Don’t see it. Please. For your own sake, and especially for mine. So many people talk about how shitty the prequels are and how the last one is sure to be just as bad, but the thing is, they probably plan on seeing it anyway.
Why? You’re just letting Lucas win. How is he supposed to see the error of his ways when both prequels have made hundreds of millions of dollars because so many people (including many of the loathers I’m sure) saw them more than once?
So please, since so many of you are convinced beyond doubt that Episode 3 will be the biggest mistake in movie history, I beg of you, just stay home. I’d much rather see it with a small group of people who have thoroughly enjoyed all 5 Star Wars movies than with a packed theater of people just waiting to run out and onto the nearest message board so they can join in the mudslinging.
Didn’t the (by turns) awful acting, muddled storytelling, poorly used characters, and wretched plots in the last two SW pictures make any impression on you that Lucas is out of his depth in extending the storyline of the epic he created?
I mean come on! The last two movies had so many cringe worthy moments some parts were borderline future MST3K fodder. How bad does this series have to suck before you’ll get riled at Lucas, not at fans telling the truth? Are you willing to suspend your critical aesthetic faculties and gobble up his artistic slop just to wear your light saber into the theatre one more time? Is the fantasy that dear to you, that you will suckle on the ragged and festering corpse that the SW series has become, while Lucas humps it for the last bit of cash it can yield?
I saw Ep2 for free while selling plasma. As if having your vital fluids removed from your body, run through a centrifuge, then returned to your body over and over again isn’t horrible enough. It was actually more entertaining watching the mililiter count on my machine slowly go up to 880.
Listen, I saw TPM three times in the theater; I only saw AotC once. If Lucas hasn’t gotten the message so far, he never will. I don’t think the last one will be much good, as a whole, but it will probably have good moments, and it will have Ewan MacGregor, who can do no wrong (he was by far the best thing about Ep2 - if you cut out all the scenes that didn’t involve him, you’d get a pretty decent 60 minute sci-fi flick).
Besides, this is Star Wars. Something this important in my life, I need closure.
C’mon, astro. Stop holding back and tell us what you really think about Lucas and eps 1 and 2!
Lucas made two great SW movies, the very first two. His third was a moderate letdown for me, and the last two made me place him in equal esteem with Robert Jordan.
I read an interview with Hayden Christiansen when the film Shattered Glass, where he plays disgraced writer Stephen Glass, came out. He said that he had far more leeway playing Glass’s character - in a real-life story - than he did playing Anakin. Any suggestion, change, or deviation from how Lucas wanted the character to be was rejected. Lucas got exactly the performance that he wanted, so blame him for it being that awful.
As for Lucas’ talent, the best film of the series was the one he had the least involvement with, Empire Strikes Back. Unless a miracle occurs and/or someone kidnaps Lucas and holds him until after the film’s done, this one will definitely not be anywhere near what it should be.
I’m a reasonably avid consumer of fantasy and science fiction franchises. I was forced to see Ep 1, strongly disliked it (and that was in a dollar cinema) and have avoided Ep 2. Lucas isn’t seeing a dime of my money - I got the message well enough from Ep 1 and the trailers for Ep 2 that this is not something I care for.