Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12/18/15)

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Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread

It's funny because I actually don't care at all if I 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. :)

:goodpost: One of the smartest statements i've ever seen posted. :goodpost:

Hold on, brb, need to go tuck my son in with his Star Wars blanket and turn on his Raiders night light and get him his Mad Max water bottle and put away his Robocop slippers and sing him his T2 lullaby song.
 
Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread

:goodpost: One of the smartest statements i've ever seen posted. :goodpost:

Hold on, brb, need to go tuck my son in with his Star Wars blanket and turn on his Raiders night light and get him his Mad Max water bottle and put away his Robocop slippers and sing him his T2 lullaby song.

:panic::clap:exactly::hi5:

In my dreams I do this...
 
Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread

It should be this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKr5R1VNPjI

But with new footage at the end, obviously.

I wish Harmy's cuts had those at the beginning.... Grew up with the '95 boxset. I never fast forwarded that either. For me, that and the PotF2 line of figures sum up the best memories of Star Wars as a child.
 
Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread

:goodpost: One of the smartest statements i've ever seen posted. :goodpost:

Hold on, brb, need to go tuck my son in with his Star Wars blanket and turn on his Raiders night light and get him his Mad Max water bottle and put away his Robocop slippers and sing him his T2 lullaby song.

:rotfl :hi5: :duff

And TRUE STORY, tonight while my wife was folding clothes in the bedroom I watched the first 20 minutes of Robocop 2 while my 3 year old son was in the living room. I didn't really remember anything frightening at the beginning of the movie until that damn prototype Robo 2 came walking out and screamed as it removed its mask and looked all nasty and skeletal before collapsing.

I think that scene is hysterical but as I was laughing I tried to block him from seeing the screen but he dodged me, watched that scene in its entirety and then acted it out! "All right dude, I guess you're good."
 
Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread

That scene is one reason I just can't warm to Robocop 2 for the most part. A bit too silly for my liking.
 
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It's funny how people are talking about watching Star Wars with their kids. My 8 year old finally sat through the first original 2. Meaning IV A New Hope and V Empire Strikes Back. He was kind of bored with IV which is understandable to me at this point in this day and age. The original had that 70's movie style with the slow burn build up. Then last night, he watched Empire and he enjoyed that so much more. It even caused him to say "cool" a couple of times which made me happy. I have to say sitting their watching them again and seeing how my son was enjoying it really put a smile on my face. It also made me realize more and more why ESB is the best of the old films. When I was young. ROTJ was actually my favorite for a while. However if anyone would ask me which one is the best, I would always defend the original and say that one. Besides, without the original being successful, there would be no sequels to compare to. However as an adult I can now appreciate how well ESB was written and done. The pace is faster and keeps your interest going. I think as a child ESB was a bummer with the way it ended and frustrating because we knew how long we had to wait for the next one. However now being able to watch them in a row, it is a quite satisfying film and really builds up the tension.

Anyway, I'm just happy my kid is sitting through them and enjoying it. In these times, that is all I can ask.
 
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R2 is crap.

Robocop 2 has it's issues but it's a hell of a lot of fun.

The new electric blue Robo suit is awesome and mesmerizing in every scene. Some great action gags like him stepping out of the fiery police car after it flipped over due to multiple bazooka blasts, the bank shot, the FIRST movie to feature the "sniper gets shot in the eye through his own scope" (which was copied in not only Sniper but Saving Private Ryan!)

There are some poignant moments (all carried solely by Weller.) "Touch this." "Its cold." "They made this to honor him." And even when that stupid kid died he got to say, "Dying sucks, but you already know that, huh?" "Yes. I do...." I don't know that there was one single exchange in the entire 6+ hour SW prequel TRILOGY that matched any of those scenes.

There's some great comedy (again with the ads but also the news broadcasts.) "The nuclear reactor in the Amazon blows up and destroys the world's largest natural rainforest. Environmentalists are calling it a disaster." "But don't they all?" :lol Plus the new prototypes have me in stitches every time I watch them unveiled.

And of course Robocain (or Robocop 2 as he's technically called) and the sheer unadulterated mayhem of the final act. Kind of the cyber version of King Kong run amuck.

They screw up some of the awesomeness of the first film of course, the city is clearly sillier and not the same one inhabited by **** Jones and Boddicker's gang. Robocop has absolutely zero personal connection to any of the villains, including Cain. He isn't really even phased by the fact that he gets disassembled at one point. He's really all business throughout the film save for those two scenes I mentioned above. The music pretty much sucks and sounds like something out of a 1970's CHiPs TV show. Not all the jokes strike gold, and apparently the savvy if slightly out of touch old man from the original is just pure evil now. But meh, I rarely think of sequels when watching predecessors. Robocop 1 is it's own thing and R2 is a fun continuation for some laughs and entertaining Robocarnage. Murphy ripping the brain out of Cain and smashing it on the pavement (and then punching the goo!) would have made Billy Bob of TNT's MonsterVision proud. :lecture

I remember watching it in the theater on opening weekend summer 1990 and having a blast.
 
Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread

It's funny how people are talking about watching Star Wars with their kids. My 8 year old finally sat through the first original 2. Meaning IV A New Hope and V Empire Strikes Back. He was kind of bored with IV which is understandable to me at this point in this day and age. The original had that 70's movie style with the slow burn build up. Then last night, he watched Empire and he enjoyed that so much more. It even caused him to say "cool" a couple of times which made me happy. I have to say sitting their watching them again and seeing how my son was enjoying it really put a smile on my face. It also made me realize more and more why ESB is the best of the old films. When I was young. ROTJ was actually my favorite for a while. However if anyone would ask me which one is the best, I would always defend the original and say that one. Besides, without the original being successful, there would be no sequels to compare to. However as an adult I can now appreciate how well ESB was written and done. The pace is faster and keeps your interest going. I think as a child ESB was a bummer with the way it ended and frustrating because we knew how long we had to wait for the next one. However now being able to watch them in a row, it is a quite satisfying film and really builds up the tension.

Anyway, I'm just happy my kid is sitting through them and enjoying it. In these times, that is all I can ask.


cant wait for my daughter to be in that age and watch them with her as well :) she is 15 months now and until she is in that age.. she will have Ep 1-9 .. insane ! :D
 
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R2 is crap.

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:lol
 
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