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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Insomnia!

Mindmaster

Mindmaster

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
My god, I just can't sleep... I am a wreck.... Heart palpitations....

I am seeing unanimous thumbs up.... and J.J. Abrams is like one of my favorite guys on the earth... Who has done great things with Star Trek and I loved Fringe... :)

Am I the only one? :tearsofjoy:
 
Demonslayer

Demonslayer

Well-Known Member
Mindmaster said:
My god, I just can't sleep... I am a wreck.... Heart palpitations....

I am seeing unanimous thumbs up.... and J.J. Abrams is like one of my favorite guys on the earth... Who has done great things with Star Trek and I loved Fringe... :)

Am I the only one? :tearsofjoy:
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I wouldn't say I have heart palpitations but I'm about as geeked out as I can be. Come on J.J, don't let me down!
 
Demonslayer

Demonslayer

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Saint Frankenstein said:
I want to see it, but I'm not that excited about it. I was actually thinking about seeing the Danish Girl. Lol.
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I'm 44, so I was 7 years old when the first Star Wars came out in 1977 and my father took me to the late show. I'll never forget it, as a 7 year old it blew my mind. So it's always been a special kind of obsession for me.

The cool part is, as the movies continued to roll out I kept seeing them with my dad. By the time Return of the Jedi came out I was 13 and it wasn't as cool to be going to the movies with your dad, but I still went with him. Flash forward to the prequels and I'm now in my 30's...but I still went to all of them with my dad. Now I'm 44 and he's 71...and I'm taking him to the Force Awakens this Saturday. So it's special to me for this reason too. I told the old man he has to live until Star Wars 9 comes out, and then he can croak. :)
 
BSM1

BSM1

What? Me worry?
Demonslayer said:
I'm 44, so I was 7 years old when the first Star Wars came out in 1977 and my father took me to the late show. I'll never forget it, as a 7 year old it blew my mind. So it's always been a special kind of obsession for me.

The cool part is, as the movies continued to roll out I kept seeing them with my dad. By the time Return of the Jedi came out I was 13 and it wasn't as cool to be going to the movies with your dad, but I still went with him. Flash forward to the prequels and I'm now in my 30's...but I still went to all of them with my dad. Now I'm 44 and he's 71...and I'm taking him to the Force Awakens this Saturday. So it's special to me for this reason too. I told the old man he has to live until Star Wars 9 comes out, and then he can croak. :)
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...or Rocky 19, lol.
 
A Vestigial Mote

A Vestigial Mote

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A group of guys at my workplace got together to see the second of the latest 3 on opening night ("Attack of the Clones" I think), and I was among them. The next morning, this guy who was with us, and who I knew, but not very well, came up to me with wide eyes asking me... well, he was basically asking me if the fight scene between Yoda and Count Dooku had affected me emotionally like it, apparently, had him. He told me he couldn't stop thinking about it with this strange fervency, his eyes staring far off at certain moments in the conversation, like he was almost delirious thinking about it - the kind of way you'd expect someone to act if they had found, what was for them, the greatest thing in the world. It was... strange, to say the least. And I vowed never to get as excited about anything so relatively inconsequential as this man was doing in front of me. It was unsettling and awkward, and I found myself reacting with reflexive incredulity - which I am sure only put him off. That single experience heightened my awareness of my own consumption of entertainment - and I make sure never to let it be more than that to me - temporarily entertaining.
 
1137

1137

Here until I storm off again
Premium Member
I couldn't sleep either, I'm so excited. My problem is I can't tell if I'm generally excited or excited for this movie specifically. Either way, I'm sure I'll cry through the whole thing, incapable of thinking negatively about it till the next viewing.
 
YmirGF

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
It's a pretty sad day when people are caught up in the hype of a mere movie. That said, I'm sure it will be a fairly good movie. I just watched three prequels and found they got progressively better. Jar Jar Binks was painful to watch and is a totally unnecessary diversion rendering the first film as almost unwatchable. The 2nd prequel was slightly better with a pretty good ending. Still, not great, but certainly better. The final prequel was quite good, though the fellow who plays Obiwan isn't a very good actor, the story of the rise of Darth Vader was pretty well done, as was Vader himself.
 
1137

1137

Here until I storm off again
Premium Member
I don't see anything sad in childlike enjoyment and cultural happiness/connection.
 
YmirGF

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
Demonslayer said:
The same could be said about anything people get excited for. Some people go crazy over a big sporting event, some don't care. I don't see how it's sad.
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Oh, I agree, to an extent, however it is sad that people have so little going on in their own lives that they feel a need to live vicariously through such contrived events.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Demonslayer said:
The same could be said about anything people get excited for. Some people go crazy over a big sporting event, some don't care. I don't see how it's sad.
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Aye, it's no use obsessing over important & dismaying things IRL.
And there's a new season of The Venture Brothers coming up!
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
YmirGF said:
Oh, I agree, to an extent, however it is sad that people have so little going on in their own lives that they feel a need to live vicariously through such contrived events.
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What did you do.....steal my curmudgeon pills & OD on them?
You're a caped crusading super heroic mouse.....revel in entertainment spectacles!
 
1137

1137

Here until I storm off again
Premium Member
YmirGF said:
Oh, I agree, to an extent, however it is sad that people have so little going on in their own lives that they feel a need to live vicariously through such contrived events.
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I think being unable to separate oneself from a movie and projecting that onto other is a different topic than enjoying a good story with characters you grew up with and like minded fans. Half the reason I'm so excited is a used to love going to the movies, but being a projectionist ruined it. Now I'm again just a fan, ready to cheer when Han Solo comes on screen with everyone around me. Even as someone on the "left hand path" I can appreciate the beauty in that.
 
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