Star Wars: Rants and Raves

[Sledgstone]

how do you feel about george lucas's involvement with star wars? are his directing skills what they used to be?

i feel that lord of the rings had better acting than the previous two star wars films. when i watch LOTR (any of the 3 movies, most notiably the first two), i feel as tho i am there. the character interactions and dialogue and a life to the story that make it really shine for me. as for star wars.. its as if i can see the actors reading the lines instead of feeling for the emotions of the characters and the struggles of the jedi. i'm not impressed george. your first trilogy was far superior.

[Hampstergeddon]

I think george lucas is responsible for one of the biggest travesties known to man. In the first remake of episode four, they make greedo shoot at han first, so that han doesnt look like a bad guy.

i can't just turn my back on that one.

[Fedic]

Reading this makes me want to throw fruit at him.

[PlaneShaper]

I completely disagree with directors remaking films with altered scenes.

That would have been the same as da Vince coming back to make the Mona Lisa's smirk just a little bigger because she didn't look happy enough

And this shows way to much in Lucas...what a panzy

[Flying_Monkey]

Lucas's skills are definatly going down hill. I hope episode 3 is better than 1&2. But I will always love 4,5,&6 (the original version that the "special edition" with all the added crap!). Lucas needs to pull his head out of his ass and start making good movies again or I will be forced to destroy the world!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aqu]

I actualy like some of the changed he's making to the movies, i frugging hate the claymation taun taun is Empire

[Dubird]

well, some of the 'redone' scenes were filmed at the time of the original....they were just cut....and yeah, some of it sucked....like Healthy Choice Jabba......but there were some bits that added to the movie.....

then again, everything has to be so dammed PC now that it's pathatic....everyone's so afraid of 'offending' someone that you can't make good movies like you used to....there's a South Park episode about Lucas remaking his movies (which is a very hilarious episode btw), and there's a preview in the theatre of ET where all the guns have been replaced by walkie-talkies....i thought it was a joke until i actually saw ET on tv recently, and they HAD done that!!.....OMG, what the fug?.....it's not like showing police officers with guns is going to damage little kids...it's a fact of life....it didn't damage me....hell, i grew up with Spaceballs and Freddy.....and i didn't even learn to curse properly until i got to college....didn't harm me in the least!...

[Hampstergeddon]

What people don't seem to realize or maybe lucas forgot about, is han is a pirate. He's not a good guy. He's doing it ooonly for the money. He's not some puppy hugging pansy like they want him to be.

[Sledgstone]

anyone know if the star wars triliogy dvd set is going to have both versions or just the redone movies? it better have both so help me.. :mad3:

[aqu]

just redone

[Ladywriter]

fuckin crap
what the hell
they keep rippin off the real fans
us bitches who were there the first time the yellow words Star Wars crawled up the movie screen
FUCK YOU LUCAS yer a pussy sell out ass licker

[Fedic]

Let's go tp his house and egg his car(s) :x

[Ladywriter]

:meh: I'm game so long as there's beer involved

[Fedic]

Of course.
I am chased by beer X'D

[Sledgstone]

when lucas dies, i hope the person (or people) who get his estate go back and re-edit his edited shit. -_-;

[Fedic]

Morbid... yet hopefull. I like you :p

[Ladywriter]

X'D
I'm sure you will be friends in no time

[Hampstergeddon]

Sledge loves him some grave robbin.

[Toy Machine]

Just saw Ep. 2 in July agian and realized how bad he screwed things up. What the hell is he thinking?! I hope the 3rd will be better but it won't comapre to the originals specially "Empire".

[Sledgstone]

you know what pisses me off more now? i saw a commercial for this box set and the words used were: "Contains all 3 classic movies in one dvd set!" obviously they must not have noticed that the set does not have the "classic movies" but the "re-made movies" guh.. bastards. :complain:

Morbid... yet hopefull. I like you :pthanks. :p

[outlaw_tsunami]

lucas HAS made some other great movies since star wars folks....

but anyway the greedo guy in the origanal was about to shoot han anyway if you didnt notice him lifting his gun....but i didnt see anything too terribly wrong with the remakes personaly...

