All Things Star Wars (No Spoilers)

[BobbyMac]

I was 11 when Star Wars came out. That movie was the first special effects show that matched or exceeded your imagination. To see it at that age was absolute magic. It rewired my brain. I've had this discussion before, there is a group of movie fans that is now between 46-53 that were the perfect age at the perfect time in history. It probably was even the deciding factor in my course of study in college which was in a nutshell, the battle between freedom and tyranny.

Fast forward to today...

My daughter is 11. I'm fortunate that she gets the sci-fi / fantasy genre. She's an extreme Marvelhead like I am. She understands the difference between The First Avenger and Winter Soldier, she recognizes Spiderman as a chick flick. She know's GOTG is genius, Antman is a comedy and holds on to the fading hope that the Fantastic Four will someday be properly produced.

She 2 or 3 when Episode 6 came out so it was never high on her list to see before but she is stoked now to watch the earlier episodes and then go see it together. I'm gonna take her on Saturday the 19th because get this... she will be the exact same age to the day on the 19th as I was on opening night, May 25th '77. She even asked to buy back to back tickets to watch it twice.

Things like this last a lifetime.

Signed,

One happy Dad

 

[tussin]

I was 11 when Star Wars came out. That movie was the first special effects show that matched or exceeded your imagination. To see it at that age was absolute magic. It rewired my brain. I've had this discussion before, there is a group of movie fans that is now between 46-53 that were the perfect age at the perfect time in history. It probably was even the deciding factor in my course of study in college which was in a nutshell, the battle between freedom and tyranny.

Fast forward to today...

My daughter is 11. I'm fortunate that she gets the sci-fi / fantasy genre. She's an extreme Marvelhead like I am. She understands the difference between The First Avenger and Winter Soldier, she recognizes Spiderman as a chick flick. She know's GOTG is genius, Antman is a comedy and holds on to the fading hope that the Fantastic Four will someday be properly produced.

She 2 or 3 when Episode 6 came out so it was never high on her list to see before but she is stoked now to watch the earlier episodes and then go see it together. I'm gonna take her on Saturday the 19th because get this... she will be the exact same age to the day on the 19th as I was on opening night, May 25th '77. She even asked to buy back to back tickets to watch it twice.

Things like this last a lifetime.

Signed,

One happy Dad

Wow that's awesome!

 

[ACamp1900]

C-3PO is a robot Jar Jar Binks.

Yeah, I said it.


I doubt there's much of an interplanetary news network outside of the Empire-controlled media. It's unlikely that any of that information ever reached remote systems outside of cantina gossip.

It's like when the hobbits return to the Shire after the war of the ring. Most hobbits have no idea what the Pelennor fields are or that there was a battle at Helm's Deep.

Let's not bring in silly, massively overrated crap franchises into a Star Wars thread please... Next you'll want to compare Luke to one of the vampires from Twilight... . On communication they have light speed technology, of course they'd have Fox News too

 

[irishnd31]

 

[ACamp1900]

My wife just told me she wants us to go see it opening day... Fvk me sideways... Smh

 

[wizards8507]

My wife just told me she wants us to go see it opening day... Fvk me sideways.

In that order?

 

[nlroma1o]

So the one thing that is driving me crazy is where is Luke. Originally, I thought the scene where they show someone putting a robotic hand on R2 droid by the camp fire was Luke. But I'm not convinced it is Luke anymore... I dont know why, but I feel like that might be Andy Serkis' character. There's talk that Andy Serkis' character is a Cyborg, and that explains why he used motion capture, which is his specialty anyways. There's a reason why they haven't shown us Luke yet. And I think that camp fire scene could easily be there to trick us. Plus, the Hand that is touching that R2 unit is obviously different from Lukes hand in Return of the Jedi. Its possible that in 30 years Luke would have updated his mechanical hand, but even so, he normally has it covered by a glove.... Man I cant wait to see this movie.

 

[NDohio]

My wife just told me she wants us to go see it opening day... Fvk me sideways... Smh

Embrace the mania of opening night.

 

[ACamp1900]

Embrace the mania of opening night.

