tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post3254802509981311054..comments2024-03-28T13:53:04.287-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: The Force has been with us for 40 years nowPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-62670870004500831172017-05-28T15:15:41.143-05:002017-05-28T15:15:41.143-05:00My then-wife and I went to see it about a week aft...My then-wife and I went to see it about a week after it opened. Part of that was wanting to miss the crowds. As if.<br /><br />There were kids in line who'd seen it daily since the premier. Personally, I can still get chills thinking about the opening scene when the Star Destroyer comes in from the top of the screen ... and keeps coming and coming and coming.wheelshttp://bendreth.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-87742737951585465832017-05-25T22:30:37.947-05:002017-05-25T22:30:37.947-05:00The first album I ever bought. $12.97 at (of all p...The first album I ever bought. $12.97 at (of all places) a local drugstore. joekrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01332358004337163419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-49366140705239890362017-05-25T21:43:11.083-05:002017-05-25T21:43:11.083-05:00Ahh, the joys of it.
I was working in a radio/tv...Ahh, the joys of it. <br /><br />I was working in a radio/tv shop and we could order albums (yes - vinyl!). I had seen the trailers for the movie earlier in the year and noticed the album was available. What I didn't know until I received it was that it contained quite a few pages of stills from the movie, with more content than the trailers. <br /><br />Still a good movie but maybe not quite as exciting as seeing 2001 when it premiered. <br /><br />JdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-18735401426764011242017-05-25T18:19:46.170-05:002017-05-25T18:19:46.170-05:00I just pretend they (Eps 1, 2, 3) don't exist....I just pretend they (Eps 1, 2, 3) don't exist. It's better that way.Javaheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14922782424313956036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-85241257864228368592017-05-25T17:11:06.409-05:002017-05-25T17:11:06.409-05:00It's such a damned shame that George had to go...It's such a damned shame that George had to go and make the subsequent Eps 1, 2, and 3.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-77599772198631266412017-05-25T17:02:53.377-05:002017-05-25T17:02:53.377-05:00It came out the first year I was in college, and w...It came out the first year I was in college, and was playing in a theater just down the street. I saw it several times on the first run, and I've lost count of how many times since. <br /><br />40 years, now - I wonder what they'll be saying about it 40 years hence.Javaheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14922782424313956036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-4801193886783260652017-05-25T16:02:14.302-05:002017-05-25T16:02:14.302-05:00 I was *cough cough* years old and my parents took... I was *cough cough* years old and my parents took me to see it. From then on I wanted to be Han Solo. The girl next door insisted on being Princess Leia. All the kids on the block LARPed Star Wars in our back-yards for the next few years, long before anyone had ever heard of LARPing. It is one of the few movies that the years have not tarnished, despite the best efforts of G**rg* L*c*s.<br /><br />LittleRed1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-57146463037529399192017-05-25T15:48:44.622-05:002017-05-25T15:48:44.622-05:00The movie premiered the weekend of Disclave (the o...The movie premiered the weekend of Disclave (the older DC area regional convention, with about 800 people there), and was playing in a theater a few blocks from the con hotel. And many of us knew what the movie was going to be like, since, at the Kansas City Worldcon the year before, we'd seen the presentations, and exhibits, and had Mark Hamill enthusiastically tell everyone who passed near him about this really great movie he was going to be in.<br /><br />So people would leave the con, walk over and see the movie. And then rejoin, raving about what a great movie it was. By the end of the weekend, pretty much the entire con had seen it, with some of us having seen it more than once.Ben Yalowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12559411931000354498noreply@blogger.com