#151
Posted: 5/18/05 at 12:41pm
Star Wars: Episode III — Page 7
#152
Posted: 5/18/05 at 12:42pm
star wars at midnight. everyone ready? where's eddie... he's probably foaming at the mouth by now.
#153
Posted: 5/18/05 at 12:44pm
and they taste so evilly delicious!
#154
Posted: 5/18/05 at 3:59pm
Bump for the Star Wars folks.
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
#155
Posted: 5/18/05 at 5:17pm
I am sooooooooooo weak. No Jedi am I!!! I bought my ticket this morning for tomorrow at 11:30! (my NY friends are going to hate me.... The first showing of the day is only $5!!) So even if it really does bite I am not out a huge amount!
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#156
Posted: 5/18/05 at 6:04pm
My dad just bought tix for the midnight showing here in Astoria (Kaufman), im excited!
#157
Posted: 5/18/05 at 6:11pm
Mistress,
Where's the theatre in Astoria? I'm on Broadway.
Where's the theatre in Astoria? I'm on Broadway.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
#158
Posted: 5/18/05 at 6:16pm
#159
Posted: 5/18/05 at 6:21pm
Rock on! That's so close. I can't believe I haven't seen anything there.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
#160
Posted: 5/18/05 at 6:26pm
Just returned from seeing another movie in the city. Princess Leia, Chewbacca, and a Storm Trooper were on line for the midnight show. Hilarious!
To all those going tonight...
have a great time and enjoy the show!!!
To all those going tonight...
have a great time and enjoy the show!!!
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
Updated On: 5/18/05 at 06:26 PM
#161
Posted: 5/18/05 at 8:15pm
I am sure i will enjoy it. I'll be brining my son. Dave is a bit miffed and well, Erin will forgive me.. someday!
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#162
Posted: 5/18/05 at 8:27pm
Have fun, Mom!
Also, just for fodder:
Latest 'Star Wars' Movie Is Quickly Politicized
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Published: May 19, 2005
LOS ANGELES, May 18 - For sheer lack of subtlety, the light-saber-wielding forces of good and evil in George Lucas's "Star Wars" movies can't hold a candle to the blogging, advertising and boycotting forces of the right and left. (Or left and right.)
More a measure of the nation's apparently permanent political warfare than of a filmmaker's intent, the heroes and antiheroes of Mr. Lucas's final entry, "Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," were on their way to becoming the stock characters of partisan debate by mid-Wednesday, hours before the film's opening just after midnight:
The liberal advocacy group Moveon.org was preparing to spend $150,000 to run advertisements on CNN over the next few days - and to spread leaflets among audiences in line at multiplexes - comparing Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, to the movie's power-grabbing, evil Chancellor Palpatine, for Dr. Frist's role in the Senate's showdown over the confirmation of federal judges.
Conservative Web logs were lacerating Mr. Lucas over the film's perceived jabs at President Bush - as when Anakin Skywalker, on his way to becoming the evil Darth Vader, warns, "If you're not with me, you're my enemy," in an echo of Mr. Bush's post-9/11 ultimatum, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
A little-trafficked conservative Web site about film, Pabaah.com - for "Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood" - added Mr. Lucas to its list of boycotted entertainers, along with more than 200 others, including Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks.
Even the Drudge Report Web site got into the act: beneath a picture of Darth Vader, it compared the White House press corps to the vengeful Sith, after reporters peppered a press secretary for pressing Newsweek magazine to "repair the damage" in the Muslim world caused by a retracted report about desecration of the Koran.
There is nothing all that new or imaginative, of course, about politicians borrowing from popular movies to score points; witness Ronald Reagan's co-opting of the "evil empire" metaphor for use against the Soviet bloc, or his critics lampooning his missile defense ideas as something straight out of "Star Wars." And Senator John McCain of Arizona, a Republican rebel of sorts, compared his 2000 primary campaign to Luke Skywalker's fighting his way out of the Death Star.
But it is highly unusual for a mainstream Hollywood movie to wind up in the swirl of politics even before it has opened - though that did occur with 20th Century Fox's "Day After Tomorrow," with its apocalyptic vision of global warming's consequences, which advocates including Moveon.org and Al Gore used to protest the Bush administration's environmental policy.
As a rule, Hollywood studios go to great lengths to ensure that their projects - both in the development stage and especially when they are positioned in the marketplace - are free of messages that could be offensive to any great swath of the moviegoing public. Like, say, people who vote for one political party or the other.
All of which calls into question Mr. Lucas's decision to have the premiere of the "Star Wars" finale at the Cannes Film Festival. France is sometimes called the biggest blue state of all, after all. And just what was Mr. Lucas - who could not be reached for comment Wednesday - thinking when he told a Cannes audience that he had not realized in plotting the film years ago that fact might so closely track his fiction?
Alluding to Michael Moore's remarks about "Fahrenheit 9/11" at Cannes a year earlier, Mr. Lucas joked, "Maybe the film will waken people to the situation."
