[article on MSN] How to save Star Wars.

[Nuclear Platypus]

Maybe Lucas will let someone else remake all six episodes. I'd suggest Genndy Tartakovsky but I'm biased towards Samurai Jack. Wishful thinking I know but we all have dreams don't we?

 

[Olive]

ATC is by far the weakest of the films, but I think TPM holds its own.

Well, after seeing ATC once and TPM twice, I'd swap that around myself...

 

[billd91]

Well, after seeing ATC once and TPM twice, I'd swap that around myself...

Oh no. I have to agree that ATC really is the weakest of the 5 movies so far (though TPM isn't really all that much better). At first I thought ATC was better in general, repeated showings of both (hey, I have a small child in the house and they love repetition) has convinced me that TPM holds up much better. At least TPM had 2 intersting Jedi characters in it. ATC has pretty ones, but only Yoda is at all interesting.

The best parts of TPM, other than the pretty effects, are the ones centering around Qui Gon and Obi Wan. They are actually interesting characters: the maverick philosopher and his youthful student. They work well together, and although Obi Wan is underused (especially compared to that awful Jar Jar), he interjects some very nice counterpoints to Qui Gon.
In ATC, seeing that Yoda is willing to thrown down the gauntlets if necessary and the charisma of Count Dooku (who comes up with Lucas's names? I keep wanting to write Count Dooky) are about the only things interesting in the movie. Again, other than some pretty effects.
And if I want to see nothing of consequence but special effects, I'd rather not drive to a theater, plunk down $8.50, have my stomach growl at overpriced popcorn, and have the hassle.

 

[Bass Puppet]

Well, if your not looking forward to this last installment, there's always the Sequel to Dungeons and Dragons to make up for it.

 

[SSquirrel]

Funny I thought AotC was better than Jedi and TPM is dead last. The only part of AotC that drags for me at all is the whole love section in the middle. Hayden actually seems to be best used when he's doing the angsty stuff...like when he tells Padme about how he slaughtered the Tuskens.

I still would love a version of TPM with no reference to Midichlorians. Did The Phantom Edit cut out Midis as well as Jar Jar?

Now if I can only find the 1995 THX laserdiscs cheap, I can get the original movies on DVD without Greedo shooting first heh.

Hagen

 

[Faraer]

So he says Episodes I and II are bad and unlike IV-VI without even trying to make the case, makes a bunch of tired and transparently fallacious assertions, and says make Star Wars better by making it something other than what it is? Why does this deserve attention?

That's an extraordinarily crass and nearsighted way to speak of an unparalleled visionary who has a limited number of decades to live.

 

[Orius]

The only part of AotC that drags for me at all is the whole love section in the middle. Hayden actually seems to be best used when he's doing the angsty stuff...like when he tells Padme about how he slaughtered the Tuskens.

I agree. I enjoyed Clones, although I thought the love story was weak and poorly written. Clearly, it's Lucas' weakness. But the rest of the movie, particularly Obi-Wan's story was well-done, and evoked a 30's style space opera.

 

[Vigilance]

Ive said it before, I'll say it again.

A new hope, Return of the Jedi, Phantom Menace, and Attack of the Clones are all movies with great special effects, cool sword fights BAD acting, and predictable space opera plotlines.

Empire is a fantastic movie, and somehow, despite Jedi, people seem to hold these movies to that standard because we all forget what Star Wars and Jedi really were.

Chuck

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Count Dooku (who comes up with Lucas's names? I keep wanting to write Count Dooky).

It's OK. He's going to be changing his name to Darth Tyrannus, I hear.

 

[trancejeremy]

Eh. I didn't think Ep 1 or 2 were bad. They just were a completely different style than the rest of the series. I mean, Episodes IV-6 were about a galactic war. 1-3 are set before it.

It's like WW2 movies, vs. movies about Hitler's rise to power. You see a lot of the former, very few of the latter, because the latter are much harder to do, at least so they are interesting.


Anyway, whatever you can say about Natalie Portman or Christian Hayden's acting, the same could pretty much be said for Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill.