'Star Wars' Fans Line Up at Wrong Theater

[moe.ron]

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Idiots!!!!

[DeltAlum]

Ooooops.

[chideltjen]

My friend told me about this. Hilarious!

[Thrillhouse]

hilarious

[DeltaSigStan]

Enjoy your fifteen minutes losers........

[Lady Pi Phi]

Don't these people have to work????

[AXO Alum]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Don't these people have to work????

That was my question!! I understand a day before -- maybe even a few days before... but over a month?!

Losers...

[PhiPsiRuss]

This is great!

[navane]

Folks, they are standing in line to raise money for charity. According to their website, these "losers" have already raised $8,100 towards helping seriously ill children and they still have 40 days left.

http://www.starlightcan.org/news/Archive/LiningUP.htm

http://www.liningup.net/

According to their own statements, they knew before hand that the Grauman's Chinese Theatre "wasn't planning on showing the film". However, that's what they were told the first two times...but they lined up there and it was shown there after all. Their plan was to line up at the Chinese Theatre as it's obviously better PR to camp out in front of a world-famous theatre instead of some "no-name" place a block away. More publicity = more money for the kids. If the Chinese Theatre decides that they just can't swing it, everyone was going to walk down the street to the other theatre. Get it? The news articles have made it sound like they didn't know about this and that's not true.

At any rate, it would appear that many of these folks are students and actors who have lots of spare time off. That would explain why they seem to have lots of time. Also, they "clock-in and clock-out" of the line. For those who didn't actually take the time to find out what these fans are doing, they are racking up "line time" over the course of the 6 weeks. If they need to go somewhere, they clock out and then clock back in. The people with the most line time and the end will win places at the front of the line when it's time for the movie. Of course, at the same time, they're taking pledges for hours spent waiting and giving the money to charity.

For what it's worth, I'm not affiliated with this group, I have not waited in line, nor do I intend to wait in line. Heck, I haven't even seen either of the two Star Wars prequels and I probably won't see this one either. The reason I'm defending them today is because some folks from this group came and gave a presentation during one of our events several weeks ago (I work in the "scifi industry"). They were just some nice folks trying to create a fair and orderly system for people waiting in line and, while they were at it, do something to benefit ill children.

.....Kelly

[AXO Alum]

Originally posted by navane
Folks, they are standing in line to raise money for charity. According to their website, these "losers" have already raised $8,100 towards helping seriously ill children and they still have 40 days left.

When I referred to them as "losers" I was specifically meaning this line out of the article:

But the fans are refusing to move, believing the news to be false.

No where in that article did it say anything about raising money for seriously ill children. If it did, I (and others) would not have called them losers or idiots.

We may be a little obnoxious here on GC, but we aren't ugly to the point of purposely degrading people who are raising money for this type of cause.

[ZetaPhi708]

anyway, tickets go on sale here in chattanooga at the Rave 18 on April 18th but I work at another theater as a projectionist so I will get to watch it when we get the prints.

[navane]

Originally posted by AXO Alum
When I referred to them as "losers" I was specifically meaning this line out of the article:

But the fans are refusing to move, believing the news to be false.

No where in that article did it say anything about raising money for seriously ill children. If it did, I (and others) would not have called them losers or idiots.

We may be a little obnoxious here on GC, but we aren't ugly to the point of purposely degrading people who are raising money for this type of cause.

Fair enough. The BBC is normally an exceptional news source; however, they just seemed to skip right over additional facts which would have clarified the situation. That's why I stepped in to defend these folks and shed some extra light. This is sort of like when some fight at a fraternity house gets reported in the newspaper. The citizens read and think, "Fraternity members....what a bunch of drunks and hooligans". When, in fact the fight may have been started by an independant student who had been denied admission to the party.

I guess it's a much "better" story to say "dorky sci-fi fans line up at the wrong theatre and refuse to move" than to say "sci-fi fans raise money for charity in spite of concerns about location".

.....Kelly