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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    my ranking of the movies & i am sticking to it:

    new hope
    empire strikes back
    revenge of the sith
    return of the jedi
    phantom menace
    attack of the clones
  • acoustic guy
    acoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    long red wrote:
    the original 3 Star Wars are all I'll ever need. that retarded kid playing Vader in Phantom Menace ruined any chance of me being interested in the new batch.
    Me Too!

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  • acoustic guy
    acoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    singularity wrote:
    my ranking of the movies & i am sticking to it:

    new hope
    empire strikes back
    revenge of the sith
    return of the jedi
    phantom menace
    attack of the clones
    Mine is
    IV
    V
    III
    VI
    I
    II
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  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    My ranking:

    Empire
    New Hope
    Sith
    Jedi
    Clones
    Phantom
    DAL-7/5/98,10/17/00,6/9/03,11/15/13
    BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
    MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
    CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
    HTFD-6/27/08
    ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
    KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
    Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
    PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
    OKC-11/16/13
    SEA-12/6/13
    TUL-10/8/14
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Hayden killed the franchise. Either he did a terrible job acting in both films, he was directed wrong or the dialog was written that bad.

    His part was played like one big cliché.

    III was good...could have been better without Hayden.

    PBM

    Hayden was the biggest problem with the prequel, besides Episode I being a complete steaming pile of shit. Lucas completely dropped the ball with the prequels. They could have been great, even better than the original trilogy.

    I will go see the new movie because my kids want to see it but if it wasn't for them I wouldn't waste my time, or my money, watching Lucas butcher the franchise any more than he already has.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    YieldInHiding wrote:
    So my original thread from way back when is gone, so I'm starting another one.

    First topic-

    Is anyone interested in the Clone Wars movie coming out? It looks kind of cheesy in that the characters' mouths don't match up to what they're saying. The cartoon looked better than this does. Still, the nerd in me really wants to see it in the theater.
    ...
    Where is this one supposed to fit? I mean, Darth Vader is in Episode 3... so it can't be between 3 and 4.
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    Where is this one supposed to fit? I mean, Darth Vader is in Episode 3... so it can't be between 3 and 4.

    Between episodes II and III.
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  • YieldInHiding
    YieldInHiding Posts: 1,841
    Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    Where is this one supposed to fit? I mean, Darth Vader is in Episode 3... so it can't be between 3 and 4.

    From what I remember reading a while ago, GL said that Darth would not be the centerpiece of the live action series, so it could definitely be during that time period. I think they wanted to focus on the hunt for the remaining Jedi and some other storylines.

    EDIT= Again, this is for the live action series. The new "movie" will take place between Eps II and III.
    No longer overwhelmed it seems so simple now.
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    YieldInHiding wrote:
    From what I remember reading a while ago, GL said that Darth would not be the centerpiece of the live action series, so it could definitely be during that time period. I think they wanted to focus on the hunt for the remaining Jedi and some other storylines.

    The live action series will take place between episode III and IV and will not focus on the main characters. He said that they may make appearances but would definitely not be the focus of the series. The new movie and the animated series all take place in the time period between episode II and III.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    empire
    star wars
    jedi
    and the last half hour of III
  • YieldInHiding
    YieldInHiding Posts: 1,841
    cutback wrote:
    empire
    star wars
    jedi
    and the last half hour of III

    The first 20 min of III were pretty darn exciting.
    No longer overwhelmed it seems so simple now.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    YieldInHiding wrote:
    The first 20 min of III were pretty darn exciting.


    eh...yea but i really didn't like I-III...lucas jerked off the cgi too much....what can i say....i'm old school ;):D
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    The problem with episode III, beside Hayden's acting, is that the transition from Anakin to Vader was rushed. The movie tried to compress something that in reality would have taken some time into about 2 hours. Episode I should have started around the time when episode II took place. Lucas could have showed Anakin starting to slowly stray from the path of a Jedi with his continued fall in episode II and finally turning in episode III.
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  • YieldInHiding
    YieldInHiding Posts: 1,841
    mammasan wrote:
    The problem with episode III, beside Hayden's acting, is that the transition from Anakin to Vader was rushed. The movie tried to compress something that in reality would have taken some time into about 2 hours. Episode I should have started around the time when episode II took place. Lucas could have showed Anakin starting to slowly stray from the path of a Jedi with his continued fall in episode II and finally turning in episode III.

    I do totally agree with this. I was hoping to see him go through the Jedi trials (not the ghetto ones that Luke did with Yoda) and the "knighting" of Anakin as a Jedi. It could have made a more interesting story. They could have just done flashbacks to the pod race or something to show him as a kid. Then you eliminate the entire Gungan plotline and battle which was lame compared to other battles in the trilogy.
    No longer overwhelmed it seems so simple now.
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    YieldInHiding wrote:
    I do totally agree with this. I was hoping to see him go through the Jedi trials (not the ghetto ones that Luke did with Yoda) and the "knighting" of Anakin as a Jedi. It could have made a more interesting story. They could have just done flashbacks to the pod race or something to show him as a kid. Then you eliminate the entire Gungan plotline and battle which was lame compared to other battles in the trilogy.

    The only aspect that should be kept from episode I was Darth Maul. That fucker was bad-ass. And yes I agree, it would have been great to see more battles from the Clone Wars and how Anakin became the hero of the Republic while simultaniously falling to the dark side. A slower progression would have made the prequels sooo much better. That and no fucking Jar Jar Binks and 30 minute Pod Race.
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    Seven Burning Questions about Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • Shawn Smith Collective
    Shawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    mammasan wrote:
    the transition from Anakin to Vader was rushed. The movie tried to compress something that in reality would have taken some time into about 2 hours.

    I agree...the only reason to make Episode I instead of telling the backstory through crawl text or dialog in the movie is that GL wanted to show a young apprentice-level Obi Wan and the hesitation amongst the Jedi to train Anakin. I got the feeling GL really wanted us to see those two things instead of just "knowing" about them...unfortunately, that wasn't enough to build a film around. It really could've been a 30 minute prologue if he really wanted to show it. Much more time should've been spent on Anakin as he grew more powerful and more emotionally conflicted.
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    Shawn Smith Collective wrote:
    I agree...the only reason to make Episode I instead of telling the backstory through crawl text or dialog in the movie is that GL wanted to show a young apprentice-level Obi Wan and the hesitation amongst the Jedi to train Anakin. I got the feeling GL really wanted us to see those two things instead of just "knowing" about them...unfortunately, that wasn't enough to build a film around. It really could've been a 30 minute prologue if he really wanted to show it. Much more time should've been spent on Anakin as he grew more powerful and more emotionally conflicted.

    Totally agree. he could have done it a la Peter Jackson in LOTR. Speaking of LOTR, and not to stray off target, but is anyone excited about Guillermo Del Toro directing the Hobbit.
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