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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Tree" data-source="post: 94513" data-attributes="member: 1455">Why not?&nbsp; Certainly you can't discern with 100% accuracy what a movie will be like from trailers and the director's past performance, but you can make a good estimate.&nbsp; Lucas' past few directorial and writing efforts have been awful, with TPM, the special editions, and RotJ following a definite trend.&nbsp; Just from those I wouldn't make a judgement on Ep.II, since a man can change and improve, but if you look at the Ep.II trailers, with their churningly bad dialogue, overabundance of needless special effects, and bad acting, you'll notice that the trend hasn't improved at all.Trailers are supposed to showcase the movie, to show how great it is and entice people to want to see it.&nbsp; When a trailer not only doesn't look appealing, but has several embarassingly bad scenes in it, it doesn't bode well for the movie as a whole.&nbsp; There have been movies in the past that were great movies hindered by bad trailers, such as the Sixth Sense, but they have been few and far between, and it's unlikely that Ep.II will be one, judging by Lucas' past performance.How right you are.&nbsp; If it wasn't &quot;star wars&quot; we would have only expected a bad summer blockbuster flick, not something good and enduring.&nbsp; We would have watched it, gawked at the good parts and cringed at the bad parts.&nbsp; Afterward we would have maybe talked with out friends about it, ooing and ahhing over the fight scene and making bad jokes about the movie's bad qualities, and then promptly forgotten about it.&nbsp; We certainly wouldn't be having conversations about it now.&nbsp; Who still complains about Armageddeon or Final Fantasy? No one, becuase we've forgotten about them like the throw-away movies they were.If only it were so easy to forget about Ep.I.&nbsp; If only it were just a random sci-fi flick, not carrying the name of a series of movies so good that they shaped a generation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Tree, post: 94513, member: 1455"] Why not? Certainly you can't discern with 100% accuracy what a movie will be like from trailers and the director's past performance, but you can make a good estimate. Lucas' past few directorial and writing efforts have been awful, with TPM, the special editions, and RotJ following a definite trend. Just from those I wouldn't make a judgement on Ep.II, since a man can change and improve, but if you look at the Ep.II trailers, with their churningly bad dialogue, overabundance of needless special effects, and bad acting, you'll notice that the trend hasn't improved at all. Trailers are supposed to showcase the movie, to show how great it is and entice people to want to see it. When a trailer not only doesn't look appealing, but has several embarassingly bad scenes in it, it doesn't bode well for the movie as a whole. There have been movies in the past that were great movies hindered by bad trailers, such as the Sixth Sense, but they have been few and far between, and it's unlikely that Ep.II will be one, judging by Lucas' past performance. How right you are. If it wasn't "star wars" we would have only expected a bad summer blockbuster flick, not something good and enduring. We would have watched it, gawked at the good parts and cringed at the bad parts. Afterward we would have maybe talked with out friends about it, ooing and ahhing over the fight scene and making bad jokes about the movie's bad qualities, and then promptly forgotten about it. We certainly wouldn't be having conversations about it now. Who still complains about Armageddeon or Final Fantasy? No one, becuase we've forgotten about them like the throw-away movies they were. If only it were so easy to forget about Ep.I. If only it were just a random sci-fi flick, not carrying the name of a series of movies so good that they shaped a generation. [/QUOTE]

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