Star Wars...

[senoritafish]

(Meant to post yesterday...)

Heh, VT is dragging today because she and hubby went to the midnight showing of the new Star Wars movie. As the day wears on I see more and more yawns; she said she only got to sleep an hour or so because one of her cats felt neglected and kept wanting attention.

The big Star Wars story here in L.A. was the fans who'd been camping in front of Grauman's Chinese in Hollywood since January, even though they weren't showing the movie. If you read Wil Wheaton's blog, he posted some very funny stories about it a few weeks ago. Turns out last night at the opening, they got a Stormtrooper escort across town to the theater where it was playing.

My kids are starting to get interested in Star Wars, probably getting started with the animated Clone Wars, on Cartoon Network. It's a little weird thinking this will be the last one of a series I started with as a sophomore in high school. And they are going to see it from an entirely different perspective. For instance, it was a shocker for us to find out who Darth Vader actually was. They'll already know, having started with number one, instead of number four. Anyway, Angus already has a pair of Darth Vader shoes, and I heard the parent of a classmate tell his kid they were going after school.

I hope we can go see this one in the theater, although I can wait until the crowds die down; I'm definitely not one of those who has to see it the first weekend it opens. I still need to watch the tape of the last movie first though, can you believe I haven't seen it yet?

So, those of you who are old enough - how many times did you stand in line to see the original Star Wars?

I saw it seven times, although one or two of those may have been sitting through two showings. They let you do that then- now it seems like they chase you out as soon as the credits are done. We stood in line for four hours, and tickets were $4.50 - I thought that was outrageous then.

Comments

[calypso72]

It's one of my earliest memories, standing in a line that wrapped around the outside of the theater to see the original Star Wars with my brother and dad. I must have been all of four years old or something like that? When did it come out?

[calypso72]

Oh, and I've watched it many many times on video of course. Once, my college did a Star Wars marathon where they showed the trilogy back-to-back in one night.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

1977 - for the longest time, it was how I measured time. "Oh, that was four, eight ten years after Star Wars came out." I freely admit I'm a nerd.

[dipster.livejournal.com]

When a meet girls, I sometimes think.. "Wow.. you weren't even born when Star Wars first came out."

Other age comparisons I use are to the CD, and now Post Its...

[angelsmum.livejournal.com]

I was only 4 when the first Star Wars movie cam out but I do remember my mum taking us to see the next one. One of our neighbour's kids feel asleep.

[aliki.livejournal.com]

My husband was 4 years old when it came out in 1977, and he saw it eleven times.