Easytiger said:

Slave 1 blasting the hell out of everything in the asteroid scene. Unfortunately he was up against Obi-Wan so ........blasts like a myopic stormtrooper......

I think it was the first time I´ve ever seen a spaceship spit lead (or ion or whatever) with the brute power of modern weapons and not ZAP............ZAP.............ZAP...........like you usually see

 

I loathe this.  He's right on Obi's tail and he doesn't hit anything.  It's really stupid.

BuzzOnline said:Well it was quite confusing when I watched when I was small but I understood it later.  what I like most about it is that the Graphics were good than the Old but still the story was soo good did not care about it at all :)

TV's Frink Botwiki page tells me you haven't seen any Star Wars movie.

Aw, I wanted to know what I'd find if I searched direct flights to Sri Lanka...

Arthur Seagull's mysterious world.

Well, I like the prequels, but to a certain extent. The music scores are awesome. People hate the prequels because how they were made.

But, if Episode I-III were made first, people would love them more. That means that people would dislike Episodes IV-VI if they were made later.

Qui-Gon is probably my favorite PT character!  I think Neeson is a great actor, and I like that Qui-Gon is noble and good, yet often does things that are considered less than perfect: he lies, cheats, steals (in the book, though never explicitly on film--didn't you ever wonder where he got that power source for Anakin's pod?), resists the council's ruling and encourages Obi-wan to do the same, manipulates, belittles, attempts to use the Force to make a purchase using unacceptable to the seller, and imposes his will on those whom he protects.  Yet he remains a good guy, and really most of his actions were noble and saved or bettered lives.  I think he was completely unnecessary, and if they were to use him, why not make better use of him instead of killing him, but I think he is actually a very interesting character

The Nerd said:

People hate the prequels because how they were made.

But, if Episode I-III were made first, people would love them more. That means that people would dislike Episodes IV-VI if they were made later.

That's like saying people would have liked Jack & Jill better than Raiders of the Lost Ark if Jack and Jill had been made first.

I like that they are past history and that i never have to see them again.

Terrible films, bad script writing, bad acting, bad directing, bad editing, bad cinematography.

One long cgi video game.

Terrible movies i mean there was only 1 film in the trilogy the others were videos.

TV's Frink said:

The Nerd said:

People hate the prequels because how they were made.

But, if Episode I-III were made first, people would love them more. That means that people would dislike Episodes IV-VI if they were made later.

That's like saying people would have liked Jack & Jill better than Raiders of the Lost Ark if Jack and Jill had been made first.

Raiders of the Lost Ark would have never been made had Jack & Jill been made first.

skyjedi2005 said:

One long cgi video game.

 Video games (even long cgi ones) are awesome.

Some of them are indeed, in fact I've seen CGI films based on CGI games which are better than the CGI PT.

xhonzi said:

TV's Frink said:

The Nerd said:

People hate the prequels because how they were made.

But, if Episode I-III were made first, people would love them more. That means that people would dislike Episodes IV-VI if they were made later.

That's like saying people would have liked Jack & Jill better than Raiders of the Lost Ark if Jack and Jill had been made first.

Raiders of the Lost Ark would have never been made had Jack & Jill been made first.

I disagree.  ROTLA would have featured Adam Sandler in the roles of Indy and Marion.

The Nerd said:

People hate the prequels because how they were made.

But, if Episode I-III were made first, people would love them more.

Sorry but "adventure films" full of annoying drama and annoying, repulsive, whiny main character just don't entertain me, no matter when or how they are made...

The Nerd said:

Well, I like the prequels, but to a certain extent. The music scores are awesome. People hate the prequels because how they were made.

But, if Episode I-III were made first, people would love them more. That means that people would dislike Episodes IV-VI if they were made later.

Are you kidding me? If Episode 1 had been made first then there would have been no 2,3,4,5 & 6. The franchise would have been dead and buried with that film.  That film relied on the fact that you would have watched the Original Trilogy first. Take out all the fancy effect work, do it with 70's tech and you would have even more of a snore fest. It has nothing to do with how they were made. They're just crap films, plain and simple.

