OT: Star Wars Episode 2...

[HEMAN]

Saw it friday,tho i like the movie better then ESP 1 ,I will see it again just for the clone battle & the litte green guy fight... NOTE; made me want to go to bathroom, . You guys are right?? there should of been more of chacter identy,like names of master jedi es, etc. I cant remember where, b ut all MASTER jedi es have a unique force ability traight,which shouldve been in movie,Besides that wind push me back . I dont know his name but he has a long neck and can stop a persons heart. Also a lady jedy that can leap like a frog & swing attack .

[tesco samoa]

Another problem I think is that were waiting ( the older people here) for some of that magic spark to appear. ( You know the one where you just smile at the screen and get sucked right into to movie and say 'yeaaaaaaaaaaaa') and it is not there.

The backgrounds are amazing. I just wish that attention to detail was included in the foreground.

[Captain Kwok]

I'm going to see it in about an hour. I have no expectations except to see some big spaceships...that is all I hope for. I have never expected Star Wars to be any more than that.

[tesco samoa]

And the sound of the ships is fantastic. Especially when they enter planet atmosphere.

You will like the sound that the mines make.

Notice how I do not give away anything about the story

[geoschmo]

I would be interested to hear along with people's opinions of whether or not they liked Episode 2 (and 1 for that matter) how old they are and whether or not they saw the original when it hit the big screen 20 years ago.

I have a theory, and it may be wrong, that the new movies are not so bad, even in comparison to the originals. They only suffer by comparison because our expectations are so higher. When Star Wars hit in 77, nothing even close had ever been seen by anyone. I think that seeing Star Wars for the first time in 1977 was probably the closest our generation could come to the way the people first seeing movies in the early part of the century. It was that much of a step above what else was out there.

We were so blown away that we overlooked a lot of it's faults. I can remember even as a ten year old thinking Luke was a major whiner, but Han Solo was very cool. There's your awesome character development. Luke didn't really become more than a cardboard cutout till late in the Empire Strikes Back IMHO. So Annikan is right on pace, no?

And was Jar Jar Binks really any more annoying than C-3PO in the original? It's called comic relief. They are supposed to be annoying aren't they?

I think a lot of older people were expecting that same "blown away" feeling this time around. The problem is the state of the art is so much better now, because of Star Wars in large part, that that just isn't possible.

For those of you that are younger and saw Star Wars later, maybe even after movies like Aliens or other more recent sci-fi flicks, what did you think of Eps1 and 2 compared to the originals?

Geoschmo

[Phoenix-D]

"I would be interested to hear along with people's opinions of whether or not they liked Episode 2 (and 1 for that matter) how old they are and whether or not they saw the original when it hit the big screen 20 years ago."

I haven't seen the Star Wars movies *period*, besides Ep.1. I disliked that. I've seen bits and pieces of the others, and wasn't hugely impressed with them either.

Phoenix-D

[Puke]

taking the plunge in about two hours. if any SF locals are on this board, and you see a skinny hair-farmer with 3 day scruff and biker leather at the AMC Van-Ness, thats me. make a rude gesture or something.