Who doesnt like star wars?

foxyboxer wrote: »

I'm fully convinced that the Original Star Wars (without any of the pretentious Episode 4 nonsense) would not have been the success it was without Marcia Lucas and her team of editors making coherent sense of a messy shoot, her re-appraisal of Lucas' dialogue and John Williams producing perhaps his symphonic masterpiece.

The prequels are utter bilge and provide evidence that George Lucas was a hack all along, too much power and not enough nay-sayers, everyone afraid to disagree with his writing and directorial choices. They would and could have been excellent movies had they not gone the route of say a Joel Schumacher Batman Forever for example and taken the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight approach. The Anakin Skywalker character is almost Shakesperean and they dropped the ball BIG TIME.

Agreed, thing is that Lucas was once a competent director, his student film THX 1138 is amazing for what it is, I totally think John Williams was half the reason for Star Wars' success, if it had been a contemparary 70s style soundtrack or something full of electronic synth and "sci-fi" sounding it would have been a different movie, the score for A New Hope is a masterpiece, end of. The making of Star Wars and its influences is just as fascinating as the movie itself, no Star Wars= no Pixar, no Lucasarts games, no ILM, no Skywalker Sound, no Indiana Jones. the movie world is a far better place with it existing. granted the over merchandising and negative aspects cant be ignored. I really hate how Lucas sees the movies as a work in progress, its like a painter adding in new stuff into a work of art because of new techniques avaiable, leave it alone!

My husband is a star wars fan, for our first date I took him to see a star wars movie and I feel asleep

I need to rewatch the first trilogy again because it's been years since i properly watched it and I don't have the DVD. But yeah the first trilogy is good, because it's historic and I liked the story so much. The last trilogy was just a bunch of CGI crap overglossing a crappy story. Although I didn't mind Revenge of the Sith too much but anyway.

I'm also on the same page as people who are annoyed with George Lucas, I just think he's raping the legacy of star wars with these new blu rays stuff. I mean do we really need to see Christian Hayden inserted into Return of the Jedi just because he played Anakin. I feel sorry for the actor who played old Anakin, who got cut out of the ending because Lucas had to put young Anakin in instead. It's little things like that that get to me, but seriously Lucas is stupid for doing that.

uncle_sam_ie wrote: »

Have you seen the Redletter Media Plinkett Star War's reviews. It really puts it into perspective on why episodes 1,2, and 3 suck. I've seen reviews more times then the movies. http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/

I have theyre great, especially the Episode I one

I've never seen an entire Star Wars film, not really my thing.

mrs crilly wrote: »

My husband is a star wars fan, for our first date I took him to see a star wars movie and I feel asleep

You would be forgiven for falling alseep during any of the prequel trilogy.

Terrible stuff!!!!

I love the original Trilogy though, watched it recently on Bluray, and its looks a lot better today than that prequel load of sh1te does.

I've always liked sci-fi but Star Wars is sh1te. I'm surprised that Disney wasn't involved.

Weirdos, that's who!!

Never seen it

Chuck Stone wrote: »

It never quite clicked with me why I didn't think too much of Star Wars until I got a bit older - it's fantasy sci-fi and I'm not much into fantasy shtuff.

Princes, princesses, super villains and boy-heroes in the future in space? Na.

It tells an epic story without getting all preachy and moral/christian over it though, and the special effects stand up pretty well even today, which is nothing short of astonishing. The Saturday morning simplicity leavened with the rough diamond of Han Solo just hits all the right spots for a lot of people. Actually he makes the entire trilogy really work more than any other character.

I like it, used to like Star Trek too but I'm gone off that now, spoiled with Farscape and Firefly I guess, but Star Wars hasn't lost its charm.

Chuck Stone wrote: »

It never quite clicked with me why I didn't think too much of Star Wars until I got a bit older - it's fantasy sci-fi and I'm not much into fantasy shtuff.

Princes, princesses, super villains and boy-heroes in the future in space? Na.

Star wars is starkly contrasted by Alien. The crew in Alien were just doing a job in space - ordinary people bringing home stuff and confronted with extra ordinary circumstances.

Alien still looks better than most modern sci-fi movies, the sets are still absolutely stunning looking, Prometheus better be amazing!

Never really got into it. Just find it really boring. Two lads that I know dress up in the star wars stuff now and again. They also have those light saber yokes.