TURINS~BANE
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
still nothing...
still nothing...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12/18/15)
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
I was watching "Fanboys" yesterday and watching the whole Episode I madness that overtook almost all of us around that time and wondered if people would be that gung-ho this time around or if they'll have been burned by the prequels?
TPM was essentially the first real Star Wars thing in 16 years and so everyone went ape **** and I remember buying up just about anything TPM at the time before even seeing the film. I have a box of sealed TPM action figures as an "investment" for my kids one day that'll probably end up as garage sale fodder
Do you think people will be as nuts as they were back in 1999? Will you? I plan on being there at Midnight on Day One but past that I'm not sure if I'll go full fledged fanboy like I did back then.
I was watching "Fanboys" yesterday and watching the whole Episode I madness that overtook almost all of us around that time and wondered if people would be that gung-ho this time around or if they'll have been burned by the prequels?
TPM was essentially the first real Star Wars thing in 16 years and so everyone went ape **** and I remember buying up just about anything TPM at the time before even seeing the film. I have a box of sealed TPM action figures as an "investment" for my kids one day that'll probably end up as garage sale fodder
Do you think people will be as nuts as they were back in 1999? Will you? I plan on being there at Midnight on Day One but past that I'm not sure if I'll go full fledged fanboy like I did back then.
furystorm
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
In a word...
No!
In a word...
No!
furystorm
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
And that's coming from me at DroidCon II, having invested over $4000 in my own astromech...
I just can't see the original zeitgeist happening again.
And that's coming from me at DroidCon II, having invested over $4000 in my own astromech...
I just can't see the original zeitgeist happening again.
TURINS~BANE
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
true i am a fanboy ill be there. I like TPM was only 14 when saw it, its not perfect but i think its better then the other two. I am expecting someting great this time, i think they are doing all the right things.
I was watching "Fanboys" yesterday and watching the whole Episode I madness that overtook almost all of us around that time and wondered if people would be that gung-ho this time around or if they'll have been burned by the prequels?
TPM was essentially the first real Star Wars thing in 16 years and so everyone went ape **** and I remember buying up just about anything TPM at the time before even seeing the film. I have a box of sealed TPM action figures as an "investment" for my kids one day that'll probably end up as garage sale fodder
Do you think people will be as nuts as they were back in 1999? Will you? I plan on being there at Midnight on Day One but past that I'm not sure if I'll go full fledged fanboy like I did back then.
true i am a fanboy ill be there. I like TPM was only 14 when saw it, its not perfect but i think its better then the other two. I am expecting someting great this time, i think they are doing all the right things.
jye4ever
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
I'm not sleeping on no freezing sidewalks like I did for TPM if thats what you're asking Mike.
**** that, those crazy days are over.
The investment yielded little in return.
I'm not sleeping on no freezing sidewalks like I did for TPM if thats what you're asking Mike.
**** that, those crazy days are over.
The investment yielded little in return.
TURINS~BANE
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
Wookiees have a lifespan of several hundred years, they hang in there.
If it takes place 100 years after the OT, Chewbacca is dead by that time
Still I'd love to see a SW movie that takes place a few hundred or thousand years after the OT. I'd even love to see a movie that takes place during The Old Republic era
Wookiees have a lifespan of several hundred years, they hang in there.
Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
The phenomenon that was TPM prior to its release will never be replicated. Never again. I do look forward to possibly being impressed with the new movie and possibly having a fun time watching it with my kids. But the magic elation of "all things Star Wars" is gone forever.
The phenomenon that was TPM prior to its release will never be replicated. Never again. I do look forward to possibly being impressed with the new movie and possibly having a fun time watching it with my kids. But the magic elation of "all things Star Wars" is gone forever.
furystorm
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
What's wrong with JGL? I kinda adore him. He's a good actor.
What's wrong with JGL? I kinda adore him. He's a good actor.
Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
Yeah, that was a thing where Star Wars seemed done for the longest time, so its resurgence was a really novel and special thing (even if the movie itself wasn't so special). And it goes beyond Star Wars, as this was a time before everything geek was revisited, rebooted, sequeled/prequeled, and spun off ad nauseum. We only had a handful of comic movies back then, now we get several major ones a year. Hard to get too excited about any geek movie since we are so spoiled with them now.
ProgMatinee
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
I think VII will be pretty big in terms of promotion like TPM, but even if successful I think VIII will be low key similar to AOTC.
I think VII will be pretty big in terms of promotion like TPM, but even if successful I think VIII will be low key similar to AOTC.
VintijDroidGutzz
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
Wait till the big three start appearing on teaser posters..
..then you'll see midnight madness go to another level.
Wait till the big three start appearing on teaser posters..
..then you'll see midnight madness go to another level.
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
It should be this.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKr5R1VNPjI[/ame]
But with new footage at the end, obviously.
It should be this.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKr5R1VNPjI[/ame]
But with new footage at the end, obviously.
VintijDroidGutzz
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
I've never seen that before!!! 
Yeah - the heart strings.. all about rekindling our love affair again.
I've never seen that before!!!
Yeah - the heart strings.. all about rekindling our love affair again.
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this is borderline unwatchable...but everytime I put in those tapes, I would sit there and watch this. I never fast forward. It was a tradition.
https://youtu.be/13ynp***RfY
this is borderline unwatchable...but everytime I put in those tapes, I would sit there and watch this. I never fast forward. It was a tradition.
https://youtu.be/13ynp***RfY
VintijDroidGutzz
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Link doesn't work mate..
Link doesn't work mate..
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the censored word is f-c-k....
the censored word is f-c-k....
VintijDroidGutzz
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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
Oh that ****n' sux!
Oh that ****n' sux!
Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
It's funny because I actually don't care at all if my kids are ever nostalgic for the PT (though I took my 6 year old daughter to TPM 3D last year and she was bored out of her mind for about the middle hour of it.) It's the damn OT SE's that will never see the light of day in my house. There have been movies that I've thought were temporarily "better" than others in a series such as Batman Forever and Terminator 2. Then a few years after each I got a clue and realized how utterly superior their predecessors were.
My kids will *never* live and breathe the phenomenon of SW like it was when we were kids so I'm not going to behave as if I can pigeonhole that experience into their lives. If they like the PT fine. If they like the OT more, great. If they prefer the PT now it only means they'll come to their senses later. Whatever works and however they want to do it is fine with me.
I can never enjoy T2 like I did when I was in my teens. I'm glad that my more naïve self got to have fun with it when I could. I've now got the rest of my life to appreciate the lower budget, non-CG, and all around superior original film just like my kids might do with SW one day.
I have no intention whatsoever of allowing my kids to watch the prequels. If they do, it will be without my knowledge or blessing. I do not want them to be nostalgic about those ****ty movies when they get older
It's funny because I actually don't care at all if my kids are ever nostalgic for the PT (though I took my 6 year old daughter to TPM 3D last year and she was bored out of her mind for about the middle hour of it.) It's the damn OT SE's that will never see the light of day in my house. There have been movies that I've thought were temporarily "better" than others in a series such as Batman Forever and Terminator 2. Then a few years after each I got a clue and realized how utterly superior their predecessors were.
My kids will *never* live and breathe the phenomenon of SW like it was when we were kids so I'm not going to behave as if I can pigeonhole that experience into their lives. If they like the PT fine. If they like the OT more, great. If they prefer the PT now it only means they'll come to their senses later. Whatever works and however they want to do it is fine with me.
I can never enjoy T2 like I did when I was in my teens. I'm glad that my more naïve self got to have fun with it when I could. I've now got the rest of my life to appreciate the lower budget, non-CG, and all around superior original film just like my kids might do with SW one day.
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