I watched it with Lauren, 14. She’s just done a big project on A Christmas Carol in Eng Lit. She thought it was great. She picked up straight away that Mrs Cratchit didn’t have a munificent cousin in America and might have obtained the cash for Tiny Tim’s medication by other means…
The language thing is out of the box anyway, she’s been in the car with me too many times…
Just finished episode one on iPlayer. Impressed, very dark, love it.
Looking forward to ep 2 & 3
Watched Star Wars. Lots of stuff the nerds will moan and troll about but I really enjoyed it. It was authentic Star Wars from start to finish, warts and all.
I really enjoyed it too Wayne, definitely one of the better episodes and Abrams managed to tie up the loose ends quite well.
It’ll be interesting to see how the next franchise (apparently 2 further trilogies already planned) takes the saga forward.
Yeah, massive plot holes but pacy and fun, what more could you want?
For George Lucas to be fired into the sun sometime just after he made American Graffiti in '73 ish. 
Given what the BBFC will let her watch in a year’s time I guess I wasn’t thinking of 14 year old children. They go through that transition where they learn about risky stuff by watching it while we still protect them from it actually happening to them.
This got a 15
VB
Is it any surprise? It’s making them a fucking fortune, why would they stop? Cash always trumps art.
Of course, it’s still horrible though. I just don’t get it and never have. I think I was the wrong age when the first one came out (13) and thought it was dreadful shite. The movies have got mostly worse since and recently have started to turn around and kiss their own arse. The last one… Hahaha hahaha!!! WANK! 
I’m actually looking forward to seeing this so I can rip it apart. 
Yep, way to old 
. But possibly true, most of the people who love Star Wars tend to have been under 10 when the first one came out.
I’m a specialist at that.
I think you have to have seen your first Star Wars movie when you are young to feel nostalgic about it. For me, I was at the age when it just seemed the cornyest load of shit, with a gossamer thin story, terrible acting, with trite dialogue. The fucking aliens in stupid costumes, the family members that pop up that none of them know anything about over and over again…
I fucking hate it.
There is a guy in the village who is a camera man for BBC Southeast, is a complete movie buff and has been to film school. He’s Star Wars mad. He will take down other movies for having shakey plot lines, bad science, or whatever but gets massively defensive about Star Wars. I’ve explained to him that it’s nostalgia and that all the movies, without exception are shit but he starts getting all heated up. Obviously, my mind was made up at an age where things seemed more black and white, I’d give less of a shit these days (I have equally trenchant feelings about Kate Bush and Genesis for instance) and I guess so were his…
… and breathe 
Go fuck yourself in your Darth costume. 
I’ve never seen a single one of them, don’t think I’ll be starting any time soon
I’d have left them all but my son is a maniac for it. I can’t very well tell him it’s shite because I’d be kicking him and his choices in the nuts.
I think it’s possible to know they are a bit shit and also love them at the same time. Me and a mate were all caught up in the “Empire Strikes Back is the best of them, much more dark” etc etc… thing, so eventually one night we decided lets watch it on bluray, on my projector setup… should be awesome. After about 45 mins, we both admitted it was actually really quite shit, and Luke Skywalker is actually an idiot. Turned it off and watched something else. But I still love the whole thing, and went to see the new film and really enjoyed it.
I was 7 when the first one came out.
Not for me, I just think they are shit. If I’d seen the first one at seven it may have been different.
