[Bryn-gwlad] A Long Time Ago...

[Samantha Smith]

Wasn't 1977 the year for Annie Hall?

The only bit of that movie I have ever remembered is the bit with McLuhan.

~Sophie

On 5/25/07, James Crouchet <james at crouchet.com> wrote:
>
>  I took a date to see a different movie at that time. We were standing in
> a long line with the odds of us getting in to see our movie being pretty low
> when an usher from the theater started working the line from the back
> forward. He was offering us the chance to see a movie for $1 in a some new
> cinemas they had just added on the other side of the mall. It was an odd
> sounding movie I had not heard of called Star-Wars (note the audible pause
> between the two words). We weren't getting into our movie anyway and for a
> buck it sounded like an amusing way to kill a couple hours. We really
> expected a bad B movie and when we walked through the theater lobby and saw
> the crews were literally still on ladders painting, it did not raise our
> expectations.
>
> We noticed the seats were big and there were only about a 20 people in the
> theater. Then the giant screen lit up, the THX sound system came alive and
> we could not believe what we saw and heard.
>
> Later, we read the reviews and saw that the critics panned it. The
> criticism all seemed to center around the fact that they spent $20M making a
> *Science Fiction* movie which could have made several GOOD movies. One
> critic actually admitted he had not seen the movie (and would not condescend
> to do so). Eventually, as the box office proved the movie to be a winner,
> the critics started to get on board. However, a lot of resistance and
> disdain remained for a long time to come. At the Oscars that year Star Wars
> won a number of awards -- some of which newly minted just for Star Wars but
> the movie that changed our culture, changed our ideas of what a movie is and
> made Science Fiction part of the mainstream did not win the one award it
> should have, *Picture of the Year*. No, that honor went to the movie I did
> not go see that night, an oddball romantic comedy called...
>
> Name that movie -- WITHOUT looking it up -- and win a Castleton coin
> (first person).
>
> Christian Doré
>
> Elisabeth B. Zakes wrote:
>
> I remember that day. I stood in line for about 10 minutes for the opening
> show in Austin, walked into a huge theatre that had -two- screens (the
> Cinema at Capital Plaza, for those of you who remember it), and the
> audience
> booed and hissed when Darth Vader first walked onto the screen and cheered
>
> for the good guys at the end. It was a very energetic audience!
>
> Aethelyan Moondragon
>
> On 5/25/07, Eule <eule at ecpi.com> <eule at ecpi.com> wrote:
>
>
>  A bit off topic, but 30 years ago today, an event took place which
> greatly changed our culture and the way we looked at the future...and
> likely
> forever changed the lives of many folks in the SCA.
>
> Happy Anniversary Star Wars!
>
> Eule/Steve
> *Unus sed Leo*
>
>
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