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I wonder if this is in part a generational thing... Posted by Snowmobile [Email]  (#686)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Snowmobile) on Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:05:37
In Reply to: 2nd, cgwiz   [Profile/Gallery]
, Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:31:13
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I also was a kid when the first Star Wars movies came out. For 8-10 year old boys, they were mind blowing! I wonder if as 20-30 year olds we were simply more jaded for the second trilogy... in a world where there are many more high budget movies in this genre, often influenced to some degree by the first series...
In reality, the plots of the first 3 are also kind of simple. I don't necessarily think that is a bad thing. Maybe some of the actors were better in the earlier movies? They didn't have that annoying JarJar guy. I dunno, but afaik, George Lucas was heavily involved in all 6, possibly even more for the later ones, so it's not like there is no connection to the earlier 3.
What I love about all of these is it is a feast for the eyes in terms of detail... like when there is a battle scene, it's not just a small closeup of battle, but you see this massive landscape with fine detail battles everywhere. That is to me what makes the series - Lucas' ability to create cinematically detailed worlds. I was mostly able to look past the drawbacks to the new 3, and enjoy them for the cinematic qualities.
On a related note (the generational thing) I really do not get Star Trek at all. I'm not trying to start a flame war - I know it has lots of credibility for what it is, but aside from the cult following, I think there is a generational thing... to me, as a Star Wars era kid, Star Trek was so boring. They'd run into some aliens and instead of blowing them up, they'd talk to them?!? what?!? And the sets all looked so dated and like sets - not "real" or as detailed and big as Star Wars! But people I knew who grew up as kids with Star Trek seem to have a similar relationship to it as we did with Lucas' films, so that's why I think some of this is a generational thing even though both to some degree span the generations...
my kids are a little young to watch all those movies, but they play with star wars lego. I wonder what they will think? To the op - you should report back with findings from your kids! They are an experiment! What if you play them 1-6 in timeline order and see if they even notice that there are 2 different eras?
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