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If Nostradamus existed to predict a series of **** Sci-Fi movies, I've lost faith in humanity.

[QUOTE="GreenMagic469, post: 1494975, member: 39956"]If Nostradamus existed to predict a series of ****ty Sci-Fi movies, I've lost faith in humanity.[/QUOTE]

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I see someone doesn't have a high view of George Lucas' series of sci-fi films.

If you hate Star Wars as a whole, then that's a first in my book. This topic might be interesting after all ;)

Nah, SD hates Star Wars. It mostly has to do with a large majority of the scripts being whiney dysfunctional characters, I think. I only liked the first and second ones for the space segments and Hoth, really. I do think Return is good while they're on Tattoine but the rest is like a completely different film. At the age I'm at, pretty much all of the characters and lore can take a hike but those ship models and animation are still gorgeous to this day.

Come to think, she'd probably at least like Return in about the same amount that I do, if you could hack it off and just make it a standalone.

Yeah, but did he predict when Half-Life 3's coming out?

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You know it's true.

[QUOTE="Revenant User, post: 1494998, member: 35827"]Yeah, but did he predict when Half-Life 3's coming out?[/QUOTE]
Star Wars has two trilogies, a trilogy has 3 entries in it: Half Life 6 confirmed.

Return was kind of campy. Star Wars would have been my favorite series if it weren't for the prequels. I could have lived with the campiness of Return but then. . .yeah. . .

I like Empire Strikes Back.

I think New Hope is my fav. I'm very fond of mythology and adaptations of mythologies and previous critically acclaimed word. New Hope was pretty much almost a complete revitalization of Akira Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress.

Val liked RotJ the best. Tatooine, the space battle over Endor and the final duel between Luke and Vader makes up for all that Ewok ****.

Here's my problem with Star Wars. It feels like a sellout. For as diverse and vast as the story world is, it's almost too vast. It gets caught up in its own complexities far too much. The first three in the trilogy were cool, sure, especially for the time since nothing like that existed before. But that's all it should have been: a trilogy of cool 70's Sci-Fi movies. They've now turned it into a ridiculous franchise where you have unholy concotions like "Angry Birds Star Wars". That reeks of cash-in to me. It's the same problem I have with the Simspons, Family Guy, and pretty much every other super well-known film/TV franchise... It loses the magic in favor of plastering its logo/characters on everything in creation and is no longer unique or interesting. After the 1000th time seeing guys in brown hoodies with blue laser swords, it gets a little old and doesn't feel very special.

in a perfect world nothing would be overcommercialized and s*** like that but I'm not gonna let the fact that George Lucas really likes money get in the way of enjoying the films (well, except for the prequel trilogy when George Lucas's love for money actively got in the way of making enjoyable films) because those should be judged on their own merits

^^ To be honest, I think like most popular epics, Star Wars as a whole is a bit too shallow to sustain its scope. It's impressive that it held up so well for the first 3 films, but then the world needed to grow. The prequels' biggest crime is simply that it reminds you too often that you're watching film. When new ideas are introduced, a good deal of it nags at the subconscious, as though much of it was put in simply because that's what someone thought would sell a movie. The characters exist as a secondary thought, they exist because the films required them. The first trilogy reads inversely, where the characters are the story and the setting is dressing for them.

But much like happened with the Matrix, one might surmise that Lucas simply felt he'd outgrown his source material, and now lacked competent material to steal from whole-heartedly.