Do you hate kids who say that Star Wars is "old" ?

Television, Movies Games and Books Star Wars
#1

I just stumbled upon this article on io9.com about a school in Alabama that took the original Star Wars trilogy into its curriculum to explain basic storytelling concepts to ninth graders.

It’s more than worth reading for the comments that kids are making about Star Wars like

When Haylee Johnson was in eighth grade, she heard she would have to watch the Star Wars movies if she was in Golden’s class. “I thought it was the dumbest thing I had ever heard,” Haylee said. Her dad had been trying to get her to watch the movies with him, and she had always refused, completely uninterested in them.

or

Jason said he may even go back and watch the movies for the parts they skipped in class. His dad has the whole collection, and “they’re not bad for an old movie.”

Feel free to comment.

#2

Well…they ARE kinda old :stuck_out_tongue:
Actually we were relating Starwars/LOTR to Henrey V today in English Class, it was baller

#3

Yes.

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#4

If they’re old, I’m old:eek:, and that would mean that some of the posters on the forum are older than dirt;)!

#5

Bah! I hate kids who say BSG is new.

Get off my lawn!

#6

Yes.

Gah. And I’m not even thirty. :frowning:

Or maybe the younger generation has a shorter memory retention-?

#7

Jeez - I swear it was just yesterday that my parents, brother, and I were standing in line to see Episode 4! :smiley:

#8

Well, I did see New Hope at a drive in…back when they weren’t a novelty.

#9

Shoot…I remember way back when you could say “I just saw Star Wars” and people would know which move you were talking about…

#10

Old is in the eye of the beholder. I know my kids don’t think of it as “old!”
(they are 16, 13, and 9…and they do, however, think of me as old)

#11

Bah, they may be old but that doesn’t really matter. A pretty big chunk of my favorite movies were all made well before I was born(Star Wars included), age may date things like special effects and fashions, but the story is left intact nomatter how old it is. And as for that girl quoted in the original post, I try not to call people idiots but refusing to watch a movie for no better reason than that it’s “old” or “my parents like it” or worst of all “just because” is pretty idiotic

#12

well ya they are old. But you know what. star wars is awsome. To answer the question, YES I HATE THEM!! they probly just dont like it because they came in and their parents were watching it and they came in at a scene with chewy doin his gargle thing, and they probly thought, ew this must be a old cheesy movie about big foot being drunk. LOL!

#13

My 9 yo cousin loves those movies & doesn’t see them or the Indiana Jones triliogy as old.

She wants to marry Indy, I’m kinda proud.

#14

I hear you my friend. It’z like eating burnt toast. It looks really bad, untill you buy jam for it. Mmmmmmm… toasty.:slight_smile:

#15

Well, I just step on kids who say they’re old. Kids who hate Star Wars and haven’t seen it are probably the same kids who think Billy Ray Cyrus and his daughter Hannah Montana are cool.

#16

I think the real blame lies with the parents, who have not provided their children with a classical Sci-Fi education. This is every parent’s responsibility and it is not one to be taken lightly. Middle school and high school age children are old enough to view many important works in the genre. I’ve been rewatching many “old” films with my boys, ages 12 and 15. In the last 12 months they’ve seen-
Planet of the Apes
I am Legend
Red Dawn (though there was debate in the household as to whether this counted as Sci-Fi - I say yes)
Terminator 2
Tron
Last Starfighter
War Games

And my boys can quote SW with the best of them. Sadly, I must admit, they do have some friends for whom SW means nothing. But I don’t allow those kids in our home.

#17

LMAO.

“I don’t want you hanging around with those kids. They’re a bad influence.”

#18

True that. According to wiki: A setting in the future, in alternative time lines, or in a historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archeological record

Red Dawn. Scifi. Yes.

DawnAZ is my hero.

#19

Hmmm…my son (7) and most of his friends (and even some of my daughter’s 4 and 5 year old friends really enjoy SW. Back before we had kids (B.K.) and Phantom Menace (gag) was coming out my husband and I went to a toy release party and bought a load of the action figures. Stupid us, we thought they might be worth something someday, and maybe they are or will be. Well, we kept them in their packages in the boxes and when our son started to like SW we got them out, opened them up and he LOVES to play with them and a lot of the re-release of the episode IV through VI figures. And the 6 lightsabers we have are always lots of fun when the kids’ friends are over. We had an awesome Jedi Training Camp birthday party for my son two years ago. It was the best party ever.

I haven’t met any kids who have said they don’t like SW…who are these strange little urchins and what is wrong with them!!!

#20

Dude, that’s worse than when I was teaching a humanities course at a community college and made my students sit through Citizen Kane and they thought it was weird. Much, much worse.