[OT - SW] Official Episode 2 Opening Week Boycott Thread

[Ristamar]

The reason I'm not rushing out to see Episode II isn't because I'm trying to make a specific statement in the world of Star Wars. Its because a large part of how I pick my movies is dependant on the director/producer's last movie. That's why I didn't go see "Ghosts of Mars". I may like John Carpenter back in his golden years when he was doing stuff like "Big Trouble in Little China" and "The Thing", but frankly.....he's lost it. Why should I continue to blindly trust that his next movie is going to be good when his track history is poor?

Its the same thing with Lucas. Many of you ask us boycotters to treat this like any other movie....you quote, "its just a movie guys...." Then by that attitude I judge Ep2 like other movies and decided to skip seeing it until I hear word on whether or not its crappy but an actually good film. Based upon Lucas and his previous work. Just like I did with "Ghost of Mars". I let it come out, heard Carpenter was still sucking.....skipped it entirely. Didn't even rent it.

Man, that's a bit rough. On Lucas, I mean.... hehe. I think Carpenter churned out a heck of a lot of crap long before the making the pile of dung that is Ghosts of Mars. Big Trouble in Little China will always be one of my favories, though.

So Episode I disappointed some fans. Or many fans (personally, I thought it was the weakest of the series, but I enjoyed it, nonetheless). Who knows... I won't argue or speculate over numbers. But that's it? One mistake and you're done, after so many good-to-great movies? Sheesh.

I guess I should I probably note that I did enjoy Willow (and yes, I know Lucas produced and Howard directed)... I know some people really despise that film, though I'm not sure why. *shrug*

 

[Ristamar]

Hmm. Ok. Somehow the thread didn't get bumped when I posted. So... BIZUMP.

 

[Mistwell]

Please.

I am getting very tired of the over-inflated hyperbole that people throw around like a rallying banner when it comes to recent movie openings.

Episode 1 was NOT a piece of steaming crap.

Just about every major motion picture made these days is not a steaming piece of crap.
If you really think a particular recent movie is THAT bad, I suggest you expand your horizons, and see more films.
Because there have been many truly stinky films put out, most of which you never would have seen in a theater.

Guess what?
Millions of people see a film not because they are all brainwashed.
It's because, for example, Episode 1 was an eminantly watchable film.
Mistakes, to be sure, but every time someone says a particular movie is "the worst evar" it just exposes their naivete and small scope of cinema, IMO.

I wholeheartedly agree. Anyone who claims the Phatom Menace was the worst movie ever has never seen a single episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000!

 

[Holy Bovine]

Just about every major motion picture made these days is not a steaming piece of crap.
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Now that was worth the price of admission

Carry on.....

 

[Ristamar]

BUMP every zig... for great justice.

 

[Desdichado]

So is this the thread where I should post my review of the film? After seeing it twice on openning day?

 

[GrimJesta]

I'll be seeing the second one, but not for a bit as it is final times at college...yay.

I dont think PM was bad, just Jar Jar was. I thought Darth Maul was pretty cool, and the fight scenes were also very good. I liked the story as well. Just Jar Jar was a moron.

But you have to realize something:

Lucas wanted PM to be a happy, brightly colored, happier place than the original series. Why? Because he wants to show that before the Empire came into power, things were better. Things were happier in a way. He wanted to show the degredations and deprivations of the Empire slowly happeneing in this new trilogy. The AotC will see a darker side than PM. The third one will be bleaker.

I will admit that Jar Jar was friggin retarded. And he definately did harm to the movie (at least the ewoks wanted to eat the heroes and were able to take on the Empire with logs...the Gungans couldnt even fight robots). But I dont care, I still like the new series, and though it has nothing on the originals, thats not a reason to dislike it. Take it for what it is: another Star Wars series, and sit back and enjoy it.

-=grim=-

 

[Jack Haggerty]

I wholeheartedly agree. Anyone who claims the Phatom Menace was the worst movie ever has never seen a single episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000!

Good God.

I once had the singular experience of watching "Manos, The Hands of Fate" without the benificent influence of Joel and the Robot's comedic dilution.

Never again.

 

[Desdichado]

Man, how I miss that show. It was my favorite thing on TV. My wife, as much as she complained about it, laughed too.

Can you get MST on DVD anywhere? The episodes, I mean, not just the movie. The movie made a serious mistake, IMO, in that the movie they were "giving the treatment to" wasn't really that bad of a movie to begin with...

 

[King_Stannis]

Man, how I miss that show. It was my favorite thing on TV. My wife, as much as she complained about it, laughed too.

Can you get MST on DVD anywhere? The episodes, I mean, not just the movie. The movie made a serious mistake, IMO, in that the movie they were "giving the treatment to" wasn't really that bad of a movie to begin with...

rhino has some of the old episodes on dvd. check them out. there's also a fan site where you can swap tapes.

with the rights to many of those old movies they cut-up expired and reverted, taping the 50+ episodes i did was one of the smartest things i've ever done.