Subj : Re: [OT] Star Wars
To   : All
From : Wouter Valentijn
Date : Mon Jun 16 2014 19:00:16

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: liam@valentijn.nu
Subject: Re: [OT] Star Wars

Your Name schreef op 15-6-2014 23:10:
> In article <539d7ad0$0$2919$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Wouter
> Valentijn <liam@valentijn.nu> wrote:
>> Your Name schreef op 15-6-2014 00:01:
>>> In article <539bf9f5$0$2866$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Wouter
>>> Valentijn <liam@valentijn.nu> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>
>>>> Nah, I think the stories themselves took a nose dive. They became more
>>>> 'kiddiefied'.
>>>> I'd keep 'Star Wars' and "The Empire Stikes Back', but the rest....
>>>
>>> They were always aimed at kids - roughly 13 year old boys. George Lucas
>>> said he wanted to make movies (both Star Wars and Indiana Jones) that
>>> were like the ones he saw in cineams *when he was a kid*.
>>
>> Somehow I got the feeling they feel the age bar should be lowered....
>> Towards 8 year old boys.
>
> Sort of. It's more the fact that kids seem to grow up faster these
> days, so today's eight year old is like yesteryear's 13 year old.
>

Ah... In which case I have misspoken. I should have said 3 year olds. :-)

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