I watched Episode 1 again recently...

we werent expecting the same but what we certainly didnt want was substandard flicks with no soul

If TPM was the first SW pic made and there was no OT i would have just thought this is a kids film same as i did,the OT gets this accusation but those movies appealled to all ages at the time....i remember...something which never happened with the PT away from the fanboys
I doubt there would have been sequels if TPM was the first flick
And if they did make them in an alt Non Ot universe i doubt i would have paid to see or even watched AOTC or ROTS
But i did because everytime i thought well maybe next time itll be better but dickhead here went for a piss in the cinema toilets after every PT movie and whilst washing his hands just thought...."shit that was REALLY ****ing awful..............AGAIN!"

Originally posted by exanda kane
Why was this film made? How could Lucas have convinced himself the world needs Star Wars ruined for the next generation of fans? Why did I watch it again?

All these questions, yet no answers 😕

because the bastard got greedy for money. 😠

Originally posted by Boots
Yes 4 and 5 and to some extent 6 are so much better than 1, 2 and 3.

I hate 1, 2 and 3.

That goes without saying.any true star wars fan knows that.

Originally posted by Alliance
Until you can objectively analyze them....

Everyone judges the PT under the context of the OT. They are effin 17 years apart. When you can'y Judge the PT independantly as a trilogy, you're not going to come up with tht esame result because the he PT is simply NOT the OT.

And you should know that Lucas only directed ROTJ. They have different intensions and were made with different messages in differnt generations.

You can compare the trilogies, but you people (in general) are just expeecting them to be effing the same.

But then more than 17 years later, Jos Whedon makes Serenity/Firefly, which is even more "Starwarsy" than the whole of the Prequel Trilogy, Lucas should have borrowed a leaf from Whedon's book.

Originally posted by Count Makashi
Blasphemy, Dooku and Windu are amazing, for me the best 2 characters of the saga, but we all have different preferences.

Why? They hardly even had their characters developed. It's one step less than saying Plo Koon was the best part of the entire trilogy.

Originally posted by Mr Parker
any true star wars fan knows that.

fanboy battlecry

They are all equally good, it's just that the original trilogy has been out for 19 years before EP1 and you have had that much time to enjoy it and you were probably much younger when you saw it. Let's face it the acting and the character development in the OT was not that great, you have to look at it as one long movie. What did we learn about Han Solo in EP IV? he was the captain of the falcon and thats it. In my own opinion episode 3 was the best then 5. Let me ask this to those of you who say the PT was no good, did you buy the DVDs?

Yes we did... But we are slaves to SW.

I don't think Serenity was that great, myself.

And there's no objective judging of movies. Not even after 30 years. I am subjectively saying that the PT is a disappointment, both on the scale of the entire saga and because Lucas had no restrictions this time in making SW...

Originally posted by queeq
. I am subjectively saying that the PT is a disappointment, both on the scale of the entire saga and because Lucas had no restrictions this time in making SW...

Which is the killing joke really. He had no restrictions whatsoever, and he just couldn't pull it off.

Or he did.

He just didn't pull off what YOU wanted him to. 😛

he's sure been pulling something of ours for the past decade 😬

Money?

Originally posted by darthmaul1
They are all equally good, it's just that the original trilogy has been out for 19 years before EP1 and you have had that much time to enjoy it and you were probably much younger when you saw it. Let's face it the acting and the character development in the OT was not that great, you have to look at it as one long movie. What did we learn about Han Solo in EP IV? he was the captain of the falcon and thats it. In my own opinion episode 3 was the best then 5. Let me ask this to those of you who say the PT was no good, did you buy the DVDs?

Originally posted by darthmaul1
They are all equally good, it's just that the original trilogy has been out for 19 years before EP1 and you have had that much time to enjoy it and you were probably much younger when you saw it. Let's face it the acting and the character development in the OT was not that great, you have to look at it as one long movie. What did we learn about Han Solo in EP IV? he was the captain of the falcon and thats it. In my own opinion episode 3 was the best then 5. Let me ask this to those of you who say the PT was no good, did you buy the DVDs?

yeah i got all 3 too
i bought TPM when it was released because it was the first Star Wars movie on dvd and because of The Beginning doc (a first for me at the time ..an extra better than the actual movie)
I purchased AOTC and ROTS a few months back late last year in a 3 for £20 deal...id say soley to complete the collection but it cant be that as i haver never thought of rushing out and buying those Dusk Til Dawn sequels
its not something i make a habit of buying movies i aint keen on but ive wasted money on a lot of shit over the years on impulse purchases so its no big deal
AOTC hasnt been in my dvd player since the day i bought it and watched the woeful extras

its a weird thing being an SW fan
i thought after ROTS id knock my SW fandom on the head but here i am posting another comment and no doubt photo number 1000 in the unusal PT/OT pics threads
youd think some of us after the PT wouldnt give a shit about the TV series but well still be there in 2009 having a look
or maybe the TV series will be the final straw and it will dawn on us that the Star Wars truly ended in May 1983

and personally i thought Serenity was a drag

If you didn't like it then why buy it? there must be some part of you that enjoyed it, "Search your feelings you know it to be true"
It's like Kill Bill 1 I loved that movie and then when #2 came out it sucked the green wiener, so I only bought #1. same thing with alien 3 and alien resurrection, in my eyes that series ended at the end of Aliens.
and they should just treat those as dreams if they make another one.

Originally posted by vintageSW77
Serenity was a drag

QFT

Originally posted by darthmaul1
If you didn't like it then why buy it? there must be some part of you that enjoyed it, "Search your feelings you know it to be true"
It's like Kill Bill 1 I loved that movie and then when #2 came out it sucked the green wiener, so I only bought #1. same thing with alien 3 and alien resurrection, in my eyes that series ended at the end of Aliens.
and they should just treat those as dreams if they make another one.

maybe it was Nat Portmans white jumpsuit in AOTC and the last 15 mins of ROTS that put my hand in my pocket

Originally posted by sithsaber408
Or he did.

He just didn't pull off what YOUwanted him to. 😛

Me and every poor soul who recognises quality film making, and the subsequent opposite.

Originally posted by vintageSW77
maybe it was Nat Portmans white jumpsuit in AOTC and the last 15 mins of ROTS that put my hand in my pocket

i must point out to reach for my wallet to pay for the dvds
sure Portmans bottom looked nice in that white jumpsuit and seeing Vader for the first time onscreen for 22 years was exiting but i wouldnt knock one off for that