Star Wars question for guys born circa 1967-1977.

The last trilogy burned me badly enough that my enthusiasm is really muted. I hope they do a better job with the story, dialogue, and directing than the last efforts but even a good effort will be less about making a good movie than pedaling billions more in merchandising.

And yes, all of this was true for Return of the Jedi in retrospect. I was just too young to be as put off back then.

1. They waited too long. They are all elderly now and Harrison Ford is the only one to have done anything. Very broad use of the word "anything".


2. The prequels sucked. Jar-Jar. :

3. The advance of CGI and technology made the prequels look foolish. Mainly in the respect of Jedi ability. Yoda vs. Emperor fight scene makes Luke vs. Vader look silly.

But yes. I get what the OP is saying. 1973 model here. So Christmas bliss for me was the year I got the Mellinium Falcon and later the Death Star.

Darth Maul was the only cool part of the prequels. And the double ended staff light saber.

I've watched the new trailer a few times and I get goosebumps every time. It just brings me back to when I was young and seeing them for the first time on vhs

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Have you been surprised by your emotional reaction to the trailers and stuff?

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Uh no. Abrams and Lucas are dead to me. I have no reaction to this - whatsoever. I was a Star Trek fan first, and a Star Wars fan second. The first 3 Star Wars films were from a different time and place.

I literally cannot muster enough energy to give 2 shits about whatever Abrams is going to do with it - despite the fact that Lucas has ALREADY fricked up Star Wars beyond all recognition.

If you are expecting these movies to equal and surpass the feeling we all got watching the originals when we were 6 yo you will be dissapointed.

im sure they will be monumentally better than the prequel vomit show and I will appreciate the nestalgia but Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker have become virtual archetypes of good and evil. The original story has transcended it own medium. There may never be a repeat of what the original trilogy has become.

75 model here. I too got a Falcon one Christmas morning and it was awesome. Almost topped by getting the giant at-at later for my birthday.

Got pissed when someone gave me a sweet arse boba get slave 1 because that bastard helped jabba encase Solo in carbonite.

As a kid, I was a Star Wars junkie. Thought E6 was great minus the ewoks. Was getting all formative at that time so I was intrigued with what Luke was dealing with. My uncle put it best regarding ewoks: they look like Chewie took a fluffy shite.

E1-3 can't lick my sac. Tried watching it through the eyes of a kid and with my kids later on. No sense of wonderment. No AHA moments because those 3 films could have easily been just two. Don't get me started about Jar Jar. That fricker should've gotten a saber up the corn hole.

In terms of E7, something about the style has me geeked. Yes I lost my shite when I saw the falcon and then solo and chewie. But it was more than that. The previews seem to show that Abrams has captured the vastness and the spectacle of the Star Wars universe. He seems to get that this film needs to operate on a macro level while still resonating. How do you top a star destroyer cruising in space, show it wrecked on tatooine (my opinion). How do you top the introduction of the most bad arse weapon in the universe, have that fricker light up at the hilt. (We all talked about it because it was exciting). Like x-wings, wait until you see them rooster tail over a lake. Then just when you get swept up by the scope...bam...motherfricking Vader's skull. That preview just narrow focused you down from a whole galaxy to one single iconic character. The one character that growing up you resented, respected and then cheered. The one dude who had the universe swinging from his nuts.

I am excited. Hoping to still be in mid December.

It was my 8th? birthday. My father came in to my room to wake me up. He told me to look under my bed. There was a wrapped box. I started to open it. He said you can't be a Jedi without a lightsaber. And there it was, one of the 1st toy lightsabers they ever made. I freaked out. That day he dressed up as Darth Vader using church vestments and a badass full-head helmet. fricker looked just like him. We had a Star Wars party and he met each of my friends at the door and asked them "Friend or foe". What a geek. Some idiot broke my lightsaber during the party. Bummer

So I get word last week that the old man has 2-4 months. He's been battling cancer. I'm gonna make sure he makes it to see that with me. So, yeah, all the feels. This is the first time I've gotten emotional about it all. I'm afraid I might lose it at that movie if somebody gets killed off.

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What kind of a palace would have that kind of structure inside of it? It makes no sense to have a railless power chamber with bottomless pits and just happen to have laser doors that seem to lead to nowhere.

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Really? You knock the prequels for illogical architecture doesn't apply to the originals? The either Star Wars universe has terribly bad idea designs.

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