Which trilogy is better?

Started by Captain REX3 pages

Hell, I liked Ian's acting in ROTJ a lot. Those lines were more memorable to me, seeing as he was EVIL BEYOND ALL REASON! 😱

ROTS Ian's acting was great, but I mostly just remember 'UNLIMITED POWER!' and a few other lines.

Originally posted by viking12344
Heya Seepgood.
You can't tell me that Ian's small bit in Jedi, which was admittingly good , overshadowed what he did in Rots or his characterization in the entire PT. No contest.

That's not what I meant. You decided to omit his name from the good actors of the OT list on purpose. You listed Samuel Jackson but he had a pretty small role (even though it was of a very important character).

Originally posted by viking12344
As for Hayden vs Vader, I think part of that problem is, your are watching a whiny kid in the PT who expects those around him to kiss his ass. You very well know Vader is not going to walk around saying, "I am angry", or, "I want to kill".
Why?
Because that is not his character....but it is Anakin's. Now if you do not like that, thats cool but it is still characterization. They are completely different characters who convey their emotions in completely different ways.

There's a difference between a whiny character and literally declaring the purpose of a certain scene. You notice it also in George's audio commentary in AotC. He goes "Now this scene is supposed to set up that Anakin thinks Obi-Wan is holding him back" and then, amazingly, Anakin says "Obi-Wan, I think you're holding me back" or "Padme, he's holding me back" or something else silly to that extant.
A character being whiny is no excuse to bad characterisation - Luke was extremely whiny in A New Hope but it's no where as bad as Anakin.

Originally posted by viking12344
If cheesy dialogue bothers you, please close your ears in the real world because I hear plenty of it everyday.
Yeah, but that's because you watch the PT all the time. 😆

Well, no offense but I also emitted james earl Jones from rots with his small part. I call a push. No matter if he says, "Nooooooooooo!" or "I find your lack of faith disturbing." What Ian did in Jedi with a VERY one dimentional character was good but his acting was superb in the PT.
You can say it hurts my argument but I really can't disagree with that more.
BTW, where does anakin tell Obi-wan he is holding him back? I can think of one part, where he is speaking to padme in aotc where he says that and I see nothing wrong with it. Teenagers whine, especially to their friends.
It seems to me you are basing your argument off of GL's commentary. I suppose anakin could have walked around kicking a wall to show his "whineingness" but why? Luke's character(played by one of the best B movie actor's of all time btw) was no where near as whiny and when he was, especially on Dagobah, he whined up a storm.
Should he have told Yoda the Xwing was immposible to move, whining like a lil girl or should he have just jumped in the swamp, which is as big of a declaration of a scene as possible.

As for cheesy dialogue is just the PT....lol....I suppose I can quote a bunch from all six movies. GL is not a writer.

At least Lucas is consistent.

Just in case we didn't pick up on the subtlety of this fact, he considerately lets us know that

"I'm a visual film-maker, not a literary one - the movie doesn't rest in the dialogue"

😂 ya gotta love it

Ian's performance in Jedi was great. I said that using another adjetive I believe.....but IMO, he stole RoTS and was great in every scene from TPM and AoTC I can think of.
Hell, add him to the OT lineup of great actors. That gives you three plus a voice.

Originally posted by viking12344

As for cheesy dialogue is just the PT....lol....I suppose I can quote a bunch from all six movies. GL is not a writer.

GL seriously isn't a writer, which is why he handed the job to Lawrence Kasdan in ESB and RotJ. Too bad Lawrence turned him down when he asked him to write the PT as well.

I see there's no hope convincing you otherwise. So... the PT is the best of the series, it's a true masterpiece - an epitome of visual effects and acting, the climax which movie making, from its early beginning, has been leading up to. Although Hayden gave the performance of his life, and I'm sure touched many, they should have replaced all the actors with CGI because I believe, as does George Lucas, that digital actors are much easier and better than live ones. My only spite with the PT is that they didn't give Jar-Jar enough screen time. I absolutely loved Jar Jar!
Oh yeah: 🙄

There really is no hope of convincing me otherwise. I belive both the OT and the PT to be masterpieces though, no need to be melodramatic.

I love the (soon to be) KotOR Trilogy. 😉

Word, kick it off to myself.

Ot had Vader. NT had Jar Jar ****in binks. Ot wins.

OT Rocks.

Although both are sw and good trilogies there can only be one winner being the PT, i mean seriously- Lightsaber fights PT VS OT- who else laughed in ANH when vader and obi fought, seriously it was bad, And Alec Guiness & Harrison Ford carried the acting for the others in OT, compared to the awesome actors in PT with occasional bad lines, Natile VS Carrie = Natile Hands down, Overall PT less whiny and annoying (except Jar Jar) way better CG tech and ROTS = better then ROTJ
💃 🤣 💃 😆 OT gets worse everyday sad but true

Originally posted by viking12344
I am old enough to have seen the OT in theaters back in the day.

IMO the PT is much better but ESB is still almost a perfect movie.

I am too (but I had to settle for the special edition in theaters...)

Originally posted by Sith Solo
Although both are sw and good trilogies there can only be one winner being the PT, i mean seriously- Lightsaber fights PT VS OT- who else laughed in ANH when vader and obi fought, seriously it was bad, And Alec Guiness & Harrison Ford carried the acting for the others in OT, compared to the awesome actors in PT with occasional bad lines, Natile VS Carrie = Natile Hands down, Overall PT less whiny and annoying (except Jar Jar) way better CG tech and ROTS = better then ROTJ
💃 🤣 💃 😆 OT gets worse everyday sad but true

But OT had a GOOD storyline, Who cares about the flashy special effects when you can have a good story... AND NO JAR JAR. (Phantom Menace may have actually been good without Jar Jar Binks... WHO SUCKS!) 😘

The good thing about the OT is that it never took itself to seriously, i mean ewoks defeated the emperors best troop sfor god sakes! The problem with the PT is that it tries to take itself seriously, even with the blundering idiot named after a jar. The PT continuosly fails at staying on the subject and with the ultimate main character (anakin) and instead relies to much on special effects. It foccueses on pod races, and random bad guys and never even takes enough time to explain what the prophecy is. I just hope that the new T.V. series won't be half as bad...

The ewoks more than cancel out Jar-Jar......seriously

The Original Trilogy had one problem, Return of the Jedi. Cut the Ewoks from the film and you have a decent movie, the ewoks suck and anyone who disagrees is wrong. The Prequels had many things wrong, of course Jar Jar, but I won't beat that dead horse anymore. Anakin in episode II should have been strangled by Obi-Wan and decapitated by Master Yoda. The only right thing was Episode III. The Original Trilogy is and will always be the best and anyone who says otherwise is either retarded or in love with Hayden Christenson

Jar Jar Binks makes The Ewoks look cooler than Marty McFly in a flying DeLorean, picking up Samuel M Jackson and then doing a drive by with proton packs, in space.

Seriously, OT wins everytime.

Anyone who picks the ewoks over jar-jar has either:
1. A teddy bear fetish or:
2.A severe crack problem

I have both so I don't care.

Ewoks own Jar Jar any day.