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
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
YODA FIGHTS DOOKU yeah for about 15 seconds...
― Gark M (snoball), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― gayest flash mob pillow fight yet (Pillbox), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― chap, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Or that Admiral Piet was managing Slade at the same time?
― Gark M (snoball), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
T/S: Peter Cushing vs. fake Japanese lizard spice federation trader
― pj, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
> 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.
― For other uses, see Cornhole (disambiguation). (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Best order surely IV, V, VI, I, II, III, IV, V, VI ?
― Gark M (snoball), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
IV, V, VI, I, I, V, VI, II, I, II, III, II, IV, V, VI
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― extremely demanding on the hardware (ciderpress), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Terence Stamp should have played and evil cockney Jedi called General Zod.
― Keith, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― I got it. I'm gone. (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
― 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
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
motherfucker should not have been in one movie imo
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.icanhasforce.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/star-wars-darth-maul.jpg
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
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."
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
the opening sequence of III is pretty great as is the big fight at the end, as long as you forget about monty python
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
did we bring up darth's NOOOOO in III yet?
ya
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.mickeyxtreme.com/images1/news%202005/22705glucasa.jpg
― velko, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
2 is worse than 1
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
although they're both pretty bad
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgCGyzABAxM
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBsm2HiLubY
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
how lame is it that he doesn't actually kill her
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
2 has some bigger peaks than 1 imo but the valleys are abysmally deep
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
love scenes between two of the most wooden actors in cinema history in ep. II
― pj, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
yes the clone-maker planet or whatever in II, that's pretty great. everything else i guess is pretty horrible.
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i liked the wookie planet, was that 3? it has some crazy name like kashhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyykkkkkk
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
not sure if portman is less embarrassing in the star wars prequels or in garden state
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
that's what i call pod racing!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't mind dude in shattered glass but he was a toolbar in Jumper and I have yet to see his Dylan
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
lucas is a closet bressonian
― velko, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link