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Mannix said:
If there is one thing that I'll take to my grave that I'm most proud of, its that I'll never have seen even 10 seconds of any Star Wars movie made....and I will be 57 this month. Is anyone with me on this, or does anyone know anyone like me? I've always been curious how many others like me are out there...let me here from ya.
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I've never seen Star Wars either. I tried to see the new one with the little kid awhile back but left early into another theatre, etc. My mom loved Star Trek (she couldn't get over how fat Shatner had become by the 90s...but he was sooo handsome in his day lol) but I couldn't hang there either.

I love sci-fi in other realms like Matrix, Jurassic Park type stuff but not the real space element sci fi. The movie Sphere is kind of the space stuff I like. They kind of turned it upside down having it be underwater in the middle of the ocean vs out in space, but same idea, stranded and in their realm.

Ancient Aliens is cool too :D Any historical event that gives humanity some credit for innovation/achievement...naaahhh, it was really Aliens! :laugh: (summary of show) @YosemiteSam have you checked out Rick and Morty tv show? Think it would be up your alley. A lot of sci fi and dark-sarcastic type comedy. (good stuff)
 
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Mannix said:
------So have you never seen Back to the Future or The Matrix?

Nope! I knew this was going to push some buttons, and draw some of you off sides. 1st down and 5, me.

BTW, maybe I wouldn't rail against if I wasn't bombarded 24/7 with non-stop Star Wars talk for 2 months prior to EVERY new release....and then watching every TV station show the nerds that were lined up 2 days prior in full nerd getups...and then having to endure listening to every show on all the Dallas "All sports" stations review it ad nauseam. BTW, I quit watching make believe when I outgrew cartoons around age 10 or 11. Ok...let me have it.
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I don't know if you were talking to me about pushing buttons, but you didn't push any. I was only asking if you'd seen them.

BTW, almost every movie is make believe.
 
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@YosemiteSam have you checked out Rick and Morty tv show? Think it would be up your alley. A lot of sci fi and dark-sarcastic type comedy. (good stuff)
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I had never watched it till maybe a month before this pandemic set in. A girl at work (supervisor of the call center) has a tattoo about it. She loves it and said I should watch it. I watched like the first episode. There was something about it that didn't exactly appeal to me, but I don't recall what it was. It's definitely in my wheelhouse, but I would have to watch it again to remember what I didn't like about it. I pretty sure it was something I found annoying. Might have been the dialog flow. I will try to watch it again.
 
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Mannix said:
If there is one thing that I'll take to my grave that I'm most proud of, its that I'll never have seen even 10 seconds of any Star Wars movie made....and I will be 57 this month. Is anyone with me on this, or does anyone know anyone like me? I've always been curious how many others like me are out there...let me here from ya.
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My two cousins have never seen one and don't like fantasy movies like Lord of the Rings either. They've never seen any of the SW or LotR films.
 
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Mannix said:
If there is one thing that I'll take to my grave that I'm most proud of, its that I'll never have seen even 10 seconds of any Star Wars movie made....and I will be 57 this month. Is anyone with me on this, or does anyone know anyone like me? I've always been curious how many others like me are out there...let me here from ya.
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Nothing wrong with not liking a specific genre even if it means missing out on some of the most popular movies of all time. We all like what we like and dislike what we dislike.

However I find it odd to say that it is what you are most proud of.

Seems like there would be many other things in life that would make one prouder.

Not a slam on you, just odd IMO.
 
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Mannix said:
------So have you never seen Back to the Future or The Matrix?

Nope! I knew this was going to push some buttons, and draw some of you off sides. 1st down and 5, me.

BTW, maybe I wouldn't rail against if I wasn't bombarded 24/7 with non-stop Star Wars talk for 2 months prior to EVERY new release....and then watching every TV station show the nerds that were lined up 2 days prior in full nerd getups...and then having to endure listening to every show on all the Dallas "All sports" stations review it ad nauseam. BTW, I quit watching make believe when I outgrew cartoons around age 10 or 11. Ok...let me have it.
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You have the personal right to dislike or like anything and because I like SW, I wouldn't bust ya over that. I went through all of that with my sons right through their adulthood. It's more of a bond we share.

I have always been a creature feature fan so you put that in any film and I am watching. I use movies to either escape or make me feel a certain way.
 
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Mannix said:
If there is one thing that I'll take to my grave that I'm most proud of, its that I'll never have seen even 10 seconds of any Star Wars movie made....and I will be 57 this month. Is anyone with me on this, or does anyone know anyone like me? I've always been curious how many others like me are out there...let me here from ya.
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Star Wars is really adventure and not scifi, which is fine. IMO the first three movies were good, but after that they lost their magic. They seem to be beating a dead horse. For something to be scifi, it should speculate on what technology and what the future could be like. I loved the Isaac Asimov novels, which were hard scifi.
 
