Style of the Star Wars Live Action series...

And yet we have yet to hear from anyone in this thread who was an adult when star wars came out.

And its not really proving that star wars wasn't for kids by saying adults went to see it too, thats like saying the exorcist was a kids film because some parents took their kids to see it.

 

Is that really surprising? Star Wars came out in 1977, so that puts anyone who was at least 18 that year as being born in 1959. There are no doubt a few people from that generation here, but no doubt the demographics skew far younger, no?

 

I really hope that 'Dark Times' (or whatever they call this thing) goes in the exact opposite direction of the PT. More sets, more practical effects, fewer cgi characters. Characters with a say in their destiny, rather than just being swept up in the wake of Palpatine's unfaltering plot. A little humor that doesn't involve bodily functions for the sake of all that is good and holy. There is so much potential here for an 'all ages' primetime series. You don't have to start using bad language and adult themes to make something appeal to the more discerning viewers (or the fans), just don't make it childish and so broad that any 9 year old can see every plot point coming from a mile away.

As someone who was apparently in the target age group for Lucas when TPM came out(13), I can say quite plainly that the problems I have with the PT have nothing to do with age-specificity or the fog of 20 year old childhood memories. I loved the OT as a kid and love it still (original cut) even though I only had a few more years between seeing it and the PT as there was between each movie. The argument is just another excuse from a man who lost whatever it was that made those first few movies so good. And mind you, I never stepped into a sci-fi forum until around the time that AotC came out(which I was happier with on first viewing, but the feeling faded quickly along with the rush of the midnight showing.)

 

Have to agree there. My kids love the clone wars toons

 

Two different series of toons, and I expect most kids will like both, but after the bad reviews of this pilot/movie that came out last I can't see my fondness for the Tartakovsky toon translating to this new 3d one. Guess I'll find out when it comes to the small screen.

 

Adults don't generally go to see things aimed specifically at children. They certainly don't go en masse, even more sing it's praises.

Want proof? The Clone Wars.

 

Marian

 

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/lucasqa.html?pg=2&topic=lucasqa&topic_set=

I do think he made the movies more for adolescents than anybody else. As for the style of the live action show I think they were talking about putting it on Showtime or HBO so that they might have alittle more control over what they put on the air, so it'd have to be alittle bit more adult and darker than the movies had been.

 

There's a difference between being "accessible to all ages" and being "targeted at a specific age group."

the original Star Wars films were an example of the first... they were ACCESSIBLE to kids, but there was meat in there that adults could (and did!) enjoy.

By contrast... and this is an extreme example obviously... look at "teletubbies" or so forth. TOTALLY targeted towards the tots.

I think that's the point which was being made there. Not that the original triology was specifically targeted AWAY from kids... make sense?

 

Let's not get tetchy here, boys and girls...

I wasn't an "adult" in 1977... I was in grade-school, still. But I certainly couldn't afford to go to a movie on my own... and when I DID go to the theater, it was filled with adults... most of whom were there without kids in tow. Claiming that the movie was a "kid movie" is simply bullshit. Of course, claiming it was an "adolescent movie" is also bullshit. As is claiming it was an "adult movie." (umm... we need a better term for that one, don't we?)

 

the OT Star Wars are like the Spider-Man movies (err well at least the first one). Kids loved it, adults also loved it. I'd consider them all-ages movies.

In fact, the later movies are too schizo, at times trying to be all kiddie and insulting/alienating the adults, or getting too adult and boring the kids with all the political and romance stuff. We're talking in the span of the same movie, going from one extreme to the other. Sometimes from scene to scene.

Back to the original topic though, I'd like to see a SW live action series in the style of Farscape, ie more frenetic, exotic aliens, swashbuckling adventure, blaster fights while running down the halls, etc. And enough with the senate meetings and trade routes and the holo-meetings and all that. I felt out of all the sci-fi tv shows, Farscape was the closest in TONE (not plot, but tone and sensibility) to the original star wars trilogy. Not surprising since 'Scape also seems to get some inspiration from the Flash Gordon style of sci-fi crackerjack action of the past.

 

It hardly matters who watches the movies Ice Age and Cars attract many adults as well it matters who the director, writer and producers mean for the movies to be aimed at and there's plenty of proof of who Lucas aimed the movies at.

Of course it's funny what kinds end up seeing anyway TV shows like The Wild Wild West and Dallas somehow end up being shown in syndication in the afternoon. In fact all adult shows somehow end up being seeing at a time that teenagers can watch them in syndication.

And yes there's alittle violence in the Star Wars movies but then there's alot of violence in the cartoons that kids watch and the fairy tales that kids grew up on for hundreds of years.

 

And kid's tickets cost less than the adult tickets and it was the kids who saw the first movie sometimes over 200 times and in a local theater it played year round. I'm sure that Titanic and The Dark Knight weren't meant for teenagers but teenagers flocked to them none the less, heck for that matter there were hundreds of kids at theater where I saw Ep. III for the first time at the midnight showing.

And I can't quite call them adult films, there's little in the way of curse words, one beheading(In the only one rated "PG-13"), little in the waqy of blood, little in the way of kissing, little in the way of skin and they are fairy tales in their own ways, sure adults like them but the same can said for Dr. Who the producers and the stars of the show have called it a kid's show yet it attacts adults.

But getting back to the topic, the show will be about the dark times between Ep. III and IV and he likes Rome and Deadwood, so this is his chance to make a Star Wars series darker and dirter than he could in the theaters.

http://www.tvguide.com/news/lucas-wars-TV/070920-01

 

Generally that would depend on the theater but I think normally the break off point is 12 or 13. And of course students get discounts as well. The last two times I saw the first movie in it's original theater run I dragged my Dad to see it and we went in at the setting of the double suns and they let us see the next showing for free, that was in Oct. and the movie had come out in May.

LOL! No clearly they weren't XXX movies, but I think the kids understood it better than the adults did so did the teenagers at the time.