ok, i'm lying.

No prequels, no clone wars, just the original trilogy.

man, thats just fucking pathetic. Abosolutely balls out, the most pathetic statement Ive ever read here, not counting retards in talkbacks.

"How they were intended" or "how I wanted them to be used".....is there a difference to you?

Dude, how fucking old are you? DO you really want to go to your grave a bitter fanboy, clutching YOUR Vader backpack tightly? Writing for AICN has really gone to your head if you think anybody should make a movie to suit your personal tastes.

killing optimus? wept.

Then, we went to see it. Midnight showing. Kid got to stay up late. The feeling of disappointment 2 hours later was... heartbreaking. He loved Obi Wan, he loved Darth Maul, he loved the space battles and R2 and the Pod Race, but he absolutely hated Jar Jar. To him, Jar Jar was 'Stupid", with a capital 'S'. He didn't care for any of the 'trade dispute' crap. he wondered aloud why the droids had screws for eyes, and why they would need to vocally communicate with eachother, and, worst of all, the trade federation aliens were and still are referred to in my friend's house as the 'Chinese aliens.'

So, my question to George Lucas is- if these movies are for kids, what age group are you thinking? 2-5? Because if at 8 years old we're too old for your films, your demographic is pretty fucking limited.

How can anyone watch that scene and think it shouldn't have been cut? It slows the pace of the movie and has, at times, word for word, the same dialogue as the scene between Han & Greedo just moments before. The scene offers nothing new. IT IS A REDUNDANT SCENE! Any decent filmmaker should be able to see that and make the decision, for the betterment of the picture, to cut it. Yet Lucas, once technology allowed his vision of Jabba to be realized, puts this scene back into the movie. I love seeing unused footage but that's what "Deleted Scenes" on the dvd is for.

I shudder to think of the day when Spielberg catches the Lucas Fever and decides to "fix" the problem he had on Jaws. With today's technology he can put the shark back in to all those scenes in the first half of the film that he originally had intended it to be in.

Oh and he also directed a little number called Indiana Jones and the somethingsomething Crystal Skull. He's fallen hook, line and sinker to the disease.

It's as if Lucas is hell-bent on not only flushing his franchise down the toilet in his prequels - but also wants to go back and deface the stuff that he got right in the first place: like create a terrific scene that shows that Han Solo has got what it takes to survive in a dog-eat-dog universe.....and then undermine Han's character by making Greedo shoot first. So now Han waits, like a bumbling idiot, to find out if Freedo will blast his head off or miss - and THEN react to the threat..........???????

Not to mention, that Lucas accomplishes this insane revision with a South Park-style cut-and-paste animation technique to make Han dodge the shot.....?????? The man has clearly gone mad.

Kinda freaky...

I think Star Wars and Empire were real movies, Return + the Special Editions was the beginning of the end.

I mean...you can get away with a musical number like the cantina scene, but the Special Edition musical stuff was garbage.

In making the kids films, Mr. Lucas & co. drained the dignity that existed in the first few films. Not to mention the drama, pacing, acting, lighting, and special effects. CGI has become a crutch.

The Greedo scene and Jabba scene were both exposition to let us know something about who Han Solo is. Trouble is the Jabba scene just repeats what we have just learned. We do see Boba Fett at the end of the scene but to me that's stupid too as he has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. It's not forshadowing if there's no payoff.

I don't know why, but I can't stop smilin'.

Jar Jar Binks = retarded ape-chicken.

ape-chicken. Funny.

It's bending the space-time continuum.

You're pointing to two different movies that have a similar plot point, but that's where the similarities end. How does your logic work? Can't more than one movie portray a plot point like this badly? Is there some kind of badly-played-plot-point quantum singularity in the universe? Is this a unifying physical principle to the cosmos? Your post made absolutely no sense. You don't win an argument by pointing out that your opponent has been wrong about something completely unrelated in the past, that's just silly.

Anakin's transformation was badly done. It made no sense, was acted badly, was rammed through almost as an afterthought, and had no pathos, no meaning. It was superimposed on an already flimsy story, made all the more incomprehensible by this crap plot point.

You can't deny this with some bizarre non-sequitur. just accept it.

So, as a true fan, you must think it's fine for the PT to have none of the charm, inventiveness, creativity, craft, acting ability, genuine care and attention or general greatness of the OT IN ANY FUCKING WAY.

Fine. You're a true fan and I'm not. I'm just a real movie fan and you're a mindless fucking moron. There it is.

What's the point? Do you really think this is the way to go for a franchise? This is the same stupid Lucas-logic that had Mac betray Indy in the first ten minutes of INDY IV, then genuinely expected us all to be flabbergasted when Mac does the same thing again later on in the movie - when in actual fact, those of us with brains were just looking at the screen thinking, "I can't believe Indy is so fucking dumb he'd believe that double crossing bastard twice."

Then I thought how much fun it'd be to bring in Sir Ben Kingsley as Don from SEXY BEAST into the climax of INDY IV - give Ray Winstone something to REALLY worry about...

aight. sorry about that. I am a sw fanboy, but I'm not daft. it's a guilty pleasure over the past 2 decades. but you can't be bashing obvious kiddy shite and then sing the praises of a one-dimensional, young adult fiction flick. you might as well be singing the praises of HANANAH MON-HILLARY PIKACHU. ;-)

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I guess it'll just fade into the lost recesses of the internet. Gone 'til someone finds it again. Probably Orcus.

"the narrative played out in a different way then what I expected, or wanted"

Everyone had their own ideas about what the story should be, partly fueled by years of wondering, partly fueld be EU stuff, and when the trilogy didn't give them exactly what they had pictured in their head, they threw a hissy fit.

Are they exactly the same? No, they do lack a certain amount of charm (that was mostly brought about by Solo, a character type sorely lacking in these movies). Phantom Menace has actually grown on me, Clones feels like a boring video game (no one wants to just sit and watch people play games), but Sith is a good Star Wars movie, better than Jedi in my opinion.