Originally posted by: LexX
And if you guys think what a kid like me thinks about SEs an PT... Well, at first I thought that the SEs were cool because of better picture and sound quality like they showed in the featurettes before the movie. I didn't focus to the things they changed. Then I heard about Episode I. I thought why would they make more because the story is complete already. But I got excited about it and I even went to see a movie because I knew they'd show TPM trailer for the first time! Man! When I saw The Phantom Menace, I thought it was kind of cool with all these lightsaber fights, but I never ever thought that it was better than any of the originals. As I grew couple of years older, I was maybe 14, I started to hate it. I thought AOTC was as boring and crappy as it is still to me.
And of course, I absolutely hate this Lucas' tinkering and weird stuff he's come to. I want the real theatrical releases on DVD, dammit! Btw, I've been eagerly waiting for X0 for two years now.
I'm so happy when it's launched.
And if you guys think what a kid like me thinks about SEs an PT... Well, at first I thought that the SEs were cool because of better picture and sound quality like they showed in the featurettes before the movie. I didn't focus to the things they changed. Then I heard about Episode I. I thought why would they make more because the story is complete already. But I got excited about it and I even went to see a movie because I knew they'd show TPM trailer for the first time! Man! When I saw The Phantom Menace, I thought it was kind of cool with all these lightsaber fights, but I never ever thought that it was better than any of the originals. As I grew couple of years older, I was maybe 14, I started to hate it. I thought AOTC was as boring and crappy as it is still to me.
And of course, I absolutely hate this Lucas' tinkering and weird stuff he's come to. I want the real theatrical releases on DVD, dammit! Btw, I've been eagerly waiting for X0 for two years now.
I'm so happy when it's launched. I too am 19 (4/13/87...hence the numbers in my sn) and I first saw the OT all in one day in maybe 1995 when my dad brought down the VHS set he had. It's the black box that had wing type things on the sides and original poster artwork on the boxes...I think.
I agree with most of what you said here, I was too young to really care about GL's revisionist craziness (plus we all still kind of assumed he'd not completely disavow the existence of the OT at the time). When TPM was announced and released and so forth, I was in the perfect demographic GL had obviously targeted and was sucked in by the hype, all the crazy CG (still didn't care for Jar Jar...mainly his voice) and cuz I thought Padme was pretty good lookin' (still holds true). When AOTC was released, I was older and wiser to what was going on. I was bored with the over-use of CG that wasn't even that good most of the time and the convoluted story-telling that really was going anywhere sometimes. Then the hype of ROTS started and I truly believed I'd get to see an excellent Star Wars movie the day it was released. Sadly, the 8 hours in the line/party in front of the theater turned out to be more fun than the movie, but it was a slight step above AOTC. Overall, the only PT movie I really watch anymore is TPM because I liked it so much more at the time I saw it than the other 2...and the CG looks better on film....and the Maul saber battle....and the pod race....yep.
EDIT: Yep, this VHS set...
