Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
And now for some legitimate news – AICN is reporting that Revenge of the Sith will be PG-13. I don’t think anyone is really surprised – Lucas has been saying that Sith would earn the higher rating for a while now.
I wonder how many chopped-off limbs this means?
Yeah, another article on on the fans lining up at Grauman’s… But I had to blog this segment:
Sarah Sprague, 31, was growing testy as she tried to say the same thing to a sports reporter calling from Detroit.
“Yeah, I know it’s just a movie,” she said. “You’ve been reporting on sports, and you ask me whether I have a life?”
Then she asked the reporter if he wasn’t wasting his life covering 40 Tiger baseball games this year, referring to the team as “that losing cause.”
Detroit’s most famous sports reporter is Mitch Albom of the Free Press, known for saccharine writing and, more on the point, an article from 1999 about how Star Wars geeks need to get a life. Because everyone knows sports fans are always sane and dignified.
Well, not quite that good, but “Revenge of the Sith” — the Toilet Paper?
What next?
Remember the folks waiting for Revenge of the Sith at Grauman’s Chinese Theater? They’re in the wrong line.
“The telling thing is — for me, at least — if the film is not playing at the Chinese … I have zero desire to see it at all,” a fan who calls himself Obi Geewhyen posted on the message board at Liningup.net. “I’m in it for the lineup only and don’t give a darn about the conclusion of this lackluster, so-called ‘Star Wars’ series.”
How touching.
The story has been pretty widespread: Boing Boing, Metafilter, and Slashdot all blogged it and it’s pretty much spread all over by now. Nothing like laughing at a bunch of crazy geeks to bring the internet together.
UPDATE 4/7: The story’s made it to mainstream media, and Defamer is on the case.
The uberfans at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles are lining up already for the opening of “Revenge of the Sith.”
You can call them on a payphone at (323) 462-9609.
It is for a good cause. The group is raising funds for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. You can donate here.
You can watch three new TV spots for Revenge of the Sith: Tragedy, Dark Side Unleashed and a shortened version of the teaser on starwars.com.
And don’t forget… pretty much all the merchandise is coming out today. Spoilerphobes, now is the time to barricade the doors on the cave. See you in May.
Starwars.com posted a pretty hefty look at ROTS literature last night – interviews with authors Matt Stover (novelization) and J.W. Rinzler (Making of/Art of) as well as excerpts from all three books.
Ready to wear out your credit cards come midnight tomorrow?
Don’t head out for Midnight Madness without Rebelscum’s toy checklist (PDF file) and TFN’s list of books.
Trooper TK-7602, a Rebel Legion member on Livejournal, has the scoop on what exactly was going on in Times Square yesterday. And the Legion themselves have a photo gallery of the event.
Even M&Ms have a trailer. And they’ve put an X-Wing in Times Square, of all places.