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Originally posted by ernie@May 4 2005, 06:02 AM
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The acting -- the lines in the original trilogy were cheesy but the acting was decent. In the prequels the dialogue is worse and, while McGregor and Liam Neeson have been decent, Jake Llyod and Hayden Christensen have been awful.
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Yep because Mark Hamill was a great actor 
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The Tone -- As I said before, watch the Battle of Hoth in Empire vs. The Gungan Battle in Ep I. Completely different tones; the first great sci-fi action, the latter a kids cartoon. There are hundreds of similar examples.
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Perhaps. Or perhaps it's because of how old you are when you saw and loved the originals versus now. Kids now love those battle scenes as much as we did those in the first movies. Different yes but both are good action. Both were made for kids and loved by the kids that saw them.
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Fine but what you're missing is the fact that the original triology was loved by adults as much as kids. The original movies were not just kid movies. Talk to people who were in their 20s/30s at the time and they love those movies just as much as those of us that were kids at the time.
The new movies may be great for kids but its the limited appeal of them and inability to satisfy an adult audience that makes them a gigantic failure.