29 Years ago
Jul. 23rd, 2012 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Every July my wife and I argue over what was our first date.
We met at a party and both agree that one doesn’t count.
At that party, I invited her to another party and I think that second one
counts.
She maintains that it was when I took her to the movies the next weekend
that counts as the first.
But, either way, tonight is 29 years since she agreed to go to Return of
the Jedi with me and she mocked the Ewoks during the film.
Any of you who know how I feel about people talking in movies must realize
how much I liked her when I didn’t stop her from doing that. (I’m not
saying the Ewoks should not be mocked, but am saying not in the theater.)
I don’t remember what she said about them. But, back then I did find it
funny. It’s strange as I remember quite a bit from that night, but not the
Ewok mock.
Well, when you’re 19 and on a date with someone you really like, I guess
the exact words aren’t that important.
Normally on Monday evenings she goes off to MIT to her sword research group
and I stay home and do the laundry.
But, tonight she will be home. Maybe I should put on ROTJ and see if she
mocks the Ewoks again and write down what she says…
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Date: 2012-07-23 05:52 pm (UTC)When that movie came out, I thought it was purely silly and gratuitous for those creatures to be in the movie at all. I silently mocked them while watching the film, too. Little did we suspect that Lucas would make the Ewoks seem immensely preferrable to the dreaded JarJar Binks character many years later...
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Date: 2012-07-23 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-24 02:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-23 06:03 pm (UTC)For he to-day that mocks the Ewoks with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England, now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That mocked with us upon Saint Bridget's day.
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Date: 2012-07-24 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-23 06:08 pm (UTC)As for Ewoks:
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries..
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Date: 2012-07-23 06:55 pm (UTC)My Dad always remembers the day of his and my Mom's first date. It was August 8th. He wanted to be married on that day, but it was a Wednesday that year.
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Date: 2012-07-24 03:09 am (UTC)Missa you sayin Jar Jar gonna diiiiee?? ANNIE!! WAHOOO!! AYE-YAH! *partly going off the Robot Chicken version of Jar Jar here)
Between Jar Jar and Big Bossa I don't know who's more annoying, honestly. I couldn't stand either of them. Actually, there were a whole host
of characters that were headache-inducing.
As for Ewoks. Yeah. SIGH. IIRC even when I was a kid first seeing them I thought it was pretty dumb.
But they -must- have more strength than their size gives them, they were able to beat down, and likely concuss Storm Troopers and AT-ST drivers In Armor and Helmets
I know that the Ewok-Defeating-Imperial Forces was all about the Triumph of the Little Guy Cometh, but, really?
Oh, and look, now they're dropping rocks on top of AT-ST's, which have to have at least 1" armor plating.
The -only- credit or, one-up I give the Ewoks is the one who decides to create the diversion by jumping on the Speeder Bike.
That was surprisingly clever...Oh...And the two-tree-trunk AT-ST Smasher and the pile of logs rolled under legs...Although, those
little fuckers must be some crazy fast workers to hew down so many thick logs, pile them and brace them and THEN be able
to lure an AT-ST into the trap
...ITZAH TRAAP!
...Maybe it's from worshiping an English-accented god that looks a lot like a Protocol Droid that also happens to speak Bochi AND just
enough of the dialect to figure that out
And now my brain exploded trying to analyze fricken EWOKS.
*head/desk*
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Date: 2012-07-24 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-25 12:12 pm (UTC)