XPost: rec.arts.movies.past-films, alt.fan.starwars, rec.arts.sf.movies
XPost: rec.arts.sf.written
From: mstemper@siemens-emis.com

In article <1179617795.926362.133910@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, markr1000
writes:
>On May 19, 9:00 am, Howard Brazee  wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:09:22 -0700, "Frank R.A.J. Maloney"
>>  wrote:

>> >"Coming to a theater next summer." That was long, long six months.
>>
>> I saw a slide show in the previous year's Kansas City World Con.   I
>> wasn't expecting much, I wasn't much of a fan of movie SF.   I did
>> talk with this pimply faced kid who was staring in that movie.
>
>I saw a whole package of posters and standup cutouts when going to see
>Airport 77.  Yeah, I know.  At least I think that was the movie.

I completely missed all of the buildup. I'd moved to Minneapolis a year
earlier, and wasn't in touch with too much of anything. I bought my
first house, and had a house-warming party. The next day, one of my
college buds who had come up for the party asked me, "Mike, what do
you think about Star Wars?" "What do I think about what?" "Oh, haven't
you seen it? It's a sci-fi movie. I think you'd like it."

So, a bunch of us went to see it that afternoon, after applicable
hangovers had been dealt with. When it ended, we just sat there and
saw it again. It never even occurred to me to ask if any of them
had seen it before. (Well, at least that thought didn't come to me
for almost thirty years.)

>> The opening space ship that went on and on and on was very different

Actually, I missed that. We were a few minutes late getting to the
theatre, and the Storm Troopers were already cutting their way in.
That was our excuse for sitting through it a second time.

--
Michael F. Stemper
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