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 (fourteen years ago) link
Terence Stamp should have played and evil cockney Jedi called General Zod.
― Keith, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:28 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:33 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
did we bring up darth's NOOOOO in III yet?
ya
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.mickeyxtreme.com/images1/news%202005/22705glucasa.jpg
― velko, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:37 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
2 is worse than 1
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
although they're both pretty bad
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgCGyzABAxM
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBsm2HiLubY
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
how lame is it that he doesn't actually kill her
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:39 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
that's what i call pod racing!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:42 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
lucas is a closet bressonian
― velko, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
its a way of life
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
May the farce be with you...
― Gark M (snoball), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDCjIjsZp_Y
― schwantz, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I mean: "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."
― Detroit Metal City (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
immortal dialogue imo
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
christensen is great in shattered glass but he's supposed to be playing unlikeable
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
whereas anakin should have SEDUCED the audience with his charms before turning bad... you really should have been onboard with him for like 2.5 of the movies
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
that would have been awesome. rip childhood :(
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
he never "turned bad," though, he just sort of had a tantrum and then eventually fell in some lava
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
um he slaughtered an entire school full of jedi
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i think another problem was starting anakin's story when he was a child, i think that all we needed to see was maybe some flashback to him being born and then flash-forward to him as a young adult, skipping all the other shit.
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
he might as well have huffed off to his bedroom, slammed the door, and then come out Vader the next morning
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― Keith, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link