Hell no. She just told me she'll just take the girls and we will go see it together later on... Thank goodness

 

[irishnd31]

My wife just told me she wants us to go see it opening day... Fvk me sideways... Smh

She better give you a Hando Calrissian to even consider such a travesty.

 

[ACamp1900]

I can't wait to see it but no film is worth that madness... Even so, I'm honestly more amped for the new Bond movie... That's that shit right there.

 

[wizards8507]

Embrace the mania of opening night.

Don't do it man. I've done Thor 2, Cap 2, Iron Man 3, Avengers 1, and the Dark Knight trilogy marathon. None of it was worth it. I like early evening Saturday on opening weekend. Still a full theater with a crowd that's really engaged and into it, but without the mania of the midnight crazies. And Star Wars is going to be next-level madness.

 

[wizards8507]

I can't wait to see it but no film is worth that madness... Even so, I'm honestly more amped for the new Bond movie... That's that shit right there.

 

[ACamp1900]

I've done Thor 2, Cap 2, Iron Man 3, Avengers 1, and the Dark Knight trilogy marathon.

 

[NDohio]

I can't wait to see it but no film is worth that madness... Even so, I'm honestly more amped for the new Bond movie... That's that shit right there.

Don't do it man. I've done Thor 2, Cap 2, Iron Man 3, Avengers 1, and the Dark Knight trilogy marathon. None of it was worth it. I like early evening Saturday on opening weekend. Still a full theater with a crowd that's really engaged and into it, but without the mania of the midnight crazies. And Star Wars is going to be next-level madness.

Oh, I am expecting some of that, but I am in Columbia, SC. I don't think the madness will be too far over the top.

 

[ulukinatme]

C-3PO is a robot Jar Jar Binks.

Yeah, I said it.

Lets not get carried away here. Not saying C-3PO is the greatest Star Wars character, but he's light years past Jar Jar. He was a much more effective comic relief that didn't need to be cartoony or cute to bring humor.

I've done Thor 2, Cap 2, Iron Man 3, Avengers 1, and the Dark Knight trilogy marathon.

Are those all required viewing for ESPN/Disney employees? Do they make you watch them after the Sexual Assault Training videos?

 

[wizards8507]

Are those all required viewing for ESPN/Disney employees? Do they make you watch them after the Sexual Assault Training videos?

Well Batman is DC / Warner Brothers, so...

 

[ACamp1900]

Clearly required to take notes from those who aren't full of shit....

 

[Buster Bluth]

Lets not get carried away here. Not saying C-3PO is the greatest Star Wars character, but he's light years past Jar Jar. He was a much more effective comic relief that didn't need to be cartoony or cute to bring humor.

Plus C-3PO wasn't racist.

 

[BobbyMac]

Plus C-3PO wasn't racist.

Yes he was. He was the embodiment of Anglophilia and it's associated belief that the white English male and his descendants which include the oligarchical ruling elite of the United States' rightful position was to be the dominant cultural force on this planet, even though they are responsible for the oppression and murder of countless millions of non-white, English protestants throughout the centuries.

Oops, I forget the italics. I suck at trolling but I'm fabulous with run on sentences.

 

[IrishJayhawk]

Yes he was. He was the embodiment of Anglophilia and it's associated belief that the white English male and his descendants which include the oligarchical ruling elite of the United States have come to be the dominant cultural force on this planet even though they are responsible for the oppression and murder of countless millions of non-white, English protestants throughout the centuries.

Dang. Thought he was just a protocol droid.

 

[Cackalacky]

"the stories are true... all of them" actually was a big part of why last night lowered my expectations... are we really to believe that just 30 years after a massive galactic civil war the general population only knows of such things in campfire stories that aren't taken serious anymore?? That would be stupid... I did think though, maybe she's Luke's daughter and for some reason Han and Liea had to raise her and protected her specifically from the truth, with the truth in the form of fables (stranger than fiction), and now she's realizing her father really is this Returned Jedi and her Aunt and Uncle really are galactic heroes... but of course I was searching/grasping for any explanation for that line other than, it's 30 years later and everyone just forgot/moved on...

