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I was 18 (and working in a cinema) when Phantom Menace came out.
Hated it. No hindsight involved - it bored me out of my mind on the first watch. I was already feeling uncertain about SW (after growing up adoring the original films) after the Special Editions, but the prequels took me right out of it.
I did watch Clones and Sith on DVD, but I didn't like them either. Everything about all three films was so sterile. The actors (mostly good actors!) are stood around saying boring, inhuman lines, or walking along a conveyer belt and never looking like they're in a real environment, and there are no emotions, and basically ugh. I didn't even like the scores - all the choir wailing on Duel of the Fates seemed so overblown placed against the dull action.
I was out of love with Star Wars for 15 years after that.
And then within minutes of The Force Awakens beginning, Poe cracks a joke ("Do I talk first?"). A human, real joke. And between him, and Finn, and Rey - these wonderful characters behaving and talking like actual people, not just mouthpieces for dull arguments about dull unreal things - I was brought joyfully, tearfully, when Rey takes that saber, screaming back in Star Wars world.
I'm leaving in a few minutes to go and see The Last Jedi, and I'm *so* excited to see them again. 
BACK! It's scrappy and messy and overlong and I ADORED IT.
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I saw Star Wars when it came out and liked it, but I was way more into horror movies like The Omen and Exorcist, Carrie at that time. Empire Strikes I liked better, but neither was exactly a favorite of mine.
My father took me to see Return of the Jedi and that pretty much killed Star Wars for me. I've tried many times to give all the movies a try and I find it all so clichéd Western/superhero it actually irritates the yee haw out of me.
But I'm a weirdo, I also FAR prefer Wagner's Ring to anything Tolkien. Shoot I prefer Godfather II to anything Tolkien or Lucas for that matter.
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Star Wars is dead to me. These new characters are dull and lack personality. Quipping a few jokes here and there doesn't make them interesting to me. And I'll never take this emo nerd childish villain seriously. Talk about a let down.
Sorry that what made SW alive again for me killed it for you. But I don't find any of the new characters dull - I find them entirely vivid and vital and - crucially - I like being around them. This was the thing really missing for me in the prequels - I just didn't care to hang around with any of those pompous speechifyers at all. Also ironic that you can't take that type of villain seriously when "emo nerd childish" is more and more describing actual real life villiany year by year.
But I'm sorry you don't enjoy it now, genuinely. Maybe, like me, you will again one day.
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Dec 15, 2017 - 12:28 AM
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Rick15
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I was 18 (and working in a cinema) when Phantom Menace came out.
Hated it. No hindsight involved - it bored me out of my mind on the first watch. I was already feeling uncertain about SW (after growing up adoring the original films) after the Special Editions, but the prequels took me right out of it.
I did watch Clones and Sith on DVD, but I didn't like them either. Everything about all three films was so sterile. The actors (mostly good actors!) are stood around saying boring, inhuman lines, or walking along a conveyer belt and never looking like they're in a real environment, and there are no emotions, and basically ugh. I didn't even like the scores - all the choir wailing on Duel of the Fates seemed so overblown placed against the dull action.
I was out of love with Star Wars for 15 years after that.
And then within minutes of The Force Awakens beginning, Poe cracks a joke ("Do I talk first?"). A human, real joke. And between him, and Finn, and Rey - these wonderful characters behaving and talking like actual people, not just mouthpieces for dull arguments about dull unreal things - I was brought joyfully, tearfully, when Rey takes that saber, screaming back in Star Wars world.
Completely agree with everything you have said, Simon.
Haven't seen the new movie yet but am planning to in the next week. Looking forward to it.
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