This week 7 reflection is coming a little late. I have been battling a bad cold so the past week has been pretty rough. So I’m going to talk about the week prior to when this is going to be put up. Going back to last Monday. Last week we were all witnesses to something that most categorized as an event. It was not the god awful atrocious Monday Night Football game with the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants. Which by the way if I can go off on a little rant, that Monday Night game was the worst sporting event I have ever witnessed. It was so bad that it hurt my eyeballs, like someone was pouring sugar and lemon into my cornea. They made it worse by losing the following week (yesterday) to the Carolina Panthers. The Panthers are 6-0, but a team should have at least a higher chance of winning when the defense can come up with 3 picks in the first half. Let’s not forget the multiple drops by the wide outs and the terrible play by the offense in general. *Sigh*. Let’s just get past the Eagles because they are going to fly nowhere this season in that terrible NFC East division. We should discuss the biggest news of the month. No it’s not the death of *spoiler* in the Walking Dead and even though it is close it is not Back to the Future (Keep fighting Cubs keep fighting, the curse will be broken soon). The biggest news probably of the year was the epic return of Star Wars. Yep, that’s right Star Wars, Star Wars, it’s all about Star Wars.
Let’s be honest the only reason people tuned into that Monday Night Football game was because people wanted to see that Star Wars trailer at halftime. What other movie could have caused such a reaction like that. Now as someone who considers himself nerdy, I am obligated to be hyped for the newest installment of the Star Wars franchise or otherwise my black nerd card would be revoked. Now this is huge news if you are a huge Star Wars fan, a casual fan or a not a fan period because this one franchise has something that a lot of things don’t have. It has this huge nostalgia factor that has lasted for generations. When the first Star Wars movie came out back in 1977, Episode IV A New Hope, it was a revolutionary movie from its time and has become this large phenomenon and has influenced pop culture in a way that is arguably unmatched. The parents that took their kids to go see Star Wars back in the 70’s and 80’s and now those kids are grown up with kids of their own taking their own kids to go see the new Star Wars. Three generations of fans that want to see the continuation of this long running story where now Luke, Han and Leia are older now and now we have a new generation, as seen in the trailer, taking the reins. That’s pretty remarkable and me being the super nerd that I am, I am reading the Star Wars comics that Marvel is publishing and those comics are in the same canon with the movies. Same with the Star Wars Rebels TV show so there’s a lot to keep up with if you’re a huge fan. There’s already screenings for the Force Awakens that are sold out and the movie is like two months away. There was so much internet traffic throughout that entire Monday that it disrupted the servers of many movie websites like Fandango. Star Wars the Force Awakens is going to be that type of movie that people are going to have to see opening weekend or the movie would probably be spoiled that following Monday when it comes out. Yes, I am one of those people that already has tickets and no I’m not ashamed of this. December 18th is coming around fast and it’s going to be hard to find a great time to go see the new film because of the amount of people that want to see it. There’s so many numbers behind this that it is crazy. Star Wars the Force Awakens has established a new record, bypassing The Hunger Games to move the most tickets in its first day on sale, Fandango reports. It didn’t just surpass that picture, it shattered its benchmark, outselling “The Hunger Games” eight times over. Traffic to the online ticketer’s site surged to seven times more than its peak level in less than 24 hours. There are already sellouts, particularly in Imax screenings, and to meet the demand, movie theaters are continually adding show times, the online ticketer reports. Star Wars the Force Awakens” presales also broke every Imax record, generating over $6.5 million. The film eclipsed The Dark Knight Rises, The Hunger Games Catching Fire and Avengers, which each earned around $1 million for their first reported presales. Ticket sales followed a similar rabid trend, with the U.K.’s third-largest ticket operator reporting 10,000 tickets snatched up in the first 90 minutes alone. The Hollywood Reporter says 200,000 tickets ended up being sold in the first day, and some say that there could have been more if several sites haven’t had crashed from the high demand. The Hollywood Reporter, the trailer was watched online 112 million times in 24 hours, and since 16 million viewers were tuned into the Monday Night Football telecast where it debuted, that brings the total number of first-day views to 128 million. This shatters the previous record of 88 million views in 24 hours set by the second Star Wars teaser, which soared past the 55 million views in 24 hours the first teaser pulled in. The Force Awakens is the equally casual Usain Bolt of film trailers, apparently. I don’t know about anybody else but I’m pumped. One of the first live action movies that I ever fully remember was Jumanji and Star Wars so even though I wasn’t one of those kids that grew up in the 70’s and the 80’s with Star Wars there is still something of a personal attachment to it for me. I think it was Empire Strikes Back I think because my dad had all of these VHS tapes with hundreds of movies. Anyway we’ll see but as the super nerd that I am I can’t want to see the new film instead of just speculating. What do you guys think? Comment below and let me know. Comments are closed.
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