightsaber fights, or the starfighters zipping here and there in the space battles. In the 'olden times', specifically the original 3, they actually used models as the ships for the shots, and were limited in how quickly they could be moved or manipulated, so it was easy to follow the action. Kind of a different story here.

Could be sensory overload though, trying really hard to follow it (and just now seeing it for the first, rather than the 3000th or so time like I have the originals).

I'd also agree that the Padme/Anakin story is kind of weak, but oh well.

In 'Return' - didn't Leia have some memories of her mother, when Luke breaks it to her that making out anymore is incest? So how could she if mummy dies in childbirth? BTW, that's no spoiler, it's central to the plot and Anakin's undoing, so nobody get all worked up.

[Will]

In 'Return' - didn't Leia have some memories of her mother, when Luke breaks it to her that making out anymore is incest? So how could she if mummy dies in childbirth? BTW, that's no spoiler, it's central to the plot and Anakin's undoing, so nobody get all worked up.

1) Giving away a part that is central to the plot is a spoiler. But hell, I've seen the movie already.
(btw - highlight text to read possible spoilage)

2) I wondered about that too, and here's what I came up with:

Leia remembers the woman that raised her as her mother, she probably never knew she was adopted. When Luke lays the heavy shit on her (I'm your bro, Vader's your daddy) she probably assumed that her mother was still the same woman and had just knocked boots with Anakin back in the day. After all, it's not like anyone had a family tree lying around. Alderan had been destroyed along with all of Leia's family and the sum of Luke's genealogical knowledge was the mutterings of a blue ghost, the ramblings of a green muppet, and one statement from the man who had just sliced off his hand.

[pube-in-my-taco]

Leia knew she was adopted.. she had a vauge memory, a vision, of her real mother who "had died when she was very young."

then luke responds with, "i don't remember my mother."

this is when luke knows leia is his sister, but he didn't tell her in that scene.. Pretty sure this is jedi.

[Arty50]

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