“But I’m as excited as I was probably when I was a small child”.
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This weekend will see the highly anticipated release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and with it will come plenty of illegal activity. “I’m very proud of it”.
He says he likes being around the fans.
“I was a kid and I saw Smokey and the Bandit at the drive-in with my parents”, recalled Parson.
Fellow Briton Simon Pegg, who has a cameo role in the new Star Wars film and plays Scotty in the rebooted Star Trek movies, said he believed any rivalry between the two series was a “myth”. Yes, humour and comedy is something I felt was missing and has now been added to Star Wars again – there are some good jokes in the film! “For some reason, it captured our imagination”.
The theatre is one of only six Cineplex locations in Canada offering the Star Wars movie marathon. “Not for me – but I have friends“.
Overall, this is a welcome return to the feel the original trilogy had and leaves us with loads of questions that, presumably, will be answered in the coming years with the remaining episodes. “No one loves those characters any less after 25 or 30 years”. It seemed to resonate with a huge section of the world’s population and capture the imagination of so many people: old and young, men and women!
There’s also the matter of viruses that you can get on your computer when you try to download movies illegally. “In short, bring your lightsaber, turn it off during the movie, and leave the blaster and Darth Vader mask at home”. “It means a lot to everyone, but I don’t go there”.
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The man who many fans believe to be Rey’s father, Harrison Ford, says he avoids reading their plot predictions entirely: “I just don’t do that but I’m glad people are interested”.
