I thought Clones and Sith were OK.
No one is ever going to top Empire though. Ever. Boom! Done!
Preachin to the Choir, bubba!
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I thought Clones and Sith were OK.
No one is ever going to top Empire though. Ever. Boom! Done!
Which one is Empire?I thought Clones and Sith were OK.
No one is ever going to top Empire though. Ever. Boom! Done!
Which one is Empire?
People all wanna talk how episodes 1-3 sucked, and granted, Phantom Menace did kinda suck (meesa say sorry), but I dug Clones, and Sith...I don't care what anyone says, Revenge of the Sith was killer--THAT was the Star Wars I'd been waiting for since I was five. Sure, the performances were kinda lacking in all three flicks, but for that I blame George Lucas' direction. Remember, he'd only directed the original 1977 flick--the worst of the original trilogy, as far as I'm concerned. Working with actors has never been Lucas' strongest feature--his skills lay elsewhere, in production, story, effects, basically everything else. Empire is the best Star Wars, for my money. Jedi has its moments, but there were far too many damn muppets and Ewoks, which all but ruins the flick.
Basically, what I'm saying is, the original trilogy isn't as great as everyone thinks. Most cats are remembering how good the films were when they were kids, and get all butthurt when when the prequels don't live up their childish expectations. They wanna pout about the CGI, "the original effects were so much better". Really? All those puppets and bad make-up effects? Or they say the acting doesn't match up to the originals, and true, Hayden Christiansen's performance is on par with a cardboard cutout, but Ewen MacGregor did a fine job as Obi Wan, Natalie Portman is always a treat--and c'mon, freakin Christopher Lee as Count Dooku? If you didn't dig THAT, then you need to sit down one weekend with a stack of Hammer horror films and expand your mind.
At the end of the day, these flicks aren't GREAT CINEMA, but rousing Space Operas that no none need take so damn seriously. Just line up, getcher damn popcorn, shut up and watch. I can't freakin wait.
(And J.J. Abrams is great--I freakin LOVED Super 8. And the new Star Trek.)
I quite liked Revenge of the Sith, myself, and Attack of the Clones is okay. ESB is definitely the best of the series, for my money, but I liked A New Hope a lot as well. We'll see what Abrams does with this--The trailers certainly want to evoke the first trilogy over the second
Can't agree about Super 8, though; I was those kids' age at that time, and they got very little right. The hair was wrong, the clothes were wrong (more 1973 than 1978/9). If a guy had come to my school in that Brady Bunch hair and stupid patterned shirts, he'd have gotten laughed out of class. AND even the music--My Sharona didn't come out until after the date in which the movie was set--sloppy research I did like the reminder about Space Food, though! I hadn't thought about that in YEARS, and remembered that I really liked it.