I was nine or ten when it came out, and I don't even remember how many times I saw it during the first run, and to the best of my recollection Fred Pete and Kathy are totally right -- it wasn't in the original crawl, but the Big Huge Arc plan became common knowledge pretty soon after the first (the REAL ACTUAL first, dammit) movie.
Mal: Can I come in? Inara: No. Mal: See? That's why I usually don't ask.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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JZ - Mar 01, 2011 12:14:24 pm PST #13395 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
JZ - Mar 01, 2011 12:16:18 pm PST #13396 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The mom of a friend of mine in high school worked for ILM way back when, and he was very proud to run around school showing off all his cool extra-advance Revenge of the Jedi swag. When the title change was announced, I asked him if he was bummed that the t-shirt he was wearing that very day was now wrong, and he said, "Dude, I was waiting for the bus this morning and some guy offered me fifty bucks for this shirt."
Kathy A - Mar 01, 2011 12:22:08 pm PST #13397 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
A few years after Jedi came out, I was at a Doctor Who convention, and one of the items available for their charity auction was a Revenge of the Jedi t-shirt, and IIRC, it went for a big chunk of change.
flea - Mar 01, 2011 3:04:05 pm PST #13398 of 30000
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I recall a VERY SERIOUS CONVERSATION with our neighbor and my brother's best friend, who was probably five at the time, about how they WERE going to call it REVENGE of the Jedi, but Jedis DON'T GET REVENGE!!!1!
Laga - Mar 01, 2011 6:21:58 pm PST #13399 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I got my first Boba Fett in a Revenge of the Jedi package. Of course I opened it and played with it.
Laga - Mar 01, 2011 6:22:51 pm PST #13400 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Oops, forgot why I came in here... found another great movie on Instant Streaming: All That Jazz.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 01, 2011 6:31:52 pm PST #13401 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
AWESOME movie! Roy Scheider in probably the least likely role of his career, and yet he rocked it.
quester - Mar 01, 2011 6:36:33 pm PST #13402 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Seen it about 10 times in the theatre!
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2011 6:58:52 pm PST #13403 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Polter-Cow - Mar 01, 2011 8:08:35 pm PST #13404 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
They just won't stay lost!
So I watched Catfish tonight, and although, yes, it's basically about a sockpuppet, I found the way they handled and presented the story an unexpectedly thought-provoking look at how we relate to people online and in real life. It wasn't what I expected.