I’m seeing this stuff race across social media, and I’m starting to feel like I’m getting played.
It is advertising… even though it’s for something a lot of people like.
It’s all about the benjamins visuals.
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I don’t believe this. la la la la la
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Makes sense, if you’ve spoken to some of the same 26-year-old nitwits who run my studio these days.
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Blasphemy. Lies. Burn him!
Hey! I’m in that age demographic, and I take exception to the idea that people my age would enjoy the Phantom Menace as much as Star Wars.
Anyone my age with half-decent cultural exposure should have seen Star Wars many times, long before Phantom Menace came out. Hell, I was already 9 by the time that Jar-Jar tainted, wooden-performance schlock came out and I knew it wasn’t actually Star Wars. Not even salvageable as a parody.
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Ah, excellent. Then you are not among the nitwits.
There do seem to be those, however, who meet the description offered by Scurra. And regrettably, most of them seem to be your age or younger.
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“Hope is the path to the dark side. Hope leads to expectation. Expectation leads to disappointment. Disappointment leads to suffering.”
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…please don’t suck…please don’t suck…
… and my Death Star.
… which has recently been upgraded with Quantum Torpedoes and a Warp Drive.
Yet another Star Wars sequel. . . and almost 30 years later still no sequel to Spaceballs.
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I see what you did there.
I still have nightmares spawned from memories of watching that special.
@daneel: Eew.
I was almost 6 Earth years old when Star Wars hit, and 11 for RotJ, and I only begrudgingly got into Star Wars. My favorite space movie was 2001. A parent told me about 2001 when I was very young and I was enthralled by the story, it also was the first novel I ever read when I was around 7-8. The same parent saw Star Wars with some friends and tried to get me interested in it. It sounded superficial to me. “It’s got robots, and spaceships, and laser swords, and other cool stuff”, “Sure, but what’s it actually about, beyond archetypal good versus evil nonsense?”, “Just see it anyway…” I was happy I did, because it gave me a lot to relate to other kids about. But I was never able to buy into the hype. Even at that age I was becoming aware of the pulp sci-fi of the 20s-40s which Star Wars had it’s roots in, and saw it as pure spectacle which was far less sophisticated than the social commentary sci-fi of the earlier 1970s.
My little one saw the teaser and said: “Meh… it doesn’t look as creative as the previous few movies.” Granted, they were raised by somebody else for 9 years and their sense of taste/discernment is a bit odd, but I understand the stylistic difference they refer to. FWIW I think the “Clone Wars” series was easily better than all six of the movies, so YMMV.
…please don’t suck…please don’t suck…
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