I've gotten duped into seeing 5 of them. :-\
I remember when I was playing basketball for a Baptist school (junior high), there was this guy on the team who couldn't watch 99.9% of things on television. If he was watching sports he couldn't watch the commercials, and the only cable channel he was allowed to watch was TV Land. Anyway one day the team was on the bus heading to an away game, and I overheard another kid on the team explaining the entirety of Star Wars to him. Pretty much scene for scene.
So I'm listening and kind of think it's funny, then the guy gets to the part in ESB where Vader tells Luke he's his father. The kid was like "what? Wow, amazing, really?" The shock on his face, and the fact that the twist was ruined for him forever in such a shitty manner bummed me out for hours. :lol
didnt you use to be a baptist or some awful shit like that
I used to troll Baptists and ask them where in the bible does it say Gentiles are supposed to be baptised. I was a fierce lil nicca for god breh :lawd
After the special editions came out on VHS in the late-90's, I watched all three movies nearly one a week for a whole year [maybe even longer].
Me too bro. Gold or silver box? I think I still have mine around here?
After the special editions came out on VHS in the late-90's, I watched all three movies nearly one a week for a whole year [maybe even longer].I used to troll Baptists and ask them where in the bible does it say Gentiles are supposed to be baptised. I was a fierce lil nicca for god breh :lawd
??? The bible even had black people getting baptised.
Today salvation is solely through the death of Christ, not works.
Today salvation is solely through the death of Christ, not works.
:whoo so this is why so many christians dont see a problem with being evil asshats?
ps the sad truth about star wars is that it sucks doodoo. marathon lotr instead brehs
lord of the rings is an anglican homosexual tory white supremacist wankfest
its pretty good tho
lord of the rings is an anglican homosexual tory white supremacist wankfestYou just listed some of my favorite things
its pretty good tho
Today salvation is solely through the death of Christ, not works.
:whoo so this is why so many christians dont see a problem with being evil asshats?
Pentecostal churches are friggin crazy. Speaking in tongues :holeup
Skidmark who occasionally posts here had also never seen a Star Wars or Star Trek. I talked him into watching Star Wars over skype with me. It was a fun experience but I don't think he liked it very much.
I'll probably also try to get him to eventually watch one of the newer Star Trek films.
It's fun watching something that has such cultural cache for my age group and then watching a younger person see it and get almost nothing from it. It makes you realize how everything you like in 20 years nobody will give a shit about. Very humanizing.
It's fun watching something that has such cultural cache for my age group and then watching a younger person see it and get almost nothing from it. It makes you realize how everything you like in 20 years nobody will give a shit about. Very humanizing.
I think you're right in general, but not about Star Wars. It's achieved such a high level of continued awareness far beyond anything else that came out around that time. I mean, does anybody remember Towering Inferno? But it was big in its time, too. Part of that was George Lucas' genius as a marketer, churning out everything you can think of with a Star Wars logo slapped on it, followed by sequels and spinoffs and books and whatever else he could think of. People will still be watching Star Wars, and wearing Star Wars t-shirts, 20 years from now, but nobody's going to care about Avatar.
ROTJ has the best scene in star wars though. Jedi is great!
Jedi is good but I think it hints way too much at what Star Wars had become and was ultimately going to become 15 years after Jedi. Lucas' original image was much darker and it dabbled a bit in hard-scifi. I'm not familiar enough with Lucas to understand why the shift.
I disagree with that. I didn't listen to the Beatles until I was in college and in my 20's. In fact, a lot of the music I've explored, I did myself in my teens and 20's. I also didn't even see Star Wars until the Special Edition trilogy in 1997, and by then, the effects were dated compared to Independence Day and Jurassic Park but I still loved the shit out it and was I was 11 years old at the time.
