Tee hee. I’m dying to tell you they’ve COMPLETELY abandoned the opening motif.
But they haven’t. You will indeed enjoy that same thrill.
Oh, and by the way, IMHO, the film rocks the house. The last half hour especially…
I did indeed enjoy it. I got the same thrill out of the beginning and the rest didn’t piss me off anyway near like the other prequels did. Yeah there were bits where I wanted to shout “LUCAS, YOU FUCKING HACK” but overall a great improvement. I’m not 9 anymore so I understand I’m not going to get the same thing.
The only part of the prequels apart from the beginning that really made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck was in AOTC when Yoda confronts Dooko and the saber flies into his hand. It was so cool I nearly shouted “YES” out loud :o
We need a geek smiley.
Mebbe, mebbe not. I kind of get the impression that Skywalker was a fairly common surname. Hell, the novelization states that Biggs’ last name is Darklighter, so probably a pretty high percentage of the human population of Tatooine is walking around with names of that sort. Add to that the fact that Luke inherited the name from a grandmother and father who had been slaves, it kind of gives the idea that is was a common name in more than one sense of the word. So, unless Vader took it into his head to drop by and see how his stepbrother and sister-in-law were doing, and, hey, cute kid, why do I feel more than a related-by-marriage connection to him, the fact that Luke carried the Skywalker name would have been no more worthy of note than, say, a kid named Smith or Jones would in English-speaking countries here on Earth.
(excuse my resurrecting this thread, but I’m a few weeks behind in the boards)
I was in college when TESB came out. Sure I really liked Star Wars, but I was not an Ueber-Geek in college and my TV and popular culture saturation was cut by two-thirds, as I totally immersed myself in just about every college activity aside from classes (and even fit in a few of them here and there), so didn’t spend much time at movies or watching TV.
Three friends and I took a cross-country trip in what I guess now must have been 1981 over summer break. We arrived in our destination, Los Angeles, late in the day and hooked up with our friend who had moved out to LA the year before.
The first thing he had us do (before eating, before settling in) was he dragged us to see The Empire Strikes Back. None of us had seen it yet (not sure now how long it had already been out, but it was obviously still playing first run). I do seem to remember that the theater was filled (so maybe it was the first or second week). We sat in the very front row center. I still remember having to literally turn my head from side to side to read the opening crawl. An awsome experience, really.
Yes, I was absolutely shocked.
In retrospect, I think our friend took us to see it first thing because he knew that otherwise the surprise would be spoiled sooner or later. Perhaps he did not trust himself to keep the secret from us (he was a much bigger Star Wars geek than any of us… he had somehow gotten a video tape of the original movie a couple of years earlier, and it wasn’t a normal VHS or Beta tape, either. A 3/4 inch tape, maybe). So maybe he had to make sure we saw it before he spilled the beans.