Apparently in all seriousness, though, he went on to say that he had first devised the "Star Wars" story during the Vietnam War. "The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable," he told an appreciative audience.
Peter Sealey, a former marketing chief at Columbia Pictures, said the partisan tug of war over the new "Star Wars" episode seemed absurd, likening the political interpretations of it to a Rorschach test. But he said Mr. Lucas was probably savvy in adding sizzle and relevance to a movie that otherwise might have earned publicity only by its effectiveness as entertainment.
"He could've come out and said, 'That's ridiculous - this is the white hats and black hats of the 1950's in space,' and quashed it," said Mr. Sealey, who teaches entertainment marketing at the University of California, Berkeley. "Did he do that? No, and it was probably smart. If he can get 'Star Wars' brought into the debate over unilateralism and the Iraq war, it just brings a current spin to it. And I don't think it's going to rule people out."
Indeed, it is extremely unlikely that all the online screeds and boycotts put together will leave so much as a dent in the movie's box office results. Hollywood insiders have estimated that "Episode III" will have ticket sales of $120 million or more in its first four days.
Also, just for fodder:
Latest 'Star Wars' Movie Is Quickly Politicized
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Published: May 19, 2005
LOS ANGELES, May 18 - For sheer lack of subtlety, the light-saber-wielding forces of good and evil in George Lucas's "Star Wars" movies can't hold a candle to the blogging, advertising and boycotting forces of the right and left. (Or left and right.)
More a measure of the nation's apparently permanent political warfare than of a filmmaker's intent, the heroes and antiheroes of Mr. Lucas's final entry, "Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," were on their way to becoming the stock characters of partisan debate by mid-Wednesday, hours before the film's opening just after midnight:
The liberal advocacy group Moveon.org was preparing to spend $150,000 to run advertisements on CNN over the next few days - and to spread leaflets among audiences in line at multiplexes - comparing Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, to the movie's power-grabbing, evil Chancellor Palpatine, for Dr. Frist's role in the Senate's showdown over the confirmation of federal judges.
Conservative Web logs were lacerating Mr. Lucas over the film's perceived jabs at President Bush - as when Anakin Skywalker, on his way to becoming the evil Darth Vader, warns, "If you're not with me, you're my enemy," in an echo of Mr. Bush's post-9/11 ultimatum, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
A little-trafficked conservative Web site about film, Pabaah.com - for "Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood" - added Mr. Lucas to its list of boycotted entertainers, along with more than 200 others, including Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks.
Even the Drudge Report Web site got into the act: beneath a picture of Darth Vader, it compared the White House press corps to the vengeful Sith, after reporters peppered a press secretary for pressing Newsweek magazine to "repair the damage" in the Muslim world caused by a retracted report about desecration of the Koran.
There is nothing all that new or imaginative, of course, about politicians borrowing from popular movies to score points; witness Ronald Reagan's co-opting of the "evil empire" metaphor for use against the Soviet bloc, or his critics lampooning his missile defense ideas as something straight out of "Star Wars." And Senator John McCain of Arizona, a Republican rebel of sorts, compared his 2000 primary campaign to Luke Skywalker's fighting his way out of the Death Star.
But it is highly unusual for a mainstream Hollywood movie to wind up in the swirl of politics even before it has opened - though that did occur with 20th Century Fox's "Day After Tomorrow," with its apocalyptic vision of global warming's consequences, which advocates including Moveon.org and Al Gore used to protest the Bush administration's environmental policy.
As a rule, Hollywood studios go to great lengths to ensure that their projects - both in the development stage and especially when they are positioned in the marketplace - are free of messages that could be offensive to any great swath of the moviegoing public. Like, say, people who vote for one political party or the other.
All of which calls into question Mr. Lucas's decision to have the premiere of the "Star Wars" finale at the Cannes Film Festival. France is sometimes called the biggest blue state of all, after all. And just what was Mr. Lucas - who could not be reached for comment Wednesday - thinking when he told a Cannes audience that he had not realized in plotting the film years ago that fact might so closely track his fiction?
Alluding to Michael Moore's remarks about "Fahrenheit 9/11" at Cannes a year earlier, Mr. Lucas joked, "Maybe the film will waken people to the situation."
Apparently in all seriousness, though, he went on to say that he had first devised the "Star Wars" story during the Vietnam War. "The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable," he told an appreciative audience.
Peter Sealey, a former marketing chief at Columbia Pictures, said the partisan tug of war over the new "Star Wars" episode seemed absurd, likening the political interpretations of it to a Rorschach test. But he said Mr. Lucas was probably savvy in adding sizzle and relevance to a movie that otherwise might have earned publicity only by its effectiveness as entertainment.
