Do you plan to see Star Wars VII?

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	Yes, I have a ticket
	6 (13%)
	Yes, I plan to in a theater, but don't have a ticket yet
	26 (54%)
	Yes, on DVD/Streaming
	3 (6%)
	Maybe
	4 (8%)
	No
	9 (19%)
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[Scuba]

1. There's a new Star Wars? No shit?

[underpants]

2. Saturday morning 10am with several families - in IMAX

We are traveling to stay at friends house who moved away a few months ago. Their siblings are coming with their families too.

[Katashi_itto]

3. IMAX this weekend

[NightWatcher]

4. Monday, IMAX. I only have to avoid media from Friday thru the weekend.

[Renew Deal]

7. I have a ticket for tomorrow night.

They say it opens the 18th, but it really opens the 17th. I don't know if that's because of Europe.

[Orsino]

5. Waiting for Sunday morning of the second weekend.

And will try to see it in 3D and IMAX.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Just as soon as I see it in the $4.95 DVD barrel at Best Buy.

[Bucky]

8. They should rename it "Star Wars: Just Wait for Redbox"

[Phentex]

9. I have zero interest...

But i am happy for those who are really into it. Seems to be exciting for them.

[narnian60]

13. Same here.

[Orrex]

15. That makes you one of a rare and under-appreciated breed!

To judge from social media, most people who have no interest in Star Wars are VERY interested in mocking others for their interest. Yours is a more grown-up response, and it's a welcome change from what I've been seeing so much lately!

[smirkymonkey]

17. Same here. I saw the first one when it came out.

My reaction was kind of "meh". However, it's not really my genre.

[kwassa]

28. Me, too. I saw how derivative it was from films that had proceeded it.

I was very into film history at the point. The Star Wars plot was taken from a Japanese samurai film, by the great Akira Kurosawa.

I haven't bothered to see most of the Star Wars sequels, even for free on TV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress

The Hidden Fortress (隠し砦の三悪人 Kakushi toride no san akunin?, literally, "The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress&quot is a 1958 jidaigeki[2] film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune as General Makabe Rokurōta (真壁 六郎太?) and Misa Uehara as Princess Yuki.

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George Lucas has acknowledged heavy influence of The Hidden Fortress on Star Wars,[6] particularly in the technique of telling the story from the perspective of the film's lowliest characters, C-3PO and R2-D2.[7][8] Lucas's original plot outline for Star Wars also had a strong resemblance to the plot of The Hidden Fortress,[9] which would be reused for The Phantom Menace.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. I Have A Little Interest

But feel like you did. I'm glad for those folks for whom this is that big an event!

I've seen the other 6, but only one in a theater. It was good, but didn't make me go crazy over it.

I liked 3 of the other 5 but watched those on cable.

But, if folks are so into it that they are waiting in line to get in the first night or weekend, good for them. I hope they have big fun.

[KansDem]

54. Same here...

But, I also have no interest in Harry Potter as well.

[randys1]

57. I cant understand why anyone would spend one second of their time

complaining about someone else wanting to see a movie.

So thanks for your attitude, I wish others had it.

Movies are still a fantastic form of entertainment, and this movie is going to KICK ASS

[Xyzse]

10. Watching it with my older sister, niece and nephew

It is going to be awesome due to the company alone.

Really trying to be happy. The friend I had who would have been the most excited was not able to reach Episode 7, and I was considering foregoing it altogether, till my sister mentioned wanting to watch it.

Sooo... I have the tickets for this Sunday ready.

[NCTraveler]

11. I voted yes to streaming/DVD.

But I need to watch the others first.

[haele]

12. Disabled, going to the theater is painful.

So we'll wait for the 3-D Blu-ray and invite the neighbors over.

Haele

[AndreaCG]

38. I have a few reasons I've stopped going to the movies

One of which is I'm disabled right now. But the main reason is there are occasional bedbug sightings at local theaters. I had them once and a scare a second time. It's a terrible process to get rid of them. I threw out so much. The vast majority of my books. It was unlikely the bugs had gotten in them but there was no room in my storage locker for them. And I only have a studio apartment. I can't imagine dealing with a big house worth of stuff. So it's not worth the risk to me.

[ryan_cats]

14. Spoiler alert

Spoiler alert, the Enterprise gets destroyed.

[Throckmorton]

27. A they still going to kill Spock?

I signed a petition in college to stop them from killing him, did it work?

[ryan_cats]

43. He was killed by Cylons

[lumberjack_jeff]

44. ..With a cruciatus curse. n/t

[ryan_cats]

47. Touché

[Orrex]

16. Not unless I am guaranteed to see 45 minutes of Jar Jar on the screen

Otherwise, the deal's off.

[justiceischeap]

18. I've never seen any of the Star Wars movies and I don't plan on this one changing that

People are shocked that there are people in the world who haven't seen this franchise but my cousin, who was in the news for seeing it like a bazillion times (it was a small town he lived in), makes up for all of us that don't throw money left and right at George Lucas.

[ileus]

19. my 11yo son has his ticket already, but I'll just wait.

[Initech]

20. Yes, will definitely be going to the theater for this one!

Would love to see it in Imax on Sunday.

[Waldorf]

21. Plan on seeing the movie as soon as I can.

[Lizzie Poppet]

22. Yeah, I'll see it...

...as soon as there's a good DVD rip available.

[Javaman]

23. If I were younger I would be camping out at the theater LOL

the first Star Wars (1977-saw it opening night) was the main reason I got into film.

[Renew Deal]

24. These days that's not necessary

You can get tickets a month in advance and in some theaters seats are assigned.

