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#112491
Topic
ROTS: Did Anyone Else Laugh....
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/112491/action/topic#112491
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I agree with Perfect 5th.

When I was a kid, I always had this image of a (well-built) noble, brave and overly-confident fighter pilot who Obi-Wan befriended on Tatooine. Obi-Wan, thinking he would make a great Jedi, would ultimately recruit him into the Jedi ranks.

However, instead of leaving his training up to the Jedi masters, Obi-Wan would take it upon himself to train Anakin, a decision that would end in some kind of terrible accident. Anakin's disfigurement would make him vengeful, turning him against the Jedi.

When I saw the prequels, I guess they just didn't match up with what I had in mind. This would have been ok if the prequels didn't totally suck. Casting was half the battle for Anakin and Lucas picked someone awful.

I also thought that the clone wars was a large conflict against some invading aliens or armies from another galaxy, and that both Obi and Anakin were Jedi soldiers fighting in the conflict. At some point after the clone wars came Anakin's accident.

Just my take on things.

-G



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#112478
Topic
Things you DID NOT like about Episode III
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/112478/action/topic#112478
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Oh...I forgot to mention that Lucas totally copped out when he chose to have Padme die of a "broken heart" instead of from being force choked.

We're told that she's lost the will to live, yet she says, "There's still good in him!" right before her last gasp.

If she still feels that he can be redeemed, why does she give up hope and die? Kind of silly if you ask me.

-G
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#112434
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Things you DID NOT like about Episode III
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/112434/action/topic#112434
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Here's what I didn't like about Episode III:

1. Vader's "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" - Made me bust out laughing with tears flowing out of my eyes.

2. General Grievous - Dumb character, speaks with some backwoods European accent. I kept expecting him to say, "So LoneStar! We meet at last!"

3. Anakin is supposed to be a godly Jedi, yet we only see him behead an old man and pilot a crashing starship. Obi-Wan on the other hand takes on Greivous and kicks Anakin's butt.

4. People can fight on floating metal in the middle of a molten lava river and not die from massive heat? C'mon!

5. Hayden's acting was completely awful.

6. The Wookie battle was not needed. It was just there to provide some flashy CGI and to show Chewbacca for 5 seconds to the rabid fanboys.

7. The Palpatine rescue scene (first 20 minutes or so) was horrible. Enough with the slapstick/annoying trade robots. Must have been there for the kiddies. Ugh!!!

I could go on and on, but this was the worst of it.
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#112425
Topic
ROTS: Did Anyone Else Laugh....
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/112425/action/topic#112425
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when Darth Vader screamed, “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!” at the end of Episode III?

When I saw this, I literally was laughing my head off and my eyes were wet with tears. I tried to jam my mouth shut out of respect to everyone else present, but it was so hard.

I was kind of caught up into the movie up until that point, which I thought was just so laughably bad.

-G

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#106181
Topic
Who has caved?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/106181/action/topic#106181
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To this day, I have never caved!

Actually, when the lemmings were snapping up the new OT DVDs, I satisfied my cravings by going out and buying a definitive collection LD set off of Ebay.

WOOT!

Every sale of these new DVDs is a message to Lucas that his changes are valid. Screw him. I know my personal boycott won't make a difference in the end, but at least I'm true to myself.

-G
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#106177
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Yeah, its us OLD people George- thanks!
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I'm so tired of George Lucas and his "middle finger" attitude towards the "older" fans. If he wants them to go away, all he has to do is release the unmolested OT on DVD. Plain and simple. I've always had the position that Lucas is free to do what he wants, as long as he gives fans the choice of which versions they want to see. He's just being a stubborn ass.

To quote LucasFilm's Jim Ward, "This is not a democracy."

The "older" fans made him what he is today, so the least he could do is show some respect. At this point I think he's so unwilling to say he screwed his own franchise, he resorts to poor excuses and lame statements. He's probably so used to having his butt kissed at Lucasfilm by yes-men and ILM lackeys 24 hours a day, he can't take constructive criticism anymore.

I don't think it's the fans who have the problem, after all, it was Lucas who forgot largely who his target audience was, namely the people who grew up with the original trilogy. At least they're the ones smart enough to know he's been pulling the PT stories out of his ass for the past 5 years or so, making most of it up as he went along.

His repeated assertions that Star Wars is for kids is total bunk. The OT appealed to all audiences, and it never really pandered down to a child's humor level (can you say poodoo jokes?). The Ewoks were cute but I didn't find them so awful as to induce groans every time I saw them. I remember being there in 83' in the theatre and people were cheering, Ewoks and all. Now we're stuck with awful characters such as Watto and alien pod-race commentators.

Lucas is like someone with strong body odor, who can't smell his own stench. Everyone else gags while he goes happily on his way because he's too naive to see how bad he's smelling it up.

Personally, I can't see why the older fans don't make a stand and cast votes against his revisionist garbage by not buying what he's selling. The people who complain and yet give Lucas their hard earned cash make me sick.

Unmolested OT forever, Prequels never took place. That's my stance.

-G