Am I the only person not interested in Star Wars??

[655321]

I have lived nearly my entire life without giving Star Wars a second thought. I'm a child of the eighties, so I've seen the first three (oh, sorry, the "last three"), but I've missed all the prequels, and have no plans to see the new one, although I hear it's really good.

Bear in mind that this has not been planned. I have no hatred for Star Wars. I don't think the hardcore fans are geeks, nor do I mind when my friends and other people go off for hours on discussions (I make people listen to my presentation on jazz, so...). I just seem to have missed the boat on this cultural phenomenon.

Surely, I'm not alone.

[CHICO13]

You are not alone. There are plenty of us that walk the Earth :)

[skipshady]

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[Footix]

The closest to interested in Star Wars as I get is watching Triumph The Insult Comic Dog mock those nerds who stand on line. I've got ZERO interest in those movies.

[Col Mustard]

I loved them as a kid but to me they're childrens films. It's bizarre that so many adults are into this, do you suppose they're in bed by 8.30 with a cup of warm milk and a Dr Suess book as well?

[Pints]

do you suppose they're in bed by 8.30 with a cup of warm milk and a Dr Suess book as well?


Depends on how much I drank the night before....soemtimes.yes. :D

I have no desire to sopend the money to see this film in the theatre. I will of course rent it once it becomes available, because Star Wars was something I was really into from the get go. The first two prequels I didn't see until they were on disc, and the same goes for this one.

Actually I am way more interested in seeing these two films

In theaters June 24th (http://www.homepageofthedead.com/)


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[Claymore]

I'm mildly interested in seeing this one in the theater, if only because I think you lose so much of the film on a small screen.

That said, I'll wait a week or two for the geeks to get it out of their systems before I head to the theater.

[Ictar]

I had a chance to see a private showing yesterday for free, and I didn't go. I'm just not too interested in it, really.

[hangthadj]

I could care less about this film. Until last night I didn't even know it opened this week.

[Speedball]

Saw the first (third?) one as a kid. Haven't seen one since. I was younger than that when I watched my last episode of Star Trek.

[Val1]

Well, I was 13 when the first one/fourth one came out, and I loved it. First movie I ever saw in the theaters multiple times. Great, great movie. But I quickly soured on the next two, thinking (as did Mad Magazine) that the title should have been The Empire Strikes Out. Then for the third/sixth I hated the ewoks and thought the Luke-and-Leia-brother-and-sister answer to the who gets Leia conundrum was facile and trite. I saw the first/fourth one and was completely disgusted with Jar Jar and the offhand way C3PO was introduced (and the podracer and mother-ship destruction sequences were pathetic copies of Ben-Hur and Star Wars I/IV). In anticipation of Number 3, I finally got around to watching Clone Army and hated it. I couldn't stand young Anakin, my wife and I were hoping he'd turn evil this movie so we could stop pretending to like him.

So, the Star Wars scorecard for me is one singular movie followed by four sequels, and we know how much sequels suck. Except in this case, prequels suck even more.

[Achtung]

I'll probably see this one, just because. But there's no huge anticipation on my part. Personally I always felt the "original" trilogy was a bit overrated to begin with, though I probably enjoyed Attack of the Clones more than most. Episode 1 came out right around the time I graduated from high school, and I remember everyone wanting to go see it at the time. I didn't see it until a couple of years later though. So to answer the question, I have a slight passing interest in Ep 3, but I could reel off a half-dozen movies I'm looking forward to more this summer.

[Smiley321]

Yes, well, of course, this is just the sort blinkered philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss about the struggling artist. You excrement! You lousy hypocritical whining toadies with your lousy colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic handshakes! You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards. Well I wouldn't become a freemason now if you went down on your lousy, stinking, purulent knees and begged me.

[aloisius]

Completely ignored the thing.

So how did this wader person become evil? That’s what it’s all about, right?
Does he kill his son in one of the episodes?

[655321]

Yes, well, of course, this is just the sort blinkered philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss about the struggling artist. You excrement! You lousy hypocritical whining toadies with your lousy colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic handshakes! You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards. Well I wouldn't become a freemason now if you went down on your lousy, stinking, purulent knees and begged me.

I'm at a loss...

[Smiley321]

I'm at a loss...

The "Architect sketch" ring a bell?

[Brainodo]

Mind you this is a real beaut. I mean, none of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows, inconveniencing passers-by with this one. I mean, my life has been building up to this.

I'm actually pretty excited to see this one. The 'Wars is an integral part of my childhood. The last/first two are poor but this one looks pretty good. How anyone can like Star Wars but not Empire is beyond me. Although I really wasn't keen until I was older.
But then, as far as I'm concerned, Spaced is the greatest sitcom ever. You just have to be that sort of person I suppose. I am mystified how Star Wars is suddenly the epitome of all that is geeky though. It never used to be. That was always Trek.

[655321]

The "Architect sketch" ring a bell?

Well, obviously not.

[Crimen y Castigo]

Well, obviously not.

It's a Python sketch. Just another great excuse for John Cleese to unleash a barrage of abuse. Quality.

[Smiley321]

Well, obviously not.

I stole that from Monty Python.

I'll see the movie without very high expectations. Maybe I expect a little higher quality than "Ocean's Twelve" but only a little. Maybe it will surprise me.