But I really think it was good to make 1-3. I think it was the logical thing to do. There was a hell of an interesting story there. The Jedi being betrayed by one of their own and getting ruthlessly slaughtered. The government of an entire galaxy being subverted into a fascist state and the role one man plays in it and how his offspring will have to ultimately deal with it. That's some good shit dammit!!!
Lucas just couldn't deliver the goods. To be honest, I don't really have a problem with that at all. It's happened in rock music so many times, it hurts. A band comes off that great album and just can't deliver a good one if it kills them. Not to shift the focus, but the only reason I'm so perturbed by it all is that Lucas changed the OT and dragged it down into the shithole where the PT came from. If I could just get a remastered OT, I could let all this go in a heartbeat. I'm not going to settle for shit releases, but give me the good ones and to hell with all this crap. I'll watch that and be perfectly content.
Sorry to take it off topic, but that's what it all comes down to.
And yeah CO...I got exposed to the Rocky movies in the same way. R1 is an indisputable classic all the way even though I particularly enjoy 3 and saw it first. It took age to realize that. These kids aren't going to like the PT/Saga when they get older. I loved the OT to this day and I'm rapidly becoming an old fuck. These kids will wake up one day and realize it...and then I will giggle my ass off when they say it sucks.