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Just got back from the midnight session here.

Anyway, I was dreading having to hear idiots prattle on and on about something they read in West End Games, but even that fear could not prepare me for what I heard.

May I present...

Stupid Things Heard While Waiting for Episode III to Start..

I was unlucky enough to be seated next to the physical incarnation of Frank Spencer. He proceeded to 'impress' his date with the following facts:

The people in the front row will be seeing the movie before the rest of us because light doesn't travel instantaneously.

The Sith had no agenda beyond hating the Jedi. That's why they had to make a deal with Palpatine because once they'd killed the Jedi they didn't know what to do.

Wookies made the Death Star. That's why they're so good at electronics!


That's all for me for now. Please, feel free to add more of the stupid things you heard while waiting for Episode III to start!

GuppyShark wrote: The people in the front row will be seeing the movie before the rest of us because light doesn't travel instantaneously.

Technically true, though one would hope he pointed out that it's an entirely negligable delay.

The Sith had no agenda beyond hating the Jedi. That's why they had to make a deal with Palpatine because once they'd killed the Jedi they didn't know what to do.

What part of "Sidious is Palpatine, the Chancellor is the Sith Lord! Didn't he get?

Wookies made the Death Star. That's why they're so good at electronics!

True. The Death Star was constructed by slave labour, which included a large number of Wookies - the entire race was enslaved for helping Yoda. Gotta love that Palpatine, no?

Some Wookie Slaves on Despayre.
Another one.

This wasn't while waiting for Ep3, but it was about it, and it was extremely retarded:

Ooh! Do you think Obi-Wan will die in this one?

"Is there anyone here who does NOT speak English as a first language?!"

That cracked me up, Israel, Jerusalem, fundie central.... english speakers.

Manus Celer Dei wrote:This wasn't while waiting for Ep3, but it was about it, and it was extremely retarded:

Ooh! Do you think Obi-Wan will die in this one?

BWAHAHAHAHAHA some moron actualy said that?

that beats the jerks who were hoping the Titanic would reach New York safely in the movie

NecronLord wrote:

GuppyShark wrote:Wookies made the Death Star. That's why they're so good at electronics!

True. The Death Star was constructed by slave labour, which included a large number of Wookies - the entire race was enslaved for helping Yoda. Gotta love that Palpatine, no?

The stupid part was the latter half of his comment - that working on the Death Star made the entire Wookie race good at electronics.

You know, because before that they were an agrarian people.

Not really stupid, but as we were leaving the theater a friend of mind in the back row jumps up and says: 'What the fuck!? Jar jar was supposed to die!'

Captain tycho wrote:Not really stupid, but as we were leaving the theater a friend of mind in the back row jumps up and says: 'What the fuck!? Jar jar was supposed to die!'

THAT IS A SPOILER SIR.

The worst one ever. I have a ticket to see it in less than two hours, and I'm reconsidering watching the movie in light of what you've just revealed

j/k i <3 jar jar!

Cykeisme wrote:

Captain tycho wrote:Not really stupid, but as we were leaving the theater a friend of mind in the back row jumps up and says: 'What the fuck!? Jar jar was supposed to die!'

THAT IS A SPOILER SIR.

The worst one ever. I have a ticket to see it in less than two hours, and I'm reconsidering watching the movie in light of what you've just revealed

j/k i <3 jar jar!

Joking aside, it's not much of a spoiler, as don't we see him in the special special edition dvd's in the celebration scene in RotJ?

No one said anything dumb..... but I saw something very nice.

Two rather attractive females, dressed up as in Jedi clothes with ligthsabres, with a female friend in tow. And there was ESB, me and my friend. Geez, one for each of us.............. too bad none of us made a move to get a number.

Not so much a stupid thing said, as someone being stupid, they were waving their saber around at the front on the cinema, which prompted someone at the back to shout out "Stop being a cock!" which was met with laughter and applause.

One funny thing that happened at the showing I attended was that two people on opposite sides of the theatre brough lightsabers. One was green while the other was red. They both waived them in the air an the same time, noticed each other, and then did the only logical thing: they both got up, ran to the front of the screen (the movie hadn't started) and engaged in a duel. Gotta love Star Wars fans.

