- Time
- Post link
i thought I'd start a new topic as the boys/girls currently discusing ep3 seemed to thoroughly enjoy it and so I dont want to spoil their fun by going on about how awful ROTS was, which is exactly what I am going to do now!
I'm a 34 yr old guy from the UK who was just the right age when watching Star Wars for the first time in 1977. I have grown up with it as have millions of others. When I first heard there were going to be some new films ie. the prequels I was so excited, and could not wait for them to happen. It was a BIG thing for me. But if I was honest I always knew in the back of my mind that he (George Lucas) was going to FUCK IT UP big style, and that he would eventually ruin evrything that was so sacred to me and everyone else of my kind. I just didnt realise how much he would fuck it up. He has outweighed all expectations of how badly he could have done things.
I was flicking around the TV stations tonight and ended up finding Star Wars ANH on Sky Movies, watched about 1/2 hour for the 300th time. It just confirmed what I already knew, that these new prequels are just completely diffrent films and have no place in the galaxy of the originals. I swear George Lucas was assassinated in the early 80's and replaced with a guy who knows nothing about the original 3 films and the times that they were made and the feelings people had for them. EVERYTHING about the originals are superior - everything that is supposed to count anyway. The story, the acting. the feel, the suspense, the dialogue, I could go on and on.
The CG of the prequels counts for nothing if everything else about it is 4th rate. It breaks my heart because you cannot bring back the feelings you had for the originals that GL has just swiped away from me over these last 3 films. I've decided to just pretend they never happened and go back to imagining what happened before ANH, which was what we all had to do before Phanom Menace and my own imagination and I'm sure everyone elses is much more satisfying than what George Lucas has come up with.
There must be literally hundreds of thousands of fans that could have written a better story, better dialogue, a way of connecting to the originals without being so contrived,and I am serious when I say that. There are a lot of talented people out there that are Star Wars fans that would have done ten times a better job than has been done. There are probbably a lot of actual film producers/directors ie. Tarantino,Soderburgh that must be thinking Christ if only I could have had ago at it. GL had 30 years to come up with this shit! He actually tries to convince everyone that he had most of this already written in the first place but that is complete rubbish. He had a basic story, the rest he has just lamely tried to piece togetther. He had about as much idea as to what happened before ANH as the rest of us, the difference is most of us would have done it better. If he had spent .001% of the time and budget that he spent on CG, on actually trying to make a half decent movie with half decent acting,dialogue and story he may have made a better job. The fact that he managed to make some of the best and coolest actors on the planet ie. Ewan. Samuel J, Natalie P look amaturish, was quite an achievement, and speaks volumes for the whole project. Now that it is all over I bet you Ewan will be coming clean about how bad an experience it was. After all, he was a huge fan too, he must feel really let down and humiliated. I may return to comment on particular individual gripes about ROTS but it is getting late and that could take some time.
Thanks for reading if you have. Would be interested to hear from anyone with similar feelings. Cheers.
