The Start of Cemetery Season!!!!!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I readily acknowledge that Star Wars is an important cultural artifact, but only in combination with its place and time.

If the exact same movie (with appropriate special effects) were released today it would, I feel, be viewed with indifference. And if A Phantom Menacehad been released in 1977 it would today be viewed as an important cultural landmark.

I dunno. I wasn't even born when Star Wars was released. I didn't even become conscious of it's existence until Jedi came out and I was 6. I didn't really grasp the whole trilogy thing and grasp the concept of the difference between the pre-Star Wars movie landscape and post until I was well into my teens...and I still considered it a great movie, well removed from its place and time.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I dunno. I wasn't even born when Star Wars was released.

Crikey! Now I feel effing ancient.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Crikey! Now I feel effing ancient.

I hear you Snowflake. I'm trying to make the best of my time during the short interval where GD is out of diapers, and I'm not in them.

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Crikey! Now I feel effing ancient.

I never really thought of myself as that much older than GD till now....

Somehow the thought that I saw SW in first run in the theatre, was a card holding member of the SW fan club, before they folded the first time, and was a HUGE SW geek for the first three films......

Makes me feel ancient.
Even though there are a few around who know that I wasnt exactly a grown up at the time.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Crikey! Now I feel effing ancient.

Get out of my mind.... AGAIN!

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I readily acknowledge that Star Wars is an important cultural artifact, but only in combination with its place and time.

If the exact same movie (with appropriate special effects) were released today it would, I feel, be viewed with indifference. And if A Phantom Menacehad been released in 1977 it would today be viewed as an important cultural landmark.

I will be returning your camping deposit forthwith.

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Restrained myself from referring to it as "ANH" for iSm

No need. The 30th Anniversary of that title won't be until 2012.

[innerSpaceman]

If someone will kindly score us some LSD for the 26th, we can watch Vertigo in all its surreal goodness.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid;134156
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Saturday, June 9 Harold and Maude
[/size] directed by Hal Ashby (1971, Paramount, 91 min.)
Indisputably one of the most beautiful and romantic but quirky films of the seventies. A young man obsessed with death and an older woman bent on living life to its fullest, find each other and start an unlikely romance.

I must be getting old. I'm amazed at how young Ruth Gordon looks.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

I must be getting old. I'm amazed at how young Ruth Gordon looks.

Well, look at Bud Cort!





Of course, my favorite Ruth Gordon quote is "Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom".

I vaguely remember that I read an autobiography written by Ruth Gordon sometime in the early 80's. I remember very little of it, of course.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Harold and Maude, hell yes. Everything else, possibly.

I'm always up for a SW viewing. Always.





Restrained myself from referring to it as "ANH" for iSm