the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

to be fair to ewan tho what would you do if you were cast as OBI WAN FUCKING KENOBI and you show up to the set the first day and find out you have to do a scene opposite the kid from jingle all the way and stepin fechit inside a blue room?

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can't be quoted enough IMO. Really, really makes you feel for these guys.

RotJ is underrated. The Jabba sequence, the epic space battle, the Emperor's camp hamminess - all top-drawer.And the Ewoks really aren't too bad, though I like them best when they're trying to cook and eat all the heroes.

Otm

cosign

can't be quoted enough IMO. Really, really makes you feel for these guys.

Yeah but no-one thinks those movies suck because of Ewan & Liam, it's all GL's fault. Any embarrassment is drowning in their 3rd summer homes' new pools.

As for ROTJ, the new CGI scene kind of ruins it forever imo.

Same thing with all the originals imho

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/why-star-wars-prequels-better-original-trilogy-160300514.html

haha Yahoo Contributor Network was always a horrible idea for this reason.

had to double check that it wasn't Armond White slumming it on Yahoo but whomever it is has studied him well...

Trolling for fun & pageviews probably.

Yeah but it's not just a dinosaur butt moving in front of the frame for a split second, or a bunch of tiny whizzing robots zooming around. It's a scene where Jabba the Hutt is killing some poor slave girl and now that action is inter-cut with achingly show-offy CGI of a cartoon singing in extreme closeup. Instead of the scene being menacing, now it's menacing for 2 seconds, then silly for 2 seconds, then back and forth between the two until it just kinda ends with the death of the girl while an alien goes "Uh-oh!" like some effing Bugs Bunny cartoon.

no i'd wager this doof actually believes it given the pretentious language and far-reaching analogies, including one involving Bush despite shooting for Phantom Menace happening well before he was elected xpost

still not as funny as that "mirroring" essay

Why don't things ever pop out of the screen in nu 3D movies? That was kind of the only fun thing about them.

I found myself enjoying TPM more for the film itself than for any changes brought by the 3D, which was minimal at best.

Wait, so is the TPM 3D just... the Phantom Menace, in 3D? I was sort of banking on Lucas going back and changing a bunch of shit so that people would be flying more directly at the screen and so on.

Also sort of expected him to add a bunch more Jar-Jar just to be a prick. And fulfill his long-suppressed original vision, obviously.

I like them best when they're trying to cook and eat all the heroes.

seriously. i love those murderous pagan teddy bears.

Xpost

The 3D was very subtle. I didn't notice any obvious big changes.

Or, as my son said "I don't think the 3D glasses worked." : /

There was never actually any 3D. You just thought it was there, but Lucas took it out to avoid confusion.

that would actually be some kind of conceptual coup.

"i know you went to see 'phantom menace in 3D.' well, you saw 'phantom menace' and as for the 3D... the 3D is -- you!"

Well, parts of the movie were in 3D. I peeked over my glasses from time to time just to check. But it was subtle, and it would be during like, the part where the king of the Gungans makes Jar Jar Binks a general and he faints.

well, you saw 'phantom menace' and as for the 3D... the 3D is -- you!

Pretty sure this is the end of "The Holy Mountain."

way way late on this but anyone who doesn't "get" the idea of the multiple cuts of Blade Runner that, through their differing nuances, tell slightly different stories and infer different possible interpretations of the story can go DIE IN A FIRE.

I mean I think PKD would have loved that! Its totally in keeping with the whole point of the movie and its source material.

~suckas~

it's amazing how consistently awful the visual design of every single thing in the new trilogy is: padme's costumes

wth, padme's costumes are pretty dope. prob the best thing about the films tbh *clutches padme's costumes paper cut-out book to chest, flounces off in a huff*

yeah i really like having all the versions of blade runner. six might be overkill, unless you are simply fascinated with the production process and history -- but at the least the original release version and the newest so-called "Definitive" version are extremely interesting to compare.

plus, like i said, you can get 'em all for dirt cheap.

ledge is right. padme looked consistently great throughout the prequels. Queen Amidala was pretty unbelievable though.

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/01/duffy/handmaiden.jpg
http://www.beertripper.com/OffTopic/2010/off-pics/Natalie_Portman/Natalie_Portman_Padme_Amidala_Tatooine.jpg
http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/b/b2/Padmegreenscrshot.jpg

man remember when you found out that it was the double who died? what a twist!

$23,000,000 in ticket sales this weekend.

jesus christ

it's being considered a disappointment

anyway it wouldnt have even made that if people like our co-ilxists upthread hadnt caved. SHAME ON YOU.

xp: that's really weird. I was in a completely packed theater for a Saturday matinee.

the audience for this is most likely young kids (and their parents) so it would make sense for a Saturday matinee to be packed, I would think

Yeah okay. I could see there being some midnight showings that were total busts.

or maybe some people came to their senses

If you didn't have a kid, I can't comprehend why you'd go see The Phantom Menace 3D. If you have a kid, you already make a lot of choices I can't comprehend.

If George Lucas walked up to you while you watched Phantom Menace 3D alone and slapped you in the face with his dick repeatedly while shrieking "3-D IN YO FACE! NEW CGI, BITCH!" I'd have a hard time having any sympathy for you.

^^^wait isn't that basically what's happening?

it's him stroking his waddle while doing this that's so distressing

Not only have I withstood two hours of dick-slapping to the face. Not only that I've paid him $22 to do it. But I'm on my THIRD go round with this one.

It was totally worth it to take my kid to the movie. I'm sure I'll pony up for AOTC and ROTS too. But by the end of the movie I was just sort of sitting there with my head in my hands.

good thing you're going to do it again and again!

I think those Clone Wars cartoons got a lot of little kids interested in seeing this.

Those shows are way better than the prequels, btw

will never really understand masochism I guess

xp: yes. They are way better than the prequels, although the Truman Capote gay Hutt character is on a par with Jar Jar for me.

The 2d animated shorts by Genndy Tartakovsky, also called Clone Wars, has more thrill power in 20 3-minute segments than George Lucas managed in all of the prequels.

I've seen some of the Clone Wars series thanks to a friend's kid and yeah, they are really well done. Lucas NOT getting directly involved beyond the basics was probably key. I think by now there's been more hours of them all told than the original six movies.

I only watched a bit but what I saw was super-violent. totally not letting my 4 yo watch that shit