Star-Wars III : petty plots in cosmic dressings...

[Turanil]

I got Star-Wars III on DVD for Christmas. It's cool that I have completed the collection... but aside from that I stopped watching it after 15 minutes, totally bored. It's when I realized why I don't like Staw-Wars I, II, and III (especially the third).

Star-Wars (especially the third) is about petty facts in cosmic dressing. Droids and aliens behave like humans, and droids must use a cell phone like everyone else for long distance communications (R2D2 in SW3). A starship one mile long is piloted and behaves like it was a Cesna (SW3). I am okay that starships have an artificial gravity, but when the starship is shot and rotates on himself, the internal gravity behaves like it was a ship sinking on an ocean (totally ridiculous). And it goes on an on.

Man, I am so tired with Star Wars... How about you?

 

[Vocenoctum]

I got Star-Wars III on DVD for Christmas. It's cool that I have completed the collection... but aside from that I stopped watching it after 15 minutes, totally bored. It's when I realized why I don't like Staw-Wars I, II, and III (especially the third).

Star-Wars (especially the third) is about petty facts in cosmic dressing. Droids and aliens behave like humans, and droids must use a cell phone like everyone else for long distance communications (R2D2 in SW3). A starship one mile long is piloted and behaves like it was a Cesna (SW3). I am okay that starships have an artificial gravity, but when the starship is shot and rotates on himself, the internal gravity behaves like it was a ship sinking on an ocean (totally ridiculous). And it goes on an on.

Man, I am so tired with Star Wars... How about you?

I liked Ep1 & 2 in the theaters, but not enough to own the DVD or watch them again, ever...

But Ep3 was just horrible to me. Everything irked me, nothing appealed to me in any memorable way. I considered it a huge waste of my money and time.

My watch has a light that comes on automatically when I tilt my arm. Usually I can judge a movie by how often I check my watch... during Ep3, I found it more interesting playing with the light feature than watching the movie.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

I got Star-Wars III on DVD for Christmas. It's cool that I have completed the collection... but aside from that I stopped watching it after 15 minutes, totally bored. It's when I realized why I don't like Staw-Wars I, II, and III (especially the third).

If you don't like Star Wars, that's fine. It's your personal preference after all. But really, I thought III rocked in the last 45 minutes and the lightsaber duel was pretty cool.

I liked Star Wars III more than I liked Star Wars 6.

just my two cents

 

[Dark Jezter]

I got Star-Wars III on DVD for Christmas. It's cool that I have completed the collection... but aside from that I stopped watching it after 15 minutes, totally bored. It's when I realized why I don't like Staw-Wars I, II, and III (especially the third).

Star-Wars (especially the third) is about petty facts in cosmic dressing. Droids and aliens behave like humans, and droids must use a cell phone like everyone else for long distance communications (R2D2 in SW3). A starship one mile long is piloted and behaves like it was a Cesna (SW3). I am okay that starships have an artificial gravity, but when the starship is shot and rotates on himself, the internal gravity behaves like it was a ship sinking on an ocean (totally ridiculous). And it goes on an on.

Man, I am so tired with Star Wars... How about you?

You know what, I think you are the very first person I have ever met who didn't like one of the Star Wars prequels.

This is definately an online first for me.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I enjoyed the first three movies quite a bit, and E3 more than the others.

IMO, IME, YMMV, and all that jazz...

 

[WayneLigon]

One does not watch Star Wars (or any space opera) and expect physics and such to behave like you would expect in a hard-SF movie. If you do, you're just totally missing the point of the entire thing.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

One does not watch Star Wars (or any space opera) and expect physics and such to behave like you would expect in a hard-SF movie. If you do, you're just totally missing the point of the entire thing.

A very, very good point.

As many probably already know here, I love Star Wars...all of em. Sure, the OT have a very special place for me as that's what I grew up on, but I still very much enjoy the prequels. Heck, I even love the EU. Scary, ain't it?

 

[Joshua Randall]

You know what, I think you are the very first person I have ever met who didn't like one of the Star Wars prequels.

This is definately an online first for me.

ROFL!

In other firsts, I met a guy who didn't like D&D 3.x -- can you believe it?!

 

[Sir Brennen]

You know what, I think you are the very first person I have ever met who didn't like one of the Star Wars prequels.

This is definately an online first for me.

My sarcs-o-meter batteries are low. Can someone verify this one for me?

I saw all three prequels either opening day or at least opening week. Have sort of a love-hate relationship with the movies. Effects were amazing - but sometimes too much, cluttering up otherwise great action scenes. Dialogue and acting - well, don't know anyone who rates these as strong points of the films. Nostalgia for the first films probably makes one more forgiving of these, and there were some interesting plot developments in the prequels, as well as being an interesting journey for something where we already know the outcome.

As for the "science" goofs - well, you forgot to mention one of the biggest - no sound in space. But without it, the battles would definitely have been lacking something. I mean, who can forget the first time they heard the distinct sound of a TIE fighter flying across the screen from the original movie?

It's space opera, not hard science fiction; more Buck Rogers than 2001. That's what it's intended to be, so I pretty much overlook all of the other "unrealistic" things in the same spirit.

Still don't know if I'll ever forgive "midi-chlorians", tho...

 

[The Serge]

My position on the prequels have been very clear: Lucas is a great conceptualist and a lousy director and writer.

That said, Star Wars is hardly science fiction. It's fantasy. It's not supposed to reflect real world physics... It's never even purported to attempt to do so. It has The Force, for crying out loud! If a person's pitching a fit over a space ship behaving like a plane or a sea vessel, said person may not understand the distinction... I mean, these sorts of things have been happening since the original trilogy (like when the Executor crashes into the Death Star and becomes a funeral pyre).