home with some nice wine and the movies will pause for breaks when I want them to, the way civilised movies should. The experience of watching Star Wars (new hope) at the movies had a huge impact on me. We got one of the last seats at the old cinerama and sat right in the front row. I remember being stunned by the impact of the first spaceship flying over me and then to have it followed by a HUGE spaceship was awesome. Episode 1 certainly had it's bad points but I like the bits and the beginning where the two Jedi just take over a massive star ship by themselves. It's the first (and really only time) you get to see what a Jedi is really capable of. And there's a line from probably Episode 2 'Target the Federation starship!' And I immediately think of the Enterprise! I wasn't that strck by Empire Strikes Back - maybe because then I was at varsity and I had seen a few more films by then. I was a little older than many of my peers when I saw Star Wars, still a kid but beyond the truly impressionable stage, so these are films I enjoyed rather than defining experiences. We showed the original trilogy to the kids a couple of years back and they loved them. Every tube became a lightsaber. We debated the prequels and decided not to show them but then there was an earthquake. We were staying with