Oh God what I geek I am, Goobye all..

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I know one thing, MY kids will be watching it in the correct order (original trilogy first).

Can we just tell them Ep.1-3 are not part of our belief system, kind of like the New Testament?

[scaeagles]

Speaking as a man with a sister.....ick! I have always been grossed out by the Luke/Leia kiss ever since we learned they were twins.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Heh, I guess you're right. Especially since the line itself is an absolute!

[Name]

Holy cow, in movie news, ep III grossed 50 million on thursday.......WOW.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050520/...ars_box_office

The last of the "Star Wars" movies has done what no movie in history has ever accomplished — sold $50 million worth of tickets in a single day.

[Name]

Originally Posted by jdramj

Nah...if you're me, you just have to fire up the old laser disc player

(BTW I read a review somewhere recently that said the laser disc editions of 4-5-6 were the best and still original versions out there.)

Yeah, there is always that way too.(damn, shoulda bought the laser disc player)

Originally Posted by cstephens

LETTERBOXED. None of this panned-and-scanned crap.

but of course, only go the pan-and-scan route for the regular watching though, for those special viewings I get out the letterbox set(don't want to wear them out too fast. maybe one day I will get around to getting a video capture card and making a backup of my treasured star wars movies that I have on VHS).

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I have the OT on VHS....but it's pan and scan! Was a cheap-o purchase from a friend back when the SE's came out. I can't even watch it, really.

[mousepod]

Just came back from RotS... had to wait to see it on a local digi screen.
I'll keep it brief for now:
Enjoyed it, flaws and all. I caught the "Emperor" continuity error, too. It bugged me for about 5 minutes, but I wrote it off as just a gaffe - some of the greatest films have 'em.

I got ready for this flick by watching all the OT (original letterboxed version, thank you), EP I & II, and the Clone Wars cartoon series - in that order.

In that context, I was reminded what a silly hoot Star Wars was when I saw it at 10 years old - that Empire was brilliant, and how disappointed I was by Jedi, especially the friggin' Ewoks. Episodes I and II were hardly better on DVD than they were in the theater...but a little time has taken the bitter edge off my disappointment and disgust. However, I admit that I loved the Clone Wars series. I know they're technically not any more canonical than, say, The Ewok Adventure, but they truly kick ass, and set up EP III perfectly. Heather and I watched Clone Wars just before going to the theater this afternoon, and with our heads in the "cartoon" state surely made us a lot more forgiving of some of the crap dialogue of Sith.

I've heard reviews that call Sith the best SW film since Empire - I'm certainly not going to go that far... but I will say it supplied good stupid SW fun I haven't seen since '77. So Lucas gets my thumbs up.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I have the OT on laserdisc still. I need to find a laser disk player!

Me: I enjoyed EP3 much better than Ep2 & Ep1. Having watched The Clone Wars cartoon and read the comic adaptation really set up the film for me and I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much had I not. I'm sure some of the stuff the left out of the film that was in the comic adaptation will make its way onto the DVD.

Now only if they could take the look and feel of the Cartoon Network series and do versions of Ep 1-3, that would be freekin' cool.

[Ghoulish Delight]

The more I think about Obi-Wan sacrificing himself in the context of EpIII, the more interesting it is. Think about it, what turns out to be Anikin's major flaw? His unwillingness to sacrafice someone he loves for the greater good. He does anything to save Padme instead of doing what he must do.

Well, by the time he's fighting Vader on the destroyer, Obi-Wan's learned his leason. He knows Luke is his father's son, and knows he will make that same decission, attempt to help instead of doing what he must do. So he takes that option away from him by sacrificing himself (oh, for the record Moonliner, I was kidding about the "die in front of Luke" thing, I'm well aware of the meaning of Obi-Wan's sacrifice). So that actually ties in really well.

Still a bad movie with bad acting, bad dialog, and bad editing. And if you have to read and view suplementary material to "get it", that's even worse.

[FEJ]

I saws the movie twice this weekend. Once at the Arclight and once at the Big Newport.
It was better the second time around. even the love scenes didnt seem as long an as bad.
I was happpy with it. It completed the trilogy, connecting epII with epIV.

As for continuity glitches between the original trilogy and the second trilogy, I forgive them. Since ep 1-3 were just outlines/ideas and not completly written, if that, not everything can be connected. Some things need to be looked past a little in order to enjoy the overall tale.

I really liked this movie, and it made all of the episodes more enjoyable. The more I take it in, the more I see the big picture of the story and the underlying tale that Lucas was telling. I think he told HIS story well.

Regardless of how bitter one wants to get, it's done.

Good or bad, a reaction is a reaction. and even if it made you pick the movies apart, Lucas succeeded with what he wanted out of Star Wars: To make you think.