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.
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.
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.
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!")
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.
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.
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.
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.
Did anybody else read "Splinter of the Mind's Eye?"
I can remember the cover, but I don't think I read it. Somehow.
I read Splinter of the Mind's Eye. I also read three Han Solo books: Han Solo at Stars' End and a couple of others whose titles escape me. I was very much the Han Solo fangirl as a teenager. Luke only got interesting to me in RotJ.
