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People who saw Empire Strikes Back for the first time in theatre....
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:55 pm
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:55 pm
was the Vader reveal a true shock or had word leaked out and spoiled it?
ETA: the reveal he was Luke's father
ETA: the reveal he was Luke's father
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Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:59 pm to BilJ
We did not have cell phones or Facebook. It was much better times.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:21 pm to BilJ
We still had fan 'zines. I had heard we would get a glimpse behind the mask. I still thought it was great but it wasn't at the top of the list of awesome things in Empire.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:23 pm to Tbobby
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We did not have cell phones or Facebook.
No home computers, much less cell phones or social media. Got cable for the first time right around then.
If the studio didn't want it revealed, I don't think the media would have printed or broadcast it. People had some manners and ethics back then.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:29 pm to BilJ
quote:WTF
was the Vader reveal a true shock or had word leaked out and spoiled it?
spoiler tag , a-hole
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:51 pm to BilJ
SPOILER ALERT
RA'D
RA'D
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:02 pm to BilJ
quote:
ETA: the reveal he was Luke's father
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:09 pm to BilJ
I swear to G-d we had this thread not a month ago.
It was leaked, but leaks weren't like today. It was more like "rumor has it" - rather than actual confirmed type leaks.
It was leaked, but leaks weren't like today. It was more like "rumor has it" - rather than actual confirmed type leaks.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:41 pm to BilJ
Blew me away....mouth open...popcorn falling out... head turning right and left to look at my friends
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:48 pm to Barrister
Not only was the information new to me and my friends, but after the movie we discussed if it was true or was Vader lying.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:51 pm to bird35
nope ... interracial relationships were still frowned upon ...
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:53 pm to bird35
I thought to myself that Vader looked like a puszy when the mask came off.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:54 pm to BilJ
I had no idea. Lucas had allowed a rumor to leak that Obi Wan Kenobi was Luke's father as a smokescreen for the actual reveal. I was just a kid though, so I wasn't even aware of that. The movie was so big, you would not believe. Everybody went to see it, boys, girls, moms, dads, grandparents, everyone. I really don't know what franchise to compare it to now, maybe Harry Potter? I remember the night we went to see it we waited in a line that wrapped around the theater and down the sidewalk on the side of the building. Really, really huge.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:57 pm to BilJ
I was 12 when it came out (prime age for SW stuff).
Unfortunately, as I remember it, the novelization was released prior to the movie, and my mom and I were going to take an Amtrak to Chicago. She bought me the book, and I read it on the train ride up. So it was spoiled for me...
I didn't believe it at first, and didn't want to.
Unfortunately, as I remember it, the novelization was released prior to the movie, and my mom and I were going to take an Amtrak to Chicago. She bought me the book, and I read it on the train ride up. So it was spoiled for me...
I didn't believe it at first, and didn't want to.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:59 pm to BilJ
There was no reveal. Only rumors but nobody believed them. When it actually happened, I literally jumped out of my seat and yelled "yeah! yeah!" and spiked my coke into a guys head in the row in front.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:18 pm to BilJ
For some reason, even after the movie came out, a lot of people still didn't believe that he was Luke's father. I don't know why. Even Luke has accepted it by the end of the movie. Maybe because the dialogue was so awful, it just slipped right past a lot of people.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:22 pm to blueboy
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Maybe because the dialogue was so awful, it just slipped right past a lot of people
WTF?
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:35 pm to BilJ
True shock. There was no internet to spoil it.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:37 pm to Scoob
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Unfortunately, as I remember it, the novelization was released prior to the movie, and my mom and I were going to take an Amtrak to Chicago. She bought me the book, and I read it on the train ride up. So it was spoiled for me
You remember correctly, my mom bought it before the movies release as well
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:37 pm to blueboy
Oh look the resident star wars troll has showed up.
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