Who doesnt like star wars?

krudler · 02-04-2012 03:52PM

foxyboxer wrote: »

Can't disagree there. It's in my top 5 all time favorites. It's a work of art IMO.

I love how grimy everything looks, its not some super sparkly 2001 style reality, its just a big industrial ship with vents and steam and dripping water and general dankness outside of the living quarters. The Nostromo is as much of a character as the crew are. Same with Star Wars, its looks like a lived in universe, its why the prequels are so bland looking, everythings too shiny, only the scenes on Tatooine look "Star Warsy" the rest looks like a different franchise.

Fiona · 02-04-2012 03:54PM

Duffff-Man wrote: »

Two lads that I know dress up in the star wars stuff now and again. They also have those light saber yokes.

My husband rescued some of his old Star Wars stuff from his mothers house a while ago, I came in to see it all set up on the living room floor and he was playing with it.

He is 37.

dark crystal · 02-04-2012 03:59PM

mrs crilly wrote: »

My husband rescued some of his old Star Wars stuff from his mothers house a while ago, I came in to see it all set up on the living room floor and he was playing with it.

He is 37.

My fella loves all that sh!te too. He has a Jedi bathrobe, the figures, a huge Star Wars encyclopedia and all the blu-rays. He is 32.

He's in the process of trying to get our 2 year old into it now as well - God help him!

krudler · 02-04-2012 04:02PM

I have a couple of original action figures, I'll keep them forever, my little Boba Fett figure smells like my childhood.

Conall Cernach · 02-04-2012 04:07PM

Bambi wrote: »

Star wars is for c**ts

Blakes 7 is all you need.

I'm actually watching the third series of Blake's 7 at the minute. Avon FTW!

Nyan Cat · 02-04-2012 04:07PM

Star wars is alright for a watch but once is enough for me. It's ok but nothing fantastic to me. I prefer trek, x files, firefly,even earth 2 had potential. Star wars isn't that different to some of those listed but it seemed less fluid and elegant to me. For Want of a better description.
Never mind if I was in IT, I've met folks who think its weird I dont love star wars (as a sci fi nut)

Chuck Stone · 02-04-2012 04:11PM

Doc Ruby wrote: »

It tells an epic story without getting all preachy and moral/christian over it though,

Maybe it's the anarchist in me but I just can't buy into the empires and royals and super villains and blood lines in it. I appreciate that the special effects were fantastic for the time but the stories don't drag me in.

With Alien you have ordinary workers out transporting stuff across space - just doing their job and they're faced with this vicious alien and take it on. I think I can identify with the characters more easily in Alien - it's a masterpiece claustrophobic horror imo.

Logical Fallacy · 02-04-2012 04:11PM

krudler wrote: »

Alien still looks better than most modern sci-fi movies, the sets are still absolutely stunning looking, Prometheus better be amazing!

One of the reasons why it holds up so well, and pretty much shames most modern science fiction movies...is because it was sets. Actually physical environments that the characters were in...not ****ing blue screen approximations like most modern stuff.

SteppingStone · 02-04-2012 04:12PM

Star Wars is a pile of s h i t...

02-04-2012 04:15PM

Two weeks ago I bought the original trilogy on BluRay, this was the first time I had ever seen Star Wars (and I'm of that generation). It's good, and something you could watch again and again easily of a Sunday evening but they weren't the best movies I'd ever seen or anything.

iguana · 02-04-2012 04:16PM

Riddle101 wrote: »

I'm also on the same page as people who are annoyed with George Lucas, I just think he's raping the legacy of star wars with these new blu rays stuff. I mean do we really need to see Christian Hayden inserted into Return of the Jedi just because he played Anakin. I feel sorry for the actor who played old Anakin, who got cut out of the ending because Lucas had to put young Anakin in instead. It's little things like that that get to me, but seriously Lucas is stupid for doing that.

What I really fuçking hate is the celebrations on Coruscant that have been jammed into the end of the latest version of Jedi. Fuçk off Lucas, anyone with half a brain can tell that the destruction of the 2nd Death Star and the death of the Emperor and Vader may have been the turning point of the rebellion but it sure as hell wasn't the end. I'm not even talking about the extended universe and Grand Admiral Thrawn, etc. Just a modicum of logic. The Rebellion threw nearly everything it had up against the Empire at Endor, getting back to Coruscant and restoring the Republic would not happen while Vader's funeral pyre is still burning.:mad:

Miny-bump is only going to be allowed watch Star Wars when we source a copy of the originals. And we will never tell him/her about the prequels.

02-04-2012 04:19PM

It wasn't as good after Kirk left.

krudler · 02-04-2012 04:34PM

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

One of the reasons why it holds up so well, and pretty much shames most modern science fiction movies...is because it was sets. Actually physical environments that the characters were in...not ****ing blue screen approximations like most modern stuff.

Indeed, cgi envionments look too flat, same as Blade Runner, incredible production design on that

iguana · 02-04-2012 04:49PM

Anyone ever seen Return of the Ewok, a short fictional movie about how Warwick Davis got cast as Wicket in Jedi? It was made by David Tomblin (the 1st AD on Jedi) during breaks and days off. Most of the main cast of Star Wars have a small part in it. It's very cute.

It's up on youtube.

sbsquarepants · 02-04-2012 04:54PM

I can't stand star wars.
They can build spaceships, yet they fight with dayglo sticks?? WTF is that about?

