Episode I is supposed to be in theatres now, but I'll be darned to find out where. Certainly not at any southwestern Ontario Silver City/Galaxy theatres. :-( I have a six year old who's excited to see it on the big screen, nevermind the fact it's in 3D.
i recently bought/watched the starwars blu-ray box set. The phantom menace is truly a terrible film. Every time i watch it i fall asleep. The only time i didn't snooze was the first time i saw it and that was because i was in physical pain at the disappointment i felt.
Attack of the clones is also dreadful.... but at least i don't fall asleep during episode 2. Revenge of the sith is half awesome and half painful acting.
ofcourse the original trilogy is amazing and timeless.
Agreed--that's why I checked the thread. I was just old enough to think Star Wars was pretty grand when it debuted. Six months later, I sat through it again and was clubbing myself upside the head.
I'll pass. No interest in the latest results of George Lucas' incessant revisionism, and after all these years I've pretty well reached my saturation point with the franchise.
i'll pass. No interest in the latest results of george lucas' incessant revisionism, and after all these years i've pretty well reached my saturation point with the franchise.
To mix metaphors, Lucas is milking a dead horse. I loved the first three movies with Harrison Ford and the cheesy special-effects, hated the other three the first time and see absolutely no reason for either 3D (done in post-production no less instead of having filmed them that way in the first place) or continually revising the original scripts for the first three and keep re-releasing them ad nauseum!
The reason I watched the newer three movies was to see Anakin's actual transformation into Darth Vader - and that was very conveniently glossed over, so, in my opinion I was gypped.
I kind of liked THX-1138. Oh wait, that was longgggg before Star Wars. Well, there was the first Indiana Jones film, which hardly bears his stamp at all... and then there was... uh...
For some reason I've always felt as though I have to like THX-1138 but every time I've tried to watch it on TV I've ended up thinking it's overrated and its cult status isn't that deserved. When I want to waste my time on a painful '70s sci-fi movie I'd rather turn to that towering disco-licious achievement, Logan's Run.
(Some) Star wars fans have killed the franchise. There is a market for more Star Wars, but...
In January of 2012, Lucas announced that he would step away from blockbuster film-making and instead produce smaller art-house films. In an interview regarding whether or not the scrutiny he received from the prequel trilogy and the alterations made on the original trilogy, were a factor on his retirement, Lucas stated: "Why would I make any more... when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?"
i don't think he's a terrible person....just that he screwed up the prequels. I don't have a problem with most of his changes to the originals...but i also think he should release the original versions for the fans.
there was supposed to be a Star Wars TV (live action, not the clone wars) series coming out focusing on between episode 3 and 4.:
I had dinner with someone who said he was embarrassed to let his 9 year old watch the revised movies because the originals were better, and he didn't want to explain the changes to them.
All I thought was how selfish that was.. The new fans don't care about changes.. Let them bask in their first experience.
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