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- #347139
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- Looks like the prequels are not aging well.
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Hell, I laugh at them all the time, C3PX! And I'm not even a kid!!!
Hell, I laugh at them all the time, C3PX! And I'm not even a kid!!!
I'd admire him more if he actually did supermarionation with lightsabres... now that would be worth seeing!...
generalfrevious said:He'll never let go of SW; I guess it is grafted onto his body now, and will keep going many decades and decades...
My God, that's a horrible image...
I take your point, SilverWook... and I agree that it would be a sad thing if all amimation looked like Pixar's... but I've not seen any CG-animation films that have topped Pixar's for eye-popdom (I acknowledge that that may be due to my not seeing the other good stuff out there) or for storytelling... I don't think the animation in Clone Wars was that good... I didn't think much of the character design either but that's not specifically what I'm getting at here... it's the actual animation... considering how far the form has come in the last 10 years or so, I thought Clone Wars was pretty poor...
Already has done, in fact... SW77 & ESB are standing the test of time very, very well (if you discount the various SEs)... TPM on the other hand... only 10 years down the line and it looks even more like a painfully average bit of sub-Disney-live-action-kids-movie-fluff than it did originally... the sporadic flashes of po-faced lightsabre weilding look all the more out of place now... adrift, as they are, in a sea of twee... SW77 was smart enough to inject a bit of fun and cynicism into the mix, in the form of Han Solo... he was the character everybody admired... not Luke or Obi-Wan... it's been said many times... the PT needed the smartness of a Han Solo in there for the 'straight' characters to work off... someone to cut through the pomposity with a well-delivered quip or flirtatious one-liner...
TLSO said:Buddy, you can only say Luca$h so many times and still have it be original...
Really?! But it's so rich in meaning...
Supreme! :D
Granted... but where was the eye-popping animation we were supposed to be getting?... Luca$h seemed to think he was going to put all other animated features in the shade with this one... mind you, he seemed to think the PT was going to do that with live-action features... the poor, deluded man...
I think the Luca$hcow was in full flow by the time the SE/PT build-up started, though... the merchandising overload in the late 90s made it seem like there was more excitement in the general public but I reckon it was actually less than during the early 80s... not being a total idiot, in business terms, Luca$h probably realised he'd have to push much harder to get TPM to a similar level of success as the OT...
He had midiclorians down in '77?!... well, I'm very glad he didn't pollute the OT with that bollocks...
I finally watched it the other day… would have benefited from having the running-time of an episode from Tartakovsky’s show… not enough plot to go round… but anyhoo…
I seem to recall Luca$h trying to sell this as really advanced animation in the pre-release hype… but it looked pretty ordinary to my eyes… was I missing something?.. it didn’t look anything like as good as the kind of stuff other studios are putting out… didn’t Luca$h have something to do with Pixar once?.. why couldn’t they have done it?.. they might have been able to fix up a halfway decent story and some engaging characters while they were at it…
By the way… one for the UK members… why did Jabba and all his relations suddenly look like variations of Cosgrove Hall’s Mr Toad?!
Vaderisnothayden said:... the real height of Star Wars was when the original movies were current (77-83). That was the time it was all at its coolest. Even if we were just kids. Extend that to '84 or even '85 for immediate aftermath time if you like, but by '86 the height of Star Wars was over and never to return.
True... true... the resurgence in the run-up to the SEs and then TPM never reached the heights of the early 80s, you're right...
That is so right... we had one of the films on every year at Christmas for ages over here in the UK... before VHS, you're right... we would just stop and watch... no matter what... I wouldn't do that for the PT... yes, rcb, even TPM...
You're right, of course. TPM was the best of the prequels.
Why will it stick out? In a "you know how you were thinking of doing this? Well, this guy did and, well, just look at it, will ya?!!!" kinda way?
I also think Luca$h should really have been made to think by the way that the first three he did still get to be the Star Wars Trilogy on their own, even though he's done his damndest to bastardise them into postscript for his Lil' Orphan Annie story...
Is it me, or are they reeeeeeeeeeeally dragging their heels over putting all six in one box... because they know the PT is shi-hiiiiiiiiiiiite...
Fang Zei said:it was basically GL going "Oh yea, I've got your Expanded Universe right here (makes hand gestures over crotch)."
Hahahahahahaha!!!
doubleofive said:Like everything in the prequels except for Obi-wan having Anakin for an apprentice and there being "Clone Wars" was made up in the 1990s and onward, if that early.
On the nose-ee!!!
I really hope that this comes true... I remember lots of people, not just me, saying that the PT would be shown up as the crap it is over time... that 30 years after the PT, people will not love those films like people still loved the OT in '97... I just hope that in 2029 I can have a good laugh to myself about how much Luca$h threw away the respect SW had by treating the OT the way he has... thing is, he's in it for the money, so not much hope of him giving a toss anyway...
I don’t know if this is something debated here before, so apologies if so!
What the hell was Leia doing at Tatooine at the start of ANH?!
As the opening crawl informs us, she’s “rac(ing) home … custodian of the stolen plans yadayadayada”, right? And, as we find out a few seconds in, she’s got The Emperor’s right hand man on her tail in a fucking Star Destroyer! So, if you’ll pardon me, what the <span class=“Bold”>fuck</span> is she doing choosing that time to go looking for one of her Dad’s old war pals!!!
Any thoughts?