Which of the trilogy?

[drewxcore]

Ok.

Before anyone disputes this, THE TRILOGY is the original three star wars films.

OK?.

Good.

Now which of the three do you prefer?

Anyone that says they don't like star wars is insane, anyone that haven't seen it needs to be forced to.

End of

 

[Guest]

The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite. It ends on the bleak note and you know that it has to get better. I waited and waited for Return of the Jedi to come out on VHS (the releases between theater and tape were years back then instead of months like now) to see what happened.

Empire left me hoping and waiting in anticipation, and then Return came out and it was good, but I knew the series was over, so I liked it least. Ever since I was a kid, anticipation was everything.

~Paul

 

[drewxcore]

I should give my answer shouldnt I....

For years I said Empire.

Then i re-watched them a while back and changed my mind.

Star wars is the best of the three

 

[Guest]

I should give my answer shouldnt I....

For years I said Empire.

Then i re-watched them a while back and changed my mind.

Star wars is the best of the three

First off, that was post #100 and you just earned your avatar.

Secondly, since Star Wars earned you your pic, you should have a lightsaber up.

Third, the movie was called 'A New Hope'

Here's lightsabre pic that meets the avatar requirements for size.

 

[drewxcore]

Third, the movie was called 'A New Hope'

Not at first it wasn't

I think.

I don't see the avatar thoughhhhh

 

[Guest]

I see you found the avatar.

I went back and looked at the opening crawl and you're right. Not only does it not say 'a New Hope', but it also does not say 'Episode IV'. Those were added on subsequent releases. Apparently (according to Starwars.com) after Lucas said he always saw it as the middle of a serial.

 

[drewxcore]

The avatar makes me seem like a star wars nut though, which i dislike.

Tis only temporary.

 

[Guest]

The avatar makes me seem like a star wars nut though, which i dislike.

Tis only temporary.

It's your penance for starting a Star Wars thread and earning your 100th post on it. I think it could go. We've both seen it enough times.

 

[ole_grouch_1124]

Empire was good, but I liked Return of the Jedi better. You gotta admit, Carrie Fisher looked hot in that skimpy suit in the beginning.

 

[drewxcore]

The gold bikini; cinematic brilliance.

 

[Guest]

The gold bikini; cinematic brilliance.

Not buying it. Empire is the better movie. Hands down. Luke finds out Vader is his father. It has the ice beast at the beginning, they escape Hoth on the Millennium falcon only to be captured on Bespin. Han gets frozen in Carbonite, Luke finds out Vader is his father, and ends the movie after falling hundreds of stories to catch himself under the cloud city and be rescued by Leia and Lando. There's betrayal, love and a resolution of sexual tension in the fact that the Leia/Luke brother/sister thing is cleared up.

There's literally something for everyone, where as Lucas was reaching in Jedi by including ewoks (little better than Jar Jar IMHO) and some hokey plan to reconstruct the Death Star all because he had a massive cliffhanger at the end of the second movie.

Hope is the setup for Empire. they lay all the groundwork for the final scene in the second movie. The third movie serves as nothing but a way to tidy up the galactic conquest thing which is really a secondary vehicle for the character development that culminates in Episode V.

just my 2 cents.

 

[drewxcore]

Don't be be mean about the ewoks!

The rebellion would've failed without the ewoks.

 

[Guest]

Don't be be mean about the ewoks!

The rebellion would've failed without the ewoks.

The Ewoks were a necessary vehicle to put a cuddly face on the Rebellion. They served as a visual reminder, to contrast against the evil of the empire. All of Star Wars (at least 4, 5, and 6) is classic melodrama. The good guy wears lighter colors in the first movie while the bad guy wears black. Rebellion ships are white on the inside where Imperial ones are gray (black wouldn't show up well). Imperial troops are faceless and indistinguishable where Rebels all have faces. The vast majority of visible Imperial baddies the higher ups) are human, while the rebel forces are all inclusive with members of all species. The Ewoks were just an extension of that. Kind of a more cuddly Chewbacca.

But, yes, they made the rebellion work. Happy?

 

[drewxcore]

I'm very happy thank you.

Am i alone in not disliking the other three? I especially liked the phantom menace AND jar jar

 

[ole_grouch_1124]

I'm very happy thank you.

Am i alone in not disliking the other three? I especially liked the phantom menace AND jar jar

Jar jar was annoying as hell. I didn't like him at all. The Phantom Menace was ok, but I liked both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith better. I thought the whole story of how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader was great.

 

[Guest]

I'm very happy thank you.

Am i alone in not disliking the other three? I especially liked the phantom menace AND jar jar

Jar Jar was a necessary character (or, rather, he filled a necessary role) for the story, but IMHO he was WAY to dumbed down and goofy. I saw him as a recruiting tool to get children interested in the second (or first, chronologically) trilogy and being useful only in that manner. If the speech patterns of his people had been simplified and didn't end in "ah" every other word his character would have sat much better with audiences. As it was, he came off like a CGI cartoon character in what was an otherwise decent movie.

