Has anyone seen the new Star Wars ll commercial?

[Crothian]

Matter of taste, I guess. I was highly entertained.

Defiantly a matter of taste. Most of my friends think the same as you do. I just found it over the top, as if it didn't fit. It's a hollywood cliche to take a crippled appearing character and then make him do backflips and all sorts of things he shouldn't be able to do. That's what it looked like to me. But, as I said, I'm in the minority here.

 

[John Crichton]

Defiantly a matter of taste. Most of my friends think the same as you do. I just found it over the top, as if it didn't fit. It's a hollywood cliche to take a crippled appearing character and then make him do backflips and all sorts of things he shouldn't be able to do. That's what it looked like to me. But, as I said, I'm in the minority here.

Totally understandable. I've met a few people who didn't think it was all that great and others thought it was the best part of the flick (it was cool, but not the best part). It's all good to me, I'd never knock someone else's opinion. Life's too short.

I am curious: What did you think of the movie as a whole? I think it's the 3rd best Star Wars movie and found it highly entertaining (sans the boring romance scenes).

And to keep this vaguely on topic, that Yoda commercial was certainly not in the spirit of the franchise and I hope I see nothing like it in the future....

 

[Crothian]

I am curious: What did you think of the movie as a whole? I think it's the 3rd best Star Wars movie and found it highly entertaining (sans the boring romance scenes).

I liked the movie as a whole better then episode one. The love stuff was pure drivel, but it really is needed to set it all up. I really liked the clones plot, the assiniation attempt, and the whole janga fett thing. R2 and 3CPO though really served no purpose and I wish they wern't in it at all. For me this was a good summer movie. Nothing stellar, but I knew what I was in for. I didn't have high expectations for the prequals, I've been around movies far to long for that.

 

[John Crichton]

Sounds like you took the movie at face value. Works for me. It's good to hear that someone out there doesn't just outright hate it because all of a sudden it's "cool" to bash Star Wars. Many shades of gray, I can dig it.

Me? I'm a huge Star Wars freak so I did have high hopes for the prequels.

But, I digress back to the original topic:

I actually feel bad for people who haven't seen the movie or heard much of it. When I saw it, I knew basically nothing about it. I had no idea that Yoda would see combat (I may have heard rumblings in the theater, but ignored them) so it was fairly shocking to me when he busted out the lightsaber. It was a much better experience than knowing about it before it happened. After that first viewing it kinda looses it's impact a bit....

 

[jdavis]

I hate the whole bandwagon hate thing, (well exept for the commercial, it deserves it). The movie was much better than the last and I don't knock the last one to hard because it was what it had to be to tell the story. It had it's faults (midiclorians.....?) but it had good points too. Clones was a good ride that had a impossible task ahead of it, Phantom Menace made it cool to hate the movies. It was no Empire but then again none of them even come close. I remember being little and seeing Star Wars when it first came out, it's hard to top that now because these movies are not starting a trend like the first ones did.

As far as the Yoda lightsaber battle, I prefered the Darth Maul lightsaber battle, the Yoda battle was just there to get a jump out of the crowd.

 

[Mark]

I've got to agree that it was cheezy. One of my favor SW moments was when Yoda went all hyper with the light saber. I'm not sure that I've ever enjoyed a sequence at the movies as much as I enjoyed that. Of all the SW memories they could have chosen to utilize in such a way, that was the one that could detract from my SW experience. I've never been bothered by lunchboxes, promotional glassware, or other excessive commercialization or product ti-ins. I've always just shrugged and ignored it all. With that one commercial, they found the chink in my, otherwise forgiving, armor.

 

[jdavis]

Remember when you were young and your Father tried to be all hip and cool and down with the new generation and you just wanted to run and hide in shame..... Yea that's what the commercial is Bermuda shorts and black dress socks with loafers on the beach. Hi son, I'm down with the "Yo Da Man".

 

[Crothian]

Remember when you were young and your Father tried to be all hip and cool and down with the new generation and you just wanted to run and hide in shame..... Yea that's what the commercial is Bermuda shorts and black dress socks with loafers on the beach. Hi son, I'm down with the "Yo Da Man".

That is a very good anology of that commercial.

 

[John Crichton]

Remember when you were young and your Father tried to be all hip and cool and down with the new generation and you just wanted to run and hide in shame..... Yea that's what the commercial is Bermuda shorts and black dress socks with loafers on the beach. Hi son, I'm down with the "Yo Da Man".

Yeah, that's about right..... LOL

 

[Enchantress]

Also, the fact that Yoda was originally a muppet and is now a state-of-the-art computer graphic. big time switch because he's actually soposed to be younger.