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Chicago Force says farewell to AOTC on IMAX

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Five months after its huge debut, Attack of the Clones: The IMAX Experience is leaving Navy Pier IMAX. On Friday, April 4, Chicago Force will gather during its final weekend. We’ll meet at the box office at 8:30 P.M. for the 9:30 P.M. showing. If you’ve never seen AOTC in the IMAX format, you owe it to yourself to see it on their 60-foot-tall screen with 11,000 watts of sound. Look for the Chicago Force t-shirts. Afterward, we’ll head to Dick’s Last Resort to toast its departure.

Navy Pier IMAX is at 700 E. Grand St., Suite 115. Tickets can be bought at the box office or at www.imax.com/chicago. Since there is only one showing of Attack of the Clones that evening, we strongly encourage you to buy your ticket in advance. Dick’s Last Resort is at 435 E. Illinois. Check out www.dickslastresort.com for more info. We’ll be there at approximately 11:45 P.M. For the latest information on Chicago Force events, visit www.ChicagoForce.org. Talk about this event at this thread in our FanForce forum.

Chicago Force views AOTC on the big screen…and we mean big!

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In November 2002, “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones” was released nationwide in IMAX theaters. IMAX film is a high-definition format, where the film is literally twice as big as the film used in normal theaters (70mm instead of 35mm). The result is a picture that is bigger, sharper, and more colorful than is found in regular theaters.

As “Attack of the Clones” was the first movie to be filmed, processed, and distributed entirely on a digital format, it presented the IMAX theaters with a unique opportunity to create a 70mm film print that was far superior to anything they had done before. Although they had to remove 23 minutes of film to fit the picture on the projectors, the two hours of movie they were able to convert was truly amazing. Most people who viewed the movie on the 6-story Navy Pier screen knew they were in for a treat as soon as they saw the 20th Century logo.

Navy Pier IMAX was very generous in donating 150 tickets to Chicago Force for an 8 AM showing on the morning of release. Chicago Force in turn donated 80 of our tickets to the Metropolitan Boys Academy, to let some children see the movie that may otherwise not been able to.

It’s not easy getting people out to a movie at 8 o’clock on a Friday morning, but by the time Obi-Wan and Anakin were assigned to protect Senator Amidala, the theater was mostly full.

Here are picture from the first midnight show, and the 8 AM show the next morning:

Episode II: Attack of the Clones

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The Episode II: Attack of the Clones is here! Chicago Force lined up outside McClurg Court to see the movie at midnight.  Here is some pics of the whole craziness!

Lining Up:

There was a lot of this–waiting.
city
Yes, it rained. A lot.
weapons
At least we were well armed.
manager
Even the theater manager got in on the lightsaber action.
Sleep
He looks so cute, you just want to take him home.
Marquee
The Sunday Lucas-sponsored charity premiere.
salute
Dave loves me. Really.
Line Up
This is what line-waiting is all about.
day group
Were you there?
double-bladed lightsaber
Dave challenges his attacker…
Photo by Jedi Autobot
force ghost
…only to be fried by Hazmatt and his “Spaceballs: The Flame Thrower” toy.
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Qui-Gon
“Oh, Thom! Yes, yes, YES!”
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Limbo
Doin’ the Star Wars Limbo
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Jedi stance
Thom Solo, the Red-Haired Warrior of Nalgoth
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Chicago Force
Chi-Force shows off it’s previous accomplishments.
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Newspaper
The line gets longer and longer
Photo by Jedi Autobot
blaster
Phil needs Thom to shoot him like he needs a hole in the head.
Photo by Jedi Autobot
newsreporter
Bob the Battle Droid gets his 15 minutes.
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Princess Leia
Amber-Eyes picks the wrong day to order the meatball sub.
Photo by Jedi Autobot
outside crowd
Costumes attract the TV crews
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Queen Amidala, Imperial
An Imperial officer shakes down a young Amidala.
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Star Wars Lego
The LEGO guys show up and hand out goodies.
Megaphone
They handed out t-shirts and cool hats.
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Ladder
They hold a “Make a wookie sound” contest for nifty LEGO prizes.
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Troop Lego
LEGO donates this $100 gunship to the Chi-Force raffle. Thanks LEGO!
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Clones poster
Only hours to go.
line up outside
The line really starts to build. It’s down to the corner at this point.
watching movie
Some guy brought a projector and VCR to play the original trilogy.
Heather
Heather kept smiling throughout the whole thing. It was either drugs or mental unstability, we haven’t figured out which.
Jedi officer
Not exactly a standard-issue sidearm.
Marquee at night
A truly beautiful marque.
Twil'ek, Jedi
Is that a brain-stem on your head, or are you just happy to see me?
Photo by Erica
Other Movie
his sight makes me glad I showed up early.
Photo by Erica

The Theater:

stairs
Chicago Force – first through the door!
empty theater
Membership has its priviledges. We pick the primo-seats while the fanboys are still on the sidewalk.
filling in
The chaos of getting settled in.
Lightsaber
All the beautiful people are “Chicago Force”
Photo by Erica
camera
Dave taking a picture of me taking a picture of Dave taking a….well, you get the idea.
If ever there was a “full house”, this was it.
Seats
CF gettin’ the good seats
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Popcorn
Anyone who is anybody has a CF shirt
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Theater
Spot the CF shirts (HINT: there are at least 8)
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Matt
This must be the row for the REALLY cool people…
Photo by Jedi Autobot
Amidala, Naboo
Aren’t you a little short for a senator?
Photo by Jedi Autobot
battle
“Ah, Baby-Wan Kenobi, we meet again, at last.”
Photo by Erica
kids
Weeee are the champions, my friends…
Photo by Jedi Autobot
hype men
…and we’ll keep on fighting, ’til the end.
Photo by Jedi Autobot
sitting
Chicago Force in da hiz-ouse!
The tension is palpable!
crowd
Just start the damn movie already!