I’ve Seen ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ 15 Times
My brain thinks this is healthy
Before attending the first performance of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, I sent this e-mail:
“Dear friends,
Tomorrow we all go to see ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ at 6 pm! I have included, below, the ticket for you to print out and bring along with you. You can just go directly to your seats, you don’t have to meet me in the lobby.
As you all well know, I am insane about ‘Star Wars’ and as this is my very first showing, I will be weird about it. A few completely unreasonable ground rules.
1. I will be showing up wearing headphones so as not to overhear anyone at all talking about the movie. We’ll see if I even take them off.
2. I WANT TO HEAR NOTHING. If you’ve read headlines, reviews, hot takes if your friend saw it and has a thought: I do not want to know. I don’t even want to know if someone you know loved it, or you heard it’s good! NOTHING! NOTHING! I have deactivated Twitter and turned off Facebook to avoid hearing anything!
3. After the movie, I am going to hide for an hour by myself before I go see the movie immediately again at 10:25 pm. I will be in a quiet monk-like mode. Everyone else who attends will be hardcore Star Wars fans who love to…
