If your other half asked to watch Star Wars...

"What?... Oh, oh, 'just rebuild it'? Oh, real ****ing original. And who's going to give me a loan, jackhole, you?... You got an ATM on that torso Lite-Brite? Now get your seven-foot-two asthmatic **** back here, or I'm going to tell everyone what a whiny ***** you were about Padama-may or Panda Bear or whatever the hell her name is!."
 
markweatherill said:
Oh heck! Next thing you'll be saying you really liked the flying R2D2!:)
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Didn't really have a problem with it, although it was a bit "lol look what we can do with CGI" and didn't tie in with anything from the films after that.

Yoda fighting in EP2 and 3 was awesome though.

I can understand the R2D2 thing, but Yoda? There needed to come a time when you get to see how hardcore he could be,.
 
The wife would watch eps 1-3 and think they were utter garbage, then she would watch 4-6 and say that they were even worse and they look old and how can sci-fi look old etc etc blah blah.

Nostalgia plays a massive part of star wars, empire and jedi...if you look at them they have terrible acting/actors and terrible storylines that make no sense but we still love them all the same.
 
Well personally I don't think ROTJ is much of a film, its an ending to a good triology, but little more. Following Empire it is a such a let down and the weakest of the original 3.
Less said about the early triology the better.
 
Somnambulist said:
It's a bit like Dune. I tell people to read the Frank Herbert ones, then if they're prepared to see something like enjoyed pooped on, a bit, to read his son's prequel/sequel efforts.
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Indeed!

The last two dune books, where he split the book with Anderson, one could tell they split the writing, as there were almost paragraphs repeated at times, clearly no one bothered to read thru and edit with a dirty big red pen.

I felt disgusted at the way the ruined a perfectly good franchise by adding two sequels. I refused to read the prequels, and i am bloody glad i avoided it.
 
Just discovered the DVD on the shelf with the unmolested theatrical version as a bonus disc, which I forgot I had. Time to fire up the DVD player and amp and revel in the Dolby Surround-ness of blaster fire.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Indeed!

The last two dune books, where he split the book with Anderson, one could tell they split the writing, as there were almost paragraphs repeated at times, clearly no one bothered to read thru and edit with a dirty big red pen.

I felt disgusted at the way the ruined a perfectly good franchise by adding two sequels. I refused to read the prequels, and i am bloody glad i avoided it.
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The Butlerian Jihad books are literally Terminator/Skynet stuff, it's embarrassing.
 
I remember the excitement of travelling to see my grandparents and having to get there in time to watch the very first UK television broadcast of the original star wars film.

Having watched 'the original three' so many many times that I know, almost verbatim, what line is coming next, I felt a great disturbance in the force when the 'improvements' were re-released in the remastered and special editions.

Something uniquely special from my childhood was taken out to the back yard and had it's innocent and trusting brains smashed out by a beardy-troll with a large maul.

I didn't so much mind the broader aspect to some of the scenes with no dialogue - these added to the atmosphere of some of the settings and places. But such subtlety should have ended there.

Don't get me started on who fired first, Solo, or Greedo... lol
In the original, solo shooting first lent the character a edge of ruthlessness that made absolute sense, making him more believable and providing contrast with his later decision to help the rebels in the battle with the death star - underneath the smugglers cold exterior was a conscience, revealed by his journey with luke, obiwan and leia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1YbFnkZwZk

Greedo shooting first, missing, then being shot in turn by Solo, turns them both into two dimensional good guy/bad guy caricatures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qUjsCODGnE

it may as well have been edited to look like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Asjh-HjRE
:p

Would that that was the only thing george 'enhanced' in the original films :(:(:(

OP, my advice: let her watch the original three, unedited if possible, then see the prequels and 'remasters' in the dim light they so richly deserve.
 
shifty_uk said:
Would you pretend that the prequels never existed and only show her the originals? :o

I love Star Wars and I loved the prequels when I was younger but now, every time I watch them I cringe a little more. The older and wiser I get the more ridiculous the dialogue, accents, acting, gags and characters become! I fear I simply 'love' them because I'm a fan of the franchise and grew up adoring the originals.

She does like soppy love stories and a bit of cheesiness, though. Bit geeky like me. :p
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Show her the originals not once, but a few times, before you show her the latest three travesties. The originals get better the more you watch them, and each time a little bit of love for them grows. Get her to this point before you show her Those Which Shall Not Be Named.

Oh yes, and of course show her the original, unedited versions. You can get them in true 1080p off of the internet (they were once shown on Sky HD), and the copies remain floating around on the interweb, and are of stunning quality.

shifty_uk said:
All three are good movies, visually awesome and stunning to look at with all aspects but yeah, all three of them are horrendously bad when it comes to dialogue and cheesy gags.
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All three are not good movies, not by any stretch of the imagination.
 
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Knubje said:
Anyway, I like the first three films. Admitedly they are a bit more jokey and have lost some of the originals mystique but the only thing that annoyed me about Episode 1 was JarJar. The rest was good, Darth Maul was epic.
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I've already had this rant but what the hell - Darth Maul's death is one of the stupidest things in the franchise and there's been some competition here. A Sith with some of the fastest reflexes in the galaxy, who's just despatched Qui-Gonn Jinn with barely a flicker waits seemingly transfixed as Obi Wan Kenobi jumps up from hanging off a light fitting, force pulls a light sabre towards him and still remains standing to be cut in half? Yeah, not buying that, it's a rubbish end.

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Yoda kicking ass at the end of Episode 2 and 3 was literally insane.
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Rich, is that you? Went to watch it at the cinema with one of my old flatmates and he was so excited by this he damn near hyperventilated before, during and after watching the film. I can well imagine a puppy on crack to be less excited than he was.

Oh and for the original question I might be tempted to say that I'd watch 4, 5 & 6 with my partner then if she's still keen on watching the rest then let her do so - I might or might not be in the room at that time.
 
zootfloot said:
Nostalgia plays a massive part of star wars, empire and jedi...if you look at them they have terrible acting/actors and terrible storylines that make no sense but we still love them all the same.
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I think it must, as I have none for this. I look at it and think they have terrible acting/actors and terrible storylines that make no sense and wonder what it is that makes poeple love them all the same.
 
The only good thing about the prequels is the telling of the story, of how the Emperor came to power and Darth Vaders beginning. Ohh and Padme in that white outfit in the arena.

I grew up with the originals though, and they will always remind me of being sat there as a 7 year old completely in awe back in 78.
 
Im a big fan of starwars, love the games and novels just not so much the movies. I just love the story and I dont think the movies always did it justice, for me some of the best story is set in the old republic and I would have much preffered to see movies around that era. It doesnt just have to be set around jedi either. I would happily watch a starwars movie based on a bounty hunter
 
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