Favorite Star Wars Movie

yeah, i saw a bit of the fight between anakin and obi-wan. so great...

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they were fighting down some sort of bridge or catwalk (sorry blue screen) and than anakin throws obi-wan down onto another area and jumps down to fight with him again....

I'm gonna have to rewatch them before I can vote, because the only one that I have any recolection of is ANH.

Mine are defentl ythe orginial first three but my all time favorite is The Empire Strikes back ^_^""

-Beth

HANDS DOWN return of the jedi

On Sunday I re-watched A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back on Fox...it trumped up my day because I was planning on going to the mall but I decided to stay home and watch. Those movies are so great! I couldn't help remembering how different Phantom Menace was ( it wasn't a bad movie but there is no comparision to the original!). I could have easily watched all three movies in a row.

I just heard that Episode III is going to be PG-13.

Wow.

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Originally posted by GAT-X105 I just heard that Episode III is going to be PG-13. Wow.

Indeed, I saw a televised trailer a few days ago with the rating. This should prove to be quite interesting.

I paid to see STAR WARS thirteen times in 1977 and 1978, in my senior year in high school and freshman year in college. STAR WARS was in the theatres in Corvallis for an entire year!

(They call it "Episode IV: A New Hope" now, but it was just "STAR WARS" during its original run.)

So that's my favorite of the bunch.

The Empire Strikes Back suffered terribly from Luke's whining on Dagobah. Other than that, it was great.

Return of the Jedi will always have a place in my heart because Princess Leia wore little more than chains after being captured by Jabba the Hutt. Woo-hoo! However, it was hampered by the Attack of the Care Bears -- I mean Ewoks -- and the general lack of blood.

I liked the Phantom Menace. There's nothing wrong with The Phantom Menace that couldn't be fixed by having all the Gundans speak with upper-crust British accents. I want to hear John Cleese as the new voice of Jar-Jar! "Meesa a member of the Ministry of Silly Walks." The Phantom Menace has the best swordfight scene ever!

Bring in the Clones was my least-favorite movie. It struck me as being unfocused, and I would pay money to avoid hearing Anakin whine. I think I only paid to see the movie twice, a record low.

OK, well.... Episode III is out, and i have to say, i'm not disappointed, but i'm not impressed.
my favorite is still Empire, with Return a close second.
anyone care to disagree?

i am in no way a star wars fan. however, i do have a question for you guys that has been puzzling me for some time.

why did george lucas choose to start the series at episode 4? did he write all 6 at once, and think that it wasn't going to be big enough to have all 6 made, so he started at 4? if that's true, then i'm not surprised Episode 1 is deemed "not as good" as the rest by hardcore star wars fans. sequels have no choice but to keep getting more and more intense story-wise, and since EP 1 is technically the beginning....you get where i'm going with this,right?

so i was wondering if any of you happened to know? just curious.

-BC

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Originally posted by Blue Crow why did george lucas choose to start the series at episode 4? did he write all 6 at once, and think that it wasn't going to be big enough to have all 6 made, so he started at 4?

The original movie called Star Wars was later renamed "Episode 4: A New Hope." It was made as a standalone movie. Due to its huge popularity (ACT went to see it 13 times in first run, for example), the two sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi were also made and also quite popular. (By the way, the title of the third was to be "Revenge of the Jedi" but the title was deemed too similar to that of Star Trek II: The Vengeance of Khan. They both ended up with different titles.)

Lucas was now in the catbird seat. What he wanted to do, he could get funding for. And what he decided he wanted to do was to explore Darth Vader's origin. Hence the three prequel movies.

Pygmalion

Really, if you've only seen Empire Strikes Back...you're not missing anything, since I've always thought that was the best.

Hell, I even brought it twice on VHS as a kid. Once for the original, once for the version dubbed in French.

..Come to think of it, I haven't watched that version in a while.

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The Empire Strikes Back suffered terribly from Luke's whining on Dagobah. Other than that, it was great. Return of the Jedi will always have a place in my heart because Princess Leia wore little more than chains after being captured by Jabba the Hutt. Woo-hoo! However, it was hampered by the Attack of the Care Bears -- I mean Ewoks -- and the general lack of blood. I liked the Phantom Menace. There's nothing wrong with The Phantom Menace that couldn't be fixed by having all the Gundans speak with upper-crust British accents. I want to hear John Cleese as the new voice of Jar-Jar! "Meesa a member of the Ministry of Silly Walks." The Phantom Menace has the best swordfight scene ever! Bring in the Clones was my least-favorite movie. It struck me as being unfocused, and I would pay money to avoid hearing Anakin whine. I think I only paid to see the movie twice, a record low.

