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Poll Question: Which film series do you prefer?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 03:02
^ I'm a huge SW Universe fan but I have to agree, for the most part Episodes 5 & 6 are duuullllll, and Lucas' remasters are horrifying, making a tolerable trilogy almost unwatchable.   I still admire A New Hope for its economy of storytelling and very important innovations in Science Fantasy at the time; you see that movie in almost every space flick from that point forward.   I'm a bigger fan of the prequels and I'm hoping these new films will leave out the stuff meant only for kids.   Kids get it, they don't need a JarJar, I sure didn't when I was ten.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 03:03
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 03:09
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

^ I'm a huge SW Universe fan but I have to agree, for the most part Episodes 5 & 6 are duuullllll, and Lucas' remasters are horrifying, making a tolerable trilogy almost unwatchable.   I still admire A New Hope for its economy of storytelling and very important innovations in Science Fantasy at the time; you see that movie in almost every space flick from that point forward.   I'm a bigger fan of the prequels and I'm hoping these new films will leave out the stuff meant only for kids.   Kids get it, they don't need a JarJar, I sure didn't when I was ten.


There is no getting around it, whether one digs the acting or not, but those early flicks practically reinvented the scifi genre, and for that they deserve credit.....lots of it.
Just like you see The Godfather movies spilling into every other movie made about the mafia since then. 

And no we certainly didn't need a Jar Jar. Nobody needs a Jar Jar!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 03:57
i saw Forbidden Planet recently, just saying.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 04:15
^ That's a tremendous movie, some of those matte paintings are spectacular.  Talk about influential.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 04:23
if one take that and Lawrence of Arabia, you get Star Wars (scenery ) :o.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 06:34
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Lord of the Rings. By faaaaaaaaaar the best movies.

I recently watched all three of the original Star Wars flicks and boy do I wish that I hadn't. I grew up with them and must've watched them a 100 times each.
Seeing those movies without the rose-tinted glasses however made me realise how bad most of the actors are. The only one really worth his salt is, perhaps not too surprisingly, Alec Guiness. Mark Hamill is absolutely dreadful and the same goes for Carrie Fisher....and don't get me started on the dialogue!
...and to think that I worshipped these movies back when I was 10Shocked

I think the first one was excellent .. a crisp fresh sci-fi take on the old serial cliffhangers from back in the day.
The next 2 were toy commercials.
the three after that - ugh..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 09:25
Star Wars has some of the worst dialogue ever, which of course works well with the wooden actors involved. How Alec Guinness got caught up in this, I'll never know. Perhaps the most overrated movies of all time.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 11:14
Both great, but Lord Of The Rings is better.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 19:23
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

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And Spielberg sucks eggs.  He hasn't done anything good since Close Encounters and his best film was probably Duel  forty-three years ago.

I thought Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade was good. But that's just me.

Back on Topic, LotR.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 21:49
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Star Wars has some of the worst dialogue ever, which of course works well with the wooden actors involved. How Alec Guinness got caught up in this, I'll never know. Perhaps the most overrated movies of all time.

No--  Guinness, who didn't like sci-fi, took the role because of the script.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 21:54
I vote Lord of the Rings because my imagination can take this beyond, however space topics are a bit to clever for me ErmmHug
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2014 at 21:56
Originally posted by Walton Street Walton Street wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Lord of the Rings. By faaaaaaaaaar the best movies.

I recently watched all three of the original Star Wars flicks and boy do I wish that I hadn't. I grew up with them and must've watched them a 100 times each.
Seeing those movies without the rose-tinted glasses however made me realise how bad most of the actors are. The only one really worth his salt is, perhaps not too surprisingly, Alec Guiness. Mark Hamill is absolutely dreadful and the same goes for Carrie Fisher....and don't get me started on the dialogue!
...and to think that I worshipped these movies back when I was 10Shocked

I think the first one was excellent .. a crisp fresh sci-fi take on the old serial cliffhangers from back in the day.
The next 2 were toy commercials.
the three after that - ugh..



Yep, you summed that up nicely. 

For the poll, Star Wars.  The Jackson films are neat looking at first but don't have much soul.  Empty calories, especially when all the battles start.  They could have been great films if they had the large budget, but more subtlety, less cartoonishness, more of the dry aesthetic vibe of the book.  Of course that isn't the kind of film the public wants anymore.  So from a commercial standpoint, Jackson's film are perfection.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2014 at 11:24
Star Wars original trilogy for me;......the special effects and overall look of TLOTR is superb but the storyline  drags at times and many of the characters simply don't engage me. 
I read the Tolkien novels in college in the early 70's and they were engaging at times though they also dragged in a few places.
I wish the original Star Wars trilogy was a little darker and more intense at times but it is what it is.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2014 at 13:44
Star Wars, although I would really like to see the "original" original trilogy and not those special c**p editions. Dead
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2014 at 20:34
^ I think those versions are (were) included on the deluxe remasters
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2015 at 16:21
The one with the Academy Award, Lord of the Rings.

Am I the only one who finds the Ewoks ever so slightly more annoying than Jar Jar Binks.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2015 at 14:36
its the lord of the rings for me...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2015 at 13:31

Hi,

SW was a mess in writing, and Hollywood has never been known for good writing ... because it's all entertainment and no one cares anyway, except how much money it rakes in!
 
LOTR, at least, had much more solid footing and story that fit a bit more towards literature than the comic book stuff in Star Wars.
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