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Which is your favorite?

  • Episode IV: A New Hope

  • Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

  • Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

  • Episode I: The Phantom Menace

  • Episode II: Attack of the Clones

  • Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

  • Clone Wars Animated

  • Episode VII: The Force Awakens

  • Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

  • Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

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Welcome, Aerinos. I didn't see you post before.

I am fond of Qui Gon and Yoda also.

but I still prefer A New Hope because of the nostalgia; it was popular when I was a teenager, and it was all new at the time ...
 
TimmyofOz said:
No worse than most of the senators we have in America, and with the same result of the sell out of our republic.
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LOL! That's true, I would as soon vote for Jar Jar as the Georgia congressman who recently complained that if 8,000 Marines landed in Guam, the island might tip over! Makes you wonder what he thinks an island is. :)
 
I think It's safe to say that the Golden Age of Star Wars has long since passed. The Prequel Trilogy pormised to reboot and revive the saga, but It's luster has deminished, It's power long since faded. Star Wars now remains a memory, a phenominon that will mark an era. :)
 
First of all, I didn't have time to read this whole thread - maybe someday - but I thought I'd post this anyways.

When I was around the age of eight, my parents got the three oldest movies ( in terms of when they were made) and let me watch them.
I got hooked - you could say obsessed - and I watched them constantly.
However, when the last movie came out - the one rated PG13 - I stopped watching, or talking about them, entirely, for the main reason that my parents would not let me watch it. Since then, I have avoided talking about the movies.
Recently we have been watching star wars and I have become slightly obsessed again - which is why I am actually bothering to post this. :)
 
Fantasma said:
First of all, I didn't have time to read this whole thread - maybe someday - but I thought I'd post this anyways.

When I was around the age of eight, my parents got the three oldest movies ( in terms of when they were made) and let me watch them.
I got hooked - you could say obsessed - and I watched them constantly.
However, when the last movie came out - the one rated PG13 - I stopped watching, or talking about them, entirely, for the main reason that my parents would not let me watch it. Since then, I have avoided talking about the movies.
Recently we have been watching star wars and I have become slightly obsessed again - which is why I am actually bothering to post this. :)
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I was once like thee, I was so obessed that I wore a lightsaber on my belt at all times. I collected countless books, toys, cards and other assortments of memrobilla. Alas came a point when I decided to take a break from a Galaxy, Far, Far away... I felt that it was interfering with more important things and thus I laid aside my saber and my robe. I have since resumed watching the films and taken ahold of my lightsaber. However it tis not the same, the Force has left me, the love nearly gone. I now only appreciate the Classic Trilogy and what stories I once belonged. :)
 
Aw, those are sad stories! The Force is always with you. I like the oldest three films because they came out when I was young and crazy, and they were quite fun in a melodrama "space opera" way. I liked the prequels because it gave my husband and me the chance to share "Star Wars" with his girls. But on the whole, the prequels don't stack up to the older films. They weird New Agey religious overtones, the poor acting on Hayden's part, the poor direction, the silliness of Jar-Jar ... they all sort of detracted from what made SW fun in the first place. I still like the prequels because they tie up the loose ends for us, but they did it in such a pat and readymade way; it could have been done better.
 
I agree with you inkspot, the Classic Trilogy is by far the best. It had something for everyone, and the Force was generic it represented whatever you believed rather than some New Agey buddist belief. Alas the Prequels were a collosal failure. The only slight redemption for Hyden's abohorrible acting, the weak plotlines was the epic actions sequences and a few rare gems or scenes that were reasonably well done.
 
Sir Godfrey said:
I agree with you inkspot, the Classic Trilogy is by far the best. It had something for everyone, and the Force was generic it represented whatever you believed rather than some New Agey buddist belief. Alas the Prequels were a collosal failure. The only slight redemption for Hyden's abohorrible acting, the weak plotlines was the epic actions sequences and a few rare gems or scenes that were reasonably well done.
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Oh, yah, the prequels have a lot to offer -- I LOVE LOVE LOVE Darth Maul and General Grieveous, and I LOVED seeing Yoda in full light sabre battle mode. Like you say, some wonderful action sequences, and naturally the special effects were so much better than the older trilogy. Plus I actually love Hayden Christiansen; I just thought he was poorly directed and could have been a lot better had they given him a real plot to sink his teeth into. The way Anakin just happily trips over to the dark side in about 20 minutes just really was way too simplistic and didn't offer Hayden a meaty role to tackle. IMO
 
inkspot said:
Oh, yah, the prequels have a lot to offer -- I LOVE LOVE LOVE Darth Maul and General Grieveous, and I LOVED seeing Yoda in full light sabre battle mode. Like you say, some wonderful action sequences, and naturally the special effects were so much better than the older trilogy. Plus I actually love Hayden Christiansen; I just thought he was poorly directed and could have been a lot better had they given him a real plot to sink his teeth into. The way Anakin just happily trips over to the dark side in about 20 minutes just really was way too simplistic and didn't offer Hayden a meaty role to tackle. IMO
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Well it took the most beloved villan of all time, a sadistic sinster sith and turned him into some cry baby who got lured to the dark side with some candy. :rolleyes:
 
Sir Godfrey said:
Well it took the most beloved villan of all time, a sadistic sinster sith and turned him into some cry baby who got lured to the dark side with some candy. :rolleyes:
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Exactly!!! That was exactly what it seemed like. If the person they portrayed Anakin to be had actually gone over to the Dark Side like that, how effectively evil could he be? To me it would have been better had they developed that theme a lot more, starting maybe even in Episode One (I know he was little then, but that transformation needed A LOT MORE evidence to make it palatable). Just to have him go totally evil because of a few bad dreams was ridiculous. :(
 
I was hoping Anakin would become a respectable Jedi, one whom you would never have thought could be seduced by the Dark Side. That you would love his character and be heart broken when he becomes Darth Vader.
 
I was still heartbroken because I loved Ani ... but the idea that he just flip-flopped for no good reason is repugnant. I wouldn't have wanted him to be bad from the word go, but I would have preferred to see his struggle more than we did. If, at every stage in his development, we had seen some part of the struggle unfold ... and then at the last could have seen Anakin still struggling against the evil but succumbing to it ... I don't know. I think that would have made more sense than one day Anakin goes out and kills children.
 
I personally thought that love was a legitament reason for Anakin to turn to the Dark Side. Afterall it is a human disposition to make terrible choices for the sake of those we love. In Anakin's situation it becames the lure or sin that pushed him over the edge. What ruins the transition is Hyden's preformance. He isn't believable, he behaves like an obnoxious kid with limitless power, rather than a disciplined adult overthrown by his lust for power and his need to protect the one he loves. I think he should have been less unstable in emotion and more numbed or depressed by the experiance. As if the person he was is being suffocated by his new found power.

Darth Vader's story is by far an epic tale, I just wish it had been better excuted and that they had picked a actor who had more experiance and made the transition from Jedi General into Dark Lord smoothly. :)
 
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