C3PX said:
adywan said:
Do you really think that the few added changed that were done for the SE is what made Star Wars popular again? Are you sure you lived on this planet in 1997?

From what I have gathered from -1 comments, he sort of did live on a different planet from you and I, figuratively speaking. He mentioned seeing it as a kid and loving it, then forgetting about it until only recently rediscovering it. I believe his rediscover was post 1997. So he is only looking back on the "historical facts" with box office numbers (which totally do not work that way, with the increased prominence of the cinema from 1977 till present, as well as changes in marketing, when SW was released, the type of licensing and marketing they did with it was pretty much unheard of, today just about everything gets that kind of treatment, the way people way people watch movies and buy related items has changed significantly), comparing box office numbers from the various dates just does tell us much, even while adjusting for inflation, because not only has the value of the currency changed, but so have the culture and the market.

I don't think -1 experienced the 1997 period as we did. He saw it through the eyes of an outsider who didn't care about Star Wars, and so that is the veil through which he sees it all. Since to him Star Wars died out over that time, he sees it having died out for everyone.

thanks CP3X, yes, you are correct, i did make some assumptions on viewing the movie,

and during the timeframes you have mentioned...

Perhaps you did not experience this -1, because you had no interest in these things at that time. You look back and see that sometime around 1997 Star Wars took off again, and assume it must have been the SE.

again you are correct..

i'm sorry if i seemed repetitive, and argumentive... but if knowing my background

helps you understand my viewpoints, then i concede in offering any more observations

at this point...

well done, and i bow to your deductive reasoning..

thanks for the discussions and cordial behaviour... and not being dismissive

without trying to understand my viewpoint..

i wish more discussions on this board were like this..

later

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