After the two minutes of footage played, many decided that they didn't actually want to stay for the film and left the theater in droves before the feature actually began. As was reported by the New York Times way back when, hordes of Star Wars fans - identified as "mostly young men" - were buying up movie tickets for titles like Meet Joe Black, The Waterboy and The Siege simply so that they could watch the Star Wars trailer. What this video doesn't show you is the comedic after affect that came with the debut of the Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace trailer caused (this was back before trailers were debuting on the internet). One dude was even so excited that he just couldn't control himself when Yoda popped up on screen for the first time (even if he didn't exactly look a whole lot like the Yoda from the original trilogy). As you can tell from the reaction at the very end, excitement was at an extremely high level. As described by YouTube user Mola Yam, what you see in the video embed above is actually footage from someone bootlegging the Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace trailer back in 1998 when it was attached to screenings of the Brad Pitt drama Meet Joe Black.
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