I Watched Star Wars For The First Time Last Night

As a science fiction fan and writer I hate to admit this, but last night I watched Star Wars all the way through for the very first time.  "How could that be?" you ask.  Thirty years ago, when I was incredibly young, Star Wars came out.  It was a sensation.  Everybody had to go see it.  Unfortunately, I had some kind of minor bug--bronchitis I think--and missed out on the first rush.  One of my friends finally drug me out to see it, but I was still drugged up from the bug.  I got to the theatre, sat down, and promptly dozed off.   I woke up several times during the movie, and actually thought I had seen most of it. 

    Star Wars stayed in the theatres for months, but since I had already been to it I didn't go back.  Shortly before it finally left the theatres, I talked with one of my friends and realized I had missed at least half, and probably more of the movie.  By that time all of my friends had seen it multiple times.  I ddin't want to go alone, so I never went back.  I saw the other three movies in the trilogy, and the prequel trilogy, but I never got around to watching the original.

    Finally last night I got together with a group of friends and we all watched Star Wars.

     I enjoyed it.  In the last thirty years the graphics have gone from cutting-edge to I've-seen-better-on-weekly-TV, and the plot is pretty simple.  At the same time, it was a good movie.  I'm actually glad in a way that I waited so long to see all of it.