We talked about earlier a little bit and it seems the consensus was that going much earlier makes things very difficult for the teacher/student types on the board.

Yeah, I know that (and, actually, my semester ends that day, so I'm all too aware of it for my own case) -- but since this is something that came up so late in the poll, I wanted to be sure it was thrown out there before we declared anything final, just in case people wanted to go that way. If not, no big.

Also, given a year, there's a very good chance the release date of the movie could be shifted.

I wouldn't be thrilled about moving the F2F date because of a movie.

Also, given a year, there's a very good chance the release date of the movie could be shifted.

This right here. Even release dates printed on posters and trailers can never really considered to be solid. No release dates are solid until exhibitors receive their prints and permission to run them.

Even release dates printed on posters and trailers can never really considered to be solid.

I would kill for a "Revenge of the Jedi" poster.

I remember that Titanic was supposed to be a summer release. All the movie theatres in Cincinnati got promotional cups and popcorn buckets to use in the late spring and through the summer as a tie in. Then they pushed the movie to a Holiday release.

I would kill for a "Revenge of the Jedi" poster.

I've got one. Well, it's actually a re-release of Star Wars poster with a "Revenge of the Jedi" banner across the corner.

The whole "Revenge" thing was actually a marketing ploy planned from the beginning by Lucas.

I would kill for a "Revenge of the Jedi" poster.

There are a ton on ebay.

There are a ton on ebay.

Yeah, but PayPal doesn't accept killings. For that you need SlayPal.

All the movie theatres in Cincinnati got promotional cups and popcorn buckets to use in the late spring and through the summer as a tie in. Then they pushed the movie to a Holiday release.

All that modigying, gone to waste... sniff, sniff