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Star Wars fanatics line up at wrong L.A. theatre for May debut
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Star Wars fans will have to find the right theatre before they can leave for the dark side.
Seven weeks before its release, Star Wars fanatics started lining up outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater for the sixth instalment of the popular George Lucas movie series. The vigil began Saturday.
But there’s a problem: Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith won’t be showing at the Hollywood landmark when the movie is released May 19. The studio, 20th Century Fox, opted instead to open the film a kilometre away at the ArcLight theatre.
Still, the resolute Star Wars die-diehards aren’t moving on. Beneath a makeshift awning, 11 people refused to relinquish their spots in line.
“We’ve heard all this before,” fan Sarah Sprague said, noting there were plenty of rumours in 1999 and 2002 that previous Star Wars movies weren’t opening at the Chinese Theater. The rumours were false and the films were shown there.
Fox and the ArcLight haven’t completed their Star Wars deal, but executives on both sides told Daily Variety that Revenge of the Sith will play at the ArcLight, not the Chinese.
Yet Sprague was adamant the line wouldn’t be moving to the ArcLight.
“This is still the epicentre for Star Wars fans. For the big iconic pictures of the 1970s, people lining up were here. They weren’t at the Cinerama Dome (at the ArcLight),” Sprague said.
Lucas’s final Star Wars chapter spells out the last dark steps the once good-hearted young Anakin Skywalker takes to become the villain Darth Vader.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

they aren't the dorks i'm looking for, either.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

http://pfm101.com/images/funny/ribbon.gif

Camping out on the sidewalk to be first in line: C/D?

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

It's true! And I always preface any discussion I have at parties with 'We previously discussed this on March 14, 2002', or something similar. I then give a brief rundown of everyone's opinions. Then, and only then, may we continue the discussion.

― moley, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Heresy!

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Seven weeks before its release, Star Wars fanatics started lining up

They're gonna stay on the sidewalk for SEVEN WEEKS WTF!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Also I love it when people whine "aaahhh do a SEARCH!" on forums. Theres a simcity board I'm on where they bitch about searching all the time, and yet if you revive a thread more than a few months old, you get bitched out for that too. WTF.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Seven weeks before its release, Star Wars fanatics started lining up They're gonna stay on the sidewalk for SEVEN WEEKS WTF!

seven weeks of undivided attention of fellow queuers, trayce!! possibly of the opposite sex!!!! AND with a common interest!! it's basically sex heaven.

i expect many star wars nerd babies to be made from this experience. they'd grow up one day, actually turn out to be pretty cool kids, and then they'd confront this nerd one day in a darth vader suit, who'd reveal to them..

DUH DUH DUH

"i am your father"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

It's true. Check out the photo galleries at www.lineup.net. There are many Jedi babes in attendance.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

*sorry that url should be www.liningup.net

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

** wtf? it looks like they took down the pictures.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.liningup.net/news/photos/charityteam/CharityTeam.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Now no one will believe me. :-(

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Can that woman's breasts be as massive as they look?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Oh, now the picture's gone. Now no one will believe me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

They must be getting a spike in traffic. Or maybe people complained about being outed on the Interweb as geeks with too much time on their hands.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

I got my tickets. Though there's no way I'm lining up! No, I'm going to a midnight session at the local yuppie cinema, the Rivoli where everybody will be too cool and assholey to whoop it up. Nah, I'm saving that for the next night where I see it with a fan crowd.

I wanna actually watch the film before I start screaming BOOYAH as the Jedi are taken down.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

A simcity board? you mean like all about the game? That'd be almost as dorky as waiting in line 7 weeks.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Do they post pictures of themselves looking hott on the simcity board?

― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sgtfretsurfer.com/Grilled-Sarlacc/c/aayla/secura.jpg

yay! bring on the jedi babes!

....oh wait...

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 April 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand, are they really lining up a month in advance?

― Holly (an appletross), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

YES :-(

― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

And everyone but the first five will scooped by internet and telephone shoppers who got to sleep in their own beds.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

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