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Thursday, December 12, 2024
My pals and I saw that movie 9 times when it came out. Now I'm old enough to be a grandparent? Never! I'm still a mentally 18 years old. Maybe 20, 22.
I saw the original in theaters seven times. I was in my thirties. I didn't wait in line but I waited until it got into the cheap theaters. I waited for The Godfather for two years that way. I saw The Empire Strikes Back three times in theaters and Return of the Jedi once. I have all six of the original series on DVD but it's been a while. They all suck after Empire.
My parents house had no A/C so we used to go to the small town theater several times a week in the summer and they had the original Star Wars as the weekday matinee for years at 50 cents. I literally saw this movie over 50 times just at that theater and as late as 1985.
My now ex-wife was preggie w/ our 1st that summer, so waiting in line for an hour just didn't work. It was re-released next summer in our area, so saw it then. And on HBO numerous times.
My girlfriend at the time wanted to go see it. I didn't know at the time how rare it was to take a date to a Star Wars movie. When "Episode IV" rolled across the screen everyone started applauding and I was wondering "did I miss something". When it was over I said "I don't know who that guy in all black with the helmet was but it seems like he has issues".
No you didn't. To prove this. Go to youtube and look up interviews with Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill promoting the show. Episode 4 in the crawl is never brought up. Don't you think somebody would have asked the question? WTF is Episode IV??? Nobody did, because it didn't exist until they re-released around the time that Empire came out. Sorry Mikey.
I was 17 when Star Wars came out, and I saw it, usually with friends, about a dozen times at a theater that had a huge curved screen and 70mm projector. When Star Wars went to the cheap second run theaters I saw it another dozen times. Saw it God know how many times on cable. Got it on VHS, then DVD. I just wish Lucas would re-release the original version where Han shoots first, etc.
You'll are talking about the movie. I'm looking at the photo, and its caption. We used to talk about our "grandparents" (their clothing, especially their baggy pants, etc.). I see Britannica, Swabbies, maybe Jordache, etc. No Levies 501's in sight.
the longest line (before I joined the Air Force) I was ever in was for "A Hard Day's Night" in 1964. Good use of my paper route cash. Star War's was nothing...
What a retarded looking bunch. Pretty sure bigfoot is in there. Yeah, mind altering drugs were popular back then. There's some priest in the background drooling over the thought of buggering a few of them. Ah the 70s; one big pile of dog shit!
Okay, Millennial. You could get candy for a penny. Candy bars were 10¢. Gas was 62¢/gallon. Movie tickets were $3. You could get a burger, fries, and a coke at McD's for $1, and get change back. The top musical acts were the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Boston, and Heart. Van Halen was still the house band at the Whisky. There were only three networks, and the top shows were Happy Days, M*A*S*H*, and Charlie's Angels. Every guy from 14-20 had a poster of Farah Fawcett on their wall. No girls had blue hair or nose rings. Nobody had even heard of AIDS. And the odds are good that the hardest drug anyone in that crowd had ever seen in their life was some ditch marijuana. Most would be lucky to have had so much as a Pabst Blue Ribbon. The people doing hard drugs weren't in that line. They were curled up behind a dumpster on Skid Row with track marks. So when you weren't there, and everything you know you learned from books read to you, or just bad TV shows, maybe close your mouth and open your ears. Life in America in 1977 was pretty f--king awesome. Even before Reagan came along as president.
All you say is true, but did you let it stick around, Boomer? No, you climbed your ladder and then pulled it up behind you, bringing in immigrants to do entry level jobs and spending your kids inheritance so they had nothing to help them out in life.
Awww, A@1413 was their panties in a bunch. Waaa! Life's not fair. Waaa! Go fuck yourself. Quit expecting everything to be handed to you. Go out and earn a living, asshole.
