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post #1 of 17
3/30/05 at 6:10am
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Call me a pessimist but "meh" pretty much sums up my feelings to the whole Star Wars Prequel trilogy in general. I had long ago lost interest in the series and think I am not alone in this feeling.

I think that sometimes the fans of the movie industry need to be apathetic towards sequels, prequles and series in general, If we stopped caring and buying tickets to the next Star Wars or Bond film, the talents behind those movies will be forced to sit back and think up something new.

I crave new universes, new characters, new themes, new storylines and the only way I can see to get the likes of Lucas to deliver on this is for the fan community to sit back with me and go "Meh" to same old stuff that comes out.

Anybody agree?
post #2 of 17
3/30/05 at 6:24am
Call me a pessimist but "meh" pretty much sums up my feelings towards the HATERS of the Star Wars Prequel trilogy.
post #3 of 17
3/30/05 at 6:43am
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Originally Posted by Sleeplesslumber
I crave new universes, new characters, new themes, new storylines and the only way I can see to get the likes of Lucas to deliver on this is for the fan community to sit back with me and go "Meh" to same old stuff that comes out.

Anybody agree?
Well, there are many good Fantasy and SF novels in print that meet all your requirements (and probably more besides). If enough people buy them directors (perhaps even Lucas) will surely film them; just like Rings, Potter, Narnia, A Scanner Darkly, The Book of Skulls and so forth.
post #4 of 17
3/30/05 at 9:14am
Call me an optimist, but "meh" pretty much sums up what I hope I will think about Episode III.
TPM: "Feh!"
AotC: "Bah!"
post #5 of 17
3/30/05 at 9:29am
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Originally Posted by Lee Harvey Cobblepot
Call me an optimist, but "meh" pretty much sums up what I hope I will think about Episode III.
TPM: "Feh!"
AotC: "Bah!"
Shouldn't it be "Xvh!"?
post #6 of 17
3/30/05 at 9:38am
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Originally Posted by Geoff Foster
Shouldn't it be "Xvh!"?
Should it?

I don't get it.
post #7 of 17
3/30/05 at 10:11am
To be honest I would probably be feeling the entire Stars Wars 'meh' vibe right now if it wasn't for the Clone Wars cartoons that have completely reenergised my love for all things SW... (hell I'm even reading EU now...!!!)

I think that none of the films deserve a meh really as each one has at the very least made me smile, even TPM had some absolutley fantastic parts and Attack of the Clones is largely brilliant...
post #8 of 17
3/30/05 at 10:12am
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Originally Posted by Lee Harvey Cobblepot
Should it?

I don't get it.
You won't - because it's wrong.

Definitely “Xwh!”

I think.
post #9 of 17
3/30/05 at 10:15am
Here's an idea: if you can't muster up any interest in Star Wars anymore, if all you feel is ambivalence to the whole prequel trilogy, instead of starting yet another thread in which to air your vague feelings of non-excitement, why not channel that time and energy into something that you are interested in?
post #10 of 17
3/30/05 at 10:19am
I really hate the word "meh".
post #11 of 17
3/30/05 at 10:28am
To me I think the only people who can use the word 'meh' appropriately are children and stroppy teenage girls... as such I look down on the people who use the word meh with apathy and occasional scorn.

What I don't get is why people who don't like Star Wars care enough to make pointless threads... it is only a fucking movie, yet the relative crapness of the PT seems to be this pervasive theme which seeps into everything.

My view is if you expect entertainment you are gonna get entertainment... if you expect the sci fi equivalent of a Kurosawa flick then you are going to be dissapointed.*

The films are for a laugh people so lighten up...



*I realise the irony in this sentence....
post #12 of 17
3/30/05 at 10:56am
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Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
Here's an idea: if you can't muster up any interest in Star Wars anymore, if all you feel is ambivalence to the whole prequel trilogy, instead of starting yet another thread in which to air your vague feelings of non-excitement, why not channel that time and energy into something that you are interested in?

I wish people would listen to sanity like this, but they won't and never will. It's probably because it makes way too much sense. I'm convinced that in order for many of the hardcore SW fans\haters to stop taking over the world with these threads, you would need to make a claim completely illogical for them to listen.

Here let me try.

If you stop making these threads, magic gnomes in crude Star Wars costumes will bring you millions of dollars and candy!
post #13 of 17
3/30/05 at 11:13am
They aren't magic, they are traders, earning a living fixing and trading robots and other mechanical goods to the farmsteads and communities outside of the main centres of habitation. they serve a valuable societal purpose in dealing with these communities and without them many farms would not survive, and that would lead to an extreme 'supply' shortage within the cities leaving the economy open to off-world traders upping their prices for basic foodstuffs and making the planet economically dependant on richer planets that will use their power to keep trade agreements permanently skewed in their favour so that the planet will enter a debt spiral it can never recover from.

And you say they are 'magic'? You just don't fucking get it, do you.
post #14 of 17
3/30/05 at 11:17am
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Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
Here's an idea: if you can't muster up any interest in Star Wars anymore, if all you feel is ambivalence to the whole prequel trilogy, instead of starting yet another thread in which to air your vague feelings of non-excitement, why not channel that time and energy into something that you are interested in?
No one has asked me to speak for them, but I guess it's about providing a counterpoint to hyperbole. The films are disappointing, but not everything about them sucks. Lucas didn't rape my childhood, but that doesn't make the "Are you an angel?" -moment any better. What I end up is a vague feeling of non-excitement (that is actually an excellent definition).
post #15 of 17
3/30/05 at 11:30am
I’m wondering whether there are going to be other threads devoted to interjections.
post #16 of 17
3/30/05 at 11:41am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
Here's an idea: if you can't muster up any interest in Star Wars anymore, if all you feel is ambivalence to the whole prequel trilogy, instead of starting yet another thread in which to air your vague feelings of non-excitement, why not channel that time and energy into something that you are interested in?
BRAVO!!!
post #17 of 17
3/30/05 at 11:44am
Closing this thread because of redundancy and the use of the stupid, stupid web term "meh".
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