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

[James Crouchet]

True, but it looks like Sophie beat you to it.

CD

Eule wrote:
> That's easy..."Annie Hall".
>  
> I was *livid* that night in Feb. 1978 while watching the Oscars.  In
> fact, my jaw *still* hurts from dropping so hard.
>  
> Eule/Steve
> Unus sed Leo
>  
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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...
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> 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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