Star Wars: Episode IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

[jye4ever]

It is an impossible experience to describe to a generation that has had all the benefit and clutter since its release -- so much sci-fi and adventure and fantasy, for years, piling up on video -- hell, people born 20 years ago had a huge stock pile of movies to watch that most probably still haven't gotten through most 80's movies.

Before all that, Star Wars was just so unlike anything before it. Fantasy movies were few and far between. We had Bond... and the Six Million Dollar Man... but very little in the way of fantasy. Sci-Fi was Silent Running and Westworld -- bleak, cold, cruel... unless you went way back to the 50's, and all that stuff was pretty hokey. Wizard of Oz still ruled as the biggest pure fantasy movie for kids. Like Lucas said, he wanted to make a morality play for kids because there just wasn't anything like that out there. Our rules came from Dirty Harry to Dirty Dozen. One of the reasons a man is a Godzilla suit became so famous is because there was that little pure fantasy available to young kids. That junk wouldn't fly today... hell, right after Star Wars, that junk didn't fly. The world had changed overnight. Fantasy/action/adventure/sci-fi were on the menu big time.

Just go back and watch 1976 Logan's Run and compare it to 1977 Star Wars one year later -- before Star Wars that's what studios thought of sci-fi. Logan's Run is cheap, shot like a TV show, bad sets, bad costumes, bad acting, bad effects, and hokey miniatures. And as a kid I thought it was amazing. There was the future. So that same kid walked into the Chinese Theater a year later to watch some weird movie called Star Wars where I already thought they ripped off the title from Star Trek and... well, here I still am, clinging to that electricity.

I lived about 30 miles from the Chinese at the time and my grandfather took me to see it. On the way home, he said I didn't utter a word. Lost in thought the whole drive home. Went back with two friends two weeks later to sit through it twice.

Bingo!

Great story!

Crazy **** that SW was lol

Yeah, Star Wars was truly a game-changer.
I don't remember the experience in the theatre that well, but I do remember the lasting impression it had on me. I had to have the comics, the books, the soundtrack and, eventually, the toys.
But before that there were the Sinbad movies with Harryhausen's beautiful stop-motion animation. Those were a wonder to me as a kid. And I also have vague memories of my father taking my brother and me to watch 2001 during some re-run in a huge cinema in Rio de Janeiro. I must've been 6 at most.

I watched Octopussy in Rio how fitting lol

Oh yeah, how could I forget the Golden Voyage of Sinbad...

Those were great in their time for fantasy, again most were oldies but I remember the Golden Voyage comeback and was excited for more... until Star Wars.

Jason and the A Holes was considered to be better than Sinbad.

But I love me some Sinbad Cyclops nonetheless.

Man did sci-fi suck before SW

Man did SW suck after ESB lol

It?s Covid and I?m on my phone when I?m on here. We young and I use the term lightly when referring to me stay on our phone 24/7. Something I should probably stop doing

Us old folks are geeking out right now lol

 

[abake]

Bingo!

Great story!

Crazy **** that SW was lol



I watched Octopussy in Rio how fitting lol



Jason and the A Holes was considered to be better than Sinbad.

But I love me some Sinbad Cyclops nonetheless.

Man did sci-fi suck before SW

Man did SW suck after ESB lol



Us old folks are geeking out right now lol

I also remember watching the original '68 Planet of the Apes when I was a kid. That was awesome.

 

[ZE_501]

Oh yeah, how could I forget the Golden Voyage of Sinbad...

Those were great in their time for fantasy, again most were oldies but I remember the Golden Voyage comeback and was excited for more... until Star Wars.

Yeah, before Star Wars I remember Star Trek, Godzilla, '50s sci-fi and monster movies ... superhero cartoons ... and stop-motion stuff ... Sinbad, King Kong, dinosaurs etc. ... I remember a movie with a Chinese dragon but have never been able to identify it.

Most of the memories are vague in the way early childhood is. I was so young when I saw Star Wars in the theatre that it just sort of...became part of my life for a long time. The toys had a lot to do with it but there was a distinct cut-off point: I turned 16 years old and I completely gave up on Star Wars, on comics, on building and painting model vehicles...because at that time you had to choose, girls or geekdom. Not like today.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Crazy **** that SW was lol

It was literally like a drug... a visual drug. That summer, you just couldn't get enough. We're all still looking for the high.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I also remember watching the original '68 Planet of the Apes when I was a kid. That was awesome.

