Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
For me, the PT is not the story that comes before the OOT and that is why it annoys me so much. The characters are different, the story doesn't quite mesh with the OOT, and the PT just doesn't share the look and feel of the OOT. It doesn't convince me as the first three parts of the same story.
For me, the PT is not the story that comes before the OOT and that is why it annoys me so much. The characters are different, the story doesn't quite mesh with the OOT, and the PT just doesn't share the look and feel of the OOT. It doesn't convince me as the first three parts of the same story.
Well, then I hope you (and perhaps others here) won't think ill of me for applying the same emotional response to the O.T. Empire and Jedi are not the story that comes after Star Wars - because that film presents a universe where Luke's father, Anakin, was betrayed and murdered (not in an imaginary sense) by someone entirely different, i.e., Darth Vader ... and Princess Leia is a legitimate love interest for the hero, and not the hero's sister.
The follow-up movie is so completely different in story, and in tone, and in throwing in both retarded childishness and boring maturity (faults thrown at the P.T., but sooooo applicable to The Empire Strikes Back) ... and frankly is different in everything I found enjoyable in Star Wars such that I don't consider it a "continuance" at all ... but rather an offshoot that has almost no continuity with the source.
The same can be said of the prequels. They are an offshoot that doesn't match with the story they claim to be part of. Completely disregarding so-called Star Wars movies as authentically Star Wars comes easier to me, because I've been doing it since 1980.
But I can still enjoy Empire and Jedi to an extent. And I can't even sit through any of the prequels. Heck, I tried to watch my favorite of them just the other night, and I couldn't stand more than half-an-hour of it. Gak!
Anyway, Back to the Future is a series where I happen to like each of the films - and, sacrilige though it might be on this forum, Star Wars is my stand-alone 1977 movie with some mediocre sequels and some craptacular prequels. Hey, but it also inspired some great toys and some cool Burger King glassware!
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