1983 debate: “Star Wars is brutalizing children .... making children dumber ...”

[dascoyne]

I think I remember this.

I shudder to think about the degree of brain damage I must’ve sustained from decades of exposure to the Star Wars franchise.

Best part: “These are the kinds of films Disney should be making.”

 

[Psab keel]

I saw this a few years ago. Hilarious!

 

[Seabass]

it is kind of interesting that all his points are the exact criticisms of the prequels

 

[Psab keel]

I just looked up Tender Mercies to see what this guy was talking about. Every kid I knew growing up in the 80's raved about Robert Duvall and his drinking problem in that movie. No one I knew had a clue who Darth Vader was or anything like that. I was a social pariah.

 

[Halliwax]

I’ve heard it all now...

 

[Apollo]

Nasty man and one most Actors in the biz hated and for good reason

Looks like Jabba the Hutt now!

 

[Bigdaddy]

It was nice to see my hometown heroes defending Star Wars! Ironically I saw all the OT films in the theater that Siskel & Ebert used as the opening for "At The Movies".

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Well I must be dumb as hell because in addition ot the movies I read probably 95% of the old EU books and just about all the SW PC games!

 

[Captain Dunsel]

I think I remember this.

I shudder to think about the degree of brain damage I must’ve sustained from decades of exposure to the Star Wars franchise.

Best part: “These are the kinds of films Disney should be making.”

By the gods, where once I was blind, now I see!

Thank you! Thank you kind sir for locating and posting this video.

What an empty life I have led...

Excuse me while I head over to Amazon to pick up a copy of the recommended classic, “Tender Mercies” and attempt to right years and years of wrongs, wallowing in ignorance.

 

[dascoyne]

Seriously

Nasty man and one most Actors in the biz hated and for good reason

Looks like Jabba the Hutt now!

You ain’t kidding!

 

[CT1138]

If there's something I've learned being on the internet over the years, it's that humanity's worst exists on 4Chan and in YouTube comments sections, and that the previous generation ALWAYS finds some way to crap on the younger generation and pick on things they like.

 

[yodakiller1138]

John Simon must have been one miserable SOB.

 

[Darth Fetty]

I remember the arguments I had with my parents growing up begging them to take me to see Tender Mercies instead of Star Wars. There's no better childhood idol than Robert Duvall as a recovering alcoholic country music star.

 

[DaddyfromNaboo]

...
Excuse me while I head over to Amazon to pick up a copy of the recommended classic, “Tender Mercies” and attempt to right years and years of wrongs, wallowing in ignorance.

Okay, anyone up for a group viewing at a rented movie theater? Shackles and eye drops and everything, Clockwork orange-style?

 

[Apollo]

Vidi well Brother!

Okay, anyone up for a group viewing at a rented movie theater? Shackles and eye drops and everything, Clockwork orange-style?

 

[Zombie_61]

Seriously

You ain’t kidding!

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Uhh, that's actor Richard Griffiths who died in 2013, not John Simon.

 

[thegnome]

There have been countless studies that watching violent movies like COD in terms of violence do not correlate with violence at all after the first week at the maximum of watching the movie.

 

[JoeG]

I dunno. Looking through some of the Star Wars threads in this very forum...I think they may have been on to something.

 

[ZeroSum]

i think its true i ussed to be a child prodigee and now im... uh... freeen...

 

[dascoyne]

Uhh, that's actor Richard Griffiths who died in 2013, not John Simon.

Well, that’s embarrassing.

Here’s the real John Simon at 92 years old.