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who misses the prequels?
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8 months after ROTS, I really don't miss the PT, cause I have finally gotten past my what if......stage of how I wish the prequels should have been done, and how much better they could have been. I am done second guessing Lucas's vision, and have taken the PT for what they are, semi-entertaining popcorn summer movies that if I watch just for enjoyment, they aren't half bad. If I try to either compare them to the OT, or try to watch them as a six story saga, I start to notice how inferior they all are to the OT movies, and how I just don't give a damn about the PT characters compared to the OT characters.
I don't get mad anymore at why some parts of the movies are bad, and now sadly I just wish Lucas never did them, cause to me that is the biggest reason we don't have the O-OT on DVD. He has to link them all together to sell them as a package, and that is why we are always going to have to put up with Hayden in ROTJ.
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I've slowly started getting out of "getting all bent out of shape" about the PT movies. I just don't care anymore. The only thing redeeming about them is the memories that are tied to them, not the movies themselves. The hype is what fills my heart, the hope that they would rock.
But even now, I wouldn't want him to make any more just so I could feel the hype again. It's not worth sacrificing the name of Star Wars just so I could get a hype "fix," because lord knows I'll just crash and burn after the ecstasy wears off...just like the last three times. I don't want to turn in to a hype junky.
The only thing that could bring be back into the hype is a totally bitchin' showing of the OT in IMAX completely un-altered. Now that is something to get hyped up about.
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First, I don't want it to happen because it's sandwiched between III and IV and that is boring. What I REALLY want to see is a type of "Band of Brothers" mini-TV series where Luke is now the head of the Jedi council and is the leader of the up and coming Jedi Knights. That would kick so much ass I would have a very sore ass.
But, secondly, I don't want it to happen because, well there is the chance that it might suck. I mean (with my TV idea), I'm totally happy with seeing the end of ROTJ being the end. What happens after that really isn't important. The story is over, why risk making it suck? All the planned TV show is doing is opening up the gap between III and IV for more inconsistancies.
But there is the chance that it would be awesome (my idea, not this "Boba Fett Show" that Lucas is planning). But since my idea is never going to happen, I don't care about the TV show. Minor characters be damned. I don't care about them; I don't even know who they are. Why do I want to watch a show devoted to them? I don't read the books. I don't play the games. I just don't care.
And so, the TV show holds no special hope in my heart. My Star Wars is the OT. It focus on the original main cast and that is it. Everything else is fan-boy fluff.
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I'm not hyped for the TV show. I sorta have to go with CO on this one in saying that it probably won't happen. I don't care what McCallum says. Pre-production is but the first step, not a sure thing. And really, it's just using the SW name to sell more toys. Good to know I'll never run short of SW action figures to add to my collection.
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Keeping in mind of course that there'll always be something else to get hyped up about.
Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.
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I want the OOT on DVD as badly as anyone--I turned 9 years old the same weekend ANH opened and I can PROUDLY say I have been a SW dork since that very weekend. I watched ANH 23 times at the theaters, I made the pilgrimage to CIII, I have an entire room of my house dedicated solely to SW.
I hated the changes in the SE, Jar Jar, virtually all of AOTC and the wooden HC performance in ROTS but I didn't hate those parts enough to ruin the entire PT.
How can you hate the PT as a whole when they gave us Qui-Gon (the coolest, wisest jedi IMO) and Mace Windu, Clone Troopers and all the badass lightsaber duels. Not to mention more insight to the most badass MF in the universe, Palpy.
It wasn't just hype that made the PT great, it was the story that made it great. And like any good story, it has to change, especially when it is written over the course of 20+ years.
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Originally posted by: redneck jedi
It wasn't just hype that made the PT great, it was the story that made it great.
It wasn't just hype that made the PT great, it was the story that made it great.
I'm sorry. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
J/K
They were fun movies, but they didn't work. I'm going to sound selfish, but they weren't how I envisioned it...or anywhere near what I envisioned, for that matter.
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I guess I'm just too old and to understand all the hatred and rancor (pun intended) spewed on the PT. Especially when I look at the film industry as a whole and the stories told by the film industry which are typically so bad they have to invent a new word for sucking.
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Do I miss the hype? Hell yes. Especially for TPM & RotS. I went to the midnight showing for both. Episode I came out 2 weeks before I got married. It was the most exciting time in my life. Surrounded by family and friends and Star Wars!
There was really no hype for AotC. There was a midnight showing, but I went the next day to a noon show. It wasn't too busy, there was no buzz, just dissappointment.
RotS came at a bad time for me and my family. We lost a family member to cancer. Around the time Sith came out, we were all waiting for the time to come, if you understand. So, with all the hype, the dark story, and the final Star Wars movie, it was a nice distraction from life at that time. Which, I think, is what a movie should be. It was an appropriate ending. Good and bad. Hell, now I'm all depressed.
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Originally posted by: redneck jedi And like any good story, it has to change, especially when it is written over the course of 20+ years.
You've got to be sh*tting me. So you are telling me that "Romeo and Juliet" has gone through numerous changes, and that "Homer's Oddessy" is constantly changing to match the author's original vision (because lord knows, a classic can't stand the test of time). I guess "Beowulf" hasn't been the same since "Beowulf: The Special Edition" that came out in 1256 in midevil theaters everywhere.
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I dont mind Lucas making it up as he went along or the story changing over a period of years, but should IMO have kept it seemingly consistent with the original films and not leave things up to the interpretation of the viewer, and keep the story logical and slightly believable(which in my interpretation of certain events arent) and do the Prequel story so you dont need EU and god knows what else to fill in all the gaps when IMO it should be presented in the films.
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Originally posted by: sybeman
They were fun movies, but they didn't work. I'm going to sound selfish, but they weren't how I envisioned it...or anywhere near what I envisioned, for that matter.
They were fun movies, but they didn't work. I'm going to sound selfish, but they weren't how I envisioned it...or anywhere near what I envisioned, for that matter.
Well, that's the problem. All original fans had 16 years to come up with their own ideas for what had to happen. And when it didn't, well...