Whats better than Star Wars??!?!
I dunno, having sweet sex with a gorgeous girl! But I guess not many of you would know about that!!!
Lets see what Santa brings this Christams.
Nice one Zombie...Must be a very proud moment for you man!!
1) The Empire Strikes Back
2) Back to the Future
3) Return of the Jedi
4) Raiders of the Lost ark
5) E.T (I did love it as a kid...made me cry....still chokes me up at the end)
6) Midnight Run (One of the funniest films ever)
7) Flash Gordon (Campy classic stuff)
8) Temple of doom (Don't care what anyone says, when I fist saw it, I thought it was fantastic. Still prefer it to Last Crusade)
9) Batman (Loved it at the time....)
10) Grease 2 (ha...what can I say..."cool rider....Coooool rider" Michelle Pfeiffer looking gorgeous as ever)
11) Back to the future 2 (Great, clever sequel...just the whole book, car thing at the end bugs me a bit...but what a cliffhanger ending...classic)
Ok...probably not my top ten 80's of all time, but some of my fave films.
Also in that list should be Beverly hills cop, Goonies, Gremlins.....too many great films to mention
Star Wars (1977)
Cinematography: 10/10 – The editing and the camera work is some of the most iconic ever
Plot: 10/10 - Classic story perfectly done IMO
Acting: 8/10 - I thought they were great most of the time except for a few places
Dialogue: 7/10 - Could’ve used a little more work in some places
Special Effects: 8/10 – Still holds up today a lot better than the CGI in the prequels if you ask me.
Score: 10/10 – John William’s best work, perhaps the finest score ever?
Overall Ranking: 8.8/10
Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Cinematography: 10/10 – Especially amazing in this one, it’s hard to imagine Hoth wasn’t real.
Plot: 9/10 – Great, but the fact that it doesn’t have a clear beginning or ending doesn’t make it feel as whole of a movie.
Acting: 9/10 – An improvement over ANH
Dialogue: 9/10- Also an improvement
Special Effects: 9/10 – Battle of Hoth and Yoda are amazing, but cloud city detracts a point
Score: 10/10 – John Williams continues a genius score, a lot of originality while continuing the Star Wars feel
Overall Ranking: 9.3/10
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Cinematography: 9/10 – You can tell Richard Marquand was not as innovative as Irvin or George with ANH, but it is still great.
Plot: 8/10 – Recycling the plot from ANH detracts some points, but I thought they still did a good job at keeping it original.
Acting: 8/10 – On par with ANH
Dialogue: 8/10 – While Ian McDiarmid had great lines, not much new here
Special Effects: 9/10 – If it weren’t for the Rancor the super star destroyer blowing up and a few other things, I would give it a 10
Score: 10/10 – Mixes a lot of the previous two scores and adds some new work, I thought it was perfect
Overall Ranking: 8.6/10
The Phantom Menace (1999)
Cinematography: 8/10 – Camera work was good, now the CGI that’s a different story
Plot: 6/10 – Interesting in some ways, confusing and ridiculous in others, at least it was unique
Acting: 5/10 - Average
Dialogue: 6/10 – Also Average
Special Effects: 6/10 – Now I thought the CGI in this one was not so distracting and used well in some places. It was still really awful in other areas with the Gungans, Pod racing, and Jar Jar
Score: 8/10 – I thought John Williams continued the Star Wars quality here.
Overall Ranking: 6.5/10 – I didn’t think this one was that bad. I thought it still felt like a Star Wars movie and George stirred up some good ideas to build on. If Episodes 2 and 3 were actually good, I wouldn’t mind this one that much.
Attack of the Clones (2002)
Cinematography: 5/10 - Average
Plot: 3/10 – Awful, contrived, cheesy and poorly done, insults our intelligence
Acting: 3/10 – I don’t think I need to explain this
Dialogue: 2/10 – Likewise
Special Effects: 3/10 - I thought the CGI in this was absolutely terrible. While George used mostly CGI in TPM, he still mixed it up with REAL stuff and used film, in this it looks like almost all CGI and the digital cameras make everything look all artificial.
Score: 7/10 – It’s good but it is too romantic and over dramatic for the crappy love story
Overall Ranking: 3.8/10
Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Cinematography: 6/10 – Again only average, there was some good work, but for the most part it was condescending and boring with all the close up shots of Anakin and crap
Plot: 4/10 – The mechanism for turning Anakin to the Darkside has to be the laziest, most cliché ever.
