Can Ep. 3 be saved?

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  1. Diplo

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    There's now a thread about this on Slashdot, for all the hard-core geek opinions... ;)
     
  2. Bambers

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    well my general opinion of star wars is the following:


    lucas's directing skills are utterly non existant as are his script writing skills

    ep 4 worked because it was new and different and had the right elements of everything. other than that it pretty much sucked, direction wasn't stellar, script was terrible and all that showed though to the acting (which was equaly terrible)

    then there was empire that lucas didn't direct (or script) and it shows. The script is far better and it shows through in the acting which obviously isn't particulrly good but it's far better than ep4 and perfectly fine for this film genre.

    samething for ep6, only real hate of that tends to be the ewoks, the rest of it as a film was again much better than ep4 (I like 5 the best though).


    then we come to the new ones and lucas is directing and scripting again and they return to suckyness except this time the whole newness factor isn't there to save it and people are also expecting the quality of ep5.

    ep3 is going to suck as bad as 2 and 1, imo.

    /actually reads article in link


    ah, I seem to have mostly agreed with them. :)

    on the topic of annakin, there is always the possibility that Christensen can actually act to some degree, with lucas's direction and script it's not very easy to tell.
     
  3. Saem

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    Christiensen was discovered via an independent film, "Life as a house" , I haven't seen it, but it did quite well at the Toronto film festival. Supposedly, he did a bang up job there.
     
  4. Althornin

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    my fantasy:
    I walk in and sit down to watch episode 3.

    The firs thing on screen is a big ass shot of George Lucas. He says " Ahaha i fooled you! You will now be treated to the REAL prequels - all three of them! Enjoy the 9 hour movie marathon!"
    Fade to black.
    begin the real episode one (ie, one that doesnt suck).
     
  5. Tahir2

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    Enough people hate the new movies and the last one looks like it is going to be more of the same tripe...
    So what do you think you would do different to give the movies the same kind of feel the old trilogy had?

    Top of my list is not Jar Jar - it's to get rid of the actor that played Darth Vader in the 2nd movie. He was sooooo bad - how the hell did he even pass the screen tests?????????!
    2nd it is Jar Jar .. nuff said.
    3rd would be to change the whole of the stories since they seem too stretched and a different universe to the older movies.... you get higher tech in the past.. it just kills the suspension of disbelief.
    4th You love the Rebels because they are the under dogs fighting an almost unbeatable enemy with guerilla tactics.. in the movies you root for these guys. In the prequels you just think to yourself "double you tee eff.."
    5th You hire someone who can write scripts.
    6th You dont make the love story CENTRAL you make it a little more reserved and in the background like in the older movies.
    7th You use a puppet for Yoda again.
    8th You dont need an ultimate bad guy in each damn movie.. first Darth Maul gets Mauled then that other Sarouman dude gets dead... Again man.. double you tee eff.

    Grr.. sorry about the above post but George Lucas you messed up a great franchise.

    And jvd.. the original Star Wars WAS great... dont diss it with your theories of needing to be a 5 year old to think it was good.
    :D
     
  6. John Reynolds

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    If Birth of an Empire is the real title. . .blech! Why doesn't Lucas call me for advice so I can sell him my title. Which is Shroud of the Dark Side, based on Yoda's comment that it (whatever it is) had fallen by Ep. 2's end.
     
  7. jvd

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    well i have to say the reason why the ships are nicer in the new movies is because they are from a more elegant time not oppressed by the empire :)
     
  8. Natoma

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    And you would know..... How? :p
     
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    U bitch... I know because for 72.72% of my life i was straight, 9.09% bisexual, and the rest is history!!!! :lol:
     
  10. Gubbi

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    The biggest killer in all the SW movies is the dialog. It stinks.

    Lucas should hire Tarantino to write dialog.

    Cheers
    Gubbi
     
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    I can just see Luke Skywalker saying, "Take that you asthmatic mo'fucka" as he lops Darth's head off with his lightsabre... :D
     
  12. KaiSeun

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    original trilogy: amazing
    new trilogy: absolutly amazingly horrible

    And the article is right, not I one single memorable line in the Ep. 1 or 2. ewww...
     
  13. John Reynolds

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    Or Jackson's Mace: "Lightsaber: when you absolutely, positively must kill every motherfuckin' dark jedi in the room!"
     
  14. Guden Oden

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    Episode 1 wasn't THAT horrible in my opinion if one ignores the talking frog (which was put in the movie for no other reason than to sell lunchboxes to little kids). There were a few mistakes with it, but nothing catastrophic.

    Episode 2 is much better, and the background story with Palpatine steering events according to his own plans is quite fascinating and intriguing I think. The overall plan is definitely starting to take shape at the end of the second movie.

    I definitely look forward to the third. Only a bit over 1 more year to go, blecchh! :p
     
  15. zurich

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    I think it's pretty obvious how to save Episode 3.

    Hire BioWare to write the script for you.

    Knights of the Old Republic > Anything that's ever come out of George Lucas.
     
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