I've read plenty of accounts where people liked Episode I as a young kid and grew to hate it as they got older.

5/16/2005 7:39:59 PM

There is a difference between liked and fanatically adored.

5/16/2005 9:28:54 PM

My roomate loves whatever lucas does.

his reasoning being that lucas gave us starwars in the first place, so he can do whatever he wants with it. Granted he doesnt like greedo shooting first and some other minor changes lucas did, but he is devotly loyal to his opinion.

I on the other hand cannot stand the lack of acting in the first one. The only thing that saved the first one was the end jedi fight scene, thats about it. Pod racing was kinda kewl, but Jar Jar was present at the time.

Epsiode 2 is better as a whole but nobody even tried to get emotions out of Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman. I mean really, I could act better than them. Natalie Portman especially! jesus H. But maybe she is better in the third one.

Hayden Christensen had his moments I guess. But its almost like they want him to be emotionless. Same thing with Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven.

Same old rant I guess

5/16/2005 10:11:49 PM

hayden only has one emotion - whiny

[Edited on May 17, 2005 at 1:08 AM. Reason : and yet, i find myself with a ticket for a midnight showing....]

5/17/2005 1:08:09 AM

Quote :

"hayden only has one emotion - whiny"

Like father, like son.

5/17/2005 2:51:41 AM

^ziiing

5/17/2005 8:49:55 AM

5/17/2005 9:35:51 AM

Still at 83% at rottentomatoes.com and 78% amongst the "cream of the crop". I just saw this:



I guess Ebert lost some weight.

5/17/2005 10:31:51 AM

ebert had the surgery a couple years back

5/17/2005 11:52:45 AM

83% for Rotten Tomatoes is like a masterpiece.

5/17/2005 1:14:51 PM

I have a question, the people Luke is living with in "A New Hope" Star Wars 4 they are his aunt and uncle. So is his uncle the same person that is Anakin's step brother in episode 2 Attack of the Clones.

5/17/2005 1:30:24 PM

^Correct. In Ep IV, he calls them "Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru"

In Ep II, Schmi Skywalker's husband introduces them to Anakin and Padme as his son Owen and his girlfriend Beru.

5/17/2005 1:40:33 PM

Great thanks, I am excited to see the next one. I am interested to know how Padme dies along with everyone else on the "Force".

5/17/2005 1:56:37 PM

^^^^you'll still find some way to rip it apart

5/17/2005 1:59:30 PM

I already know how Padme dies but I won't reveal it. I had the misfortune of reading an unlabeled spoiler.

5/17/2005 2:00:09 PM

5/17/2005 2:06:11 PM

Duh, Jando Fett's grandkids, who are all bounty hunters and all have slave 1's and all have mandalorian armor and all do everything the same kills her

(Jango Fett was cheesy. They just had to throw boba in there some way)

5/17/2005 3:37:49 PM

Quote :

"I've read plenty of accounts where people liked Episode I as a young kid and grew to hate it as they got older."

now do you mean epI or a new hope?

cause epI has only been out like 6 years...

5/17/2005 3:52:14 PM

A kid who saw Ep I at 9 would be 15 now. That's plenty of time to gather seething hatred for Jar Jar.

5/17/2005 4:26:51 PM

2 days

5/17/2005 10:59:51 PM

25 hours

5/17/2005 11:03:20 PM

anyone going to the midnight showing?

5/17/2005 11:07:22 PM

I can't believe I'm gonna wait in line two hours to see this thing. I swear up until a week ago, I was a relatively low-key dork.

5/17/2005 11:08:41 PM

aha i hardly watch letterman anymore

but they just had this gameshow called trump or wookie, where most of the head excep for part of the hair was obscured

good stuff

TRUMP OR WOOKIE!!!!1

5/17/2005 11:54:26 PM

24 hours

5/17/2005 11:59:40 PM

8.5 hours

5/18/2005 1:28:46 AM

BLAST YOU BEING DOWN UNDER

(I am jealous )

[Edited on May 18, 2005 at 2:46 AM. Reason : .]

5/18/2005 2:46:17 AM

just saw it...working at a movie theater has its priveleges. also, I would like to add that Revenge of the Sith is probably the worst or close to being the worst in the series. lack of good acting, entire movie made in cgi, little vader screentime, too long among other reasons too numerous to name. i think george lucas should have let someone else direct the last three made. to me it seems that there is a lack of passion in the newest part of the series. little is left of what made me love the origonals except for the lightsaber. in short save your 8 bucks and rent it.

