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

[James Crouchet]

No, I guess I just added the THX memory to my Star Wars trip. It was the
original Star Wars because that was when I was in high school and I
graduated in 78. I don't recall if they had some other kind of audio bit
or not (Dolby?).

I also misremembered the cost of the film; it was $11M, not $20M.

The Wikipedia section on THX makes for interesting reading.

CD

Nan wrote:
> Well, you saw Return of the Jedi that time, then, because that’s the first
> movie ever shown in THX, in 1983.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> Name that movie -- WITHOUT looking it up -- and win a Castleton coin (first
> person).
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> Christian Doré
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> Elisabeth B. Zakes wrote: 
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> 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
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> 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! 
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> Aethelyan Moondragon 
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> On 5/25/07, Eule  <mailto:eule at ecpi.com> <eule at ecpi.com> wrote: 
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>  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
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> forever changed the lives of many folks in the SCA. 
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> Happy Anniversary Star Wars! 
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> Eule/Steve 
> *Unus sed Leo* 
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