The Phantom Menace 3D

[Capitano]

First off the theatre and concourse was PACKED when I walked in...For rerelease I thought that was pretty impressive. Now, on to the movie...

The ticket admission was worth the price alone by the seemingly upgraded Podracing and final battle sequences...The 3D really added much needed depth.

I for one thought this was going to be a massive flop for Lucas, so much so that this would probably be the only movie he would release in 3D, but after watching it last night it gives me hope for the other 5...

I wonder what Lucas will do with the Arena on Geonosis, Order 66, Luke's X-Wing taking out the Deathstar, Battle of Hoth, and so on and so forth. I for one can't wait to see Empire in 3D...

I am now fully in anticipation mode.

[Capitano]

Ps.... Darth Maul lives? Ahmed Best talks deleted ROTS Scene?

This is madness.

[CaptainCrunch]

How about the opening Star Destroyer scene in ANH, or the similar scene of the Venetar taking off in ROTS

[Regular_John]

Are they planning to do all 6? I'll lay down the cash to see Empire on the big screen any day of the week.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Capitano

Ps.... Darth Maul lives? Ahmed Best talks deleted ROTS Scene?

This is madness.

I did like how Jar Jar was handled after the Phantom Menace, his role was lesser, but without him it would have been far more difficult for Palpatine to execute his plans. Basically Palpatine knew that Binks was his kind of dupe.

I love the Clone War series, they just ended an excellent Bounty Hunter Obi Wan 4 part series that showed a lot about where this series is going.

I am curious there were hints that Maul had somehow survived his scrap with Kenobi, I have my doubts that its really him, but I'm looking forward to the season ending story line.

There's an expectation that next year is the final year for the Clone Wars and it will go slightly past the events of Revenge of the Sith to show the fates of the non movie characters.

Oh and as to the fate of Jar Jar Binks, it was jokingly referred to in the first Force Unleashed game



At the end of the third Robot Chicken Star Wars episode, as Palpatine falls to his death he lets go of his hate and phones the people that he screwed over. When he phones Binks its revealed that Binks had actually manipulated Palpatine and he was actually the Sith Lord that doomed the galaxy.

[OutOfTheCube]

Yeah, I don't care about the prequel trilogy or the 3D, I'd just go to see the originals on the big screen again... the first time I saw Star Wars was the '97 re-release as a kid, always remember that! Couldn't wait for the sequels to come out in theatres so we went and hit up the video store, haha.

[MrMastodonFarm]

They should really do 7, 8 and 9...but George should let someone who hasn't gone insane handle it.

[CaptainCrunch]

I really don't think that there is a story to tell for 7,8,9. If you look at Lucas' treatment of 1-9 9 was actually the end of ROTJ.

The story to an extent was about Luke Skywalker and while he was still alive, the actual story was all about Anakin Skywalker and the rise of fall of the Empire.

At the end of the 6 movies, the Sith were destroyed, Palpatine and Vader were dead, the Empire was all but beaten with no leadership, The Jedi were rising and the force was in effect balanced.

I don't think that there was and Lucas right right when he said, there was really nothing to tell.

Even the EU with the Thrawn Trilogy which was ok and thought of as a sequel idea never managed to capture the same kind of story line as the movies.

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Even the EU with the Thrawn Trilogy which was ok and thought of as a sequel idea never managed to capture the same kind of story line as the movies.

See, I always felt that with a bit of work and a bit of tightening up, that the Thrawn trilogy would make an awesome series of 3 movies.

[Igottago]

It would be great if there was a new Star Wars movie made but someone other than George Lucas comes up with writing it and the direction for it. Doesn't even need to be related to the original story. Maybe someone can do for Star Wars what Nolan did for Batman.

Lucas re-hashing the same movies time and time again is beyond stupid now, and don't even get me start on his ridiculous changes to the originals. Not to mention the turds that were Episodes 1-3.

It would be nice to be able to enjoy the Star Wars universe again but Lucas has pretty much ensured that not only do I not enjoy what Star Wars is anymore, I actually can't stand the franchise anymore in a lot of ways.

The last Star Wars related anything I enjoyed was Knights of the Old Republic on Xbox.

[SebC]

An idea if they did a good job with the conversion? Star Wars has always been the series that I've wished was in 3D, but it needs to be done well.

[CaptainCrunch]

I don't know, I just reread it.

With a couple of Exceptions Thrawn was built up as this awesome super Admiral who was strategically unbeatable, Yet if you go back and re read the book he in effect is the zeppo of the books. He loses pretty much every battle, is duped at almost every turn and literally loses control of every tactical situation.

and don't get me going about the cloned mad jedi that they wanted to make into an emperor wannabe but in the end he's struck down as easily as me backhanding a midget.

There was just no menace to the whole thing when Lando and Han and Luke and Leia basically kick the crap out of Thrawn in every major operation in the book.

