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Subject: Return of the Jedi.
Who in here remembers where they were and what they were doing when "Return of the Jedi" was advertised as a new movie in 1983? I remember where I was and what I was doing. I was a second semester second-grade student in San Francisco and I was watching a late-night movie named "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" when the commercial advertising this new Star Wars film came on. What about you?
I also remember when "Purple Rain" and "Ghostbusters" were advertised as new movie back in 1984.
Subject: My Star Wars Life (very abridged)
Excuse me, but I could write volumes...
Star Wars was released the summer before I started Jr Hi. I saw it, was obsessed by it, dressed like Princess Leia for Halloween, even though at 12 I was too old to go trick or treating, and to this day have a ton of the trading cards and my stuffed R2D2 doll.
Empire was released the summer before I started High School. As soon as high school started, I met up with like-minded individuals. We LIVED Star Wars. The halls of our high school we named halls of our school and the local shopping mall after landmarks in the film, we took Star Wars names, traded the Empire Trading cards, again I still have mine. Acted out the scenes from Star Wars and Empire. We wrote long stories and scripts for the new Star Wars movie, and improvised the scenes out loud. We lived for any trivial piece of news regarding the 3rd film. Star Log magazine was little help, when it came to actual NEW news. The working title was called Revenge of the Jedi. We talked and made guesses about "Revenge" and referred to it so frequently, that I still have a tendancy to call it Revenge of the Jedi.
The title was changed to the Return of the Jedi, a few weeks or months before it was released, because it was decided the Jedi don't believe in revenge. The family that owned a monopoly on all movie theaters any where near my home town protestes 20th century fox's increase in price for this film, by REFUSING to buy it until it was a 2nd run film!! We greived! It was released to the public about a week or 2 before our last day of high school, Our senior year.
One of our boys insisted over and over that this was the film where Luke and Leia were for sure gonna DO IT! So it was shocking to all of us to have some kid, who did't even like Star Wars, come to our class one day and say he heard on the news that Luke and Leia are brother and sister. On our exact last day of high school for the rest of our lives, one boy with a car piled us all in, drove from the school parking lot to a town about 2 hours away, so we could FINALLY see Return of the Jedi.
Of course, nothing could live up to our expectations. For a variety of reasons, I hated it and wept all the way home. I don't know if I ever saw it again during that run.
Like I said, I could go on forever.