Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Four Rules to Make STAR WARS Great Again

I've loved the original Star Wars movies ever since I saw RotJ as a little kid in the theater. I went to the theatrical re-releases back in the late 90's, and I actually worked for THX briefly at the end of college as a quality-control screening specialist, and got to see Episode I in theater for free the day it was released.

But the Star Wars of my youth and the Star Wars of "now" are two very different animals, and countless hours of nerdity have been spent trying to explain what makes a true Star Wars story, and what does not. Well, this youtube video, put together by an ad agency packed full of Star Wars nerds, says it all better than I ever could. Enjoy:


6 comments:

Chris said...

This is AWESOME. Thanks!

Have you read any of the other novels and things like that? I've heard some of them are actually pretty good.

Jack Badelaire said...

I read a couple of them way back in high school and found them interesting enough at the time. Right now my biggest "concern" would be knowing where to begin, since there's probably hundreds of SW universe novels out there right now.

Chris said...

Yeah, it's a huge section in the bookstore, no doubt about it.

Charles Gramlich said...

Yeah, I liked this very much.

Anonymous said...

You had me at "frontier." Obviously :)

Jim Cornelius
www.frontierpartisans.com

Brian Drake said...

I was done with Star Wars after the prequels and special editions. No more for me. I'm not going to sit through another butchering, and since I have so little trust in JJ Abrams to actually tell a coherent story (Lost, Alias, etc.) I will leave it to others to judge his contribution to the saga.