[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Stealth
that movie was A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!!

i can't fault one thing with the movie... they covered EVERYTHING; a SEAMLESS transition between Ep III and EP IV... beautiful movie.

I've had my doubts about you in the past, but... you're being sarcastic, right? Like... seriously.

God I hope you are kidding.

[Knight Templar]

Also: Anyone else get a Bush = Palpatine sans lightning insinuation?

[Corsair]

Yeah, you and all of the media.

[vyper]

Except the fact Lucas wrote the plot before Bush was even sober.

I thought Ep3 was awesome, even if I did get home at 4.30 am as a result of it. They dealt with every issue, left no loose ends and even answered a very big question regarding Obi-Wan.

Spoiler:

I assume we all noticed Yoda's comments in the last scene with him and Obi-Wan about training, and talking to QuiGon? This obviously explains ObiWan's power in Ep4 and why he allowed Vader to "kill" him.

Of course, the best scene was when Yoda just casually tossed the emperors guards out the way!

Oh, and I wasn't expecting the immolation scene to be as graphic - but it was very effective!

[Grug]

Going to see it tommorow. Hopefully after that, I never have to see another Star Wars Logo again...

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Knight Templar


I've had my doubts about you in the past, but... you're being sarcastic, right? Like... seriously.

God I hope you are kidding.

no, kid, i'm actually not... but typical of you to think a great movie sucked just to be "different"...

i think they tied up every loose end i could think of.  i can't think of anything that existed in Ep. IV, that wasn't explained in Ep. III... so if you can think of a few, please let me know.

[EtherShock]

Originally posted by Stealth




you're right... striking resemblance.

i always thought the lightsaber reminded me of a banana though... what do you think?


j/k

Even more like the ones without the hand guards (their absence I don't understand on some katana. Maybe only the best of the best weilded those.) If sabers could have a tassel on the end, they could be like a jian (tai chi sword).

[Styxx]

The Republic fell because they had never heard of Cesarean section. Enough said.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Stealth


no, kid, i'm actually not... but typical of you to think a great movie sucked just to be "different"...

i think they tied up every loose end i could think of.  i can't think of anything that existed in Ep. IV, that wasn't explained in Ep. III... so if you can think of a few, please let me know.

Well, kid, for starters

Originally said by Luke and Leia in RotJ
Luke: Do you remember your mother? Your birth mother?

Leia: Only a little, I was very young at the time. She was very kind, but sad. Luke, why are you asking me these things? (Or something to that effect)

Luke: I have no memory of my real mother....

'Typical' of you to arrogantly like the movie just because they drew a bunch of arrows as to where things go for Episode IV. Whee! Look! It's Tantive IV! And hey, there's Chewbacca for no reason, other than he gives Yoda a piggy back ride. Grr! Me angry Vader! Me Mad at death of Padme'! Arrrgghhh!!! Oh, hey Obi-wan, by the way, Qui-Gon isn't really "dead" per se. He says "hey" and he knows how you can join the force after death. It's not something all Jedi learn, just Qui-Gon (And some how Anakin). He'll teach you while you're doing nothing for 18 years in your new house on Tatooine! wooot!


AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by vyper
Except the fact Lucas wrote the plot before Bush was even sober.

That has nothing to do with last minute additions, acting, etc. I'm not saying he was directly trying to link the two, just sort of parodying W a bit, if anything.

[StratComm]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
'Typical' of you to arrogantly like the movie just because they drew a bunch of arrows as to where things go for Episode IV. Whee! Look! It's Tantive IV! And hey, there's Chewbacca for no reason, other than he gives Yoda a piggy back ride. Grr! Me angry Vader! Me Mad at death of Padme'! Arrrgghhh!!! Oh, hey Obi-wan, by the way, Qui-Gon isn't really "dead" per se. He says "hey" and he knows how you can join the force after death. It's not something all Jedi learn, just Qui-Gon (And some how Anakin). He'll teach you while you're doing nothing for 18 years in your new house on Tatooine! wooot!


AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Oh, please tell me it's not that bad...

That was really my biggest fear with this movie; like the last, I have feared that Lucas would try too hard to "connect" the two trilogies in strange, stupid, and unnatural ways.  The Antilles reference in Ep. I was subtile and worked, the silly introduction of R2 and C3P0 did not (who do those driods belong to anyway?  They seem to drift from character to character without reason or explanation, they're just always there).  Episode 2 was less redeeming for its stupid giant arrows to the old trilogy; Janga/Bobba Fett were most notable there but the subtility was gone.  And now, as far as I can tell, Lucas may just as well have hung a huge banner up in front of the screen at the premier saying "A New Hope goes here!."   I don't like being spoon-fed my conclusions in any form, but most especially by someone as arrogant as to assume the only way to make the new movie good is to make it remind you what you liked about the old one.  I'll see Ep III eventually, but I absolutely refuse to rush out to see it for any reason whatsoever.

[Knight Templar]

Oh yeah, that's another thing. Captain Antilles gets like, four seconds of screen time. I think Bail Organa says his name twice.

Urgh.

[Andreas]

So, I take it's in the same level as the other two movies (ie.not worth wasting my time)?

[Liberator]

That's one thing that got me, why was Organa just leisurly pulling up to the Jedi Temple?  It would have made more sense if they had had a scene or two in the previous 2 that showed him in counsel with Yoda or Mace.(who died like a lightweight.... )

[übermetroid]

Originally posted by Styxx
The Republic fell because they had never heard of Cesarean section. Enough said.

Padme was fine.  She died because of a broken heart.  So says the bot and obi.

[Sandwich]

Spoiler:

Originally posted by EtherShock
Leia was talking about her adoptive mother. She couldn't have possbily known Padme, since she died right after giving birth.

Erm, no, she was talking about her biological mother. *rewatches scene to be sure*

[Styxx]

Originally posted by übermetroid
Padme was fine.  She died because of a broken heart.  So says the bot and obi.

Doesn't matter. She had a "broken heart" because Anakin didn't think of asking her to have a C-section under anesthetics instead of natural birth (which would immediately invalidate his vision, since she was awake and in pain in it), and went and turned to the dark side to try to learn some obscure technique which might or might not have helped.

[Night Hammer]

i liked it, im not gonna nitpick, no movie can ever completly satisfy everyone

[EtherShock]

Please use spoiler tags. Someone might read this that doesn't want to know what happens, unless everyone in this thread plans on seeing it today.

Originally posted by Knight Templar

Originally said by Luke and Leia in RotJ
Luke: Do you remember your mother? Your birth mother?

Leia: Only a little, I was very young at the time. She was very kind, but sad. Luke, why are you asking me these things? (Or something to that effect)

Luke: I have no memory of my real mother....

I don't recall him saying "birth mother," but now I remember him saying "your real mother," so I guess this is true, but it doesn't make sense, because Leia didn't truly know Luke was her brother until that scene.

Spoiler:

Nah, she died of a broken heart. The scene when she is broken was well done imo. She loved Anakin dearly. It makes sense. It's a romanticization. I'm disappointed with how they made Anakin this emo kid. Palpatine didn't have to put any effort into turning him at all.

Originally posted by Liberator
That's one thing that got me, why was Organa just leisurly pulling up to the Jedi Temple? It would have made more sense if they had had a scene or two in the previous 2 that showed him in counsel with Yoda or Mace.(who died like a lightweight.... )

I agree, maybe he was out doing something though? They could've spent 15 seconds to show that Bail was out for a drive or whatever he was doing, when he saw an explosion or smoke billowing from the Jedi Temple. Mace is the only Jedi to die by Palpatine's force lightning. No one else can claim that. He does put up a fight. He requested he not "go out like a punk." Maybe there was something even worse in mind for him before. I would've liked to see him fight Anakin though. That would've been awesome.

None of this makes up for absence of plot though. >.< Maybe we're all just reading into this too much?

[Knight Templar]

If you come into a thread titled "the mother all Star Wars threads" after Ep.III comes out, anything spoiled for you is really your own fault.

Originally posted by Andreas
So, I take it's in the same level as the other two movies (ie.not worth wasting my time)?

Hell, I thought the first two prequels were constructed better than this one. Well... maybe not Ep. II.

Originally posted by Liberator
That's one thing that got me, why was Organa just leisurly pulling up to the Jedi Temple?  It would have made more sense if they had had a scene or two in the previous 2 that showed him in counsel with Yoda or Mace.(who died like a lightweight.... )

- Uhh, did you miss all the fire comming out of the temple? For any leader, that's generally a cause for alarm.

- Lightweight? The only thing that sucked about his scene was that he kept talking instead of killing the Chancellor. If he didn't narrate what he was about to do instead of doing it, he could have killed him. Talking, then letting Palpatine talk killed him.

Originally posted by EtherShock
I don't recall him saying "birth mother," but now I remember him saying "your real mother," so I guess this is true, but it doesn't make sense, because Leia didn't truly know Luke was her brother until that scene.

Well aside from the fact that she said in that scene that "she knew... somehow she always knew" (which I think we can assume to be the Force / a gut feeling) the only part that doesn't make sense is the twins comming out and Padme dying right away. Say, if Padme went into exile, and only took one child for some reason, it would explain things a bit better.



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