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Here. Never got into Star Wars. I think that is because I saw the movies for the first time when I was 25, and I started with the prequels. The originals were good but dated when you grew up on 1990s+ plus sci-fi films.
 
Eh each to their own i guess. For instance i cant get into lord of the rings, i should like it, i understand it's a major deal and without it X wouldnt exist, dont like the books nor the films. Just meh.

And then they made another 3 hobbit movies, meh
 
Yup. Love sci-fi but this franchise does absolutely nothing for me. Not that I'd want it to since it's dear to so many people, but if it was completely eradicated as a franchise, I wouldn't miss it one bit.
 
Metalmarc said:
Eh each to their own i guess. For instance i cant get into lord of the rings, i should like it, i understand it's a major deal and without it X wouldnt exist, dont like the books nor the films. Just meh.

And then they made another 3 hobbit movies, meh
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Off topic, do most Tolkien devotees like the LoTR movies? I work with a fan of the Harry Potter books who refuses to see the movies, just doesn't think the movies will do the experience on page any justice. I always wondered if that is the case for LoTR.

I love Star Wars and the new movie intrigues me but it still feels weird with Lucas out of the loop.
 
ZackieChan said:
It's so weird for me,as a 37-year old man, to read threads like this. Growing up while they were still releasing the OT, I didn't know ANYONE who didn't absolutely love Star Wars. My mother and sisters who couldn't give a shit about fantasy stuff were super into it. We watched the whole trilogy every New Year's Eve.

Is this a Millennial thing? The movies are such a cultural touchstone for people my age that reading a thread like this is a little depressing.
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I'm with you. I'm 41 and I remember seeing Star Wars when it was first-run in 1977.

I have a feeling that if you're not into Star Wars its probably a generational thing as you probably weren't alive or around, or old enough to see just how much the OT permeated pop culture in the late 1970s through the 1980s. Nothing in my life has been as big as Star Wars. Nothing that I can think of, outside of American Sports has permeated and lasted in pop culture for almost 40 years now.

Most everyone, even if you aren't into Star Wars and never watched a single movie, can name at least one or two characters.

I certainly understand that if you weren't a child of the late 1970s or 1980s, you would have no frame of reference or scope to understand what a big fucking deal these movies were. Those Battlefront commercials filled with nostalgia, were actually most of our childhoods. The movies were amazing. There literally was nothing like it all, at least in terms of special effects, being shown at the cinema. The cliffhanger at the end of ESB, was jaw dropping during that time period, and you had to wait three years for the next movie to get confirmation. That kind of cliffhanger will never happen again in cinema just because we like in a different spoiler-filled, social media fueled time period.

These movies were very special relative to their time period. Its ok if its not your thing or can't see what all the fuss is about. I, for one, cannot understand and cannot accept any explanation as to how a grown adult can be a nintendo-only gamer. I don't get anime, manga, or even comics anymore. Comics to me were something I collected and read until I was about 16 years old. But that's ok, we're all into different things.
 
I remember really liking Return of the Jedi, but in my defense I was also 6 at the time. Never really been a SW guy outside of appreciating some of the designs and stuff, but have zero interest in the characters or their stories.
 
I'm with you OP.

Recently watched all the Star Wars films for the first time; struggled to stay awake for the OT, and felt like I wasted my time watching the sequels (with exception to the lightsaber duel between anakin and obi-wan, that was cool and holds up today).

I can clearly see the influences and impact these films have on movies nowadays, but man, thank goodness acting has gotten a whole lot better.
 
MattKeil said:
The KOTOR stuff is so far removed from the films that it wouldn't surprise me to see that era kept and reincorporated into canon eventually. Certainly the Revan story is a no-brainer for one of the standalone between-Episodes films at some point.
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Hopefully it will, those two games are the best things with the Star Wars name on it.

bjork said:
I remember really liking Return of the Jedi, but in my defense I was also 6 at the time. Never really been a SW guy outside of appreciating some of the designs and stuff, but have zero interest in the characters or their stories.
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ROTJ was silly as fuck.
 
