Easily One of My Favorite Films

Rating: 10/10 (25 May 2017)

FORTY YEARS MY word it has been that long
Though forty year ago today Star Wars opened I did not see it till over a month later. After excellent PR from my cousin sometime in July on a Saturday afternoon my Dad Brother and I went to see it. Not knowing WHAT to expect despite the reviews etc up to that point
It was incredible
As the film began there were familiar things etc robots ray guns spaceships aliens...........but NOT on such a level for my young mind at the time could comprehend I remember smiling and being quite happy as the spectacle of sight sound whizzed by the action the drama and nearly crying as my favorite character Artoo Detoo was shot by Darth Vader having some reconciliation as the Death Star Blew Up and Joy seeing Artoo all fixed up at films end. Then going to the concession stand to buy the first of MANY collectibles a souvenir program(which I still have)to relive the moments(this was before home video internet as we know it)and learn the names of the characters and those who made this fine film and finding out that George Lucas wanted to make Flash Gordon film(yes knew who that was)finding out that composer John Williams did one of my favorite TV show's Lost in Space music tracks plus calling my best friend about the film I just saw and bike riding down on bicycle to his house to show him the program. And months later suggesting we build our own Star Wars toy out of his Lego(foreshadow)
Got the soundtrack got a lot of the toys trading cards most I still have got the Marvel Comics (which everyone WANTED to read)and was ecstatic when I heard about the Holiday special a year later(oh the disappointment WORSE then the prequels)and we both got older and came to new levels of understanding of life and politics Earth bound and Otherwise
1987 ten years many could not believe it BUT a decade went by now with Home Video showings on television and George Lucas's ILM company lending their talents to many other fantasy films Using tracks props in student films to a career that would NOT pan out seeing a special showing of all three films in one day
1997 Twenty years. YOW!!!!!!!! Now parents who were children on 1977 were introducing their children to this film and seeing it in theaters with new scenes which did not take anything away(Return of the Jedi did that)new toys collectibles and the announcement of new stories in 1999! What a way to end a century/millennium.........(The prequels are NOT that bad)AND discovering shortly after Lego Star Wars sets (??????????????????????)
2007 Thirty years My that seems as long ago as 1977 though never did find my Princess Leia my brother's children discovered Star Wars a few years earlier showing the film for the first time they wanted to know what the Jawas were gonna do to Artoo they discovered SOME of my Star War collectibles (kids grow up WAY to fast) and that year just shy of that May
I met the creator himself George Lucas at a benefit dinner (cost a lot and I REGRET NOTHING!!!!!) NOW that's a way to celebrate one of your favorite films
So now at forty year mark What will come of the franchise starting so unassumingly in 1977 So far Disney (Them owning Star Wars in 1977 1987 even 1997 WAS UNHEARD OF and yet)has not destroyed it yet seems to be much "Hope despite the loss of Carrie Fisher (lest we NOT forget Kenny Baker Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing)and as I type this while listening to the soundtrack what is to come................hopefully the one word Lucas used to describe the film in 1977
Fun
I only wish I could leave statements here as I did with other realms of entertainment just a few years ago Happy Forty Star Wars