Reelo
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Thank you for the reminder. Seriously.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Pre-release)
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CB2001
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This just popped up on Yahoo!News, since this is the up-to-date Star Wars post I figured I'd post it here. https://www.yahoo.com/movies/report-star-wars-tunisia-town-becomes-114582237867.html
Came across this http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/the-flash-new-episode-stills-show-mark-hamills-trickster/
Gold star to Mark for being able to sit in a full lotus!!!!! I have to say he is looking well and if you click through those pictures ( 1-3, there are about twenty two ) there is one where you can absolutely see the old Luke smiling out. He does seem to have somewhat cornered the market for slightly r eccentric personalities recently, it does make you wonder what his older Skywalker will be like, given his families unfortunate history.
Gold star to Mark for being able to sit in a full lotus!!!!! I have to say he is looking well and if you click through those pictures ( 1-3, there are about twenty two ) there is one where you can absolutely see the old Luke smiling out. He does seem to have somewhat cornered the market for slightly r eccentric personalities recently, it does make you wonder what his older Skywalker will be like, given his families unfortunate history.
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cayman shen
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Regarding the "Don't get your gal pregnant 9 months before Star Wars," I remember in 1988 my wife saying "What if I got pregnant and went into labor the day Episode 1 was released?" I replied "I've loved Star Wars a lot longer than I've loved you, babe." She did NOT find that funny. PS: we're now divorced. Coincidence?! :lol
vintageslant
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Boy you would miss the birth of a child for EP1! Boy did you get short changed lol.
Fly4v
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I had a similar thing with my R2 tattoo. Quote Me "thats for Life honey, I doubt you will be with that attitude"
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cayman shen
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Well yeah, at the time I didn't know how massively disappointing Episode 1 was going to be! (Incidentally my kids were born in 2001 and 2003...safely between releases
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vintageslant
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That was lucky then! Just realised that I used the word boy twice in my post. I'm not a real life version of fog horn leg horn and I meant boy oh boy like man oh man like gosh wow. Hope you didn't take any offense by it. :cheersWell yeah, at the time I didn't know how massively disappointing Episode 1 was going to be! (Incidentally my kids were born in 2001 and 2003...safely between releases
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Now that is a way cool memory to have 3 weeks that is dedication and IMHO you gave up 3 weeks for the best film in history.
cayman shen
Master Member
Its a memory that will be hard to top... that's for sure. They will never have another movie like it... I don't care how careful they try to it under wraps. Back then you only had 4 channels on TV, there was no such thing as cable or the internet and watching movies one the computer was a dream, let alone watching one on your cell phone. Star Wars camt at a time when the only thing we scifi geeks had was Star Trek (which was cancelled and in re-runs) or Doctor Who (which only came in on PBS if you held your left foot while holding the TV antenna). Star Wars timing was perfect... and because of its success inspired a whole new genre of movies and the only way to see them was in the theater. But now with so much saturation thru the internet, I pity the fact that kids today will never have that same feeling of wonder the first movie generated!
vintageslant
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The genie can not be put back in the bottle that's for sure. I totally get what you mean. I mean my eldest is saying can I get on the lap op as I have to do my home work. What's that all about? Home work in my day was do the work in the book and if you can't do it then ask the next day. I showed my middle one the first video game I had. I don't think she could conceive that it wasn't touch screen!
I have just had a recollection from my own child hood. One summer holiday I was in the Dr Who exhibition in Blackpool. I was very scared of the giant spiders so a very kind hearted guide saw that and asked if I would like to see something really cool. Yes I said.
He took me to a small dressing room/closet. In there were several cyber man suits. I got to see them close up then ta da he said would you like to try on a helmet. Oh yes please so I got to wear a screen used cyberman helmet. Funny I had totally forgotten that. Perhaps that's why I love probs soooo much. :lol
Edwardowan
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agreed. it was the perfect storm in early summer 1977. things were so different then and Star Wars hitting the big screen was like color TV being introduced to watchers of the black and white tv. Planet of the Apes movies and Star Trek reruns and perhaps occasionally catching a Ray Harryhausen film like 7th Voyage of Sinbad once a year or so or maybe seeing a 1950's Sci-Fi film on a saturday afternoon was the best it was... robots were stiff and logical.... space ships were rockets and action heroes were still reruns of Cowboy and Indian films... Star Wars took all of that and combined it into one action adventure with attitude, personality, character and fun! May 1977... I was a few months shy of 10 years old... so I was even the perfect age to understand and appreciate what kind of storm was taking place! Interestingly enough August of that year we did get Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger the third and final Sinbad film that Ray Harryhausen made for Columbia Pictures!
then in November 77 Close Encounters of the Third Kind... otherwise Rocky, Smokey and the Bandit The Bad News Bears The Spy Who Loved Me was the sort of thing at the movies... oh there was Logan's Run and the remake of King Kong in 1976 though! Jaws in 1975.... Otherwise going to the movies usually meant a drama or comedy. For Television Bionic Man, Wonderwoman... shows with very little special effects.. usually someone jumping high, running fast, bending rubber props and wires pulling things and you could see the darn wires! Long Live Star Wars!
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SteveStarkiller
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had a nightmare last night that the movie came out early, and it was the worst thing that ever happened. Leia was doing drugs with hippies in an airport parkinglot, everything was covered in product placement, Luke kept losing hands left and right, and the falcon had been nu-trek-ified.... I really need that new trailer to come out...
Well ,in about three weeks (or less!!!!!!!! ) and we'll have alot more to talk about:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=43867
Well AOU is out on the 23rd April here, so I imagine the SW trailer will be out before then. It would make a lot of sense to get it out WELL BEFORE AOU gets released anywhere. My reasoning being that AOU REALLY REALLY REALLY doesn't need anything else to push it, and perhaps it NOT the greatest idea in the world to put the trailer for a film that almost broke the internet in November out just a head of it. It may just suck the air out of the publicity and peoples attention may just be a little distracted from AOU.
Release it a couple of weeks before so everyone is hyper excited and desperate to see something at the cinema, now that would make sense.
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=43867
Well AOU is out on the 23rd April here, so I imagine the SW trailer will be out before then. It would make a lot of sense to get it out WELL BEFORE AOU gets released anywhere. My reasoning being that AOU REALLY REALLY REALLY doesn't need anything else to push it, and perhaps it NOT the greatest idea in the world to put the trailer for a film that almost broke the internet in November out just a head of it. It may just suck the air out of the publicity and peoples attention may just be a little distracted from AOU.
Release it a couple of weeks before so everyone is hyper excited and desperate to see something at the cinema, now that would make sense.
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OldKen
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I have a bad feeling that well only be discussing the trailer till ultron....
Maybe someone will upload a good cell phone vid. But I honestly think celebration will only get a short teaser of the new trailer...
Well see.
Maybe someone will upload a good cell phone vid. But I honestly think celebration will only get a short teaser of the new trailer...
Well see.
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