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| Apr 11th, 2011 04:59 AM | ||
| Guitar Woman | Man, when's Protoclown going to do the Episode 3 one? | |
| Apr 11th, 2011 12:44 AM | ||
| Gtune |
Funny. (But Immaculate Conception doesn't mean what you think it means. The Concept of Immaculation is not related to anything biological or babies, so it wouldn't apply here. GIYF.) |
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| Jun 22nd, 2009 08:07 AM | ||
| Gideon Kalve Jarvis |
Every time I watch these movies, I think to myself that George Lucas takes it upon himself to kill the best two live action characters that appear, and often in a manner that is inappropriate to the awesomeness of the characters involved (Boba Fett being case in point for movies 4-6, showing Lucas' propensity for such behavior). In this first movie, I agree that Qui Gon Jinn was one of the decent characters, and that his death was a waste because of the loss of potential quality for the later movies...maybe. The second character was Darth Maul. Ray Park (the actor who played Darth Maul, Toad in the first X-Men movie, and Snake Eyes in the upcoming GI Joe movie) has an incredible sense of kinesthetic acting, and I can feel the dark, savage rage that fuels him as he moves, sort of like watching a hungry tiger prowling its cage. When he is allowed to just let go, as he does in the brief fight scene where he first fights Qui Gon Jinn on Tatooine, it is downright frightening to watch, because the speed and ferocity he uses (and the desperation of Qui Gon to escape with his life) is exactly what you would expect in a real fight between a master and a halfway decent amateur. To me, Darth Maul's death was much the same as the death of Boba Fett (case-in-point) in terms of anticlimax. George Lucas does not believe in letting bad guys die in a dignified manner, and the cooler the bad guys in question, the less dignified the final fate that awaits them. |
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| Oct 5th, 2008 07:49 PM | ||
| Bejeebus | I would like to see a prequel to the prequels. Something similar to the video games "Knights of the Old Republic." If only we can somehow keep Lucas' hands out of it though and let some new blood take on the task. | |
| Jul 6th, 2008 01:23 AM | ||
| K-Mort | One thing that irked the hell out of me was that line about there only ever being two Sith. It was like Lucas just took a giant steaming dump on all of the novels and comics that have kept his series alive over the decades since Jedi was released. Hell, Knights of the Old Republic should have been used as the model for the prequels, or at least a Shadows of the Empire movie. | |
| Jun 25th, 2008 06:15 AM | ||
| resident-adam | I don't know, honestly i enjoyed the prequels..well this is coming from a fan boy who can't get enough of anything "Star Wars". But to be honest the prequels don't hold a candle to the original trilogy. But overall an enjoyable experience. | |
| May 9th, 2008 10:31 AM | ||
| avoidz |
In the original trailer for TPM (which we all thought was awesome and promised so much...) the number 1 thing you hate - "Always two there are." - that line was shortened without the "no more, no less" part. Looking forward to the next two prequel write-ups (though I'm sorry you have to sit through them again). God, I hate these prequels. |
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| May 5th, 2008 01:48 AM | ||
| Burn | So... Where can I find the fan-edited version? | |
| May 2nd, 2008 03:28 PM | ||
| Laserbeard |
After waiting all those years, waiting for more Star Wars, SO HYPED after all those years, waiting for the prequel, The only thing I could say after the movie was: "well, the pod race was cool". It was like my friends and I had left the funeral of our best friend and we were staring at the ground saying mundane things like: "the flowers were pretty, there were so many" "it was a nice service" UTTERLY DISSAPOINTING Thank you for re-enduring this movie to entertain us. I agree with the things that you liked about TPM, although they are SO brief within the film. |
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| May 1st, 2008 12:44 AM | ||
| executioneer | nuh uh | |
| May 1st, 2008 12:38 AM | ||
| Cruxader |
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I do, however, agree that it is better than Star Trek. |
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| Apr 30th, 2008 05:12 PM | ||
| Kybo Ren |
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| Apr 30th, 2008 10:00 AM | ||
| Cruxader |
My loathing for episodes 1 and 2 knows no bounds. (I nearly walked out of the theater during the whole "Anakin/Padme falling in love" fiasco...) Episode 3 was only slightly better in that I think I only rolled my eyes about 20 times during the movie as opposed to about 50 during the first two. Part of the reason I may have like Episode 3 better may be due to the fact that I knew the torture was finally coming to an end. George Lucas = WORST DIALOG WRITER EVER. Combine that with terrible acting (I'm looking at you Hayden C.) and you have a recipe for disaster... |
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| Apr 29th, 2008 09:27 PM | ||
| Qwarx | Something I've always hated about Star Wars is how they make action figures of the most one dimensional characters that serve no purpose to the plot. Who the fuck knows of any of those bastards. | |
| Apr 29th, 2008 01:01 AM | ||
| LupusMaximus | I personally believe that there was nothing George Lucas could have done to top 4-6, nothing. He could not meet any of our fanboy expectations to the hilt and I'm sure he knew it. In fact, I bet his sole intentions were to simply entertain, which seemed to work on all of the youngins who didn't see 4-6 in the theaters. | |
| Apr 27th, 2008 08:12 PM | ||
| Outcome | Personally I kinda like the idea of "always two there are, no more, no less" because that means that the moment Darth Maul died Palpatine had to quick look around and go "You there, your now a Sith apprentice!" to the best candidate he could see to guarantee that there would be no less then two sith. | |
| Apr 27th, 2008 07:27 PM | ||
| greenimp |
ahh qui-gon, is there nothing he can't do?, any scene with quigon automatically becomes cool. and the peace bomb: jar jar binks, is he really that stupid? or is it all an act, is he plotting some from of revenge? |
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| Apr 27th, 2008 01:06 AM | ||
| Emu | Yeah man | |
| Apr 27th, 2008 12:00 AM | ||
| 5:33pm | Star Wars 1 stinks | |
| Apr 26th, 2008 09:55 PM | ||
| RadioNinja |
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| Apr 26th, 2008 06:51 PM | ||
| Kybo Ren |
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| Apr 26th, 2008 06:41 PM | ||
| Furry_Fan | I like star wars but I thank christ I NEVER saw any part of any of the new movies.. they look so terrible I just hear bad ater bad thing about them.. It seems like lucas destroyed what was good abotu star wars completely | |
| Apr 26th, 2008 04:12 PM | ||
| RadioNinja | I haven't geeked out on the web about this, but did anybody else notice THE glaring inconsistency in this movie? In ESB when Luke returns to Dagobah to complete his training, there's an exchange between Yoda and Obi Wan's "force ghost" to the extent that Obi wan defends Luke at one point by asking Yoda "Was I any different when you trained me?" So...I call gundark crap on Qui Gon even being in the first movie. That and... I have to rescind one criticism I made. I hated the NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO scene...but upon rewatching the original trilogy it's pretty obvious that DV is still ruled by emotion...IE...the dark side! | |
| Apr 26th, 2008 03:11 AM | ||
| Jaimas |
One thing that could have made Episode 1 900% better: Cast Sean Connery for the role of Qui-Gon. |
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| Apr 25th, 2008 10:05 PM | ||
| El Sammo | Well Ferrit, being a fan of the Empire, I have to give the little things kudos for beating the shit out of the Stormtroopers, as cheaply armoured and shoddily trained they may be. | |
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