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Newest Star Wars Reviews Suprisingly Positive
Patchw0rk F0g writes "CBC is reporting on the suprising results of pre-screenings of Lucas' latest (and final) installment of his sci-fi epic. From TFA, "The advance reviews of Revenge of the Sith, the sixth - and final - Star Wars film, have been mostly positive - and in some cases outright effusive." Go figure... maybe Georgie got it right finally."
I've been reading the reviews, too, with a bit a skepticism... but I liked this one most of all. She's an occasional columnist for AICN, and definitely one of their better and more trustworthy writers. She trashed the last two movies, but this one, well...
To quote:
Q. Give us a four-word review.
A. Bloody hell! It's good!
Lucas said flat out in some magazine-or-other that he was not doing the final 3, and since he, himself wasn't doing the final 3, he wasn't going to allow them to be made, either.
Things may have changed since then, but that's the last I heard of it.
Bai Ling (Senator Bana Breemuwas cut from SW3 because she did a Playboy Spread [NSFW]
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
Dude Empire Strikes Back was the best of the original Trilogy. Now who directed that again?
Irvin Kershner What's your point?
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There is a version of the article with just the content, no snazzy graphics.
Content is king.
The BBC has some reviews too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4528 639.stm
I think you're confusing writing the STORY with writing the SCREENPLAY. The story was written in part in the 70s. There are some scenes in this film which were published in magazines in the early 80s (there is one particular major bit with Anakin that I've heard quoted ever since, and it's a major set for ep3). And of course, Lucas almost certainly planned out much of the detail in this film when arcing out 1 and 2 and their tie to 4.
I would not be shocked to find out that some sets / CG for this film were built before 2 was even done post-production.
The screenplay for this film is crucial, but don't assume that it was or even should have been the starting point.
He did not merely say "nine." He said that the original trilogy was the middle one of three trilogies.
Definition of "effusive":
3. overly demonstrative; expressing emotion in an
unrestrained manner; exhibiting unrestrained enthusiasm;
-- of people and human actions; as, effusive thanks; an effusive letter of recommendation. Contrasted with reserved. [WordNet sense 1+2]
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"ANYONE who's ever been interested in Star Wars knew the story. Anakin falls to the dark side, Obi-wan knocks him into lava so he gets the suit, Luke and Leia are born, Obi-wan and Yoda disappear to distant planets. The rest is really just details. This isn't exciting because no one knows what's going to happen, it's exciting because we DO know what, but we want to see *HOW*."
Bingo. That's the whole thing.
I knew that Anakin was gonna turn to the dark side ever since the original trilogy. I didn't know how or why.
After playing the video game, I know exactly how and why. And, while trying not to go into any explicit spoilers, let's say it was a bit... not what I expected, and it puts Episodes 4 to 6 in a very different light too.
So trust me, when I say the video game gives away the story, I don't mean just "it tells you that Anakin falls to the dark side, falls in the lava and gets a cool black suit." It gives away a helluva lot more.
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Didn't he also say, flat out, that there would be no DVD release of Episodes 4-6 until after the Prequal Trilogy was finished?
It would be like watching half of The Godfather II and then watching original Godfather beofre going back to the rest of II.
Which is not uncommon.
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He did not merely say "nine." He said that the original trilogy was the middle one of three trilogies.
He had originally "planned" nine films - and I put "planned" in quotes because I don't believe he ever actually thought he'd get to make all nine. Then sometime during the filming of the original trilogy, he said "screw it" and condensed the plot of the last four films in the saga into Return of the Jedi. There is no story after Return of the Jedi as Lucas originally envisioned it. (Sure, there are some obvious story continuations you can make, and I'm not a Star Wars geek so I'm just guessing books have been written post-Jedi, but Lucas' original story only extends to the end of that film.)
Of course, the Modern Humorist has a good take on all this.
By amazing luck I've seen it at a preview :-)
No spoilers, but it has much the same feel as Attack Of the Clones. As someone else mentioned, it does have a Gone With The Wind feel, especially as Padme looks out across a burning cityscape - she could be seeing Atlanta burn.
Amazing CGI battles/action in the first half, but more characters riding CGI animals, which *never* works (Anakin in AOTC for instance). And in the end too many light sabre duels, a bit too much tying up loose ends (even explaining how Obi turns up as a ghost in the next/first three!).
The 'creation' of Darth is very gruesome, this plus a bit of infanticide makes it surprisingly dark in places.
Well worth the multiplex fare, though I think as with the first/next three, the middle film will prove to be the best.
Lucas is credited with the story for Empire, but the script was written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan: IMDB. Jedi was officially written by Lucas and Kasdan: IMDB, and Lucas, Kasdan and Lawrence Kaufman are credited with Raiders: IMDB, while the other two (now three) Indiana Jones movies have Lucas credited for story, characters and as a producer.
"In fact, the only movie that he directed that was a huge success on it's own merit* was A New Hope." American Graffiti was a huge commercial success.
Actually, rottentomatoes is not an average score, but a percentage of the total that are positive. In other words, if EVERYONE gives a movie the exact same score, 60%, then the movie will get 100% on RT since they were ALL positive. Metacritic actually gives an average score.
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And last I checked, none of the original trilogy were released on DVD. So techinically, he is correct.
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Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew edited Star Wars. The film was a near disaster, and Lucas brought them in to re-edit and 'fix' it. And they did an awesome job. But don't give Lucas the credit for being a great film editor. His first cuts sucked.
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Quite the contrary, we're sure that there is. The fact that Lucas had the sense to get one of the best dialogue writers of the last fifty years to write his movie for him is the main reason I have any hope for it.
-Is that german gay porn?
(for the humor impaired, yes, I DO get it...)
You get german gay porn?
In the first Star Wars movie (Episode IV, "The New Hope") there's the bar scene where Luke and Han first meet. Han is sitting at a table and having an argument with some other smuggler. Han shoots him.
When Lucas released the "digitally enhanced" version... now it's the smuggler who shoots first. Funny.