Any opinions on the Lucas Disney buyout and 7th SW movie?

[Yogimus]

@Free_me

re: American Graffiti. It's probably a generational thing but the impact of American Graffiti on teens in small town USA when it came out is really hard to explain. Maybe at a slower time/moment I can try. Suffice to say, "What a movie!"

Maybe it's kind of like the cultural effect of Saturday Night Fever. I think it's a sucky ass movie, though Travolta is kind of entertaining. Apparently, you had to be of that era, living that lifestyle, to get it. I wasn't and I don't.

It's the age old story of "Girl meets boy, gets her pregnant, has to leave his youth behind".

[blackeagle603]

American Graffiti is much more than that. It made a whole generation in the early 70's yell, "HELL YEAH! That's my America and I'm gonna live it."

American Graffiti was "Happy Days" without the primetime editting. It provided a bridge from our Idealized past, where things had seemed right, that crossed over the messed up hippie counter culture crap we despised. That bridge let us move past that era and take our lives and the culture of "our America" forward with a renewed license.

Saturday Night Fever was a different thing, it just gave a pre-HIV generation license to parrrrrtay! (and wear really bad shirts).

The significance of American Graffiti for our generation of flyover country/red state youth was tied to the times. It came out at a low point in morale for the traditional part of an American generation that had been called obsolete and irrelevant by the hippie/protest/counter culture crap. Then here came Harrison Ford's character who would have just beat the crap out of any Beatnik that showed up on that cruise night. Screw your beatnik/hippie anti-heroes. Brando* was back. Cool was cool again. Instead of protest and burning ROTC buildings we get back to the serious business of cruise nights and pranking hometown cops.


*Q: What are you rebelling against kid?
A: Whattya got?

[MarkD]

@Free_me

re: American Graffiti. It's probably a generational thing but the impact of American Graffiti on teens in small town USA when it came out is really hard to explain. Maybe at a slower time/moment I can try. Suffice to say, "What a movie!"

Maybe it's kind of like the cultural effect of Saturday Night Fever. I think it's a sucky ass movie, though Travolta is kind of entertaining. Apparently, you had to be of that era, living that lifestyle, to get it. I wasn't and I don't.

Our former hostess Connie had the best description I've seen of SNF (and I was in 8th grade, in Staten Island,when that movie came out. I went to school with people who wanted to be Travolta). Travolta played a guy with a lousy job, a lousy life, and who was an all-around loser. The high point of his week was dancing in a crappy little club in Brooklyn on Saturday night. But Travolta was such a good actor, he made people WANT to be like his character.

I've been to dance clubs in Brooklyn (my old GF wanted to go, the things we do for.....love). They suck so hard they keep California from falling into the ocean. Anyone who can take that scene and make it into a cultural phenomena is like L. Ron Hubbard (and yes, I know exactly what I said there!)

[Dub_James]

Not a bad thing overall. Helps the franchise and should make for better movies, plus it removes one of the big performance inconsistencies in the franchise since the beginning, Lucas himself.

[HTRN]

Fucking Star Wars, fucking Star Trek - anything with the word 'Star' in it should be euthanised at birth.

Even Dark Star - a movie with sentient nuclear weapons who get religion?

[Darrell]

Some wag at Reddit or such did a new Disney logo, it looked like the old "Walt Disney" one, but had a stylized Death Star floating behind it.

[slowpoke]

Iowahawk twitters:

#disneystarwars They could remake Old Yeller with Jar Jar Binks and give it a happy ending.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EdS2kCUGvfo

[mekender]

I actually took an intro humanities class on Star Wars my first summer in community college.

[Highspeed]

Even Dark Star - a movie with sentient nuclear weapons who get religion?

I hadn't seen that film without taking LSD until now - I'm not sure if it makes more or less sense

[HTRN]

Bomb #20 is the best thing about the film. I actually considered signing up using that as a username.