Return to Return of the Jedi

Specific plans for just how to “see a movie at the movies again” had shaped themselves in my mind for some time. After managing that, the impulse to go back to the movies and see the “fortieth anniversary re-release” of Return of the Jedi popped up much more all of a sudden. Not that long ago I’d been thinking more about how, at the end of last year, I’d at last got around to getting my family’s mid-1980s off-the-air videotape recording of the original Star Wars onto a recordable DVD, and how the commercial breaks we hadn’t yet been pausing through and the cuts for running time might have had their own small influence on me over the years. The restored sense that “seeing a movie at the movies” is, in fact, a different experience than watching it on even a largish TV could have made a difference there. So too, possibly, might have the caution that “Disney is just too all-encompassing a media company these days” being somewhat countered by fairly recent news. Beyond that, though, what really counted could have been the thought “by golly, the ‘Disney Space Movies’” (to borrow something from matril) “won’t be the last time I see something with the Star Wars name on it at the movies!”
( The return )