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Okay, I'm gonna head to the store in a couple of hours and I'm gonna see if there's any POP Vinyl Stormtrooper / Black Series Stormtrooper figurines lying around. So far, I haven't had ANY luck
As you can already tell, I’ve been re-watching the entire series and I’m up to episode 5. I can honestly say The Phantom Menace and Attack Of The Clones is late 90’s – early 2000’s cheese, but I love it for what it is.
I honestly found Phantom Menace to be more entertaining than the 2nd episode. Revenge Of The Sith is STILL my favourite episode.
It’s been a VERY long time since I’ve watched the original trilogy and I remember watching these episodes on our old TV…and I remember saying that I did not like these episodes ‘cuz the quality wasn’t as good as the prequels and the light-saber duels weren’t as flashy…and my favourite character (obi wan Kenobi) dies in episode 4. What I didn’t know was these episodes were made in the late 70’s / 80’s...
I recently watched A New Hope and I can honestly say it’s MUCH better than Episodes 1 and 2 …and I’m at the mid-way point of The Empire Strikes Back... and…I’m not really enjoying it at the moment.
Maybe my opinion will change after I’ve seen the 2nd half of the film
This is gonna be a VERY un-popular opinion and despite the amount of criticism it gets, I love the prequel trilogy. That was a part of my child-hood when I was growing up and that’s what got me into star wars as a whole.
I’ve only seen The Force Awakens once at my uncles place and…my cousin spoiled the whole movie. Nevertheless, it was…kinda underwhelming in comparison to the ones I’ve seen. I haven’t seen The Last Jedi, but from what I’ve gathered, it's said to be the worst star wars movie in the entire franchise and to be fair…I knew Disney would screw it up. Star Wars has some serious conflicts…and Disney? well…they focus more on kids shows…so yeah.
No doubt, the prequel trilogy has some of the best light-saber duels in the franchise ^^
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Aaaand back.
So yeah, first off, the prequels definitely get more hate than they deserve. Are they a bit more flawed than the OT cuz Lucas had a more direct hand in the editing? Yeah. But they're not *bad* overall. ROTS is tied for my fave with ANH (cuz I saw ANH first when I was 6 and it re-released in theaters in the early 90s, and it's what got me into geekery in the first place, so it has a special place for me :P) Though I think most people have changed their opinion and come around to this view over time anyway, that the OT isn't as bad as people first said it was.
The thing you have to understand about the OT, is like you said, they were made in the late 70s/early 80s...there was no WAY the saber fights were going to be as dramatic as they are now, because of the tech they had to use to make the sabers come to life. Rotoscoping was still fairly new, CGI was nearly unheard of, and in order to actually DO the rotoscoping, the prop sabers themselves were these heavy, clunky things that were hard to move-which is why OT saber fights look more like traditional broadsword fighting, because that's the only way you could handle them. At the same time, there were just enough advances in tech for them to make the fights a bit faster and more dramatic in the 2nd and 3rd movies of the OT, as you'll see-but they still retain that kind of traditional aesthetic. And there's definitely something to be said about how well the visuals DID look for using 98% traditional effects methods like models. (It's also kind of important to note here on whether you're watching the ORIGINAL original trilogy, or the remastered versions, because there's definitely a difference with the way ships look and move).
As far as the sequel trilogy....TFA was...*okay*. Not bad, but nothing special and definitely not the sort of thing fans were hoping for. TLJ, as you've heard, is utter gutter trash horse fuckery. And that's what happens when you hire different people to write different chapters of an overarching story, AND don't even have an general plan for said story to begin with. It's also important to note that while JJ Abrams has his faults (like that blasted obsession with 'mystery boxes' that lead nowhere, just for the sake of 'OOO MYSTERY'), at least he's not an arrogant pissant douchewaffle like Rian Johnson, who literally (he's on video actually saying the following flat out) stated that he WANTS to piss off half the people who view any of his movies, or else he feels like he failed at his job. And Disney obviously bears some blame for even *hiring* an ass like that in the first place (especially when all he'd worked on prior to Star Wars were small time indie projects).
And about you not liking ESB as much-the thing to remember, like I said above, is that the entire saga is meant to be taken as one large story, broken into acts (the individual trilogies), which three chapters each. So the dramatic structure applies to both each trilogy, and each movie. Each movie has it's own rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution, but so too does each trilogy-right now. watching ESB, you're in the middle of a 'slow burn' of rising action in the overall story of the trilogy-so it's not going to be as fast paced and hectic as ANH; but you can bet it's going to pick up again in ROTJ. You also have to take into account that ESB and ROTJ were never guaranteed to be made; for all Lucas knew ANH was going to be a total flop and Star Wars would never have become the phenomena it is, so while he had a general idea for where the story would go, he had to flesh it out after the fact, after ANH was so successful. What I said at the beginning of this paragraph also explains why you aren't as fond of AOTC-Lucas has said many times that each trilogy is meant to 'rhyme', so the first movie in a trilogy is going to have similar beats as the first movie in the other trilogy, and so on (and this can fail if you make it rhyme so much it's more of a copy than a 'rhyme', as we saw with TFA...or take the dullest section of one movie and stretch it out to be the WHOLE movie, as we saw in TLJ ).
And, if you haven't watched it yet, and want more awesome Clone Wars action, the Clone Wars 3D cartoon is damn good (and they're finally making season 7 after the show got cancelled when Disney bought the property), so that's gonna be awesome, since Dave Filoni (the showrunner) is a guy who *actually* cares, and to boot *knows*, about Star Wars, unlike the current movie directors.
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