My parents took me to see Star Wars when it first came out. I think it was 1979 and I was 18. It was before I got sick. It might have been 1980 and I was 19. We sat in the middle-front near the screen. I don’t remember any of it because I was too busy looking around at the people behind me. I was super-paranoid and I thought everybody behind me was doing something to me. My parents kept asking me what I was looking at and told me to stop looking back, but I couldn’t stop. I missed the entire movie and I’ve never seen it to this day.
Oh you have to watch it nick…what a great movie. Its one of my favorite movies. You should give it another shot.
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They’re alright if you have the time. The newer ones are known for not being good. Looking forward to the next one, hopefully it can restore the series glory.
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I saw Star Wars at the theater, then sat on the curb looking suspicious till my folks picked me up. It didn’t do much for me - maybe a guy movie.
Thats one of those few movies that I still can watch and enjoy like the Indiana Jones movies and Once Upon A Time In America which is very old but very good.
Im sure nostalgia plays a role in me liking these movies so much.
I remember sitting in a Pizza Hut with a friend of mine and he was trying to explain the movie to me and what droids were and the Force and everything and I couldn’t make head or tail out of what he was saying.
Then I braved the crowds and came in a little late and was trying to find my seat while the big star cruiser was flying overhead and I was totally blown away.
ive seen about 3 minutes of it in my lifetime…I never understood sci fi stop pretending to be an alien your a 27 year old actor haha and I could never relax at the cinema its an odd situation.
I just finished watching all six episodes, all in sequence. My brother gave me the whole series and I am very impressed now with Star Wars. I even painted a large R2D2 painting that’s behind me as we speak. cute lil’ guy.
I never saw it at the cinema and have only seen various bits of it on the tv on a few occasions ditto the sequels.
In many ways it was a big budget version of all the episodes of a SCI FI serial from the 30s/40s rolled into one.
I had a dream about Star Wars before I saw it in the video store. I was with all the characters and facing the clones. It’s odd that I dreamed about it before I had heard of it. I loved the movies. The original ones. I liked all those movies that I watched growing up.
The special effects were mind-blowing for the time. The story was mind-blowing when I was 12 years old. Now, not so much. No plans to watch any future Star Wars stuff.
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Defiantly see if you can see the original and not the A New Hope version. Same goes for the other two. The Star Wars franchise is a lost cause after that.
Saw this was big on the net for the new one
The cultural importance of Star Wars is that the story was based on the serious, non-fiction, book on mythology called “The Hero With A Thousand Faces.”
That book was in turn based on an analysis of thousands of powerful cultural myths that were told over thousands of years. The theory is that those cultural myths have commonalities. Perhaps those commonalities are based on human nature or something that powerful.
One of the oddities of Western culture now is that, if you imitate some of those cultural myths from long ago, most people seem to think you are ripping off Star Wars.
So, if you don’t see Star Wars, you are missing that part of western culture that taps into those old, powerful cultural myths. A ‘light saber’ for instance, I think, taps into something very primitive in the human psyche, and was also based on an observation of old myths in that book; but, if some other story uses something similar to a lightsaber, the writer gets laughed and told he is ripping off Star Wars. See how that works?
When we went to see Walle I had been awake three days, and I fell asleep during the movie. That’s one I’m going to have to see again. Very frustrating.