Official Star Wars Kicks Arse Thread

[David Floyd]

I rather enjoyed it, except for the completely trite love story and Anakin's horrible acting. Geez, you'd think Jedi training would include Talking to Girls for Dummies and Public Speaking 101.

[H Tower]

clones sucked arse, the only way it kicked arse was if it kicked its own arse. check my sig for a great line from the movie. did anyone else notice that they used some of the same cheasy lines from episodes4-6? Anakin was awful, he sucked, end of story.

oh yeah, the people i shared the theater with did at least 3 standing ovations during the movie and was cheering and shouting 4 more times while the movie was still playing people need to calm down, its not like the actors can hear you, and some of us are actually trying to pay attention to the terrible dialogue.

[monkspider]

Here is my ranking of the Star Wars movies as of today
1. Return of the Jedi
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Attack of the Clones
4. A New Hope
5. Phantom Menace

I agree with Floyd (twice in a week, who would have thought it?). It was otherwise excellent other than a weak love story and poor acting on Hayden Christenson's part. I'm actually one of those types of guys who enjoys a good love story, but this one was poor, IMHO.
That said, Lucas has successfully regained form.

[David Floyd]

The fighting certainly kicked ass, and let's face it, for what other reason does one see Star Wars?

[H Tower]

yeah, i guess i can agree with your rankings monkspider. although a new hope comes close to beating out clones

[monkspider]

Anyone think that Jar-Jar may eventually be looked upon with relative fondness as the ewoks have come to be (at least to some degree)? Or is the controversy surrounding Jar-Jar's character too much to ever be overcome?

[David Floyd]

Ewoks are looked at fondly???

[monkspider]

I always assumed so, I like Ewoks at least.

[David Floyd]

[Dis]

You know I have been thinking. And I just realized the original films weren't that great. We were kids when we saw them, this is why we think they are so great.

Lucas cannot direct. 'nuff said.

The best he can do is put together unrealistic fight scenes.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by monkspider
I always assumed so, I like Ewoks at least.

Ewoks was Lucus's first mis step in the Star Wars saga. They suck and they ruined RTJ. The only consolation I get from RTJ is the resulting Ewok Holocaust

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html

The circumstances at the end of Return of the Jedi lead inevitably to an environmental disaster on the Endor moon. The explosion of a small artificial moon in low orbit sends a meteoric rain onto the ewok sanctuary, on a scale unmatched since Endor formed. Through either direct atmospheric injection of small particles, or showers of ejecta from large impacts, the atmosphere will be filled with smoke and fallout causing a gargantuan nuclear-winter effect.

And to think this site is a hobby for the guy.

[Tingkai]

I just saw Attack of the Clones and I thought it was okay, but it missed a chance of being great.

There's a scene with Dookus and Obi Wan (If you haven't seen the movie don't read any further) where Dookus says he's on the good side, trying to stop the Sith. If this idea had been developed further, it would have been great. It could set the stage for a split among the Jedi.


When Doofus says this stuff, I thought, all right, now things are getting interesting. But instead Dookus ends up being just another servant of the dark lord. Boring.

The other thing that bugs me is where did all the military ships come from? We know where the clones were made, but what about the starships and those copter-like flyers.

And there's no explanation about the clones becoming the army of the republic. Wouldn't someone ask about how these clones came into existence and who gave the order to create them?

The latter two problems could have been dealt with quickly in two scenes, but it just gets glossed over.

[Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS]

It was The Last Crusade to Episode 1's Temple of Doom. Progress, but barely measurable. As bad as episode 1 was (and to be honest, I kinda liked it), I don't remember people laughing in the theater at so many non-intentionally funny moments. 2+ hour science fiction/action movies should have more 'neato' moments than you can get your mind around. This one had like 5. And if "I hate it when he does that" passes for wit in Lucas' mind, he needs to get more. I get the distinct impression all his cronies we're watching George run amok and saying "Yeah George, great idea. But can we lower the light levels in the yoda battle?". He's like an indie film maker in the sense he doesn't care about what people think about his movie, but an indie film maker with a blank check. Nobody wants to read a poem by someone who can't write a coherent paragraph, and what we have here is an epic poem by someone barely conversational in film.

Jeff

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by monkspider
Here is my ranking of the Star Wars movies as of today
1. Return of the Jedi
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Attack of the Clones
4. A New Hope
5. Phantom Menace

I agree with Floyd (twice in a week, who would have thought it?). It was otherwise excellent other than a weak love story and poor acting on Hayden Christenson's part. I'm actually one of those types of guys who enjoys a good love story, but this one was poor, IMHO.
That said, Lucas has successfully regained form.

I really don't understand why anyone would put ESB anything but No. 1. IMO it is easily the best of the bunch. My star ratings:

ESB: ****
RoTJ: ***
A New Hope: ***
AoTC: **
TPM: *1/2

[moomin]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
ESB: ****
RoTJ: ***
A New Hope: ***
AoTC: **
TPM: *1/2

If TPM was one and a half, what would Lucas have to do for a one?

An Evok/Jar Jar romance movie?

My take take on AotC: Special effects are getting real good there days, aren't they? Perhaps we should start using them in movies!