Scenes that should have remained.

and GL is going to direct EpIII too, so joy to the world you can say that about EPIII again...

Perhaps people hyped up AOTC too much? Like they did with TPM?

I dunno. People say that. But I hadn't watched ESB for a year or so. And TPM and AOTC a couple of times in between.... THere are certainly differences.

Maybe it has to do with the set=up of the OT. I feel the actors had much more input then. I know about ANH and ESB that there were numerous occasions were people like Ford changed lines and other little things. Just enough to add to the right touch. But the schedule is so hectic and most of it in front of blue screens, less in actual sets than in those days, that there's no time for that.

Still, AOTC is a huge improvement to TPM, so if EPIII relates in that way to AOTC we have a kick-@$$ film to look forward to.

once i finished watching aotc i realized something people were saying but i wasn´t completely gettin.

tpm´s biggest problem was the timing of scenes, too much talk, and what people described as "not a starwars feeling at all", inspite of the lightsabres.

but now seing aotc i was able to "understand", as i think, all the purpose of the PT.

the PT is coming to show us how a great "perfect" beautiful republic is turned into an evil empire, you need different feelings. u can see TPM a lot colorful, but AOTC not that much, coz a civil war is starting, evil is doing its ways now. PT and OT are suposed to make a cicle, where evil and good confront each other in a battle fought in many ways: jedis vs sith, rebels vs empire, even separatists vs republicans.
the colors of the extremes of the cicle must be similar, so as the colors of the middle ones. but TPM was too much color, thats why people didn´t get it. and some of us complained about the lack of starwars feeling.

but TPM had other problems more visible to fans and to general audience even more, thats why this problem in hand was not discussed that much.

watching AOTC i like a lot more TPM, and as i see here in Mexico, im not the only fan, and not the only mexican. most of my friends are now asking me and other fans about starwars coz they liked so much AOTC.

episode III may not be better than AOTC but a lot of people are going to like it and watch it. and we wont here as many complains coz it will have more of the rebel-vs-empire-starwars-feeling we all love.

I feel that this PT is full of polithical conflict, what makes the plot A LOT more difficult to unfold, and requires re-readings until the truth is clear.

The OT had 2 sides clearly profiled:
- The empire, bad guys, high technology, great dark powers. They are not pulling the chords from behind. They are RULING the galaxy.
- The rebels, a mixture of all society levels, scavengin technology from whatever sources to confront the darkness.

On the PT we don't have this confrontation clearly defined: The BADBADBOY is pulling the chords very slowly, and at the same time, is doing a role of a good guy side by side with the heros.

That's why i think that the plot is not easily shrinked as the ones of the OT.

And as a pollithical posture, I think that the PT is VERY GOOD. I don't think that Lucas wanted to tell a story that he already did. He is taking us to the "backstage" of the Old Republic", where we can see not just what is on the surface.

If only none of the scenes had been cut from the movie....

than it would be too long and too boring

I still feel some of those scenes would have a big difference in terms of the story.

I'm waiting for the DVD in November .....

well, pick your choice, four won't reach the DVD, perhaps they can't the Jocasta scenes as one?

Why won't four reach the DvD???????? 🙁

nono, four SCENES

and I already said my opinion in another thread that they might consider a few as one big scene

I like the news that they are also going to give explanations for each cut scene, as to why the scene was cut.

that's what they did with EpI DVD too

I wouldn't have minded a 3 hour episode 2. Episode 3 would also make a great 3 hour film. However, it wouldn't fit the typical 2 hour length, and for years they've been referring to star wars as a 12 hour movie, not a 14 hour movie.

Pity though. The stories in Episode 2 and 3 deserve as much as 4 hours! 🙂

well, perhaps you can hope that because there is a lot to say, it will be well packed

I thought Episode 1 and 2 were great, and packed with a great story and great action etc. Not quite sure how ppl don't see the big picture when complaining about the political aspect of TPM. I think the political stuff is what gives the movie it's depth.

I'm worried about how they're going to tell all the story they need tot ell in one film.

It's true. The PT movies are much more complex in terms of storyline than the OT ... and there are too many details, plot, subplots ... to try and fit them into 2 hours 20 odd minutes, withouth the whole screen play becoming way to " busy " ...