Wow you are totally dead on and I would mod you up if I could.
The "greedo shoots first" mistake is perhaps one of the biggest in any movie that I can remember. I dare say movie history. Lucas is definitely dead wrong on this.
The quotes factor is another HUGE part of a great movie. When I think great movies I think great quotes. How many great quotes are there in ep-IV & ep-V? Too many to list. I can't think of a single line in ep-I through ep-III I would ever reference in day-to-day life or even paraphrase.
Empire was clearly a masterpiece, but why? "Luke, I am your father?" "I love you. I know." The great light-saber battle where it feels like Luke really has something on the line? Hoth? Yoda's first appearance? The real answer is: if anyone knew the answer they'd be a multi-billion-aire.
Since its very difficult to duplicate that level greatness, Lucas attempts a cookie-cutter in ep-VI and again in ep-I. In these, the sequences at climax follow the exact same pattern of Planet battle/space battle/sabre battle. Lucas just flips it around slightly where the good guys are losing the land battle until Annie blows the ship, miraculously turning the tide. As opposed to Han solo and company blowing the shield generator miraculously turning the tide in the ep-VI space battle. This cookie-cutter approach fails as it always does and should. The ewoks, a transparent marketing ploy, sucked just like jar-jar.
I guess even Godfather I & II had to have their Godfather III...
Like you I can still enjoy Empire (and New Hope) now and hopefully for a long time.
Kips wedding song is a strangely appropriate ode to Dvorak:
Sure the world wide web is great, but you, you make my salivate... I love technology, but not as much as you, you see... But I STILL love technology... Always and forever. Our love is like a flock of doves, flying up to heaven above... always and forever, always and forever... Why do you need me? Why do you love me? Always and forever...
I've played Civ for years and feel it ranks as a top 3 game of all time.
Q1:
A couple points - I thought Alpha Centauri was brilliant. The terra-forming and changing of continents was really interesting. Will this kind of feature be in Civ 4? It's not appreciated by the masses but it added a whole new way to play the game.
Q2:
It seems that your own political leanings seem to peek out from the games I've played. For example, it seemed global warming destroyed alot of productivity in Civ2, was more managable in Civ3, and the planet actually attacked when 'hurt' in Alpha Centauri (Although it could become a powerful ally). It also seemed that Democracy and Republic were dominant in Civ2 and Civ3, and war was protested almost immediately, even in cases where a 'Pearl Harbor' scenario happens. To what extent do you feel this affects development and are you concious of this during balancing of the game?
Hmm I agree. I for one certainly want the Communist Chinese to have a say in what happens with the WWW.
I also think no single country or group should control the world's oil supply. Countries in OPEC can't be trusted to control something that should be shared by all. They are often dictatorships with terrible human rights records. I demand the UN take control of oil from OPEC!
Whaaa? They don't want to give up control of something that belongs to them? What right do they have? The nerve! Something as strategically and financially valuable to a nation as Oil? Guess we'll have to live with it. After all the UN is as impotent as a Nevada state boxing commissioner and as corrupt as any South American government.
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Wow you are totally dead on and I would mod you up if I could.
The "greedo shoots first" mistake is perhaps one of the biggest in any movie that I can remember. I dare say movie history. Lucas is definitely dead wrong on this.
The quotes factor is another HUGE part of a great movie. When I think great movies I think great quotes. How many great quotes are there in ep-IV & ep-V? Too many to list. I can't think of a single line in ep-I through ep-III I would ever reference in day-to-day life or even paraphrase.
Empire was clearly a masterpiece, but why? "Luke, I am your father?" "I love you. I know." The great light-saber battle where it feels like Luke really has something on the line? Hoth? Yoda's first appearance? The real answer is: if anyone knew the answer they'd be a multi-billion-aire.
Since its very difficult to duplicate that level greatness, Lucas attempts a cookie-cutter in ep-VI and again in ep-I. In these, the sequences at climax follow the exact same pattern of Planet battle/space battle/sabre battle. Lucas just flips it around slightly where the good guys are losing the land battle until Annie blows the ship, miraculously turning the tide. As opposed to Han solo and company blowing the shield generator miraculously turning the tide in the ep-VI space battle. This cookie-cutter approach fails as it always does and should. The ewoks, a transparent marketing ploy, sucked just like jar-jar.
I guess even Godfather I & II had to have their Godfather III...
Like you I can still enjoy Empire (and New Hope) now and hopefully for a long time.
Kips wedding song is a strangely appropriate ode to Dvorak:
Sure the world wide web is great, but you, you make my salivate... I love technology, but not as much as you, you see... But I STILL love technology... Always and forever. Our love is like a flock of doves, flying up to heaven above... always and forever, always and forever... Why do you need me? Why do you love me? Always and forever...
Your sandy hair floats in the air... To me it's like a lullaby... I'm just flying by... Oh so high... like a kite... tied to a stake...
I think I just contributed to the "slashdot effect". The page is unavailable as the Server probably melted from hits....
Gawd I hate those f*ckers.
I've played Civ for years and feel it ranks as a top 3 game of all time.
Q1:
A couple points - I thought Alpha Centauri was brilliant. The terra-forming and changing of continents was really interesting. Will this kind of feature be in Civ 4? It's not appreciated by the masses but it added a whole new way to play the game.
Q2:
It seems that your own political leanings seem to peek out from the games I've played. For example, it seemed global warming destroyed alot of productivity in Civ2, was more managable in Civ3, and the planet actually attacked when 'hurt' in Alpha Centauri (Although it could become a powerful ally). It also seemed that Democracy and Republic were dominant in Civ2 and Civ3, and war was protested almost immediately, even in cases where a 'Pearl Harbor' scenario happens. To what extent do you feel this affects development and are you concious of this during balancing of the game?
Hmm I agree. I for one certainly want the Communist Chinese to have a say in what happens with the WWW.
I also think no single country or group should control the world's oil supply. Countries in OPEC can't be trusted to control something that should be shared by all. They are often dictatorships with terrible human rights records. I demand the UN take control of oil from OPEC!
Whaaa? They don't want to give up control of something that belongs to them? What right do they have? The nerve! Something as strategically and financially valuable to a nation as Oil? Guess we'll have to live with it. After all the UN is as impotent as a Nevada state boxing commissioner and as corrupt as any South American government.