@Anonymous from 2:13, You've confused what the "greatest" Generation did with what Boomers did. There wasn't even a Boomer president until Clinton came along. Boomers weren't the ones bringing immigrants in by the boatload. that was the Silent Generation, and the so-called "Greatest" Generation. (The Immigration Act of 1965 was passed when the oldest Boomer was 20, and the voting age was 21. Check yourself before you wreck yourself, toddler. Maybe crack a friggin' book.) You know, the generations who financed their retirements on the backs of all subsequent generations. Boomers have barely started dying off, and the idea that anything they earned is "their kids' inheritance" is entitled hogwash from people who never grew up. Earn your own money, and stop expecting mommy and daddy to earn it for you, and helpfully pass it on to you on a velvet pillow. What self-entitled twaddle from the participation trophy poster children.
I saw it on three days in succession right after the (Royal?) première in London. I had mentioned to my parents that I would try to get a ticket for the Leicester Square (Odeon, I think), so my Aunt got me a ticket for Christmas. My co workers arranged a group outing, so that's the next day. Finally, I had managed to snag a ticket for the third day.
It blew me away at the time, we had never seen anything like it before. The effects were way beyond the shaky, blurry offerings we were used to. Like all franchises it's been overmilked, leaving a dried out husk.
I was 21, stationed on independent duty in Miami. Stood in line for hours. Got to the ticket booth and got tickets to the third showing. First two were sold out.
Grandparents took me to see the show on the other screen at the time, Disney's "The Rescuers". The bathrooms were up the balcony and I remember sneaking over to take a peek at the other screen. Chewy barking something in the Falcon and I thought - that looks like a a really weird movie.
Before the movie came out, I read the first 25 chapters in the local paper. One chapter per week. It took a bit to realize Chapter 1 wasn't the first chapter.
The absolute best theatre experience for me was an invitation only premier showing of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Fantastic surround sound, well upholstered lounge chairs. A friend at Rockwell got the passes.
I belonged to a SciFi club in the Boston area that put on a convention once a year, and a Worldcon a few years prior. We sometimes got invited by the studios to preview SciFi related movies, I think that this was one of them. Not in the theater though, but in the room that they showed movies to the local critics. Thumbs up from everyone!
BTDTGTTS. Line was around the theater, across the parking lot, and then a block up the street to the corner.
Saw it twice, opening weekend. Totally worth it, both times.
Back when movies were good.
BTW, I hear Lucas is buying the franchise back from Mauschwitz, and taking a $2B discount from what they paid him, since they totally screwed the pooch.
They could just shoot Kathleen Kennedy, and literally save Hollywood, all for the price of one bullet. Mark Hamill would probably do it just for the asking, for free.
Gentles all, permit me to remind you that while growing older is mandatory, "growing up" is still optional. Grow up and act my age? How should I know? I've never been this old before.
Took my wife to see Alien when it came out. She swore she'd never go to another movie with me when we came out. We've bee married 55 years and so far she has kept her word! Has saved me a lot of money tho. Bubbarust
We had young kids and date nights were rare. I loved Cormac so this time I picked No Country For Old Men. Wife refused to speak to me after the movie for the entire evening, then said early next day that we would never attend a movie together again. When it won the Oscar I sent her the news. Multiple times. Probably not the best move. We still don't see movies together.
Worked in a shop that sold records and bought the sound track a couple of months before the movie debut. Was an absolute blast looking at the album art and trying to understand what I was seeing.
I saw the original in theaters seven times. I was in my thirties. I didn't wait in line but I waited until it got into the cheap theaters. I waited for The Godfather for two years that way. I saw The Empire Strikes Back three times in theaters and Return of the Jedi once. I have all six of the original series on DVD but it's been a while. They all suck after Empire.
ReplyDeleteI was in my mid 30s as well, Henry. I saw it in Cherry Hill, NJ
DeleteI remember doing this. I was 21, and saw it in Longview Washington, where I was working a summer job with Weyerhauser.
ReplyDeleteMy parents house had no A/C so we used to go to the small town theater several times a week in the summer and they had the original Star Wars as the weekday matinee for years at 50 cents. I literally saw this movie over 50 times just at that theater and as late as 1985.
ReplyDeleteI saw it at age 22 in a theater in Wildflecken, Germany - yes, in the shitty army.