I have to agree completely with alot of this..

The Ewoks? I wanted to see the Empire win that one, then go medieval (or whatever time period equates to that in the star wars universe) on the teddy ruxpin partisans.

The gungans, gunduns, gundams, gungoos, or whatever they were called were probably the product of someone going "So remember the Ewoks? Lets make one worse, then make one of them feature even more prominently into the movie!"

The swordfight scene is part of why I loathed that movie. Darth Maul was just...really underused, it seemed. He showed up in the film, faught a woefully brief yet very good fight, then abruptly died. It was as if Lucas wanted to give the audience a glimpse of what the movie would be like, then punched them in the throat just as it started to take.

Attack of the Clones...by then I really stopped caring. I really, really went to that movie mainly because of the fact it had someone in mandalorian armor zooming around being all threatening (Shocking fact: Boba Fett was probably my favorite as a kid). The most interesting part of the prequels, to me, was that one shot of Boba in shilouette staring at Jango's helmet.

But I haven't seen episide III yet. I've heard its passable.

Really, I think you ought to see it. It really is far and away the best of the prequel trilogy... It suffers a bit from Anakin's... suckness, but the awesome parts make up for it by far. In terms of cosmic balance, I'd say it totally makes up for one of the two bad ones... but that still leaves another... Stupid cosmic balance...

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Originally posted by Blue Crow i am in no way a star wars fan. however, i do have a question for you guys that has been puzzling me for some time. why did george lucas choose to start the series at episode 4? did he write all 6 at once, and think that it wasn't going to be big enough to have all 6 made, so he started at 4? if that's true, then i'm not surprised Episode 1 is deemed "not as good" as the rest by hardcore star wars fans. sequels have no choice but to keep getting more and more intense story-wise, and since EP 1 is technically the beginning....you get where i'm going with this,right? so i was wondering if any of you happened to know? just curious. -BC

As far as I know, Lucas had this idea for a grand space opera. He had a bunch of ideas but could only use some to make a movie and shelved the rest. The movie was a fangorious success, so he went on to make sequels. I'm pretty sure he knew that Vader was Luke's dad from the beginning, and the whole lava pit thing, and other general things like the idea of the Sith...which he neglected to ever mention in the original trilogy but mentioned in the novel for the original Star Wars.

Anyway, I saw it again. Still good. But I have some ideas that would have made the whole prequel trilogy better.

First, make Jar-Jar less irritating.

Second, it's been shown Hayden actually can act. So freakin' let him show some damn emotion! Ewan McGregor is awesome but Anakin falls short.

Padme, Padme, Padme...could have been a cool character but has awful dialogue.

Darth Maul should have never existed. In his place would be Dooku and Grievous. Dooku would work behind the scenes, maybe even still as a Jedi. Grievous would do the killing of Qui-Gon, get hurt and run away. OH SNAP! That could be how he got all mangled and put into his mechanical body, Obi-Wan went all crazy on him after killing Qui-Gon. That would make their confrontation on Utapau freakin' sweet. That would also clear up his origin. Both my friend and my dad asked me why a robot was coughing.

That is all. For now.

Edit: No, I didn't see Clone Wars, neither did...pretty much anyone I know. I think I only saw one of them because I always forgot when they were on.

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Originally posted by GAT-X105 Both my friend and my dad asked me why a robot was coughing.

What, they didn't see Clone Wars? He got force-owned by Mace...

I gotta vote "Empire".

Some might think that I am speaking blasphemy, but at the moment, I'm almost inclined to say that Revenge of the Sith is superior to Empire Strikes Back. It's certainly a more pivotal story, and I think it was executed beautifully.

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Originally posted by GAT-X105 Both my friend and my dad asked me why a robot was coughing.

I heard Grevious is a rebuilt Darth Maul...which would explain the look and organs...

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Originally posted by Darth Nat Some might think that I am speaking blasphemy, but at the moment, I'm almost inclined to say that Revenge of the Sith is superior to Empire Strikes Back. It's certainly a more pivotal story, and I think it was executed beautifully.

Its not blasphemy. I know blasphemy. And it was executed nicely. The dialouge was funky, but looking at it the Vader Shake makes sense. You'ld shake like frankenstein too if you were just freshly saved from total doom.

Grievous is definitely not Darth Maul... He's just a prototype for the technology eventually used on Darth Vader. Grievous is not terribly good with a lightsaber. Nowhere near as good as Darth Maul.