TPM 25th Anniversary Re-Release!

Ah, you escaped TLJ and TROS. Good on you. They were traumatising experiences for many of us, and of course TFA was hyped into oblivion at the time.

I wouldn't mind going to see this 25th anniversary release. I will be keeping it on my radar. I've little time for gimmicky 3D.

Well, perhaps not literally traumatising, but in the sense that a film leaves such a terrible taste in your mouth, you bemoan the lacking of the Lucas magic and that then motivates you to wax lyrical about it on NF.

I didn't leave TFA as infuriated as many others in this forum have, like Subtext for instance. It was my first time seeing Star Wars in the cinema and there was a novelty to that. TLJ and TROS were the painful ones.

I've never done a marathon viewing. I did however sit through plenty of three hour+ films in 2023 without much bother, so maybe I am ripe for it.

Quarter of a century... goddamn it. 

I'd already lost my virginity when The Phantom Menace first came out.

Anyways, I think I've seen Episode I, uh, five times in theaters..? Yeah, that sounds about right: four viewings upon its initial theatrical run and once more with the 2012 3D re-release. So well after a decade, sure, I'm down for another cinema venue experience. I'm curious what the attendance and general audience/fanbase atmosphere will be like this time around, post-ST and overall Disneyfied Star Wars in particular; I wonder if the promise of a Prequel installment on the big screen will be prism'd in a different, more welcoming light; if it'll come off more than ever before like a kind of fine wine.