A Pan-Galactic Blockbuster Long Ago and Far Away
Star Wars! 1977!
This movie was like no other movie I had ever seen. This was a movie for us! I was a teenager semi-obsessed with Sci-Fi “space operas”.
As soon as I saw the trailer, I couldn't wait for this movie to come to town.
A few minutes of John Williams' overture and the opening action scene had me 100% sold!
This was a new kind of movie. Today we'd call this just another Special Effects Movie. In 1977 it was the best thing I had ever seen on a screen. Watching the first four minutes still gives me the chills.
This was different. This was the first special effects movie. After Star Wars, the movie-viewing audience would never again go gaga over anything as lame as a big rubber shark. So much in that movie was like nothing we had seen before.
My brother and I saw Star Wars in the best possible environment – a futuristic ultra-wide screen theater built in the mid-1970s. Alas, the Edens Theater now exists only in film nostalgia sites.
We were so blown away that we went right back into the theater and watched the movie twice in the same afternoon. I have never done that for any movie after Star Wars.
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on May 31, 2012 at 8:34pm -
LOL yes they do.. congrats!!!
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Comment by Steve S on May 31, 2012 at 8:26pm
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Thanks to Editor Zoomerstaff for the feature of this post.
You Like Me, You Like Me!!!!
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Comment by CreekEnd_UK on May 31, 2012 at 10:11am -
You are indeed a God_of_TAste. American but still a God - yep that's allowed.
Extra points for cooking skill and beard.The first Star Wars like the film Gums (or was it Jaws?) left me speechless, but then I nearly crapped myself whilst during the first Jurassic Park film in the jungle and that mild looking dinosaur suddenly flared its neck and spat at the screen. The drink I was holding stained the crotch of my trousers and I had to cover it with a magazine and walk backwards out of the theatre when everyone else had left too.
Vanity + Obi-wan is my favourite sin and mentor - in that order.
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Comment by Jason Giecek on May 30, 2012 at 7:14am -
I can still sit and watch Star Wars and be like that kid in the candy store once more!!!
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on May 29, 2012 at 8:52pm
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Now that I could get into hahahah.
Today I have gotten over 50 messages from Zoomers. All old comments from a weeks of blogs. It was quite Hitchcocky..:)
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I have to confess here - I did watch the Lord of the Rings extended version many times over. But I only watched it once in a theater.
Linda - I could've done "Eraserhead", but I don't think it qualifies as a blockbuster. Writing about Eraserhead would be a challenge. Although it was fascinating, I'm still not quite sure what it was about. Nightmare stuff.
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Comment by Linda Seccaspina on May 29, 2012 at 7:54pm
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I like your tag lines.. Never ever a star wars fan ... this is great though. Mine is off to the left again hahah
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