Star Wars

[Day]

Massively overrated series of films. They may have created some iconic characters but the films themselves are appalling. 

May the 4th be with you ?

[Stagtime]

8 minutes ago, David said:

Massively overrated series of films. They may have created some iconic characters but the films themselves are appalling. 

May the 4th be with you ?

As a 16 year old when it was released, it was so far ahead of anything else we were just hooked. Been to every opening day since. I’ll agree some were a bit ordinary. Big step up from American Graffiti.

[rynny]

15 minutes ago, David said:

Massively overrated series of films. They may have created some iconic characters but the films themselves are appalling. 

May the 4th be with you ?

[SSD]

The latest Star Wars film was terrible. The Mandalorian on Disney+ however is amazing.

[Day]

3 minutes ago, rynny said:

[Wolfie]

I don't think any of the 6 recent main storyline films (1-3 and 7-9) added anything positively to the original 3 - and I don't even like Return of the Jedi that much.

IMO the only recent film that deserves recognition is Rogue One.

My ranking of them, just for "fun":

4

Rogue One

5

3

Solo

7

9

6

8

2

1

[Mick Brolly]

1 hour ago, David said:

May the 4th be with you ?

You've created a topic just to get that pun in haven't you. 

[Day]

1 minute ago, Mick Brolly said:

You've created a topic just to get that pun in haven't you. 

Saw it trending on Twitter, thought are we really still doing this and apparently so. Strange that a poor set of films can generate this level of interest

[Anon]

Happy Maclunkey day.

#DexterJettstershotfirst

[rynny]

1 hour ago, David said:

[maxjam]

The hero we need in 2020...

[Van der MoodHoover]

I remember at the time of the 1st film coming out people divided into 2 camps - you were either a Star Wars fan (George Lucas) or a Close Encounters fan (Spielberg)

I was in the Star Wars camp and agree with others that compared to other drivel of the time - Saturday Night Fever, the last rites of Carry on Films or various sundry soft porn "comedies" (Confessions of a Window Cleaner etc) they were absolutely great.

The ABC cinema in Derby still used to show the wizard of Oz near Christmas and that was made in 1939. And the Ritz in Belper pre-refurbishment was the very epitome of a flea pit.

Going to the pictures was generally a really poor experience ?

[maxjam]

As a young boy Star Wars was the first movie my Dad took me to see at the cinema, before that (and youngun's won't realise this) all you had were 3 tv channels and maybe a couple of hours a day of kids tv at home, quite often in black and white only!  Now-a-days you can get entertainment 24/7 whatever your age.

Coming out of the cinema having witnessed quite possibly the greatest thing I'd ever seen at that age I was hooked for life.  I think a large problem with some of the later movies is that good sci-fi is common place these days and the core audience for Star Wars has always been the younger generation - we just got old and judge it through more cynical eyes.

I still enjoy Star Wars, even the lesser films.  I've read countless books, watched all the animated series and to this day continue to play Star Wars Galaxies (an online MMO that officially shut down years ago!)

Call me a nerd if you want, but I'm a proud Star Wars nerd ?

[Anon]

1 hour ago, maxjam said:

I still enjoy Star Wars, even the lesser films.  I've read countless books, watched all the animated series and to this day continue to play Star Wars Galaxies (an online MMO that officially shut down years ago!)

Call me a nerd if you want, but I'm a proud Star Wars nerd ?

That's a real blast from the past. I remember playing Galaxies when it first came out and rp-ing an intergalactic hairdresser. Didn't they ruin the game with updates?

[maxjam]

1 minute ago, Anon said:

That's a real blast from the past. I remember playing Galaxies when it first came out and rp-ing an intergalactic hairdresser. Didn't they ruin the game with updates?

The CU and NGE (2 controversial updates) decimated the player base, by the time it got shut down however the new Devs that were bought in to fix it actually turned it into a very good game and population wise it was doing okay, certainly better than it had been doing years earlier - it was closed purely due to SWTOR releasing.

You can find 2 very good, well populated emulators out there; SWGEMU is the pre-CU version (the original game) and SWG Legends (the game as it was when it shut).  I personally play on both but spend the vast majority of my time on Legends - great community of die hard Star Wars and Star Wars Galaxies nerds ?  

[Day]

2 hours ago, maxjam said:

As a young boy Star Wars was the first movie my Dad took me to see at the cinema, before that (and youngun's won't realise this) all you had were 3 tv channels and maybe a couple of hours a day of kids tv at home, quite often in black and white only!  Now-a-days you can get entertainment 24/7 whatever your age.

Coming out of the cinema having witnessed quite possibly the greatest thing I'd ever seen at that age I was hooked for life.  I think a large problem with some of the later movies is that good sci-fi is common place these days and the core audience for Star Wars has always been the younger generation - we just got old and judge it through more cynical eyes.

I still enjoy Star Wars, even the lesser films.  I've read countless books, watched all the animated series and to this day continue to play Star Wars Galaxies (an online MMO that officially shut down years ago!)

Call me a nerd if you want, but I'm a proud Star Wars nerd ?

Nerd

[maxjam]

[Mostyn6]

I watch them and instantly forget them then cannot remember which ones i have watched! 

[Millenniumram]

You still have time to delete this

[Coneheadjohn]

Not sold on Star Wars or Chris Martin!