03-14-2007, 10:41 PM
They were still fun. What can I say? Everyone here appreciates Star Wars.
The new digital stuff in IV bothered me. The stormtroopers on those big desert lizards where irratating because it blows Obi-wan's line about the Sand people riding banthas in a straight line while those tracks were in rank. IV didn't need those changes. The addition of the Jabba scene is good. You'd think they'd have changed Luke's cry of 'Carrie' instead of 'Leia' after he destroys the deathstar, but no.
In V, Yoda was far better as a puppet. He seemed much more real and lifelike than he does as the CGI-generated figure. In contrast, Jabba looks better in CGI. He was a crappy puppet.
In VI, it also bothered me that Leia remembers her mom but Luke doesn't. Weren't they separated from their mom at the same time? The ewoks didn't bother me as much as before. I remember hearing that ewok was wookie spelled sideways and that Lucas really wanted to end it on the wookie planet but couldn't figure out how to do it (why is Chewbacca's name Chewbacca if he can only say "aARRRh!"). After seeing the wookie battle in III, it wasn't much better than the ewok battle. I still like Admiral Ackbar. He's just too funny to me.
The death of Boba Fett still goes down as the most anti-climactic scene ever. He was only cool at the end of V, because in VI, he dies in such a silly way, and in I, II & III, no matter how they build his character, you know he's still going to die silly. It's an absurd tangent of a plot thread that ultimately leads nowhere.
You should hear my kids classmates discuss Star Wars. It's hilarious. The boys all love it. It's a major accomplishment of boyhood to have seen all six films.
The new digital stuff in IV bothered me. The stormtroopers on those big desert lizards where irratating because it blows Obi-wan's line about the Sand people riding banthas in a straight line while those tracks were in rank. IV didn't need those changes. The addition of the Jabba scene is good. You'd think they'd have changed Luke's cry of 'Carrie' instead of 'Leia' after he destroys the deathstar, but no.
In V, Yoda was far better as a puppet. He seemed much more real and lifelike than he does as the CGI-generated figure. In contrast, Jabba looks better in CGI. He was a crappy puppet.
In VI, it also bothered me that Leia remembers her mom but Luke doesn't. Weren't they separated from their mom at the same time? The ewoks didn't bother me as much as before. I remember hearing that ewok was wookie spelled sideways and that Lucas really wanted to end it on the wookie planet but couldn't figure out how to do it (why is Chewbacca's name Chewbacca if he can only say "aARRRh!"). After seeing the wookie battle in III, it wasn't much better than the ewok battle. I still like Admiral Ackbar. He's just too funny to me.
The death of Boba Fett still goes down as the most anti-climactic scene ever. He was only cool at the end of V, because in VI, he dies in such a silly way, and in I, II & III, no matter how they build his character, you know he's still going to die silly. It's an absurd tangent of a plot thread that ultimately leads nowhere.
You should hear my kids classmates discuss Star Wars. It's hilarious. The boys all love it. It's a major accomplishment of boyhood to have seen all six films.
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