Fans line up for the Star Wars sequel Empire Strikes Back opening night in San Diego in 1980
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2019
- May 21, 1980
San Diego "Star Wars" fans camped out in 1980 ahead of the first showing of "Empire Strikes Back" at the Cinerama Theater on University Avenue. Students told News 8's Dave Cohen they were missing classes to see the film which they expected to be "much bigger" than the original. Tickets were $4 in San Diego and $5.50 in Los Angeles, according to our report. www.cbs8.com/article/news/loc...
“A lot of critics are panning it. Oh what do they know?” Love that.
Critics hate every movie that isn't some historical film or a Scorcese gangster movie.
And yet now we love it. Just shows people can't appreciate films until time comes.
@@defblinders9585 those movies are awesome, let’s not go too far.
Bullshit. Almost no critics panned it. The reporter was lying just to get a reaction.
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“Critics are panning it” boy how time has been kind to this film
And 37 years later critics were just as wrong about TLJ.
@@Hoganply Positivity is positive, plenty of people love TLJ and some don't. Neither is right or wrong, but positivity is always better than being negative. You don't have to like TLJ but don't act like the critics were "wrong".
Hoganply yeah TLJ was so bad
@@ikoandreas5085 No it wasn't
Danbo 22 it really was though
That dude was right about this one expanding on the character development.
"Make it through Christmas at least..."
40 years later...
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I would give anything to be alive during that time and watch this movie for the first time in theaters with other Star Wars nuts.
It was amazing in the theater. Longest line for tickets I have ever seen for anything before or since. The line wrapped around the entire huge mall twice. All shows sold out fast so people were buying them for the next day. We got lucky and got evening tickets as we got there when the mall opened.
"its gonna be bigger"
Boy they were right
It was better but not bigger
@@turbo9698what was better??
Little did those critics know, ESB ends up being the best one of them all.
I remember seeing Empire as a child with my father and brother in glorious 70mm. I still remember how much in aww I was with the movie as child looking at those AT AT walkers on the big screen
I was born in 1986, so I was obviously a bit too late for the theatrical releases of the original trilogy, but I can imagine that the first scene of the lightsaber blew away everyone in the theaters, and probably the kids most of all.
I bet toy lightsabers were one of the most popular Christmas present wishes that year, haha!
Esb is the best sequel ever made in film history. Period
ESB and Terminator 2
Aliens
I was 6 years old and my Dad took me to see Empire Strikes Back a week or two after it hit theaters in 1980. I loved it, but I was stunned after seeing it. Vader had the upper hand and our heroes were left licking their wounds with a narrow escape and uncertainty. That is a gut punch to a little kid.😄
There's just something so cool and retro about buds hanging out, eating pizza, studying, listening to the radio, and just living life while waiting in line to buy tickets for a movie. No headphones, iPhones, computers, or anything like that - just living in the moment. Couldn't happen this way today.
NOTHING like this exists today. Those people in line were talking and interacting and making new friends. Foreign concept in 2024!
Wow, what I wouldn't give to be able to go back in time to be here.
I wish I could find the video of the filming that was done during the day at this exact location. Not sure if it was the News 8 crew that was there but I may have gotten in the background when one of the newscasters was filming there during the day. My dad let us ditch school and we waited in line all day. Had a bunch of fun.
I was seven years old and I can remember standing in line for Empire with my parents, my older brother and his friend. The line wrapped around the theater and all the way around the Morris County Mall in Northern NJ. My dad took me to see Superman 2 there also. It's something I will never forget. I remember not loving the film as much as Star Wars, although, that would change as I got older. Empire was also the first film my brother rented and illegally copied for me. Good times.
0:46 I really wanna hear from this guy now. I wonder how he is
I was born in San Diego 1977, but raised in Seattle . One of my earliest memories is when my Dad took me and my brother to see Empire Strikes Back at our city Cinerama. I remember they had C-3PO and Dath Vader characters carousing about. What a time!!!!
I can just see Eric Forman in those boys eating pizza & camping out lol
Not Steven though. He'd be too busy with women...if you know what I mean
0:23 yeah, what does the critics know
Knowing that this movie is the G.O.A.T.
Ah the good ole days. A great Star Wars film without a Disney in sight.
Ya now its not worth going to the cinema to watch SW, its crap nowadays.
@@karlhans6678 The funny part is that apparently you can't say that the sequels are bad or don't like them. Are we suppose to like it just because it's star wars? Well I don't see anyone defending Alien 3, Terminator 3 or Batman and Robin, just because "it's part of the saga, and if u don't like them ur toxic"
shut up
@@Danbo22987 you shut up idiot
The prequels were just as bad
Ahhh back when these types of movies were a treat. Now they over produce not only the movies but movie quality series... and it's like.....I will get around to watching it one day...😂
Wish i was in that line, i wasnt even born tho hahaha
Who'd of thought that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father? - Homer Simpson
Is the cinerama on university Ave still open? I know the more famous one in LA is closed for good even though Hollywood is on the road to recovery. My dad saw this movie at the paramus rko which had a healthy lifespan before it closed down a day before amc opened the megaplex at garden state plaza miles from the old route 17 cinema. Paramus also had a drive in as well as bergen mall and cinema 35, all of which has shut down.
$5.50 a ticket, how would it be.....😊
Man... It must've been great watching 3 masterpieces in a row back then. I wish starwars was actually worth skipping class to see nowadays.
Return of the Jedi isn’t a masterpiece.
New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Force Awakens and Last Jedi are masterpiece.
I will gladly miss class for ANY Star Wars movie… good or bad……. if I were in class.
I sure would love to have been there if I was born years before the first Star Wars movies came out.
I sure would love to have been there if I was born years before the first Kids Sing Praise movie came out
Summer!
man disney really screwed it when it comes to star wars
March 27, 1987 "Princess Cahokia Short-film and Kids Sing Praise: Out Of This World The Movie" fans
These people would've been old for now
There most likely in there 60's.
I wish i couldve been there. I wouldve totally waited in line. Empire Strikes Back is so worth that time and effort.... unlike The Phantom Menace.
What the f**k was i thinking?
Hows this ill travel back in time to 1999 exchange your ticket for my time machine since you likely don't have the attention span for five minutes of politics and then you can go back in time and watch Luke sitting around the jungle with a puppet for half the damn movie and call it the greatest thing ever made.
girls love to watch Princess Cahokia Short-film and Kids Sing Praise: Out Of This World The Movie & camped out
*Spoilers* Ezra Bridger, Ahsoka Tano and Clone Force 99 were actually in the Original Trilogy of star wars
I wish time travel waS real😢
I sure wouldlove
Pizza back then looked much tastier
Dudes really we're chilling at night waiting for movie back then, while nodaways complaining on twitter why one pixel is white.
Saw it at Northpoint in San Francisco. Good times. Sadly the theater no longer exists.
The Empire Strikes Back(1980) is a good Star Wars movie. You won't be sorry.
The critics never know what's good anywya, so f em.
0:14 What are those two people supposed to be dressed up as?
Early ocs?
What critic panned Empire!?
00:14 ¿Y estos dos de que estan disfrazados? XDDD
Summer!