5/18/2005 3:58:03 AM

^^

It also means that we get most everything else late. So this our one chance to even it out.

5/18/2005 4:31:05 AM

^^ nobody fucking saves their 8 bucks and rents a goddamn star wars movie you idiot.

5/18/2005 8:46:19 AM

^^^ The real question is: If you didn't work at a theatre, would you pay to see it or would you see it at all?

5/18/2005 9:20:30 AM

news and observer ripped into it. I will wait a while, which I was going to anyway, but still N and O is usually waaaaaaay off for movies, so it could be much worse or a lot better. that fat fucker who does their movie reviews sounds like a 400 pound dude on the radio!

5/18/2005 9:25:37 AM

I've said it before (and I'll probably say it again), but Craig D. Lindsay has to be the worst critic in the country to be working for a major newspaper. I'm still not sure how that guy got hired by the N&O.

5/18/2005 9:34:12 AM

Yeah, the N&O reviewer is just about the worst excuse for a human being on the planet. His reviews are inconsistent, he would give one really good movie 2 stars and then another crap movie 3.5 stars.

I mean seriously here is just a taste of his review of ROTS...

Quote :

"He misses so many chances for some grand-scale dramatic tension in favor of speeding up Skywalker's transformation from Jedi to Vader that the movie becomes, well, mild. (As one of my sportswriting colleagues noted when I described the film to him, it's a 50-inch story that's really worth 15 inches -- hey, it's newspaperman talk!) With "Sith," you're basically watching computer-generated, sci-fi porn. "

It's funny I could almost take out any reference to Star Wars in this clip and make it a review of his column...

[Edited on May 18, 2005 at 9:47 AM. Reason : ll]

5/18/2005 9:39:05 AM

And it's not that I disagree with his ratings. It's his style of writing that makes him such a terrible critic.

5/18/2005 9:53:03 AM

In ~ 12 hours I will be standing in line.

5/18/2005 10:19:47 AM

84% now at rottentomatoes...guess we'll see where it goes after tonight

5/18/2005 10:24:40 AM

the story line at the beginning was way fast (events happened really quickly) but that was to make sure they gave enough time for the kickass ending.

Don't pass judgement until you see the end of the movie.

5/18/2005 10:30:37 AM

From what I understand, seeing the Clone Wars cartoon beforehand is also a good idea.

Too bad 21-25 isn't on the dvd

5/18/2005 10:34:10 AM

^They showed all of them in marathon last weekend on Cartoon Network, I suppose you just didn't see the thread I made about it...

I am sure you could download them somewhere.

5/18/2005 10:40:05 AM

thanks to dvr, i had it on autoprogram from when 21-25 came on during the week like amonth or so ago so when they showed it all it kicked backed in and recorded 1-25 when they showed them all, and i pressed "save until manually erased" after i saw what the computer had done

GOD BLESS YOU DVR

[Edited on May 18, 2005 at 10:44 AM. Reason : !]

5/18/2005 10:44:05 AM

I saw it last night. It was really good, and this is from a guy who had never seen any of the other ones.

5/18/2005 1:08:47 PM

10 hours 49 minutes

5/18/2005 1:11:37 PM

Just got back from the midnight show.

I loved it. Obviously things could have been better, but it entertained me. I laughed, cried, whatever.

I'd go see it again.

5/18/2005 1:30:16 PM

i thought the 1st midnight show was tonight?

5/18/2005 1:32:57 PM

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"lack of good acting, entire movie made in cgi, little vader screentime, too long among other reasons too numerous to name"

we should all be desensitized to the acting performances by now

same with the cgi

if you want to see Darth Vader watch the originals...

5/18/2005 1:42:41 PM

The cgi really isnt that bad, the more i watch the first two episodes the better it looks. I don't think there are many TVs on the market that show off just how rich the cgi looks...

5/18/2005 1:47:33 PM

the cgi scenery/architecture is amazing looking

can you really complain about cgi yoda?

sometimes the interactive cgi locations are a bit annoying where there is actual live action being done on a cgi background

if you really look at it, it's not all bad

5/18/2005 1:51:10 PM

Quote :

"i thought the 1st midnight show was tonight?"

shes in australia

5/18/2005 1:57:28 PM

Anyone going to the midnight showing at Mission Valley? I'll be at that with all of my friends. If you see one girl among a group of big guys (except for my fiance who's short), that's me It'd be cool to dress in costume or take some prop or something but who has the money. Yeah call me a geek.

5/18/2005 1:57:39 PM