Happy REAL Star Wars Day!

[Solo4114]

Forget "May the 4th" and other puns. Those are cute and all, but today's the day, folks.

Be sure if you're watching to watch an old-school copy, too. None of that special edition nonsense. If you have a working VCR and the old CBS/FOX VHS tapes, go with that.

 

[Apollo]

:cheers May the force be with you :cheers

 

[aeonpulse]

THANK YOU. I'm sick of this trendy "May the 4th" garbage. May the FORCE be with you!

 

[JoMamma_Smurf]

YES!! I'm gonna bust out my "for the last time" VHS tapes!!

 

[Darthbauer]

I've been watching ESB with my kids with my old CBS/Fox tape. It's great.

 

[Katsu Ma'roy]

YES!! I'm gonna bust out my "for the last time" VHS tapes!!

LOL! I laughed at that advertisement too! Glad I actually DID get the tapes!

 

[CessnaDriver]

 

[CessnaDriver]

Not everyone was in love....

 

[Treadwell]

hear, hear!

 

[Replicant X]

Not everyone was in love....

Hahaha, Thumbs up for Norman Jameson.
He probably did not like Star Wars but understood it pretty well.
In the first paragraphs of the article he describes perfectly the
basic plot.

 

[CessnaDriver]

"Turned an entire planet into pet rocks in seconds"

Gotta love that seventies humor.

For you little kids, Pet Rocks was a stupid fad for a week or two.

 

[CessnaDriver]

A long time ago, in a theatre far, far away....a kid’s movie opened that would change Hollywood forever.

It’s hard to remember a day when Star Wars wasn’t a towering cultural and marketing event, but on May 25, 1977, it was a smallish movie opening on a Wednesday in just 32 theaters.

There was no premiere.


Read more: Star Wars movie opened for the first time 35 years ago today  - NY Daily News

 

[Probe Droid]

This right here put the hooks in me when I was 17 and never let go.

Seeing this film for the first time on the big screen back in '77, it really was like something from another galaxy. There had never been anything like it before. It was so different. I remember when the Falcon jumps to hyperspeed and the stars stretch into lines, etc., everyone in the theater grabbed the armrests to hold on.

Lucas catches so much crap, and maybe he has whored the thing away and sold out, blah, blah, blah, but 35 years ago he gave the world this remarkable thing that has brought joy to millions. Bravo, George.

And would the RPF exist without this film? I've been here for more than a decade, and back in those days 75% of the conversations were about Star Wars and Graflexes, etc.

Happy anniversary, Stars Wars. I love it!

 

[rodneyfaile]

35 years? I feel old.

I need episodes 7, 8, and 9.

I mean it!

 

[phase pistol]

Oh hey, "The CAR" is playing! Let's see that instead!

 

[letmebestormy]

May the Friday night beer be with you!

 

[robn1]

May the Force be with us! On the 25th.

Looks like Jim Rockford went to the movies

 

[micdavis]

There should be an amendment to the Constitution to never call it A New Hope ever again.......'cause that a real travesty.

 

[dbalschi]

There should be an amendment to the Constitution to never call it A New Hope ever again.......'cause that a real travesty.

I will always call it Star Wars.

 

[nickytea]

I call it The Star's War.