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To each his own!

Proud is an odd term, but whatever.

There are people that eat frozen dinner all their life and never once wasted their time grilling a steak on a grill! Proud of it, too!

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This is interesting..... I've never really understood why some posters post threads intentionally designed to push buttons. Makes no sense to me but then again, I've never really been accused of being particularly sharp so it's very possible I'm missing something obvious.
 
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YosemiteSam said:
I had never watched it till maybe a month before this pandemic set in. A girl at work (supervisor of the call center) has a tattoo about it. She loves it and said I should watch it. I watched like the first episode. There was something about it that didn't exactly appeal to me, but I don't recall what it was. It's definitely in my wheelhouse, but I would have to watch it again to remember what I didn't like about it. I pretty sure it was something I found annoying. Might have been the dialog flow. I will try to watch it again.
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All good..I could see Rick's voice being aggravating. Kind of gravely and choppy. It took me a few episodes to warm up to it too but has a ton of cool sci fi stuff every episode.
 
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Star Wars is really adventure and not scifi, which is fine. IMO the first three movies were good, but after that they lost their magic. They seem to be beating a dead horse. For something to be scifi, it should speculate on what technology and what the future could be like. I loved the Isaac Asimov novels, which were hard scifi.
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I believe that when the Series went away from the strength of the franchise, IE story telling, and instead became too reliant on effects, that's when the franchise kinda went downhill. If you really watch the early pictures, they follow very familiar Story Themes. Very successful themes over hundreds of years.
 
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I have never paid to see a Star Wars movie and I have not seen them all yet. I am a Sci-Fi fan though so its almost obligatory to watch Star Wars movies when they are available. The new Star Wars movies don;t do it for me though. They try to capture the mood of the original but fail, I think. The new characters just are not as good as the originals.

I like to binge watch Sci-Fi series when I work out. I get on the treadmill and watch an episode of something. Earlier in the year I put on Farscape, a weird series that I think originally appeared on the SyFy channel between 1999 and 2004. At first I thought I'd hate it but a few episodes in I was hooked and I can't stop watching it. It has everything I hate in Science fiction, puppets, bad science, corniness, laughable special effects, and a main character who at times overacts his part. But I love it! The character development is excellent and its the relationships between the characters that is so appealing. It is one of the few shows I can watch repeatedly without getting tired of it, at least not yet.
 
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Reverend Conehead said:
Star Wars is really adventure and not scifi, which is fine. IMO the first three movies were good, but after that they lost their magic. They seem to be beating a dead horse. For something to be scifi, it should speculate on what technology and what the future could be like. I loved the Isaac Asimov novels, which were hard scifi.
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Valid point. Can you really call it sci-fi, when they think a parsec is a unit of time?
 
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I don't think it's all that weird. Maybe the genre you picked is a little strange because you give up so much, but not weird to be turned off by a form of entertainment. I can't stand pro wrestling, hate Marvel comics, and wouldn't walk across the street to watch a NASCAR race. Meanwhile I'll watch golf for hours on end, the Weather Channel more than I should, and the same nature documentary over and over again. To each their own, que sera sera, it takes all kinds to make the world go round.
 
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JIMMYBUFFETT said:
I don't think it's all that weird. Maybe the genre you picked is a little strange because you give up so much, but not weird to be turned off by a form of entertainment. I can't stand pro wrestling, hate Marvel comics, and wouldn't walk across the street to watch a NASCAR race. Meanwhile I'll watch golf for hours on end, the Weather Channel more than I should, and the same nature documentary over and over again. To each their own, que sera sera, it takes all kinds to make the world go round.
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Nobody said not liking it was strange. What we said was strange was being proud and taking pride in not watching it. That's just odd. I take pride in my work, but not my dislike of say Apple (not so much anymore now that Jobs is gone) or IBM.
 
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lol.

Took a peek at the top 25 all-time box office films and noticed three things:
  1. 16 of the top 25 (64%) are in the Science Fiction genre
  2. They account for a staggering $25 billion-plus in box office
  3. None of them are classified as Science Fiction genre movies only
Number three is a Captain Obvious realization I did not think about at first. Movies and television series are rarely classifiable as ONE single genre. Actually, most films and shows are a combination of two or more genres. A breakdown:

  • 100% of the Top 25 Science Fiction films are in the Adventure genre also
  • 94% are in the Action genre also
  • 19% are Fantasy also
  • 13% are fit solidly in the Family, Animation and Comedy genres too

Historically, movie audiences are vastly composed of moviegoers who enjoy science fiction to some degree. Box office cannot be faked. Additionally, science fiction is seldom the sole genre that makes up any movie.

It makes me wonder. Have there been movies (or television shows) that are not self-identified as Science Fiction but may actually have embedded elements of science fiction that are self-ignored?
 
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