I disagree with that. I didn't listen to the Beatles until I was in college and in my 20's. In fact, a lot of the music I've explored, I did myself in my teens and 20's. I also didn't even see Star Wars until the Special Edition trilogy in 1997, and by then, the effects were dated compared to Independence Day and Jurassic Park but I still loved the shit out it and was I was 11 years old at the time.
You're not exactly disproving my point. You listened to the Beatles in college, that meant that you had the intellect/desire to explore past music. That doesn't mean you wouldn't have liked them if you listen to them as a kid.
And the Special Edition trilogy was my first experience with them as well, you're actually proving my point a bit. 11 is still young enough to be impressionable.
I was always more of a Star Trek kid. The only cool thing about Star Wars were the lightsabers. :yeshrug
I was always more of a Star Trek kid. The only cool thing about Star Wars were the lightsabers. :yeshrug
EDIT: the original Star Wars trilogy has some of the best music ever known to movies as well. Look at how many times those pieces were riffed and improvised for different games, movies, television. Incredible.
I hated Star Trek as a kid.
I love Star Trek as an adult.
Life is full of mysteries.
please tell me at least one of you stans the EU
i need one last Kyle Katarn game.
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It probably helps that I also didn't watch any of the Star Wars stuff until I was in my 20's versus growing up and watching Trek from a very early age.Yup. Get 'em young.
I hate to categorize nerd shit on this scale...but Star Wars will always be cooler than Star Trek. There's just no comparison. Looks better, cooler weapons, more interesting aliens, more badass villain, etc.
I hate to categorize nerd shit on this scale...but Star Wars will always be cooler than Star Trek. There's just no comparison. Looks better, cooler weapons, more interesting aliens, more badass villain, etc.
By "cooler" I'm assuming you mean more popular. And yes I would agree that Star Wars will always be more popular than Star Trek. Not not that I necessarily care about that though.
please tell me at least one of you stans the EU
i need one last Kyle Katarn game.
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I hate to categorize nerd shit on this scale...but Star Wars will always be cooler than Star Trek. There's just no comparison. Looks better, cooler weapons, more interesting aliens, more badass villain, etc.
By "cooler" I'm assuming you mean more popular. And yes I would agree that Star Wars will always be more popular than Star Trek. Not not that I necessarily care about that though.
I don't think he means by popularity. I think he means aesthetically, and I would agree. Even with TNG, it often still feels like the same 60's show but with better camerss. Sometimes it could still feel like the original Star Trek due to effects, makeup, costumes, sets. It looked so cheap and gaudy. But Star Wars has a sense of cool where Trek is lacking: lightsabers, blasters shooting like pistols, Han Solo, Jedi, it's just all so interesting.
There's a 'monster/planet of the week' feel i've never been able to shake from Trek, that leaves me thinking SW is just more epic and wide reaching in scope.That's actually what I liked about it so much. That and alien ecology. I still remember a lot of the episode fondly, like the one where they all go backwards through evolutionary history. Whorf turns into some monster, Riker into a cave man and Berkley into a spider. Bizarre stuff. The one where Picard lives an entire life-time in some simulation is great, too.
actually Lwaxana troi is the jar jar binks of star trekOh, you sense emotion. Guess what, so can anyone but Data! Such a pointless character.
:whew that return of the Jedi hate is powerful. I guess people really hate the ewoks that much
Who cares?
I've never seen a minute of Star Trek, so what?
Oh shit. Still, the point stands. Deanna never did anything worthwhile as far as I remember. Her mom didn't have much of a presence though. There's that naked wedding ceremony. Don't remember anything else about her besides her lusting after Picard.
I met her once. She's 20 buckets full of crazy :lolShe was in Stephen Fry's documentary about bipolar disorder. She's certified crazy.
I think coming after ESB is really hard for that movie. Star Wars was stunning, but many fans count ESB to be their favorite, because it reveals so much, progresses each of the characters and their relationships, and (perhaps the best serial-like moment of all) ends without wrapping everything up neatly, and leaves us hungering for the next installment.ROTJ has the best scene in star wars though. Jedi is great!
