# Who else is totally STOKED for Star Wars? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664 "2005-05-13T12:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/61 "2005-05-17T08:37:40Z")
**Archive Guy** , I’m all bummed now. Not so bummed that I expect to sleep at all on May 18th, but pretty bummed, all the same. **Guin** , keep talking authoritatively about _Star Wars_ and you’ve got yourself a stalker. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/62 "2005-05-17T11:30:05Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > **Draelin** , well done, but you forgot to mention …\ Sheesh. Forget _one little thing_ … Star Wars fans really are unforgiving 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/63 "2005-05-17T16:50:26Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > Sheesh. Forget _one little thing_ … Star Wars fans really are unforgiving 🙂 Heck, the original request was “…could someone please sum up the plot of Attack Of The Clones in a spoiler of **a couple of sentences**?” Maybe Star Wars fans also have poor reading comprehension… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Arwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Arwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/64 "2005-05-17T17:08:12Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > I’m mildly excited, but I’m reserving judgment until I actually see it on Thursday. I thought Ep I was mostly crap and Ep II was slightly crap, but so far Ep III has gotten much better ratings on [rottentomatoes.com](http://rottentomatoes.com). Also I saw a segment on Ebert and Roeper’s show, and they both liked it. I’m not a fan at all, but I’m probably going to watch this one in the cinema, just because I happen to live very near the only digital projection cinema our somewhat behind-the-times-cinema-wise country is rich … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/65 "2005-05-17T17:11:27Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Heck, the original request was “…could someone please sum up the plot of Attack Of The Clones in a spoiler of **a couple of sentences**?” > > Maybe Star Wars fans also have poor reading comprehension… 😛 You’ve got me there, I stopped reading at “sum up the plot.” 🙂 But _you_ didn’t spoiler it, either. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/66 "2005-05-17T17:18:22Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > **ArchiveGuy** During the Roman Coliseumesque execution, Jedi Master Shaft comes in and tells Count Dooku that “This party’s over.” (That line cracks me up every damn time.) You must remember the implicit “mother-f\*\*\*er” at the end of that line. Curse that PG rating… Is it Thursday yet? …now? …How about now? ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/67 "2005-05-17T18:01:00Z")
Two and a half hours? :eek: Though I’m utterly neutral about Star Wars, I _would_ have been willing to see it with my SO because he’s a fantatic. But if it’s two and a half hours…I think I’ll just encourage him to see it with friends. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/68 "2005-05-17T18:26:48Z")
From the [NY Post](http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/46669.htm): 'TIL DARTH DO US PART [quote] Eric Negron has: [ul][li]Emblazoned most of his body with “Star Wars” tattoos[_]Sleeps between “Star Wars” sheets[_]Lost his 10-year live-in girlfriend to the Dark Side of the Force. "She said it was me or ‘Star Wars,’ “[/ul]…We’re not like ‘Star Trek’ people. ‘Star Trek’ people are geeks,” he said…There’s that $1,000 dining table, modeled after the carbonite slab that entombed Han Solo in “The Empire Strikes Back.”…Negron’s collection also includes about 10 custom-built metal light sabers and more than 25 full-size costumes, half of which he made himself. He is closing in on his ultimate goal: to make latex masks of all the aliens from the cantina scene in the original film…Having attended last week’s charity screening of “Revenge of the Sith,” which he plans to see 100 times or so this summer, Negron says, “I could die tomorrow a happy man since I’ve seen the last movie. I’m complete right now.”…[/li][/quote] The first word that came to my mind…LucasHole ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/69 "2005-05-17T19:12:47Z")
Not totally stoked, as I don’t think the series as a whole is all THAT fantastic (plus I’ve learned firsthand the dangers of getting too emotionally committed…_grumble grumble_ stupid overpriced Neo Geo…), and I’m definitely not seeing a 150-minute movie in a theater. Nonetheless the conclusion to any massive, decades-spanning creative work is always a huge deal, and I’m not missing it for the world. I’m seriously considering renting it as a new release from Blockbuster Video, something I haven’t done in years. Assuming I can even find an available copy. We knew there’d be a helluva lot of ground to cover after Ep.2, and it looks like we’re going to get it all. Just one thing I gotta ask…it’s been eating away at me for a long time, and I just never could think of the right time to ask…since when is DARKNESS supposed to be one of the huge almighty selling points of the franchise? Lucas himself said that the only reason ESB is so “dark” (and it still manages to end on a pretty bright note) is because it’s essentially the middle act of the story. He wasn’t trying to create the most gloomy, depressing, soul-crushing Star Wars movie ever, _it’s just how trilogies work_. And frankly, I think darkness (besides its obvious role as an antithesis to the forces of goodness) is a really awkward fit for a rowdy sci-fi adventure fantasy. (Don’t get me started on Boba Fett, either…) ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/70 "2005-05-17T19:36:07Z")
