Happen tomorrow, it will.
May. 18th, 2005 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ldhensonFirst Trek and now Star Wars...a busy week for the ending of massive franchises, isn't it?
It amuses me to see SW splashed all over CNN's site this morning, but when I stop to think of it, I can't come up with much else in terms of entertainment/culture iconicity that that comes close to the gargantuan scale that SW has. Elvis and/or the Beatles, maybe. So probably I shouldn't be so surprised.
I'm a moderate fan, I suppose; I've seen the original trilogy more times than I can count, sat through one marathon viewing, and went to the opening midnight showing of the enhanced Jedi (though I admit it was as much for the kick of going to an opening midnight showing as it was for the movie itself). My favorite movie-going experience of all time is still a campus showing of ANH in which the theater was jammed with several hundred people; from scene one it turned into an impromptu Rocky Horror-style viewing, with jokes, catcalls, and silly sound effects flying so thick you couldn't actually hear the movie. Still, I'm no SW aficionado. Never bought the merchandise, never followed it what you might call feverishly.
I was also deeply into TPM fandom for a while, but that was solely based on the lure of Q/O and the remainder of the movie was largely incidental. I actually disliked AOTC so much that, when I recently read a summary of the plot, I had no memory of any of it. So I'm not in any hurry to see ROTS. I will eventually, of course, because it's only the ending to the biggest movie series out there. But I can afford to wait 'til the rush dies down.
It amuses me to see SW splashed all over CNN's site this morning, but when I stop to think of it, I can't come up with much else in terms of entertainment/culture iconicity that that comes close to the gargantuan scale that SW has. Elvis and/or the Beatles, maybe. So probably I shouldn't be so surprised.
I'm a moderate fan, I suppose; I've seen the original trilogy more times than I can count, sat through one marathon viewing, and went to the opening midnight showing of the enhanced Jedi (though I admit it was as much for the kick of going to an opening midnight showing as it was for the movie itself). My favorite movie-going experience of all time is still a campus showing of ANH in which the theater was jammed with several hundred people; from scene one it turned into an impromptu Rocky Horror-style viewing, with jokes, catcalls, and silly sound effects flying so thick you couldn't actually hear the movie. Still, I'm no SW aficionado. Never bought the merchandise, never followed it what you might call feverishly.
I was also deeply into TPM fandom for a while, but that was solely based on the lure of Q/O and the remainder of the movie was largely incidental. I actually disliked AOTC so much that, when I recently read a summary of the plot, I had no memory of any of it. So I'm not in any hurry to see ROTS. I will eventually, of course, because it's only the ending to the biggest movie series out there. But I can afford to wait 'til the rush dies down.
