I won’t be going either. The local movie hub is a gun free zone. I ain’t going to some stinking theater where I will be a sitting duck. With huge crowds like this gathering around the nation, these are perfect, PERFECT targets of mostly unarmed people with even small children that can be murdered. Hopefully security in these places will be tight and prevent the AK47 toting muslim thugs will be kept out.
I won’t be going to see it.
My kids have a scheduled Star Wars Marathon to watch all the old ones on Monday.
Here’s the kicker. My son has been hospitalized for the last three days. We’re trying to schedule his release around the marathon.
Schedule as of now. He gets final treatment Sunday morning. I pick him and my wife up. We drive 12 hours to Grandma’s house in time for 9am marathon start.
Do anything for the kids I guess.
For a while, it was one of those movies I always figured I'd get around to watching but never did. Of course, it would probably make no sense seeing all those sequels and prequels having never seen the original movie, so I never saw those as well.
There is something that scares me about Star Wars. I see all these otherwise normal people acting like complete nerds when it comes to Star Wars. They wear the funny helmets and run around saying things like "May The Force Be With You" and "Help Me Obee-Wan Kenobee".
I don't want to be like these people. I really don't.
Furthering that notion, in my vast Christmas music collection is a little ditty called What Can You Get A Wookie For Christmas (If He Already Has A Comb). This song has to be heard to be believed so click on the link if you dare. Now do you understand why I don't want to be like those Star Wars people?
Did not read as soon as she said she is not a fan of “fantasy”.
Should I take my lobster recommendations from someone who is not a fan of seafood?
Should I take my reading recommendations from someone who doesn’t read books?
I really don’t give a s____ what someone thinks about something they are not a fan of. Talk about useless & worthless. She is just trying to be sensational and I’m not biting.
Yep. I've seen the first six and I'm indifferent about the new one.
First off, I've always been a Star Trek Man, not a Star Wars Man.
Second, the Star Wars fans themselves are the reason why I'm turned off from their franchise. I enjoyed the original trilogy in the 80s as the silly popcorn films they were. Cheesy escapist entertainment. But then the prequels came out and hearing the endless hype from "the fans" about how The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones were the MUST SEE movie of the year and "GWEATEST, M0ST EPIC, EVENT EVARRRRRRRRRRR!!!" really left me tired of Star Wars and their "fans" (and even after admitting it sucked, they still rushed out to see it again when George Lucas announced that Jar Jar Binks would be back on the big screen in 3D for a cash grab re-release a decade later). Say what you want about Trekkies, but none of us plan on rushing out to theaters if a mediocre Trek film like Insurrection was ever re-released in 3D, nor did we run around pretending that Star Trek Into Darkness was "amazing" and "epic" and "the must see film of the year".
From what I hear, Abrams pretty much just copied the format of the original 1977 film for the new one, scene-by-scene, and substituted different characters accordingly (e.g. Kylo Ren has the Luke Skywalker role of a young brash kid who is thrown into a crisis situation and wants to be a Jedi, Luke Skywalker himself takes the Obi Wan Kenobi "older mentor" role from the original film who reluctantly agrees to take him under his wing, etc.) Wouldn't surprise me since Abrams did the last Star Trek movie and they shamelessly copied scenes and dialogue from Wrath of Khan. Star Trek 12 mined Star Trek 2 for material, and apparently Star Wars VII apes the first one (or "Episode IV", depending on your point of view).
The only variables I wonder about is how much lens flare JJ Abrams put into the movie, and how much screen time the original cast have (I would be surprised if Harrison Ford has more than 15 mins. screentime in this one)
It is shaping up to be a decent space opera.
I don’t mind anyone’s love for Star Wars. We all have our things. I don’t mind people trying to make a buck on them either.
But I apparently miss the Star Wars gene. I have trouble staying focused actually on ANY fantasy shows, books, etc. it just doesn’t interest me at all. I wish it did; I’m probably missing something. But that’s just how I am.
I could have written this piece.
He could have added the Hobbit series as well.
When asked about a possible Beatles reunion, Paul McCartney replied, “You can’t reheat a soufflé.”
I sort of feel this way about STAR WARS. I loved the original, and more so THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. (Third, not so much.) But that was long ago in a galaxy far away. The era back then was more innocent. Trying to recreate that spirit now seems futile.
Obviously at my age now I’ve outgrown it, so I wouldn’t bother, anyway, seeing the new film. And with so many problems in the world today, an escape into total fantasy seems unhealthy. But I understand how others, especially kids, need some entertainment.
Nevertheless, this new film seems to strike a cynical chord in me. Although (judging from the previews) pretty and technically sophisticated, it seems like just a remake of the original trilogy. The whole thing leaves me cold — a corporate taste in my mouth. Also the PC thing as well, which is why I avoid most of the current Hollywood product nowadays. Maybe the whole show is over and it’s just time to move on.
Thankfully, with pretty good ad controls on my computers, the lack of cableTV, a dislike of most stores generally, with the exception of Youtube (which still shows ads on my tablet), I haven’t seen any Star Wars ads at all. TADA!
I can’t tell you the last time I saw a Coke advertisement, or Viagra, and etc. ad-infinitum.
And I won’t be going to see it either... maybe long after the masturbatory aggrandizement is over... when I can rent it somewhere for a buck... I guess I might watch it, if I get bored enough.
I can’t tell you how freeing it is to be rid of all that silly craptastic pimping.
"Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower."