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Laughing Gravy	Star Wars, nothing but Staaaaaaar Wars	Lead	[-]
Apr 7 05 10:56 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Okay, what's your mind-frame on REVENGE OF THE SITHIES?
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IzzyVanHalen	Re: Star Wars, nothing but Staaaaaaar Wars	#1	[-]
Apr 7 05 2:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Incidentally, can anyone post the full "lyrics" to the Star Wars theme? All I know is the opening line.
Joe Karlosi	Re: Star Wars, nothing but Staaaaaaar Wars	#2	[-]
Apr 8 05 8:35 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Where's the "I can't stand anything about STAR WARS" option? ;) ------------------------------------ "It's MORE ... than a hobby!"
Laughing Gravy	Re: Star Wars, nothing but Staaaaaaar Wars	#3	[-]
Apr 8 05 9:39 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Negative Nellies aren't invited to take part in the poll. After all, there's something for EVERYBODY to like about the Star Wars franchise, whether it's Princess Leia's skimpy li'l outfit in RETURN OF THE JEDI, the seemingly endless babble about whether "Han Solo shoots first" (which sounds like a note written in the margin of the director's script of a porno film, if there are scripts to porno films), or those Slurpee cups they used to give out at 7-11.
Joe Karlosi	Re: Star Wars, nothing but Staaaaaaar Wars	#4	[-]
Apr 8 05 10:33 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I liked the participation of Peter Cushing. That's about it. ------------------------------------ "It's MORE ... than a hobby!"
Denham	Re: Star Wars, nothing but Staaaaaaar Wars	#5	[-]
Apr 8 05 11:45 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Star Wars has its ups and downs, like any other movie series, but I have always liked it and look forward to the new one. CD
Chesterbelloc	Re: Star Wars, nothing but Staaaaaaar Wars	#6	[-]
Apr 9 05 5:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've read the script and heard the score for the new one, I think it will certainly satisfy people like myself who liked the last two films, and will probably have enough good stuff in it to make it the best of the prequels for those who are less than enthusiastic.
drjkl	Re: Star Wars	#7	[-]
Apr 10 05 7:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	When I saw the ads for the first one in '77 I thought, "that looks like a cheap little movie." A friend who had attended a preview urged me to see it, and I thought it was pretty good. Then I heard of people seeing it over and over, and I thought, "uh oh, that's not a good sign for American culture." Soon Reagan was elected, and I knew the tide had turned against intelligence and maturity. I went to see the sequel, and it was a pretentious bore. People raved about it, worshipped it. I skipped the third one (I saw it on TV later, and it looked like the Muppets TV show). The later films are just computer games; utterly worthless except to nerds with 9-yr-old mentalities. Lucas has founded an entire culture of no-witted merchandizing and instant gratification games, training a generation so stupid they can't hold a conversation.
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Laughing Gravy	Re: Star Wars	#8	[-]
Apr 10 05 8:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In my case, I loved AMERICAN GRAFFITI and couldn't wait to see what Lucas did next; STAR WARS -- a tribute to the 1930s movie serials -- was just a terrific, funny, unpretentious film. "Unpretentious" is not a word that can be used with any of the films in the series since. I thought the first sequel was good, the second sequel was okay, the first of the new movies was dreadful, and I didn't see the last one nor will I see the next one.
IzzyVanHalen	Re: Star Wars	#9	[-]
Apr 11 05 10:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Soon Reagan was elected" I'm not sure that was Luke Skywalker's fault. Anyway, wasn't that just the thing he was fighting against?
Doc Savage	Unstoppable Force	#10	[-]
Apr 27 05 9:25 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Anyway, wasn't that just the thing he was fighting against? It's what all men of good will were fighting against.....
Omega Man	Re: Unstoppable Force	#11	[-]
Apr 27 05 1:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm not a STAR WARS fan, but I've enjoyed the series over the years. (At age 15 in '77, I queued in a very long line to see EP IV.) Like any movie franchise the installments have their highs and lows. I break it down like this, from best to worst (so far): 1. EP V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 2. EP IV: A NEW HOPE 3. EP II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES 4. EP I: THE PHANTOM MENACE 5. EP VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI So for me, if SITH turns out to be good, that means the series is bookended by its weakest episodes. "Build coffins. That's all you'll need." www.eccentric-cinema.com
n0s4a2	Re: Unstoppable Force	#12	[-]
May 2 05 3:18 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For a while, George Lucas had an uncanny prescience about American culture. American Graffiti correctly foretold the disenchantment with the hippie era and a nostalgia for '50s values epitomized by the Reagan era. Star Wars was emblematic of Reagan's Presidency and its reliance of fairy-tale archtypes, and even gave its name to his anti-missile project (with which he would do battle with the "Evil Empire"). Even THX 1138 correctly predicted that we would become a nation of people who take anti-depressants to control the stress of sitting and fiddling with computers all day. Indiana Jones signalled the era of mindless popcorn entertainment. I don't know what happened to Lucas after that, but he lost it.
Omega Man	Re: Unstoppable Force	#13	[-]
May 2 05 6:19 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* I don't know what happened to Lucas after that, but he lost it. He should have handed broad story outlines to someone like Jeffrey Boam (who sadly passed away in 2000) to write the prequel scripts. And begged pal Stephen Spielberg to direct. "Build coffins. That's all you'll need." www.eccentric-cinema.com
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