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IN MY DAY going to a new Star Wars movie meant something! We didn't have VCRs or cable TV and the movies weren't on TV anyhow so you had to remember the movies from like six years ago, unless you were lucky enough to live in a huge city and a few theaters would show the movies again.

But for 90% of the country it was history! You got there three hours early to stand in line to pay $3.00 for a movie ticket and went into this big dark room with plush seats and no noise, and you were super quiet and just waited in the dark for the magic to happen.  Not like today where you buy the tickets in advance with your phone and you have the phone with you the whole time, and the ticket is $13.00.

Back then you had to remember who was what in the films and there were only 8 guys that mattered so it wasn't so hard.  Now you got 1500 characters, they all know each other and you see them every week on Clone Wars and Rebels.  We didn't have weekly spinoffs in my day!  We only had the odd made for TV special!  And man did they stink!

Not to mention all the drama has been sucked out of Star Wars!  We won the Cold War so now the Empire is just a phase everybody went through! In my day we had the Bomb hanging over our heads and the thought of kicking an Evill Empire in the balls was like a prayer to Jesus!  You guys don't even get it!  And then there's the whole family thing that got dragged out because you didn't want to believe Luke was Darth's son!  Now everybody is related and was either built by Anakin or clones of somebody's dad! 

You don't know how easy you have it!  You don't DESERVE another Star Wars movie! NyaahhhH!

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So sad but true.

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The Yell wrote:

You don't know how easy you have it!

To summarize. You are concluding my life is easy because you had to wait 5 years for Star Wars Episode IV (1977) to become available on VHS (1982).

Thats rather short-sighted i.m.h.o.

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well it wasn't a wait. we didnt know home electronics would become widely affordable. The idea of personal electronics was so farfetched it didn't make it into Back to the Future II (1989)

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Back to the future  did not have  any PC in it. They had a hover board and the cubs winning the world series,  and were wrong on both.

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IN MY DAY going to a new Star Wars movie meant something! We didn't have VCRs or cable TV and the movies weren't on TV anyhow so you had to remember the movies from like six years ago, unless you were lucky enough to live in a huge city and a few theaters would show the movies again.

But for 90% of the country it was history! You got there three hours early to stand in line to pay $3.00 for a movie ticket and went into this big dark room with plush seats and no noise, and you were super quiet and just waited in the dark for the magic to happen.  Not like today where you buy the tickets in advance with your phone and you have the phone with you the whole time, and the ticket is $13.00.

Back then you had to remember who was what in the films and there were only 8 guys that mattered so it wasn't so hard.  Now you got 1500 characters, they all know each other and you see them every week on Clone Wars and Rebels.  We didn't have weekly spinoffs in my day!  We only had the odd made for TV special!  And man did they stink!

Not to mention all the drama has been sucked out of Star Wars!  We won the Cold War so now the Empire is just a phase everybody went through! In my day we had the Bomb hanging over our heads and the thought of kicking an Evill Empire in the balls was like a prayer to Jesus!  You guys don't even get it!  And then there's the whole family thing that got dragged out because you didn't want to believe Luke was Darth's son!  Now everybody is related and was either built by Anakin or clones of somebody's dad! 

You don't know how easy you have it!  You don't DESERVE another Star Wars movie! NyaahhhH!


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in my day we didn't taunt our elders online

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8 Reply by DamonTheViking (edited by DamonTheViking 01-Nov-2015 11:52:34)

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In your days you didn't have online.

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Well my friend paid so we saw it instead of the whale movie

wasnt so bad as the prequels

I mean I wasn't asking OMFG What Am I Watching at any point


hmm I should drop a spoiler

umm...ok that old barkeep had it wrong. Anakin's lightsaber was lost at Cloud City and on Endor Vader complimented Luke on his skill in building a new one.   So that was NOT Luke's lightsaber and his father before his.  Guess that was meant to be a legend or something.

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10 Reply by The Yell (edited by The Yell 22-Dec-2015 00:20:33)

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I should explain that he was also my ride, my car being in the shop, so when he said he wanted to see a movie i was sort of stuck going to the movie theater or walking in the rain.  I guess I would watch just about any movie rather than be stranded on Tyler Avenue in the rain.  You'd have to go to Riverside to see what I mean.

Couldn't drink at the theater because I just ate a bowl of tam chin pho so I was too full to get inebriated. Guess I lucked out.

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This latest star wars is just a remake of the first 3 except with a wonder woman. Looks like we can look forward to a bunch of star war remakes.

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she wasnt that wonderful

but yeah if she takes more than 3 movies to train they could milk this a while

I bet Luke gets it next movie

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I'm thinking Dragonball Z or Naruto levels of personal development

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