And the end of Thrawn to me was really kind of lame.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Is it 3D only? I'm not a huge 3D fan and would prefer to see the originals on the big screen in 2D.

[Capitano]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

See, I always felt that with a bit of work and a bit of tightening up, that the Thrawn trilogy would make an awesome series of 3 movies.

What about Luuke though? The one blemish on that trilogy if you ask me.. All the actors would have to be recast also.

Sadly, I don't think we will see any more Star Wars live actions movies for a long time...

[SebC]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Is it 3D only? I'm not a huge 3D fan and would prefer to see the originals on the big screen in 2D.

http://www.2d-glasses.com/

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I don't know, I just reread it.

Hm, I may have to do the same. It's probably been a good 5 years since I last re-read them, and I may be mis-remembering or have a different perspective now.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Igottago

It would be great if there was a new Star Wars movie made but someone other than George Lucas comes up with writing it and the direction for it. Doesn't even need to be related to the original story. Maybe someone can do for Star Wars what Nolan did for Batman.

Lucas re-hashing the same movies time and time again is beyond stupid now, and don't even get me start on his ridiculous changes to the originals. Not to mention the turds that were Episodes 1-3.

It would be nice to be able to enjoy the Star Wars universe again but Lucas has pretty much ensured that not only do I not enjoy what Star Wars is anymore, I actually can't stand the franchise anymore in a lot of ways.

The last Star Wars related anything I enjoyed was Knights of the Old Republic on Xbox.

I guess I'm the counter, to an extent I enjoyed the trilogies, I was able to get by the Binks thing which was the Ewok bomb of the original trilogy and some of the bad acting by Portman and Christenson because of the underlying story line and the strong acting by MacGregor and Ian McDarmid among others.

I loved the space battle at the start of Sith.

I loved the fight between Maul and the Jedi and the fight between Anakin and Kenobi.

I became a huge fan of Palpatine who manipulated things throughout the first three movies and became more then the Monster of the week that he was in Jedi.

I loved the back story on the clone Troopers to Storm Troopers.

While it wasn't Oscar worthy if you go back and watch the original trilogies outside of Empire ANH really dragged in a lot of places and the acting wasn't great, and Jedi while it had some exceptional scenes suffered the same underdeveloped plot point issues as Sith.

I really don't want to see another Star Wars movie, I think that the story ended where it should have ended, and I'm getting my Star Wars fill with Clone Wars which I think is very strong.

I don't want remakes with different actors, I don't want a Star Wars Galaxy without the Sith menace.

Frankly if they did another movie without the Sith, it would basically be Luke Skywalker owning everything as the only real Jedi left in the Galaxy.

I mean the line from Vader, the power to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force, basically means that some non force using enemy would see Skywalker crushing ships into cubes from a distance while laughing and texting Leia "Pwned Ha Ha"

[Capitano]

I find that if you accept both sets of movies for what they are, you won't be nearly as dissapointed as you were say in 1999. To me, there is still parts of the prequels that are just as memorable as the OT.

Movie theatre technology I feel has also improved drastically, at least in my experience. The difference between seeing TPM in a small dusty, independent theatre with small by todays standards screen, as opposed to seeing it on a brand new state of the art theatre set up of today, is night and day also.

The visuals were superb last night.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

Hm, I may have to do the same. It's probably been a good 5 years since I last re-read them, and I may be mis-remembering or have a different perspective now.

EU does get worse as it goes along, the Jedi Academy series which leads to the Rise of Daala reduces the Empire to clown proportions, and most of the other EU books are supervillian superweapon stupidity to the max.

The best books of the EU are the old republic books, the Bane series, and the books that take place during the rise of Palpatine. The Dark Lord trilogy which chronical the fall and rise of Vader over three books including Revenge of the Sith still stand as the best written series of the EU with the Bane books as a close second.

However the recent Dath Plageous book that was just released was excellent.

I have a lot of trouble reading the Yuuzghan (sp) and Legacy of the Force series.

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

EU does get worse as it goes along, the Jedi Academy series which leads to the Rise of Daala reduces the Empire to clown proportions, and most of the other EU books are supervillian superweapon stupidity to the max.

The best books of the EU are the old republic books, the Bane series, and the books that take place during the rise of Palpatine. The Dark Lord trilogy which chronical the fall and rise of Vader over three books including Revenge of the Sith still stand as the best written series of the EU with the Bane books as a close second.

However the recent Dath Plageous book that was just released was excellent.

I have a lot of trouble reading the Yuuzghan (sp) and Legacy of the Force series.

Hm, I may have to look more into this. My foray into the EU was pretty much the three Thrawn books. I've been thinking about picking up some new reading material of late, and have a bit of extra throw-around money. May look at some of what you've mentioned here.