Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Pre-release)

[BTTUK]

My fellow Star Wars fans really do make me scratch my head in amazement. I certainly don't miss the days of people being picked on, borderline bullied, and ridiculed for having the desire to wear a t-shirt that said Star Wars on it.

I certainly also think that it getting bigger like it has, has been a mostly positive thing. My children now love it, despite having no affection for the OT or PT, and I can share something special to me with them, as well as them being able to wear Star Wars hats, tshirts etc without fear of being a target.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

 

[gedmac66]

My fellow Star Wars fans really do make me scratch my head in amazement. I certainly don't miss the days of people being picked on, borderline bullied, and ridiculed for having the desire to wear a t-shirt that said Star Wars on it.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

I can recall some of these instances occurring during my youth especially during the OT period , but I don’t think people are getting ‘misty eyed’ over these types of reactions per se.
Rather, it’s a feeling of being proud, of wearing a badge of honour if you will - for something that meant a great deal to us at the time, and for many still does.
For me personally, most of my childhood friends were into SW , and those that weren’t were still friends . As for those who found enjoyment from ridiculing, it was ‘water of a ducks back’ !

 

[Psab keel]

Obviously getting picked on for it certainly never stopped me or my friends. It's not that I'm necessarily proud of getting ridiculed either as much as pointing out how much things have changed as far as what's considered cool. Though I would never consider myself to be cool.

far from it in fact.

If I ever have kids I'll only ever show them the OT. If they want to see any of the others I'll let someone we else ruin the fun for them.


Anyone else see that Daisy Ridley is under fire for not "checking her privilege?" God it just makes me want to barf. These are the types of people that have sucked all the fun out of Star Wars and hypocritically call people like me toxic.

Twitter will be the death of humanity.

In other news how about them lightsabers? Pretty cool stuff!

 

[Jaitea]

I've said this before,....but back when Star Wars came out in the 70's in Northern Ireland....(the height of The Troubles,....skin-heads, punks etc), everyone liked the film,...young, old, hard kids, soft kids, etc,.....Star Wars fell into the category that Jaws had before it

The kids that got picked on were the Star Trek & Doctor Who fans,...that was nerdy,....Six Million Dollar Man & Star Wars were cool,....ESB came out,....still cool

Early Eighties around the time when ROTJ,....it was changing a bit,...but there was a lot of cool pop culture

When there were was no new Star Wars & kids were still going on about it,....thats when you could get picked on

Then the Prequels came out & Star Wars & the "I think you'll find" fans went full nerd

When TFA appeared, there was a feeling of getting everyone on board,...thats why it made so much money,....back to the everyone likes Star Wars,....but miss-management & lack of knowledge of what product they were trying to sell, quickly ruined all that

J

 

[NeoRutty]

My high school in the 90's, only me and two of my friends were vocally Star Wars fans. We forced another of our group to watch and he just mocked every time Chewbacca was on screen.

Didn't wear shirts cuz I really never saw them around. But I remember sitting in Art class, arguing about Star Wars and then the school bully punching me in the face for talking about "f@g stuff"

Good times!

I got out of high school a complete introvert who would have panic attacks if people talked to me...

But then I got to film school.....

 

[Richard Baker]

I painted a T-Shirt (Luke with the classic lightsaber pose in front of a parked X-Wing) in exchange for a ride to the theater in a nearby town when I was in college. Small art college town, no cars and I just had to see that movie when it first released.

A couple of months later it arrived in the tiny local cinema, one where the lady who sold the tickets also popped the popcorn and ran the projector. I watched it almost every night until it left that theater...

Good times, good times...

 

[Psab keel]

That's horrible that someone would do that to you NeoRutty. Sounds like the kind of crap I had to deal with in high school too. You know what they say though, the best revenge is living well!

I really love that I have a place like this to talk about all this stuff in great detail. It's my favorite place to hang out while online.

 

[sbaxter]

My fellow Star Wars fans really do make me scratch my head in amazement. I certainly don't miss the days of people being picked on, borderline bullied, and ridiculed for having the desire to wear a t-shirt that said Star Wars on it.

"I used to love that band back when no one knew who they were. Now that they're popular, it isn't cool to like them anymore. They were better when they were more exclusive -- when they were more of my secret thing!"

I certainly also think that it getting bigger like it has, has been a mostly positive thing. My children now love it, despite having no affection for the OT or PT, and I can share something special to me with them, as well as them being able to wear Star Wars hats, tshirts etc without fear of being a target.

