That's a great thread! I'm only halfway through it, but I totally agree with you when you said that the more you think about the movie, the less you like it (or something like that). I still liked it, even though it obviously sucked.

I also have a confession that will probably prevent me from ever being accepted amongst Star Wars geeks. I like the ewoks. A lot. :blush:

An extended Star Wars thread and I just don't feel like adding anything to it.

I feel a part of my youth fadeing away into the mists of time.

A moment of silence for my lost youth if you please....

Lost? Bah! Murdered, I say. Murdered by Lucas himself!

Am I the only one who was forced to sing the Ewok song in music class? Repeatedly?

Yub nub!
Eee chop yub nub!
Ah toe meet toe pee-chee keene
g'noop dock fling oh ah!

Coatee cha tu goo (Yub nub!)
coatee cha tu doo (Yahwah!)
coatee cha tu too (Ya chaa!)
allay loo ta nuv
allay loo ta nuv
allay loo ta nuv...


No, I did NOT know these lyrics. Thank God, my geekiness ends before then. Traci, try loving the Ewoks after reading the translated lyrics. :evil:




Oh, and I love the Ewoks too, but cut me some slack, I was six when Jedi came out.

Who wouldn't love dancing teddy bears when they were 6? I was going to make some joke about the Ewoks and spawning Teddy Ruxpin but on my date hunt I became seriously disturbed (but not suprised) at the amount of TR tribute sites.
I took Ep III for what it was. How Anakin Skywalker turns into James Earl Jones.

Why thank you, I umm errr feel better now I guess...

I think the untranslated lyrics are more painful to read! Good lord. I was tiny when Jedi came out, but I didn't get to see it until much later. I used to play Ewoks with my friends though. I seem to recall some weird Ewok movie with horrible child actors. I'm trying to block it out.

Ewoks are awesome. Yes, they are small, furry, loveable creatures. Aliens of a different scale aid in the illusion. Your choices are big or small. For sympathetic characters creatures, do you want nice or mean? And for friendly aliens, would you prefer scales to fur? It's very easy to complain about the Ewoks, and very shortsighted.


And it's such a canard to praise The Empire Strikes Back as the great Star Wars film. It's a dark, dark movie, in look and in tone, with the main characters quite miserable and unhappy throughout. It may be a good movie, but it can't be the best of the Star Wars films with such a downbeat mood and such paucity of fun. Sometimes I think Star Wars fans don't have a clue what makes Star Wars Star Wars.




Oh, was I going on about the original trilogy in a thread about the new films? Sorry, I'm just practicing pretending that the "new trilogy" never happened.

They made a new trilogy??