[Hell_Cat_18]

I have to admit even though I'm a die hard Star Wars fan, the casting crew needs to get a freakin clue. The last Star Wars (aka Attack of the Clones which is a fucking stupid ass title) made me want to hurl with all the Padme and Anakin mush scenes. I mean come on I was like "What the hell did I pay to see Star Wars or You've Got Mail!?" It was a huge let down, if it wasn't for the whole Yoda kickin ass scene the whole movie would have sucked monkey balls.-_-;

[Ladywriter]

original trilogy or the prequel?
I've been a die hard SW fan since I was 7 or 8 yrs old. Probably the only girl in school with a Millenium Falcon and an Ewok Village -_-; I was one of those damn hippies in line at midnight when Episode 1 hit the theatres. I had such great hopes for the storyline. I shoulda realized sooner that Lucas had run mad long ago. The prequel in comparison to the original is akin to a forced shit. Sure it has fantastic cg, but thats all there is to these movies. Flash, no substance. In 1980 people gave a crap about Han Solo being frozen in carbonite. I dont think anyone really gives a shit whats going on with the characters in the prequel. Star Wars has lost its charm. The new movies may be "the cutting edge" of technology, but nobody cares. We're so bombarded by higher standards for special effects that flashy shiney things arent really enough to get our attention anymore. That leaves the story itself to take up the slack, and it doesnt.

[Flying_Monkey]

All I have to say is if Lucas screws up 3 than I will be forced to kill him! He just can't screw up 3 Vader's begining in the Star Wars saga must not be scewed up!!!!!!!!!!:x

The only good thing in 1 & 2 was the Sith vs. Jedi fighting. Damn you Lucas for getting fucking stupid!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fedic]

Thus far the only thing that did not dissapoint me was the pod race sequence

[Saosin]

More Boba Fett. he's cool and should be included alot more. And in my opinion Boba should kill mace windu. i think It would be cool and ironic in a away

[Flying_Monkey]

Darth Sidious kills Windu if i'm not mistaken.


Can't wait for Vader to make his first appearance.

[Hell_Cat_18]

Tell me about it...the first time I saw Star Wars I was 6 years old. I watched it with my dad at my grandparents house on their old big screen TV, and it was on a DISC Player *Lady and Sledge probably know what they are* anyway, that christmas my dad bought me the Millinium Falcon, and now I have a bumper sticker on my car that reads "My other Transport is the Millinium Falcon" and I'm a girl too. I cried my eyes out when I saw the second one, I think I was eight or nine, and I bawled when they froze Han Solo. Personally...I coulda cared less when Qui-Gon died. The prequel's so far have been shit, Episode three better be good, or I'm writting one nasty letter.-_-;

[Flying_Monkey]

When Solo was frozen I said 1 for the Vader man and 0 for the punkass mofos. hehehe

3 best not be screwed up cause I don't want to remember the birth of Vader being retarded!

[Hell_Cat_18]

Amen to that. Still...I think we're going to wind up dissapointed...again. BTFW Sledge is it just my imagination or is that Hayden Christians at the end of Return of the Jedi!?*remake*O_O

[Flying_Monkey]

All must bow down to Vaders might!

[Hell_Cat_18]

Yes...my master...*throws you into the melty thingy* BWAHAHAHA!!!!

[Flying_Monkey]

Is it gettin hot in here or what?

[Kuwabara]

Vader you can never beat a Jedi Knight

[Flying_Monkey]

If I'm not misstaken wasnt it Vader who exterminated the jedi!


Vader is da best!

[aqu]

If I'm not missyaken wasnt it Vader who exterminated the jedi!


Vader is da best!
you are correct

[Akira13]

I love the DVD set personally. The highly improved quality over my old VHS trilogy makes up for what I see to be some pretty minor edits anyway. And the bonus materials disc. That things really cool.

[Hell_Cat_18]

MINOR MY ASS! Sorry...but those where not minor. Putting Hayden Christiansen in place of Sabastian Shaw was fucking murder. I'm sorry, but I think Christiansen is a terrible actor who needs to go back to the sitcoms.-_-;

[Akira13]

But does it COMPLETELY ruin the movie? No. I'll always acknowledge the fact that Shaw was the original actor, but the DVD's pros outweigh their cons.

