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Why the PT fans love the PT so much, not as diehard as we think — Page 3
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Silent Generation 1925-1945
Baby Boomers 1945-1965
Generation X 1965-1985
Generation Y (Boomer Echo) 1985-2005
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Good post DA, and I am 33 years old, and I fall into the Silent Generation category. I never got anything handed to me, started working part time in 7th grade, was one of the few in my high school who actually bought my own car and payed my insurance, when most of my friends parents were buying them nice cars, and now these same friends don't understand the value of money as they are now struggling in their own lives.
I am very old school in my beliefs, and I guess watching movies in general I like movies with a moral message, and the PT has zero of that in it when it comes to Anakin and his action in ROTS.
Of course we are generalizing and many can post here in a certain age group that defies everything we are talking about, but if you look at the majority of what DA said about how each generation acts and what they feel is entitled to them, he hit it on the nose.
Also, I don't think society owes me anything and I am only entitled in life for what I work for. Except the O-OT on DVD in good quality, we are entitled to that! For that I DEMAND IT Mr. Lucas!
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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
TPM is already starting to die away from the collective minds of both the nerds and the general public. And that was only 7 years ago. The PT will go the way of the dinosaur and just become a novelty of the hardcore fans, but the true nature of the Force (i.e. the Original Trilogy) will live on. It's already got a good 23 years on the PT and going strong.
TPM is already starting to die away from the collective minds of both the nerds and the general public. And that was only 7 years ago. The PT will go the way of the dinosaur and just become a novelty of the hardcore fans, but the true nature of the Force (i.e. the Original Trilogy) will live on. It's already got a good 23 years on the PT and going strong.
Very well put, Jenny.
Star Wars was a true blockbuster movie - an industry-changing film. It changed the way people thought about science fiction movies, it changed the way people thought about adventure stories, it changed the way films were made, it changed the way special effects looked. It was a true turning point in the history of film. In the film world there's pre-Star Wars science fiction movies and post-Star Wars science fiction movies.
The PT is none of that. They're just some movies that came out in the summer time along with several other films in their respective years. They didn't run for a year, grab the collective conscious of the public, generate a wave of copycat films and TV shows for years afterwards, or strike a chord with multiple generations.
If it weren't for the internet - the PT would have been forgotten already. Star Wars, on the other hand, survived and flourished solely as a film. A film that you had to drive to go see. There was no internet fan base, no message boards, no fan-based user communities. There weren't multiple-edition DVDs that you could watch at any time of the day, no special feature-laden discs with running commentary by the director or the wardrobe assistant that you could turn on and off at random.
Star Wars existed in only one form - a movie playing at the local cinema. On that alone, it captured the imagination of millions.
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Years ago on an old message board, I knew a poster (not really knew, but knew as far as you can know somone on a message board I guess.) who LOVED jar jar binks. LOVED LOVED LOVED All the stupidness of that character and I couldn't believe it. I'd be awake at night trying to understand why someone who loves star wars can possibly love him, MAYBE someone with a gun to their head could say they LIKE him, but LOVE? That scene-destroying waste of cgi? It burns, rapes, destroys, craps on, and shreds my mind.
His nearly complete absence from Revenge of the Sith gave many the the impression that that was a better film than 1 and 2, i think, and is why many view tpm as the worst, aotc as better, and revenge as the best of the lot. And I think it's simply because Lucas finally wised up and dropped the silly thing out of these movies. I must say that as someone who hates (on a ridiculous level I admit) that thing, I actually really enjoyed RotS even with all its PT-ness still clearly there, what mattered to me was that I finally had a new star wars movie without some stupid cgi jamaican-thing flapping himself all over the place and I guess that's why a lot of other people like it too. Maybe we were so completely repulsed by that thing's pressence that we found a lot of relief in a practically jar jar-less film, even with all the garbage it still had (ie: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO). jar jar was gone. halellujah...To me that made rots a masterpiece compared to the other two. I know it's really simplistic but please understand that I really hate him, so much so, that the rest of the pt's faults are nothing by comparison... Maybe this was gL's plan, maybe not, but the night I learned jar jar would be nothing more than an extra in episode 3, all was forgiven.
that's my story.
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Originally posted by: andy_k_250
...PT fans are sad, disillusioned youths who grew up in white, upper middle-class suburbia and can identify with Anakin because they also know how frustrating it can be when you lock your iPod in your Humvee.
...PT fans are sad, disillusioned youths who grew up in white, upper middle-class suburbia and can identify with Anakin because they also know how frustrating it can be when you lock your iPod in your Humvee.
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Originally posted by: andy_k_250
I think the majority of hardcore PT fans are sad, disillusioned youths who grew up in white, upper middle-class suburbia and can identify with Anakin because they also know how frustrating it can be when you lock your iPod in your Humvee.
I think the majority of hardcore PT fans are sad, disillusioned youths who grew up in white, upper middle-class suburbia and can identify with Anakin because they also know how frustrating it can be when you lock your iPod in your Humvee.
Absolute gold. That is worthy enough to be a signnature.
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Originally posted by: Harlock415
Absolute gold. That is worthy enough to be a signnature.
Originally posted by: andy_k_250
I think the majority of hardcore PT fans are sad, disillusioned youths who grew up in white, upper middle-class suburbia and can identify with Anakin because they also know how frustrating it can be when you lock your iPod in your Humvee.
I think the majority of hardcore PT fans are sad, disillusioned youths who grew up in white, upper middle-class suburbia and can identify with Anakin because they also know how frustrating it can be when you lock your iPod in your Humvee.
Absolute gold. That is worthy enough to be a signnature.
Ha! Thanks. I don't want it for mine, but if anyone really wants to associate that closely with the PT, they are welcome to it.
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"Ah, the proverbial sad sack with a wasted wish."
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Originally posted by: jack Spencer Jr
Jar Jar was hardly the worst thing in the movie. Handled properly, he could have been an amusing, compelling character.
Jar Jar was hardly the worst thing in the movie. Handled properly, he could have been an amusing, compelling character.
As in "Balance Of The Force."
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Originally posted by: andy_k_250
As in "Balance Of The Force."
As in "Balance Of The Force."
Yes, like that and many, many other elements in the PT. Used right, they would have moved the audience to tears. Hence the general hate. Wasted potential should be hated.
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Do they really have nothing better to talk about than re-hashing Ahmed Best and all the "great" work that went into creating the most hated good-guy of all time? Sheesh!
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