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Star Wars is really, really stupid. Also boring. People have an obsession with it because it hit them at the age when they were too young to realize how it's ab
by ahoyhere 13y ago
Star Wars is really, really stupid. Also boring. People have an obsession with it because it hit them at the age when they were too young to realize how it's about as intellectually challenging as My Little Ponies in Space. They saw LASERS! and SPACE SHIPS! and EVIL PEOPLE! as 9-year-olds and it embedded in their minds as "cooler than cool." The same way that some adults have a huge nostalgia-on for He-Man or Gem and the Holograms. Or Dirty Dancing. Or JTT. Bleah!
- lotharbot 13y ago> "about as intellectually challenging as My Little Ponies in Space" The modern incarnation of My Little Ponies is substantially more intellectually challenging than you might expect.
- ahoyhere 13y agoHaha! (Thanks for the real-life laugh :) I admit - I have only seen the late 80s/early 90s versions of MLP (when I was a little girl). Which were about as intellectual as Care Bears. Care Bears hasn't gotten more intellectual in a reissue, has it?
- ucee054 13y agoStar Wars is not really, really stupid - that end of the spectrum belongs to James Bond.
- ahoyhere 13y agoOne word: Ewoks. Not defending Bond movies. I agree, they're pretty damn stupid. (Although at least the earlier ones were done with a sense of fun. I like stupid fun.) But... ewoks.
- krapp 13y agoI've been a fan of Star Wars since practically the beginning but... I can't defend the Ewoks. That was just dumb.
- mogrim 13y agoJames Bond films are James Bond films, as long as you accept that fact they're great. They're only stupid if you try to impose reality on them.
- devcpp 13y agoYou're absolutely right. Read this: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bp44q/til_ge.. http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1bp44q/til_ge.... Basically, Lucas did the funding on his second movie, which encouraged him to use clever marketing strategies (since the profit was all for him). So he came up with this idea of selling his boring movie to nerds (even though it's entirely unrelated) and it worked! He simply spotted an under-exploited demographic, an age-old business strategy. He's comparable to Steve Jobs, who found the hipster design demographic, for fabulous marketing genius.
- ahoyhere 13y agoThree wordsL L Ron Hubbard As for Steve Jobs, people have always loved beautiful and desirable objects. As long as there have been objects to love. And designers were hipsters way before Jobs' return.
- krapp 13y agoNot really, really stupid. Not quite as brilliant as the hype suggests after all this time, sure, but at the time all that stuff about the force and, yes, LASERS! and SPACE SHIPS! was pretty spectacular in its own right. But most of what keeps Star Wars going, I think (apart from, obviously, merchandising merchandising merchandising) is that thin vapor of pop-philosophy and Ralph McQuarrie's visual legacy. It looked like nothing anyone had ever seen.