I don't understand how Anakin gets shit but a character that is essentially a goth teenager crying to his poster of darth vader in his bedroom is in any way compelling or threatening.

Completely scrap the original prequels and go back to the drawing board for the story. Age the leads up. Make it an Arthurian tragedy.

Sequels and remakes were the order of the day since the late 80s. Prequels and reboots are a much more recent thing, probably from the aughts forwards.

I distinctly remember walking out of the theater after seeing TESB for the first time, just crushed by what had happened. Then my mom cheerfully reminded me that it'd be three years before we found out what happens next and my stomach just dropped out.

Alamo's snark in their twitter replies is strong. Good on them.

Man FX7 is the toy equivalent of Monster in Used CD stores.

My wife cried twice during the concert. I almost cried during Streets when the screen faded into that desert highway. Where the Streets have No Name will never not take my breath away when I see it live.

Yes!

I purposefully spoiled the plots of the movies before seeing them by reading the books. Empire looked scary. I wanted to be sure nobody died.

God I can remember that picture still, of Biggs with his hand on Luke's shoulder, telling him he was leaving. I was so confused why it wasn't in the movie.

Or a budding teenager.

Ah, the old two-screen theater. It must have sucked if you didn't care about Star Wars. I remember in our small town when Jedi came out, it took up one theater the entire summer. You had to drive into the next bigger city, nearly an hour away, if you wanted to see something other than ROTJ.

*collapses to floor, blood trickling from nose, blank stare*

Seriously. When I saw it it was like someone looked into my brain and gave me what I always wanted but didn't know how to explain.

B-but, Force Awakens is just a remake of Star Wars!

My only version of Star Wars for a long time was one I taped off of a network showing. I was pausing during commercial breaks, but didn't get to it fast enough after that break, so on my tape it always abruptly jumped to the mousebot scooting away and Chewie chortling.

Joshua Tree is my all time favorite album, so it was a treat hearing it like that. It made me re-appreciate just what a spectacular album it really is.

"It went the other way. It went the other way. The robot went the other way. DAD, the robot went the other way. The other way. DAAADDDD . . . "

Oh yeah I forgot to add the audience cheering when I saw it for the first time too. I didn't know you could do that to a movie! That's when I really knew it must be a special movie.

It basically didn't leave the theater for two years after it came out. Then, yeah, like every year after they'd have an "encore release" for a bit as well.