I thought the first Star Wars movie was really good. I saw it on opening night in the theater way back in ‘77. However, after the 2nd one I was all through with everything Star Wars. It was two and done for me.
“I thought the first Star Wars movie was really good. I saw it on opening night in the theater way back in ‘77. However, after the 2nd one I was all through with everything Star Wars. It was two and done for me.”
****
I also saw it the first night it was in town. I think it was a Friday. I did not care for it and never saw another one. I was a college student and was looking for something more substantial. It seemed juvenile and simplistic. It didn’t help that the film broke at the very beginning when the “In a galaxy far away” text was beginning to scroll by. After a 10 minute wait there were mechanical camels on the screen. Huh? Maybe I missed 30 seconds, maybe I missed some of the background that would have made sense.
Then the Obi Wan character is dead. But he’s talking to the kid. So is he not really dead? Like ET?
I got a kind of Wizard of Oz vibe from the characters. The lion was Chewbacca, the girl was Dorothy, and the tall gay robot was the tin man.
Then it sort of turned into an outer space western shoot out.
I never did figure out why it was a “thing.”