I've said this before but seriously what's with every "member" being about star wars. There's countless other awesome things to remember from end of the 20th century but they just keep going with star wars stuff, why? It's such a perfect opportunity to reference other great things from the past but I feel like they just waste it everytime on star wars
shareBecause so much of the revolting nostalgia revolves around Star Wars, a franchise that has produced a measly two decent movies, while pumping out an absurd amount of awful crap.
Star Wars, especially the ultra-tepid JJ Abrams reboot, perfectly symbolizes the cultural habit of looking at the past with rose-colored glasses, and wallowing in nostalgia.
It's also reached a new level of absurdity with millennials who express "nostalgia" for films and pieces of pop culture that they weren't even alive to witness.
How can you have nostalgia for a film released in 1982 if you were born in 1995?
So yeah...Star Wars is emblematic of the annoying nostalgia that pervades everything and that has destroyed pretty much every childhood memory with a terrible reboot.
Yeah I also wrote this before I finished watching the most recent episode so I guess it makes sense now since apparently JJ Abrams is going to have a lot to do with the plot
shareHow can you have nostalgia for a film released in 1982 if you were born in 1995?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Are you talking about pre-VHS movies that you could only see in the theater or if they were shown on TV?
I look at it like this: I was born in 1980 but I love Motown and classic disco-funk music. I have an idea of what life was like back then, but it's entirely formed by things my parents told me, and bits of pop culture from movies and music.
So I can appreciate music and movies from that era, but I can't have nostalgia for it.
Well, maybe because The Force Awakens is the 3rd most successful movie of all time now... and it was a big deal with how Disney would treat it without George Lucas.
And now there will be a new Star Wars pretty much every year for the next 20 years, and eventually it'll be over saturated and you'll hate it.
I thought they hit the nail on the head regardless, the new star wars was hardly new and more like rehashed mediocrity which relied 100% on nostalgia and devout fandom which totally worked for disney.
shareReturn of the Jedi came out the year I was born (1983) and was actually the first movie I ever saw in theatres (as a baby obviously) but when I was a child, Star Wars was the most popular movie series being shown on televisions everywhere. I grew up watching Star Wars, it was a major part of life for many millennials. Do you know nothing about the development of the human brain and how a ton of our personality comes from experiences we have when we are children which would put Star Wars right in the middle of it if for the older half of the millennial generation. Major fail on that assessment.
shareTheres truth to what you say as well, me and my dad recorded ROTJ off live TV when it premiered at Christmas and I must've watched it approximately 10 million times afterwards. I remember it had a 20 minute train advert lodged in it as well as the other period adverts and channel intro graphic and voice announcing its "premiere" on TV. Altogether it just felt a special and personal occasion watching it to me even if it was a huge widely known film franchise and a few years after its release to alot of us kids it was our first and only way of exposure to it.
shareYeah I agree,
The member berry thing is good and accurate for this year but for loads more than she war wars, there were tons of other reboots, Harry Potter continuing, everyone started talking OJ again after two shows about it and all those Emmy's, fIIcking pokemon!
I get that star wars was the big one but there was a lot of membering this year.
I was thinking the memberberries should be referencing more than star wars too, and ive seen a few other say the same.
(JJ Abrams plot involvement aside) Then I realized I am a victim of memberberries! because i want the memberberries to reference more things other than star wars, so i could member them!! Its member-ception