"He could've come out and said, 'That's ridiculous - this is the white hats and black hats of the 1950's in space,' and quashed it," said Mr. Sealey, who teaches entertainment marketing at the University of California, Berkeley. "Did he do that? No, and it was probably smart. If he can get 'Star Wars' brought into the debate over unilateralism and the Iraq war, it just brings a current spin to it. And I don't think it's going to rule people out."
Indeed, it is extremely unlikely that all the online screeds and boycotts put together will leave so much as a dent in the movie's box office results. Hollywood insiders have estimated that "Episode III" will have ticket sales of $120 million or more in its first four days.
Updated On: 5/19/05 at 08:27 PM
#163
Posted: 5/19/05 at 3:46am
UNACCEPTABLE! This thread cannot be on page 2 after THE NIGHT!
Thanks for the great countdown Bdwaygirl (love you), unfortunately I wasn't able to be with you on this thread for the important countdown as I was busy mentally preparing myself by watching Episode I and II.
And I can just say one thing before I collapse.... YES, it was THAT good! And as one review pointed out already... The question of this Summer will not be 'Have you seen ROTS?', it will be 'How many times have you seen ROTS?'
I want to know what you guys thought though...
CurtainUp2, you just have to tell me how you use the lightsabre-fighting smilies, you just have to!
QM
Thanks for the great countdown Bdwaygirl (love you), unfortunately I wasn't able to be with you on this thread for the important countdown as I was busy mentally preparing myself by watching Episode I and II.
And I can just say one thing before I collapse.... YES, it was THAT good! And as one review pointed out already... The question of this Summer will not be 'Have you seen ROTS?', it will be 'How many times have you seen ROTS?'
I want to know what you guys thought though...
CurtainUp2, you just have to tell me how you use the lightsabre-fighting smilies, you just have to!
QM
'He really wasn't good as Fieyro. Is it just me or does he sort of come across as a pimp? Just...the hand motions I've seen him do and the attitude..not that Taye is a pimp.' - SallyBrown on Taye Diggs as Fiyero
#164
i loved it but im way too tired and have way too much to do tomorrow to really write out all my thoughts.
i would like someone to explain to me how Leia remembers her mother being beautiful and sad? does she (unknowingly?) mean her stepmom? do we know why shed be sad?
Posted: 5/19/05 at 3:58am
i loved it but im way too tired and have way too much to do tomorrow to really write out all my thoughts.
i would like someone to explain to me how Leia remembers her mother being beautiful and sad? does she (unknowingly?) mean her stepmom? do we know why shed be sad?
Updated On: 5/19/05 at 03:58 AM
#165
Posted: 5/19/05 at 4:07am
Mistress--that is my same question. It must mean that she mistakenly means her adoptive mother.
My first impression is that it's the best Star Wars film. It was just stunning. Too tired to say much more--and don't want to give spoilers just yet.
My first impression is that it's the best Star Wars film. It was just stunning. Too tired to say much more--and don't want to give spoilers just yet.
#166
Posted: 5/19/05 at 5:09am
I agree - we should be careful with the spoilers for now. Maybe a Spoiler Alert warning beforehand for people who haven't seen it yet.
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'He really wasn't good as Fieyro. Is it just me or does he sort of come across as a pimp? Just...the hand motions I've seen him do and the attitude..not that Taye is a pimp.' - SallyBrown on Taye Diggs as Fiyero
#167
Posted: 5/19/05 at 6:33am
Definitely sold my ticket for about $50 so I can take Jason to see RENT this summer.
"what have we learned? Don't smoke... don't do drugs and don't sing 'Defying Gravity'." -CATSNYRevival
#168
Posted: 5/19/05 at 8:59am
no more sleeps for me I have 9.5 hours til I see it
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
#169
Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:00am
I saw it 12 hours ago.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#170
Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:06am
PCB, you're such a tease! 
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'He really wasn't good as Fieyro. Is it just me or does he sort of come across as a pimp? Just...the hand motions I've seen him do and the attitude..not that Taye is a pimp.' - SallyBrown on Taye Diggs as Fiyero
#171
Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:08am
Aren't I though? I am also withholding my opinion until others on the board have seen it. It's only fair.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#172
Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:26am
PCB I will PM you tomorrow to tell you what I think...If I remember to do it that is lol
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
#173
Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:35am
KelRel, you're such a tease too! What makes PCB so special that he receives PMs from you informing him of this special event? Share your thoughts with us peasants too.
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'He really wasn't good as Fieyro. Is it just me or does he sort of come across as a pimp? Just...the hand motions I've seen him do and the attitude..not that Taye is a pimp.' - SallyBrown on Taye Diggs as Fiyero
#174
Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:49am
HEY! Who here is an "official" peasant??
I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2. "unleash the girly"
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
#175
Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:52am
I know! But I want to be one too..... SO BADLY!
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'He really wasn't good as Fieyro. Is it just me or does he sort of come across as a pimp? Just...the hand motions I've seen him do and the attitude..not that Taye is a pimp.' - SallyBrown on Taye Diggs as Fiyero
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