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

[Nan]

Well, you saw Return of the Jedi that time, then, because that’s the first
movie ever shown in THX, in 1983.

 

I was afraid to go see the original StarWars
.I thought it was some kind of
post-apocalyptic film with nazi-like hoards in it (that’s what comes of only
looking at the pictures in TIME magazine).

 

My mom had seen it and drug me to it and as soon as the Star Destroyer
rumbled in over my head, I was a die-hard junkie.

 

Nan/Kate

 

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From: bryn-gwlad-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
[mailto:bryn-gwlad-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of James Crouchet
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 4:24 PM
To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad
Subject: Re: [Bryn-gwlad] A Long Time Ago...

 

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  <mailto: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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