Bingowings said:

I haven't seen Avatar yet but I have seen every other Cameron film and only The Terminator approaches the greatness of the first two Star Wars films and then only approaches.

Agreed with the Terminator reference.

Regarding Avatar--it is a technical marvel.

Personally I don't rate it as high as the OT but there maybe others out there who do.As I wrote in another post---in 20 years time are we going to be dissecting Avatar the way we do the likes of ROTJ now.

Any film ages overtime and with the benefit of hindsight ,any film has elements that could have been done differently.

Danny_Boy wrote:

When Obiwan told Luke, Leia was his sister---it was agreat moment.

Bingowings responded:

Really?

Personally--I think so-when you watched the film for the first time you wondered how Luke was going to accommodate this information without alienating Han.It also added another dimension of the caring Luke had for Leia.

Leia's reaction to him telling her Vader is his father is spot on but even Carrie firing on all cylinders couldn't pull off her "always knowing" with what we have seen before. It's not a great scene and Han's responses are right off, more PT Padwan than OT scoundrel.

Hmm---I see where you are coming from.

I think it added an element of friction between Han and Luke before the battle in which they are supposed to be on the same side.

Danny_Boy wrote:

When Luke finally takes off Vader's mask it was a moment we had all been waiting for 6 years(Ok---2 years for me---I saw SW and ESB for the 1st time back to back in 81'!)

Bingowings responded:

It's OK but it's hardly amazing.

IMHO---In terms of tone it was spot on.

Star wars is not about the characters crying in depressive fits and hysteria---the minute that you enter into that kind of depth----you have an altogether different kind of film.