OT : Has anyone seen the Star Wars ASCII movie floating around?

[Mark Hummel]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Peter Foley wrote:

> Heya all,
> 
> Sorry if this is slightly off-topic (well maybe not, it is running off a
> linux box I think =p).
> 
> Take a look at this link : telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl/
> 
> Some of you may have seen this before (I saw it about 3 or 4 years ago
> linked off Slashdot), but at that time I dont think it was finished.  I
> havent finished watching the ASCII version yet so dont know if it has been
> finished yet but I thought that this was sufficently cool that I might pass
> it a long.

Not quite finished. Just before the "rescue" of Princess Leia, and the 
end of Obi-wan. Whoops, did I spoil it for anyone? On a positive note, at 
least in this version Han shoots first ;)

> 
> Oh as another aside, I know it may be slightly sacrileges to some but do you
> think that the Lord of the Rings movies may nock the Star Wars trilogy off
> as the biggest movie epic of all time =p.  I saw the LoTR trailer up on the
> big screen, WOW!! much better then on my computer screen.  I hope the movies
> dont let us down.

We can only hope. But I fear that our expectations are going to be raised 
so high, that no movie could hope match them. The trick will be too
actively believe they will be the worst movies ever made, and then be 
pleasantely surprised. 

> Peter.
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