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Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Comic-Con 2015 Reel (Original Post) Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2015 OP
Looking good :) nt abelenkpe Jul 2015 #1
My childhood reborn RandySF Jul 2015 #2
George Lucas was brilliant in that first movie.... Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2015 #3
I cannot wait! n/t RoccoR5955 Jul 2015 #4
Awesome, I might cry when I see it. My childhood revisited SummerSnow Jul 2015 #5
This film does feel like A New Hope RandySF Jul 2015 #7
Had the very same reaction. progdog Jul 2015 #8
Careful, that's what i thought, then it was all MEESA JAR JAR BINKS last time. AtheistCrusader Jul 2015 #9
Especially with Disney involved.... Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2015 #10
memories niyad Jul 2015 #6

RandySF

(58,808 posts)
2. My childhood reborn
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 04:41 PM
Jul 2015

This new episode brings me back to standing in the cold in December, 1977 to see A New Hope. This was back before movies premiered nationwide at once.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
3. George Lucas was brilliant in that first movie....
Sat Jul 11, 2015, 05:24 PM
Jul 2015

This was back when movie theaters had their own parking lots and people would be driving towards the exit together seeing the tail lights of the other cars.



After they had just seen this:



That's why the X-Wings engines glowed red.

(Heard that in an interview right after the first movie was released)

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
9. Careful, that's what i thought, then it was all MEESA JAR JAR BINKS last time.
Sun Jul 12, 2015, 11:18 AM
Jul 2015

With J.J. at the helm I have hope, but keeping it tempered.

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