Why do prequel fans always have to find all these lame excuses as to why other fans hate the prequels instead of the real reason that they're just crap films? It's the same shit every time;

"You don't like them because of how they were made"

"You don't like them because they were aimed at kids and you are too old"

"You don't like them because you hate CGi"

"You only like the Original Trilogy better because of nostalgia"

"You just like to bash George Lucas"

"If you don't like the prequels then you are not a TRUE fan"

 

Blah, blah, blah

darth_ender said:
Qui-Gon is probably my favorite PT character!  I think Neeson is a great actor, and I like that Qui-Gon is noble and good, yet often does things that are considered less than perfect: he lies, cheats, steals (in the book, though never explicitly on film--didn't you ever wonder where he got that power source for Anakin's pod?), resists the council's ruling and encourages Obi-wan to do the same, manipulates, belittles, attempts to use the Force to make a purchase using unacceptable to the seller, and imposes his will on those whom he protects.  Yet he remains a good guy, and really most of his actions were noble and saved or bettered lives.  I think he was completely unnecessary, and if they were to use him, why not make better use of him instead of killing him, but I think he is actually a very interesting character

This. Seriously, this. It really shouldn't have to be up to the extended universe/deleted scenes (Qui-Gon stealing) to make a character awesome, but believe me when I say as a kid reading the Jedi Apprentice books sold me on Qui-Gon. He's a flawed, highly opinionated character that believes in action at any cost, which is probably why he wasn't on the council. To be honest I would have liked to see Obi-Wan's training under Qui-Gon as a TV series, much of it directly lifted from said books, but I'm sure that's not happening. I think he's actually the only PT-exclusive Jedi that I found compelling. Then again, I didn't watch Clone Wars so I might be missing out.

edit: for that matter, it really fleshes out Obi-Wan too. Despite their target audience, I'd still recommend the series. Easy reads for anyone over ten, perhaps earlier, but compelling stories that still suck me in if I choose to revisit them. And they're not shoddily written, either.

To some extent the technology of the day would have limited Lucas so he wouldn't have thought something like Jar-Jar would even remotely work with that level of childish slapstick.

Early designs of Chewie look almost PTish

but I doubt that even with the right rubber suit 1970's Lucas would undermine what he could achieve with that sort of 'humour'.

When you have a rubber suit some people will instantly think it's silly so to play against that expectation you would have to make the character not silly.

If you have a wild palette of the kind CGI can afford it's tempting to think the chucks are off and you can do whatever wacky scheme comes into your head.

George was notoriously broody on the set of Star Wars (1977) because the end product wasn't looking anything like he originally hoped for. Going by TPM I can only say thank heavens.

But maybe TPM (1977) would have been a less silly, acting centered film with more effective minimal physical effects.

Either way TPM (1999) is just bobbins and the film that almost killed all sense of excitement over yet released films I had (Prometheus finished the job).

bkev said:

 

darth_ender said:
Qui-Gon is probably my favorite PT character!  I think Neeson is a great actor, and I like that Qui-Gon is noble and good, yet often does things that are considered less than perfect: he lies, cheats, steals (in the book, though never explicitly on film--didn't you ever wonder where he got that power source for Anakin's pod?), resists the council's ruling and encourages Obi-wan to do the same, manipulates, belittles, attempts to use the Force to make a purchase using unacceptable to the seller, and imposes his will on those whom he protects.  Yet he remains a good guy, and really most of his actions were noble and saved or bettered lives.  I think he was completely unnecessary, and if they were to use him, why not make better use of him instead of killing him, but I think he is actually a very interesting character

This. Seriously, this. It really shouldn't have to be up to the extended universe/deleted scenes (Qui-Gon stealing) to make a character awesome, but believe me when I say as a kid reading the Jedi Apprentice books sold me on Qui-Gon. He's a flawed, highly opinionated character that believes in action at any cost, which is probably why he wasn't on the council. To be honest I would have liked to see Obi-Wan's training under Qui-Gon as a TV series, much of it directly lifted from said books, but I'm sure that's not happening. I think he's actually the only PT-exclusive Jedi that I found compelling. Then again, I didn't watch Clone Wars so I might be missing out.

edit: for that matter, it really fleshes out Obi-Wan too. Despite their target audience, I'd still recommend the series. Easy reads for anyone over ten, perhaps earlier, but compelling stories that still suck me in if I choose to revisit them. And they're not shoddily written, either.

 

I'll have to check them out.  I don't get to read enough, but it would be nice to get to know Qui-Gon better.  It's a real shame that the most interesting Jedi serves the least purpose to the overall story, so it would be nice to get some good background on him.