Ok folks for those that might be remotely interested. I am Jenn C (bad pun). I am a Hispanic nerd girl of the highest order. Like a lot of folks here my outside does not match my inside, never has. I have painted my self into a corner with real life and am still hoping one day to sort this out. I have lived in Texas all my life but have managed to move all over the place in it. I have a tendency to nerd out often just whack me on the head and ill stop. I do divide my friends into two categories 1. Those who could have seen Star Wars: A New Hope (original release) in the theater and 2. Those who couldn't. Despite what my avatar might suggest I am a woman of a certain age and the above criteria should give an idea what decade I popped out in. I have lurked here for many years but just recently made a profile for commenting on some of the wonderful stories here. Any questions, comments, input, send em to me I will reply to all and probably make my opinion well known (Hispanic remember). I look forward to more great reading and great friends thank you for listening.
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Ah yes...
...the long lines around the theater and down the street. The wonder of state of the art special effects. The stirring John Willams score? Thinking about what it would be like to be a princess of Alderaan...did I just type that? That was just supposed to be a thought. Oh well...I still have to go take my meds.
Love, Andrea Lena
*sigh* yes.
Great minds thought alike.
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Meh.
If the Alderaan officials wanted me to be their princess, I'd give 'em a thermal detonator where the sun doesn't shine.
I'm much more like the dashing mercenary/smuggler Hannah Solo. :D ...Or perhaps Bobbie Fett? I'd have to hold onto my skirt while jetpacking though!
Hmmm...
A smokin smuggler chick in tight pants with cat ears and tail? Yes please!
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
I never saw Star Wars: A New
I never saw Star Wars: A New Hope in the theaters the first time around. I saw a little movie called Star Wars (no subtitle), then I saw it the following year at a drive-in (I was far from able to drive yet), it was mighty impressive.
Welcome, and enjoy.
Thank you.
Touchè and yes I also saw it at the drive inn.
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Ahem.
I saw all of the Stat Wars movies first trilogy at the box office, but when they were edited, I chose to see the others on the home boob tube.
May Your Light Forever Shine
Star Wars
I saw the very first, the original Star Wars in a theater in a mall across from Six Flags in Arlington. I was taking her to 6F as a birthday treat, but for some reason we were there too early (reduced hours of operation I think) and needed to kill some time. I saw the theater marquee and remembered reading about it in a AP wire story (I was working at a newspaper in Okla. at the time). We walked right up, bought tickets and had our choice of seats, the theater was only about a quarter full. About a month later it came to our small city so I suggested we go again. We were totally surprised to find a line stretching about a hundred yards long. We finally got in, but it was a lot more fun the first time!
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Star Wars
I was exactly a week old when it was released, so unsurprisingly didn't see the originals. Skip forward a few decades and I was at university when the remixed Special Editions appeared, so hopped down to the local cinema (single screen) when they appeared.
The biggest film that cinema got to see (with a whopping three week release - virtually unheard of before or since, since most blockbusters stayed a week tops, with some being only a day or two [so blink and you'll miss it!]) was a three hour epic about a boat sinking, albeit with a rather improbable love story contrived mainly to show as much of the boat as possible before the furnishings got a bit damp...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
It was in San Diego for me
Star Wars had been out for nearly a month. People were still standing in line for more than an hour to buy tickets. Then they got in another line and waited again to be let into the theater. I remember one person in line near me stating that, "This will be my seventh time to see Star Wars." Since I had not seen it yet, my immediate thought was that maybe he needed to get a life. Then I saw the movie and was blown away by it. I did not however see it seven times in the theater.
_Bev_
ah Star Wars
which i saw in 1977 and watched in awe and reveled in the notion that some one had a weirder mind than me. Yes i have the original VHS tapes of the movies that came out at the same time and still watch Luke bulls eye swamp-rats in his T16 back home. it was a year of wonder for me as a kid trying to find myself and hoping i don't kill myself.I was shocked when i saw that Darth was Luke's father and still get the chills to this day as that voice of James Earle Jones spoke "Luke i am your father". oops am i nerdy to ?
i guess that's what happens when you spend a lot of time by yourself welcome to the family Jenn C
(yes Leigha's dress was to die for!)
Alan Dean Foster
Was the ghostwriter for 'Star Wars, A New Hope.' It was my sophomore year in high school and I finally had a driver's license. Living out way out in the country, that meant freedom.
You see Alan's book came out the Winter before the movie. I picked it up for $2.99 I think. It goes for over $200 now depending on condition. When I first read it, I was blown away. However I was very skeptical that such a novel could be made into a movie. The last really good space movie before then was probably Silent Running which was more of an environmental statement. Still the special effects were decent.
So when May 4th rolled around I had a lot of reason for cautious excitement. When the first positive word of mouth began spreading I felt like it was Christmas instead of the beginning of the Summer. A wondrous gift, all for me! Planning my trip carefully, it was my first true solo driving experience. It was out two weeks before I could go, but I'd picked out a matinee showing in the middle of the week to give myself the best chance to beat the crowds.
What can I say? I was not disappointed.
I will say that although I did enjoy the sequel 'The Empire Strikes Back' I can help but wonder about what if.
'Splinter in the Mind's Eye' sigh...
Thanks for bring back some good memories! :)
Hugs
Grover
I remember
Splinter in the Mind's Eye. Poor ole Halla. Trying to get by, passing herself off as a Force Master. But she was impressive. I have a whole bunch of the Continuum fanfics, spin offs etc, saved in a text format. Gotta get back to them someday.
Alan Dean Foster-Reply
Also penned the Star Trek Logs And Star Trek: The Motion Picture
May Your Light Forever Shine
Me-e-e-morieeeeeees!
Ah yes! I remember it well!
I was in college at the time, and it was a great movie for us engineers to geek-out over.
Rolling back the scroll of time a bit more: Anyone remember attending "2001: A Space Odyessey" when it first came out?
(Dating myself just a bit...)
Nicole (a.k.a. Itinerant)
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Veni, Vidi, Velcro:
I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Omigawd!
I remember seeing 2001 when it premiered. I was in my second year of my first 4 year hitch in the Air Farce... um... force. Sorry. Wow. Talk about dating oneself! On the other hand, that sounds kind of... weird?
Maybe I better end this before my mind goes any further into strangeland.
Wheeeeee!
Catherine Linda Michel
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
2001
Just missed that one's theater release (more clues about my age) but absolutely devoured all of Mr. Clarke's writing.
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
I didn't go, but everyone else in my class did...
...it seems that some of us are almost suited to carbon dating.
Love, Andrea Lena
"that's no moon..."
that's a new author on Big Closet!
Giggles.
Yep, I saw it in its original form, where, and pardon me for shouting, HAN SHOOTS FIRST!
Bahahaha!
Bahahaha!
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Seen it in person.
The first week of general release on one of the old huge screen theaters. I have been a follower of the franchise but had my problem with the last 2 for being not as well planed out and executed as they should be. They had a rushed appearance to them especially the last and the birth of Darth Vader. I also seen 2001 in Cinerama the year it came out, Planet of the apes Original Charlton Heston Version. FANTASTIC VOYAGE, Original 1st Star Trek The Movie and the classic original broadcast of the TV series. My geek doom has ran for decades. I was also witness to the first Allen Shepard and John Glen Mercury flights listening to them on the radio.
With those with open eyes the world reads like a book
definitely Cat 1
I saw the original Star Wars when I was in high school. Years later, my office took time out for all of us to see the 25th anniversary re-release. It was so strange because that was the first time many of my colleges had seen any Star Wars movie a theatre. Now, even that anniversary seems so far ago.