OT - Happy Star Wars day!
"May the Fourth...be with you"
I thought it was corny when my high school son brought it up yesterday. At church today I was surprised that everyone was saying it. My son serves in youth services and brought his plastic light sabers. Some of the little kids wore Jedi costumes! Maybe I'm out of it - is day commenly known as Star Wars Day?
Interesting how Star Wars spans generations. I saw Episode IV in the theaters when I was in high school – I went 7 seven times (which made my dad nuts). Now, my kids are just as excited about the movie series as I was back then. They watch “Clone Wars” on Netflix all the time and have seen all six Episodes dozens of times.
Harry potter>star wars
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Both suck.
The Harry Potter saga is absolutely phenomenal. HOWEVER...it is not as good as Star Wars.
Those are the two I'm aware of, are there any others?
May the Fourth be with you
Live long and prosper
I loved Episode IV when it came out in '77 (?). That first film could stand on its own as one of the great American films. What people who under age, say, 30 might not understand is that for the time the special effects were astonishing. It was just a visual mind-blower in addition to being a great story with great characters. Nowadays half the movies in the theaters are almost cartoon-like with the special effects. This was also basically Harrison Ford's breakout movie and soon after this the first Indiana Jones movie from Spielberg and Ford came out. These films really made going to the movies fun again.
Yeah I'm a Star Wars geek too. Also, may the force be with our football team this year and every year after that, I'm greedy like that!
My youngest daughter is a Star Wars fan too. I'm like the OP and saw the first movie while in high school (I still have trouble referring to it as episode IV or anything other than just Star Wars).
It is crazy the publicity this is getting on ESPN right now too. I don't remember in any other year the "Fourth" being this strong. Of course this is Disney's marketing department hard at work, but very impressive.
Somewhere Dave Brandon is soaking this all in and taking notes.
"Wish I was a kid now...."
Call me old fashioned but I liked that I was a kid "then". VIdeo games only just really began hitting the mainstream (i.e. Atari 2600) rather than being the "babysitter" for nearly every child across the country. Along with cellphones. Along with the internet.
Yes those toys were not super fancy but you sat for hours doing things like "thinking", making up scenarios, setting up battles - not just with Star Wars, but your little green army dudes, your legos, whatever. You actually played board games because... well they were common rather than being retro cool. And puzzles. (granted you can do puzzles online I suppose but there is something about having a thing in your hand)
And perhaps the most important thing - you could be outside and see... (wait for it) other kids outside playing. And do a whole host of "interactive" stuff with other human beings (not interactive in the computer sense, playing someone online). I drive around some days in summer in neighborhoods and it's like "where are the kids?" Yes some are in organized sports with their super parents (the ones scheduled in 19 activities in a calendar year) but there are almost no casual group of 9 year olds huddled in groups of 5-6 just "playing". The groups that for 3 months of summer pretty much from noon til "dark" stayed outside, other than to come home to eat and were not afraid of being "snatched" by some random stranger to boot. Yes, who would want that....
So yeah, I'll take my day .... also GET OFF MY LAWN KID!
Wiffleball was great because you could peg the runner. Sucked when my older brother would run me down and throw at my back point blank, but we got out there the next day!
runners
man, i hadn't heard/seen that phrase since the glaciers receded from atop our beautiful state.
of the many blessings of having an above-average # of children, is the fact that there are always enough kids for baseball/football/basketball/soccer game. no t.v. either, so the kids go outside to have their fun. i tease my kids that the northern lower peninsula is the banana belt compared to the UP. i tell them between innings during baseball season in marquette the zamboni came out...
Ha! I like this trip down memory lane.
We had a large enough subidivision that we could get about 10-12 kids typically for a good game of baseball, but yeah, I still remember having the bases "loaded" with ghost men on second and third or some other combination. Also, out of the yard was a home run, but as it was a rectangular plot, I remember one field always having a ridiculously short dimension and one needing quite the wallop to get it out of there. Still, we would try...and for hours at that. Those were the days.
Live long and prosper
May the 4th!
why?
when my friends and I piled into a couple cars and headed down to the big movie theatre in Southfield to see Star Wars after buying our tickets way ahead of time. Needless to say, the place was jam packed. Back then (1977), there weren't many movie theatres or cinemas around in the Detroit area, so you usually had to drive a little ways.
But no going to your room, you might enjoy it too much. Instead, since your mind is full of garbage, go scrub the trash cans!
Hello, what have we here?
May the F = dp/dt be with you as well!
What, so many posts and no mention of the two primary UM connections to Star Wars:
1. Darth Vader himself, or at least the best part of him -- his voice -- a Michigan Man, like I even need to name him.
2. Author of the screenplays of Epi V and VI, and now also Epi VII, Lawrance Kasdan, another Michigan Man. And while Michigan fandom probably best remembers Kasdan best for Big Chill, I personally want to think him for writing and directing Body Heat -- which, I mean, Kathleen Turner in her prime (and topless), vavavavooom. Body Heat was such a scorching, intense movie.
covered the U of M connections 3 hours 1 minute ahead of you.
Thanks for the Kathleen Turner info, though---she was definitely hot and I promise to go take a look-see.
You're a loser. A loser with a skinny weiner!
I was right in that target range (teens) when it came out, but then I saw Bladerunner...