CO said:DarkFather said:
You're trying to set a meaningless standard for the analogy. Point is, CO, if a franchise had a film series that stopped, and then another film series or continuation comes years later, it will cause divisions in the fanbase. If the new is "good", then the old must be "bad" to many. It's like a fashion craze
DF, that is exactly the Godfather Trilogy. GFI & GFII were made in 72 and 74, and then GFIII was made 16 years later in 1990, the same exact time between ROTJ and TPM.
I have yet to come across anyone who says that GFI is slow and boring and GFIII is a great movie, and wipes up the rest. And trust me I came from the GFIII generation and the first two movies were made when I was 'very young' as Princess Leia said in ROTJ:) The bottom line is you ask my generation of GF fans and you ask the generation before us and they will always debate which is better GFI or GFII? But you never hear GFIII in that debate. Yet, on TFN, you have people ranking TPM over ANH!
The biggest difference here, is that SW, especially the prequels, are targeted at young, immature audiences. While The Godfather is targeted at adults. Most adults are in the state of mind where that loyalist fanboy attitude doesn't mean a whole lot (beyond motor companies and sports teams of course!). Most people mature enough to like The Godfather films would say, "Ah, part three sucked. Oh well. One and two are still good." And the ones who liked the third one would says, "Wow, the Godfather trilogy is really fantastic."
But with Star Wars you have the lame-o fanboy factor. This is the type of mentallity that brings us beloved classic arguments like, "Kirk could kick Picards ass any day of the week!" and "Naaa uuuhh!!!! Picard would outsmart Kirk before Kirk even had a chance!!!" It is all BS. Fans bickering for the sake of bickering! It is immaturity defined. "Sonic could kick Marios butt!!" "ANH is superduper meh! AOTC is AWETHOM!!! You get to see Padme's midriff in it!!! And Yoda does flips!!! And Anakin is totally badass, he kills women and children because they are like animals!!!" "ROTS is so much better than any of the OT!!! We get to see Yoda do more flips!!! Anakin is badass, he kills chiildren and a woman!!! Finally we get to see Palptine totally pwn Jedi with his lightsaber!!! General Grevious rules!!! He gives me nightmares, lol!!!
BLAH!
This is who LFL panders too unfortunately, the scales have tipped to the degree where the above is the majority, and those who just want to see a piece of cinema history as it was originally seen are left out in the cold.