The Most Memorable Movie for Me...

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2018)

I will not say a lot about the quality of the movie, it hardly seems necessary, 40 years later. I will let my rating speak to that. I may have seen better movies, but none as memorable.
It was the start of summer for my friends and I before going off to college, so we went to The Galleria in Houston that night looking for something to do. As we walked in, we encountered a lot of people. Curiosity got the better of me so I stopped and asked "Why the long line?" Some guy about my age said "We are waiting to go see Star Wars." Premiere night for a science fiction movie? We thought "Why not?" and got in at the end of a long line. After waiting for about 5 hours, we actually got to start filing in to the cinema. The only thing I remember thinking at the time was that if this movie was sh**, there was going to be a riot.
To this day, it is the only movie I have ever gone to where the audience gave a standing ovation at the end. I still don't know whether the applause was for the movie, or for ourselves. Probably a little bit of both.
Movies are more than just an assemblage of directors, actors, and scripts.
There is something about them that can obfuscate the truth and tear us apart. But the great ones can also bind us together.