Originally posted by: Davis
My opinion?
There are hundreds of different ways that the PT could have been done, some of them not ruining most of the plot points, and most of them far superior to what we got.
Good movies could even have been made using Lucas' rotten PT storylines- if it was done right. If it was done in an entertaining way. But he not only botched it conceptually, he botched it COMPLETELY in the execution.
What would have made a much better PT, IMO, would have been to return to his original 70's Star Wars concept, which was "Errol Flynn in Outer Space". This is a huge oversight of the PT. If you watch the original "Star Wars", the influence here is so obvious it isn't funny. "I'm Luke Skywalker- I'm here to rescue you."
Develop new characters, new locales, smoky nightclubs, mad scientists... all of that "old movie" stuff that Lucas was drawing on back in the 70's and remaking for a new audience.
So I think that's a huge reason the PT was crap.
My opinion?
There are hundreds of different ways that the PT could have been done, some of them not ruining most of the plot points, and most of them far superior to what we got.
Good movies could even have been made using Lucas' rotten PT storylines- if it was done right. If it was done in an entertaining way. But he not only botched it conceptually, he botched it COMPLETELY in the execution.
What would have made a much better PT, IMO, would have been to return to his original 70's Star Wars concept, which was "Errol Flynn in Outer Space". This is a huge oversight of the PT. If you watch the original "Star Wars", the influence here is so obvious it isn't funny. "I'm Luke Skywalker- I'm here to rescue you."
Develop new characters, new locales, smoky nightclubs, mad scientists... all of that "old movie" stuff that Lucas was drawing on back in the 70's and remaking for a new audience.
So I think that's a huge reason the PT was crap.
That was the experiment that was Attack of the Clones and look at how that turned out. This is the fundamental problem with making the PT part of the series--even though ANH is sort of light and serialesque, the OT as a whole is a serious fantasy drama. When you have the most dramatic, tragic and heartwrenching part of the story--the PT--told with the quickest and lightest of development, you end up with a complete train wreck of a narrative and of style, such is the case with Attack of the Clones. From beginning to end, Attack of the Clones is a pulp and B-movie homage, it was Lucas' attempt to return to the pulp influence of ANH, except that he forgot that while ANH referenced this material it was still told with heart and with an overridingly modern fairy-tale quality. Attack of the Clones, at times, goes so far in its emulation that it comes across as reading as though it was made for audiences of the 1940's.