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Post by bloodsparrow on Oct 12, 2012 18:00:15 GMT -8
Where were you when you learned that Darth Vader was Luke's father? It most likely wasn't while you were sitting in a theater seat eating popcorn in 1980. I think you underestimate the median age of Happy Jack's listeners. ... Or I over estimate it.
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Post by gandalftheplaid on Oct 12, 2012 19:16:39 GMT -8
I think you underestimate the median age of Happy Jack's listeners. ... Or I over estimate it. I would have been 3 at that time. ;D
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Post by jazzisblues on Oct 12, 2012 20:07:03 GMT -8
Where were you when you learned that Darth Vader was Luke's father? It most likely wasn't while you were sitting in a theater seat eating popcorn in 1980. I think you underestimate the median age of Happy Jack's listeners. ... Or I over estimate it. Sitting in the theater eating popcorn, and my reaction was, "Well duh they just figured that out?" JiB
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Post by CreativeCowboy on Oct 13, 2012 0:12:32 GMT -8
I played hokey from high school to attend the premiere of that film with a friend, Teddy Tsesmelis (whose name I just butchered). That was back in the day when the Wednesday matinee was the first showing and Rocky Horror was a midnight showing to keep away the riff-raff. We then staged a classroom play about Empire and made plans to do stop animation of the Walker attack, still the days when Ray Harryhausen's magic was in demand and Bakshi was doing his rotoscoping thing.
We also snuck away to see Return and Raiders as I recall. I think I got an A+ in those classes at the Imperial Cinema.
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Post by Kainguru on Oct 13, 2012 2:15:32 GMT -8
Back then movies could take upto two years before they reached cinemas in Australia or New Zealand. 3 month delay for Empire . . . I remember because I had already bought and read the novelisation and Star-Log had reviewed it several times. It's only recently that things like simultaneous world wide release have occurred. For many us the concept of spoilers in movies was just not relevant . . . 'Blair Witch Project' by the time it screened near me the truth about its mythical providence and use of viral advertising was well known, I didn't know about the twist in 6th Sense only because I was busy with real life stuff and wasn't paying attention to the gossip. I thought 6th sense was a bit over rated really - like most of his movies - sorry if people disagree but I just don't personally enjoy his style very much, the twists are too predictable because 'every' movie he does has a twist. PS: anchovies + pizza = double plus good
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Post by bloodsparrow on Oct 13, 2012 7:11:24 GMT -8
I think you underestimate the median age of Happy Jack's listeners. ... Or I over estimate it. I would have been 3 at that time. ;D I wasn't quite 3 when my parents took me to see Star Wars. (You know what I mean.) And I remember watching that in the theater vividly.
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Post by uselesstriviaman on Oct 13, 2012 11:43:37 GMT -8
I remember going to see Star Wars in the theater; I was in the 3rd grade. I remember being furious at a girl in my class - who'd seen it before I did - who insisted that Luke died in the trash compactor. A kid in my class spoilered Return of the Jedi for me because he'd read the plot in a magazine before the movie was even released. "Yeah yeah, Leia is Luke's sister, Darth Vader dies..." He didn't say much else after that, aside from "Ow!"
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Post by ericfromnj on Oct 13, 2012 20:08:15 GMT -8
I remember being rather shocked by Vader being Luke's father in Empire in the theater. JiB, I am curious what made it so obvious to you because there really was not any foreshadowing aside from a weird Obi-Wan look in Star Wars before he explains how Luke's father died...
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Post by gandalftheplaid on Oct 13, 2012 21:12:31 GMT -8
I think the first thought or feeling I can recall from the reveal scene was something like: "Why whine & cry? Why not a 'Whatever asshole. Screw you!'"
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Post by jazzisblues on Oct 14, 2012 0:30:14 GMT -8
I remember being rather shocked by Vader being Luke's father in Empire in the theater. JiB, I am curious what made it so obvious to you because there really was not any foreshadowing aside from a weird Obi-Wan look in Star Wars before he explains how Luke's father died... I was thinking about that and I actually don't recall what it was that gave me that idea, but it was there. I think it was a bunch of little things, like Vader being Obi Wan's student (which doesn't mean anything) but things like that made it when they made that reveal I was very much like, "Well yeah." JiB
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Post by Kainguru on Oct 14, 2012 2:07:40 GMT -8
Did you flick thru or read the likes of StarLog and StarBurst. Because they speculated (dissecting a single shot for months . . . Like the promo release of the shot of the snow troopers and Boba Fett) a lot on films and sometimes they got it right.
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Post by CreativeCowboy on Oct 14, 2012 4:38:53 GMT -8
I would have been 3 at that time. ;D I wasn't quite 3 when my parents took me to see Star Wars. (You know what I mean.) And I remember watching that in the theater vividly. In 1977, Star Wars played, first run, for over 1 year. It was in what would be its final weeks at the Cote des Neiges Cinema in Montreal, same place I went to see Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, when my mother told me I had to go see it. I was 11 years old and thought nothing about Star Wars. I was into real film classics like Casablanca and Gone With The Wind. So my mother forced me to the cinema; and I enjoyed it and the merchandising that followed. This would not happen again until The Matrix in 1999 when the buzz was screaming "instant classic" and I was immediately put-off. Then a buddy insisted I see it - on DVD - and I was like yeah, this is good. Gotta study this! Mmmmm....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2012 4:59:58 GMT -8
I was 11 years old quote] We must be the same age then...
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Post by CreativeCowboy on Oct 14, 2012 5:37:23 GMT -8
I was 11 years old quote] We must be the same age then... '67 the Spring of Love or Prelude to The Summer of same.
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Post by Kainguru on Oct 14, 2012 8:14:45 GMT -8
I wasn't quite 3 when my parents took me to see Star Wars. (You know what I mean.) And I remember watching that in the theater vividly. In 1977, Star Wars played, first run, for over 1 year. It was in what would be its final weeks at the Cote des Neiges Cinema in Montreal, same place I went to see Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, when my mother told me I had to go see it. I was 11 years old and thought nothing about Star Wars. I was into real film classics like Casablanca and Gone With The Wind. So my mother forced me to the cinema; and I enjoyed it and the merchandising that followed. This would not happen again until The Matrix in 1999 when the buzz was screaming "instant classic" and I was immediately put-off. Then a buddy insisted I see it - on DVD - and I was like yeah, this is good. Gotta study this! Mmmmm.... My next 'classic' was Bladerunner: we had set off to town to see ET but we saw the queue and said "fuck that". Walked around the corner to another cinema and watched 'Bladerunner'. It was over 10 yrs before I finally saw ET and think I made the right choice to skip it (really WTF gives with all this 'ET was such a great film??' stuff . . . I mean I get the Jesus parable and all that but he was an alien and he was freaking dead and then he was suddenly alive and no one questions it or asks how . . . 14yr old me would have been shouting "WTF!!!! What-the-fuck? ")
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