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There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
so waht are peoples opinion of the PT overall.
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Originally posted by: Warbler
I suppose, but please remember my attemped boycott had nothing to do any fear of EP III being bad. It was about Lucas's refusal to put the OOT on DVD. If the OOT had been on DVD, I would not have attemped a boycott, despit that fact that I had predicted the EP III was going to be bad. I am glad that I can say that my prediction was incorrect.
What’s the internal temperature of a TaunTaun? Luke warm.
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
you my friend may bash away.
What’s the internal temperature of a TaunTaun? Luke warm.
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
you my friend may bash away.
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Originally posted by: Mavimao
I should have made myself clearer when I talked about CG.
I personally don't have a problem with CG in general. I think as well that it is definitely a helpful tool in the creation of movies and creatures that wouldn't have been possible with traditional methods. What I do have a problem with is directors thinking that they should use CG because they can and/or use it so much to the extent that it becomes style over content.
It's the overuse and misuse of CG that is a determining factor (not the sole one as you might have read :-) ) in my dislike of the prequels.
In the original trilogy there are many SFX shots and they have shown their age. However, unlike the new ones, 99.9% of the film is not a constent special effect. Had every background been a matte shot, every alien creature a "cartoon", had every piece of fruit been an animation, the film would appear to be very fragmented, dull and fake right? Imagine if the whole film looked like that scene when Luke and Han are talking on the barge on their way to the Scarlac? Wouldn't that have been...well, really cheesy? That's how I feel with the special effects in these new films. Everything is a special effect and because of that decision, the whole film will age...badly.
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Originally posted by: Mavimao
Gary Kurtz gave a calm and fruitful balance to George's wild imagination and created history. Without Kurtz, the star wars movies became bloated with commercialization and weak plots.
What’s the internal temperature of a TaunTaun? Luke warm.
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Originally posted by: Zebonka
What is this, Star Wars Fans Anonymous?
Let me contribute!
I'm also 19, loved TPM when it came out and came to realise over the years that it wasn't that great. But I've matured FURTHER, and accepted that the original movies weren't perfect either. Let's face it, movies inherently suck. You've just got to accept that basic fact and decide not to focus on the fact that The Red Sea parting looks hokey, or the fact that in front of Gandalf's 'heroic charge' is some blatant Adobe CLONE STAMPING, or the fact that Anakin's knife doesn't accurately chop up his CG Pear, or the fact that Bruce Willis' gun never runs out of ammo until the worst possible moment...
Jeeze! You don't have to defend the movies, and you don't have to defend your liking them, or even your right to like them. They're just a bunch of images and sound played concurrently, and believe it or not whether or not they suck or are great is ACTUALLY dependent on the person. A perfect movie (and I've been shown quite a few of those, and nearly always think they suck) would have everyone agreeing that it's perfect. Personal opinion would not come down to it - this movie (the hypothetical perfect one) would cross all barriers of taste and criticism and simply be the best. It doesn't exist and it never will, which basically means if you show a good movie and a bad movie to a rock, they'll recieve the same reception - Total Silence.
This means that there is no good movie, and no bad movie. It's all in your head.
I can't deny I like some movies more than others (among my favoured movies are "You Can't Stop the Murders", "Napoleon Dynamite", "The Princess Bride" "Lord of the Rings" and "Star Wars"), but at least I can accept that these preferences are my qualities/failings alone. They are not the fault of the filmmaker.
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Originally posted by: Mavimao
Gary Kurtz gave a calm and fruitful balance to George's wild imagination and created history. Without Kurtz, the star wars movies became bloated with commercialization and weak plots.
Excellent point.