Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: C19fan
I won't be there.

Sorry.

I enjoyed that little movie called "Star Wars" back in '78.

Since then ... the suckage has become intolerable.

5 posted on 08/27/2015 6:25:32 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: NorthMountain

Likewise. Prequels were a huge disappointment - I only watched 2 of the 3.


8 posted on 08/27/2015 6:31:44 AM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies ]

To: NorthMountain
Yes, the original was great fun, but The Empire Strikes Back was the best of the lot, and for a good reason that the new revival shares: Lucas didn't direct it.

The prequels' intolerable suckage is all Lucas's fault, not as some claim the fault of the actors -- Natalie Portman can act under a good director, witness The Black Swan. Even the fellow who played the adolescent Anakin managed almost by accident to get credible emotion through Lucas's Jedi-courtly dialogue at a couple of places. With a good director, even with that script, he might have been pushed to do it throughout. And then there was the monumental mistake of having only two worthwhile story arcs (the rise of the Empire and the fall of Anakin Skywalker) spread over three very long movies without any one of the movies telling its own compelling story -- again Lucas's fault -- the implausible plot devices includes for the sake of video game tie-ins -- again Lucas's fault, as was the rightly much-mocked Jar Jar Binks -- yes intended as comic relief, but we didn't need comic relief since the dramatic tension was spread so thin over the three movies as to be barely noticeable.

Except for the mythos and the character concept for the returning characters, which you liked back in '78, and the name of the Disney subsidiary producing it, there's no Lucas in the forthcoming movie, so on the basis of the trailer, I'm looking forward to it.

15 posted on 08/27/2015 6:45:41 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson