May 19th Prequel Appreciating Day!

[the dude person]

You know, I remember when I was studying philosophy that some philosopher said that we cannot use things that depend on perspective as facts... For example, if one person says a horse is fast, you cannot tell him he is wrong because that is a matter of opinion and perspective. However, of that person said "the horse is running at 15 miles per hour" when it was really running at 30, then you could tell him he was wrong.

One trilogy is not better than another, because the measure of overall greatness cannot be measured consistently.



and of course it reminds me of one of the worst lines from ROTS in my opinion..

"Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is evil!"

"From my point of view the Jedi are evil!"

can't say he's wrong...

 

[IrishJedi]

 

[VASith]

Nice one Irish.

 

[The Josh]

Its funny. Yesterday, I had a student talking to me about SW and Lucas. I was kind of poking fun at Lucas and the student looked at me only to state, "Geroge Lucas is cool. He Created Star Wars." So depending on the generation is gonna change how you look at things.

 

[thenammagazine]

This is kinda irrelevant. It implies that it was choice but fails to recognize that if technology had been then, what it is now, the OT would've been 98% green screen too.

 

[IrishJedi]

Or, one could use it to establish the argument that if you revisit a series 20 years later and your intention is for them to all "fit together as one 12 hour movie"... make them the same freakin' way.

I'm not even talking quality of any of the films themselves. And I don't care how many people say "OT + PT = SW"... the two trilogies really couldn't be much more disparate visually and aesthetically. So if the ultimate goal is to make it one, cohesive movie, it's a fail.

 

[thenammagazine]

Or, one could use it to establish the argument that if you revisit a series 20 years later and your intention is for them to all "fit together as one 12 hour movie"... make them the same freakin' way.

I'm not even talking quality of any of the films themselves. And I don't care how many people say "OT + PT = SW"... the two trilogies really couldn't be much more disparate visually and aesthetically. So if the ultimate goal is to make it one, cohesive movie, it's a fail.

Be very careful what you wish for. He might just make the OT all digital to match the PT.

 

[OSCORP]

And the sad thing is, you would defend it!

 

[thenammagazine]

And the sad thing is, you would defend it!

It's even sadder that if he did, you'd ball up in the back of the closet hugging your knees, rocking back and forth whining, "find a happy place, find a happy place, find a happy place," while crying yourself to sleep.

 

[IrishJedi]

Be very careful what you wish for. He might just make the OT all digital to match the PT.

Honestly, if he really wants people to seriously accept the 6 films as "one movie" then that's probably what he needs to do.

 

[thenammagazine]

Honestly, if he really wants people to seriously accept the 6 films as "one movie" then that's probably what he needs to do.

At the very least, I'd like to see him clean up the dated CG of the PT.

 

[IrishJedi]

Yeah, both TPM and AOTC have some pretty rough CG elements.

To me, if an effect isn't as photorealistic as possible, it fails. (This is also why I won't bust a nut over AVATAR's Na'vi FX).

 

[pixletwin]

I like all 6 movies for all their faults. I haven't watched a star wars movie in about 2 years. I might just remedy that May 17 - 22.

 

[jediknight120]

At the very least, I'd like to see him clean up the dated CG of the PT.

I wanna see that cut of TPM with that godforsakenly awful Yoda replaced with the Episode III one.

 

[IrishJedi]

I wanna see that cut of TPM with that godforsakenly awful Yoda replaced with the Episode III one.

You will the next time TPM is released, which may be as soon as later this year on Blu-ray.

 

[thenammagazine]

Yeah, both TPM and AOTC have some pretty rough CG elements.

To me, if an effect isn't as photorealistic as possible, it fails. (This is also why I won't bust a nut over AVATAR's Na'vi FX).

Yeah, I finally saw it. I don't see what all the hype was about. It's the standard, unoriginal Hollywood "struggle" story where the hero has to overcome some struggle (moral, ethical, physical) and switch sides to fight for the oppressed. We've seen it umpteen times, but this time it was given upscale CG elements (that weren't much better than most of the other upscale CG movies). I've been told that I had to see it in 3D to understand, but to me, that's a gimmick. And if you have to use a gimmick to sell your movie, you've already failed.

 

[pixletwin]

I also wanna see QuiGon in ROTS.

 

[jediknight120]

I totally didn't get the appeal of Avatar. Sure it looked nice, but from what I heard the story was basically every cliche ever used. No idea how it made a billion dollars. But then, Titanic was the #1 movie of all time for a while, so obviously there's no accounting for people's taste.

 

[The Mike]

Mark my words if the tech is "mastered" before his death Lucas will refilm the OT with digital renderings of the actors to match and "continue" his story into one long 12 hour movie.

 

[jediknight120]

Mark my words if the tech is "mastered" before his death Lucas will refilm the OT with digital renderings of the actors to match and "continue" his story into one long 12 hour movie.

Excuse me, I have to make a phone call.