STAR WARS EPISODE II

[DanL]

Well after Tuesday, my AP's are over, so I'm pretty much doing nothing for the rest of the year. As a celebration, I think I'll go pre-buy some midnight tickets and call in sick on Thursday ;-)

[Suike]

Ok... since I'm a loser and have way too much time on my hand I decided to do a little bit or research. I went to AMCTheaters.com to look at all the theaters selling midnight showings of SWEP2 and just see how many sold out. After about 20 min of counting I tallied the amount of sold out shows and still open shows. Here's the results:

Out of all the AMC Theaters nationwide and as of 10PM on 5/13, there were a total of 97 theaters and a total of 321 showings selling presale tickets to Star Wars Episode 2: Attack Of The Clones for a midnight showing. Out of those 321 showings, 179 were sold out and 142 were still open. That means that 55.76% of showings were sold out. Some theaters had all 5 showings sold out!! I think Star Wars will end up doing pretty good. Can't wait till Wednesday night/Thursday morning!! AHHHHHHH

[Katie Reynolds]

I get to see Episode II three times within the next week! On Thursday (with Jeremy), on Saturday (with the team) and next Wednesday for a school field trip (Yes, we rented out a theatre and are having 300 people from a few English classes going to see EII.)

It'd better be good! If nothing else, Hayden Christiansen and Ewan McGregor star ::drools:: so...

- Katie

[OtakuRob]

1) Star Wars is too mainstream to be considered a "cult film". Far much more Star Wars merchandise has sold than Spiderman.

2) Spiderman won't be able to keep up. Even if it is showing in many less theatres, people have been waiting for years to see this movie. And Star Wars has an extra day on top of that. Spiderman was a Fri/Sat/Sun release while EP II is a Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun release.

But, those are just my opinions.

[Suike]

Even if the first weekend isn't that huge... overall Episode II will win. Look how bad Episode I was and it is the 4th highest grossing film ever! Episode II is the "Clone Wars" that you heard so much about in the original trilogy too and plus when it opens in England/Australia and all the other big Star Wars Fans' countries it'll get a lot of money. I think it'll beat Episode I in grossing amount but the weekends, that 114million is gonna be hard to beat.

[DaveyPotter144]

MWAHAHAHA!

I have great news! I get to see the movie tomorrow night! on WEDNESDAY!!! YAY!!

I bet your wondering..."Why the heck, how can that be?"

Well, I work at the movie theater and I just happen to find out my managers are previewing the movie at 7:30 tomorrow night and all non working employees can go!

YAY!!! I'm so excited and I'm going to try to tell some of yous what I think without spoiling anything!

See ya all tomorrow night!

[Joe Matt]

I'm not a looser so I won't be there at midnight

JK

I'm going to lie low, see which is better, SM or EpII.

[Suike]

Off to go wait in line to get a good seat in the theater and join in the pre-movie festivities... my review will be up around 3AM (EST) if you wanna wait that long... May The Force Be With You...

[DaveyPotter144]

OH MY GOSH!!!!!!

IT IS AWESOME!!!

There were a few parts when Ani seemed whiney but that's about it!!!

WOW!!! The scene with yoda made me scream at our movie!! I was nearly jumping out of my seat!!!

I can't calm down...I have to see it again!

and again...



AND AGAIN!!! MWAHAHAHAHA

[purplehaze357]

tomorrow @ 7 for me...i cant see it at considering im decked out in my jamis right now about to go to bed cuz im sick and its not even midnight yet....10:44pm ET

[Suike]

OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! THAT WAS CLOSE TO, IF NOT THE BEST, STAR WARS MOVIE EVER!! MY CROWD (DIE HARD FANS) CHEERED AND GASPED AND EVERYTHING IT WAS SO GREAT!! THE MOVIE IS DEFFINITELY HARDCORE!! SO MUCH FORESHADOWING AND SO MANY ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS!! OMG IT'S GREAT!! ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS I'LL BE SEEING IT AGAIN LATER TODAY!! I'VE GOTTA!! IT IS MY DESTINY!! AHHHHHHHH!! IT LITERALLY STARTS OFF WITH A BOOM !! AHHHHHHHH!! I LOVE IT, IT BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES WHEN IT WAS OVER!! I WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN RIGHT NOW!! BUT NOW I'VE GOT TO WAIT TILL AFTER SCHOOL!! OMG!! OMG!! I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN WAIT THAT LONG!! AHHHH!! I NEED STAR WARS!! IT'S LIKE A DRUG!! SO MUCH ACTION!! AND A NICE LOVE THEME!! THAT KID PLAYED ANI SO WELL!! NICE ANGER!! AND OBI AND YODA ARE GREAT!! OMG!! THAT MOVIE KICKED SO MUCH BUTT!! I CAN'T WAIT TILL LIKE 2:30 THIS AFTERNOON WHEN I CAN SEE IT AGAIN!! IF IT'S NOT SOLD OUT!! OMG!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!

[Mike Soukup]

Originally posted by Suike
OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! THAT WAS CLOSE TO, IF NOT THE BEST, STAR WARS MOVIE EVER!!

Could you clarify if you liked it, it's hard to tell from your post I originally planned to see it next week, but I may have to see it this weekend.

And for those of you who have seen it already, please no spoilers.

Mike

[OtakuRob]

Could you clarify if you liked it, it's hard to tell from your post I originally planned to see it next week, but I may have to see it this weekend.

Hmm, that's a tough one. But I'll try my best to explain.

1) You find out about a great deal of very important characters that were never mentioned in the trilogy or afterwards, and their effects on the Universe are immense.

2) The action sequences were some of the best I've ever seen.

3) Story and characterwise, both were developedf beautifully with no missed details.

4) The ending was.. ugh. I don't know how to put this in writing. I think the best way would be to quote Homer Simpson and say it was "groin-grabbingly good".

5) The fight scene was insane!

I think I put in everything I wanted to say. I loved it, and I may have to agree. This one is definately on par with the Trilogy.

PS~ the fans I saw it with were so hardcore, we were cheering when the previews finally started. Lol.

[Jnadke]

Oooo... I can't wait, only 5 more hours to go!

[Justin 188]

ARRRRGHH!!!! HOURS??? I have to wait 2 days!!!

*jumps up and down*