r/MadeMeSmile • u/moonpies4everyone • 27d ago

This letter from Ron Howard to Newsweek after they grilled 9 year old Jake Lloyd’s performance in The Phantom Menace. Favorite People

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u/majornerd 27d ago

This is lovely. It’s the 25th anniversary and the movie is back at the theater. You should go see it and be a kid again. There aren’t many opportunities to do that as we get older. Try to grab one when you can.

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u/thaddeus423 27d ago

Me and the fam did last night. Little decked out in her Star Wars dress (a dress!)

I was grinning ear to ear.

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u/ZippityZooDahDay 27d ago

I went last night! It was amazing. TPM came out before I was born so I never got to see it in theaters. The pod racing scene just hits different on the big screen.

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u/AkameEX 26d ago

I did this over the weekend with my friend. When people in the theater lit up their blue and green lightsabers during duel of fates, I lit up my two reds. Theater went livid LOL

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u/ghostytot 15d ago

Definitely this. The Lion King was one of my absolute favorite movies as a kid. I watched it countless times during that period of childhood where things were safe and happy and innocent. When you’re blissfully unaware or the hardships you parent(s) are facing to make sure you’re sheltered and fed, and loved.

Time passed, situations changed, and those feelings went away pretty quickly. So when The Lion King was showing in theaters (also for an anniversary I think), I immediately got tickets for my mom and I to go see it.

I expected the feelings of nostalgia, but I didn’t expect to be crying literally at the opening scene lol

All that to say, yes, definitely go see it. Take any opportunity to revisit those feelings. It can be kind of magical sometimes