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sonja
17 yrs ago
No. I have never watched Star Wars. But they are everywhere. Is there any other mums having same feeling like me? It is just ugly.
Ok. I did not pay any attention to Star Wars until yesterday my son wished the Star Wars DVD for his 7th birthday in June. Some boys in his class watched movies and are fans. And he want to be one of them. So, what will you do? Any advise appriciated.
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I'd call George Lucas and ask him to go back 30 years and erase the idea from his head.
If that doesn't work, you could try contacting Lucasfilms and ask them to stop production of the DVD's and various other media that show the movie. Also, get them to remove all their product that is currently circulating.
Or, you could keep your 7 yr old permanently in your home, disconnect the TV and internet and homeschool him.
You maybe able to keep him from being exposed to the dreaded Star Wars that way...
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I'd say that 7 is a mite young for Star Wars. The movies can be a bit scary at times. But of course that depends on your child. Or maybe I'm just old fashioned. I love the original movies but even at 10-12 I found some parts disturbing.
As for hating Star Wars, I think you have as much chance resisting as the parents of girls can stop the advance of pink and the whole "Princess" theme. It's a phase. If you resist too much he'll just like it more.
In any case I don't really see what the huge deal is. Star Wars deals with heroism in the face of adversity, moral choices and self-sacrifice. Most of it is pure heroic quest stuff. If that stuff isn't good for a developing young mind, I don't know what is. Sure beats a lot of the crap out there.
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Star wars is cool. Why would you hate something that you havent even seen? I watched star wars for the firt time when i was over 20, so my mum didnt think about objecting. It hink tey are great and definitely better the whole storyline, value system etc than a lot of japanese cartoons that kids get to watch these days.
I suggest you watch the movies yourself first. u might become a fan :)
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cd
17 yrs ago
The Star Wars movies are great, and should be watched by everyone at least once in their lifetime. Just because you don't like them (maybe Sci-fi isn't your thing), why stop your son.
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sonja
17 yrs ago
Thanks for your opinions. Is any one of you female, exept cara? Or better, mums?
I agree most of the Japanese cartoons are rubbish too. I did watch Keroro once in the TV. My son only watch the cartoon DVDs we bought him, and he is happy with them. I checked Amazon.de. According to the German motion picture rating system. Only Star War Episodie I (Must be the first one?) suppose to be show to the kid above 6. All others should be only shown to kid above 12. If I buy one for him, will you suggest me to buy the Episodie I ?
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sonja
17 yrs ago
One more question. I thought, the movie is stared by real actor and actoress. But just find out that new one "CLONE ＷＡＲＳ" from 2008 is a cartoon. Am I right? Did anyone watch it already? Opinions are very appriciated. Thanks.
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"If I buy one for him, will you suggest me to buy the Episodie I ?"
I would say this is "main series" movie most suited for children. The themes are softer, if you will. Then again there are plenty of kids under 10 who have watched all the movies and love them. It depends on the maturity of your kid and also your value systems with regards to what is suitable for kids. For the record, I watched "The Empire Strikes Back" at 7 and "A New Hope" at about 10.
Perhaps you should watch the movies by yourself and see. Start with Ep 4: "A New Hope" (AKA the original "Star Wars"), then watch Ep 5: "The Empire Strikes Back" and Ep 6: "The Return of the Jedi". Eps 1-3 were made much later and while their production values are great I consider them inferior. But maybe that's just because I watched 4-6 as a kid and then repeatedly in my teens and they made a huge impression. I must have watched "A New Hope" a hundred times.
"One more question. I thought, the movie is stared by real actor and actoress. But just find out that new one "CLONE ＷＡＲＳ" from 2008 is a cartoon. Am I right? Did anyone watch it already? Opinions are very appriciated. Thanks."
Here's how it is. The main movies (AKA episodes 1 through 6) are live action movies. Last year a cartoon movie called "Clone Wars" was released. This is a spin-off that acted as the pilot for a currently running cartoon TV series also called "Clone Wars".
"Clone Wars" (movie and TV series) is pretty benign and "soft" compared to the "big" movies. Definitely more child friendly.
