A year ago . . .

We were gettin' ready to see Revenge of the Sith! I loved it all, I loved the anticipation, I loved the packed theater with lots of fans, I loved watching it with my buddies & family. I loved the applause for the 'long time ago' line and the fanfare! Loved the applause for all the characters again. Loved the footage given to Artoo.

Had to run out of the theater to the restroom because of all the stupid pop I drank, so I picked the moment when Grievous & Obi-Wan were fighting, because I figured it's just a fight, and missing that would be less of a loss than missing what happened with Anakin & Palpatine! (My own 'Sophie's Choice'!) Then watching Anakin unravel, it was heartbreaking. Bawled my eyes out multiple times. Emotinally drained. Mace & Kit & Padme. Baby Luke & Leia. Sad when I realized I was watching the wordless finales. Then it was over.

You only see a Star Wars movie for the first time once! And a year ago we did it for the last time. What are your stories?

i never thought Star Wars was going to be awesome. I first saw the trailer, and i wasn't impressed. (well, at first) but my dad still got to drag me in the movie theater. he isn't a SW fan, but he loves watching good movies. well, so i watched, and i was totally in on Star Wars after that. It was totally awesome, and Anakin and Obi's fight was pretty heartwrenching for me... I did cry, *good thing the theater was dark...* but it was a totally cool movie!

well, that's what started me to be a SW fan... after that i found a few sw sites... and bought SW 1-6 dvd's... i watched them all again... *i think i've already watched 1 and 2 when i was 5 or 4 and 7....^_^*

that was my story... ^_^

Originally posted by JaehSkywalker
i never thought Star Wars was going to be awesome. I first saw the trailer, and i wasn't impressed. (well, at first) but my dad still got to drag me in the movie theater. he isn't a SW fan, but he loves watching good movies. well, so i watched, and i was totally in on Star Wars after that. It was totally awesome, and Anakin and Obi's fight was pretty heartwrenching for me... I did cry, *good thing the theater was dark...* but it was a totally cool movie!

well, that's what started me to be a SW fan... after that i found a few sw sites... and bought SW 1-6 dvd's... i watched them all again... *i think i've already watched 1 and 2 when i was 5 or 4 and 7....^_^*

that was my story... ^_^

ROTS was your first Star Wars? icon5

nooooo....

first star wars was 1, but on 3 i was hooked...

1> i was a mindless twerp well, sorta... i don't understand anything yet.. *movies*...

2> i don't understand much..

it came out on me birthday 😄

Originally posted by LanceWindu
ROTS was your first Star Wars? icon5

He was blown away when Padme bore Luke & Leia. After the theater he came to me and said "I didn't know they were twins!" I looked at him like, "Yah!"

Kinda funny when you think of it. All this time he didn't know.

I can't believe it's been a year already. I remember when the movie was still a whole year away. It was such a fun ride.

I stood in line for hours at the midnight showing. When it finally reached 12:00 A.M, the theater had problems, and the film was delayed almost an hour, but it finally got underway and the movie was great.

I wish I could live the night over again.

Originally posted by cain marko
it came out on me birthday 😄

Nice man it came out on my birthday as well. I saw it at mignight and didnt go to school the next day. I got home at like 2:00 in the morning, it was great. I slept late and then played the Revenge of the Sith game. 🙂

Originally posted by LanceWindu
ROTS was your first Star Wars? icon5

Well, she's only 14 or 15.

Many people aren't watching them the way we did. 🙂

I had sort of the same experience as SMX and Duclanger.

I watched it at midnight.

I was working graveyards back then, and I got up around 3 in the afternoon.

I stopped by the local theatre to get my tickets, and casually check things out, when lo and behold..... four lines already!!!

Now they weren't very long, 50-60 people in each, but I sat my ass down right there to wait.

My wife brought me dinner around 6, and came to sit with me at 9.

It was cool, I hung out with alot of people in line.

I played Starwars trivial pursuit with some older guys (ages 30- 45) and I freakin' PWNED 'em. Hahah!

They were cool about it saying "the force is strong with you, young one," etc... but one dude was a little bit pissed. 😄

The people in the front of my line had a huge tent set up, with coffee house-type stools set up, where guys were watching the trailers and stuff online, and they were playing all the other movies on dvd.

Get this, some fool took his company van, blanked out the words, and had drapes on the side spray painted with "Star Wars Sucks" and a drape on the back that said "Masturbating Falcon".....

He was in a cheap skeleton mask, wearing black, and he had a little cb raido with a speaker that he kept saying "Star Wars SUCKS!" out of loudly, driving by us in line slowly.

It was actually kinda funny, but some n00b padawans who were like 16 took off after him yelling, and surrounded the van in the parking lot.

Nothing happpened, but it gave us all a laugh.

The movie, was my fave of the PT, and 2nd only to Empire, so needless to say, I enjoyed it very much.

😎

I had to run out for a second during the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan. I was about to piss my pants, seriously, but I walked in just in time to see Anakin make that leap...

Originally posted by Sith Master X
I can't believe it's been a year already. I remember when the movie was still a whole year away. It was such a fun ride.

I stood in line for hours at the midnight showing. When it finally reached 12:00 A.M, the theater had problems, and the film was delayed almost an hour, but it finally got underway and the movie was great.

