I remember I saw it in 1979 at the re-release, but I can't recall if it was my cool moviegoing aunt or my cool moviegoing cousin that took me.
If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
Book ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Matt the Bruins fan - May 17, 2005 10:02:06 am PDT #2882 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Betsy HP - May 17, 2005 10:02:17 am PDT #2883 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Anthony Lane re Revenge of the Sith:
The prize for the least speakable burst of dialogue has, over half a dozen helpings of “Star Wars,” grown into a fiercely contested tradition, but for once the winning entry is clear, shared between Anakin and Padmé for their exchange of endearments at home:
“You’re so beautiful.”
“That’s only because I’m so in love.”
“No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.”
For a moment, it looks as if they might bat this one back and forth forever, like a baseline rally on a clay court.
-t - May 17, 2005 10:06:12 am PDT #2884 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am Gloomcookie without the younger brother.
I enjoyed Phantom Menace until the Pod Race was over and I realized that that wasn't the end of the movie. Really enjoyed the Qi-Gon vs Darth Maul fight scene with the partitions. Have probably blocked out much of the rest.
DavidS - May 17, 2005 10:16:00 am PDT #2885 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I saw the first Star Wars movie on the day it opened. I had seen the trade paperback out on the rack at the 7-11 about a month beforehand and quickly gleaned that a space movie with sword fights was something I needed to see.
That first crowd was small. By the time I saw it a second time (two weeks later?) the theater was packed, and it stayed that way for the rest of the summer.
Kalshane - May 17, 2005 10:17:42 am PDT #2886 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Really enjoyed the Qi-Gon vs Darth Maul fight scene with the partitions.
When they're stuck in the partitions is a great, rare moment of Lucas showing and not telling.
ETA: And I was less than a year old when Star Wars was released. I have vague memories of seeing Empire in the theatre and more solid ones of seeing Jedi (most clearly of my then 4 or 5 year-old cousin leaping to his feet during the Endor battle shouting "Go, teddy bears!")
tommyrot - May 17, 2005 10:18:00 am PDT #2887 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I read the Star Wars novelization a month or so before the movie opened. However, I didn't actually see the movie until about three days after it opened - pro'lly because the closest theater showing it was 40 miles away, so we had to wait for a weekend.
Dana - May 17, 2005 10:21:45 am PDT #2888 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I have vague memories of seeing Empire in the theatre and more solid ones of seeing Jedi
Yeah, this is my experience, but it seems like I don't remember a time when the trilogy wasn't part of my consciousness.
Kathy A - May 17, 2005 10:25:58 am PDT #2889 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Did anybody else read "Splinter of the Mind's Eye?" It was ok'd by Lucasfilm, but definitely existed outside of the original trilogy's storyline. IIRC, it was published between Star Wars and Empire, and took the "Luke and Leia hook up" path. I thought it was pretty well done, and a lot better than some of the later Star Wars-verse books.
Tom Scola - May 17, 2005 10:26:13 am PDT #2890 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
After begging my parents to see Star Wars for months, the family went and saw it in August, because they finally got a clue that might be good. Everyone else in the neighborhood had seen it by then.
-t - May 17, 2005 10:33:34 am PDT #2891 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Did anybody else read "Splinter of the Mind's Eye?"
I can remember the cover, but I don't think I read it. Somehow.