Poll: Worst Star Wars movie?

[giblets]

But midichlorians aren't awesome

[Proteus_MST]

Yes, the excuse is that it's awesome. What's your excuse for being incapable of joy?

Same excuse as for spaceship behaving like Jetfighers I assume
(although I have to say that Battlestar Galactica (the reimagined series) did a much better job by presenting us somewhat jetfighterlike behavior of spaceships in a plausible way that didn´t contradict reality all too much (meaning that evrerything was made via attitude thriusters and the colonial vipers also often did things that you camn only do in space). But that, of course, was almost 3 decades after ANH)

[Ben Kenobi]

What is this "Phantom Menace" that everyone is talking about? There are only 5 star wars movies.

Of these, ROS is the worst, but not by that much over Jedi.

[ricketyclik]

I don't think Lori said that.

Oh well, I'll say it then.

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[N35t0r]

Did George Lucas ever come up with an excuse for spaceships making noise in space?

Lasers and engines and stuff generate EM waves that interfere with speakers/radios.

Spoiler:

TFA has a bit too much deus ex machina. Hell, *****y adolescent sith not-sith Ren (lol, seems to run in the family) even mentions to Rey that the rest of the map was in imperial databases, does it take that much time for her to mention this and then have them wake R2 for help with that?

I also 'like' how Rey takes all of 10' to achieve in force prowess what it took her father and grandfather the better part of a movie and a half (at least). And how *****y, self-cutting Ren, who actually trained with Luke, and in theory with his new dark-side master, can only barely manage to get the upper hand on her until she closes her eyes for 5 seconds.

[N35t0r]

I voted for Revenge because the acting was terrible. I seem to have erased the previous two from my memory.

[Bosh]

In defense of 2 being worse than 1, while there is plenty of suck in the first one I don't think any of it is so concentrated and refined as the romance bits of 2. But then I've never seen the ending of 2, any of 3 and haven't watched 1 since it was in theaters excepting random bits and pieces that were on TV so most of my actual knowledge of all of the PT comes from the Red Letter Media reviews and Darths and Droids (which somehow manages to make Jar Jar Binks lovable).

[giblets]

I don't like sand

[Boris Godunov]

Correct order, best to worst:

ESB
ANH
RotJ
TFA
RotS
AotC

The Ewok Movie

TPM

[Elok]

There's some story trending on FB about George Lucas disapproving of the direction they took with TFA. Too retro and unoriginal, or something. Didn't click because **** that guy.

[giblets]

He's right, at least with the prequels George Lucas was willing to take risks and try things he hadn't done before

[DinoDoc]

There's some story trending on FB about George Lucas disapproving of the direction they took with TFA. Too retro and unoriginal, or something.

To be fair, TFA was basically the original movie made over.

[Sava]

I don't think Lori said that.

Haha

[Elok]

To be fair, TFA was basically the original movie made over.

And it was still infinitely more watchable than Jake Lloyd asking Natalie Portman if she was an alien angel.

EDIT: to be clear, I agree with you entirely (except that he also ripped off ROTJ a little bit), and I would consider that a fair and valid criticism if it came from absolutely anyone but George Lucas. But it did. And when he says, "hey, they're just copying work I did thirty years ago," I know I'm not the only one thinking, "thank God! I went into that theater terrified he'd copy the work you did fifteen years ago instead."

Because that's pretty much the only standard any of us had left to judge it by: "is this as aggressively terrible as the prequels? No? Okay then." I mean, it really says something that Abrams had one of the most beloved characters from the original trilogy die at the hand of a pathetically underwhelming villain, and it didn't totally ruin the movie for me. Even when that villain is basically an uglier version of the pissy little Anakin from the prequels, it's still okay, because at least Kylo Ren is only a pitiful Darth Vader wannabe. Still a step up from when the petulant little wuss character was supposed to be Darth Vader himself. A lame homage beats an outright desecration. Also, he's a better actor.

Now, I think JJ Abrams has effectively used up our charitable feelings with this glittery little turd. If the next one is just as bad, I think it'll get more of a reaction.

[Elok]

It's like Gordon's pompous monologue at the end of The Dark Knight: we didn't get the movie we wanted, we got the movie we needed. What we needed was a reminder of the days when Star Wars was still cool. We got that, in spades, and absolutely nothing else. When I saw it, the whole theater erupted into spontaneous applause whenever any character from the original trilogy reappeared, regardless of what they were doing. It didn't even matter that the movie's plot depended on all of the old gang ****ing everything up royally. They still cheered.

Look, it's Han and Chewie! WOO!
Look, it's Princess Leia! WOO!
Look, it's C-3PO, shoving his face into the frame like a numbnuts and saying something inane! WOO!
Look, it's R2-D2! He's not even doing anything! Just sitting there in some kind of robot coma! WOO!
Look, it's Luke! He's been sitting on his ass for years while the galaxy went to hell! Millions died! Now he's standing still and saying nothing while Rey offers him his old lightsaber, which she just used to clean up some of the mess he made! And he's staring at her with this horrified, senile look on his face, like he was expecting the nurse to come by and change his Depends, and now it's all awkward!

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WOOOOOOO!