I watched the movies for the first time about 4 or 5 months ago. I liked them but i'm not really crazy about it. Kinda funny to see how much hype all of these trailers for the new one is getting. People are literally flipping their nose and saying these are going to go down as the best trailers of all time, and when I see them, my reaction is just "ok"

I mean I understand it, but it's funny from my point of view.
 
I've always seen Star Wars as something for old people. I was born in 83 and could never get into Star Wars because, for me, it was like watching Ben Hur or Planet of the Apes: they just looked old.
 
Chao said:
I've always seen Star Wars as something for old people. I was born in 83 and could never get into Star Wars because, for me, it was like watching Ben Hur or Planet of the Apes: they just looked old.
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Ben Hur is one of the best films ever made. It looks amazing, even now. Planet of the Apes is also up there. Count me as an old person I guess (I was born in 82)
 
bill0527 said:
I'm with you. I'm 41 and I remember seeing Star Wars when it was first-run in 1977.

I have a feeling that if you're not into Star Wars its probably a generational thing as you probably weren't alive or around, or old enough to see just how much the OT permeated pop culture in the late 1970s through the 1980s. Nothing in my life has been as big as Star Wars. Nothing that I can think of, outside of American Sports has permeated and lasted in pop culture for almost 40 years now.

Most everyone, even if you aren't into Star Wars and never watched a single movie, can name at least one or two characters.

I certainly understand that if you weren't a child of the late 1970s or 1980s, you would have no frame of reference or scope to understand what a big fucking deal these movies were. Those Battlefront commercials filled with nostalgia, were actually most of our childhoods. The movies were amazing. There literally was nothing like it all, at least in terms of special effects, being shown at the cinema. The cliffhanger at the end of ESB, was jaw dropping during that time period, and you had to wait three years for the next movie to get confirmation. That kind of cliffhanger will never happen again in cinema just because we like in a different spoiler-filled, social media fueled time period.

These movies were very special relative to their time period. Its ok if its not your thing or can't see what all the fuss is about. I, for one, cannot understand and cannot accept any explanation as to how a grown adult can be a nintendo-only gamer. I don't get anime, manga, or even comics anymore. Comics to me were something I collected and read until I was about 16 years old. But that's ok, we're all into different things.
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I saw the OT when they first ran. I was well into Star Wars at the time but I guess I grew out of it. People move on. For myself, I can't see how someone can still give a toss about Star Wars after nearly 40 years. How do you not burn out on it?
 
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Ben Hur is one of the best films ever made. It looks amazing, even now. Planet of the Apes is also up there. Count me as an old person I guess (I was born in 82)
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Yeah, I know that now, but I was a dumb kid and I had that kind of mentality. I can appreciate things now for what they are, but since I never gave them an opportunity back then now it's a little more difficult for me to enjoy them.
 
cloud_sleep said:
I saw the OT when they first ran. I was well into Star Wars at the time but I guess I grew out of it. People move on. For myself, I can't see how someone can still give a toss about Star Wars after nearly 40 years. How do you not burn out on it?
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Its the world's biggest fictional sandbox. Star Wars has a huge universe with a wide variety of characters and situations beyond the movie universe. For me it was mostly video games that kept it alive, as I have played most every Star Wars game ever made for any platform. I've also read about 20 or so of the novels that started coming out around the mid 1990s, but I wasn't as hardcore into that as I was videogames. It used to be that Star Wars was pure gold when it came to videogaming, especially PC gaming in the 1990s. X-wing and Tie Fighter series, Dark Forces series, and it was hit or miss on consoles.
 
You just had to be there. It was a perfect storm of being a kid, a movie series unlike anything before(well, technically lucas borrowed heavily from old serials), and the introduction of merchandising
 
Not only am I unmoved by them but I feel like the massive obsession with it is all part of some joke everyone is in on but me. That said, I've somehow been caught up in the excitement for 7 and I'll probably check it out at a matinee screening a few weeks out from release.
 
Yes. However, the universe the films created has always been more important than the films themselves, so I won't care if they turn out to be shit,
 
Plywood said:
Episode V is the only good movie.
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Yeah. Still I enjoy IV-VI for the nostalgia, and I like a good star wars game here and there, but the franchise doesn't do much for me. A new Star Wars movie coming out is like a new Star Trek movie coming out to me. "Oh another one, I'll probably see it a few weeks after it's out". The original movies were a good trilogy as a kid, but as an adult it doesn't do much for me.

