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The Farce Awakens?

ercoerco Posts: 20,256
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December movie tickets for "The Force Awakens" are already being scapled on Ebay: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-star-wars-the-force-awakens-tickets-ebay-20151019-htmlstory.html

Between this, "Force Friday' and the BB-8 hype and speculation, I wonder if any movie can possibly live up to people's expectations.

Get a life, people!

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  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    Where's Luke???
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    Actually I am looking forward to the new Star Wars in a fun way for the creativity and imagination. Star Wars was a great breakthrough in visual arts. That has always been something that science fiction has provided.

    But for those that have made it through the 60s and 70s, detox and rehab; and still believe in 'The Force'..... Marshall McLuhan was right; "The media is the massage". The real message is find your own meaningful way through life.

    So many of us are still trying to live out some sort of role play, like emulating that guy in 'Top Gun'. As John Lennon said, "Life leaves a lot to the imagination". Stay grounded while you look at the stars.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Yawn.

    I love science fiction movies. Metropolis, Forbidden Planet, Space Odyssey, Robo Cop, Terminator, Matrix, Dark Star and a ton of others. I'll count James Bond and such in there as well.

    How come I just don't get anything out of Star Wars ?

    I don't know if it's all that silly "force" stuff, or the effeminate/childish robots that puts me off. What is it?
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    The first thing was the sound of spaceships in space.. "what the..?" I couldn't believe it. After that I had to adjust my expectations down several notches and read it like a comics book. That worked, I suppose.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    I'm prepared to suspend belief for a bit of scifi fun. After all I'm a Dr Who fan :)

    I guess I like my scfi to be dark and menacing, or mysterious, or funny or just weird. Or some combination of all those. Star Wars does not have any of that as far as I can tell.
  • User NameUser Name Posts: 1,451
    Wow. This reminds me I haven't set foot in a movie theater in 2015. I just don't want to sit still for two hours. That's not entertainment.
  • Jeff HaasJeff Haas Posts: 421
    I think Star Wars either gets you when you're a kid, or you never get it. It's not science fiction, it's heroic fantasy with laser guns. You relate to the kid from the sticks who goes on a big adventure and takes down the evil villain.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    I'm sure you are right.

    When I was a kid being introduced to concepts like time travel or the idea that a box can be bigger on the inside than it is on the outside was awe inspiring. Thanks Dr Who.

    Perhaps that's my issue with Star Wars. It's total lack of any stimulating concepts. As you say, it's not scifi.
  • ErlendErlend Posts: 612
    Heater. wrote: »
    I'm sure you are right.

    When I was a kid being introduced to concepts like time travel or the idea that a box can be bigger on the inside than it is on the outside was awe inspiring. Thanks Dr Who.

    Perhaps that's my issue with Star Wars. It's total lack of any stimulating concepts. As you say, it's not scifi.

    What can ever compare with Dr Who? At best Star Wars is one-dimensional, whereas Dr Who is multidimensional, exceeding the number of dimensions in any variant of the Standard Model.
    When I watch Star Wars - which is very rich on visuals, I agree - I so much want it to be good. But then I hear the whining sound of that ape thing, and I am back in time to when I watched Sesame Station with my little daughter...

    Erlend
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    The new movie will be pirated online within a few days of release, possibly even before. I don't know how solarmovie.cz and putlocker.is avoid getting shut down. They change their extensions periodically, I suppose jumping to new mirror sites around the world keeps Interpol hunting for them.
  • hazletthazlett Posts: 35
    I will still wait for DVD copy of that movie.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-10-23 06:53
    User Name wrote: »
    Wow. This reminds me I haven't set foot in a movie theater in 2015. I just don't want to sit still for two hours. That's not entertainment.

    Well, I seem to think that the last time I saw a new release, it was that dancing penguin cartoon, maybe about 2006. Going was all about treating some kids to a fun movie... Happy Feet.

