I broke one of the most important promises I heve made to myself

Not one minute. Not one dime. I made that promise May 19th, 1999 when I woke my brother Perez up from his slumber at the midngith release of Phantom Menace.

I would never watch the first prequeln or give George Lucas any of my money for the movie.

For sixteen years I kept that promise. Last night the credo blew up as predictably as some planet size laser.

My boys really wanted to watch Phantom Menace. I had avoided this day knowing it would come. We had watched every other movie and some of the Clone Wars. 

My kids are not nuts on Star Wars. Still haven't seen the Force Awakens with them.

Yet they asked. I could not say no. And yet somehow they like the Full House meets CSPAN and F-Zero. I mean really liked it.

I now understand why it is pointless to argue with a millenial on how bad this movie turly is.