ReplyDeleteMy now ex-wife was preggie w/ our 1st that summer, so waiting in line for an hour just didn't work. It was re-released next summer in our area, so saw it then. And on HBO numerous times.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen it to this day. Also, no chicks in that line, lol.
ReplyDeleteThey're at the house, making sandwiches.
DeleteMy girlfriend at the time wanted to go see it. I didn't know at the time how rare it was to take a date to a Star Wars movie. When "Episode IV" rolled across the screen everyone started applauding and I was wondering "did I miss something". When it was over I said "I don't know who that guy in all black with the helmet was but it seems like he has issues".
ReplyDeleteEpisode IV didn't appear until it was re-released around time of Empire. It was just Star Wars during the original run.
DeleteThat is not what I saw in 1977. I specifically remember asking why it said Episode IV.
DeleteNo you didn't. To prove this. Go to youtube and look up interviews with Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill promoting the show. Episode 4 in the crawl is never brought up. Don't you think somebody would have asked the question? WTF is Episode IV??? Nobody did, because it didn't exist until they re-released around the time that Empire came out. Sorry Mikey.
DeleteGet with it, Mikey. There were no episodes then. Only Star Wars on the screen.
DeleteI was 17 when Star Wars came out, and I saw it, usually with friends, about a dozen times at a theater that had a huge curved screen and 70mm projector. When Star Wars went to the cheap second run theaters I saw it another dozen times. Saw it God know how many times on cable. Got it on VHS, then DVD. I just wish Lucas would re-release the original version where Han shoots first, etc.
ReplyDeleteYou'll are talking about the movie. I'm looking at the photo, and its caption. We used to talk about our "grandparents" (their clothing, especially their baggy pants, etc.). I see Britannica, Swabbies, maybe Jordache, etc. No Levies 501's in sight.
ReplyDeletethe longest line (before I joined the Air Force) I was ever in was for "A Hard Day's Night" in 1964. Good use of my paper route cash. Star War's was nothing...
ReplyDeleteWhat a retarded looking bunch. Pretty sure bigfoot is in there. Yeah, mind altering drugs were popular back then. There's some priest in the background drooling over the thought of buggering a few of them. Ah the 70s; one big pile of dog shit!
ReplyDeleteGonna step out on a limb here and say that it seems likely you were molested in the 70s??
DeleteLighten up, Francis.
DeleteOkay, Millennial.
DeleteYou could get candy for a penny.
Candy bars were 10¢.
Gas was 62¢/gallon.
Movie tickets were $3.
You could get a burger, fries, and a coke at McD's for $1, and get change back.
The top musical acts were the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Boston, and Heart.
Van Halen was still the house band at the Whisky.
There were only three networks, and the top shows were Happy Days, M*A*S*H*, and Charlie's Angels.
Every guy from 14-20 had a poster of Farah Fawcett on their wall.
No girls had blue hair or nose rings.
Nobody had even heard of AIDS.
And the odds are good that the hardest drug anyone in that crowd had ever seen in their life was some ditch marijuana.
Most would be lucky to have had so much as a Pabst Blue Ribbon.
The people doing hard drugs weren't in that line. They were curled up behind a dumpster on Skid Row with track marks.
So when you weren't there, and everything you know you learned from books read to you, or just bad TV shows, maybe close your mouth and open your ears.
Life in America in 1977 was pretty f--king awesome.
Even before Reagan came along as president.
And lighten up, Francis.
All you say is true, but did you let it stick around, Boomer? No, you climbed your ladder and then pulled it up behind you, bringing in immigrants to do entry level jobs and spending your kids inheritance so they had nothing to help them out in life.
DeleteAwww, A@1413 was their panties in a bunch. Waaa! Life's not fair. Waaa! Go fuck yourself. Quit expecting everything to be handed to you. Go out and earn a living, asshole.
Delete@Anonymous from 2:13,
DeleteYou've confused what the "greatest" Generation did with what Boomers did.
There wasn't even a Boomer president until Clinton came along.
Boomers weren't the ones bringing immigrants in by the boatload. that was the Silent Generation, and the so-called "Greatest" Generation.
