Happy Star Wars Day
In reply to OceanLake (msg # 18):
I'm not embarrassed to say that I still get shivers when the Star Wars fanfare starts.
I was 12 when Star Wars was released. I saw exactly one ad on TV for it, and as soon as I saw it I knew it was MY movie. Of course, I lived in a very small town, with one, single-screen movie theatre (oldest theatre in BC, and still running), the owner at the time was notoriously cheap and would only bring movies into town after the hoopla about them had died down.
Well, by December 1977 the hoopla was not dying down anywhere, it was getting bigger and bigger. Never before, and rarely since, have I experienced an entire theatre, cheer during a movie (Rocky Horror excepted) like what happened when Luke blew up the Death Star. And when the credits started to roll, people simply stood and clapped!
I ended up seeing the original a half-dozen times in theatres (which was a lot of money for a 12 year old). In the "city" (Vancouver) it played at one theatre, (coincidentally the second oldest theatre in BC at the time) for 54 weeks, 2 shows a night, and 4 on weekends. Never before, and never again.
Sure the movie was corny, and the acting wooden at times. But dammit, light sabres, X-wings, tie fighters, Jedi Knights, and frickin' Darth Vader!