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Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (avatar) — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:25:12 +0000

Yoda will now pimp anything for cash

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/cele … 2051827568

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (Liam Swann) — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:04:34 +0000

I'm way more excited than I should be about getting a shout out haha

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (Tomahawk) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:37:31 +0000

I'm not wanting her love for the films. As you know(pun intended), this was her idea, not mine. She wants to know what all the fuzz is about, and has the lowest expectations for the films possible. It's like any of us, upon pressing unpause on the remote after we loaded 'Twilight'.

On a side note; I'm completely okay with the clone wars and the prequels.

Now, why would I be that? It's not that _I_ enjoy them at all. In fact, I don't even want to watch them ever again, but the joy and enthusiasm I see in my son's face when he wathes them, is what I felt when I watched the originals as a child. If the new films and crappy ass TV-series can bring forth in my son what the originals did with me, I think Lucas is still, in spite of all his flaws, doing at least something right.

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (Zarban) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:42:51 +0000

rtambree wrote:

Citizen Kane is a fine respectable film, but I doubt many young people love it the way they love films from their own generation.

Yeah, but young people never loved Citizen Kane. Critics and new wave directors did. The kids were going to see The Wolf Man and the Bowery Boys.

(But everybody SHOULD have been going to see The Lady Eve, one of the best comedies of all time.)

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (avatar) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:32:51 +0000

There's a lot to be said for the 'you had to be there' school of film criticism. That is, classic films seen for the first time decades afterwards quite often appear just 'okay' to a newbie. Citizen Kane is a fine respectable film, but I doubt many young people love it the way they love films from their own generation.

If you were there for Star Wars or Jaws or The Godfather in the 1970s, they're going to mean more to you than seeing them on TV for the first time in 2012.

There's probably many exceptions, but I think statistically it's less likely (all else being equal) to fall in love with an old old movie than it is with a movie from your own time. Movies don't just age due to VFX or resolution, there's... average edit-times, how sentimental v cynical/edgy it is, how PG-13 or R-rated it is, etc.

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (Tomahawk) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:57:05 +0000

It's not as much 'converting her to love SW' as it is 'hope she enjoys the films enough to sit thru them'. I really don't care about star wars anymore anyway.

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (avatar) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:55:31 +0000

If she prefers Episode I, then... "you need some space but you still want to be friends"

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (Tomahawk) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:12:58 +0000

Nor am I, it was her idea, but I'm not going to show her a damn fan-edit, no matter how much it improves the original.
It's like showing her Scary Movie, telling her it's Scream.

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (paulou) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:44:06 +0000

Figure the Adywan has the best aspects of everything, and is the newest, best looking version of that film I've seen.

But I'm really not too into Star Wars.

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (Tomahawk) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:08:00 +0000

Yes, I got that, but I'm not going to the extreme levels of checking out Adywans edit, a revisited edit, or the phantom edits. It's the films as they are, or nothing.

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (Ewing) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:00:31 +0000

http://swrevisited.wordpress.com/

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (Tomahawk) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:49:26 +0000

Teague: Noted, but with the influence of Marcus' post.

Squiggly: As far as I'm concerned, there really only are 3 SW films, but if she's interested, those other 3 are her choice, not mine.

Liam: welcome, but... I don't know about that. She was already a keeper over a year ago

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (Jimmy B) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:17:06 +0000

A newbie! Welcome, Liam

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (Teague) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:13:50 +0000

Welcome to the boards, Liam!

Re: About Star Wars. And a girlfriend.

null@example.com (Liam Swann) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:10:57 +0000

Make it a test, show her the originals - if she doesn't laugh, she's a keeper.