I agree -- although my two boys (ages 14 and 10) love all the films. I am thrilled to be able to experience new Star Wars films in a theater with them -- something I never expected to be able to do, as the older boy was born about the time RotS finished its theatrical run. I love the new films even though they will never resonate exactly the same way for me as the originals did -- they can't, because I'm not nine, 12, or 15 years-old anymore, as I was with the original trilogy. I'm 51 years-old at this writing. At the same time, Star Wars for them exists in a different world than it did for me, so it will never be quite the same world-expanding experience for them that it was for me. I mean, I was born into a world where it didn't exist. They came into a world where there were six films (available to watch whenever you want) that were a huge, pre-existing part of pop-culture, well known to most everyone. The original film, for my younger son, was older when he was born than 1939's The Wizard of Oz was when I was born! And it's okay that it can't be exactly the same thing to them -- they still love it, and so do I. I hope it continues to the point that they can one day share new Star Wars with their children.

SSB

 

[DARTH ANIBAL]

Star Wars for them exists in a different world than it did for me, so it will never be quite the same world-expanding experience for them that it was for me. I mean, I was born into a world where it didn't exist. They came into a world where there were six films (available to watch whenever you want) that were a huge, pre-existing part of pop-culture, well known to most everyone. The original film, for my younger son, was older when he was born than 1939's The Wizard of Oz was when I was born! And it's okay that it can't be exactly the same thing to them -- they still love it, and so do I. I hope it continues to the point that they can one day share new Star Wars with their children.

Perspective.

 

[Richard Baker]

I was heading back to college when I found the novel Star Wars, soon to be a film from 20th Century Fox. I read it on the bus and could not but help wondering how anybody could put events like I was reading on a big screen.
A few months later I saw the first trailer and I tried to describe it to others- "It looks like 2001, but everyrthing hauls ass!"

 

[Kylash]

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[NeoRutty]

That's horrible that someone would do that to you NeoRutty. Sounds like the kind of crap I had to deal with in high school too. You know what they say though, the best revenge is living well!

I really love that I have a place like this to talk about all this stuff in great detail. It's my favorite place to hang out while online.

Yeah it's funny even thinking back on that as I just had to edit an animatic together for Warren Franklin to review... Who until recently I didn't know worked on all the Lucasfilm flicks back in the day and was the dude who put "A New Hope" onto the crawl for the re-release.

And my best friend was lead animator on clone wars...

And there are probably 3 star wars shirts in the studio today...

Being bullied for this in high school now seems ludicrous....

Actually what kills me is until my next project startup in a few weeks, I am helping put together a pitch package... this left me unavailable to edit on this flick finishing in a sister studio, so my co-editor buddy went to work on that... I was thankful, it looked like a terrible movie.

But then last weekend he called me with "Hey! Guess where we're doing final sound?! and I have to be there... haha"

I missed out on going to Skywalker Ranch.

 

[Psab keel]

That suckssssss!

 

[Joek3rr]

 

[patrickivan]

You poor people. I was a massive Trekkie in high school in the late 80's, early 90's, and no one bothered me.

Maybe because I had a full Riker beard that I occasionally sported, and was 6' and growing.

Suck it, bullies!

 

[ghostryder]

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The Battle for ‘Star Wars’

 

[DARTH ANIBAL]

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The Battle for ‘Star Wars’

Wait, why'd they leave John Boyega/"Finn" out of that picture?

 

[NeoRutty]

Wait, why'd they leave John Boyega/"Finn" out of that picture?

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

That's 100% a joke my kid would love. She uses it so much I'm mad at myself for not picking up on it IMMEDIATELY.

 

[PantheraGem]

You poor people. I was a massive Trekkie in high school in the late 80's, early 90's, and no one bothered me.

Maybe because I had a full Riker beard that I occasionally sported, and was 6' and growing.

Suck it, bullies!

I don't know. No one ever said much to me about it, but I could see people look at a SW shirt I was wearing, kind of confused, then at me like "Why is that guy wearing a kid's shirt?" The fact that I was shy, but looked the way I looked meant most people just left me alone. It was also a massive turn-off to most girls. (Most, not all.)

Most of my friends were into both Trek and SW. I wasn't into Trek, but overall, I found them to be nicer people.

 

[AJTaliesen]

Some of you lived in really crappy towns.

High School class of 92. No one ever said a word about it. Nor the STNG communicator pin on my jean jacket. Maybe it was offset by the huge Iron Maiden backpatch on the same jacket? Who knows?

Most likely though, it was because of a syndrome that probably has a name that I never learned, but the thing I noticed was: Anything a "cool" guy did, no matter how goofy, was considered charming and funny. Anything the unpopular guy did was nerdy and pathetic, no matter how normal or even if it was the exact same thing. Kids (and this has held true for a ridiculously sad number of adults I've encountered) care WAAAAY more about WHO is doing something than they do about WHAT is being done. I gotta assume that said bully just picked you for whatever reason and would've gone after you no matter what shirt you wore.