Star Wars Saga (OT/PT/ST) Discussion Thread

[Felinx]

Do you know any boomers that are huge SW fans? If you do they are the rare exceptions, New SW is kid centric , as was the OT. It was never ment to last with that age group. The PT was (and still is) an abomination to me because I was an adult when I saw it. So it really has not lasting impact on me besides more SW content. Same as the DSW universe , more content , much of it is not lasting to me. Entertaining , but it can never capture us the way OT did when we were kids.

Biggest of them all - Steve Sansweet.

Not to mention Fran Tarkenton from NFL/"That's Incredible" and pop heartthrob Rick Springfield.

All in their mid 70s to mid 80s.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Similar tonal shift that occurred with Indy.

Changes culturally and movie-wise from late 1970s to late 1980s, also what was going on personally for Spielberg/Lucas (divorces, kids, ageing, etc.)

You could say that about Bond as well, which had gotten silly long before Star Wars and Raiders. I think its the nature of milking a franchise -- eventually it all becomes a wink and a nod -- a joke. The filmmakers lean into the humor.

Mad Max (Mel) became silly... Die Hard became silly... Lethal Weapon became silly... Alien, Terminator, Predator... all silly.

 

[xipotec]

Biggest of them all - Steve Sansweet.

Not to mention Fran Tarkenton from NFL/"That's Incredible" and pop heartthrob Rick Springfield.

All in their mid 70s to mid 80s.

They are abnormal .....it's definelty not the norm.

 

[Johnny Utah]

New trilogy coming from Simon ******* Kinberg. Not episodes 10-12.
https://deadline.com/2024/11/star-wars-trilogy-simon-kinberg-movies-1236169916/

 

[jye4ever]

They will be released after the Rian Johnson trilogy.

 

[Khev]

They will be released after the Rian Johnson trilogy.

Exactly. They need to just stop "announcing" projects altogether. Wake me up when something is actually filmed and has an assigned release date.

 

[xipotec]

New trilogy covering episodes 10-12 coming from Simon ******* Kinberg
https://deadline.com/2024/11/star-wars-trilogy-simon-kinberg-movies-1236169916/

Bring back the old hits.....

Maybe.

 

[Felinx]

They are abnormal .....it's definelty not the norm.

Well, you did say "do you know of ANY boomers that are huge SW fans?" - like as in "name one" - so I named three who are (or were) semi-famous. Because otherwise it's just like "my teacher in grade school loved SW as much as we did" and that's just anecdotal so doesn't exactly prove much.

But yeah, certainly a majority of SW fans were young back in the day, whereas I'd argue that SW today is a (slim) majority of older fans vs younger fans. Like back then it was 3/4 teens/kids and 1/4 adults, today that's reversed (some of that is admittedly the decline in appeal of movies to younger people vs in 70s/80s.) I never quite bought all the press about a "new generation of SW fans" that were turning out for the ST in 2015-2020. Rather mostly older fans bringing their families and maybe shared parent-kid fandom.

Which, when I was a kid, would have thought was a bit weird (ie my dad taking me to a fantasy film he loved and me sharing in that fandom.) But adults are different today than they were in the 1970s, and I'm sure there must have been a bit of that parent-kid shared fandom with stuff like POTA, Lost in Space etc that had large adult audiences but also major toy lines.

 

[jaztermareal]

Kids went mental for MCU (until it went crap). They didn't for the sequel trilogy.

Both Star Wars and Marvel are old brands now but 1 did it right from the start and the other did not. Iron Man was not aimed at children, and they embraced it because it was more mature than most kids movies. They did not embrace the Star Wars sequel trilogy.


Make good movies rhat appeal to everyone and the kids will embrace it, even in this age of ADD tiktok attention spans.

 

[Johnny Utah]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-wars-simon-kinberg-trilogy-1236055848/

New characters. I tried to tell Star Wars Theory on his livestream but he wasn't reading the chat and completely went off on another rant based on the Deadline article.