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stof on 13 March 2009
superchunk said:
Furthermore, all 6 have bad acting, bad jokes, and plot holes. That is just SW. That is why all 6 got horrible reviews.

1 is the worst simple because it is the beginning. The beginning of any story is always less entertaining than the rest. That's why there is a climax. i.e. parts 3 and 6.

 

 

That's not true at all. Starwars was the first movie of the story and it was bloody brilliant. 



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DMeisterJ on 13 March 2009

Showing Star Wars to my kids? Oh my, that's horrible. May as well pull the trigger on their social life. I don't want to raise geeks.

So Star Wars will be banned in my house, so will reading.



MontanaHatchet on 13 March 2009

The Star Wars movies all got bad reviews? Episode V disagrees.



 

 

ZZetaAlec on 13 March 2009
MontanaHatchet said:
The Star Wars movies all got bad reviews? Episode V disagrees.

Episode V had a very lukewarm reception at the time of it's release.

 



superchunk on 13 March 2009
stof said:
superchunk said:
Furthermore, all 6 have bad acting, bad jokes, and plot holes. That is just SW. That is why all 6 got horrible reviews.

1 is the worst simple because it is the beginning. The beginning of any story is always less entertaining than the rest. That's why there is a climax. i.e. parts 3 and 6.

 

 

That's not true at all. Starwars was the first movie of the story and it was bloody brilliant. 

1. "starwars" was part 4. Thus it was not the first part of the story. It was somewhere in the middle.

2. Lucas picked 4-6 because it was already a well developed story at that point and he knew it would be easier to sell with a well developed badass vs having to spend 1-3 creating that ultimate villian.

 



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stof on 13 March 2009

Um. It was only called "Episode 4" long after the movie came out. It originally released as "STARWARS" no episode, no part, just a movie that started an amazing trilogy. A trilogy that started a huge phenomena. A phenomena that led to 3 CGI laden headache inducing movies.



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madskillz on 13 March 2009

I have a 5-year-old and he loves - LOVES - Star Wars. He started watching that, LOTR (the extended boxset) and Chronicles of Narnia at a young age as well.

He has seen every episode (including Clone Wars) at least 4, 5 times. However, I have the original episodes on VHS - Han shoots first - and he actually prefers those over the newer ones. Even at a young age, homie knows which trilogy rocks.



superchunk on 13 March 2009
stof said:
Um. It was only called "Episode 4" long after the movie came out. It originally released as "STARWARS" no episode, no part, just a movie that started an amazing trilogy. A trilogy that started a huge phenomena. A phenomena that led to 3 CGI laden headache inducing movies.

As soon as Empire Strikes Back was released, it was retitled as Episode IV. Obviously that was Lucus' original idea. It wasn't their on its original release simply because it was really unsure if there ever would be th sequels that Lucas wanted.

Here's the wikipedia exert:

"When originally released in 1977, the first film was simply titled Star Wars, as Lucas was not certain if he would follow the film with a sequel. Following the release of Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, the film was re-released in 1981 with the subtitle "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" to match its sequel's crawl. The original version, without the subtitle, was not released until the 2006 limited edition DVDs."

Lucas has maintained many times that the story was originally about Anakin and as the story became too large he then decided to focus on part 4, the middle and that of Luke.

 



The Ghost of RubangB on 13 March 2009
superchunk said:
stof said:
Um. It was only called "Episode 4" long after the movie came out. It originally released as "STARWARS" no episode, no part, just a movie that started an amazing trilogy. A trilogy that started a huge phenomena. A phenomena that led to 3 CGI laden headache inducing movies.

As soon as Empire Strikes Back was released, it was retitled as Episode IV. Obviously that was Lucus' original idea. It wasn't their on its original release simply because it was really unsure if there ever would be th sequels that Lucas wanted.

Here's the wikipedia exert:

"When originally released in 1977, the first film was simply titled Star Wars, as Lucas was not certain if he would follow the film with a sequel. Following the release of Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, the film was re-released in 1981 with the subtitle "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" to match its sequel's crawl. The original version, without the subtitle, was not released until the 2006 limited edition DVDs."

Lucas has maintained many times that the story was originally about Anakin and as the story became too large he then decided to focus on part 4, the middle and that of Luke.

 

I bolded your mistake.  George Lucas doesn't have original ideas.

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segajon on 13 March 2009

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