Feeling like an Outcast

[Johnny Novgorod]

Personally I'm 22 so the new movies were coming out between when I was like 9-12 so I grew up with them and got to enjoy them.

I watched the original trilogy several times. I used to rent it piece by piece on VHS at the local video store. Then I got the 1997 edit. And then Phantom Menace came out. I liked it and Attack of the Clones. I grew up with those movies (must've been 10-13 when I saw them) and because of that I liked them and enjoyed catching them at the cinema. It seemed like I was catching up to a great thing that had happened a long, long time ago. While it never quite felt the same, and I will choose the original trilogy any day of the week, I enjoyed them for what they were - cheap entertainment. There's no hate in me towards them.

Except Revenge of the Sith. By that time I was old enough to have some criteria of quality and hate that long, horrible, boring movie.

 

[Venom 3135]

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As a side note, I really didn't mind the plot twist in Iron Man 3. I really don't care about films sticking to source material. It's a film. It stands alone.

I'm 15, so I remember Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith being released, but not Phantom Menace. To be honest, I've never been a huge fan of Star Wars, but I did like them. I've always been drawn in by big dramatic finale's, which was why I loved Revenge of the Sith so much. I think people want us to hate them simply because they're not the original. Because they weren't as new and unique by the time they were released, people don't think they were as good, therefore we must hate them.

I don't really see myself as part of the "nerd culture". I'm just myself and I can like whatever I want to like (I recently made a post here about how I liked the Silent Hill films). I shouldn't have to follow these rules and neither should anyone else. It's not fair, and the fact that people get called idiots and other such names for disagreeing with the most popular opinions on anything considered "nerdy" is just ridiculous.

 

[Pink Gregory]

'Nerds' hold more prejudice, meanness and spite than any meathead jock ever did.

 

[Angie7F]

I feel like an outcast all the time too.
I guess you just have to find the right people and stick with them like your life depends on it...

 

[ForumSafari]

From about the mid 80s the "nerd" gained the stereotype...their only seemingly redeeming traits being that they had good hearts and were generally smarter then everyone else around them...We were the group that accepted the "different" people to give them a place to belong...why do you think we've become this culture that excludes people that actually do like nerd stuff?

That's what you get for believing your own PR. Nerds are not, nor were they ever, a particularly accepting or open minded group.