Comments | ajrose93: ...and sure enough, it was

ajrose93

...and sure enough, it was

May 26, 2007 04:24

93!

So it's thirty years ago today -- May 26, 1977 EV -- and a twenty-two year old Jonathan returns to his sunny, airy Pacific Palisades apartment with the new TIME Magazine, glances at the cover, and is just snarking at its banner referring to the alleged "Year's Best Movie" (what, in May?, gimme a break) when the phone rings, so he answers it. ( Read more... )

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Awww!!! aprillynn93 May 26 2007, 21:16:10 UTC

That was soo sweet!! *sniff*

:)

Re: Awww!!! ajrose93 May 27 2007, 09:22:26 UTC

Thank you so much for saying so, my friend. It was really hard to boil down -- so much I could have said about each of the six films, and what they meant to me as they came out, over so many years.

But the main thing seemed that day with my dad, the second day of release...which is why I posted one day after the actual 30th-anniversary-of-release day (5-25). For once Dad and I were just two carefree kids at the movies. It really was wonderful.

:D

Re: Awww!!! aprillynn93 May 27 2007, 16:48:07 UTC

I remember as a little kid standing in line with my parents for hours. The line was wrapped around the building and doubling back on itself. Nobody minded though, We all made a fun thing of it. Some people brought barbeques, etc. You just don't see that much anymore for an opening of a movie.

Re: Awww!!! ajrose93 May 28 2007, 09:36:04 UTC

You sure don't. :) And that's just what the Jedi line was like in '83: just happy people, eager to see the film. (The line actually formed by 9pm the night before -- we got there at like 3am and had "only" a six hour wait!)

Oh, that was another cool thing about seeing it with Dad: just strolling into the theater for a second-day-of-release matinee. By the time we got out there was a line, and they just got huger after that for weeks to come.

Thanks again for speaking up! :D

I got lucky ... leroy484 May 31 2007, 00:30:40 UTC

twice. When I went to the Century City Plitt Cinema Center at 11 am on a Thursday a couple of weeks after the opening, there were about a couple dozen people in the audience. After the movie, I came flying out of the underground parking structure in my newly rebuilt, balanced & blueprinted '66 GTO and proceeded to terrorize Pico Blvd. I was sooo hyped up from that flick!

Then last Thursday I got to help at the Heinlein Society blood drive sign-up table at the Convention Center. It was Fan Day, and it was pretty cool, even though only five people pre-registered to bleed the next day.

Then last night I watched the History Channel Star Wars thingie. I liked it pretty well, especially because they had few or none of the usual suspects giving comment on the phenomenon during the 2 hour show.

Re: I got lucky ... ajrose93 May 31 2007, 07:38:45 UTC

After the movie, I came flying out of the underground parking structure in my newly rebuilt, balanced & blueprinted '66 GTO and proceeded to terrorize Pico Blvd. I was sooo hyped up from that flick!

Ohhhh, myyyy...same effect with a lot less cool car: when I came out of my umpteenth viewing I soared my gold (!) '76 Nova Medalist (!!) across the 405 like it was Luke's speeder, and managed to lose a lane-ownership argument with a very large city garbage truck. Fortunately, no real harm done (and the truck didn't even bother to stop), but I learned my lesson. :(

Good for you re: Heinlein blood drive -- and yeah, we saw some of the History Channel special, too (all of which I taped for later). Interesting in that it focused on themes, sometimes with real insight: e.g., I had never noticed that the Imperial forces have zero women characters!

All this, & some comments from Stephen Colbert! Coolness. :D

Female Imperial Storm Troopers ... leroy484 May 31 2007, 16:04:41 UTC

in armor would be sooo HOT!

Re: Female Imperial Storm Troopers ... ajrose93 June 1 2007, 08:09:38 UTC

OMG...

ILSE, SHE-WOLF OF THE EMPIRE!!!

I gotta go query Random House....

;)