The Star Wars movies

[CrimsonGhost]

Star Wars and Empire... Everything else is an extended toy commercial.

I wasn't confused by what you meant when you wrote "Star Wars". No one was.

[MIB41]

Star Wars and Empire... Everything else is an extended toy commercial.

[CrimsonGhost]

Ah, nevermind.

[MicromanZone]

You’re right. The second I hear someone refer to “Episode IV” or “A New Hope” I know it’s time for me to leave the discussion because the conversation will be about a universe that really never existed prior to George Lucas becoming a true control freak.

[huedell]

Also, anyone telling me the first Star Wars is really Episode IV: A New Hope should be forced to eat a barrel of Yoda’s soup. The first movie is Star Wars PERIOD!

It's (somewhat) admirable to take a stand for what you believe in...
but...uh there's 6 STAR WARS movies... and on the very boards where
40 year olds whine about movies existing, the films get talked to death...
so, it's a lot easier to refer to the "original Star Wars movie" as ANH
or Ep. 4--- so there's less confusion... gripes & Yoda soup be damned.

[toyman]

Star Wars
Empire
RotJ
Sith
AotC
Phantom Menace

Same here.

[torgospizza]

Star Wars
Empire
RotJ
Sith
AotC
Phantom Menace

[MicromanZone]

Dammit! Now I have to revise my list too:

1. Turkish Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Jedi
3. Jedi Returns Back
4. Jedi Strikes The Empire Back
5. The Return of the Empire Strikes Back
6. The Empire's Jedi Returns Back Again

I think that's all of them, right?

You forgot:
A New Hope of the Sith: The Prime Council’s Prometheus Addendum Adventure

Also, anyone telling me the first Star Wars is really Episode IV: A New Hope should be forced to eat a barrel of Yoda’s soup. The first movie is Star Wars PERIOD!

[CrimsonGhost]

1. Empire
2. Star Wars
3. Jedi
4. Droids Cartoon
5. Hardware Wars
6. Ewok Adventure
7. Holiday Special
8. Howard the Duck
9. A trip to the dentist
10. Punch in the throat
11. Revenge of the Sith (re-arrange the letters in "SITH" and it becomes more accurate)
12. That other one
13. The first one

Bought the prequels on DVD in an honest attempt to understand them, hoping maybe the commentary would help. Nope. Characters still have no personality, plot still convoluted.

[huedell]

I'll watch 'Sith' in a couple of days.

If you thought the other two were OK... odds are you'll love Sith as I did
because it is the only one of the 3 that (to me) is a prequel in a pure "direct"
sense... the film kinda ends on a "Star Wars 1977" note altho' the
official time distance is a large 19 years. The whole film retains that
vibe much better than 1 & 2 IMHO.

I do find it incredibly strange that Lucas acts like he's ashamed of the original unaltered trilogy. Without those three films, he'd only be known as the guy who directed American Graffiti and Howard The Duck.

Yeah.... well... the haters would enjoy you believing Lucas directed
HOWARD THE DUCK, when Willard Huyck actually was the one who did.

The haters lambast Howard so bad you'd think it was Plan 9... and you'd also think that Lucas was more involved than producing it... mostly to
show off LucasFilms' SFX.

And we all know AMERICAN GRAFFITI was a solid film no matter who says what.

Fine legacy with or without the STAR WARS films... and redoing them
doesn't mean Lucas totally disavows the originals.... why work on them
again then? It's just to make a great thing greater... I'm sure Lucas would agree.

[Hector]

I think Gene Roddenberry secured his respect from fans by dying relatively early in Star Trek's lifetime.

Wow...to croak early...so my geek fans can respect me more...as opposed to living a long and healthy life.

God forbid...

[Hector]

not at all that's one of my all time faves...I love the Qui gon and Watto characters

Pobrecitio...te descalabraste de niño?

[Tothiro]

. Without those three films, he'd only be known as the guy who directed American Graffiti and Howard The Duck.

I'd remember him as the guy who was the entire 9th unit for Raiders, that had most of his footage cut but helped fund the project.

[GlobalObserver]

I've avoided watching the prequels until just a few days ago. I finally watched episodes I & II and I didn't think that they were nearly as awful as a lot of fans make them out to be.

I was 12 years old when the original Star Wars came out. I consider myself to be a fan of the original trilogy, but I'm not a fanatic. Star Wars isn't my religion like it is with some people.

I'll watch 'Sith' in a couple of days. I still haven't watched any of the expanded editions of the original three films, but I probably will one day, out of curiosity, if nothing else.

I do find it incredibly strange that Lucas acts like he's ashamed of the original unaltered trilogy. Without those three films, he'd only be known as the guy who directed American Graffiti and Howard The Duck.

[Tothiro]

I need a link or a burn to Turkish SW before I amend my original post.

Well... here's the classic training sequence edit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufQD5Y31ZA

But if that's not your thing try Indian Superman