You are on a roll tonight, and I'm forgetting my movies. The Planet of the Apes films were also huge before Star Wars. Loved those movies.

Sinbad and Apes...

 

[jye4ever]

Sinbad of the Apes

 

[Wor-Gar]

I turned 16 years old and I completely gave up on Star Wars, on comics, on building and painting model vehicles...because at that time you had to choose, girls or geekdom. Not like today.

I do remember when Star Wars was sidelined to pursue girls. Which was much more rewarding.

One thing's for sure: I'd have zero trouble giving up nu-Star Wars to pursue girls today.

 

[Prime Clone]

I do remember when Star Wars was sidelined to pursue girls. Which was much more rewarding.

One thing's for sure: I'd have zero trouble giving up nu-Star Wars to pursue girls today.

At least "girls and cars" left room for Mad Max.

I gave up SW and comic books for precisely three years in my late teens/early 20s.

 

[JAWS]

Going down Nostalgia lane....

My family was a bit poor when I was growing up.. So going to the movies was really an event.

We did a lot of Drive Inn movies and that is where I first saw JAWS. My parents would keep a lookout for Godzilla movies at the Drive in also.. They would do a dusk to dawn of those movies every once in a while.. I rarely made it past the first 20 min of the 2nd movie and would wake up at home in bed

I saw SW in the theaters with the neighbors. But I actually did not become a huge SW fan until I started getting the toys.. I mean I liked the movie.. But those toys took it to another level. I still have a distinct memory of seeing ESB in the theaters.. We got there late.. Walked in when Luke was in the Wampa Cave.

I lived to go to my Grandmothers.. She had Cable and I would prey for the Harryhausen films and Godzilla movies. Became a big Abbot and Costello fan due to the Channel 11 Sunday afternoon movie out of NY. Saw the Planet of the Apes films at her house also. My family would make special trips for the Godzilla Marathons that would come on cable at Grandma's also

Anybody else remember watching King Kong, Son of Kong, and Mighty Joe Young every Thanksgiving on Channel 11??

My dad was a big movie fan so he was always on the look out for anything that was going to be on the local networks night time movie events.. Its where my love of James Bond was created. The Late Late movie on CBS is where I became fan of the Hammer movies.

I use to have the local show Monster Movie Matinee for the classic Universal horror and other 50's sci fi greats like Them and the Deadly Mantis.

In the early 80s my family was doing better financially and we started going to movies a lot.. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Poltergeist, An American Werewolf in London, Conan the Barbarian etc... I was really in my element in the early 80's

My Dad bought the RCA video disc player.. It was a record player that played movies basically..



We had a store that rented the discs.. Its where I really started to discover films like One flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Taxi Driver, The Godfather films and other classic 70's films. I actually owned Raiders, SW, ESB, JAWS, AWIL, and Conan the Barbarian in that format.

My mom love the older movies with stars like James Cagney and Clark Gable.. So I found love for those films also..

Then came the VCR and it was the most wonderful thing that ever happened

I think I basically saw every movie ever made

 

[jye4ever]

Going down Nostalgia lane....

My family was a bit poor when I was growing up.. So going to the movies was really an event.

We did a lot of Drive Inn movies and that is where I first saw JAWS. My parents would keep a lookout for Godzilla movies at the Drive in also.. They would do a dusk to dawn of those movies every once in a while.. I rarely made it past the first 20 min of the 2nd movie and would wake up at home in bed

I saw SW in the theaters with the neighbors. But I actually did not become a huge SW fan until I started getting the toys.. I mean I liked the movie.. But those toys took it to another level. I still have a distinct memory of seeing ESB in the theaters.. We got there late.. Walked in when Luke was in the Wampa Cave.

I lived to go to my Grandmothers.. She had Cable and I would prey for the Harryhausen films and Godzilla movies. Became a big Abbot and Costello fan due to the Channel 11 Sunday afternoon movie out of NY. Saw the Planet of the Apes films at her house also. My family would make special trips for the Godzilla Marathons that would come on cable at Grandma's also

Anybody else remember watching King Kong, Son of Kong, and Mighty Joe Young every Thanksgiving on Channel 11??

My dad was a big movie fan so he was always on the look out for anything that was going to be on the local networks night time movie events.. Its where my love of James Bond was created. The Late Late movie on CBS is where I became fan of the Hammer movies.

I use to have the local show Monster Movie Matinee for the classic Universal horror and other 50's sci fi greats like Them and the Deadly Mantis.