Acting: 4/10 – Only slightly better than AOTC
Dialogue: 3/10 – I thought there was a big decline in quality after TPM
Special Effects: 4/10 – George continues to use video game CGI for his entire movie
Score: 7/10 – Nothing original here, just a recycle of the last 5 films combined. Cheesy and over dramatic for what was seen on screen.
Overall Ranking: 4.6/10
Your welcome. Glad I'm not the only one who saw it. I thought for a second I was getting it confused with my comics or radio plays, or a dream I had after watching ESB...or something like that!!
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:TPM
Dialogue: 4/10 - Not a single memorable line.
mmmm...There was one memorable line "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering...I sense much fear in you"
Promised so much, delivered so little!!
Johnny Ringo said:HotRod said:What do you mean???
If it's my list order....well...yeah!!!
If it's the lack of details, noone else bothered, so why should I!!
Ha!!
And I was only joking about my list...I rank AOTC Aove TPM
I was talking about your attempts at humour.
What??....I wasn't being funny???!!!
Ok...My boss is out for the day...I'll do your little list properly later on!
What do you mean???
If it's my list order....well...yeah!!!
If it's the lack of details, noone else bothered, so why should I!!
Ha!!
And I was only joking about my list...I rank AOTC Aove TPM
Gaffer Tape said:It was added in 1981, because Empire was the first movie to showcase the new episode title system.
That's bollox... I saw a broadcast back in 78 on some tv channel I can't remember that had EP IV in the title crawl.
Don't bother to argue with me, I saw it and a few people I asked saw it too.
;)
Well looky what we have here!
A little something extra in the trailer!! http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39238 It's at the end! You trekkies out there better get the tissues ready!!
No mate...That's my order!!!
Stop taking drugs when you go to the cinema. I used to do that all the time, and man, I saw some funny shit.
Janskeet said:You guys continue to not answer my post the way I want you to. I want you to rate the movies on the 6 categories I gave on a 1 to 10 scale. Feel free to add more categories if you'd like.
That takes to long...We have a life!! ;)
1) Revenge of the Sith - 10 /10 - Great story, great fx, great Acting
2) The Phantom Menace - 9.5 /10 - Great story, great fx, great Acting
3) Attack of the Clones - 8.5 / 10 - As above, just let down by a few corny lines
4) Return of the Jedi 7.5 / 10 - Best of the OT by far
5) A New hope 6 /10 - Ok but looking dated now
6) The Empire Strikes Back 4 /10 - A little boring in places. And Yoda does look shit compared to the CGI of Episodes 2 & 3
;)
Well I'm digging the show.
For me it's a nice little thing to watch in between the two X-Factor shows on Saturday night...(only UK-ers know what the hell I'm talking about)
A very old Spock is the time traveller. I could go into spoiler territory here, so I'll shut up now!
And if what I read is correct, there's a pretty honest reason why young Spock would be a little pissed at Kirk!!
I personally think the music to ROTS is one of the film's stronger points!!
You know what? This don't look too bad after seeing the trailer in full HD glory. http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/
I'm no Star Trek fan. Liked the films, watched TNG, but really couldn't give a rats arse about the rest. So for me it doesn't matter if they screw up the history of Star Trek or if Spock shouldn't act the way he does.
I just want to see a bloody good sci-fi film, something that I don't think has been done in a long while. I have faith in ol' JJ. After all, he did come up with one of the best TV shows in a long while - Lost. Also Alias was pretty good until he left, and MI3 was not a bad film at all.
So, yeah, I'm actually looking forward to this film. Like I said, I'm not really a fan of the Trek, so I should be OK.
the trailer is out on Youtube in great ol' crappovision, if anyone's interested
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EradGWJNsl4
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It was never like this with ANH:R. People just accepted what Ady was planning to do, and went along with it (well, apart from the great flipper debate that is).
Now every other monkey wants it 'their way'.
Oh, how I miss the good ol' days of 2007.
Oh yeah.....Nice spot astroboy.....
But it can't be a complete reboot if it has old Spock in the film.
Didn't like it then?!
Who howled in pain whne he was wounded at the Sarlacc pit?
Who claimed the Millennium Falcon had saved his life more than a few times?
What were the Emperor's first words in the movie trilogy?
Who deliberately did not head for the Rebel rendezvous point after Hoth's evacuation?
Who is Indiana and what character was inspired by him?
Chewie
Lando
"there is a great distubance in the force"
Luke
Goeorge Lucas' Dog - Chewie