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Posted 31 May 2005 - 04:20 PM

Hell, i find some of the star wars video games i.e. shadows of the empire and jedi outcast, to be more creatively laid out, and more entertaining than the Prequel Trilogy. Why oh why didn't you have someone else write the scripts for the PT. In all your arrogance you really thought you could pull it off?! I have read shitty love novlettes which are more engaging than your writing. Damb, don't you owe at leaste that much to the fans!!!
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Posted 31 May 2005 - 04:36 PM

QUOTE (Darth Sane @ May 31 2005, 01:20 PM)
In all your arrogance you really thought you could pull it off?! I have read shitty love novlettes which are more engaging than your writing. Damb, don't you owe at leaste that much to the fans!!!


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Posted 31 May 2005 - 06:31 PM

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im glade you agree, buddie. Episode I: what was the point? what are its contributions as to the whole of the 6-part story? um...anakin is discovered and...palpatine becomes chancelor...WOW! how exciting and relevent. Lets see Episode II: again what's the overrall point? Anakin marries padme and...palpatine is still chancelor...no wait...this time he has emergency powers! puthetic! what a wast of hundreds of millions of dollars. were spending the GDP of afganastan to answer trivial explitives.
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Posted 31 May 2005 - 06:52 PM

Yup they sucked. Knights Of The Old Republic felt more like Star Wars than these movies.
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Posted 01 June 2005 - 08:36 AM

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im glade you agree, buddie. Episode I: what was the point? what are its contributions as to the whole of the 6-part story? um...anakin is discovered and...palpatine becomes chancelor...WOW! how exciting and relevent. Lets see Episode II: again what's the overrall point? Anakin marries padme and...palpatine is still chancelor...no wait...this time he has emergency powers! puthetic! what a wast of hundreds of millions of dollars. were spending the GDP of afganastan to answer trivial explitives.


You really don't like Star Wars do you? I really don't see any reason for hating the prequels as much as you do. If we didn't have these movies, sure you could use your imagination to come up with what happened during the clone wars era, but Lucas wanted his vision to create these Prequels. Your last sentence doesn't make any sense. I don't see where you are going with the point of your post, other then saying in a million topics that you post in, PREQUELS SUCK!! Your logic doesn't make sense. Please, work on reasoning before saying bullshit like this.

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Posted 01 June 2005 - 07:16 PM

What do you mean my reasoning sucks? If the prequels are not going to be as good as the OT than they will invariable detract from the quality of the OT and bring the whole saga to new lows. Your whole idea about it being "lucas's vision" is bullshit. Lucas has a staff of hundreds of people who all contribute to the movies. Lawrence Kasdan made the scripts great and Irving Kirshner MADE the OT what it now is. I find your misplaced reverence for the non-existant talents of Lucas to be reflective of poor understanding. like I said, Lucas got EXTREMELY lucky with EP IV. It was 1977, inflation, unemployment, watergate and vietnam had just ended and he filled a collective need. Because of that one success we should be all made to endure countless horrible prequels? Do you finally see my logic. The one thing that has changed over the intermission between the OT and PT is that Lucas has gained even more creative control at the expence of other's input. Now his visions are more singular and likewise they suck because of it. Besides Dark Sith, I find your responces to be relatively unenlightening and superficial. I am merely trying to delve deeperand understand the evolution of Star Wars over the last 25 years. P.S. who are you to judge whether I like star wars. I will tell you now that I like OT, my passionate distrust of lucas is, ironically, a reflection of my strong desire to make star Wars the best that it can be. What has happened to lucasarts is the same as that has happened to every slowly decaying creative franchise. A leader or founder exherts all of his creative vision until he has little left to contribute...when he should honorably bow out and allow other's more fresh ideas to find exp​ression (to benefit of the project)...the leader arrogantly entrenches himself in his power matrix ("my vision, my vision") all to the detriment of the final creative "project." The leader becomes a leech. While he may have a legal "right" to do these things, i find it a breach of morality and integrity. wink.gif

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Posted 01 June 2005 - 08:36 PM

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What do you mean my reasoning sucks? If the prequels are not going to be as good as the OT than they will invariable detract from the quality of the OT and bring the whole saga to new lows. Your whole idea about it being "lucas's vision" is bullshit.


How is it bullshit? If you listen to ANY interview with Lucas in it, he clearly explains that it's all his vision of how the story of Anakin Skywalker should be played out. The PT will never be as good as the OT, because EACH trilogy has it's own originality to it.


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Lucas has a staff of hundreds of people who all contribute to the movies. Lawrence Kasdan made the scripts great and Irving Kirshner MADE the OT what it now is. I find your misplaced reverence for the non-existant talents of Lucas to be reflective of poor understanding. like I said, Lucas got EXTREMELY lucky with EP IV. It was 1977, inflation, unemployment, watergate and vietnam had just ended and he filled a collective need. Because of that one success we should be all made to endure countless horrible prequels? Do you finally see my logic.


I realize that Lucas had staffed over a hundred people, mostly college students and a few of his friends, I think. Sure, I know that most of that stuff happened in '77 and Lucas made Ep. IV great. I still don't see your logic or point here. I never said I wanted you or all the other Prequel haters on this board to suddenly like the Prequels.

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The one thing that has changed over the intermission between the OT and PT is that Lucas has gained even more creative control at the expence of other's input. Now his visions are more singular and likewise they suck because of it. Besides Dark Sith, I find your responces to be relatively unenlightening and superficial. I am merely trying to delve deeperand understand the evolution of Star Wars over the last 25 years. P.S. who are you to judge whether I like star wars.


Is it a problem that Lucas has gained more creative control? It isn't at the expence of other's input. He had plenty of input from others, other then Rick Mcallaum, the producer. His vision's don't suck because of it. He made these movies the way he wanted them to be made. Do I care if you find my response's unenlightening and superficial? NO!!!

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I will tell you now that I like OT, my passionate distrust of lucas is, ironically, a reflection of my strong desire to make star Wars the best that it can be. What has happened to lucasarts is the same as that has happened to every slowly decaying creative franchise. A leader or founder exherts all of his creative vision until he has little left to contribute...when he should honorably bow out and allow other's more fresh ideas to find exp​ression (to benefit of the project)...the leader arrogantly entrenches himself in his power matrix ("my vision, my vision") all to the detriment of the final creative "project." The leader becomes a leech. While he may have a legal "right" to do these things, i find it a breach of morality and integrity.


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Posted 02 June 2005 - 09:02 AM

The thing about Knights of the Old Republic is that it was a great video game that was trying to be like a movie.

The thing about Revenge of the Sith and the other prequels is that they were sub par movies trying to be like a video game.

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