In the early 80s my family was doing better financially and we started going to movies a lot.. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Poltergeist, An American Werewolf in London, Conan the Barbarian etc... I was really in my element in the early 80's

My Dad bought the RCA video disc player.. It was a record player that played movies basically..

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We had a store that rented the discs.. Its where I really started to discover films like One flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Taxi Driver, The Godfather films and other classic 70's films. I actually owned Raiders, SW, ESB, JAWS, AWIL, and Conan the Barbarian in that format.

My mom love the older movies with stars like James Cagney and Clark Gable.. So I found love for those films also..

Then came the VCR and it was the most wonderful thing that ever happened

I think I basically saw every movie ever made

Great read thanks for posting that.

So much good stuff to discover back then.

As a kid I was afraid of the horror movies my older brothers would come home and describe Alien, The Howling, Halloween, Phantasm, Carrie etc and I would be like NO WAY Aww Hell No lol

Plus so many great comedies.

And of course Abbott and Costello!

 

[Wor-Gar]

As a kid I was afraid of the horror movies

That's irony right there.

(see Jye's sig)

 

[Skywalker(OG)Kush]

When i was a kid my parents took my sister and i to a drive ins double feature with snow white and the seven dwarfs as the first film and willard the horror movie as the late night adult feature. Well i guess my parents thought i was asleep so they decided to stay for the 2nd movie. I ended up watching that whole ****ing thing and had nightmares about killer rats for a long time after ward. I use to hear those ****ers in the walls, you know as a kid you can really freak yourself out. So anyway like batman i decided to confront my fear head on, asked mom for a pet rat. Sure enough that little guy broke me of those nightmares that terrified me for months. I bonded with that little guy and was pretty pissed when mom decided to gave it away cause it was causing more trouble then it was worth in her opinion that is lol. He used to escape quite often cause he would literally sleep with me on my shoulder or bed. I guess i figured worst case scenario if there were killer rats in my walls this guy would protect me like that good rat in that horrible movie. Thats how you break yourself of the fear that frightens you most, batman style, first you bond with it, then sleep with it lol

 

[Captain Clown]

Thats how you break yourself of the fear that frightens you most, batman style, you sleep with it lol

 

[EXOTICLEX]

Not ROS but.....

 

[TheDucky]

lol

I can’t imagine trying to pretend to be someone else and give up something I really love just for a chance at some random girl. Selling yourself out. They don’t accept what you like/love/hobbies/etc... they obviously don’t love you. Doing that **** is weak and disrespectful to yourself.

Some of you were simps before simps were a thing???

 

[Prime Clone]

Some of you were simps before simps were a thing???

Or incels. You mean as a hot-blooded teen male you wouldn't have sold out for the chance to get laid??

 

[ZE_501]

lol

I can?t imagine trying to pretend to be someone else and give up something I really love just for a chance at some random girl. Selling yourself out. They don?t accept what you like/love/hobbies/etc... they obviously don?t love you. Doing that **** is weak and disrespectful to yourself.

Some of you were simps before simps were a thing???

LOLOLOLOL....it?s not like it was any tragic sacrifice to trade up. Girls took over my brain completely. Parties, drinking underage, music, pretty girls and discovering a whole new world I?d hitherto only seen in ?80s movies.

There are *stages* to life and I embraced that new stage wholeheartedly; because the alternative was to get sidelined. Teenagers are pragmatic and relatively binary creatures.

Although at that age I was a dumbass, I don?t think choosing human interaction over isolation was a bad decision.


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[ZE_501]

Or incels. You mean as a hot-blooded teen male you wouldn't have sold out for the chance to get laid??

It?s easy to talk about principles when you?re older, wiser and less of a hormonal automaton.

Back then?

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[xipotec]

I think the best description of how SW took over the world was the SW Disco mix.

Designed to ?Hip? people who were into the disco and ?being seen at 54? could get in on the hype while not compromising their coolness.

Also it allowed radio stations to cash in without playing the actual orchestral theme (which would be lame to the pop culture at the time).

It was a dark time.
https://youtu.be/uJ3kV3Icm28


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[ironwez20]

Or incels. You mean as a hot-blooded teen male you wouldn't have sold out for the chance to get laid??

As a teen yes but as an adult it?s silly cause if she thinks your weird for doing something you like then screw her. She can like all her stuff. Why can?t you. But as a teen yes I would of cause I didn?t know any better and did t want anyone to know I collected