Originally posted by relentless1
at least Phantom Menace had a good lightsaber fight and a teacher who can actually move properly without breaking a hip... Im probably older than you are Thor, my opinion is my own who the hell are you to hate on it?
I didn't say anything about The Phantom Menace, so not sure why you brought that up.
The film which poorly imitates ANH is TFA.
Originally posted by UCanShootMyNova2. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
What did ANH copy?
The next place Lucas looked for inspiration was to this period epic by Akira Kurosawa, which buttresses the whole plot. It relates the story of a general and a princess behind enemy lines in feudal Japan, fighting their way to safely with the help of two bumbling peasants. The blueprint these two provided for C-3PO and R2-D2, and their function as comic relief, sticks out more than anything, but there’s also a villainous general, Hyoe Tadokoro, with proto-Darth facial scars.
This wasn’t the only Kurosawa film that fed into Lucas’s imagination. The brawl in the Cantina is straight from Yojimbo (1961), and the hiding-under-the-floor trick is a lift from its sequel, Sanjuro (1962). Striking amounts of plot and imagery in The Empire Strikes Back come from Derzu Uzala (1975), with its wanderings through the Siberian wilderness.
Originally posted by UCanShootMyNova
What did ANH copy?
ANH didn't "copy" anything. He's just a jealous SW Hater.
Lucas drew on inspiration from many different films and franchises, but in the end made something very Unique and full of Originality and Imagination.
Comparing that to Episode 7 blatantly copying the original film of the same franchise is frankly retarded.
No one walked out of ANH saying that was a blatant copy of so and so.. They did with Episode 7, so this dumb propaganda for ANH began by the Lucas haters.
Originally posted by Darth ThorIt has been documented. You weren't even aware of this and are still in denial. It was heavily copied. The difference is TFA is by far a more entertaining film than ANH. Most people have never seen the other film, dummy. That doesn't change reality just because you're upset Lucas plagiarized another man's work.
ANH didn't "copy" anything. He's just a jealous SW Hater.Lucas drew on inspiration from many different films and franchises, but in the end made something very Unique and full of Originality and Imagination.
Comparing that to Episode 7 blatantly copying the original film of the same franchise is frankly retarded.
No one walked out of ANH saying that was a blatant copy of so and so.. They did with Episode 7, so this dumb propaganda for ANH began by the Lucas haters.
Originally posted by Beniboybling
ESB > ROTS > ANH > ROTJ/TFA > TPM > AOTC for me.
Exactly the way I have them 👆
Might get blasted for this, but I found TPM much less boring than AOTC. The initial scenes were entertaining. We get to see a young Kenobi and his master for the first time, we get to see Jedi escaping from battle droids and hiding underwater. The pod racing was awesome, and the whole relationship between Anakin and Jinn developing was sort of interesting. Then, they go straight to battle in Naboo, where there were actually three different epic battles going on: Maul, starfighters, and the palace take-back. I don't know why ppl say it was boring, it was actually pretty action-packed.
Tattooine was just so boring in TPM, they were there forever, it stunk up the whole movie for me. The podrace was alright, but I was never as big a fan of it as most other people. Jar Jar also puts a major damper on things. AOTC wasn't all that great, especially with the cringy Anakin/Padme scenes, but Jango was awesome, Yoda fighting for the first time, the clones, the Geonosis arena, the speeder chase. The only memorable thing about TPM is duel of the fates for me.
ROTS>ESB>ANH=ROTJ>TFA>AOTC>TPM for me.
I too used to hate ANH and TESB as a youngster. I would feel disappointment when watching Spike TV's SW marathon only to see that either of these two were playing the whole day. Then I matured a bit and learned to appreciate the classics despite them perhaps not having the best fight-scenes and CGI.
If you asked me 5 or so years ago I probably would've said
RotS>RotJ>AotC>TPM>TESB>ANH with TFA taking third or second place.
Originally posted by PetrusTPM is just a better movie than AotC, which was largely a dull and cringy romance between Padme and Anakin, the bitchy relationship between Anakin and Kenobi didn't help either. It has a few good action scenes, and a cool lightsaber fight, but so does TPM, but minus the other stuff. TPM also has a more cohesive plot, whereas AotC was just a messy bridge between Episode I & III.
Exactly the way I have them 👆Might get blasted for this, but I found TPM much less boring than AOTC. The initial scenes were entertaining. We get to see a young Kenobi and his master for the first time, we get to see Jedi escaping from battle droids and hiding underwater. The pod racing was awesome, and the whole relationship between Anakin and Jinn developing was sort of interesting. Then, they go straight to battle in Naboo, where there were actually three different epic battles going on: Maul, starfighters, and the palace take-back. I don't know why ppl say it was boring, it was actually pretty action-packed.