Review of “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” and Ascension Parallels
Yes, dear friends, at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, May, 19, 1999, I was in the crowd with my prepaid ticket to see the new Star Wars film ‘The Phantom Menace’ at the first possible minute of linear time on Earth that anyone other than the media was allowed to see it. After all, this was and is a major cultural event, the new first installment in perhaps the most well known movie series of all time. George Lucas certainly had some big shoes to fill, and I was very eager to see how he did with it. The late opening-night crowd was almost 100 percent college-aged students, as with the drive home the whole thing lasted until at least 2:30 a.m., a sacrifice that the average workaday person simply could not make. The movie guys had told me that I was “guaranteed a seat, although not necessarily a good seat.” When I got to the building about 40 minutes early, there was indeed a line that wrapped around the side of the building for about 800 feet. I humbly resigned myself to the back of the line, not knowing what I was in for. As I stood in line I noticed that the “kids” had really decked themselves out for this. Women all around me were dressed in very appealing attire, and there were an overwhelmingly great number of...
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