STAR WARS is the most over-rated film in history!

[FunBobbyMucha]

Just keepin' the conversations lively today, folks. As a mirror for the Matrix thread, which I disagree with, let me offer up this one.

I saw SW like everyone else in 1977. I was in seventh grade and I loved it. I became thoroughly disenchanted with its 2 sequels. I sat my wife down to watch it the first time it was played on TV, circa 1983, and was completely underwhelmed. What had seemed so bold, so deep to my 13 year old self felt stilted and soft-headed now, and it lost more than half of its impact on the small screen.

Fast forward to the re-release in 97: I watched it again on a big screen, after not seeing it in 14 years, and was struck by how 2D the characters were, that ObiWan is actually barely even in the movie, and all the gaffes that seem particularly glaring to me now (Carrie Fisher's in-and-out accent, Hamill's whiny line delivery, etc). I'm not adverse to adolescent interests--I still love some comic titles, Buffy rocked my world for 7 years, etc--but SW came off as not even adolescent...instead, kindergarten-y.

Being 13 and more interested in girls than toys, I was at the crucial cut-off, agewise, for Star Wars. I know there's a whole generation or two younger than me that grew up with the Force as almost their very own Scientology, rooms filled with the action figures mint on card, etc, and I certainly don't knock anyone who can find some harmless joy in this fucked up world, but I hate Star Wars.

[Kamika]

1. die

ALtough I agree with the prequels

[absyntheNsugar]

2. As overrated as Star Wars is I counter...

...that Gone with the Wind is the most overrated. To be honest, its just a banal love story about two very annoying people who have way too much money and time on their hands. If I wanted that, I'd read the tabloids about Paris Hilton!

[Fenris]

3. I swear one morning on NPR I heard people debating

Which was a greater trilogy: Star Wars or the Lord of the Rings.

Apples and oranges, people.

[jimbo fett]

4. BLASPHEMER!!! Recant or suffer the fiery tortures of hell!!!

[The Night Owl]

5. Let us not forget the kiss...

The romantic kiss Luke gave his sister Leia!

:puke:

[mac56]

6. Star Wars is the new Wizard of Oz.

Used to be you could count on the fact that every American had seen "The Wizard Of Oz", knew the story line and the characters and the famous quotes, and held it as a cultural benchmark. Not so anymore. Now it's "Star Wars".

[jimbo fett]

7. And quit stealing my thread, funboy!

;-)

[democracyindanger]

8. Nope

The impact SW had and still has is/was huge. You just outgrew it. Sure, it appears ham-handed by today's standards, but a lot of great movies do. Have you watched 'Jaws' lately?

SW reinvigorated--and redefined--sci-fi. It created new special effects techniques. It pioneered modern movie merchandising. Sure, the storyline was simplistic, the dialogue amateurish, and time wasn't nice to the special effects. But it's still a seminal movie.

Too bad Lucas is ruining it all.

[Moderator]

9. dupe

Trying to keep this discussion to one thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=699525