Did George Lucas break your heart?

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » Mon May 30, 2005 10:04 am

Personally, I wasn't planning on seeing Episode III in the theater. I saw Episode I in the theater a week late only after seeing American Beauty the opening weekend instead. I saw Episode II as my first date with the ex I spent two years with. So why on earth have I seen it?
I went to hang out with two friends of mine. We had nowhere to go, and I was in someone else's car. They discovered I hadn't seen it and insisted on seeing it again... but they paid for it.
So what did I think of it? It was the best of the prequels, but I grimaced during the frankenstein-creation scene.
George Lucas is trying to recreate the action packed pulp-comic serials of his youth. This is something better done (IMHO) with endless Indianna Jones movies. That's why he named the first two "The Phantom Menace" and "Attack Of The Clones". These titles were taken from the stylings of those childhood genres. The title for Episode III was taken from the originally planned but rejected title for Episode VI... Revenge Of The Jedi. Much like the guns being removed from E.T. Lucas decided that "Jedi shouldn't take revenge" and changed the title at the last minute. The original pre-release promotional posters for the movie even still bore the unchanged name...
Oh yeah, and while I'm at it, HAN FIRES FIRST!
For those of you that don't know, one of the more hotly debated changes made in the StarWars: Special Edition releases was the fact that Han Solo's killing-in-self-defense of the bounty hunter Greedo was changed so that Han didn't pull his gun before Greedo did. So many of the hardcore fans were outraged that Lucas changed it so they fired at the same time in the DVD release. Why would they be outraged? Because Harrison Ford felt that Solo was more like another badguy. In an interview I saw he said he wanted his character killed off in Episode V because of the kind of character he was. Instead George Lucas came up with carbonite freezing. I've been told he then asked to have it happen for good in Episode VI. George Lucas refused.
So, let's just all realize that StarWars is a fictional story made for children by a nostalgic MAN. It is not a religion. It is not perfect. If it exsists, The Force wants you to instead practice a mainstream religion instead of being like the people in my high school back in the day that honestly believed they had force powers. Yes bandie, I'm talking to you!

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Mon May 30, 2005 1:46 pm

This topic would probably fit better in the <a href="http://songfight.net/forums/viewforum.p ... >Movies</a> thread. Of course, there is a fairly big <a href="http://songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=752">Star Wars Ep. III</a> thread in that forum already.

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » Mon May 30, 2005 11:34 pm

Don't suppose I could move it, huh?

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Mon May 30, 2005 11:54 pm

Choice 1: "Yes, and this and this and I wear three pairs of socks every day."
Choice 2: "Yes, and something stupid."
Choice 3: "No, because I don't know what we're talking about."
Choice 4: "Yeah. Something. No. Whatever."

Seriously, there needs to be some kind of free course on internet poll-making.

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:41 am

I wanted to have things like yes and no in the poll, but the borwser didn't seem to want to let me print very many words into the boxes... the "Yes, " and "No, " at the front of each was removed to save space.

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:03 am

Oracle wrote:Don't suppose I could move it, huh?

It is done.

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)