I understand why nerds have issues with Jedi. And technically it is the weakest of the three but I just think people are holding it to a very high bar. It's fine. Ewoks and such for me don't Jar Jar the movie. There is still enough there to stand on its own merits versus something like The Phantom Menace which is awful on all fronts.
I'm well aware of that. But it left such a bad taste in my mouth that I couldn't get myself to watch anything remotely related to that universe.
I'm well aware of that. But it left such a bad taste in my mouth that I couldn't get myself to watch anything remotely related to that universe.
:what
og trek is like 60% unwatchable
Go watch Trek, wrath
OK, I'll do it this year.
i like OG trek and I have to agree that it's mostly trash
og trek is like 60% unwatchable
I highly disagree. Especially if you have a strong sense of irony.
Like I said earlier in this topic, the twilight zone and monster of the week stuff is (http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/A1Bny.png)
I'm not sure if wrath should start with tng or the original series. OG Trek has its moments but I dunno.
Should probably star with Wrath of Khan.
I'm going to start OG. Mostly cause I can enjoy if something is pretty bad. It will be fun to see where all the references come from. I know way too much about the show for having not watched it.
I saw Jedi in the theater during it's original release.
Not as old as some duders here, but still feels old man.
I remember when Jedi came out my older cousins had the first two on VHS and tried to show them to 4-year old me, but the plan had to be abandoned because I kept crying every time Hamill was on screen. I was apparently scared of his haircut? Kids are weird.
People hating on Star Trek TOS :picard
Yup. Dont hate TOS either but it's just got high highs and low lows to me. I reserve the word hate for things like Voyager and Enterprise.
But no one likes episode 1. Star wars fans agree with you.I do. Its problem is that it's pretty much all terribly executed and seems like what should be 45 minutes of another film stretched out. And that it's better after you already know Palpatine's plot because you can be all weebay.gif. I prefer it to most of II and all of III probably. And it has a top-favorite scene:
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Growing up, there was definitely a window of opportunity when I was a kid thirsty for anything imaginative— whether it was fantasy or sci-fi I didn't care, I just spongy imagination was ready to absorb anything. Unfortunately, it was a time when the rest of the world wasn't yet submerged in Western culture and getting something like Star Wars wasn't only a few clicks away. Had I seen the movies during that period, I would have totally been a spergdork today.
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I saw Jedi in the theater during it's original release.
Not as old as some duders here, but still feels old man.
Me too. I was six years old I think? Seems right.
People hating on Star Trek TOS
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(snip)
Growing up, there was definitely a window of opportunity when I was a kid thirsty for anything imaginative— whether it was fantasy or sci-fi I didn't care, I just spongy imagination was ready to absorb anything. Unfortunately, it was a time when the rest of the world wasn't yet submerged in Western culture and getting something like Star Wars wasn't only a few clicks away. Had I seen the movies during that period, I would have totally been a spergdork today.
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Oddly, this is how I feel about Gundam. Every male in Japan seems to have a Star Wars-level fascination with Gundam. They are still selling original series Gundam plastic models in every toy store in Japan. But as much as I know it would have grabbed my as a kid, I can't really get into the series as an adult.
which gundams have you seen?
which gundams have you seen?
I honestly don't even remember. I think I watched the movie version which compresses the first series, also watched some of that in the original TV series edition, a little of Turn-A (which apparently NO-ONE likes), and one other from about 10 years back.
Me? I'm all about Mobile Fighter G Gundam :patel
Watch Empire, wiki the rest
I don't hate Japan.
Japan gave me chococat, doraemon, sailor moon and dbz breh.
I haven't played a FF.
:patel
I've gotten duped into seeing 5 of them. :-\
Wait, which one aren't you counting?
I don't hate Japan.don't forget genki porn :whoo :whew :noah
Japan gave me chococat, doraemon, sailor moon and dbz breh.