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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
No one commented on my nostalgic story of Stars Wars ( way back when),, But what memorys did you have of that summer in 1977 ... ?? I was 9. I remember seeing it. And I remember the theater being packed. That's pretty much it. But I have the memory of a stuffed bear. Couldn't tell you what I had for dinner on Monday.  So I too wouldn't notice any changes unless they were pointed out. That and I'm not a Star Wars person. I think I've seen the first one 3-4 including that time in 1977. A few of them I've only seen once. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
I was 9. You are a tad younger than I thought you were. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: October 6, 2008 | | Posts: 1,932 |
| | Posted: | | | | I remember seeing Star Wars when it came out; I was 10. About the only clear recollection is that I had to pee and missed part of the Sand People sequence. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 756 |
| | Posted: | | | | Cinema in Portsmouth (or may have been Southampton), a couple of weeks after it opened, sitting in the middle of a row towards the back. With surround(ish) sound (well, there were lots of speakers anyway).
And the bit I remember the most was the opening when the battleship "flew overhead" with the all-around rumble of the engines. Oh, man!!! | | | | Chris |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,850 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
No one commented on my nostalgic story of Stars Wars ( way back when),, But what memorys did you have of that summer in 1977 ... ?? I don't know about my memories of 1977, but my first memories of Star Wars are of reading about it in issues of Starlog magazine in late 1976 and early 1977. Seeing those Ralph McQuarrie paintings really got me excited about seeing the film. --------------- |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,491 |
| | Posted: | | | | thanks all for your good memory of that summer.. But did you see it in 70 MM dolby 6 track???.. that was the jest of my post .. This film was like no other before it.. If you didn't see it/ experience it like that.. you had to wait quite a few months/years for your local cinema to upgrade .. or see it on Video in letterbox ( widescreen/ surround ) years later .....  and I read in one of my links above that Lucas bought up as many VistaVision cameras as he could which drove the price up for others who wanted to buy that type of camera .. (Didn't Hitchcock use Vista Vision cameras which gave the foreground and the Background 'total clarity'.. Confused though as I thought VistaVision only gave out 1:66 to 1:85 aspect ratio and not 2:35.. ? maybe in Post they were able to upgrade these frames ... ??? | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Some news on the sales figures
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=7407 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
Quoting Mark Harrison:
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I was 9.
You are a tad younger than I thought you were. Yay! I guess that's the online equivalent of being carded for alcohol. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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