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My two cousins are becoming OOT fanatics

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I am the third of 11 grandchildren. The last 3 are a set of triplets.

The 6th oldest likes DOOM and Star Wars just as much as I do. But here's the thing: I'm with the old, and he's with the new. My favorite game is Original DOOM, his is DOOM 3. My favorite movie is Episode IV, his is Episode III.

Well, back to the subject, he's got all six official DVDs. So I figured for his birthday, I'd give him a set of the OOT, because I've been telling him about it for some time. He was ecstatic when he received the set, and now whenever I ask him about it, he says it's better than the SEs. Convincing?

Now one of the triplets is a boy (4 years old). He's seen parts of Star Wars before and he likes Darth Vader. After all, his uncle's a Star Wars fanatic (He's NOT on originaltrilogy.com, though I might convince him to join ). Anyway, for no real purpose, I gave him a set of the OOT. He doesn't care what version it is. He's just happy he's got his own Star Wars. Hey, at least no one will reveal the big secret to him in ESB (except his mom possibly :X). BTW, his mom let the uncle borrow the set so he could take a look at it. He's probably got the SEs, but once he sees these, he might want to join this site.

So now I have an OOT-lovin' cousin and one that's going to be. Lucas is probably going to hate me for this, but what the hell.

P.S.: The version I gave them was Dark Jedi's Widescreen FACES set. I cloned it with my DVD burner.
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I think that future generations who watch SW will be a much different audience & fan than us. I dare to even say, they will be more of a niche fanbase like Star Trek, cause I just don't see a huge fanbase of 1-6 lovers, cause all 6 movies are not great.

The OT crowd like us, or I guess fans who grew up in the 80's who made SW what it was revered those 3 movies. It wasn't just the fact that I enjoyed the movies, cause I enjoy alot of movies, it was that they were my favorite set of movies of all-time, and that is a big difference than just being a fan.

I love Back to the Future, Superman, Terminator, and many other movies of the SW genre growing up, but nothing, I mean nothing compared to the OT movies, and that is what Lucas doesn't understand, SW is a religion to me, not just some movie I enjoy. I see my nephews really enjoy SW movies, but I don't think they have that love for them that I did growing up. I don't see them running out when their older and buying every release that hits the shelves.

The big thing about just being an OT fan, that is different than being a saga fan, is the OT movies as individual movies are great, and that is what drives me to watch them over and over. I know so many PT fans I talked to on TFn say that ROTS is the only great PT movie, and TPM & AOTC have their flaws, but they still enjoy them. I would ask anyone, I enjoy alot of movies, but you have to love something to want to watch a movie 20 years later.

SW & ESB are classic movies in a quality sense, not in a SW sense, and because they are so great, I cut ROTJ slack, and I can watch those 3 movies in order without ever hesitating. With the PT, it is a chore, I used to try to watch it 1-6 because it felt like an obligation to watch the whole story, when I lost site of with the OT, I watched the story cause I loved the movies, now I watch the movies out of obligation to the story, and that doesn't bode well for 1-6 for many fans in the future.

As I said, I think there will be 1-6 diehards 20 years from now, but that group will be nowhere as big as the 4-6 OT fans since 1977, cause the quality of movies in the PT just aren't there for longevity, plain & simple. The fact that my 8 year old nephew already thinks Jar Jar is stupid, when he liked him 4 years ago, tells me he isn't going to be religiously watching TPM when he is in his 30's, the same way I watch the OT nowadays.
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The version I gave them was Dark Jedi's Widescreen FACES set. I cloned it with my DVD burner.


Ooooh! Dark Jedi's FACES set! Almost as good as his first film.....




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Oh wait. He's a fanboy with a DVD burner. Nevermind.
"Among many things I have to be thankful for are you, the fans. I know that some of you haven't liked every single thing that I've done with the saga, and that you have a strong sense of ownership over all things Star Wars. But take that passion and devotion and channel it into a creative project of your own."
-George Lucas
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Originally posted by: JediRandy
The version I gave them was Dark Jedi's Widescreen FACES set. I cloned it with my DVD burner.


Ooooh! Dark Jedi's FACES set! Almost as good as his first film.....




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Oh wait. He's a fanboy with a DVD burner. Nevermind.


Dark Jedi never claimed to have made a film. The FACES set was directed by George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, and Richard Marquand. I don't recall Dark Jedi, or anyone else on these forums, ever claiming that they made the films. Except Geroge Lucas, of course, as he apparently did all of the work and Kershner, Kurtz, Hamill, Marquand, Ford, Fisher, and the thousand of craftsman and technicians who's work no longer exists because Lucas feels that it is unimportant were just figureheads. But no one on these forums, to the best of my knowledge, has ever claimed that they made the films. I certainly haven't. I fail to see why not having made them means that we cannot have high quality releases of them as they were originally released.

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

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Don't bother. We all know he knows the difference. He's just being difficult.

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 just don't understand why he's attacking us.

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death