Originally posted by: Cable-X1

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!!!
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Cable, we seem to be one of the few left here who post reguarly, so I say we take the topic wherever we want to. I am very torn in whether there is a story for 3 movies of the PT, cause I really don't think there was. I mean what attracted us to the PT story, plot points that related to the OT movies right? What attracted us to the OT movies, the movies!

The PT to me is just a summing up or an overview of the fill in the blanks of the OT movies, just in a more macro way. It has some cool shit in there, but is it really entertaining like the OT movies, and I am saying that in the vein that it was done well by Lucas. When I was in my 1-6 phase last year of hoping this would all work and I would be a saga fan the way I became an OOT fan, I noticed that I was watching the PT movies solely because it was part of the story, and more or less cause they were there. In that vein, 3 movies is WAY too many to sit through, cause at what point do you say, is this really needed?

The PT story does not have the replay value of the OT, and I can't explain it, but it just doesn't. I don't know, I still think that there is a PT story out there to be told, but it just seems that a trilogy was not needed, and maybe it could have been told in 2 movies while changing the focus so you don't have too much exposition. Maybe as I said, just one was needed, cause I see how Godfather II worked for half of a 3 hour movie, and I say was there anything more that needed to be told to the viewer? Sure there is more story of Vito Corleone, but that doesn't mean it will translate well on screen, a one movie flashback was just enough to give you the backround and keep your interest, and not be too much.