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Bloopity Bloop · Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Location: Seoul yo

Considering your taste in TV, I'm just going to disregard your opinion on Star Wars Razz

I honestly don't mean to offend you, we just have REALLY different tastes in media.

Senior · Joined: 31 Jan 2010

AustSaint · Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Location: Yongmun

the original trilogy are movies that can stand the test of time, an epic saga which I can still watch to this day. As for the prequels, I can live without them. As someone else said, the Zahn trilogy were also great books.

GoldSoundz · Joined: 12 Jun 2008 Location: Pohang

Brian Poehsen had a bit on his "Live Nerd Rage" CD about how he hated Star Wars. He loved it before the prequels, but it was all over after that. I kind of agree.

Many lists on the internet consider "A New Hope" to be pretty overrated. I think it's weak on it's own, but makes a nice entry into the original trilogy, which was pretty awesome, if for nothing other than nostalgia's sake.

South Park has some awesome jabs at George Lucas and his Special Editions and prequels. I remember a good Simpsons that satirized Lucas as well.

Still a good trilogy, but I guess you had to be there when it all began.

Privateer · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Location: Easy Street.

toby99 · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:48 am Post subject:

Agree with the OP. Can't put my finger on why, but even when I was a little kid I thought the Star Wars movies were complete garbage. Of course I know I'm in the minority on this.

As for the new ones, well, saw the first one, "Attack of the Robots" or whatever the flip it was called. Also crap. That was the last time I wasted money on the series. But sci-fi's my least favorite genre, which obviously colors my opinion.

brento1138 · Joined: 17 Nov 2004

I was a big Star Wars nut and sci-fi geek when I was a kid... I re-watched Star Wars as an adult, and thought: "wow, this is good stuff." Then I saw Episodes 1-3 of Star Wars. Complete & utter garbage. Acting was somehow actually worse than in the originals... and the effects looked fake and CG... and plot was generally uninteresting, boring, political.

Thumbs down.

GoldSoundz · Joined: 12 Jun 2008 Location: Pohang

I always thought that Star Wars was pretty popular in Japan. It was based off of The Hidden Fortress, Yoda was named for a guy that Lucas knew in Japan, "Jedi" is Japanese and the Padm� Amidala white-faced look in Ep. One is clearly Japanese. Plus, Mark Hamill went to high school in Japan.

Not to say that flattery begets gratitude, but the Japanese premier of Episode 4 did get a standing ovation. (Which was actually total silence.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/trivia

As for Korean and Chinese for that matter, the Star Wars fever was possibly banned at the time of its release and there was certainly less interest in Western culture. Closed markets at the times of the original trilogy. The generation that went for Western culture (later 90's) was unaware of the original goodness and was understandably let down at the prequels.

As to why the Harry Potter books and movies are so big? They are aimed at the younger generation worldwide (though I know all ages love it). So the Asian youngsters with new found freedom and a taste for global (read: Western) culture, tend to go for what is in.

The Harry Potter mania is completely understandable when you think about it: some rich and nerdy kid lost his parents and ends up getting to study in an elite, British prep school where kids wear uniforms. Oh. And they do magic stuff. (And play a sport that bears a loose resemblance to soccer.)

Not sayin' that Korean kids (or Asian kids) want their parents dead. But who among them doesn't wanna go to an elite prep school in England whilst wearing uniforms and goofy glasses? Eatin' candy and doin' magic. It's what they dream of when they sleep in your class.