I wish I could live the night over again.

I would have been so pissed off!

I loved the waiting in line, talking with other Star Wars fans whom I just met, seeing the people in extravagant costumes (we had a Chewbacca that looked like the one in the movie), the overall geekiness.

When we finally sat down for the movie about an hour before it started, there were people with laptops or portable DVD players watching Episode II.

I met someone else who was wearing the same Imperial shirt as me, and I flipped my sleeve up displaying my Imperial tattoo, and he flipped his up and showed me his Imperial tattoo as well, on the same arm no less.

Originally posted by DucLangur
Nice man it came out on my birthday as well. I saw it at mignight and didnt go to school the next day. I got home at like 2:00 in the morning, it was great. I slept late and then played the Revenge of the Sith game. 🙂

I didn't get home until 5 am because of the hour drive from Vegas to my house, and just the general slacking off in between seeing the movie and driving home. Then I had to go to work at 7. 😛

Originally posted by chinabing
A friend I saw ROTS with had not seen Return of the Jedi!

He was blown away when Padme bore Luke & Leia. After the theater he came to me and said "I didn't know they were twins!" I looked at him like, "Yah!"

Kinda funny when you think of it. All this time he didn't know.

I couldn't imagine that. 😐 I mean wow...

When I have kids, I'm making sure they see IV-VI first, then they get to see the PT.

Originally posted by Captain REX
I had to run out for a second during the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan. I was about to piss my pants, seriously, but I walked in just in time to see Anakin make that leap...

This is the number 1 reason why I did not buy a soda when I saw Episode III, I just knew I would have to take a leak if I drank one.

It was funny, we were sitting in a cinema, and about 10 min before the film starts this kid walks in with a darth vader costume and a lightsaber and everyone took the piss out of him because he was the only one dressed up. Then the movie started and this kid next to me laughed at totally inappropriate bits so i bent over and threatened him to shut up. He didn't and i cracked him round the skull. I was thrown out during Obi Wan vs Grievous. Went back next day and saw it in full.

I saw it at midnight with my brother in law and my girlfriend, I watched it the night before my high school graduation. We had to drive two hours to get to a theater that wasn't sold out when i tried to buy the tickets online. I didn't get home until 4:30. I slept for 2 hours and had to be at graduation rehearsal. I still got up and gave my speech as salutatorian without mentioning the force one time!

I saw it near my fiance's (now he's my husband) birthday so I took him to see it at midnight. He never told me he was sick, he's such a big fan he went with the flu, the reason he didn't tell me was cuz he knew i wouldn't let him go. I wasn't a huge sw fan at the time, though I was when i left.

There was a guy there dressed as one of the sandpeople and him and apparently one of his friends dressed as a jedi got in a fight, didn't last long. But we saw several staged fights that night, it rocked.

Originally posted by sithsaber408
Well, she's only 14 or 15.

correction: I think i'm only 13.. 😄

i can't believe one year has already passed since i became hooked!!

well, the first star wars i saw was episode four the digitally remastered in theatures and i saw the other threee also, i was very young when the first one was released and i was about nine when phantom menace came out and was thirteen when rots came out and i get this tingly feeling whenever i see those yellow letters come up. But star wars has always been apart of who i am i only got star wars toys growing up and i still get some just to support george and my favorite character.

I held a big party in a restaurant party room in the megamall the floor below the theaters. It was on the Friday it opened, so more of my friends who work could come, and all their kids. I ebayed a bunch of Star Wars Episode I tacobell posters which I used as placemats. Had a couple standees, including table toppers. My friends bugged me because I promised Wookie Cookies and Yoda Soda for the AOTC party, and didn't deliver, so I got one of those big pepsi yoda inflatable cans and said ok, here is your Yoda Soda!

I had 50 people come, and bought 45 tickets, (thanks to the PG-13 rating, some girls didn't want to go, and a few friends couldn't take their younger kids)! I had ebayed a bunch of stuff and with the profits, I bought all the tickets for my guests, so they were happy! I got a bunch of Star Wars toys for the kids, and they all got to pick 'em as their name was drawn... including some rare stuff like R2-D2 skates & backpack, the widescreen faces VHSs, some cool inflatables, etc. The adults got some action figs, which I'm sure they gave to their kids! I'm grateful for Ebay because it paid for my party!

I also had parties for Attack of the Clones, (in the same space, but it was a different restaurant!), and The Phantom Menace, and yes, I had a party for Return of the Jedi in 1983! I had just graduated from college and I had a huge number of friends go to the midnight show. Ya know, it just blew me away when Vader picked up the Emperor. It was a good flick, a little overrun with muppets, but the end was unbelievable.

I couldn't believe I had a bunch of the same high school and college friends who attended Empire and Jedi with me, were there when the prequel trilogy came out. This time they brought their kids. My extended family brought my nieces & nephews too. It was wonderful. What a blessing to be able to attend such a saga and share it with your friends & family.

When you think about it, Star Wars is about family.

Heh... hadn't even seen it a year ago... 25th I think...

Kinda wanna watch it now... meh.

Lol..May 19th will always be a special day for me. I happened to look at the clock exactly at 12:00 AM, the amazing midnight opening..it didn't even seem like a year went past. We had anticipated it for months..and now a year is gone.

a year a go i could not wait to see how my master vader was born