Ankh-Morpork Guard said:
Though its funny that if you talk to kids, they LOVE Jar Jar. Very much in the same way many of us got attached to Chewie with the OT.
Which kids? Certainly not mine (and my oldest was only 3 when TPM came out; he's nine now and has little interest in Star Wars. I've never heard that any kid, even Star Wars fanatics (of which, sadly, this later generation is relatively impoverished... the new movies aren't even good enough to really engender the type of kid love that the older movies did) that really loved Jar Jar. I'd like to know why you think kids love Jar Jar so much.
AMG said:
If you were severely annoyed by Anakin...well, good. At least, in Ep II that's definitely good, as he is just a whiny teenager who isn't getting his way and doesn't like it. Of course he's going to be annoying.
Yes, he was annoying, and yes he was supposed to be annoying, but that was just stupid. He's FREAKIN' DARTH VADER, people! Seeing him as a petulant spoiled brat doesn't foreshadow the darker character he is to become, it reduces and trivializes it. Interpreting him that way was a BAD decision.
And no, I'm not a Star Wars new trilogy "hatah" I actually enjoy them well enough and am very excited for May to arrive. But let's face it, the new movies did have some serious flaws, even compared to the OT, which also had some obvious flaws if you can see past the nostalgia and watch them critically. If anything, it's the fact that I love Star Wars so much that makes the newer movies so disappointing. There's still so much
potential there, even in the movies that did get made, and the plots that they do have. The biggest problem, IMO, is that Lucas needs to realize that he's a great conceptualist, but a lousy writer and a lousy director. He should have worked up a 5-10 page script summary of each movie and then hired Larry Kasdan again to write the actual screenplay, and we might have had some much better dialogue. And get someone talented again as director and editor, and you can have some much better performances, much better pacing, and overall a much tighter flick. And finally, a handful of the casting decisions were, at best, questionable.