Remember getting goosebumps when this appeared on the screen? How times have changed.

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AliensRHereDummy@reddit

I remember one Hallowe'en we got to buy our candy and bring it to the movie theatre.

What was on you ask? Just all 3 Star Wars movies!!

I remember leaving so tired, because the trilogy ended around midnight. One of my favourite memories as a kid.

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Now I just roll my eyes when it’s another Star Wars “movie” or TV show. They ruined it, then ruined it harder, then backed up over it, and somehow ruined it again. One of the funnier reviews of the newest Star Wars movies, said: it’s so bad it ruined the originals.

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Strange-Scarcity@reddit

That's just moden rage bait "fandom", it's algorithm driven to create a pipeline that brings people to absolutely hate things that are new, even though many of those are fundamentally no different than similar stories, TV Shows and Movies that they loved and enjoyed 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 more years ago.

It's sad how easily people can be manipulated by a constant deluge of loud, high pitched outrage voices.

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SomethingFerocious@reddit

I dunno. We didn’t have an algorithm to tell us to hate Jar Jar Binks in 1999. We figured that out on our own. We also noticed that Portman had terrible lines, performed them abysmally, and dressed up ridiculously, without an algorithm. We also noticed, without algorithm, that the prequels, over all, totally sucked. Still, I hear what you are saying. In the more modern era, hatred for the series has taken on a life of its own. But the prequels started the hatred by being terrible, or, as one shrewd observer here noticed: it actually began with the Ewoks, a view that I share. Anyway, may the force be with you brother.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Yup.
It's sad how the world got taken over by nerds only for the net to end up making it the tiny little nasty raging subset to get all the attention and slowly poison all fandoms. And all the algos push rage bait and you have zillions jumping on the produce as much cheap, quick rage bait as you can and watch the dollars stream in. Sad times. Times have changed indeed, but not so much in the way the OP suggested.

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madmustache4U@reddit

Lucas lost me after Phantom Menace. He owes me 2 hours and 16 minutes of my life back.

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popdivtweet@reddit

“A film by STANLEY KUBRICK” on screen did it for me.

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EmperorXerro@reddit

The only thing better was hearing the 20th Century Fox fanfare.

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Bitter_Mongoose@reddit

ba da dump dump

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Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit

Whatever. I get the same excitement from seeing this intro.

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handsomeape95@reddit

Here's my question. Since Disney owns 20th Century Fox now, can they bring back the fanfare at the beginning of their movies?

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Ghost-of-Sanity@reddit

Strangely enough, that was my first thought when Disney bought Lucasfilm. “We’re not gonna get the fanfare to start off the movies anymore!!” 😩😞 Odd how that is (and always has been) part of the Star Wars experience for me.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

The funny thing is when I was little I actually thought that fanfare was part of Star Wars and that it was the intro Star Wars theme music! I guess that is what happens when Star Wars arrives when you are really little and you see it like 30 times that summer.

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ApplianceHealer@reddit

Lucas/Star Wars helped to bring back the fanfare.

A great episode of an equally great podcast about the history of the Fox fanfare

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

I'll have to listen to that. From what you say it sounds like it hadn't been used for a bit until 1977 Star Wars, that could also add to maybe why I thought it was part of Star Wars itself.

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Ghost-of-Sanity@reddit

My story is exactly the same. Lol

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wtfsafrush@reddit

Seriously! That pause after the Fox fanfare (with the “A long time ago…”), and then the payoff with the opening blast of the SW theme is crack!

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Strange-Scarcity@reddit

SAME!

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kevbayer@reddit

Still do

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naamingebruik@reddit

I still get goosebumps from anything Star Wars related.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

exactly!

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SBInCB@reddit

This. Fuck Lucas for modifying my brain without permission.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Except I still do, so not so much really.

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Watch_Noob_72@reddit

This is RoTJ, I know the goosebumps very, very well. The best of times.

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KoreaMieville@reddit

For all my complaints about Disney era Star Wars, I still lose my shit when I see that image.

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Craig1974@reddit

THX 1138

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UnmutualOne@reddit

Different kind of goosebumps now.

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DeNiroPacino@reddit

How fortunate we were to experience it all first hand. Nothing Disney puts out has come close and it never will. Not even Lucas's prequels came close. 1977-1983. How incredible it was.

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Bind_Moggled@reddit

George Lucas’s original concept, script, and production were inspired by King Arthur, Kurosawa, and Joseph Campbell.

Disney films are inspired by marketing research and focus groups.

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Competitive_Bid7071@reddit

Half the world building though was thanks partly due to other authors such as Timothy Zahn, he came up with the name “Coruscant” as the capital of the Republic/Empire in the original Thrawn books. Although other authors like James Luceno and Aaron Stackpoll also came up with quite a bit of world building.

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Bluepilgrim3@reddit

Which he borrowed from Isaac Asimov!

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Competitive_Bid7071@reddit

Which he borrowed from Isaac Asimov!

I hope this isn’t a dumb question, but who is that?

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SpinningHead@reddit

You should read his draft prior to reading Campbell. Made Flash Gordon look like high art.

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Strange-Scarcity@reddit

That's very subjective.

I really enjoy what Disney has been doing with Star Wars. Much of what has been shown in the CGI Animated series and then followed up with in some live action were lifted from the old books, comics and tabletop RPG tie-ins during that period after Return of the Jedi and the Phantom Menace.

It's really neat to see those call backs to that old tabletop gaming material that I still have sitting on my shelves.

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draggar@reddit

Or the THX intro.

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BigConstruction4247@reddit

https://i.redd.it/kdbvn3x2hund1.gif

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CogitoErgoScum@reddit

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZSHWING!

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Strange-Scarcity@reddit

I still get goosebumps when that shows up on the screen.

I also don't buy into all the rage bait "fandom" that is so prevalent these days, because it's all BS. ALL of it.

It's all designed to to create a pipeline, leading people into more and more bizarre weird stances on things that 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 years before NEVER bothered them, even though it was all over the place back then too.

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texicali74@reddit (OP)

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of the self-appointed gatekeepers who thinks that Star Wars or Indiana Jones are just for me and that anything outside of that is unacceptable. I just don’t think that the quality of recent offerings in either universe has been very good (with a couple of exceptions). I don’t get excited when announcements are made about new entries. Maybe it’s just age; you do outgrow a lot of things eventually.

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Competitive_Bid7071@reddit

What about the Expanded Universe lore and media? Most nerd who I’ve spoken too who like Star Wars say they like how complex and detailed the in-universe history of the Star Wars universe has become because of the Expanded Universe, as it’s essentially what Tolkien did with his lore and in-universe history related to middle earth.

Not to mention there’s quite a few books and comics I’ve read for a while now that I’ve really enjoyed and feel add to the movies.

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