the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

big crime for me: making rational adults see the prequels multiple times until they "kinda liked it" by holding a lightsaber to their inner child's neck

How come every fucking scene in these movies involves someone standing in front of a window with a million fucking things happening in the background.

a list of what people praised from lucas '90s on is just about as embarrassing as his crimes.

YODA FIGHT WOW!!!!

― da croupier, Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:21 PM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i remember how desperate i was at that point to find ANYTHING redeeming about the movies that people would ask me how it was and i would be like, YODA FIGHTS!!! and theyd be like yeah but is it good and id say YODA FIGHTS A DUDE and theyd say youre not answering my question and then i would go cry somewhere

YODA FIGHTS DOOKU yeah for about 15 seconds...

one thing i liked about the originals was the fact that around the margins there were all of these minor roles filled by these really solid character actors that helped fill in the universe a little more without overly explaining it, whereas the new films had none of that, just the occasional smits/sam jackson/terence stamp star cameo bullshit.

like the entirety of the empire's fleet was commanded by bbc regulars, i loved that

i mean i've been over this abt 6934873208 times with my friends but ppl can be forgiven imo for having blinders on through episode 1 and even episode 2.

god when i saw those remastered/restored star wars movies... digital jabba made me really sad xp

OMG esp. when Han stepped on his tail & Jabba's comic exclamation. That really should have tipped all of us off that this man was no longer to be trusted with his own mythos.

yeah it's weird to think that someday (if not already) there will be folks who will naturally gravitate towards watching the six films in numerical order

― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:06 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

like doesn't it completely undercut the big darth is luke's father reveal??

― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:07 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

Read some thing on the net arguing the best order to watch them in for the first time would be I, IV, II, V, III, VI, which kind of makes sense if you think about it.

Or that Admiral Piet was managing Slade at the same time?

T/S: Peter Cushing vs. fake Japanese lizard spice federation trader

> YODA FIGHT WOW!!!!

Seriously, that sucked bad. He should be a total effortless zen master Sam the Seed type, not a hyperactive squirell with a glowstick.

Best order surely IV, V, VI, I, II, III, IV, V, VI ?

IV, V, VI, I, I, V, VI, II, I, II, III, II, IV, V, VI

like the entirety of the empire's fleet was commanded by bbc regulars, i loved that

So true. Every so often one of them would turn up in a series I'm watching and I'm all "Hey it's that guy!"

A favorite example -- Christopher Malcolm, Saffron's dad in Absolutely Fabulous = dude who is flying around in the snowspeeder looking for Han and Luke on Hoth. He was also the original Brad in the first London production of The Rocky Horror Show.

this thread's making me want to watch IV for the first time in years

i'm afraid i won't like it now though and i really want to retain my childhood 'best movie ever' memories of it

Terence Stamp should have played and evil cockney Jedi called General Zod.

IIRC - wasn't the original Anakin - as in, the one revealed at the end of Jedi - British?

Like, what the fuck making him sound like a kid from the Valley?

There really are so very many things wrong with everything done in the world of Star Wars after Return of the Jedi, and all its subsequent toy releases. Because lets be honest - there were some badass toys for the first three.

And Darth Maul. Motherfucker should NOT have been killed in one movie.

Read some thing on the net arguing the best order to watch them in for the first time would be I, IV, II, V, III, VI, which kind of makes sense if you think about it.

― chap, Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:25 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

actually watching the prequels now in any order you put them makes no sense at all

motherfucker should not have been in one movie imo

i will never get tired of complaining about these movies

maybe that was the greatest gift george lucas ever gave us :)

seriously, he's like the most reliable punching bag in cinema history

http://www.icanhasforce.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/star-wars-darth-maul.jpg

what's funny is i do think there is some good shit in II and III (very sporadically in II, mostly when obi-wan is off playing detective on other, weird planets), but it's all trumped by epic fuckups.

I thought the prequels had ruined the originals for me, but when Return Of The Jedi was on Spike I went into childhood nostalgia overdrive even as I groaned through the new CGI and admitted to my star-wars-ignorant gf that "this is really stupid."

the opening sequence of III is pretty great as is the big fight at the end, as long as you forget about monty python

did we bring up darth's NOOOOO in III yet?

ya

http://www.mickeyxtreme.com/images1/news%202005/22705glucasa.jpg

sorry i mean yaaaaaaaaaaaaa xp

what 2 has going for it is that it's better than 1. could never bring myself to watch 3.

2 is worse than 1

although they're both pretty bad

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBsm2HiLubY

how lame is it that he doesn't actually kill her

ok the thing about 1 is that in addition to being terrible it provides absolutely nothing to the story arc. i mean it could literally not exist and you could pick up just fine w/2.

there are some neat visuals in episode ii. i like that rainy clone-maker planet and that harryhausen monster gladiator arena toward the end.

but yeah, the movies are garbage.

This thread is depressing me. I've been living in an OG bubble with my precious memories and was unaware of the extent to which Lucas had totally ruined everything.

2 has some bigger peaks than 1 imo but the valleys are abysmally deep

love scenes between two of the most wooden actors in cinema history in ep. II

yes the clone-maker planet or whatever in II, that's pretty great. everything else i guess is pretty horrible.

i like this picture, because vader is all "NOOOOO" but the emperor is all, "dude, yesssss!!!!"

http://i330.photobucket.com/albums/l436/elc1247/darth_vader_nooo.jpg

i guess all i am saying is that even tho the romantic scenes in 2 are some of the worst ever committed to film, they advance the overall story--more than could be said about anything that happens in 1.

i liked the wookie planet, was that 3? it has some crazy name like kashhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyykkkkkk

not sure if portman is less embarrassing in the star wars prequels or in garden state

wasn't the original Anakin - as in, the one revealed at the end of Jedi - British?

maybe being British is just indistinguishable from being half-robot and not having had sun on your skin in decades

that's what i call pod racing!

Thought Hayden was pretty good in Shattered Glass, and have liked Portman in some things. I hear that Lucas didn't exactly do a lot of takes, or give notes, or etc.