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...Fruit of Islam, eyed you through four separate checkpoints. Inside the theater, an official requested that audience members turn in anyone who might be camcording the event. George Lucas' Star Wars films may celebrate the spirit of communal rebellion, but the first critics' screening of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace in New York City last week had a sulfurous scent of the Empire about...
...weeks, or which inspired international fans to fly to the United States next week just so that they can see it before it opens abroad in July, the excitement in the air is contagious. My only hope is that all the hype has not constructed a reputation for "The Phantom Menace" that it cannot possibly live up to. The trilogy wasn't great because it was popular or because it made a lot of money; ticket sales could make "Titanic" the highest grossing movie of all time, and that still wouldn't endow the film with any sort of "greatness...
...trash disposal with that ugly serpent thing, the nail-biting encounter between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan, that adrenaline rush you get during the sequence where Luke successfully blows up the Death Star. And while I didn't think I'd be too excited about the release of "The Phantom Menace"--I figured I could see it sometime in August, when the shows are no longer sold out--it pleased me more than I will say to find out that due to some tricky Moviephone tactics by the guys across the hall, (the same ones who took scissors...
...month or so ago I was sitting with a bunch of friends watching television when one of the trailers for "The Phantom Menace" came on. Four of the people in the group instantly began to strategize exactly how they were going to get tickets, comparing spoilers that they had heard about and throwing around quotes from the original trilogy. The rest of us were at a loss for words--"What exactly am I missing here?" somebody asked irritably...
...daily, scanning for new tidbits of information? What causes my mother (a mass media misanthrope) to admit that the opening day is something she would consider taking off of work for? What drives the guys across the hall to dig around for a second copy of the Time magazine "Phantom Menace" cover issue so that they can get all the photos that were on the backs of photos they had already cut out to hang all over their walls...