Posted on 11/30/2014 3:13:07 PM PST by EveningStar
Now that the trailer for the seventh "Star Wars" movie is out, you can imagine the anticipation among the millions of fans of the film franchise. And why not? The six "Star Wars" films have been enormous successes: they have grossed over $2 billion domestically at the box office, spawned scores of books, comic books and merchandise (how many kids have their own light saber?) and made household names of characters like Darth Vader, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker.
They've also been the worst thing ever for the science fiction genre.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Preach on brother!
Star wars is not science fiction
1. There are too many races of people
2. The light saber, come on really, that isn’t technology it is simply spiritualism more in line with Vincent Price or Boris Karloff stuff
We need Luke Starkiller on the set!
“...and made household names of characters like Darth Vader, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker.”
I was really hoping they were going to mention The Mooch!
Entertaining by far than any one of the SW movies is this epic 7 part review of the Phantom Menace.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI
“back in the era when the genre was believed to be consumed almost entirely by young males”
ALL sci-fi is for young males.
Or it isn’t sci-fi.
The better sci-fi expands that audience but mustn’t lose it’s defining audience.
Sci-fi films are most often ruined by Hollywood’s desire to appeal to the ‘dumb sluts’ advertising demographic.
YESSSS
didn’t “Gilligan’s Island” have a lot of Science Fiction in it.
With today's special effects, that would be stunning movie.
Star Wars was a wonder of special effects when it came out....but it was very ordinary as science fiction.
There are people who hear the word ‘sci-fi’ and first think ‘books/magazines.’ Then there are people who first think ‘movies/TV.’ After Star Wars I imagine the movie/TV thinking people really expanded even after all the sci-fi movies and shows up to that point.
There is great science fiction or speculative fiction being written, but it does get drowned out by the movie/TV side much more than the past. Then there is the complete lib wackaddooisation of the written side of things in recent years, making it even more difficult to sift through in order to find something good.
Freegards
He needs to pay attention to the smaller films. Sure when Hollywood is looking to tent pole sci-fi they run to the SW model, which after all helped invent the summer blockbuster. But outside of tent pole land lots of interesting challenging SF gets made. Of course he closes off saying The Matrix is the most original SF movie of the last 25 years, completely ignoring the fact that it was the THIRD movie with that plot in 12 months and the worst of the 3 (go with Dark City, that one’s great).
“The thing is, he really is a SW fan. He’s just one of those neckbeards that stops liking something once everyone else likes it, then claims he hates it.”
Yes, but I really liked this one
"You all should know that this was written to get you to think inside of the liberal agenda box."
Everyone who keeps saying “Strip away space and it could be a Western...” to prove Star Wars isn’t sci fi? Puh-leeze.
All you’re demonstrating is that Star Wars has a solid 3 act structure, with clearly defined heroes and villains. As good movies do in every genre.
Give Alan Ladd a light saber and make Jack Palance the gunslinger into a an alien. Now “Shane” isn’t a Western — it’s sci-fi! So what?
Technology we don’t have yet, including light speed engines and almost human robots? Check. Life on other planets? Check. Anything happen supernaturally or by magic? Nope.
“Star Wars” is sci-fi. Good, fun, unpretentious sci-fi, like “Aliens” and the opposite of a snoozer like “Interstellar.”
“Twilight Zone was certainly NOT aimed at young males exclusively”
No. As I said, it was aimed at young males INclusively.
TV shows in the day of 3 networks tried to appeal to all the members of the family during prime time. Twilight Zone and Outer Limits (to a lesser extent) did an exceptional job of maintaining the appeal to young males while expanding the audience- an artistic benefit of the commercial pressure they were under.
The commercial pressure of today is to appeal to the most profitable ‘dumb slut’ demographics. Hence: “Asylum’ and the flaws in ‘John Carter’ and ‘Starship Troopers’.
Yes! I noticed that as well. Good catch. The article was less about Star Wars and more about the way liberal critics think about things. I hate critics. Always have.
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