[OT] More George Lucas bashing.

[HoneyBadger]

Yeah, Chewie is cool forever (and screw whichever author claims that he "gave his life to save some Jedi brat" nonsense, and screw Lucas for giving the ok on letting someone write that kind of crap). Jarjar does things with goats in hell that, were I to detail them, would get me banned from this forum forever. The guy who played him was twice the actor (and gave twice the performance) that the actors playing Anakin and Amidala were in the movie, though, I will say that much. It's a shame too, because I really like Natalie Portman as an actress. Even Samuel L "Explitive-YOU!" Jackson was a little off in the movies.

Jedi aren't supposed to get married, they're not supposed to have sex, and they play with light-sabres. Yeah, I would too. My take on Mitochondria is that George read or played Parasite Eve and liked the idea so much he stole it.
Apparently, he's a big Japanophile (I am too, so this isn't really George Lucas-bashing in and of itself, it means you dig Japanese things/culture) so that makes sense.

Atleast they didn't totally screw up with Yoda. Yoda's my favorite, and within the boundaries of the bad going on in the movies, they managed to atleast give good Yoda. Ian McDairmid easily gave the best performance in the movies, followed closely by Christopher Lee, Liam Neeson, and Ewan McGregor.

There are bad spots in the movie, and there are good spots. Overall, I think some really skilled editor with plenty of CGI could fix the first three movies into something more than just watchable.

One thing I will say though, Star Wars was fantasy, was intended to be fantasy, remains fantasy. It's just not and never has been science fiction, let alone HARD science fiction. It just dresses up in science fiction's clothes, calls itself "Sheila", and goes to bars to pick up men. And so all the stupid bits that we can look at and say "that's just plain silly" were done for effect, not based on reason.