I feel the same way about Zelda.
 
PaleFolklore said:
Not only am I unmoved by them but I feel like the massive obsession with it is all part of some joke everyone is in on but me.
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This is how I feel. I don't think the original trilogy is bad; they're just super cheesy. I'd put them in the same category as something like Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon or Monster Squad. I don't mind some cheesy fun (I like all of those movies), but I just don't get the obsession with Star Wars. It goes well beyond that.
 
ZackieChan said:
It's so weird for me,as a 37-year old man, to read threads like this. Growing up while they were still releasing the OT, I didn't know ANYONE who didn't absolutely love Star Wars. My mother and sisters who couldn't give a shit about fantasy stuff were super into it. We watched the whole trilogy every New Year's Eve.

Is this a Millennial thing? The movies are such a cultural touchstone for people my age that reading a thread like this is a little depressing.
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My friends and I are super pumped. I think it's a contrarian thing like people calling The Dark Knight garbage.
 
I personally agree.

It's a totally mediocre set of movies. Watched them all for the first time this summer as a 24-year-old and was bewildered by the rabid fanbase for this tepid sci-fi. I'm sure it was technologically impressive at the time but everything about the movies themselves is just run-of-the-mill characters and plot. Not to mention the horrendous art design that is simply the opposite of timeless. Awful outfits and hairstyles by Leia, ugly ships and aircraft and weaponry infused with tacky 80s aesthetics.

I can only suspect people are obsessed with it because they grew up in a decade where children had nothing better to obsess over.

Original trilogy is good, prequel trilogy is no good. Averages to mediocre.
 
I was a huge fan of the movies in the late 80's and 90's... everything changed with the prequels and the changes to the original trilogy. I stopped being enthusiastic about Star War after the second prequel movie, I have not seen the original trilogy in more than 15 years.

The last Star Wars game I played and enjoyed was Episode One Pod Racer on N64. I didn't care for anything Star Wars related in videogame form any longer after that.

The only reason I'm going to see the next Star Wars films is because of a friend of mine, equally disappointed by what happened but not as disinterested as I am. Seeing the old actors reprising their roles is one of the few things that make the new movies interesting at all to me. But I know that this alone will not be enough.

So I'm prepared to be entertained by a relatively ok/good movie that dances around in the clothes of something I genuinly loved in the past but in the end will not be the same.
 
The Lamp said:
I personally agree.

It's a totally mediocre set of movies. Watched them all for the first time this summer as a 24-year-old and was bewildered by the rabid fanbase for this tepid sci-fi. I'm sure it was technologically impressive at the time but everything about the movies themselves is just run-of-the-mill characters and plot. Not to mention the horrendous art design that is simply the opposite of timeless. Awful outfits and hairstyles by Leia, ugly ships and aircraft and weaponry infused with tacky 80s aesthetics.

I can only suspect people are obsessed with it because they grew up in a decade where children had nothing better to obsess over.

Original trilogy is good, prequel trilogy is no good. Averages to mediocre.
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That's understandable, watching them for the first time today.
 
The Lamp said:
Not to mention the horrendous art design that is simply the opposite of timeless. Awful outfits and hairstyles by Leia, ugly ships and aircraft and weaponry infused with tacky 80s aesthetics.

I can only suspect people are obsessed with it because they grew up in a decade where children had nothing better to obsess over.

Original trilogy is good, prequel trilogy is no good. Averages to mediocre.
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X-Wings, TIE fighters and Star Destroyers are ugly ships? Blimey, I'd like to see well designed ones.
 
The Lamp said:
I personally agree.

It's a totally mediocre set of movies. Watched them all for the first time this summer as a 24-year-old and was bewildered by the rabid fanbase for this tepid sci-fi. I'm sure it was technologically impressive at the time but everything about the movies themselves is just run-of-the-mill characters and plot. Not to mention the horrendous art design that is simply the opposite of timeless. Awful outfits and hairstyles by Leia, ugly ships and aircraft and weaponry infused with tacky 80s aesthetics.

