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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfspider" data-source="post: 96777" data-attributes="member: 300">I'm afraid I won't be eating anything, my friend, 'cause I've seen the actual trailer and was left utterly unimpressed with it.  I'm not making a judgement based on something I haven't seen, after all.  I haven't judged the movie to be good or bad, although I must say that after seeing the trailers I am not very excited about the movie.By the way, it's my right as a consumer to make a judgement based on the two things that you disregard out of hand:  previous experience and advertisements.  (Consumers can't buy and try out EVERYTHING they see, after all.  They have to make informed decisions.)  Episode I was a disappointment to me, so that's one strike against the prequel series right off the bat.  (Notice I'm talking about the prequel series and not the OT.)  The advertisements have failed to interest me as well, so that's two strikes.  Now, the actual movie may be awesome, but my impression so far is that it will not be.Since you mentioned eating, I realized that I was hungry, so let's take an example from fast food.  The Star Wars movies are the cinematic equivalent of fast food, after all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Say I went to The Lord of the Onion Rings one day and saw a beautiful picture of a Kine of Araw burger.  The picture was so appealing--the meat looked cooked to perfection yet still juicy, the bun and dressing were immaculately constructed, etc.-- that I ordered one of the sandwiches right way.  When I bit into the burger, however, I found that it was utterly digusting and foul-tasting, as if the animal had grazed in Mordor and been butchered by orcs with filthy scimitars.  Choking down what I could, I left the restaurant with a bad impression (and the feeling that I was being watched by an all-seeing presence).  Now, imagine that a couple years later I happen to find myself in front of another Lord of the Onion Rings.  I glance at the front window and am confronted by a sloppy looking and utterly unattractive picture of a Kine of Araw burger.  The meat looks burnt and the bun is demolished.  Am I going to go in and order a burger?  No way!I'll probably end up going to Return of the Burger King down the road. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Note:  This confusing comparison has been brought to you by Wolfspider's sleepy morning brain.</blockquote>

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