Like my new icon?

Feel free to gack. It's by heinous_bitca, as edited by smilie117. But I think I need to ask Sabs to animate it and add in a second panel that basically says, "but not at writing dialogue..."

Now, for SW Ep. III ( Some musings, some questions, some things I picked up on, some quibbles and some general comments )

I've seen a few other people give their History of Going to SW Movies, so here's mine:
I saw SW about a week or so after it came out, with my dad (not sure if my mom was there), my little sister, my dad's best friend Bart, and Bart's two kids, who were friends with me and my sister. Bart had brought McDonalds from the place across the street into the theater, so we had burgers & fries as we watched. And we didn't see the final medal-awarding scene, because we left as it was starting, so as to beat the crowds. But we got the movie on Betamax about six months later, and I finally saw it then. Between then, and the release of ESB, I probably saw SW 400 times - it was second only to Grease in viewings in our house.

I saw Empire, also, about a week after it came out, but I'd already read the comic book version, which IIRC had the "I love you too" line. Harrison Ford = so much better at dialogue-writing than George Lucas, nu?

I remember the poster for Revenge of the Jedi and being excited that it was finally coming out. I saw ROTJ the day it came out, and again two days later. It was the first time I took a bus with a friend. And I bought the novelization the next day. Aaron and I have a special place on our bookshelf for the novelizations of the original trilogy, although I keep my novelization of Episode One far, far away from that place.

When the trilogy was rereleased, I saw SW the first night, in a crowded theater full of 20- and 30somethings on the upper east side in NYC. But to see 5 and 6, we decided to brave the Ziegfeld and the incredible line to be able to be a part of something enormous and celebratory and it was great, not just because I bumped into a guy I had about two dates with in college who played Luke at the Toy Show in NYC a few times - he's an excellent fencer, and perpetually cute.

I didn't have to wait in line to get tickets for Ep 1, but we did have to wait in line to get into the theater. I was six months pregnant with Harry, and someone was nice enough to bring a chair over, so I sat in the line for about 90 minutes. And afterwards, I wasn't sure why I'd bothered. When the time came for Ep 2, Aaron and I went about 2-3 weeks after the release, and it was just painful. The frolicking and the romancing were just brain-freezing, and I was glad it was over.

I hadn't planned to see ROTS in theaters, much less this week, but even without reading the spoiler-laden comments, just seeing the moods here on LJ from people who'd seen it was enough to compel me into the theater.

And I'm glad I saw it. In fact, I think I'll order this on DVD. And watch it. But for now, I'm off to grab some ice cream and watch episode 4. Yummy.