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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 943181" data-attributes="member: 527">Not around these parts, pardner.  ;-)  It's really hard to quantify this sort of thing empirically without a poll, but here's a "hard" statistic -  neither of the two new movies were nominated for the Hugo in their year.  That's 1500 sci-fi fans of all ages and preferences saying, "I don't think that was the best movie Sci-Fi movie of the year.  When it comes right down to it, I don't think it was one of the best 5 movies of the year, so I don't have room to nominate it."  That's a pretty brutal rejection.  Putting aside my personal disappointment in the two new films, I don't think even the fans of Phantom Menace are claiming it will have the same impact on the genre that the original Star Wars did.  I mean Star Wars is #15 on the AFI list of Top 100 movies.   Will Phantom Menace even be on that list in 10 years?  Lol, absolutely positively not. To bring this back to a discussion of "Is it just me...", I think that lots of older fans felt that sense of wonder again when watching Lord of the Rings.  So, it's not that we're getting old and crotchety and don't like anything at all.</blockquote>