Discussion Generation gaps among the fans

Kids these days, with their Power-mons and Pokey Rangers and Return of the Jedi resolutions!

I still remember a friend, having seen ESB, telling me that Vader was Luke's father. No way!

Getting to see Jabba in ROTJ was also great after years of wondering.

 

Depends on how emotionally attaching they are............

....sorry.

 

I'm always hassling my own kids about this. "You don't know what it was like waiting. We couldn't just pop in the next DVD to find out what happened next."

They, of course, roll their eyes at me.

 

Least favorite?? ..............I don't know about you sometimes.

 

Movies or years?

 

Hey now...

I'm with anakinfansince1983. This was pivotal stuff for me as well...

 

Movies. Refer to our convo in the PT forum....

 

Well!! The Jabba bit was the best part.

 

I was exactly 2 weeks old when SW came out in '77. So I was part of the Jedi group of kids. ROTJ was my 1st SW movie in the theatres(I'm pretty sure I saw SW on network TV a few times before then). ROTJ brand were on the toy packages.

I actually didn't get a chance to see Empire until it aired on TV in 1987, so unfortunately I missed the surprises due to watching it out of order. We just got a VCR not too long before it aired, so we taped it, and I would watch it every Friday after school.

Ewok movies were on tv, so were the Droids and Ewoks cartoons.

Great time being a kid back then!

 

Raiders was out in that period too. What more can a kid ask for?

 

Saw it in the theater the month it came out.

 

If you are of a '70s vintage, you'll know what I mean when I say that there were great movies galore in the wake of SW. Superman, E.T., Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Raiders, The Dark Crystal, The Goonies... It really was an avalanche of great sci-fi/fantasy/adventure films for kids.

 

Um yes I know. I'm just teasing you.

Tough crowd.

 

oh yeah - that one too

 

My brother, cousin and I were all weened on the OT. It was literally a phenomenon. The action figures, commercials, toys etc... until about 1985 our lives were filled with Star Wars. Then there was a 16 year gap and now a ten year gap. But no more . . .

 

The early 80's were probably the best half-deacde for movies ever IMO. Course I'm biased. We hade SW TESB & ROTJ. Raiders, Blade Runner, Excalibur, Terminator. Some of my all-time faves are from those 5 years.

 

Not to mention the great matching cartoon and action figures from the early-mid eighties. Super Powers/Friends, He-Man, Transformers, etc. Loved it!

 

GI Joe ruled from about 1983/84 to about 1986!

 

I am of the OT generation. My children were born into the PT generation. Hopefully I won't have any grandchildren born into ST generation. Please let that happen later...much later.

I think watching movies in the 70's and 80's was a bit different. We didn't have the option to wait a few months to get them on HBO or netflix. We didn't have the internet to distract and entertain us. Video games were out but they were mostly in arcades, so I couldn't sit in front of the TV killing zombies all day like my sons do. We had the movies, arcades and cruising. Star Wars never came out in the drive in, but with other movies we would fill up the car and head to the drive in and it was a big social thing. Now everybody is connected to the hip by social networking. For us our social bonding usually happened at the movies--before, during and after. I don't know if that if the reason the OT seems special to me. It could be if the PT came out first I would like it better because I would have been a young teen and it would have been part of my fun filled teenage years..

 

I'm first generation here. Saw IV, V, VI in the theaters on their opening weekends. Same with the PT, except for ROTS which I saw on its midnight opening showing. Now, I hope to do the same for this new trilogy.

Good times, good times!