I just love this paragraph from the NYT article about Mr. Negron: > [@New York Times](#): > > “Star Wars” body art is his specialty, but Negron also makes latex masks and props for fan-made films about “Star Wars.” “We like ‘Star Wars’ but we have everyday lives. We’re not like ‘Star Trek’ people. ‘Star Trek’ people are geeks,” He has a $1,000 “carbonite” Han Solo in his living room but no car, he makes a living giving people _Star Wars_ tattoos and for fun he makes _Star Wars_ latex masks & props, but he’s not a geek. :rolleyes: OK, if you say so. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/71 "2005-05-17T19:55:17Z")
I consider myself a big Star Wars geek. I think anyone who knows me would agree–I’m certainly the biggest one most of them know. But I don’t have any Star Wars body art (though I might not say no to a Rebel Alliance symbol somewhere relatively private), and my Star Wars decorating is pretty much limited to a framed _ESB_ poster in my living room. This guy is a bigger geek than I could ever aspire to be. He is the Star Wars equivalent of the guy who built Captain Pike’s wheelchair. I am awed by his geekiness. It takes a whole lot to do that to me. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/72 "2005-05-17T19:58:29Z")
I agree, he’s not a geek. He crossed the line into dorkus maximus territory. - sturmhauke, geek ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/73 "2005-05-17T20:13:43Z")
I’ll be seeing it tonight, at midnight. That’s right, bitches… tonight. In an EMPTY. ASS. THEATER. Jar jar didn’t bother me a bit. The Phanton Menace was way better than Return of The Jedi. Ewan has stunned me with his ability to become Kenobi. I am soiling myself right now as I type this. Worse than all of this, I am at work. I did hate Hayden in Clones and I thought the movie had many flaws, but I know that the agony of Hayden’s acting and all of the other pains that made up Clones will leave me at midnight tonight. I pity you all. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/74 "2005-05-17T20:19:12Z")
Ok, thanks guys. We were originally going to wait until Memorial Day weekend, but now we must go see it on Saturday. (Not for anything will I brave opening day or even the day after). Woohoo! I have to say, though I hated Anakin in Clones. Awful, awful, awful. We watch that movie only for Obi-Wan. I didn’t mind Jar-Jar and don’t really get the hate for him. He was just another character. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/75 "2005-05-17T20:22:02Z")
> [@DKW](#): > > Just one thing I gotta ask…[…]…since when is DARKNESS supposed to be one of the huge almighty selling points of the franchise? Lucas himself said that the only reason ESB is so “dark” (and it still manages to end on a pretty bright note) is because it’s essentially the middle act of the story. He wasn’t trying to create the most gloomy, depressing, soul-crushing Star Wars movie ever, _it’s just how trilogies work_. This one is a dark for precisely the same reason – this is the middle act of the broader story. It has to be much darker than _The Empire Strikes Back_ because the strokes are much broader. The slings and arrows in _ESB_ are largely personal. Han Solo is captured, Luke gets some bad news. I don’t know that it ends on bright note. Hopeful, maybe. Here we have to get to the situation that we had in the first _Star Wars_. The Jedi are wiped out, the Republic is destroyed, and Luke’s father is doing the bidding of an evil dictator who’s oppressing the entire galaxy. Of course it’s going to be dark. How can it not be? > [@sturmhauke](#): > > I agree, he’s not a geek. He crossed the line into dorkus maximus territory. Never underestimate the _power_ of the Dork Side. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/76 "2005-05-17T20:22:38Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I have to say, though I hated Anakin in Clones. Awful, awful, awful. We watch that movie only for Obi-Wan. Pretty much everybody (including me) feels that way, which is a real shame–it was the script, not the actor. Poor guy. ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/77 "2005-05-17T20:43:56Z")
Got me my midnight tickets and managed to get the boss to cancel the 8:00 conference call the next morning. Joy. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/78 "2005-05-17T22:03:39Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > I agree, he’s not a geek. He crossed the line into dorkus maximus territory. > > - sturmhauke, geek That guy is like the Michael Jackson of _Star Wars_ fans. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/79 "2005-05-17T22:16:22Z")
I saw it last Thursday. And I have tickets to see it with a bunch of friends on Saturday in DLP. And I _still_ just bought myself a ticket to a 1 a.m. showing early Thursday morning, just because I want to be there with the rowdiest die-hardest fans. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664/80 "2005-05-17T23:52:52Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > Pretty much everybody (including me) feels that way, which is a real shame–it was the script, not the actor. Poor guy. Yes…same thing with the kid who played Anakin. You need a good director to work with kids, anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-totally-stoked-for-star-wars/303664.md?page=3)