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If you could travel back in time, which decade would you choose?

I'd choose either the late 80s or early 90s, because they were both cool.
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I would start in the 70s

So I could go to 1977 and see Star Wars not a New Hope in the cinema with Han shooting first. and all the excitement that followed..........

then onto

1980 so I could see The Empire Strikes Back and see Vader telling Luke he was his father and the shock.....

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1983 so I could see Return of the Jedi with Sebastian Shaw as Anakin, and god help us Yub Yub


finally


the 90s

so I could see Lucas and tell him that I am from the future and that any SEs of Star Wars he was planning may not be universally popular and accepted by all the fans, and the Prequels he was thinking or planning to do, the first two would turn out crap, and a long eared CG fishman he was thinking or planning on would turn out to be the most hated chracter in film history.....
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I would travel back to the 1960's because I would have fit in perfectly with the counterculture of the era, had I lived back then and be the age I am.
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70's ..so I could watch the younger me going to the cinema. Then 80's for the same thing and then buy all the vintage SW toys, comics, books etc!!
Then sell them on ebay + keep a few for myself!

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Why nothing earlier than the 50s? I'd want to live during the late-30s and through the mid 40s.
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I chose the '50s myself. Drive-ins and sock hops and malt shops. Cool. I like Ike.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I would go back to the 90's and warn everyone where SW was headed:

To me this is the decade that ruined Star Wars:

1994: The prequels were announced, and everyone had high hopes. Warn someone to storm the editing room and tell them Jar Jar is going to ruin the movie, and also tell Lucas that Anakin creating C-3PO is a stupid idea, and do a flashback scene of a young Anakin so the whole movie isn't a waste.

1997: The Special Editions are announced and the death of the originals. I would tell older fans not to show up to the theater to see them, and the gross for these movies were would be minimal, and Lucas would reconsider if it was worth it to make these changes. Instead SW made 138,000,000 as a re-release, and to Lucas it was a success.

1999: Tell older fans only to see TPM once, not go back a second time just to give it a second shot. I would tell them that I know you guys haven't seen a SW film in 16 years, but I am telling you it sucks. I had friends who saw it more than 2 times, and to Lucas seeing a 431,000,000, no matter what people said, it was a success.

Late 1999: Get a committee of fans to demand not to use an unknown actor named Hayden Christenson as Anakin, tell Lucas to get Spielberg to direct Episode II & III, and bribe Lawrence Kasdan to write the next to prequel screenplays.

By then, maybe AOTC could have been better which would have made ROTS better, and maybe would have the originals on DVD, and only one shitty SW movie of the 6, and I could live with that.

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Well, Spielberg couldn't direct Return of the Jedi due to DGA rules, so I don't see why the circumstances would be any different for the prequels, except that maybe Lucas could afford to pay off the DGA now.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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I would travel to 2 days in the past, and bet on every game I could, and become a millionaire, and destroy the time machine. The end.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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I chose the 70s, mostly because the music was so brilliant back then. I was a child of the 80s, but the music was absolutely horrid - gross synth sounds, bubblegum bass, and drum machines instead of real people playing real rock music. The 90s was also really good - probably the decade I remember most vividly.

But mostly 'cause of Led Zeppelin.
MTFBWY. Always.

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Originally posted by: ricarleite
I would travel to 2 days in the past, and bet on every game I could, and become a millionaire, and destroy the time machine. The end.



Grays. Sports. Almanac.
George Lucas was seduced by the dark side. The OOT ceased to exist in his mind and became the Special Editions...." "They're more maching now than movies. Twisted and evil."
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Originally posted by: JennyS1138
Originally posted by: ricarleite
I would travel to 2 days in the past, and bet on every game I could, and become a millionaire, and destroy the time machine. The end.



Grays. Sports. Almanac.


You heard him, girls. Party's over.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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why do people have such a fascination with the 70's? i have it too and i dont understand why
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I know, I was expecting everyone to vote for the 80s.
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I've been to the 80s, it was pretty cool.
There are so many times I would like to go. Late 19th Century London and California, early twentieth century (20s, 30s and 40s). From the list available though, I would probably choose the seventies because of the music scene, and the feeling that maybe we can make the future a nicer place (even though coming from 2005 I would know it isn't true). Plus of course I could go and see Star Wars on opening day, and steal an original print.

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I wouldn't want to go too far back, because the past is a nasty, brutal place. Go more than a few decades back, and you'll probably get some debilitating disease like polio that they don't innoculate against in the present. Medical technology is primitive, the information technology infrastructure is all but nonexistent, there's racism, there's the threat of nuclear war, modern conveniences are nowhere to be found or priced so high only the rich can afford them, environmental and health standards are much lower, et cetera. As a middle class person today, my standard of living must be comparable to that of the very rich in the 1970s by any number of measures.

I chose the '80s, because I lived through them the first time, and I'd probably survive a second go-round. I also think that viewing my formative decade through adult eyes would help me better understand myself in a way that temporal tourism to some alien decade wouldn't. Or maybe I just want to get all those Masters of the Universe figures my mom sold at garage sales and lock them away somewhere safe. (sniff) Terror-claw Skeletor, where are you?
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personally i think now is a nasty brutal place
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I agree with battlewars. Overall, the present is much nastier as the past.
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Originally posted by: Ingo Sucks
I agree with battlewars. Overall, the present is much nastier as the past.


I don't think it is. Its just that as time goes by, people think of the past as being better that it was. Its "the good ol' days" type thinking. Every decade has its problems, and I'm not sure one is better or worse than another.
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espescially with an a-hole like bush in office and a fake war in iraq, i defintely feel this is the worst time, at least nixon had one or two good ideas
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Originally posted by: battlewars
espescially with an a-hole like bush in office and a fake war in iraq, i defintely feel this is the worst time, at least nixon had one or two good ideas


We may not agree on Star Wars, but we apparently do on politics!