In fact the fakeness is spot on for me. I just felt, among many things, the CGI in the prequels was too clean and shiney. When we had real Yoda and troopers and such, they were there, interacting, solid and grimey. The CGI just slide through it all. Almost ethereal for me. No good.

Hey, this is fun!

It’s good to be part of the gang… ;p

I guess we can all be food critics now… just imagine some of the movies IF THEY REALLY WERE a meal you had to eat.

Hmmm, I think I’d be fat and stupid right now with all the movies I’ve watched… but that’s not what I really meant… Cause in that universe no one would get fat watching movies. But, I can imagine some pretty horrible dishes, even dogs would turn their backs on… and I pretty much ate em all…

Ya know it was kinda loosely established that Chewee new Yoda based on the premise that Obi Wan knew Chewee in the Cantina bar (TNH).
The worst part of (PM) was that troll looker yoda puppet. Wow wow they blew that one.

Stephen, you pretty much said what I was thinking, pretty much right on the money.

Vic

Like you say : The thing I think is missing from this statement is the fact that different ingredients were used for the….

Well, here’s the thing that would sum it up nicely.

Star Wars Episode 4,5 and 6 were produces with the best and most organic raw materials possible. Freshly grown ideas, a healthy amount of inspiration and innovation. All very organic and healthy… Right? That’s why they were so easily digestible for the general public.

Now come the new and improved repackaging of Star Wars. This time it’s Episode 1,2 and 3! Jam packed with a lethal dose of MSG (artificial food enhancer) and tons of tons of aspartame (fake sugar) to leave you with serious holes in your mind. The amount of regurgitated dialogue with too much eye candy (artificial colors were used in this meal). Then the eye candy became bitter and pointless… leaving you with a bad taste after you’re done with the main course. After all, the eye candy you were just exposed to has taken it’s effect. Like aspartame you enjoy a momentary rush if joy and excitement, you’re even a bit hyped up at the end. But then that high subsides quite quickly, leaving you to wonder if it was even worth it.

Ok, I’ve done my bid to add to the whole food comparison…

NOW I AM A PART OF THE GANG!! YAY!!!
;p

Quite agree on the ingredients too. Compare Luke’s transformation from farm kid, to wannabe Jedi, to Shaft, strutting around as he takes down Jabba and then the Empire.

Then take Anakin’s arc. Whiney kid, to whiney teenager, to whiney, um, teenager. They just don’t compare.

I do think the PM was a good little scifi flick, but the prequels just don’t satisfy as part of the Star Wars universe.
(I mean in RotS Chewie and Yoda know each other?!)

Star Wars was a iconic event of historic proportions.

I say Lucas was lucky Empire and Return didn’t suck compaired to “A new hope”.

“The original Star Wars movies are like the greatest meal that you have ever had. You want second helpings, and you get them, it’s just that they don’t taste as nice second time around. You can’t really complain to the chef. You got what you wanted – twice!”

The thing I think is missing from this statement is the fact that different ingredients were used for the “same” meal. It may be packaged the same way, only with brighter colors and a flashier ad campaign, but the parts that make up the whole are COMPLETELY inferior to the original. If you weren’t disappointed with the prequels, then you weren’t paying attention.

I have a friend who, every time I mention a book, she says read it or got it. Not so up on the movies.
Me I love both!

Your correct on that…..

Then it might well seem strange to you. Maybe I should have tried reading as a comparison.

Not really. Transformers collecting has probably more than made up for it.

“It must be strange to not have seen those films.”

Probably no stranger than you may feel not having seen some other popular/successful movie series or TV show. And I’m sure I’ve probably seen bits and pieces while channel flipping.

It must be strange to not have seen those films.

As far as I recall, I only ever saw the original movie from the 70′s. I didn’t like it, and I never bothered with the other 5. If I did see the other two of the original trilogy, I don’t remember them.