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Post by JRavens on Apr 17, 2015 2:46:51 GMT
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Post by mikeweeks2346 on Apr 17, 2015 4:07:25 GMT
Yeah !!
Chewie doesn't look like he's aged any ....
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Post by bontainer on Apr 17, 2015 12:21:58 GMT
OMG, this, AT LAST, feels again like StarWars. One eyecatcher after the other, especially the first scene when you have identified the wreck in the foreground as an X-Wing, and then suddenly realize that the "mountain range" in the background is a crashed Star Destroyer...
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Post by flanker1six on Apr 17, 2015 23:07:54 GMT
Yeah !! Chewie doesn't look like he's aged any .... seems like he'd have done something different with his fur by now...............................same old mullet.  |
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Post by takeout1113 on Apr 26, 2015 18:19:23 GMT
I think I will have to borrow that Millennium Falcon and a few X-wings I purchased for my then 10 year old son and do a little bit of nostalgic "pewing" myself.
OMG, I remember the opening week, for the first one, we had a super nerd dude working with us in a flight/nav instrument lab, (I guess we were all nerds, come to think about it) and he disappeared for almost three days, we sent out people to his house and everywhere, he was staying at the movie theater and watching Star Wars the for three days straight, they let him sleep there.... he was living on popcorn, pepsi, and candy bars. He had bought a bunch of tickets in advance, he had an inside word about it.
I thought, wow, he was crazy, till I saw it the following week, and understood, it was the first time anyone made science fiction look like real life with dirt and scuffs on stuff and put a epic story with it. It made Star Trek look like Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood. I might have stayed for a coupla more showings but they were all sold out after the first day.
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Post by bontainer on Apr 26, 2015 18:51:54 GMT
Yep, I still remember it as if it was yesterday. I was 16 and on a SCIENCE fiction trip, and I hated the sounds of the laser, etc. but when I watched it the second time, it wasn´t so bad and after the tenth or so viewing I was totally hooked.
I remember a friend who had a "bought" video tape that he had played so many times that it became difficult to discern what was actually playing...
Sadly, another extremely good flic, William Friedkins Sorcerer (a remake of the french Wages of fear) with Roy Scheider - Music by Tangerine Dream (I later had a chance to work on another project with Christopher Franke - of Bab5 fame) got swamped by Star Wars. These were the days when cinemas had only ONE theater, multiplexes had not been invented, and Sorcerer had the very bad luck to be released just two weeks prior to Star Wars, so it flew out of the theaters, never having the chance to release its potential.
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