On Saturday, February 11 we met at the ICON theater on Roosevelt to watch the Phantom Menace in 3D.
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Star Wars at the Portage Theater
Revenge of the Sith
The last of the prequels, Revenge of the Sith. It was not an easy thing to get the line together. Our theatre of choice for TPM and AotC, McClurg Court, was not closed. So we had to move to AMC River East. Where we were not allowed to camp out. Did this stop us? No, we just camped out in front of the old McClurg, and moved to AMC the night before the movie. It was a crazy time. Here are the pics:
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- That says it all.
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- Rex!
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- Who says you can only camp in the woods?
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- Red Bull stopped by?
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- Clear the way, the MASK is going on!
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- Almost there!
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- Ka-Boom!
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- Yeah, this is messed up.
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- I wear my sunglasses at night.
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- Wise words from Master Yoda
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- 1st Shirt and 3rd Shirt
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- Their love cannot be stopped
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- The line
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- The goal
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- Ahem…
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- Relaxing in style
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- Matt’s playing sabacc?
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- Trying to sleep
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- Inside AMC!
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- Things get weird in the line
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- Posing with Obi-Wan
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- I mean, how could you not?
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- Quinlan Vos
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- Phil and Cheryl
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- And Phyllis makes three.
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- Hanging
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- Aayla Secura joins Quinlan
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- More pics
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- Another angle
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- Is that a Star Wars movie? (Yes it is!)
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- We’re inside! And so is author Matthew Stover
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- Our Guest of Honor
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- If you haven’t read the Episode III novelization, you really should.
Chicago Force Backyard Theatre: TPM
On Friday, July 23, at 7:00 P.M., Chicago Force’s Backyard Drive-In Theater presented The Phantom Menace. We enjoyed some good fun as we harkened back to the movie whose line-up formed our initial group. Showtime was approximately 9:00 P.M. Thanks to Dave Gray who opened his McKinley Park home.
Chicago Force views AOTC on the big screen…and we mean big!
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:
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- Youth from the Metropolitan Boys Academy
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- Chicago Force is Your Kind of Scum
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- Dave Gray, organizer extraordinaire
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- You can’t have too many pictures of Yoda
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- Ray won’t let anyone in until it’s time
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- What a great lookin’ group of people
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- More group pictures – Boys Academy
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- The gang’s all here
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- The general confusion before the movie starts
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- Chi-Force invades “Dick’s Last Resort” after the midnight show
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- Yeah for all of us!
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- I’m beginning my attack run!
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- Stay on target…
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- Almost there…
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- It didn’t go in, it just impacted on the surface!
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- Get clear, you can’t do anymore good back there!
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- Being with Chicago Force just makes people happy
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- See? Everyone is smiling.
Episode II: Attack of the Clones
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:
The Theater:
