Topic: Star Wars - No Spoilers Please!

[J. Carney]

OK, guys... I'm leaving to watch Ep.III now. Showtime is at 1800 and I'm getting a bit to eat before I go.

Hope it's as good as I'm expecting. You guys are giving some pretty encouraging reviews, because the movie is NEVER better than the book.

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

Went to 1201 showing.

The book is better than the movie, Hands Down.  Movie is good, but not as good as the book

Rankings:

1) Ep V
2) Ep IV
3) Ep III
4) Ep VI
5) Ep II
6) Ep I

ANH was such a slow moving movie though. I think most people only like it because it was the first. 

ESB was definitly awesome, the fight between Vader/Luke is still amazing. (though you do have to wonder about Vader's lightsaber skills after seeing him and Kenobi go at it)

MY ranking

V
VI
III
II
IV
I

Ya'know, everybody's entitled to their own opinions....


...But your opinions are just WRONG!!!


OK, I'll grant'cha that ESB is an EXCELLENT movie, and hands down 'The Best of The Rest' (except for that stupid scene with the giant worm living on the asteroid....)

But... come ON, guys!  ANH was, is, and always shall be both a classic and a masterpiece!  It is one of the best movies ever made, it has a depth that the others lack, and the embryonic filmmaking techniques of the 1970's actually contributed to a more story and character-driven flick than it would have been in Lucas had been able to distract you all with eye-candy like he did in the last three films.

And yes, I just watched it again.

[J. Carney]

*post removed whe I realized that I was putting spoilers in. I'll re-post it in it's entirity when all hgave reported in.*

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

*post removed whe I realized that I was putting spoilers in. I'll re-post it in it's entirity when all hgave reported in.*

If you were gonna tell me that the new one is better than IV, I'll give you the (dubious) benifit of the doubt.... I haven't seen it yet.  Having been disappointed with the comic-booky feel of the last three, I'm not holding out for a whole lot with this one, but hey, it may be the greatest movie.... EVER.

Nah.

[J. Carney]

I'm not holding out for a whole lot with this one, but hey, it may be the greatest movie.... EVER.

Nah.

Nah is right. It was probably the more in-depth dialouge and more subtile manuverings in the book that the big screen can't convbey, but I wasn't impresses. ANd Natalie Portman shows for once and for all that her looks are all she's got.

[Commander La'ra]

Maybe in this movie.  I've seen her in other stuff where her acting really impressed me.

[Soreyes]

Saw it this morning. I thought it was very well done. I think my favorite battle was between Obi  Vs Gen. Grieves

Oh yes Mace Got 0wned

[Commander La'ra]

Saw it this morning. I thought it was very well done. I think my favorite battle was between Obi  Vs Gen. Grieves

I yelled out 'Not so clumsy and random now, is it?' at the end of that one.  The hot girl next to me giggled.

Oh yes Mace Got 0wned

Smacking the Emperor around like a little girl only to be killed when someone he thought was an ally opened him up for a lame sucker punch does not qualify as 'owned'.

'Screwed' would be a far better word.

But then, it was Samuel L. Jackson.  Treachery or extreme luck would be about the only way to kill him.

[Darth Sidious]

Ack SpoilerZ

I had to go alone.  My Girlfriend was ill.  Gonna go today or tomorrow and see it full digital.

[GDA-S'Cipio]

Ya'know, everybody's entitled to their own opinions....


...But your opinions are just WRONG!!!

Heh heh.

OK, my ranking (excluding Ep3, which I plan to see tonight)

The Empire Strikes Back
A New Hope
Attack of the Clones
Return of the Jedi
The Phantom Menace.

None of the later films brought the sense of magic that the first one did.  It will always stand out head and shoulders above the rest in my memory.  But I thought Empire told the best story.

It's hard for me to rank anything below Jedi, because for so many years there was so much I hated about it.  I hated Endor.  I hated all the battle scenes both on and off-plant. I hated the re-imaging of Han Solo as someone he wasn't in the first two movies, when he had been my favorite character in those two.  And I really, really, loathed the Ewoks.  Lucas made my opinion of the film worse in his special edition, when he added a huge party at the capital as if the war was won.  Come on!  You killed Vader and the Emperor and you made friends with a bunch of wittle Teddy Bears.  There is still a huge empire out there.  You think the Imperial Government is going to just roll over on the captial?  You think there aren't a few military commanders who think they should be the next Emperor?  I always thought the war would drag on for many more years.  (And I enjoyed Zahn's novels because he agreed with me.    )

But, the Jabba scenes were excellent (OK, I mostly mean the Leia scenes) , Han was still Han early in the movie, and the confrontation between Luke, Darth, and the Emperor was outstanding.  The only good thing about Phantom Menace was the outstanding final lightsaber battle with Darth Maul and the two Jedi, and one sequence does not a movie make.  So Phanton Menace takes bottom honors.

I think I liked Attack of the Clones a lot better than most people.

-S'Cipio