Star Wars stuff (no spoilers)
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melliciousOK, so yeah, Holidailies was a bust for me. I felt overwhelmed and something needed to be dropped and journaling turned out to be the thing that got dropped. (I haven't posted on my nail blog either, so it's not just here.) But hey, I'm here now to talk about Star Wars - in a non-spoilery way.
Star Wars (and I mean the original one, here - "Episode 4") was the first movie I saw over and over in a theater. The way they released movies was different back in the 70s, and it came out and was a big hit, and then it disappeared for a while, and then they'd release it again with great fanfare, and over and over, basically til Empire Strikes Back came out.three years later. I saw it an unheard of five times in a theater. (I started to say "unheard of for me" but really it was difficult to do for anybody unless you just went every day for a week, because movies just didn't hang around long enough to do that.)
When The Empire Strikes Back came out, I stood in line for a couple of hours at the Alabama Theater in Houston. (That theater later was a Bookstop for many years - Rob and I spent many, many hours there in the late 80s/early 90s - and I think now there's a Trader Joe's there, or something.) I remember seeing Return of the Jedi at a multiplex in Austin and it being massively crowded, but by then it was not quite as big a deal. The prequels, I never cared about - I saw all of them eventually but I didn't go running out to see any of them. I've watched the original trilogy over and over through the years but I was never the kind of person who read every novelization and went to cons and stuff.
My gaming buddy Col and I did play The Old Republic for a good while, and that was a lot of fun. It was a good immersion in the Star Wars universe - even though it took place in a different time period (much earlier - I think maybe it was a couple of thousand years?), all the trappings with the different races and creatures and Jedi and Sith, etc, were there. I learned a lot of lore stuff from that game.
I loved The Force Awakens, and I also really loved Rogue One, of the new ones. I didn't love love love The Last Jedi, but I didn't hate it either. And (to be unspoilery), I really liked this one just fine. It's got more plot than any movie that's not four hours long really needs, but it worked for me. I said on Twitter just now that Rotten Tomatoes probably did me a favor by lowering my expectations. (And we're going to see it again with my sister and bro-in-law on Christmas Day.)
Movies seen at a theater in 2019:
7. Avengers: Endgame (four times)
8. Field of Dreams (30th anniversary)
9. Spiderman: Far From Home
10. Ad Astra
11. Ghostbusters (35th anniversary)
12. Zombieland: Double Tap
13. Terminator: Dark Fate
14. Ford vs.Ferrari
15. Knives Out (twice)
16. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars (and I mean the original one, here - "Episode 4") was the first movie I saw over and over in a theater. The way they released movies was different back in the 70s, and it came out and was a big hit, and then it disappeared for a while, and then they'd release it again with great fanfare, and over and over, basically til Empire Strikes Back came out.three years later. I saw it an unheard of five times in a theater. (I started to say "unheard of for me" but really it was difficult to do for anybody unless you just went every day for a week, because movies just didn't hang around long enough to do that.)
When The Empire Strikes Back came out, I stood in line for a couple of hours at the Alabama Theater in Houston. (That theater later was a Bookstop for many years - Rob and I spent many, many hours there in the late 80s/early 90s - and I think now there's a Trader Joe's there, or something.) I remember seeing Return of the Jedi at a multiplex in Austin and it being massively crowded, but by then it was not quite as big a deal. The prequels, I never cared about - I saw all of them eventually but I didn't go running out to see any of them. I've watched the original trilogy over and over through the years but I was never the kind of person who read every novelization and went to cons and stuff.
My gaming buddy Col and I did play The Old Republic for a good while, and that was a lot of fun. It was a good immersion in the Star Wars universe - even though it took place in a different time period (much earlier - I think maybe it was a couple of thousand years?), all the trappings with the different races and creatures and Jedi and Sith, etc, were there. I learned a lot of lore stuff from that game.
I loved The Force Awakens, and I also really loved Rogue One, of the new ones. I didn't love love love The Last Jedi, but I didn't hate it either. And (to be unspoilery), I really liked this one just fine. It's got more plot than any movie that's not four hours long really needs, but it worked for me. I said on Twitter just now that Rotten Tomatoes probably did me a favor by lowering my expectations. (And we're going to see it again with my sister and bro-in-law on Christmas Day.)
Movies seen at a theater in 2019:
1. Bumblebee
2. Into the Spider-verse (our second time)
3. Lego Movie 2
4. Alita: Battle Angel
5. Captain Marvel (three times)
6. Shazam!7. Avengers: Endgame (four times)
8. Field of Dreams (30th anniversary)
9. Spiderman: Far From Home
10. Ad Astra
11. Ghostbusters (35th anniversary)
12. Zombieland: Double Tap
13. Terminator: Dark Fate
14. Ford vs.Ferrari
15. Knives Out (twice)
16. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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Date: 2019-12-26 10:50 pm (UTC)