The Worst Possible Movie Thing Has Happened

duga · 10-31-2012, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I thought Revenge of the Sith was the most like the original trilogy, and the most like the kind of prequel I had always wanted to see since first hearing rumors about them as a kid in the 80s. To me Phantom Menace felt the least consistent with the originals

When it first came out I thought it was the best of the prequels. The more I've seen it and the longer I've had to digest the whole thing, the more I think it is the worst one. Seriously, this was THE movie that led to the classics. If there was ever a moment to do it right, it was this one. The pacing was wrong, his transition to the dark side was not believable (damn, I overreacted and killed this dude...I guess I'm just evil now...yessss masterrr), and I just wanted to punch the emperor in the face (maybe that was the point...but in the others, I thought he was a pretty badass villain). Those things are still forgivable...they still don't compare to the Padme thing I mentioned. Seriously, how do you justify that? Did George just get bored and slapped an ending on there? It really pisses me off every time I see it...and I don't just get pissed off at movies.

FRED HALE SR. · 11-01-2012, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I thought Revenge of the Sith was the most like the original trilogy, and the most like the kind of prequel I had always wanted to see since first hearing rumors about them as a kid in the 80s. To me Phantom Menace felt the least consistent with the originals

I definitely agree with the bolded.

Revenge Of The Sith was my favorite of the lot also. Sure it had some holes in it and they patched it together with duct tape, but it had the lore of the original 70's/80s storyline to carry it along.

The Batlord · 11-01-2012, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.

Revenge Of The Sith was my favorite of the lot also. Sure it had some holes in it and they patched it together with duct tape, but it had the lore of the original 70's/80s storyline to carry it along.

Meh. I liked it more when it came out just because it was darker than the others, but the journey of Anakin to the dark side was just so poorly done that that movie is beyond redemption. The only thing that entire trilogy had to do was give us Anakin's journey to the dark side, and they totally ****ed it up. They could have ****ed up anything else, and if Anakin's journey to the dark side was believable, then I could have forgiven it, but they didn't, so **** them and **** Revenge of the Sith in particular for trying to shoebox the whole thing into one movie out of sheer laziness.

~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ · 10-31-2012, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I agree it doesn't look great in the stills you picked of II and III but its hardly something that ruins the movie for me. If it were, I wouldn't have ever been able to get past the dated film compositing of the original trilogy. Maybe you've never seen the first three movies in their original form, with the cutout boxes around the TIE fighters, the orange blob under Luke's landspeeder, the horribly composited rancor, etc., but the Star Wars movies have always had their questionable shots. It's not something that was new to the prequels.

Also, I'm pretty sure that still you have from the first movie is from one of the many recolored and retouched versions of the film rather than the original, which was not nearly as color rich.

I had, and it was never something I minded. There's a difference between some dated special effects shots and the composition of the entire film. A New Hope was very low budget, so going back and recoloring/updating some of the SFX sequences and film coloring doesn't bother me at all. I don't mind updating the older films, necessarily. I would definitely take issue with them changing the tone completely, but even if they did I'd want them to make sure the feel of all 6 films remained consistent with each other, as I'd like them to view like films in the same series. I prefer the style of the original trilogy (the original low budget look of the first run of A New Hope notwithstanding), as it's far more grounded in practical special effects and of course the beautiful 35 mm standard of the time.

FRED HALE SR. · 10-31-2012, 02:49 PM

hump-dar-10 : theCHIVE

Disney is already making improvements on The Empire Strikes back. Bravo.

~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ · 10-31-2012, 07:41 PM

Not to mention III has some of the worst acting and dialog to date.

**Janszoon** · 11-01-2012, 05:38 AM

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Not to mention III has some of the worst acting and dialog to date.

I don't see how the acting and dialogue in III was any worse than the other two.

RTSullivan · 11-01-2012, 04:01 AM

Oh look, Lucas, another money grabbing ruthlessly disloyal c*nt.

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That's what I'm saying though, I'd prefer it to be left alone.

^My sentiments exactly.

But of course I'll watch them, like every other dumb consumer. We should start some sort of online rally, to convince a large amount of people not to go to the cinema to see it, then just wait until it comes out on DVD someone buy it and and put it online for us all to download illegally. Then let the criticism ensue over an unprofitable flop. 4.5 billion you say, I would love it if they didn't make that back.

**Goofle** · 11-01-2012, 09:06 AM

I have never been a Star Wars fan so this doesn't particularly bother me.

FRED HALE SR. · 11-01-2012, 09:48 AM

I'm interested to see where Disney can take it honestly. I hope they don't rely on CGI to the point of it resembling a cartoon. The thing i've always liked about SW was the character development and the acting in the originals was well done.

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FRED HALE SR. Neo-Maxi-Zoom-Dweebie Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: So-Cal Posts: 3,752	I'm interested to see where Disney can take it honestly. I hope they don't rely on CGI to the point of it resembling a cartoon. The thing i've always liked about SW was the character development and the acting in the originals was well done.