negative1 said:
1) i NEVER SAID there weren't childish or cringe-worthy moments in the prequels, i've never denied it..............................but there are EQUALLY BAD IF NOT WORSE
moments all throughout the original trilogy also..
2) guess what, i was 10 years old when i saw star wars, and even back then i knew a lot of that stuff was written at my level, because i could understand it,
yeah C3P0 was embarrassing to watch, r2d2 wandered around desperately trying to communicate, luke bumbled his way through the dialogue, leia and han
hammed it up..................and darth vader over-acted, along with the rest of the 'british' actors..................and just how did the british accents survive that long?
gee, i guess modern cursing, sayings, and culture (not to mention the hair cuts), didn't date this movie as classic 70's fare.................
so whats your point about childishness, target audiences, and corniness?
i guess you could say we're both right...........
'from a certain point of view'.......................................................[groan]...
later
-1
1)Equally bad if not worse dialogue in the OT? If those quotes are all you could come up with, then I am officially declaring that belief a bunch of crap. Exactly which one of those lines do you see as equally bad or worse than "Icky, icky, poo." or "Wessa in big doo doo now"? Here is something fun for you to do -1, Look bad at your post about crappy dialogue in ANH, and rewrite each of those phrases in an un crappy way. Perhaps if you show us how much better written they could have been, then we might agree with you. Along those same lines, feel free to post any PT dialogue you feel is crappy, and I will be happy to rewrite.
2)I was younger than ten when I saw Star Wars and I understood the movie pretty well, that doesn't mean it was written at my level. Plenty of adults saw it and thought it was brilliant. When I was 14 I read John Grisham's "A Time to Kill", I understood everything that went on in that book, but it does not mean it was written for 14 year olds. Things can be made to appeal to multiple age groups, Star Wars is one of these things.
Also, it is not fair to judge the dialogue on its date, this movie was made in the seventies and should be held up to seventies standards. You can't argue that the dialogue sucks because it is using lines that we don't use anymore at present day, when the PT, written in present day uses crap we'd never use anytime.
As for the Brittish accent surviving that long, just how did the American accent survive that long? Depending on your side of the pond, this question can work both ways. Just how did the English language survive that long? And when we are talking about surviving that long, it seems you believe SW to be in the future when it takes place in a different galaxy in the past. Why would they have Brittish or American accents at all? Why would they speak English? What kind of accents would you have them use?