Day #11 of the 60 Days of Gratitude Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #11 of the 60 Days of Gratitude Challenge

Prompt is Name a movie that you are grateful for

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I admit - I love Star Wars. It's among the few movie franchises in which I'm a fan. And it was, outside of possibly the Monkeyees, my first fandom.
More so than the Monkeys, since I wrote fanfic in my head, picked up novelizations, read the radio play, and seen all the films. I loved it.
It turned me onto science fiction. Prior to that science fiction was monster movies or boys venturing into space.

I loved Princess Leia - who was smart and snarky, and relatable.

It worked for me. We all loved it in my family. It was for the most part, a shared love.

So, I'm grateful for Star Wars. I'm glad it exists. And I'm glad I saw it - hmmm, maybe I'll rewatch some of the movies this weekend on Disney + . I'm grateful that I have the ability to do that as well. Thank you to the lovely person who made that possible - I need to buy you dinner and desert some time, you and your lovely family.

Comments

[rose_griffes]

Same! We were a Star Wars family. We almost never went to the movies (expensive, especially with multiple kids), so getting to see it was a BIG DEAL. And back then you had to wait for the movie reels to show up in your town--and it was so popular that it played for months extra in the slightly bigger city 30 miles away. It took ages to get to my little town.

I role-played Luke for months, which basically meant running around making swooshy noises for my totally imaginary lightsaber.

[shadowkat]

I remember my father driving two hours away to see it at the theater - and it was sold out. So we went the very next weekend. We were the first ones to see it in our neighborhood and at school. We saw it the second week of it's release. This is when we were living in rural PA or Chester County. My father drove one to two hours away to see it - and was determined. He'd read about it - and became obsessed.

It's the only time I've ever owned or had an action figure from a film or television series. I remember playing with them at Christmas.

[colls]

Star Wars has moved from pop culture icon to part of our mythos. I love that nearly everyone has a "I remember when" story about the first time they saw it.