The problem with episodes I-III is that there was no revelation. we already knew who was going to become Vader. It was interesting to see how, as was the transformation of Palpatine, but there was no discovery. No "AHA!" moment.

Additionally, most of the people who were fans of the Star Wars universe already knew the stories. They've been recounted in books for decades, told in bits and pieces. That wasnt the case for the original movies. Everything was fresh and surprising.

What set episodes I-III apart was their use of larger than life characters (General Greivous?) and extensive CGI. If they wanted to stay faithful to IV-VI, they would have kept the technology simpler. If they could do all that with Greivous, for example, why were we back to simple bipedal droid designs later? Why do we have walking trash cans (R2-D2) waddling through the sand when we have skiffs and swoops twenty years prior?

I know that the storyline allows for a drop in technology for some strange reason explained in the books (I've been told, I haven't read them all), but it wasn't made clear in the movie. Out of I-III, III is the best because of the epic battle and the fact that Amidala has the twins and Vader is unaware.

If they do VII-IX, Leia and Han will have twins as well.

All right, I'm a closet nerd.

 

[drewxcore]

An intergalactic civil war would've lead to a downturn in the progress of cyber technology?

 

[Guest]

An intergalactic civil war would've lead to a downturn in the progress of cyber technology?

Look, I didn't say I bought it just that I heard it. I called bullshit, too.

 

[Boota]

The Ewoks were a necessary vehicle to put a cuddly face on the Rebellion. They served as a visual reminder, to contrast against the evil of the empire. All of Star Wars (at least 4, 5, and 6) is classic melodrama. The good guy wears lighter colors in the first movie while the bad guy wears black. Rebellion ships are white on the inside where Imperial ones are gray (black wouldn't show up well). Imperial troops are faceless and indistinguishable where Rebels all have faces. The vast majority of visible Imperial baddies the higher ups) are human, while the rebel forces are all inclusive with members of all species. The Ewoks were just an extension of that. Kind of a more cuddly Chewbacca.

But, yes, they made the rebellion work. Happy?

I read somewhere that the Ewoks were originally supposed to be Wookies, but it was too hard to find that many people of Wookie size. The idea of making them small was simply the fact that it is easier to find little people than big ones. I don't know if that's 100% true, but it makes sense to me.

 

[AngeloMichael]

Empire Strikes Back is nearly a perfect movie in every way, it is indeed my favorite movie of the trilogy and one of my favoirite movies of all time.

The other original Star Wars movies while very good, were flawed, however "A New Hope" will always have the nostalgia factor attached to it as the movie that started the entire phenomenon and it was the second best movie of the series.

Return of the Jedi had the best lightsaber fight of the original trilogy, very moving. The second Death Star, while as a concept an incredibly poor plot device, the rebel alliance fleet's attack on it was amazing.

The battle on Endor was insanely stupid. Yes, orignally the battle was supposed to take place on Kashyyyk, the Wookie home planet and it was supposed to be wookies instead of Ewoks, but as Boota stated it was too difficult to do Wookies at that time. The fact that these primative little creatures was able to defeat the mighty Galactic Empire is so idiotic.

Also, the explosion of something so large as the Death Star so close to the Ewok moon should have caused a nuclear winter and totally killed off the entire race.


The prequels are utter shite. I hate the idea of midichlorians, I liked the force as something mystic and magical, not something caused by germs carried in a person's body.

The sulky petulant Anakin and his relationship with Amadala was painful to watch. There were no interesting characters at all in the prequels unlike the original trilogy.

Anakin buliding C-3PO WTF?!!

The lightsaber battle between Yoda and Plapatine was insiously inane, Yoda just gives up because it's the only way to make the plot fit into the original trilogy. So many things were like that.

How stupid was it to "hide" Luke by letting him keep the name Skywalker and putting him on the same planet his father grew up on?!!

These movies just totally ruined the great movies that came first.

 

[O2]

I like the Empire one, only because my dog's name is Luke and I can do the Darth Vader voice and tell him:

Luke, I'm your father.....

 

[drewxcore]

I like the Empire one, only because my dog's name is Luke and I can do the Darth Vader voice and tell him:

Luke, I'm your father.....

I could have hours of fun with that....

Do you?>

 

[TE999]

The original 'Star Wars' movie is still my favorite. When I first saw it in the theater it blew me away. I saw it 4 more times after that, noticing something new each time. I have never seen the 'prequels' and don't intend to. The original trilogy reigns supreme in my view.

 

[lance gt]

I think George should have had Kirk and crew show up in the last episode. Then it would have all come full circle. They would have kicked the Empire's ass, Kirk would bang anything female and Luke would have a new idol. It could have spawned numerous sequels.

 

[drewxcore]

I think George should have had Kirk and crew show up in the last episode. Then it would have all come full circle. They would have kicked the Empire's ass, Kirk would bang anything female and Luke would have a new idol. It could have spawned numerous sequels.

Kirk shoulda banged padme in episode 3... thus creating confusion as to whether they were really anakins kids...