Which Star Wars film is your favorite

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Retrasado said:

stof said:
Twesterm - that review had a lot right, though it was damn hard to get through his annoying voice and really stupid "I'm a phsycho" jokes.

How are people honestly saying "Revenge of the Sith" was their favourite movie!? Are you that easily impressed by exploding CGI?

yes.

I just can't help laughing when I see how badly unrealistic most of the effects in the original movies (or any sci-fi movie from this period) are. For better or for worse, this takes away from my ability to be pulled into the movie by constantly shoving the fact that it is just a movie into my face (something I don't get so much with III and not at all with newer films like Avatar).

However, that being said, I like it the best by a very small margin. IV was great ("yes, I bet you have...". BLAM ) and V was pretty good though it had a few scenes that I didn't like. VI was just weird except for the scenes with Luke and Vader and the Emperor (I fucking hate Ackbar and his monkey sidekick and those godd*mn fuzzy teddy bear ewoks). I and II are also ass because they have no story (that review twesterm posted was awesome) and their special effects are even worse than the ones in the 80s movies. At least those look real (because they are real) even if they fall laughably short of accurately protraying what they are supposed to be, unlike the ass CGI in those movies that doesn't even look real at all let alone like what it is supposed to be.

I do concede that III's story wasn't very good and the dialogue was just terrible, but the decent CGI makes up for it in my graphics-whore eyes.

It's funny you should say the bolded part, because come on now! All six movies had badly unrealistic special effects. The overblown CGI in the prequels was in no way more realistic than the muppets of old. But when you compare the two kinds of bad special effects, the original films had something in their costumes, robots and aliens that the prequels never came close to capturing; Charm. 

Fortunately for this debate (and unfortunately for fans of starwars), Lucas released the original films in a "special edition" with added CGI scenes. These give us a pretty good comparison. Take the band in Jabba's palace with the long mouthed green woman for instance. The horribly fake looking muppet in the original was a hell of a lot more enjoyable than the horribly fake looking CGI version with her similarly fake looking furry counterpart. Infact, with the exception of the new Han Solo scene and some improved Wampa footage (not cgi, just a better costume), nearly every cgi scene takes you out of the film and sours the experience.

And 20 years from now, when people look back, the prequels will be just as dated, only there won't (and isn't) any redeeming charm in any of it. None of the computer effects mimics the emotion of rubber yoda, the awesomeness of model made AT-ST's, the danger of Mos Eisley cantina with it's porely costumed individuals or excitement of the Deathstar trench run Down a Real Trench! 

And yes, the story and dialogue sucked, leaving nothing but badly unrealistic effects to rely on.