[Javaman]

25. Oh I know, but I would still camp out. ;) lol nt

[Recursion]

26. Christmas night, Eros Theater in Old Bombay

Old Victorian theater; premiered a lot of Bollywood's golden age stuff. I'm looking forward to it.

[Paladin]

29. I'll watch it at home, eventually. Less of a chance of getting shot, that way. (nt)

[marmar]

31. Yes, but not until at least 3 weeks after the opening.

[whatthehey]

32. A decent camera rip should hit torrent sites in a couple of days

I may take a look this weekend if I'm bored. But pay $8 to listen to a bunch of mouthbreathing morons chat and text and eat over the top of it? Not likely.

[Renew Deal]

33. So you're going to steal it?

[whatthehey]

34. No the people who own it will still have possession

[Renew Deal]

35. What you're talking about is theft

[whatthehey]

42. From whom is the light hitting my eyes from the screen stolen?

Who is deprived of ownership? Is the value of the movie decreased? Remember before you answer that the alternative is not my paying for a ticket or buying a DVD, as it certainly does not hold that much interest for me, but simply those photons from my screen encoding different signals as I surf elsewhere.

Digital information does not fit well into bronze age laws written for physical property, regardless of tweaks to those laws demanded by studios, directors and film stars who are certainly not suffering too much from my pillage and banditry.

[Renew Deal]

46. The owners of the film. The performers. The behind the scenes little guys whose livelyhood depend

on works of art. Yes the value is decreased. You steal and they starve. The rationalizations for your crimes don't make it less criminal.

[whatthehey]

49. Silly hyperbole

Anybody who gets royalties is as far from starving as Star Wars is from a work of art. The "little guys" have already long been paid their normal scale, and again how is the value decreased when I would not have paid to see it in the first place? Even for those who would have paid but download a torrent instead you may want to check out what the makers of the most downloaded TV show on Earth, Game of Thrones, saw when they studied the effects of downloading on their revenue.

I'm not rationalizing anything and the idea of theft without loss is semantic nonsense perpetuated by a strange combination of internalized puritanism where all pleasure most come only from toil and the inability of a legal system to step out of anachronistic midsets.

I'm in my 50s. I couldn't write a single line of code or configure any version of Windows past 3.1 to save my life. If I worked out torrents years ago in about an hour it's safe to say that just about anybody much younger than me, and the hordes of people my age or older more tech savvy can do the same, and yet tens of millions of people will buy tickets to this movie and tens of thousands will download it instead (or quite probably most of them will do it as well, so they get both the big movie theater experience and the fanboi frame by frame fix which seems so inexplicably popular). That 1000 to 1 ratio isn't because I'm an evil genius, or because 99.9% of the people agree with your IP theft notions, as the entire history of recording/duplicating media demonstrates since few people indeed sent checks into ASCAP for those 70s/80s mix tapes (but of course I'm sure you never did that and are consistent, no?). It's because people who care about seeing a movie on a three-story screen and a 30-speaker audio system with a couple hundred other people will pay for it, but the rest of us won't but now have another option than waiting for the movie to hit TV.

[Adrahil]

55. Sorry, you're just self-justifying.

Whether you like it or not, people are entitled to be paid for their IP.

If you don't think a film is worth the money being asked to see it, then don't pay and wait for legal "free" options.

[killbotfactory]

58. I've spent years pirating and plundering the internet for booty.

Because I was living paycheck to paycheck and couldn't justify buying anything you can download. I'm in a better place financially and it's easier to just buy things I want to watch or listen too, now. I even buy things I pirated if I enjoyed them enough. Weird how that works.

I imagine in the far off future, when star trek replicators exist and no one should want for anything, this argument will still be going on, and people will still try to shame others for "unauthorized replicating" of all the things corporate holds a patent on.

[LeftyMom]

36. I'm taking the kids to see it at the drive-in.

[villager]

52. There are still drive-ins!?

That is somehow comforting to know.

[irisblue]

37. when it hits the cheap show

[bigwillq]

39. Most likely no

Loved the movies when I was a kid in the 1980s but didn't get into the ones released recently.
I probably won't see it.

[elias49]

40. No. I only watched the first

ages ago. It was cool. Just not a fan.

[Xolodno]

41. Yeah...in a few weeks.

Not a big fan of crowds and think after a few weeks it just might be tolerable for me.

Shoot, if they said you can watch it "On Demand" for the price of $75....I'd never step foot in the theater. Actually, they could charge a $100 and I would still order it....just so I could avoid the crowds, make my own snacks (opposed to the overpriced and awful ones they sell...really, you call those "nachos&quot , pause the movie for a bathroom break, rewind a section just to make sure I saw or heard what I think I did, etc.

[Hekate]

45. No. Too much chance of running into my ex-son in law, who is thinks he is a Jedi Knight

Can my daughter pick them, or what?

[pinboy3niner]

48. *snort*

[Omaha Steve]

50. Going tomorrow afternoon

[villager]

51. Did a couple days ago. Fun stuff. A couple general thoughts below:

It's really as much a "reboot" as a sequel.

Daisy Ridley was really good.

Points to what could actually be a very interesting "second chapter" in the current trilogy...

[arcane1]

53. Eventually, but I'm in no hurry.

I hate crowds. I'll check it out some day when the initial rush has died down.

[longship]

56. I may, if my friends vote to go see it.

However, I am not looking forward to being blinded by lens flare. JJ Abrams already totally ruined one SciFi series. I guess he seems intent on destroying a second one. Well, JJ, George Lucas was way ahead of you.

That is why only maybe.

[KamaAina]

59. Yes, when it makes its way to basic cable in a few years

or when it gets to pay cable if my ship comes in before then.