Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
If you can find all the reviews from back then, I'll show you which ones were bad.
Did you look at the rotton tomatoes link?
I was just showing examples of reviews for the OT that sound suspiciously similar to the negative reviews you see for the PT.
Frankly, I'm not really all that interested in how many good vs. bad reviews there were for the OT (and I care even less how the OT vs. PT reviews stack up). All I know is that even in 1977 the original Star Wars was regarded as a cultural phenomenon, which in part led to it being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, and to it being in the AFI's top ten greatest films of all time, right where it should be up there with Casablanca and The Wizard of OZ.
Whoever gave Star Wars a negative review back then, I'm sure wouldn't appreciate being reminded of it now.
Originally posted by: JediRandy
They’re great flicks and I love ‘em to death… but people forget shit like Carrie Fisher going in and out of British accents during the same scene. If that stuff happened in the PT you wouldn’t hear the end of it.
If you can find all the reviews from back then, I'll show you which ones were bad.
Did you look at the rotton tomatoes link?
I was just showing examples of reviews for the OT that sound suspiciously similar to the negative reviews you see for the PT.
Frankly, I'm not really all that interested in how many good vs. bad reviews there were for the OT (and I care even less how the OT vs. PT reviews stack up). All I know is that even in 1977 the original Star Wars was regarded as a cultural phenomenon, which in part led to it being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, and to it being in the AFI's top ten greatest films of all time, right where it should be up there with Casablanca and The Wizard of OZ.
Whoever gave Star Wars a negative review back then, I'm sure wouldn't appreciate being reminded of it now.
Originally posted by: lordjedi
Didn't Siskel and Ebert originally give Star Wars a really bad review? Then, once it was breaking records, they gave ESB a glowing review. And I think today they say Star Wars was a wonderful movie.
I don't know what their original reviews were. I do know that they gave 2 thumbs up to ROTJ when it came out, because I watched it on TV in 1983. I recorded the program on audiotape, and I think it's still around somewhere.Didn't Siskel and Ebert originally give Star Wars a really bad review? Then, once it was breaking records, they gave ESB a glowing review. And I think today they say Star Wars was a wonderful movie.
Originally posted by: JediRandy
They’re great flicks and I love ‘em to death… but people forget shit like Carrie Fisher going in and out of British accents during the same scene. If that stuff happened in the PT you wouldn’t hear the end of it.
I seem to recall Natalie Portman's accent changing, depending upon the outfit she was wearing. Her performance in TPM makes Carrie's performance seem downright brilliant in comparison.