Paparazzo · 02-04-2012 05:00PM

uncle_sam_ie wrote: »

Have you seen the Redletter Media Plinkett Star War's reviews. It really puts it into perspective on why episodes 1,2, and 3 suck. I've seen reviews more times then the movies. http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/

How have I never seen these before? Brilliant!

Chemistry Ftw · 02-04-2012 05:07PM

I knew a guy who would get really angry if you told him you didn't like star wars :cool:

krudler · 02-04-2012 05:18PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I can't stand star wars.
They can build spaceships, yet they fight with dayglo sticks?? WTF is that about?

Its a beam of concentrated laser, the day lighsabers become a reality is the day life becomes awesome

Doc Ruby · 02-04-2012 05:18PM

iguana wrote: »

And we will never tell him/her about the prequels.

What prequels?

Sarky · 02-04-2012 05:23PM

Star Wars is a pretty good fantasy/sci-fi setting if you just completely ignore the films*. That still leaves a tonne of history and stories that have not, as yet, been totally ruined by Lucas convincing himself against all available evidence that he's a talented, capable writer with many witty and novel ideas, and a particular skill in crafting romantic epics.

*Yes. All the films. Especially Jedi. Because f*ck Ewoks.

token101 · 02-04-2012 05:23PM

I hate Star Wars. Almost as much as Lord of the Rings. And then there's Star Trek. That's just a new level of hate. People I work with put Clingon quotes on Facebook. F**k off you absolute loser.

44leto · 02-04-2012 05:32PM

Apparently the movie of the decade is in production Star trek 2, only a year to wait.

Toby Take a Bow · 02-04-2012 05:38PM

Had a conversation with lots of friends over this matter, after it came up that one of them didn't like Star Wars. A girl's boyfriend also doesn't like Star Wars. Both had never watched the films when they were growing up, and watched them for the first time in their late teens/early twenties. Anyone else I happen to have talked to about this is pretty much the same. Maybe it's something you have to have watched when you were growing up.

And regarding the prequels, my nephews are huge Star Wars fans, and they absolutely love the prequels. They don't see any difference between the films. So maybe when they grow up (god forbid) the prequels will attain the cult status that the original films enjoy.

Xavi6 · 02-04-2012 05:41PM

zero19 wrote: »

I've never seen an entire Star Wars film, not really my thing.

^^^ This

Haven't been able to sit through a whole film and it's all a bit too nerdy for me.

Not as shit as Star Trek but shit all the same.

Logical Fallacy · 02-04-2012 05:41PM

krudler wrote: »

Indeed, cgi envionments look too flat, same as Blade Runner, incredible production design on that

Absolutely. Hell, i was rewatching the "Escape from..." movies the other night and much preferred the special effects work in that to stuff like Avatar. No idea why...maybe stuff just impresses me less when i know that none of it is real.

44leto · 02-04-2012 05:42PM

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

Had a conversation with lots of friends over this matter, after it came up that one of them didn't like Star Wars. A girl's boyfriend also doesn't like Star Wars. Both had never watched the films when they were growing up, and watched them for the first time in their late teens/early twenties. Anyone else I happen to have talked to about this is pretty much the same. Maybe it's something you have to have watched when you were growing up.

And regarding the prequels, my nephews are huge Star Wars fans, and they absolutely love the prequels. They don't see any difference between the films. So maybe when they grow up (god forbid) the prequels will attain the cult status that the original films enjoy.

The prequels really suckered me, I kept going them thinking the next one has to be better, number 3 was the best but in no-way as good as the originals.

It was a case of to much effects they were like watching cartoons.

krudler · 02-04-2012 05:57PM

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

Absolutely. Hell, i was rewatching the "Escape from..." movies the other night and much preferred the special effects work in that to stuff like Avatar. No idea why...maybe stuff just impresses me less when i know that none of it is real.

yeah old effects have a charm that cgi doesnt, its why something with half models and matte paintings looks better than a flat cgi backdrop, cgi ages faster than older practical effects as well, looks at early 90s cgi and its woeful aside from stuff like T2 and Jurassic Park

Toby Take a Bow · 02-04-2012 05:57PM

44leto wrote: »

The prequels really suckered me, I kept going them thinking the next one has to be better, number 3 was the best but in no-way as good as the originals.

It was a case of to much effects they were like watching cartoons.

Maybe that's why my nephews liked them so much. Yeah, I was the same with the prequels. I can't remember which one went into all the trade agreements crap, but sweet jesus, that was some boring sh*t.

iguana · 02-04-2012 06:10PM

krudler wrote: »

yeah old effects have a charm that cgi doesnt, its why something with half models and matte paintings looks better than a flat cgi backdrop, cgi ages faster than older practical effects as well, looks at early 90s cgi and its woeful aside from stuff like T2 and Jurassic Park

This pic sums it up.

http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/george-lucas-1983-2005.jpg

Paparazzo · 02-04-2012 06:21PM

Xavi6 wrote: »

^^^ This

Haven't been able to sit through a whole film and it's all a bit too nerdy for me.

Not as shit as Star Trek but shit all the same.

Too nerdy for you eh?
http://www.boards.ie/search/?sort=newest&showmore=1&f=417&u=69985

Who doesnt like star wars?

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