May 25th: Today in 1977 the first of the two Star Wars movies opened. I remember it very well, saw it on opening day with a friend who was also into comics. We were both comics fans and had bought the whole comic adaptation but neither of us had read the last issues as we didn’t want to spoil the movie. The theater was jammed and we stuffed our way into seats and were totally blown away. It was one of the few times I have had a film I was excited about not only reach my expectations, but went way past them. It was just amazing. The sequel was brilliant as well, I look forward to Lucas someday completing the movie cycle. Hard to believe it was 29 years ago.

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