Those are all good points, actually. I guess I hadn't thought about it that way. I also guess I wouldn't have read about 20 of those Star Wars books back in college if there hadn't been something about it that appealed to me. Or dressed up and face-painted as Darth Maul with a painted staff, on campus.
The part I liked about Star Wars the most has to have been its aesthetic, its genetically bizarre aliens, and imagining what it would have been like to train to learn how to use force powers to heal people, fly through the air and communicate with trees and animals. It appealed to a more simple, physically active, dream-oriented aspect of myself that I ended up over-dosing on and trying to snap back from into more realism that way. I was less disappointed with the movies before I'd seen how much more they could have been through the books, and couldn't stop regretting they wouldn't have either gotten some of those people for the movies or made extra short movies or a TV series about the stories they wrote.
I also kind of resent it for having been a contributing factor on it having taken me so long to get into Star Trek, simply because the aliens didn't look as physically interesting. It made me feel superficial and embarrassed about it to have been missing out on what I still think of as the more anthropologically-slanted and socially creative cultures on Star Trek. My ideal movie or show would have to include the best aspects of both.
Even though the 3 prequels aren't among my favorites, I still have to admit that the fight with the 6-armed robot was worth seeing, but maybe that's just because part of me wishes people could see Mano fighting onscreen like that. n_n;
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Date: 2009-02-25 06:27 pm (UTC)The part I liked about Star Wars the most has to have been its aesthetic, its genetically bizarre aliens, and imagining what it would have been like to train to learn how to use force powers to heal people, fly through the air and communicate with trees and animals. It appealed to a more simple, physically active, dream-oriented aspect of myself that I ended up over-dosing on and trying to snap back from into more realism that way. I was less disappointed with the movies before I'd seen how much more they could have been through the books, and couldn't stop regretting they wouldn't have either gotten some of those people for the movies or made extra short movies or a TV series about the stories they wrote.
I also kind of resent it for having been a contributing factor on it having taken me so long to get into Star Trek, simply because the aliens didn't look as physically interesting. It made me feel superficial and embarrassed about it to have been missing out on what I still think of as the more anthropologically-slanted and socially creative cultures on Star Trek. My ideal movie or show would have to include the best aspects of both.
Even though the 3 prequels aren't among my favorites, I still have to admit that the fight with the 6-armed robot was worth seeing, but maybe that's just because part of me wishes people could see Mano fighting onscreen like that. n_n;