tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post7521855678113763887..comments2023-10-14T06:19:18.000-05:00Comments on Rocket Scientist: RS Classic: Why Star Wars Doesn't Impress MeStephanie Barrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-36579399681577444012010-08-17T23:00:26.259-05:002010-08-17T23:00:26.259-05:00By the way, Project Savior, I totally laughed out ...By the way, Project Savior, I totally laughed out loud.<br /><br />I understand what you're saying about fun, Roy and Jeff. For ME (and perhaps me alone), I have to have characters I can identify with before I really enjoy something.Stephanie Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-56556371724230999792010-08-17T22:37:41.061-05:002010-08-17T22:37:41.061-05:00I'm all alone? Meh. I never was a joiner.
Not...I'm all alone? Meh. I never was a joiner.<br /><br />Note that there were characters that worked for me, but the focal characters (the Skywalkers) never made a lick of sense to me. And that flavored how I saw the actions related to them.<br /><br />Were there as nonsensical notions involved with Hans Solo? Probably, but who cared?<br /><br />Truthfully, though my father was a stalwart fan, we usually just skipped all the Skywalker/Yoda sections of Empire Strikes Back.Stephanie Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-78189467549463782382010-08-17T18:40:16.035-05:002010-08-17T18:40:16.035-05:00"I thought the Star Wars movies were fun, but..."I thought the Star Wars movies were fun, but that was it." Amen Roy...<br /><br />I don't need it to be real for me to enjoy it.Jeff Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00667419764890599092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-46790894226532514752010-08-17T10:07:30.646-05:002010-08-17T10:07:30.646-05:00You might possibly be the only person of our gener...You might possibly be the only person of our generation on the planet who was not in love with the characters.<br /><br />I feel the same way about Avatar. Not enough believability to make it work (for me).The Motherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15157821003454766570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-53973217434658070542010-08-17T07:34:46.253-05:002010-08-17T07:34:46.253-05:00I had always thought of Star Wars as fantasy not s...I had always thought of Star Wars as fantasy not science fiction. When I watched the original trilogy I had thought Mark Hamil was a bad actor that brought his character down. Then watching the prequels it became obvious that Lucas thinks that the main character shouldn't act for some reason.Darrell B. Nelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02851443183217238218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-52778302496915316312010-08-16T23:24:53.870-05:002010-08-16T23:24:53.870-05:00I thought the Star Wars movies were fun, but that ...I thought the <i>Star Wars</i> movies were fun, but that was it. I'm more into cyberpunk (been reading William Gibson for his whole career), so my "science fiction" movies tend to be harder edged and moody - the <i>Matrix</i> trilogy and <i>Blade Runner</i> among others. They don't seem to make movies out of the character based stuff. Too bad; there are several Ursula K. LeGuin stories I'd love to see on the screen, especially <i>The Dispossessed</i> and <i>The Left Hand of Darkness</i>.Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01648670975466222140noreply@blogger.com