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Any fans out there? I used to be a massive Star Wars fan growing up, but I have since lost my interest in the franchise and moved on to other passions.

I've been thinking about picking up James Luceno's new book on Darth Plagueis. He was my favorite Star Wars author growing up. I've been reading about his new book on the Star Wars wiki, but I'm not sure I like some of his ideas about the Sith and Palpatine's back story. :-\

Any of you guys like the movies, or dabble into the Expanded Universe stuff?

I also used to be a big fan, read almost all of the EU novels upto and including the Legacy Of The Force book series which were just terrible, that left me seriously disillusioned along with the continuing travesty which is the Clone Wars series and I just can't be bothered anymore. I always liked Luceno's SW books, he captured the essence of SW a lot better than many of the EU authors but I just can't see me reading anymore SW novels.

Oh yeah, I'm sure that the member on here called Lowbacca must be a fan of the EU.

I'm reading DP right now. I have liked it so far. As Poulos said, Luceno seems to have a great grasp on what makes SW tick. I have also enjoyed some of Drew Karpyshyn's books. The Darth Bane series is a good read. Generally I shun any EU which occurs after Return of the Jedi.  :3d

When is George Lucas coming out with the sequel trilogy? ;D

I have boxes and boxes of Star Wars action-figures, cards, collectibles. I used to be a huge fan when I was a kid.

Timothy Zahn wrote a great trilogy series detailing the events right after Return of the Jedi.

After 5 years of not seeing a Star Wars film, I went and saw Episode 1 3D a couple months ago - I realized I have lost interest in the entire thing and I really have no desire to re-watch the films or read any more books.

Saw episode 1 as well in 3D, I think people were too hard on it.

I thought the effects were amazing...but the 3D gave me a headache 40 minutes into the movie - so I had to periodically take my glasses off for a few minutes lol.

Massive Star Wars fan.. So are my kids we have all the lego and a Falcon. I also read the Timothy Zahn books.

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Alex, are you calling us nerds for liking Star Wars? On the nerdiest music forum on the interweb?

Well, we're not exactly jocks now, are we?

Now to get back OT, what's the deal with all the damn Boba Fett worship? He was a minor secondary character, was addressed as the generic name "Bounty Hunter" by Vader, had no speaking parts (save for the Wilhelm Scream-google it) , and died a lamer death than most of the anonymous Stormtroopers. I don't care how awesome his armor was, if all it took to kill Fett was a laser blast from a blind Han Solo that shot at a rope and not even at him, then what makes Fett a badass?

And why didn't Sam Jackson/Mace Windu have an afro and a real gun (that shoots BULLETS) when he went to arrest the Emperor?  :afro :afro :afro It's fricking SAMUEL L. JACKSON! He kills old wrinkly Scottish guys on power trips, not the other way around.

Well, comon' - he was a loner orphan and a rebel who played by his own rules - which, I'm informed, are a set of highly desirable and admirable traits for a spaceman to have.  He did have a couple of lines, iirc.

I liked episodes 4-6 but 1 sucked and 2 was just ok 3 was really cool,The clone wars stuff is crap IMO too..Lucus likes to just re-do the same stuff over and over and over again,we may never get episodes 7-9 because he's getting old and may die before getting to them...Recently I have been getting into star trek more..

I love the JJ Abrams reboot.

Agree, that film totally rocked - I just rewatched it last week; the opening squence on the Kelvin was amazing, and Nimoy just blew every other actor off the screen

I liked it as well, great reboot.

Happy Star Wars Day everyone. I honestly had no clue anyone had designated May 4th as "Star Wars Day" until I started reading some internet sites today, but cheers. :drunks

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I wondered why a lot of Facebook status' were "May the 4th be with you" haha

I just got my copy of Star Wars: Darth Plagueis in the mail. I'm up to chapter 3 and it's pretty good so far. But man, I've got to say that Luceno is the anti-Lucas when it comes to writing dialogue. This is the third Star Wars novel I've read by him, and there's such a stark contrast between what character's say in his books and the drivel that Lucas writes. And this is coming from somebody who liked most of the prequel trilogy.

