Mike86

Not sure if that's supposed to be directed at me but I never said that, so okay I guess? I don't respect Lucas but I've never said anything like that about him. As far as the prequel trilogy I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I think there's more shit in them than redeeming qualities personally.

Solid Snake

Not with those scripts.

rocket1312

bluetoast

Probably Batman and Robin, which is why Batman Begins took so long.

Joe Schmoe

windom

This is what Lucas is planning on contributing to the Chicago lakeshore museum campus area:

mcnabb

I actually feel the opposite as Episode III is the worst of the Prequels, IMO. Now don't get me wrong, it is the 'red meat' of the PT, and the most interesting, but some of the major scenes leave me shaking my head they are so bad.

-The turn scene: (which is the reason Lucas made the Prequels) is so bad and so unbelievable, as he turns in 5 seconds? So he essentially tells Mace about Palpatine, and then a few minutes later, he turns to the dark side and kills all of the Jedi as his first mission? All because Palpatine may be able to save his wife who hasn't died yet?

-Padme losing the will to live: First of all it contradicts what Leia said to Luke on Endor, but that is a WHOLE other conversation. Second, you're telling me this strong willed women for 3 movies loses the will to live seconds after she has twins??? "Sorry Obiwan, I'm checking out, so find a home for my 2 babies!"

-The Duel on Mustafar: Boring! Its all glitz and no substance, as they should have talking smack to each other the WHOLE fight. Anakin was so unlikeable at that point, I was glad when Kenobi cut him down! This duel should have been tragic to watch, sort of like if Luke fought Han and the audience was torn because they were such good friends.

-The Checklist Points in the last hour: The last hour WAS The Prequel Trilogy we all wanted to see: Darth Vader hunting down the Jedi, The Empire takes power, Padme having twins and Yoda/Kenobi figuring out where to take them into hiding, Darth Vader being built, etc. Instead we get what I call the "Prequels Greatest Hits' as none of these scenes are really developed simply because Lucas ran out of time.

Episode I & II storyline should have been Episode I as that was just an introduction, and Episode III storyline should have been Episode II & III to flesh it out more

taffer

The Episode I storyline should have been skipped altogether. There was absolutely no reason to see a 10 year old Anakin. The prequels should have started with a ~20 year old Anakin like Episode IV started with a 20 year old Luke. Jar Jar is often cited as the worst thing about Episode I, but Baby Vader is much worse.

Preterite

Episode 1 should have started with either Anakin as Obi-Wan's apprentice or both of them serving under Qui-Whatsisface. The rest of what was wrong with the picture was fixed in The Phantom Edit.

I saw RotS during a five-week business stay in Bangalore - where I was on my own and so starved for entertainment that one Sunday night I watched a Sandra Bullock double-feature and loved it - and it still wasn't good.

("I have the high ground!" Yeah, like that matters to motherfuckers who've been flying for the whole fricking movie.)

Bob_Bobbson

I'm surprised I'm the first to post this.

Apparently we have a title.



"Star Wars: The Force Awakens has completed principal photography. #StarWarsVII #TheForceAwakens"

From the official Star Wars Twitter account.

Draven

Damn - just beat me!

It's already better than The Phantom Menace. What a shit title that was.

mewmartigan

I assume "Episode VII" will still appear in the crawl

I have no problem with the title.

Mike86

Makes sense I suppose but kind of a meh title.

Solid Snake

Kind of generic title but whatever.

rocket1312

Yah, I've always kind of liked George's goofy serial-esque titles. This one's pretty boring.

joe_b

Episode III pissed me off more than any of the prequels because it could have so easily been EPIC in the hands of a better writer. It's like George decided he needed to cram nearly every important beat the fans had been waiting over two decades to see play out (birth and separation of the twins, Obi-Wan and Yoda going into hiding, the formation of the Empire) into the last five minutes of the movie. There was SO MUCH dramatic potential to those scenes that was completely squandered by his piss poor writing. The duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin was drawn out to a tedious length and occasionally looked like a videogame with the overly showy choreography and "hopping" on hovering platforms over a lake of lava. Any dramatic weight that fight might have had went right out the window for me.

Don't forget that he totally glossed over the formation of the Rebel Alliance --paring it down to a single scene before cutting it out of the movie all together. I guess seeing the seeds being sown for the movement that would play such a vital role in the following trilogy is hardly important, right? Not to mention he chose to completely ignore things established in the OT, like Leia's memories of Padme and Luke's vague familiarity with Dagobah. We also heard Palpatine refer to a lightsaber as a "Jedi weapon" in RotJ, speaking like someone who seemingly had no use for the thing. Yet in Episode III we discover he was an expert swordsman and the lightsaber is the weapon of choice for his entire evil order? And hell, we even see the near-completed Death Star nineteen years before the thing is operational.

Personally, TPM is the one prequel I have the least problems with as a standalone film -- but as taffer mentioned, it added little to the overall trilogy and probably should have been skipped all together (and that's coming from someone who saw it in theaters 16 times that year... ).

devilshalo

Did those midichlorians go to sleep after RotJ?

mcnabb

Rumor has it The Emperor was fighting with the Stormtroopers Union for years as they had many strikes that stopped production on the Death Star. One of the main sticking points was the Stormtroopers 401K Plan, as The Emperor would not match their contributions dollar for dollar. Also, The Emperor didn't believe in paying workers time and a half for overtime, so they would clock in at 8:30 and be gone by 5:30 everyday.

The Emperor learned his lesson for Death Star II, as he brought in low-skilled labor from other planets and was near completion in a much shorter time!

TGM

they could call it "Star Wars 7: Hey, Go Fuck Yourself" and I'll still be there opening night.

milo bloom

I didn't have the same visceral reaction that I had to "Attack of the Clones" so that's good. That's really the only prequel title that ever bothered me.

Hokeyboy

"The Force Awakens"... meh. Sounds so fan-fictiony and lacks the zip-pow pizazz of Lucas's serial-infused titles.

Would "Awakening of the Force" sound better? Probably not. They should have gone with "Ghosts of the Reichstag", except that makes no sense.

Kal-El

I'm kinda glad they didn't go with "A New Dawn" or some such iteration. I also like that it's not "____ of the ___" as well.

windom

TFA...have to get used to that...sounds too much like T&A. So the Force has been asleep or something? Ep. 8 will be called "Rise of the Midi-chlorians".

Lord Zarak

bunkaroo

Soldier Field finally won't be the ugliest thing in that area.