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I knew from the very beginning of Jedi I wasn't going to like that film. It was groan inducing and never let up after that point.
But the reason I picked Darth building 3PO is because it is neither conceivable or at all relevant to the Star Wars saga. As groan inducing as the Skywalker family dynastic's are, it's at least conceivable, and it was relevant to the story Lucas wanted to tell. Young Darth building the droid that we are introduced too in the beginning of A New Hope, then soon after falls into the hands of Luke is just WTF material when you consider there has to be a million droids in the universe. (And just the concept of Darth building 3PO is ludicrous.)
Agree. Absolutely. What I hated most about the prequel trilogy wasn't Jar Jar Binks, it wasn't the endless talks about politics (I actually liked those)... what I disliked was the complete disregard of the events in the earlier (though chronologically later) movies. Vader building C3PO was perhaps the worst of these offenses.
At the beginning of STAR WARS, R2D2 and C3PO were two droids who were accidentally all of a sudden caught up in the rebellion. I know they are two of the most iconic characters of STAR WARS and everyone (me included) loves them, but they had NO business to be there in the prequel trilogy. And if you HAD to have them in there, by all means make it a cameo appearance. But they were far too much involved in all the proceedings. And then, later, no one recognizes them anymore? Not Owen Lars? Not Obi Wan? WTF.
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I knew from the very beginning of Jedi I wasn't going to like that film. It was groan inducing and never let up after that point.
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YES! As soon as i read the scrawl - the Empire is building another Death Star? Really George t'is all you could come up with?!!!!
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Dec 24, 2015 - 6:11 AM
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When did Star Wars Jump the Shark? Well I agree with most of what has already been posted as far as stuff in the film series goes, but I would add that it Jumped the Shark whenever anyone believed there was anything of substance in these movies to begin with. Don't get me wrong, it was *tremendous* fun having had the original Star Wars trilogy during my childhood, but Star Wars truly Jumped the Shark when I was "suddenly" in my 40s and so many of my generation still worshiped that stuff as if it were anything but a delightful, substance-free diversion. I enjoy many "childhood-era" interests, like comic books and the original Star Trek series, but even those things have more "meat" to them than George Lucas' Commercial Monster.
John S. Walsh expressed my own feelings on this matter perfectly in the "People vs. George Lucas" thread:
"George Lucas keeps saying these are basically children`s movies, and you know who I`ve never heard bitching about these movies? Children, their intended audience. You know who can never STFU about what Lucas does to his own creations? Chronologically-adult males who should have learned long ago that these are entertainments for summer movie nights when they were kids, and maybe occassional revisits over the years, after they have grown up and moved on from childish junkfood diets of escapism and moved on to literature, higher forms of film art, and music, and realistic adult interactions with the world and entertainment products. if my dad ever went on and on because they were colorizing a Flash Gordon short or something, my mom would have had him committed. Nowadays, someone who treats this stuff as the kids`s stuff it is is considered heartless; in the past they`d be considered an ordinary adult of average maturity who has a grip on reality."
http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=89333&forumID=7&archive=0
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Dec 24, 2015 - 1:23 PM
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Jim Phelps
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Yes, The Phantom Menace is great! Well, except for Jake Lloyd, Jar Jar Binks, that interminable pod race, wooden acting from all concerned, and the fact that the guy in the theater sitting in front of me wearing the baseball cap turned around about a dozen times because his girlfriend had walked out to drop some ammonia just seconds before the big "Duel of the Fates" cue started up in the "big" lightsaber fight between Neeson, Ewan, and Darth Maul. Even (the promise of) that scene was awful thanks to that dope.
I never bothered with the other two films. I did, however, see a brief bit on TV once where Yoda was speaking in the passive voice while giving orders. It must have been the second movie.
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YES! As soon as i read the scrawl - the Empire is building another Death Star? Really George t'is all you could come up with?!!!!
Quite right.
Maybe if Georgie had wracked his brainpan a bit more he might have come up with something more original ...
Georgie, Georgie...
OMG!
just read the EW review of the film and .......
the plot includes another DEATH STAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????????????????????
no!
no!
no!
brm
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