(The Immigration Act of 1965 was passed when the oldest Boomer was 20, and the voting age was 21. Check yourself before you wreck yourself, toddler. Maybe crack a friggin' book.)
You know, the generations who financed their retirements on the backs of all subsequent generations.
Boomers have barely started dying off, and the idea that anything they earned is "their kids' inheritance" is entitled hogwash from people who never grew up.
Earn your own money, and stop expecting mommy and daddy to earn it for you, and helpfully pass it on to you on a velvet pillow.
What self-entitled twaddle from the participation trophy poster children.
I have never seen one of them.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't waste my time.
I took my young family to watch it soon after it came out. After the show, I had no clue why it was so popular. And I still don't.
ReplyDeleteI saw it on three days in succession right after the (Royal?) première in London. I had mentioned to my parents that I would try to get a ticket for the Leicester Square (Odeon, I think), so my Aunt got me a ticket for Christmas. My co workers arranged a group outing, so that's the next day. Finally, I had managed to snag a ticket for the third day.
ReplyDeleteIt blew me away at the time, we had never seen anything like it before. The effects were way beyond the shaky, blurry offerings we were used to. Like all franchises it's been overmilked, leaving a dried out husk.
I was 21, stationed on independent duty in Miami. Stood in line for hours. Got to the ticket booth and got tickets to the third showing. First two were sold out.
ReplyDeleteGrandparents took me to see the show on the other screen at the time, Disney's "The Rescuers". The bathrooms were up the balcony and I remember sneaking over to take a peek at the other screen. Chewy barking something in the Falcon and I thought - that looks like a a really weird movie.
ReplyDeleteBefore the movie came out, I read the first 25 chapters in the local paper. One chapter per week. It took a bit to realize Chapter 1 wasn't the first chapter.
ReplyDeleteThe absolute best theatre experience for me was an invitation only premier showing of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Fantastic surround sound, well upholstered lounge chairs.
A friend at Rockwell got the passes.
I share a name with the music composer of that movie so my 5-year-old nephew was thrilled that his uncle was responsible for the music.
ReplyDeleteI waited in a line to see it in 1978.
ReplyDeleteI belonged to a SciFi club in the Boston area that put on a convention once a year, and a Worldcon a few years prior. We sometimes got invited by the studios to preview SciFi related movies, I think that this was one of them. Not in the theater though, but in the room that they showed movies to the local critics.
ReplyDeleteThumbs up from everyone!
Probably the most overrated movie of all time. When Disney put out whatever they did in 2016(?), geez, scene for scene the same fucking movie.
ReplyDeleteMy parents took us to see it, I must’ve been5 or 6. Saw the next 5 in the theater , as well. Gave up after the 6th one.
ReplyDeleteBTDTGTTS.
ReplyDeleteLine was around the theater, across the parking lot, and then a block up the street to the corner.
Saw it twice, opening weekend.
Totally worth it, both times.
Back when movies were good.
BTW, I hear Lucas is buying the franchise back from Mauschwitz, and taking a $2B discount from what they paid him, since they totally screwed the pooch.
They could just shoot Kathleen Kennedy, and literally save Hollywood, all for the price of one bullet. Mark Hamill would probably do it just for the asking, for free.
Gentles all, permit me to remind you that while growing older is mandatory, "growing up" is still optional. Grow up and act my age? How should I know? I've never been this old before.
ReplyDeleteTook my wife to see Alien when it came out. She swore she'd never go to another movie with me when we came out. We've bee married 55 years and so far she has kept her word! Has saved me a lot of money tho.
ReplyDeleteBubbarust
I remember when the alien popped out of that guys chest, the whole theater shouted at the same time.
DeleteWe had young kids and date nights were rare. I loved Cormac so this time I picked No Country For Old Men. Wife refused to speak to me after the movie for the entire evening, then said early next day that we would never attend a movie together again. When it won the Oscar I sent her the news. Multiple times. Probably not the best move. We still don't see movies together.
DeleteWorked in a shop that sold records and bought the sound track a couple of months before the movie debut. Was an absolute blast looking at the album art and trying to understand what I was seeing.
ReplyDelete