There was a group of drunken assholes behind us.. the stupid was indescribable. "Does spock die in this one?" is one... God, the best way to piss of a nerd is to fuck with our fandom, and that worked fairly well.

I suppose this thread should be renamed to "Things Observed While Waiting For Ep3" or something to that effect.

The theater I went to was pretty interesting. Among the better costumes that I saw was a TIE fighter pilot and a Darth Vader (I hear that Link had a well-done costume, but I didn't see him). The girls generally had better (or at least more detailed) costumes, typically being Leia or Padme and an occasional female Jedi. Most of the guys just didn't try as hard. (Matrixy Jedi and such.)

While entering, someone in my group mentioned that we should've dressed up as well as we passed a Leia, Padme, and female Jedi. The female Jedi told us that we should've.

We ended up going into the same theater as that group. Later on, an Asian guy dressed in a TNG shirt and jeans walked in did the Vulcan "live long and prosper" guesture while getting various reactions from the crowd. I just warned him to be careful of the local plant life, as it tends to be dangerous. (After the movie, I asked "better than Enterprise?" and he laughed and said "Yeah, it was pretty good.")

While waiting, most of our group left, some waiting for others to show up. As it turns out, while my girlfriend and I were keeping seats saved, my best friend was off starting up a fight between 4 Star Trek TOS crewmembers (somehow armed with lightsabers), 4 Jedi, and Link out in the lobby. (He said he would've came and gotten me, but he was too busy keeping the fight going.) From what I hear, Link put his sword and shield to good use and eventually was given a lightsaber to better defend himself. And my girlfriend and I were the ones in the group the most into sci-fi, yet we missed it so that we could keep good seats. The "fight" was evidentally broken up by the police, though.

After the movie, there was another Trek vs Wars brawl. Turns out there was a group of 8 or so Trekkies dressed in well-done TOS uniforms (again, male and female), with a couple of them battling a bunch of "Jedi" (they mostly weren't dressed for the part) and the rest standing around in a big group. Three Jedi had each brandished a nice Master Replica Force FX lightsaber while the Trekkies and remaining Jedi had inferior toyish sabers. This duel, too, was eventually broken up by a security guard. At least I saw this one (but no Link). There was also a Jedi vs Jedi where the one with the red saber started mockingly swinging his saber back and forth pathetically whining "Waaa! My mom died!" It was great.

After the fight was broke up, the TOS Trekkies went over to the Ep3 poster and got a group shot in front of it. They seemed pretty much just like the Trekkies from the SW fanfilm "The Formula" (though a little less exaggerated).

Oh, and the movie was good, too. Lots of cheering, especially for Yoda and Artoo.

GuppyShark wrote:

NecronLord wrote:

GuppyShark wrote:Wookies made the Death Star. That's why they're so good at electronics!

True. The Death Star was constructed by slave labour, which included a large number of Wookies - the entire race was enslaved for helping Yoda. Gotta love that Palpatine, no?

The stupid part was the latter half of his comment - that working on the Death Star made the entire Wookie race good at electronics.

You know, because before that they were an agrarian people.

Well, if you really think about it.... bugs (The Geonosians) made the Death Star. Or designed it anyway.

There were a few oddies, such as one young gentlemen telling his lady friend the plot of all 5 movies thus far seen. As I was going up the escalator, he was on "And so Luke bought the droids from the Jawas...". A little late to be starting that, I thought.

As I said in a different thread, what marred my experience was the fact that the movie stopped three times in the middle of the beginning battles. Just cut out, and stopped for like 15 minutes each time while they tried to make the machine work. This got some pretty pissed off responses from the crowd, (and I joined in a little because, seriously, of all the times the projector doesn't work, and it has to be during the opening of the last Star Wars movie?). It wasn't there fault, of course, but neverthless people were cranky. We missed parts because it would restart 30 seconds after it had stopped, and they wouldn't rewind it.

I used my readmission ticket later today at 12PM, so as to see what I missed.

When I was on my way to the theater, I was stopped by a clam, and offered a "free stress test." I said "Hail Xenu" and walked off. Her reaction:" Fuck, he's one of those."

Does that count?

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin