It was 10 Years Ago...

[Nardpuncher]

That we got the first trailer for The Phantom Menace!
Doesn't really feel like ten years!
I remember I took the afternoon off work, went to Grant Park mall in Winnipeg, and saw it at 1:00PM before Meet Joe Black but I didn't stay for that and saw Pleasantville instead.

Say what you will about the movie...that trailer was a dream come true.

 

[Candlelight]

I remember being quite excited about it.

I haven't seen it yet but hope the Star Trek XI trailer doesn't go the same way...

 

[Trekker4747]

Ugh, now I feel old.

I also remember the hope and promise... a new Star Wars!

:cry:

My best friend also left for his 2-year mission the spring before TPM came out. He waited for 2 years to see this movie, a new Star Wars prequel, he told me he was so disapointed and upset and let down from the opening crawl alone.

 

[Samurai8472]

I still have my ticket stub and waiting in line as a guy dressed in boba fett gear walked past me.

When the 20th century fox logo came up I heard some "whoa!....yeah!" when it when DUM DUM....DUM DUM...DUM DUM DUMMMMMM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUMMMMMMM!!"


I even bought the phantom menace book with Obi Wan cover. My friends got mad at me because I was reading the book before the movie was out lol.

My reading teacher loved Liam Neeson. He was on the back of the book.

My civics teacher let me play the star wars cd soundtrack. Some girls said "what is this crap?"

I bought the STAP toy and Obi wan figure.

 

[Guy Gardener]

10 years ago a friend of mine said "OH! That's who she is... I've been getting offers in my email to see Natalie Portman naked all day, and i had no idea why I should be bothered."

Great ad.

Shit movie.

There was something the other day on Eli Stone, one of the female subleads Maggie 10 years younger than her male counterpart easily says that Eli is like (Who was in Trainspotting with Ewan McGreggor!) is like Darth Sidious and he geeks out in response by making rebreather noiose effects like vader as he walks away...

Generation gap much?

 

[Nardpuncher]

^^^ I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding your post.

 

[SeerSGB]

Ugh, now I feel old.

I also remember the hope and promise... a new Star Wars!

:cry:

My best friend also left for his 2-year mission the spring before TPM came out. He waited for 2 years to see this movie, a new Star Wars prequel, he told me he was so disapointed and upset and let down from the opening crawl alone.

There, there...there,there.

I remembering when the trailer came out and the collective "Fuck ya'!" and the cheering and applauding that went up in the crowd. The being "on line" for tickets and it being one big party, then opening night another big party and a bunch of us fans raiding hell before the show-- though the usher we tortured would end up being my manager a few years later at the same theater.

None of the other projects since have really captured the magic of the days before Episode I.

 

[Borg451]

Ugh, now I feel old.

I also remember the hope and promise... a new Star Wars!

:cry:

My best friend also left for his 2-year mission the spring before TPM came out. He waited for 2 years to see this movie, a new Star Wars prequel, he told me he was so disapointed and upset and let down from the opening crawl alone.

you have to explain what a mission is

 

[Trekker4747]

Ugh, now I feel old.

I also remember the hope and promise... a new Star Wars!

:cry:

My best friend also left for his 2-year mission the spring before TPM came out. He waited for 2 years to see this movie, a new Star Wars prequel, he told me he was so disapointed and upset and let down from the opening crawl alone.

you have to explain what a mission is

It's when a group of church goers travel to another place to convice people to join their church. Such people who do this are, oddly enough, called "Missionaries."



My friend is Mormon/LDS it's part of their religion that men should go on a 2-year mission before they turn 24.

Going on missions is not uncommon for members of other churches and faiths to go on missions those usually less substasive than the ones of the LDS.

 

[Guy Gardener]

^^^ I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding your post.

That means that you are mostly normal.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Great ad.

Shit movie.

I understand that much.

Which is why any Star Wars production with more than 5 minutes of screen time for Jar Jar Binks and the Ewoks are not part of my DVD collection.

In my personal Star Wars marathon I start from Episode II. Even Genny Tartakovsky's animated work is welcome. But the overall quality of The Phantom Menace truly lives up to its name, and won't touch my DVD collection unless I set the bar so low that I start collecting Roger Corman and Ed Wood films as well -- And those are actually more entertaining!

 

[Guy Gardener]

Have you explored the fanfilms over at the force.net?

Most of them put the new movies to shame and only cost 12 bucks to make.

I was so let down that Beru didn't have a drinking problem in the new movies.

I remember seeing a fake ad for Phantom when such things were necessary with 12 guys in Mandalorian Super Commando armour spoiling fro a brawl with a Jedi contingent and I wet myself in a good way.

 

[FalTorPan]

I was eager to watch Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. The kid in me got to come out the play again during the previous year with the re-releases of the original trilogy, and on that May night in 1998, I got a tremendous chill down my spine when "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." appeared on the screen in the first new Star Wars feature in 15 years. It took several seconds for me to accept the reality of seeing "Episode I, THE PHANTOM MENACE" in the opening expository crawl.

Of course, the movie wound up sucking, but it was still exciting to watch an all-new Star Wars movie again. For the first ten minutes or so, my inner kid had a great time.

 

[davejames]

Yeah I remember me and my sister actually going to the toy store at midnight when they were releasing the toys early.

The hilarious thing is how thrilled I was to get my hands on now-ridiculous characters like the Battle Droid or Amidala (and the fact I actually bought that ridiculous voice-chip reader thing). LOL

 

[Samurai8472]

The hilarious thing is how thrilled I was to get my hands on now-ridiculous characters like the Battle Droid or Amidala (and the fact I actually bought that ridiculous voice-chip reader thing). LOL

I was wondering whether or not to get the chip reader. Like I said above I have the Obi Wan figure with the chip reader/stand. I've never heard the phrases lol just read them on the back of the chip.

Yeah and I also got the STAP. I still remember the box saying "Be sure to get the exclusive Mace Windu figure!"

 

[TheSeeker]

For the first ten minutes or so, my inner kid had a great time.

I know what you mean. I think it was the underwater chase scene with the ever bigger sea monsters that gave me my first clue that things were not going to go well...

 

[Nardpuncher]

I was eager to watch Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. The kid in me got to come out the play again during the previous year with the re-releases of the original trilogy, and on that May night in 1998, I got a tremendous chill down my spine when "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." appeared on the screen in the first new Star Wars feature in 15 years. It took several seconds for me to accept the reality of seeing "Episode I, THE PHANTOM MENACE" in the opening expository crawl.

Of course, the movie wound up sucking, but it was still exciting to watch an all-new Star Wars movie again. For the first ten minutes or so, my inner kid had a great time.

Sorry to nit-pick, but it was November of 1998 that the trailer was released...it was May 1999 that the movie came out.