[Hell_Cat_18]

No it didn't ruin the movie, but it really dissapoint me. I still believe that nothing will beat or compare to the originals. They're just special to me.

[Flying_Monkey]

I think the originals are better than the remastered but the remastered versions are still good

[Hell_Cat_18]

Yeah they are...but...I don't know I still say Lucas should be bitch slapped stupid for all of his *minor changes*.

[Flying_Monkey]

agreed

[Godgrave]

I have both versions, the old ones and the re-mastered version of the old series which came out a few years ago. All this on VHS sadly and I scrapped my player. So now I don't have anything to view it on, I was thinking of converting them to Vcd's but I eyed a Dvd box set of the Trilogy (Silver cover). I'm buying a Dvd player in the next 3 months *hopefully* and I'll get the box set too (but it's worth a bitch, 3000 bucks pwned)
Lucas needs to get outta his Star Wars shell, make a few other movies and then probably get back into the series. It'd be tough to draw comparisons between the first trilogy (ep's 4,5,6) and the new one. I only didn't like Hayden's casting into the series. He's a wooden actor ....

Question I've been reading a lot is; who was Sifo-Dyas ?

[Hell_Cat_18]

I think it was an alies used either by Dukoo, or by the Emporer, but it might have been the Emporer's master...which is the one I'm betting on.

[hydra]

i have watched both the dvd and vhs box set of the first three star wars, and personally I thought there wasn't much of a difference. The dvd quailty was a little better and the bonus disc had some cool stuff but the orignal star wars were great and i just perfer the older ones for some reason but I find there is nothing wrong with the new ones as well.

[Hell_Cat_18]

The new ones are good don't get me wrong, but you just can't mess with, or beat, the originals. Btw...I'm sending Sledge your sig tonight, I had to change the formating in order to send it, and it took forever. Sowwy it's taken so long.

[hydra]

You don't need to I web hosted it myself.

[Flying_Monkey]

Question I've been reading a lot is; who was Sifo-Dyas ?

He is one of the jedi masters on the Jedi counsel.

[Hell_Cat_18]

I think he had some workings in the dark side though, seeing as how he ordered the clone army and all.

Okee, thanx a bunch Hydra

[Godgrave]

There's definately more to it than that ;) ... *speculates*

[Hell_Cat_18]

Oh I know there is, but right now that's the only fact I know. My beliefe is that he was the Emporer's master, but that's just me.

[Godgrave]

He could be the Emperor's clone too. You never know how the idea of cloning an army was made, in the first place. But then again, why would he have him killed.

[Flying_Monkey]

hmm you all have good points, but I don't think he or the emporer are clones.

But he probly did use the darkside of the force, secretly of coarse

[Hell_Cat_18]

Okay in Episode II, the clone makers said that Master Siphodeas of the jedi council ordred the clones for the Republic...so how can you say that neither one of them had anything to do with the making of the clones.

[Flying_Monkey]

I didn't say they didn't have anything to do with it I said that the Emporer and Dyas are not clones themselves as Godgrave was speculating.

[Godgrave]

I think it was all Yoda's fault. I mean what the hell was he doing ?! Drooling at Windu all the time ? :p *kidding*

[Flying_Monkey]

Don't ever talk bad about Yoda again or I will go postal on you *grrrrr*

Vader and Yoda are my all time favorite charcters.............

[Godgrave]

I still can't get the image of Yoda (with one eye open during meditation), drooling at a meditating Windu who's sitting beside him X'D

[Flying_Monkey]

OK you really want to die don't you.........*grrrrr*

[dudeman]

[QUOTE]original trilogy or the prequel?
I've been a die hard SW fan since I was 7 or 8 yrs old. Probably the only girl in school with a Millenium Falcon and an Ewok Village -_-;[QUOTE] i rember hearing about those vintage toys when i was 8 i used to go to garage sales looking for the fabled blue snaggletooth man he was the coolest i mean after all how could i not like the guy he had disco boots being a disco fan myself i instently thought he was the coolest:cool: