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1   HydroCabron   2015 Jan 31, 3:34pm  

All six movies: cheap crap.

No explanation of who the rebels really are - just those fighting the "Empire", whoever that is. Mindbogglingly bad marksmanship from the imperial storm troopers, and god-awful lines in every scene.

As Spielberg told Lucas after first seeing a preliminary cut: "This is so naive and simplistic. People are going to love this!"

Here's a hint: when you're watching midgets scampering around in fur suits, you're watching crap.

2   Rin   2015 Jan 31, 3:36pm  

HydroCabron says

All six movies: cheap crap.

No explanation of who the rebels really are - just those fighting the "Empire", whoever that is. Mindbogglingly bad marksmanship from the imperial storm troopers, and god-awful lines in every scene.

As Spielberg told Lucas after first seeing a preliminary cut: "This is so naive and simplistic. People are going to love this!"

Here's a hint: when you're watching midgets scampering around in fur suits, you're watching crap.

The first two were good. The third was attempting to tie up the loose ends of number 2.

And the prequels sucked dead donkeys.

4   bob2356   2015 Jan 31, 5:19pm  

The original trilogy didn't take themselves seriously. They were entertainment and made no excuses about it. For some reason the prequils tried to be serious drama and fell far short. They are so different in tone and content that It's very hard to believe Lucas did both trilogies.

5   Rin   2015 Jan 31, 5:32pm  

bob2356 says

The original trilogy didn't take themselves seriously. They were entertainment and made on excuses about it. For some reason the prequils tried to be serious drama and fell far short. They are so different in tone and content that It's very hard to believe Lucas did both trilogies.

Yes, but the originals also had characters who ppl cared about. Even the villain, Vader, was a physically & psychologically injured person, who was supposedly a great Jedi from prior times but turned to evil. Luke was a young adult, dreaming of adventure and being a part of some great journey. Han Solo was evolving from a drifter to a person with a bigger purpose in life, other than his own survival. And Yoda was actually an interesting teacher than a lame *ss bureaucrat, as in the prequels.

The originals had character arcs which all came to a conclusion, along with the SciFi special effects, and general storytelling. The prequels had characters who no one cared for. They were basically cannon fodder for simply stating the obvious and that's that someday, Anakin would be Vader and would assist in killing the Jedi. Lucas didn't need to make 3 lame movies with no character development to state what's already in the almanac. As for a drama, it's a complete failure.

6   bob2356   2015 Jan 31, 5:50pm  

Rin says

Yes, but the originals also had characters who ppl cared about

Very true. But the characters were always free to be a spoof of themselves to some degree or another or even play to the camera. It's never serious drama, in content or execution. The audience was much more a part of the action.

The original star wars took a lot of inspiration from flash gordon series from the 30's. lucas tried to license the flash gordon series before producing star wars. The first trilogy is a bigger than life medieval opera set in space in the future.

8   Rin   2015 Jan 31, 6:12pm  

bob2356 says

It's never serious drama, in content or execution.

Here's the thing, they didn't make seriousness, the basis of the series. The serious points were few but effective.

For instance, in IV, when Kenobi was fighting Vader and he saw Luke & the rest make it to the Falcon, he'd smiled towards Luke, lifted his saber, and went into a meditation before Vader struck him down; that was a serious, dramatic moment. Kenobi's work was done.

Likewise in V, when the Falcon was escaping the Cloud City and Vader and Luke had their psychic hookup, you could almost tell that Vader was sad for having lost his family. And I believe that that's why when Admiral Piett lost the Falcon to the hyperspace drive working, Vader didn't choke him. Psychologically speaking, Vader was a changed man at the moment.

9   MisdemeanorRebel   2015 Jan 31, 6:12pm  

The best thing about the Original Star Wars is that Lucas didn't attempt to write dialog.

And that CGI-puke didn't exist yet, so it was actually possible to suspend disbelief. With CGI, there's no restraints on the movie maker's imagination, so it's one big technicolor yawn with ridiculous shit going on in the background.

10   Rin   2015 Jan 31, 6:19pm  

thunderlips11 says

Star Wars Prequels as reviewed by a Serial Killer who lives in NJ and likes Pizza Rolls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

Yes, I saw it. It was great!

11   Vicente   2015 Jan 31, 9:03pm  

I quite enjoyed this prequel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiAPvuMDB0c

Strange Lucas didn't put his name on it.

12   Ceffer   2015 Jan 31, 10:28pm  

Really, how do they expect suspension of reality with this tripe.

Mechanical shiny robots with squeaky voices when they would have perfected Real Dolls centuries before?

13   Peter P   2015 Feb 1, 7:46am  

Never liked anything to do with Star Wars.

14   Rin   2015 Feb 2, 7:32pm  

Ceffer says

Mechanical shiny robots with squeaky voices when they would have perfected Real Dolls centuries before?

Cmon, it's 1977. C-3PO was the "Lawrence of Arabia", read effeminate/gay thin blond translator 'bot for those times. That movie was a huge influence on Lucas.

R2D2 is the equivalent of a kid's pet goldfish, but in tin box. We're come a long way in fantasy robotics since then.

Today, a robot goldfish is exactly that, a goldfish generated by the holodeck. C-3PO would simply be a thin gay blond British guy, much like that robot in the movie, 'Prometheus'.

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