Star Wars: Remember the Good Old Days?
POSTED BY: christhecynic
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 8, 2006 22:56
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I'm a Star Wars fan and I think every other Star wars fan is a hypocrite. I thought episode 1 was a really good film. Best lightsaber fight of all the films (Duel of the fates) and the pod race is the best.
All I hear is crying about Jar Jar Binks, He was not really that bad. The Ewoks where worse than Binks.
So please Star Wars fans don't say you are a fan and then condemn the movies. Star wars 1 - 6. I love em all, Ewoks, Jar Jar and Yoda all part of the universe , crap or not
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Originally posted by j6ngo1977:
I'm a Star Wars fan and I think every other Star wars fan is a hypocrite.
Nothing hypocritical about being a fan of films 4-6 and NOT a fan of films 1-3.
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Best lightsaber fight of all the films (Duel of the fates)
I liked that fight till I realized that Qui-Gonn and Obi-Wan are taking it in turns to fight Darth Maul. When one of them is attacking the other is standing around doing nothing.
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All I hear is crying about Jar Jar Binks,
Then you've not been reading very carefully.
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So please Star Wars fans don't say you are a fan and then condemn the movies.
You've offered me no compelling reason not to.
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Star wars 1 - 6. I love em all, Ewoks, Jar Jar and Yoda all part of the universe , crap or not
Good for you.
Steve
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Originally posted by j6ngo1977:
... and the pod race is the best.
I'm sorry to bring in rampant opinion about the prequels into what was supposed to be rampant opinion about the originals, but (this is more a show of my initial reaction than a question) what the HELL are you talking about?
It was a video game, it looked like a video game, it felt like a video game, it has since been made into a video game which is probably more realistic in terms of physics and acting than the one in the movie.
Star Wars was what made sci-fi look real, I don't mean it holds up to hard science I mean it wasn't hard to believe that the Millennium falcon was a real ship really in space. I mean that the hovercrafts looked like things that could really exist and nothing felt like a sledgehammer with the words, "This is fake," written on it in every language from Afrikaans to Zyrian hitting you on both temples and the forehead in rapid succession.
The pod race changed that.
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Like I said, rampant opinion.
There is nothing wrong with the pod race when it comes to plot, it was one of the things that did not in any way contradict the originals.
However when one defines good effects in the old way (that being effects that are at least in someway somehow close to resembling believable) it had the worst in not just the movie or the trilogy but instead in more or less all movies everywhere. And I watch the Sci-fi Channel, I have seen effects worse than most people can believe someone would actually make, much less include in a product.
I know I hardly speak for everyone, but I think there are a fair number of people who don’t go into a movie wanting to watch something they can see done far more realistically in a $20 video game that they rent for far less.
Perhaps a fair number is only 1 million, perhaps less, maybe there are only three people on the entire planet who want live action movies more realistic than videogames, but even if there are only three of us I think it's cruel to say we are not Star Wars fans, given that the first movies original name was Star Wars and A New Hope was only added later, just because we do not like another movie that is in the same series.
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By the way, I like videogames, don't get me wrong. But even when a videogame is made into movie it at least tries to be more realistic.
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Time to alienate some people! :)
Have you ever been 14, and seen a Star Destroyer roar over your head for the first time? I have. The year was 1977. We're not talking silly gameboy pod races, here, but the real thing.
Those were the days. Where the Millenium Falcon was not just a way too digitized, alu-wrapped rainstick, but a real bucket of bolts, held together by sheer willpower, that you nonetheless loved for all it stood -- like Serenity. Where the Force was not some easy-for-youngsters-to-grasp injectable shot of little critters, but a Regal Principle, that enobled you. Where you knew men not by their metachlorine count, but by their works. Where light sabers had just one shiny end. And where fighting the dark side was about triumphing over oneself, not about making a fool of yourself with the face-painted movie extra.
You love the prequels? More power to ya! But I'm just too old for that go-se.
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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam.
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Here's one, how many of us here went to sci-fi cons dressed as Star Wars characters?
I was Luke at 4 different cons ('78-'81). Had the cuts on my face (as well as a missing hand from the duel w/Vader in Empire-EIEWWW) the last time.
And proud of it!
(Just don't tell the folks I work with...heh heh)
Chrisisallfanboy
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Here's one, how many of us here went to sci-fi cons dressed as Star Wars characters?
There weren't any around me, or I might've.
I know that a local costume rental shop had a Darth Vader outfit -- I mean, the whole thing (helmet, breast plate, pants, boots, cape, gloves, etc.). I wanted to rent that costume so badly (and I'm 6'3", so it probably would've looked so cool) -- but I couldn't afford it. It was $200 a day (which is a lot now -- in the late 1970's that was an arm and a leg).
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Jeez, I think I spent almost that making my costume, lightsabre, and stormtrooper blaster (that lit up when you pulled the trigger-today that's nothing special). I had a job, but paid no rent, that makes ALL things possible, eh?
Creative Chrisisall
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Oh god, look what I started.
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