No - Star Wars is for kids.
It was the first time around and it is again the second time around.
The original trilogy followed the strict "Fairy Story" formula.
Now add in all of the various other "for the kids" features and you're there.
The new trilogy has a much deeper and a lot more complex storyline.
Watching how the Emperor is in fact "both sides" of a fight just so that he can get into the role of "dictator" so he can desolve senate and take control himself.
Both trilogies were aimed at kids, it is just that because everyone who saw the original trilogy are now 30+ there was always going to be that large percentage of people who would want to see the new trilogy.
Maybe the fact that the storylines are more complex and there are more of them in the new trilogy is what is confusing people...
I'm also getting fed-up with this Jar Jar thing.
So not everyone liked the character - remember he was only in one of the three episodes (yer, he was in 2 & 3 but only just).
However how you can bad mouth the new trilogy over one character and then sit back, say the original was so much better...*cough* Yer, those Ewoks were great and not anywhere near as bad as Jar Jar *cough*
I grew up with Star Wars - the originalk trilogy and as much as I love them to bits I accept that at the time the technology did not exist for the films to be released in the form Lucas wanted them to.
So he goes back, makes some changes because he can and wants to, other small amendments because making prequels always has the potential to mess-up storylines etc.
He then releases them as the definitive version - his vision and people moan at him.
"Appreciate these are your films make in your vision George but we think you suck" - signed A Nerd
So against his wishes he releases the films unaltered and then gets:
"In it for the money are we George, another box set released?"
So although I grew up with the original films I am happy to accept the final release of episodes IV-VI as per the boxed set last year as the definitive releases and that is how they sit in my DVD collection - along side the Episodes I-III I also have on DVD.
These will be the versions I let my kids enjoy etc.
I for one am certainly not interested in a cut from the 1970s just because "It's what I grew up with" and I don't like the way a few words have been changed around or a ghost super-imposed over another one to make sense of a completed storyline to anyone watching for the first time.
It was the first time around and it is again the second time around.
The original trilogy followed the strict "Fairy Story" formula.
Now add in all of the various other "for the kids" features and you're there.
The new trilogy has a much deeper and a lot more complex storyline.
Watching how the Emperor is in fact "both sides" of a fight just so that he can get into the role of "dictator" so he can desolve senate and take control himself.
Both trilogies were aimed at kids, it is just that because everyone who saw the original trilogy are now 30+ there was always going to be that large percentage of people who would want to see the new trilogy.
Maybe the fact that the storylines are more complex and there are more of them in the new trilogy is what is confusing people...
I'm also getting fed-up with this Jar Jar thing.
So not everyone liked the character - remember he was only in one of the three episodes (yer, he was in 2 & 3 but only just).
However how you can bad mouth the new trilogy over one character and then sit back, say the original was so much better...*cough* Yer, those Ewoks were great and not anywhere near as bad as Jar Jar *cough*
I grew up with Star Wars - the originalk trilogy and as much as I love them to bits I accept that at the time the technology did not exist for the films to be released in the form Lucas wanted them to.
So he goes back, makes some changes because he can and wants to, other small amendments because making prequels always has the potential to mess-up storylines etc.
He then releases them as the definitive version - his vision and people moan at him.
"Appreciate these are your films make in your vision George but we think you suck" - signed A Nerd
So against his wishes he releases the films unaltered and then gets:
"In it for the money are we George, another box set released?"
So although I grew up with the original films I am happy to accept the final release of episodes IV-VI as per the boxed set last year as the definitive releases and that is how they sit in my DVD collection - along side the Episodes I-III I also have on DVD.
These will be the versions I let my kids enjoy etc.
I for one am certainly not interested in a cut from the 1970s just because "It's what I grew up with" and I don't like the way a few words have been changed around or a ghost super-imposed over another one to make sense of a completed storyline to anyone watching for the first time.