I can only suspect people are obsessed with it because they grew up in a decade where children had nothing better to obsess over.

Original trilogy is good, prequel trilogy is no good. Averages to mediocre.
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The movie with some of the most iconic designs as well as some of the most iconic film shots ever in film history has mediocre art design?
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Bruh

Ugly ships? The tie fighter and x-wing??
 
I can see why people might not like them but can people not appreciate them. The original trilogy is arguably one of the most influential movies of all time and without them the movie landscape would be a different beast. They're a piece of cinematic history with some of the most inventive special effects, sound design, costuming and set design of all time. Maybe Moviebob needs to do "Really that Good" for the OT like he did with Spiderman recently.
 
The Lamp said:
I personally agree.

It's a totally mediocre set of movies. Watched them all for the first time this summer as a 24-year-old and was bewildered by the rabid fanbase for this tepid sci-fi. I'm sure it was technologically impressive at the time but everything about the movies themselves is just run-of-the-mill characters and plot. Not to mention the horrendous art design that is simply the opposite of timeless. Awful outfits and hairstyles by Leia, ugly ships and aircraft and weaponry infused with tacky 80s aesthetics.

I can only suspect people are obsessed with it because they grew up in a decade where children had nothing better to obsess over.

Original trilogy is good, prequel trilogy is no good. Averages to mediocre.
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People watching it as children obviously has a lot to do with their reverence for it as adults and yeah, its cultural significance is partly down to right time, right place. I think nowadays though, unless you're introduced to it at a very young age it's never going to have the same effect on you viewing it for the first time as an adult (even if you enjoyed them).

You've probably seen a hundred different things that took inspiration from Star Wars in some way in the 24 years before watching them, combine that with the quality of modern visual effects and it's pretty understandable that they wouldn't wow you.

I still say Star Wars and Empire are amazing films in their own right though.
 
Crossing Eden said:
The movie with some of the most iconic designs as well as some of the most iconic film shots ever in film history has mediocre art design?
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Bruh

Ugly ships? The tie fighter and x-wing??
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Yes.

It's only "iconic" because the movies came out in an era where the genre could finally look somewhat realistic with special effects. It came out at the right time, it was a "you had to be there" experience.

Wilsongt said:
The only Star Wars movie I ever watched was Episode I.

Not desire to go watch the others or get into the hype.
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I cannot stress enough how bad this movie was.

People insisted I avoid it and I stubbornly refused, insisting I watch it.

Episode 1 was a mistake. It's nothing but trash.
 
all movies are "meh" at best for me, enjoyed all the clone wars cartoon stuff a lot more than any movie

clone troopers>>>>storm troopers, in general I think the OT stuff looks like shit as far as uniforms, trooper armor, weapons etc go
the kotor stuff and the old republic timeline is also more interesting
 
This thread is blowing my mind with all of the negativity. The prequel trilogy deserves the shit it gets, but hating on the OT? That's insane to me, particularly 4 and 5. Born in '88 if it matters at all.

I can't think of a better fantasy movie tbh. Fellowship of the Ring comes close, I guess. They still hold up quite well today, too.
 
The Lamp said:
I personally agree.

It's a totally mediocre set of movies. Watched them all for the first time this summer as a 24-year-old and was bewildered by the rabid fanbase for this tepid sci-fi. I'm sure it was technologically impressive at the time but everything about the movies themselves is just run-of-the-mill characters and plot. Not to mention the horrendous art design that is simply the opposite of timeless. Awful outfits and hairstyles by Leia, ugly ships and aircraft and weaponry infused with tacky 80s aesthetics.

I can only suspect people are obsessed with it because they grew up in a decade where children had nothing better to obsess over.

Original trilogy is good, prequel trilogy is no good. Averages to mediocre.
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It's your mistake assuming it was trying to be timeless. Even in 1977 it was actually trying to be retro... Evoking 1930s space opera serials. You're going in with the wrong attitude scoffing at the "80s" ness of it, because even in the 80s a lot of the fashion and hairstyles would have seemed like right out of a far older pulp sci-fi magazine.

But then again, in a certain sense... They are timeless... There's a AAA videogame right now which is a fetishized recreation of these scenes and people swoon over that stuff.
 
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