The prequels for the Star Wars movies burned out any lingering enthusiasm I had for the franchise as a whole, and Pete feels the same but even more so. So we'll go see The Force Awakens if we hear/read good things about it, but it isn't an automatic "must see in theatre!" movie for us right now.
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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Atropa - Apr 17, 2015 9:16:33 am PDT #28729 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
beekaytee - Apr 17, 2015 9:49:24 am PDT #28730 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
The prequels for the Star Wars movies burned out any lingering enthusiasm I had for the franchise as a whole
There is no WORD big enough to articulate how much word I have for this.
Someone will have to give this one a gold-plated review before I can be bothered, nostalgia be damned.
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2015 9:55:24 am PDT #28731 of 30000
brillig
I enjoyed enough of the sequels that I'd watch them again if I stumbled across them.
-t - Apr 17, 2015 10:08:03 am PDT #28732 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have such complicated feelings about Star Wars. Cannot sum up.
quester - Apr 17, 2015 5:16:39 pm PDT #28733 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I've never had any great attachment to Star Wars. I enjoyed the original movies well enough, but thought the overall reaction to them to be out of proportion to the quality of them.
The prequels were pretty but the cartoon Clone Wars are better. I'll see the sequels for completest reasons, but I don't have a great investment in the whole thing.
Consuela - Apr 17, 2015 8:46:02 pm PDT #28734 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, man, I loved the original trilogy so much, and hated the first prequel so much, I never saw any of the other movies.
But I'm enjoying SW Rebels, and oh, the MUSIC and the pan across the desert, and Han and Chewie!
I've started to hope again. This is bad. I remember what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek, my other beloved childhood franchise.
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2015 9:18:49 pm PDT #28735 of 30000
brillig
I remember what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek, my other beloved childhood franchise.
It could be an insidious ploy from the dark side.
Kalshane - Apr 18, 2015 6:19:29 am PDT #28736 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I'm cautiously optimistic. What bothers me more, at the moment, is how little the universe has apparently changed in 30 years. Rebels in X-wings vs Imperial Tie Fighters seems like the Star Wars universe got stuck in a bubble where nothing changed except for the inhabitants getting older.
Gris - Apr 18, 2015 12:30:09 pm PDT #28737 of 30000
Hey. New board.
It has always seemed to me like the Star Wars universe was fairly stagnant technologically. So X wings don't bug me. I kind of like that it doesn't seem like the rebels immediately won and took over everything after RotJ - the Emperor had built enough of a governmental system that clearly others would step in after his death.
Connie Neil - Apr 18, 2015 2:06:19 pm PDT #28738 of 30000
brillig
People out on the borderlands would hack out empires for themselves. Typical behavior after a major change of government.