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i'm definitely female and a mum :)
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sonja
17 yrs ago
Thank you, Axptguy 38. Your postings are very helpful. My son confirmed yesterday that STAR WARS is a cartoon movie. So I will give him the "Clone Wars" Movie as a birthday gift.
I am not really against Sci-Fi movies. I just do not like the movies which abuse the human imagination and present impossible disgusting creatures to attract audience. They are too commercial for me. I do not like "God of the Rings" too. But Superman and Spiderman are OK for me.
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"I just do not like the movies which abuse the human imagination and present impossible disgusting creatures to attract audience."
We should get together and argue the philosophical points. I bet we could go on for hours. ;)
As SciFi goes, Star Wars is squarely in the genre known as "Space Opera". Loosely defined, this means it does not use a technological or societal shift/paradigm as a central theme. Instead, Space Opera focuses on story-telling, quests and character development. It is the SciFi analog of heroic tales such as Beowulf or the Odyssey, or Westerns. Most on-screen SciFi is space opera since it lends itself much better to movie/television adaptation than other subgenres.
I don't understand exactly what you mean by SciFi movies abusing the human imagination. Certainly tales with monsters have been around for millennia. Think of Greek mythology and creatures such as the Medusa or Cerberus. Space opera is a different setting, but the stories are similar. Example: In Star Wars 4, Luke Skywalker goes on a quest to rescue a princess from an evil person's keep. He befriends various people who help him and in the process also finds his true identity. Put like that, it doesn't sounds much like SciFi does it? Could be told by a bard in the Middle Ages.
We all have different tastes, of course, and we like what we like. I mean you couldn't convince me to give up SciFi (mostly in book form anyway). However I would repeat what I said earlier: if you resist too much he'll start liking it just to spite you. It might just be a phase and will pass. For me, SciFi never "passed" and I still love it. And I certainly don't think it is in any way inferior to other forms of literature.
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sonja
17 yrs ago
Do not take me wrong. I am not against Sci-Fi and will even support it in the book form. And I am not isolating him from the REAL world, which is actually full of Star Wars and so on. I am just trying to find a way to guide him to make his own choice and not follow ALL OTHER BOY's choice. Otherwise, I will not bring it to the discussion and already just say NO to him. I am happy that Axptguy38 summerized and compared the star war movies for me. So I do not have to check each one of them, and I will hate to do so. I know a lot of other mums are allowing their kids watching almost everything. Call me old-fashion but I would rather suppport you with SciFi in the book form. You read Alliens or Monster in the book and have them in your mind with your own imagination. You watched those movies and become fans and collect all affiliated products, T-shirt, key-rings, Lego, computer games, even yoyos, etc. And whenever you come to the word "alliens" or "monster", they are always the same in everyone's mind, because they are obviously created as UGLY or discusting as possible so that no one will forget them when he watched them once, and this impression will be repeated everywhere. You know, I will having same concern if my 3yrs old girl ask for a pair of high heel princess slippers because the girl next door has them.
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Kids these days are used to watching all sorts of things we didnt' watch. Good luck. I think one inch heels are fine, but 4 inch are not. Star Wars movies do have some parts you might want to fast forward. If you try letting him watch, I suggest you sit with him so you know you are comfortable with them.
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Z
16 yrs ago
One of the absolute joys of my life was watching all of the Star Wars movies in the theater when the original 3 were re-released in the run up to showing episode 1-3 [the original 3 were the second half of the series, chronologically]. I'm female, and I went with one of my girlfriends who had watched the original movie something like 40 times that first summer....
The downside of not allowing your kids to participate in those things that "everyone else is doing" is that they miss out on those shared cultural experiences that smooth the process of getting to know other people later on in life. Just to take a fairly benign example, there's a pretty standard set of spanish words that most high school kids are going to know 12 years from now that come from having watched Dora the Explorer as kids now. Not something insurmountable, but not having them might feel like a hole later on.
I'm definitely not suggesting blindly allowing your kids everything, just not knee-jerk disallowing because all the other boys are doing it....
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