Post #536698 by woofmutt on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 10:16 AM

STAR WARS

I just realized this the other day. I was a STAR WARS fan before the movie even came out. (As I recall there was some tales of a fantabulous sci-fi flick on its way, maybe some stills or something in some fan rag.)

Once STAR WARS hit the theaters I knew all the characters and all about the effects and all the inspiration having read all the articles and seen all the TV stories. I had pictures in my room. I bought a reproduction of the movie poster from the KXLE radio booth at the Kittitas County Fair. So cool.

And now for the punchline: I never even got to see STAR WARS whne it came out because I grew up in a no movies, no dancing church. (No, I didn't like or identify with Foot Loose)

I didn't actually get to see STAR WARS until 1980. I liked it. It was a little disappointing. It had my imagination to live up to.

I finally got to see all the STAR WARS movies on the big screen when Lucas went and made them extra awesome with mind blowing CGI additions. (Did you see Han step on Jaba's tail! Ha!) I gotta admit seeing the first STAR WARS on the big screen movie was very exciting. Y'know, childhood and all that.

But after seeing all three I realized there was one good STAR WARS movie, and that's STAR WARS, the first one. (The real first one, not the new first one.) After that they went way the hell downhill. (Very difficult to do in space, that's how bad the movies were.)

Then came the new STAR WARS movies (Did you see that? He has a character who's entirely CGI generated! Ha!) and the pop culture blow up of STAR WARS and now it's every-friggin-where I look and all I gotta say I'm dead sick of STAR WARS. The franchise ain't that great and the misty eyed nostalgia should of dried up a few spin-offs ago.