Re: Star Wars Episode VII
Don't underestimate. I'm sure it's still there.
What if someone verbally told you that a teaser trailer for episode7 was posted online? How quickly would you make your way to a computer? Lol
If there was a showing of episode 7 this weekend, would you be there? Don't you want to stand in line and experience that comraderie again?
I'm sure your enthusiasm will reappear when the marketing kicks in. Star Wars is a bandwagon worth jumping on, just for the sake of the bandwagon itself, let alone the movie.
Honestly, that won't do it. I'm too jaded at this point. TPM taught me that trailers lie and you're better off ignoring them altogether. I actually enjoyed the action sequences in AOTC. I thought they were cool. It was only after I watched a 2nd time that I became really bored with the film and saw it for the mishmash it was. When I left the theater from ROTS, I was just kinda numb. I didn't get excited for Indy IV either. In fact, my experiences with Star Wars are what kept me from seeing Indy IV and have kept me from seeing it to this day.
Marketing doesn't really do it for me anymore. I've been screwed too many times. You touch a hot stove once, twice, five times, you eventually figure out that maybe it's gonna burn when you do the next time and you knock it off.
Up until recently I was right there with you. But as we speak my oldest son is reading the ROTJ read-along book with accompanying RECORD. :lol
Heaven is seeing your kids love Star Wars. :thumbsup
See, I don't have kids. I absolutely get the excitement of sharing that with them. However, we'll be fundamentalists in my family. OOT only, and no PT. Also, there are only THREE Indy films.
Remember that warm fuzzy glow when you left the theater after PM?
lol
I remember walking out kind of dazed. Stunned, really. I'd been waiting since I was 9 years old for.....that? I tried rationalizing it and talking it through with my friend about how it wasn't that bad....but yeah. It sucked.
For me yes, I was a tad disapointed with Phantom but you have to admit, visually it was still a thrill ride and that is a big part of seeing a Star Wars film... for the SPFX and the roller coaster ride it takes you on in a galaxy far far away. Most go to a Star Wars film for the wonderfully imagined settings, ships, battles and droids. A visual feast. Of course I demand more than just that but I was not disappointed in the industrial design spfx and action... although the CGI did overwhelm me on a subconscious level.... I feel confident the story and dialog will be much better this time around and CGI is getting better and more realistic.
Not me. I go for the story. Again, TPM put the nail in the coffin for me on big f/x films that draw you in based on brand names. Any movie can have "amazing" f/x now. That doesn't impress me. It's a LOT harder to tell a really solid story.
Unless, of course, they're awesome.
Which I don't believe they will be. Passable? Entertaining? Sure. Not awesome. It'd be nice if I were surprised by them....but looking at the history of these films, I doubt I will be.
My kids love them. They walk around the house playing shooting games saying "roger roger". :lol
Which is why you should never have let them see TPM in the first place!!
