Star Wars: EPISODE III Thread

[Paper Carnival]

Heh, you sissy! jk, that happened to me too. I loved the scene when he was like "You turned her against me!". The movie has given me weird feelings, especially since my best friend was sick a while ago and I was scared of losing her. So I could perfectly understand how Anakin must have been feeling

[Blackthorne]

Yeah,

     I don't think this movie was the holy grail or anything, but I was entertained.  Star Wars films have entertained me since I was born!  But this was the last film.  Now I can go on being obsessed with something new.  Like maybe girls or something.


Bt

[Potch]

Well, for those of you that cried...  hey, you're not the only ones!  I'm probably the biggest sissy of you all.  I got all teary numerous times in that movie.  The kids in the temple, when Padme said she didn't know him anymore, when Yoda escaped on Chewie's shoulder and then said goodbye to the wookies (there was just something about the way he said Chewie's name), when Obi Wan told Anakin that he had been his brother and when Anakin told Obi Wan that he hated him.  I never flat out cried... but I definately got choked up a little.  I tend to be an incredible sap.

[Phemar]

"Younglings! He killed younglings ..." - I laughed out loud when Obi-Wan said this. I'm still not sure why ...

"You were like a brother to me!" - Hold on, I think there's something in my eye ...

[Nacho]

Surprisingly, I was quite sure that I was going to cry in the first appearence of Darth Vader with its black helmet or/and in the first appearence of the baby born twins, but I just drop a tear in the intro screen (The one with the big "STAR WARS" letters unzooming).

When that scenes mentioned before arrived, even enjoying the film a lot, I was quite sure that I was not going to reach the emotional level of the original trilogy.

I've asked myself many times why the first ones do that to me and the others do not. I am not sure if this is the correct explanation, and I'm sure the experts will reply me in a convincing way, but the most satisfactory explanation I can find is that the episodes IV, V and VI are "smaller".

I mean... In "new" hope we have a farmer... After that we have three living entities and two droids trying to repair the hyperdrive in an asteroid... then a redouced group of troopers trying to destroy a planetary shield...

Many people may argue: "In Ep. I it was just a slave trying the jedis to repair its hyperdrive too!" and many examples like that.

You ARE PROBABLY right... but inside of me, I'll still see that in the original trilogies we have a farmer in a small rebellion trying to crush an empire ruled by two sith and in the prequels we have the most powerfull born jedi ever who pisses it off, everything set in the big scenary of the clone wars.

The originals are small and lovely in my heart. The prequels are TOO big and epic in my mind.

[Darth Mandarb]

Surprisingly, I was quite sure that I was going to cry in the first appearence of Darth Vader with its black helmet or/and in the first appearence of the baby born twins, but I just drop a tear in the intro screen (The one with the big "STAR WARS" letters unzooming).

Oddly enough, this was the only part that really choked me up.Ã,  Knowing it was the last time we're going to see that crawler on a new Star Wars movie ... kind of the end of an era (for me at least).

I did get a little emotional when Obi-Wan shouted, "You were like my brother Anakin ... I loved you!"Ã,  Because it made me think of the scene in A New Hope when Vader kills Ben and then how much more powerful that scene becomes.

I'll tell you the best thing to come from Episode 3 ... I rewatched episodes IV - VI and it's, now, like watching 3 new movies!Ã,  It was really neat.

[Nacho]

Ain't Star wars supossed to be 3 trilogies? I think there will be more in 10-15 years, and we'll be there!

[Phemar]

Lucas and the crew only have a finite amount of years to live ... And I hear Lucas wants retirement now too.

[Nacho]

Mmmm... maybe a joke about how cool could a third trilogy without lucas be is too obvious?

Two of the six hasn't been directed by Lucas, and they were not bad at all. If he leaves something written there are a lot of younger directors to make them, like Cameron, Howard, Lovegrove...

Unless he writes something against it in his will, like Hergé did. But I think he wouldn't like to close that door for future benefits for his sons.

[Potch]

Darth, I have to agree with you.  I went back and watched the original after watching the third, and it really did put a whole new spin on things.  You are absolutely right that it was like watching three new movies. 

[Phemar]

As long as Lucas writes the scripts, Farl. As cheesy as he may make them, I like them that way. I love them that way.

[Nacho]

Me too... Sorry for not specificating when I wrote "something written".

[Potch]

I think it would be awesome if they made movies out of that Heir to the Empire trilogy.  I don't remember much, but I remember that they were really really cool.... maybe I should go back and read them again.

[Darth Mandarb]

I am pretty sure that Lucas said this is it ... I'll dig for the quote.

I don't think he should make the Heir to the Empire series into movies because the main characters of those books (Luke, Leia, Han and so on) are FAR too old looking now and you simply couldn't make those characters played by other actors.Ã,  Just wouldn't work.Ã,  It'd be worse than the jar-jar haters.

I think he should do the Correllia trilogy personally ... they take place roughly 20 years after RotJ so the ages would be correct (or roughly correct).

I did enjoy the Heir to the Empire trilogy better though ...

[Babar]

I think ol' Lucas should try his hand at something totally new. Enough of Star Wars! He could prove his worth with some completely new movie, that way no one can complain doesn't match up to the originals.

[Phemar]

Silly Babar. Sshh.

[Las Naranjas]

The best and most relevant part of that Guardian article was the following.

"When George Lucas Sr asked his son to join him in the art-supply business, George Jr said, "Dad, today you're going to do exactly what you did yesterday, and tomorrow the same. This is your life and you love it. But I only want to do something once." Discuss."

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

That must be quite humilliating for Lucas. What I really dislike about it, though, is the fact that it came on the press. Call me conservative or old-fashioned or just plain loony, but I think the media should have SOME sense of privacy. That ain't the kind of thing to use in an article. If someone else said it in an interview, or something, or even if the kid said it in an interview, it would be something else - but he was replying to his father, for crying out loud.

BTW, what WAS the context of that quote? That's a foreign newspaper to me, and I couldn't find a link in this page (I didn't look in the previous, there's 10 of them and I don't think Naranjas would quote something as distanced from the original post as that).

Ok, so this pet peeve o' mine ain't about Star Wars, but it is about Lucas. Sort of. Good enough?

[Phemar]

I love Lucas with all my heart. He's such a cool guy.

[Adamski]

Perhaps final resting proof that Lucas is completely bonkers, I present to you...

Lifeday - The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Warning: This may be the worst thing you'll ever watch.