IMO, yes. In the originals it was just Luke learning to be a Jedi, obi wan as a ghost and yoda was thought to be dead and lost for so long not even Vader and Palpatine, the only other two force users in the movies, could find him. According to Episode IV there are several lines that indicate the Jedi were myths or magicians with cheap parlor tricks. So... yes, if Luke disappears and yoda, Palpatine, and Vader are all gone... I think so and would expect so.

I am having a hard time removing the EU from all of this but that is what it is. No EU and a new arch from.ROTJ.

 

[Cackalacky]

Yes he was. He was the embodiment of Anglophilia and it's associated belief that the white English male and his descendants which include the oligarchical ruling elite of the United States' rightful position was to be the dominant cultural force on this planet, even though they are responsible for the oppression and murder of countless millions of non-white, English protestants throughout the centuries.

Oops, I forget the italics. I suck at trolling but I'm fabulous with run on sentences.

Soooooo...C3PO = NDgradstudent?

 

[ACamp1900]

IMO, yes. In the originals it was just Luke learning to be a Jedi, obi wan as a ghost and yoda was thought to be dead and lost for so long not even Vader and Palpatine, the only other two force users in the movies, could find him. According to Episode IV there are several lines that indicate the Jedi were myths or magicians with cheap parlor tricks. So... yes, if Luke disappears and yoda, Palpatine, and Vader are all gone... I think so and would expect so.

I am having a hard time removing the EU from all of this but that is what it is. No EU and a new arch from.ROTJ.

I didn't even think of it refering to the force... Because it was at Han I associated it with the Civil War itself, you're prob right tjo and that makes sense.

 

[Cackalacky]

I didn't even think of it refering to the force... Because it was at Han I associated it with the Civil War itself, you're prob right tjo and that makes sense.

I am speculating but I think Begoya's character finds Luke's blue lightsaber and somehow becomes together with Ridley on Tattoine and they are looking for answers as Begoya is understanding he is a force user but does not know what is happening to him. They run into Han and they ask him about the Force/ Jedi. I do think Ridley is a Solo so maybe that is how they meet Han.

I mean further..... outside of a few things Luke did in battle that could easily be understood by others as just being a badass, all of his Jedi workings were in the presence of very few people out side of Han and Leia. Most of his development he was with yoda and his battles with Vader were "solo" so yeah I doubt very much the universe a s a whole at the end of ROTJ was any less different than it was at the beginning of ANH, regarding their thoughts on the Jedi.

 

[GoIrish41]

Soooooo...C3PO = NDgradstudent?

That's how I am going to hear his posts in my head from this point forward.

 

[BobbyMac]

That's how I am going to hear his posts in my head from this point forward.

Ok... now that's funny.

 

[Buster Bluth]

I am speculating but I think Begoya's character finds Luke's blue lightsaber and somehow becomes together with Ridley on Tattoine and they are looking for answers as Begoya is understanding he is a force user but does not know what is happening to him. They run into Han and they ask him about the Force/ Jedi. I do think Ridley is a Solo so maybe that is how they meet Han.

I don't think it's a spoiler (considering they are mentioning the name of the planet in newspaper articles, in the toys, in the videogames, etc) to point out that they're not hanging on Tatooine in the clips we've seen.

 

[Cackalacky]

I see it with the toys and stuff because of the kids so it's not so much a spoiler for me anymore but I don't want to ruin it others who don't have to suffer the Target toy aisle every weekend. I also don't follow anything on it on reddit or other sites so I am just spitballing off the trailers.

 

[ACamp1900]

I am speculating but I think Begoya's character finds Luke's blue lightsaber and somehow becomes together with Ridley on Tattoine and they are looking for answers as Begoya is understanding he is a force user but does not know what is happening to him. They run into Han and they ask him about the Force/ Jedi. I do think Ridley is a Solo so maybe that is how they meet Han.

I mean further..... outside of a few things Luke did in battle that could easily be understood by others as just being a badass, all of his Jedi workings were in the presence of very few people out side of Han and Leia. Most of his development he was with yoda and his battles with Vader were "solo" so yeah I doubt very much the universe a s a whole at the end of ROTJ was any less different than it was at the beginning of ANH, regarding their thoughts on the Jedi.

Help me out someone... Begoya is the black dude and Ridley is the white chick?