Baronlando said:

This movie is in a weird position, the Star Wars connection isn't the source of goodwill it would have been a few years ago. Maybe they should de-emphasize it. (plus, I think we now have the weird situation where even current Star Warsies aren't necessarily going to support it, they've been getting all pissed and resentful about nostalgia and putting the old movies on a pedestal, that one guy with the angry prequel blog might have a rage stroke).

As Phantom Menace is 13 years old now, they are running out of time on that silly argument. ;)

Going by the trailers I've seen, a good chunk of 70's SF/fantasy is represented in the film. It isn't a Star Wars geek film, since the fandom didn't really exist in early 1977.