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doubleofive said:
I love this thread. More stories, xhonzi!
More xhonzi in general!
Battle droids the robotic incarnations of Jar Jar Binks.
Adventures in Raising the Next Generation of Original Star Wars Fans — Page 2
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Here is a good example. I have a 3 year old son who is very energetic but he will sit still through A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back and if my hand is within a foot of the remote he tells me not to touch it and will smack my hand while his eyes are still fixed on the TV.
I put on Phantom Menace and he wants off the couch and plays with his cars. Then the podrace comes on and he watches that while making noises when its over he asks to see the racing again. I say no and he goes off to play his cars.
He hasn't seen Return of the Jedi yet.
So from a very early age they can what is crap and what is not.
The fact my son is called Luke has nothing and I mean nothing to do with Star Wars.
I tried to call him Boba but the wife wouldn't allow it.
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Filthy Pierre said:
I tried to call him Boba but the wife wouldn't allow it.
Did she think he would follow Count Dooku on a damn idealistic crusade like his father did?
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Heh. Just ran across this and thought it oddly apropos to this thread. Hopefully your kids, and mine, won't end up like this:
Every 27th customer will get a ball-peen hammer, free!
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Aw man, that makes me want to sell my kids to the highest bidder.*
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I know we all have varying opinions on what merit there is (or isn't) in the PT, but allow me to quickly reiterate mine and that might help a few of you understand why I have gone down the "almost completely censor" approach.
I think Star Wars is irreverisibly devalued through association with the PT. I don't keep the PTs out of their fragile lives to prevent them from liking the PT... I keep the PT out of their lives so that they'll like the OT. I know kids are all into the Clone Wars stuff that's out, but I think that their attachment to it will be fleeting. I doubt any of their generation will remember that crap in 30 years the way we remember Star Wars today.
I could go on, but I'll leave it there for now.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
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Bingowings said:
Filthy Pierre said:
I tried to call him Boba but the wife wouldn't allow it.
Did she think he would follow Count Dooku on a damn idealistic crusade like his father did?
I was a damn fool. I knew she was gonna say that.
Battle droids the robotic incarnations of Jar Jar Binks.
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http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/explanations-about-Vader/post/378800/#TopicPost378800
I tried to find earlier posts containing other stories from denying my kids the PT. This was the best I could find.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
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Brahmmuel L Jackson said:
Out of curiosity, have you guys ever watched this video?
That was really well done and made me lol.
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I'd take a different approach. First I wouldn't let my kids watch any of the movies until I've properly instructed them on the difference between good movies and total crap. Then I'll let them watch the movies and see what happens.
"George, we hate you for making more Star Wars movies. Please make more Star Wars movies."
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awe, the little Vader looks sad :(
"George, we hate you for making more Star Wars movies. Please make more Star Wars movies."
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Brahmmuel L Jackson said:
Out of curiosity, have you guys ever watched this video?
For a while, I've been wondered whether the kind of people spoofed in that ingenious video, truly existed. Seems like today, my quest has found its end... and it ees glooorious!!!
Tbh, I'm having a hard time right now to figure out whether you guys are serious about this or not. If there is even an ounce of seriousness involved, I simply don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Or what to think of it all... I mean, on one hand, SW is just a bunch of entertaining movies (of which three are slightly campy adventure films, and three kinda shitty but still fun spectacles) and it seems absurd any parent should bend backwarts so much to provide their kids some kind of "perfect impression" of them... on the other hand - because it's not that big of an issue, there's no particular reason for you not do it, either, except that, you know, it's very strange.
I guess as long as you people, apart from carefully calculating how and when to feed Star Wars to your kids, you also keep up the real important educational aspects having to do with working ability, healthy lifestyle, medical basic knowledge, "social stuff" and any important parts of culture and pop-culture, I guess it's not that bad in the general picture :)
But honestly guys? The PT is just three bad films. There are sooo many really bad films out there (not just horror flicks and exploitation stuff, but all kinds of crap like stupid comedies, cheesy animated cartoons, horrible action movies, etc. etc. many of them far worse than the prequels), and sometimes being bad is what makes them fun. Sometimes, knowing how bad a movie can get, is still useful, and provides a good contrast to how good it can get, so there's really no sense in protecting children from badly done movies in general.
If you're a cineast and would like to impart your kid with some of your experiences and knowledge (gradually), then by all means - but making such a huge deal out of STAR WARS??!
So maybe you'll get them to accept the OT as good movies, but it might still take them 40 years until they've taken a peek into Casablanca or something. -I haven't seen Casablanca, either. No one cares.
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Luke Skywalker he say :
I care.
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So, um, how's it.. do you think... a princess, and a guy like your kid?
:D
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EyeShotFirst said:
I constantly quote the emperor's lines from ROTJ. I like taking the remote control and putting it on a channel that nobody likes only to say:
"You want this....don't you."
I say this to my kids all of the time. Especially when they're really little. It works great with pacifiers. You hold it out in front of their face until they lock eyes on it:
ME: You want this... don't you?
HIM: ...
ME: Take your baby binkey! Strike me down with it! THEN! Your journey to the Dark Side will be complete!
HIM: ...
ME: ...
HIM: ..... <WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH>
ME: (looking offscreen) Honey?! He wants you!
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
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There won't be a new generation of oot fans, since the originals are suppressed and don't exist as far as George Lucas is concerned.
Ironic that he wrote on the video box for the vhs " i hope your children and children's children, enjoy them."
He has made sure that cannot happen,lol.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
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My little lad, 20 months old, knows R2-D2 as "beep boop." he identifies his as such in pictures and when he sees him on tv. He even recognizes him on my "Star Wars" necktie.
So my wife got this big humidifier for the living room. It's the size of a small ottomoan, white plastic with wheels and a few buttons, lights, and a small digital display on the side.
Last night I'm moving the humidifier to the bedroom, and my baby boy RUNS across the room, hugs it, and goes "beep boop!! beep boop!! beep boop!!" He then pushes it around the room for about five minutes laughing hysterically, calling it "beep boop" the whole time.
He spills water everywhere, but it was the highlight of my day.
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My daughter was 3 when she was R2-D2 for halloween. She called him "Hardy-too", but would actually just say, "That's me!" anytime she saw him. She still does that.
I thought about having her wear a tutu with her costume so she could have been RD-22, but it never happened (ergo: no pics).
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
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TheBoost said:
My little lad, 20 months old, knows R2-D2 as "beep boop." he identifies his as such in pictures and when he sees him on tv. He even recognizes him on my "Star Wars" necktie.
So my wife got this big humidifier for the living room. It's the size of a small ottomoan, white plastic with wheels and a few buttons, lights, and a small digital display on the side.
Last night I'm moving the humidifier to the bedroom, and my baby boy RUNS across the room, hugs it, and goes "beep boop!! beep boop!! beep boop!!" He then pushes it around the room for about five minutes laughing hysterically, calling it "beep boop" the whole time.
He spills water everywhere, but it was the highlight of my day.
Great story!
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My friend posted a picture the other day of his few-month old son in a Star Wars onesie. It's stuff like that that really makes me want to be a father.
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Wait, so how many month old sons does he (she?) have? :p
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awww
i don't ever want kids though
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OzoneSherrif said:
awww
i don't ever want kids though
Hope you don't want the OOT then....I heard that Lucas will require you to buy two kids from LFL before you are eligible to buy the OOT.
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Oh, god... let me just quickly unsubscribe to this topic, k? Wait, where's the button.. are there it goes..
Wow, you're all such a bunch of nerds!! *flee*
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Oh noes! He called me a nerd!
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.