HUGE fan! Been a fan since 93...went to Celebration II and III that were in Indy since I live in Indiana.....it was an amazingly good time. Now, if I could only go to a BB convention that close.

I'm an odd duck, in that I adored the initial theatrical trailer in, what, '76? Then the movie came out...didn't like it. Seen it a number of times, and still don't. I've even seen all the other films--still don't especially like 'em. Wanted to like the whole thing, but it just...fell way short for me. It's a weird thing, especially since it worked for so many people.

I guess I just wasn't made for this franchise!

Yeah, especially since that first SW trailer isn't too convincing of the start of a saga...no John Williams music, different SFX, etc. The way I heard people reacted like, "yeah, that's gonna do good" (sarcasm)

Ha! That's pretty funny--I liked the trailer, and the people you saw didn't. And then, vicky verky for the theatrical feature.

I recall the reaction being pretty good when I saw it--it was positioned before a showing of Bakshi's "Wizards", so I think it was kinda the right demographic mindset that night.

But yeah: the music was different, the logo, was different, it said "from the man who brought you American Graffiti"...I was stoked. It looked cool. Mainly, it looked like a serious movie, rather than a space romp. Loved the art direction (still do, actually). So I was bummed when I finally saw the movie, and it had all this goofy stuff in it, and was cut as if it were a 2-hour trailer (or, maybe more accurately, a 2-hour main title in the vein of Hawaii-5-0. I can't say MTV, because it didn't exist yet!)

It was a weird summer for me--my friends were all on this Star Wars cloud, and I wasn't! It was kinda like being the only sober guy in the room, and being allergic to alcohol--I couldn't get drunk if I wanted to! And I did want to. It just didn't work.

What goofy stuff do you speak of?

Something tells me you loved Dune

Goofy stuff? The Cantina band, the horrific dialogue, Mark Hamill's cracking voice, Han yelling "Yee-ha!" on his surprise reappearance at the end...in my case, it was probably a "crisis of expectation"...I expected what I saw in the trailer, a serious movie, and it was this romp instead. I was a big science fiction fan, and suddenly Star Wars comes out, and everyone thinks that's what science fiction is. It certainly wasn't what I liked about SF--it was closer to the Flash Gordon/serial stuff, which I was never into. A similar thing happened when that horrible "western" movie came out that Kasdan wrote, and suddenly everyone said they loved westerns; to me, that movie was only a movie for the first 20 minutes, then it becomes an endless, quick-cut action chase...but I digress...

Nope, didn't like "Dune" either. I couldn't get a handle on it at all!

I see what people like about Star Wars, but that was probably the point--1977--at which I began to diverge from popular taste. I can't get into the sensory-overload/MTV-cut world people are buying. It does nothing for me, whereas good story still does, and always will. It drives me crazy when a story starts off good, then just goes apemerda (yeah, I'm talking to you, "The Incredibles"! And your little friends too!)

"Empire Strikes Back" has a lot more of the tone the original trailer had, but it was always kind of a cliffhanger middle-child for me.

I'm rambling. And I have to ramble...off to work, that is...

What is you guy's take on JJ Abrams directing Star Wars Episode VII??

Personally I'm really looking forward to it. I haven't read too much about what the stories will most likely be for this trilogy (I doubt they're going to recast the iconic Fisher, Ford, Hamill team), but hopefully they'll do justice to the prior films.

Also, there are supposed to be two films made about Boba Fett and Han Solo that take place before A New Hope.

If Disney leaves Abrams alone and lets him do his thing, Star Wars 7 could be at the very least an improvement over the prequels. A Han Solo movie sounds like it could be cool, but Fett needs to permanently disappear from public consciousness.

 Forget about STAR WARS my friends. It has zero depth and helped ruin mainstream Hollywood. STAR TREK is where it's at! See the new movie this May.

 BTW- President Obama seems to be a fan of both. "Jedi mind-meld"???

I'm a former Star Wars geek who still enjoys the originals, but I can't say I'm too excited about the sequel trilogy. Number one, the Zahn books were all I needed. Number two, everything was wrapped up nicely. Who really wants to see Luke and Leia's kids off saving the galaxy from some "bigger, badder threat?" I'll be happy to be wrong, but right now I have little interest in it.