    How did we ever get into a world with so many ficitonal penguins??
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_penguins

    Badzt Maru is my idol. He lives in Georgoustown and has his own pet alligator.
    http://www.sanrio.com/characters-badtz-maru/

    The world keeps changing. I can't keep up.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    These days, animated eggs are the rage.

    Gudetama.

    http://www.sanrio.com/characters-gudetama/

    The farce certainly is still with us.
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    User Name wrote: »
    Wow. This reminds me I haven't set foot in a movie theater in 2015. I just don't want to sit still for two hours. That's not entertainment.

    Since 2015? Last time I was in a theater was late 90's. Quit going after seeing a soap commercial before the movie started.
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    I can beat that. The last movie I saw in a theater was "Top Gun". The first week of its release.
  • User NameUser Name Posts: 1,451
    Seriously, I'm in awe!
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    My wife just said she can count on one hand the times we seen a movie in a theater together. That's thirty years, why pay an outrageous price to be uncomfortable, and get ripped off at the concession stand.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Why does anyone go to movie houses anymore?

    Occasionally I get dragged out to see some movie or other. It's not fun. It's expensive.

    Gone are the days of big theaters, big screens, audiences who wanted to watch the movie and behaved nicely. An event, a happening.

    And why don't they play God Save The Queen at the end of the night?

    :)
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-10-23 17:24
    Movie theaters are for young couples to be together in a dark place. Obviously, none of us are that young. But being a bachelor, I occassionally have a female try to get me to take her to a movie. The agenda is not all about what's on the screen. Before movies, it was all about a walk in the park, or a horse and buggy ride in the countryside.
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    I'd go to a movie, before I would ever go dancing.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Loopy,

    Yes indeed. There is a hidden agenda to everything.
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    That agenda keeps us men on a level playig field. I don't like wearing tire marks.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-10-23 17:52
    MikeDYur,
    That agenda keeps us men on a level playig field. I don't like wearing tire marks.
    I wish I knew what that meant.
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    Figure of speach,
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    My roommate keeps saying how some movies have to be enjoyed on the big screen. Lessee... I have a 32 inch HD monitor sitting on my desk. That's big enough for me! :-)

    @
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    So will the new Star Wars movie have animated penguins in it? I'd love to see Badzt Maru making a cameo appearance.
  • WBA ConsultingWBA Consulting Posts: 2,934
    "going" to the movies, in my opinion, is solely for the theater experience. Massive screen that engulfs your entire visual range - even peripheral, surround sound setups that overwhelm auditory input abilities, hearing other moviegoers laughter, etc. I am usually much happier watching movies in my living room on my 42" because I can control the atmosphere, timing, food, etc. To make my point, here are the last two movies I saw in a theater:

    Ender's Game: my brother and I have each read this book numerous times, so it finally getting released was a must see for him and I.

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail: When the "Vine Cinema and Alehouse" in Livermore offered up a showing of this classic as one of their Thursday evening showings, I couldn't pass it up. My brother sent me a link to it as a joke on the preceding Tuesday, but I quickly responded with "Let's go!". Two days later, I left work a few hours early and headed down to Livermore (a 2 hour drive). It was a blast watching one of my all time favorites on a big screen. Plus, there was a whole segment from the Castle Anthrax scene that I had never seen before. You could here snickers and muffled laughter right before every punch line, so that made the experience even more enjoyable.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Ah yes, the big screen. Where is that? Used to be two in my home town, until one closed down and the other got split up into a multiple screen arrangement.

    My monitor engulfs my vision. The movie houses are just not nice places to have to go to.
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2015-10-29 21:55
    @Heater... not to mention the pause button. that adds a certain amount of convenience to the home movie experience.

    Amanda
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    ajward wrote: »
    @Heater... not to mention the pause button. that adds a certain amount of convenience to the home movie experience.

    Amanda

    And a nice reclining chair with a side table for refreshments.

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