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I've never seen Star Wars. Like ever. Is that weird or unusual?


Is there anyone else here who hasn't seen it? I don't quite understand the fascination.

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I've seen them all. The original trilogy is wildly overrated I think and the prequels are utter garbage. I liked ' The Force Awakens ' though and half of ' The Last Jedi ' was good but ' The Return of Skywalker ' was pretty bad although I understand why Daisy Ridley liked it because her character went through a lot during it.


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What's it even about? All I know is there is a Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) who I think is captured by the evil Darth Vader. Does this sound right?

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Princess Leh-ih-ah was captured by the evil Bubba the Gut from memory not Barth e'Vader.

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She gets captured by Vader in the beginning of the first one.

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Well there you go, it's been a long time and I've obviously forgotten most of it.

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Good vs evil.

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Me neither--only saw bits of it when at my Mom's and little nieces were there watching it. Seemed something for children.

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I've seen some. I also don't understand the fascinations. It's just a regular action scifi soap opera.

Nothing special except for the SFX that was groundbreaking in the 70s and still holds up very well to even the 90s. Which was truly remakable. Nowadays? Any kid with a potato computer can make CGI.

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My wife hasn’t seen either.

Basically, it’s George Lucas’ love letter to Flash Gordon. Pure popcorn fun!

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I saw the first three. I think in my age group, almost every kid did.

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I've seen them all, I like the first 3 but the rest of them are just garbage. The "fascination" comes from them just being an original trilogy of solid films that just about anybody can enjoy that ended up capturing peoples imaginations because they feel like they are set in a somewhat "lived in" universe. I'm not "obsessed" with them myself, but I can see why people like them, even if they take it way too far sometimes.

The prequel movies are bad but also very strange and interesting to me in the sense that they are movies that George Lucas clearly wanted to make a lot, but he had nobody holding him back, so they just completely fail as anything enjoyable to watch, but have a lots of odd dialogue and ideas in them.

The sequels are just garbage, they are very derivative of the first 3 films, borrowing lots of plot elements and iconic imagery while bringing little new to the table, they rely a LOT on just recalling back to nostalgic moments and outright recycling entire plotlines because the directors were too afraid to take the franchise in a bold, new direction. They just feel like soulless remakes from a multi-billion dollar internation megacorporation, and that's pretty much what they are, but with worse writing.

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I will say one thing for the prequels, they were the catalyst for those brilliant and hilarious Mr. Plinkett videos analyzing them on Youtube.

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Oh sure, they've paid for themselves with those reviews alone.

Though part of me does "like" the prequels just for how dumb and strange they are, but they really aren't good movies by any measure.

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I only got around to seeing it in 2017, when I was 27 years old. I watched the original trilogy and enjoyed it, thought it was good, though there weren't really any surprises because everyone pretty much knows the plot of Star Wars beat by beat even if they've never seen it. I then watched the prequels, which I didn't really like. Lost interest after that and never saw any of the Star Wars movies made beyond that point. I get the impression that, beyond that, they're really nothing more than a cash cow being continually milked for the last two decades just for the sake of getting more money out of it.

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Its weird enough that there's a radio show called "I've never seen Star Wars" where each week celebrity guest do things they've never done before and report back how it went

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