negative1 said:C3PX said:Yeah, it's brilliant! If only they could have had some halfway decent actors to pull it off...
the problem that will never be solved, is that
nobody can agree what the story should have been like..
some claim that the PT isn't as 'epic' as the original trilogy (despite
all the retcons, inconsistencies, and flaws that exist in it th e OT also)..
lucas faces a no-win situation, you can't please the old fans, because
it wouldn't 'match' what he wanted for the PT, and of course the people
that like the PT sometimes find the OT clunky, slow, and outdated....
you can't have your cake both ways, and eat it to..
Arg! This is the type of thing some of you guys can't get past, and it irritates the living crap out of me.
Not everyone had to agree on what the story should have been. It could have been anything, it just had to be good, and it wasn't.
Lucas didn't face a no win situation, he didn't even have to please everyone. He could have done whatever he wanted. They were his movies, he had essentially all the money in the world to throw at it, he could have done anything and gone anywhere with he he wished. He didn't have to please anyone, they could have been pure crap and they still would have topped the box office and made loads of crash... oh wait... ha! That is exactly what happened!
Since George could have taken these things down any road he liked, it is really, truely, terribly, awfully ashame he decided to take it down the road named "mediocrity".
Actually, I really wish George would not have taken to heart the bad criticism that was thrown at TPM. It wasn't the best movie, but it wasn't the worst. Every movie takes some hard hits from some critics, and he was in a position where he really didn't have to care what they thought. I think he changed a lot of his ideas for episode II around after all the bad criticism, and again, changed his ideas for III after all the bad feedback regarding II. Would have liked to have seen what TPM's sequels would have been like, had these, what I assume are criticism encouraged changes, not taken place.