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I guess my problem with them is that aside from the music, they don't feel like Star Wars movies at all. Sometimes there is simply too much going on. And personally, I'm sick of huge epic war scenes. I loved Braveheart, and now it seems like every movie needs some huge epic million-man battle.
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thats one thing that I really like about Lucas is his huge attention to detail when he makes his films. I love the fact that you can see birds taking off during the Naboo invasion theme. I loved the massive battle happening in the background during Palpatine's rescue.
It wasn't just Jar Jar Binks that ruined Star Wars for me, it was:
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- OVER CGI'd to HELL! (Star Trek has real sets, and even this new one has lots of real sets).
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All movies are over cgi'd and over wire stunted. But I thought that the CGI work in the last two movies was amazing.
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- - Even more annoying droid voices/banter.
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Beats ewok banter.
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- - Massive over-use of the light saber. It stopped being cool.
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My favorite part of the star wars universe was the concept in a hyper advanced galaxy with laser guns and monsterous star ships and massive battles that there was still this funky old fighting custom with a bit of a code of honour.
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- - Ewan McGregor's innate ability to over-act.
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After watching the original trilogy and then the prequel I thougt McGregor was awesome in that role.
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- - WTFs his name who played Anikin simply cannot act at all. I thought their apocalyptic light-saber duel looked cheesy and was anti-climactic. Luke's battles with Darth in ESB and ROTJ were 1,000,000-times more satisfying. Especially ESB.
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Hayden Christenson (sp?) is usually a pretty good actor. One thing that Lucas can't seem to do is write smooth dialogue and I think that crippled the actors a bit. Harrison Ford once said "George you might be able to write this sh%t, but we still have to speak it"
Its impossible to compare the lightsabre fights in the original with the prequel. For one thing, the technology in the first movies really limited what they could do. In a Star Wars universe sense Lucas even talked about it. In the first movies Luke even in ROTJ was not really a trained Jedi, he hadn't had years of training, plus by the events in the ROTJ Vader was a busted down 60 year old in a immobile suit that really hadn't fought a lot of jedi's so his fighting level was low.
The prequel was all about classically trained swordsmen, the original was all about emotional blade bashing.
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- - The space-ships looked like they were made of polished porcelain. The new Trek makes a big deal of showing you how much metal the ship is actually made of.
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That was the idea and the big difference between the prequel and the original. In the prequel the ships were suppossed to have polished, clean new never fought in looks to reflect the galaxy at the height of the old republic, they were suppossed to be flying works of art. As the prequels progressed the ships became more grungy, dirty and functional looking to show the slide of the galaxy away from the republic towards a cynical functional empire. Then in the original most of the ships looked on the verge of breakdown, except for the Imperial ships which were powerfull and looked mass produced.
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- - The force was cooler before it became a plot-hole. Why is it that sometimes they can blow over entire batallions of troops but others couldn't possibly concentrate enough to pull down a narrowly-missed ascending spaceship?
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The dark side clouds everything. I did hate the idea of microscopic parasites controlling the force though that was stupid.
