hey i still love the ewoks!

Hey man, Phantom Menace was a good movie!

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I agree with you about PHANTOM, but I LOVED Revenge of the SITH!!
Clones was weak, but had a couple really cool parts. (the droid factory & the ending 20 min battle).

The re-release of ROTJ - sux0rz. I liked the jub-jub music, personally.

You are spot-on about the original three Star Wars movies. They were a light in our young lives. We were younger and more innocent and hopeful and brave. I don't know that those movies would have had the same effect on me if they had been released just now.

+wf+

When I watch the prequels three things jump to mind. The first is that Lucas got lost in seeing his vision made real via special effects. Second is that there was some wooden acting/dialog which totally destroyed some scenes. We had twenty years to create our own image of the prequels. Perfect recipe for disappointment.

'm not going to lie, i was a little kid and i loved the ewoks. i will say that the one upside to the new star wars movies is that it's pretty much numbed me to the parade of horribles that is the collection of other shitty remakes and reincarnations of things i liked as a child. i'm over it--you want to remake jem and the holograms as a live-action disney channel movie with hannah montana? i don't care. the new and improved muppet show with all voices done by the cast of jackass? fine by me. the neverending story 12 (or whatever they're on now, i stopped at 2) starring that zak efron kid and jamie lynn spears? i'm so not even listening anymore.

andie (molly ringwald's character) in pretty in pink should definitely not have gone for blane (andrew mccarthy's character--blane, seriously?). i always saw that as an essentially tragic high school story, because she could never be happy with blane, but i'm convinced duckie was gay, so even though he harbored a diva-worship for her and loved her as a friend, he couldn't satisfy her either.

(btw i' eagerly await pretty in pink 2: duckie's revenge.)

Phantom Menace wasn't the worse movie I ever saw, but it was definitely the most disappointing. As a kid I was a huge Star Wars nerd, as were most of my friends (one of whom got to be on the Tonight Show with Carson after writing a SW trivia book). The years between movies were long and full of anticipation, and when the prequels were announced, well hell, Lucas could do no wrong, right?

Quite a bit of wrong, as it turned out.

I've not seen the 2nd or 3rd prequel and doubt I ever will. As Colbert might say, they're dead to me. I'll just live the dream and pray, vainly, that whatever Lucas is cooking up for TV won't cause the universe to hang itself in shame.

-TTm

I saw Ep1 and it sucked. I went to Ep2 hoping it would be better. It was worse. Despite all this I still went to Ep3 on opening night.

Thank the gods here in Holland we don't get the crazy crowds of people waiting 18 hours + to go see a movie. I don't think I would have ever been able to live down waiting in line for a movie I knew was going to suck that much.

I'm still unsure which is the bigger disappointment: the SW prequels or the Transformers movie. Or perhaps the D'nD movie... Can someone tell me why I watch so many bad movies?

i sat through one of those lame genre parody movies, "not another teen movie" which was lame, but the kid who played the duckie character nailed it. he was twitchy and gross and hilarious.

the funniest joke in the movie sadly, was the cafeteria named "anthony michael dining hall"

eh they're OK - sorta like a serial with the obvious stereotypes and such - but certainly not mythic like the first one or the first trilogy...

It's certainly obvious that everything after the first movie was made with marketing in mind, altho the last 3 were obviously MUCH more "I want YOUR MONEY!" than the the second and third one - the first one was a labor of love tho...

sigh.

everyone who loves starwars but hasnt seen 'hidden fortress' needs to sut your trap.

Why's that, huh? Leave Kurasawa alone!

My main beef was the redoing of the Greedo killing scene. How the fuck does he miss from two feet away? And all the jokes made possible with CGI. And the changing of the Force into some exercise in eugenics.

oh, it's all on Darth Lucas, actually. lots and lots of Star Wars: ANH was taken from Hidden Fortress. R2 and 3PO are based on the two hapless peasants that get pulled into helping out. General Kenobi is based on Toshiro Mifune's character* (Lucas even wanted him to play the part, originally). they always had the princess with them, but her home had been destroyed by the film's bad guys, still. they're searching for this secret fortress/base from which they will mount a rebellion. and they're secretly carrying the key to fighting back against their foes; granted, it's gold and not the plans to some super weapon, but it's a fictional feudal Japan they're in: gold is how they'll fund their rebellion.

so what he's saying is that Star Wars fans can't complain about how I, II, and III are suck compared to IV, V, and VI unless they've seen Hidden Fortress and realize how IV is a lesser version of Hidden Fortress with laser swords, ray guns, and spaceships. and Chewie. who is the shit.

*: look at Kenobi's robes and those of the jedi in I, II, and III. their high-minded ideals about their place in the universe. how they serve the Chancellor and the people above all else. how all their posessions and equipment are provided by those they serve. the fact that there are a small number of Jedi that protect the masses. their authority to cut down, apprehend, or remove people from power as they see best serves the greater good. and some of the original artwork for the lightsaber handles. Jedi are Space Samurai.