I guess there's a Star Wars thing this week? Oh what's the use. I don't think I've gone 10 minutes without hearing Sar Wars music, seeing Star Wars stars or a Force Awakens trailer for weeks. Like the rest of the world, I had a #StarWarsRewatch over the last week or so starting with the original trilogy and then the prequels, just to get in the mood for the new filme. And I discovered something very alarming.
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By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 12/16/2015
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By: Beck Kramer,
on 6/14/2010
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Are you ready to see all the Star Wars sketch cards I did for the Topps ESB 30th anniversary? Really, you do? Ok...I'll show you since you are all so nice! hehe
I'll post a new group everyday until you are all sick of cute! then I'll post more and there will be kittens and hearts and glitter and big fluffy clouds....
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Everything here is exactly right! I think you’re the only other person I’ve heard voice this dislike for Attack of the Clones. It’s the absolute worst — for me, mainly, because it shows how badly Lucasfilm dealt with opportunities. Why didn’t we have Yoda Force-dropping a mountain on Dooku, leading him to shed a tear of regret for the now-lost peace and likely coming Empire? Because it was “cooler” to show him flipping around and battling Dooku with a lightsaber he didn’t need. The whole trilogy is made up of barely-strung-together “wouldn’t it be cool if?” moments that don’t tell a good story. All three movies are terrible but Phantom Menace is the best of them.
Thumbs up on the Irv Kershner love.
Also, “I love you.” I know.” Maybe the greatest improvised dialogue in movie history?
That Star Wars generations article was a fun, interesting read, but I do have one nitpick: there’s a “lost generation” from about 1980-1985 who had a very different experience from people born 1986-1999. This group was young enough to miss out on seeing the original trilogy in the theater, but old enough to have been in high school when the prequel trilogy came out.
My two-years-younger brother and I are in this “lost generation,” and I’ve had fascinating discussions with coworkers who are only 5 years younger than me who loved Jar Jar and the prequels while my brother and I (and high school classmates at the time) hated those.
Agree with you about Attack of the Clones. Phantom Menace was laughably bad, but Clones was deadly dull. A solemn snooze from start to finish.
“The Empire Strikes Back is a great movie, period.”
Yes. And it’s also the only SW movie that’s aimed more at adults than kids. So you can enjoy it for the rest of your life, without having to fall back on childhood nostalgia to excuse the lame parts. There are no lame parts in Empire.