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Author Topic: Moron is waiting at theatre for 22 weeks for Episode III Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-07-2005 12:52 AM                     This guy is nuts forgot what site it was from... -------------------------------------------------------- 'I'm Having The Time Of My Life Out Here' January 5, 2005 By Corwin Haeck SEATTLE - Are you ready for Star Wars: Episode Three? Don't get excited just yet, the new movie doesn't open until May. But for one Seattle fan, it's never too early, or too cold, to start the wait. Jeff Twieden doesn't care that it's freezing outside. He's camping out in front of the Cinerama Theater in downtown Seattle, waiting for Episode Three to open. It's only 22 weeks away. "I've got another sleeping bag coming, so that's sleeping bag number three," he says. "It's better to be too hot than too cold." In 1999, Twieden made international headlines when he and another fan camped out for months in this same spot to see the first of George Lucas' prequel trilogy. "A lot of people say 'Get a life,' stuff like that. But I'm having the time of my life out here." Twieden thinks prequel episodes one and two were a mixed bag, but he can sum up the potential of Episode Three in one word. "Vader, baby. Vader." In the film, the villainous Darth Vader makes his first onscreen appearance in over 20 years. "We all want to see Vader kick some ass," he says. There's a potential problem in the long wait. Twieden isn't even sure Episode Three will play the Cinerama. "That's the assumption I'm going on," he says. "If it isn't, I'll be more than happy to move to a different theater. It's really about the wait." Rain or shine, through sleet or snow, the wait will last another 134 days. "Star Wars is about independence and freedom," Twieden says. "And that's really what this wait is about. That complete and utter independence." For More Information: waitingforstarwars.blogspot.com  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-07-2005 01:39 AM                        Dude, you better think of where you found that article and post a link, or Mr/Ms. Mod will slap you up.  |  IP: Logged Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 01-07-2005 02:06 AM                     Waiting 22 weeks for star wars? Isn't that enough to get you committed to the loony bin?  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-07-2005 03:22 AM                     Somebody needs to call his mom and tell her he's not at band camp all winter like he said.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-07-2005 04:59 AM                        Bizarrely, there seems to be a whole tribe of Star Bores loons. Just before I left the theatre business we showed the first of the new lot, and we even had people coming in (usually they were either teenage kids or middle-aged men - a worrying combination if you ask me!) asking if we were showing the trailer, and with what film. We considered sticking the trailer (of which we only had one print, that was delivered and had to be returned separately by recorded delivery) on the front of some real turkeys and advertising the fact, just to drum up business.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-07-2005 07:45 AM                     An Open Letter to the Star Wars "fan": Dear Sir, You are not a Jedi Knight. Luke Skywalker is not going to walk off of the screen to ask for your help in a light saber battle. You will never see a real Death Star and you will never meet Darth Vader for a latte at Starbucks. It is all fiction. It is just a movie. It's sole purpose is to make money, not to present the untimate truth. George Lucas does not care that you are out there and neither should anyone else. You are an adult. An adult should be contributing something back to the universe, through work, charity or just making the world, in some small way, a better place. Your loitering does none of that. It is a waste of human time and I regret that you feel this is a worthwhile endeavor. Your "quest" is no longer amusing. It is very sad...sad in that an adult has decided that sitting in the same place for 22 weeks is a noble cause. You say that this is about independence. With independence comes responsibility. Jedi Knights DO noble things. They don't sit back and watch the world go by. Time will pass, as it always does. False excitement will build until the picture opens, then you will sit in a dark room with a few hundred people and then, you will leave. This movie will not change your life, nor make it better in any way...it is simply a trifling entertainment. It will amuse you for about 2 hours and then disgorge you into the lobby of life. The world will keep turning, life will go on, and you, sir, will be quickly forgotten. Please, just go away. Mark Lensenmayer  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 01-07-2005 07:50 AM                     Yeah, what he said.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-07-2005 10:06 AM                     Maybe Jeff Twieden thinks he's going to score with some hot chicks over this stunt. Yeah. I can just imagine the pickup line: Twieden: "hey babe, I waited outside a theater for 5 months so I could be first in line to see the next 'Star Wars' prequel. Aren't you impressed?" Hot Chick: "F**k off, geeky loser!"  |  IP: Logged Eric Hooper Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 532 From: Fort Worth, TX, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 01-07-2005 11:12 AM                     He's gonna be pissed when other people buy tickets on Fandango from the warm comfort of their own home, and then they let the Fandango line in first! LOL  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-07-2005 12:35 PM                     HAHAHA! What a dork. I have pictures of my theater back in 1999 when the line wraped around the building for two days. By three hours before advance tickets went on sale, the front met the back!! This guy reminds me of a clip I saw of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog talking to people waiting outside the Ziegfeld for Episode II. Watch it here: http://www.milkandcookies.com/stuff/triumphvsw.asx Be warned, it's about 10 minutes long but WORTH IT... ....FOR ME TO POOP ON! =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-07-2005 12:58 PM                     If you dress up as a movie character and then go out in public like that to stand in line to see a movie, you'll probably wind up on some secret blacklist banning you from sex for at least a decade. Maybe there might be an exception in the case of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." In that event, you might be getting laid right after the movie, or even right there in the movie theater!  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-07-2005 01:21 PM                     Well, the Seattle Cinerama is a nice theater- I flew there from California to see 2 movies! This guy ought to just see whatever's playing there right now though instead of wait outside.  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-07-2005 02:34 PM                     This guy is definitely a moron! Some of us don't have enough time to take care of everything that needs to be done for work, school, home, etc. And here is this guy waiting for five months to see a movie that probably won't be worth standing in line five minutes for. This has to be the worst case of misplaced priorities...  |  IP: Logged Christopher Seo Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 530 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-07-2005 02:56 PM                     Hmm, was that guy waiting in 2002 also, for Ep II? If so, I met him and have his autograph (and the autograph of whoever else was waiting there). It's actually a pretty sweet deal, a stunt like that. The day I visited the Seattle Cinerama back in January '02, a photographer from Der Spiegel was there to see them, and they mentioned a company giving them free highspeed Internet access. Can't say I want to see Ep III that badly, though. Or at all.  |  IP: Logged Darren Crimmins Expert Film Handler Posts: 130 From: Dallas, TX, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-07-2005 05:39 PM                     This moron ought to just get a part time job at the theater if he is just going to sit out there. Make sure he is scheduled for that opening shift the day the movie opens, go in with all the other workers before the public gets in. When the movie starts, he can go in and watch it, and then afterwards, quit. The least he could do is make a little money instead of being a complete loser and sitting outside.  |  IP: Logged

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