Where Were You When You Saw...The Trailer?

I had an errand to run after dinner tonight so I thought I might miss it. Turns out, I didn't.

Because I've been busy with rehearsals and other things, I haven't watched Monday Night Football in a while, but I turned it on just before halftime. I had no idea when the trailer would be showing, so I hoped.

The movie is already a phenomenon--I have friends, many friends who already have purchased their tickets.  I'm sure I will, too, eventually. 

Watching the short two minute and thirty-five second video connected me with millions of people. We gathered in front of TVs, computers, cellphones and tablets--all with similar feelings and wishing it were December.

I doubt this will become one of those "Where were you when...?" moments, but I know I'll (hopefully...) never forget the feelings I had when I first saw Star Wars, Memorial Day weekend, 1977. Maybe I'll never forget what happened a few minutes ago, either. You can see the trailer: HERE. The film looks awesome.

* All screenshots were taken from the YouTube video and used without permission.

Two Minutes Of Utter Bliss...

I had kind of a surreal experience today. While at work I was checking out Facebook while on a break and I saw a friend post a YouTube link.

The new Star Wars movie trailer had been released. He commented on the link saying something about how geeked out he was, and when it comes to Star Wars, almost everyone geeks out to one degree or another. I decided to watch it.

My reaction was pretty much all the million or so reactions to the two minute movie trailer. I inwardly screamed--inwardly because I was at work.

What was surreal for me was the fact that I was sitting at work and looking across the street to where the old Centre Theater once stood, on the corner of State Street and Third South in Salt Lake City. It was at that theater where I stood in line and later watched Star Wars IV, A New Hope for the first time. It was Memorial Day, 1977, and I was twelve years old.

And now, thirty-eight years later, I'm in a building that didn't exist decades earlier and I'm watching the video on a computer (also, something that didn't exist like we know it decades earlier...) and a wave of nostalgia of utter bliss washes over me as I recall the magic and wonder I experienced across the street those many years ago.

The show will be here in a matter of months, but for a brief two minutes this morning, I existed both in the past and in the future. What an amazingly powerful thing that short little video was for me.

All photos used without permission from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs