[Darth Sane]

Its so sad to see my childhood die right before my eyes at the hands of some moronic egomaniac (GL) who got EXTREMELY lucky with star wars, enlisted the help of true talents to make the trilogy work and then managed to stuff star wars down our necks with McDonalds peal-away stickers and lego sets. The Prequels are the purest manifestation of GL's complete lack of any talent save that of marketing and hyping a cultural phenominae. You see, he holds the reigns to a cultural "pathos" with has since robbed me and millions of fans who eagerly awaited TPM and saw the rest of the PT because we were hyptomotized and seduced and held in the chackles of our own imaginations and dreams, which have inadvertantly become disgustingly interwined with georges Sci-fi platform. George Lucas is a complete sell out. But he is also MUCH MORE than that... He IS emperor palpatine. He has managed to EXPLOIT our dreams and beliefs, our imaginations and our hopes, which have been fortefied and made realistic by his iconographic original series. We (the fans of the OT) are now his TWISTED RECEPTICLES, brainwashed by the majic of the OT into taking the PT for granted and giving into his fortunes by seeing the utterly horrible movies and purchesing the PT murchendise. But then again...we are the haggard, half-souls of a forgoten age in movie-making: who long for a time when stories were not about making money and CGI digital age corporate nonsense. George Lucas's is the ULTIMATE BETRAYEL. What GL has done is completely unethical, and for that he must be dejected.

[Darth Sane]

People have begun to realize that after weighting eagerly for 15 years and camping out six months ahead of time to see TPM only to be rudely disgusted by Lucas's total defamation of everything that was so dear and wondeful about the star wars universe, they simply have lost faith in him as a storyteller and now see him only as the head of a giant merchandising machine that is more intent on producing cool action figures and CGI extravaganzas than beautifull stories and heart warming characters. You see, the fact that fan's have stopped loving star wars so much is not due to their lack of star wars fanaticism, it is exactly because of it! They respect and admire the TRUE Star Wars, the original series, so much that they will go out of their way to try and ignore and disregard the existance of a prequel trilogy that tarneshes and reflects badly on the sacredness of the original canon.
Lets face it, the CGI (which never looks life-like or majical and always reminds the viewer of a video game) overloading, horribly dull acting and god-awfull dialogg ("Ive been dying a little bit each day since you returned," - eeew) as well as an air of self-concious pomposity (this is starwars, we are great and we know it) create horrible movies. Some people are willing to call them good simply because they are star wars fans and the prequels are also titled "star wars." However, i am assuming you are smart (as many star wars fans are) you know they are nothing like the original-they never captivate your imagination, fill you with a sence of wonder, and make you jump up and yell and become emotionally involved with the characters. They dont carry you through emotionally, they simply bombard you with hords of nicely rendered CGI, unload tons of exposition ( a fatal mistake that lukas makes: he tells us instead of shows us i.e. we only find out annikin loves padme because he says it so many god-awfull times. the Han-leia dynamic was movie like because the audience was seduced along with leia by han solo's charm and subtle effectionate and carring "actions." Trust me, the fans agree with me (oh so many fans) the critics agree with me (oh so many) and even many workers at ILM and Lucas arts have expressed their dissatisfaction with the new films (contact me for articles and information). Not even the mediocrity of Episode III can redeem the failures of the prequal as a whole. (Anakin turns to the dark side and screws over everyone in the entire GALAXY because, possibly, "maybe" he and the emperor can "work together" to one day "discover" the "1000 year old secret" behind saving a person's life and thus padme's) What the hell?! He turns because of this? And he just accepts it as fact, he doesn't think maybe the "sith lord" (everything he has been trained to know as decietfull and evil) is lying!? Come on!!!! That is what we waited for for 25+ years. I could have written a better turning (a less abrupt and more emotional) to the dark side. Hell! Francis Ford Copola did it correctly for Don Corlion in The Godfather, and he only needed one movie! He also had enough creative talent left for an awsome sequal! Are you starting to see my logic pal!? Because i love star wars, i love the original series. There will always be an empty seat with my name on it in a prequel trillogy theatre showing. Its just that, me and the rest of the sensible fans will never be poisoned by corporate, pretentious money making over-hyped and hollow rehashes of our sacred Star Wars.

[SPQR]

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Who is the 'you' referred to in the reply to your own post, your other longwinded personality?

[Dunedain]

However, i am assuming you are smart

Smart enough to know that it's "magic" with a "g", dumb enough to actually like e1-3.

But seriously, it's a good rant. Entirely subjective- but, nonetheless, obviously your personal feelings.

It kind of reminds me of what my father said as we were leaving the theater after seeing e4 way back when. I was an entranced kid chanting my new-found mantra of "jedi, jedi, jedi". My father looks at my mother and says "That has got to be the worst movie I have ever seen. Who wants to pay money to watch two robots walking around a desert? The only decent part was when those two guys fought with those swords".

I suppose the lesson is, subjective is as subjective believes.

Side note: Speaking of "this many people agree with me". Well, I think that things like "N'synch" prove that, despite what is reported by newspapers and entertainment magazines, millions of screaming fans actually can be wrong.