More from Kevin Smith on Star Wars: Episode 7!

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Kevin Smith was doing a Q&A at the Neuchatel International Film Festival in Switzerland, where he shared even more bits about his Episode 7 set visit…

 

Here’s an excerpt from the Q&A via /Film:

What I saw, I absolutely loved. It was tactile — it was real. It wasn’t a series of fucking green screens and blue screens in which later a bunch of digital characters would be added. IT was there, it was happening. I saw old friends who I haven’t seen since my childhood, who aren’t really friends, but I love them more than some of my fucking relatives. I saw uniforms, I saw artillery I haven’t seen since I was a kid. I saw them shooting an actual sequence in a set that was real. I walked across the set, there were explosions. And it looked like a shot right out of a Star Wars movie.

 

Smith talked about visiting Stage M at pinewood, where they were not filming that day, where he visited the set of the Millennium Falcon:

He turns the lights on and there is the Millennium Falcon from my childhood. Now the ship outside looks like a movie set, but the inside, fully replicated, fully built. The guy told me, they took two blueprints: Star Wars and Empire, because the cockpit in Empire was bigger than the cockpit in Star Wars. So they went somewhere between the two. So he takes me over and I’m just looking at it. You look at it from the outside and you can still see inside. I don’t presume we’re going aboard or anything, and then Morgan (JJ’s assistant) says “You ready to go up?” I said (excitedly) “We can go on it?!”

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As I walked up that ramp I realized that the something that was missing from those other movies (the prequels) and its now in these movies. And its not the obvious like hey the Millennium Falcon or hey the characters that we know are returning. Its something else entirely — he’s building a tactile world, a world you can touch. And hes replicating with all the love of someone who has the world’s greatest collection of Star Wars figures. And when you walk on that set man, I don’t know how else to describe it except thusly: you use another pop culture reference to describe this pop culture phenomenon. Its like the field of dreams, the Kevin Costner movie. And if JJ builds it, we’re all going to come hard, because its amazing. It looks fantastic. So anyone out there wondering if hes going to pull it off, hes pulling it off. He showed me cut scenes, he showed me sequences, images, pictures. I cried and I hugged that guy. And I’m sure as I was crying and hugging on him that he was thinking “time is money” because theyre making a movie. But he got it. He was very flattered. And I was like “Honestly dude, you’re doing it. You’re making my childhood again. You’re doing our Star Wars. What I saw, blew me away.

 

Pretty cool stuff! Check out the whole video:

 

 

In case you missed Smith’s previous comments about his set visit click HERE.

 

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158 thoughts on “More from Kevin Smith on Star Wars: Episode 7!

  • July 6, 2014 at 9:50 pm
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    This is going to be awesome. I can’t wait. This will be the first real Star Wars movie since 1983.

    • July 7, 2014 at 3:07 am
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      *2005 (The Clone Wars movie doesn’t count, since it was meant to air on TV).

      • July 7, 2014 at 11:17 am
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        I think he’s implying that in his opinion the Prequels were not good.

      • July 7, 2014 at 9:09 pm
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        I was implying that the prequels were terrible and nothing close to what a star wars movie should be. In my mind, the don’t exist. If you want to understand my thinking, check these reviews out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

    • July 7, 2014 at 3:02 pm
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      Oh yeah! And like dude you gotta check out the new gentle giant bust on the Star Wars website, its a Maquarrie concept Luke…dude it looks just like Scuba Steve!!!

      • July 7, 2014 at 8:01 pm
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        Really though, what the hell is with Scuba Steve?

    • July 7, 2014 at 8:17 pm
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      Nope.
      We already have 3 great prequel Star wars movies released after 1983.

  • July 6, 2014 at 9:57 pm
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    VH, I just saw the video a few minutes ago too, and I’m really glad you wrote up a post about it.

    This is all excellent news. Smith is, of course, not just a massive Star Wars fan, but a professional filmmaker as well. So we’re not just getting a generic “Episode 7 is gonna be SO KEWWWL!!” report from him. He’s absolutely right about how important it is that this isn’t just a bunch of actors performing against a green screen, but rather in full-on real-life sets. The ability for the actors to immerse themselves in and directly connect with their characters’ world is going to allow us to do the same. And the fact that JJ seems to be doing all of this with an eye toward a genuine old-school Star Wars feel is also very promising indeed.

    As long as the script and the actors are up to the same level as what Smith saw on those sets, I think we should have a mighty fun time with Episode 7. ;^)

  • July 6, 2014 at 10:00 pm
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    Perhaps J.J. will finally be the one who will unite the bulk of the fans behind a single Star Wars movie.

    This is starting to sound something like a religious experience.

  • July 6, 2014 at 10:04 pm
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    Real sets and practical effects are a treat in a cgi fueled film industry, but I want the magic and character back. It’s great that JJ appreciates real sets and all, but I want a good script, not a good nostalgia trip. Bringing back Luke, Leia, Han, R2, 3PO, is great. Chewie and the falcon I can get on bored with, but lets do something new. All these people rambling about how they are back in their childhoods are driving me crazy. But hey, I guess this is a once in a lifetime opportunity so they may as well milk it and then Rian can focus more seriously on ep 8 and 9.

    • July 6, 2014 at 11:17 pm
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      I agree that it’s all dependent upon how good the story and characters are. Star Wars always has been, and the complaints I’ve heard about the PT (and the ones I have) center as much on half-assed story and characters as on an over-reliance on CGI.

      I see nothing wrong with trying to get back to what originally worked. And that includes the OT cast. Fact of the matter is, the few characters who were still alive at the end of the PT ended up appearing in the OT. I see nothing wrong at all with doing the same in the ST, along with the introduction of the new characters.

      I’m sure the new characters will tend to drive the story in Episode 7. Yes, the rumor is that Han will have a significant role in the movie, but then again there have been a LOT of rumors about this movie so far. Obi Wan had a significant role in ANH too, and in many ways it was he who drove the second act of the movie.

      We’re going to see plenty of new stuff in Episode 7, and in the ST overall. New characters, planets, ships, enemies, you name it. What I think is very promising is that by using more practical sets and effects, they’re trying to give it that genuine, real-world look that the OT had and that the PT tended to lack.

      Sure, it may all fall flat and end up sucking a bulk cruiser’s worth of raw, uncut bantha ass. As of now, though, I just don’t suspect that it’s going to. ;^)

    • July 7, 2014 at 2:38 am
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      I think you’re right. But until the movie is complete and people are able to see it, this is the kind of information we can get and be hopeful for. Steps in the right direction, to say the least.

    • July 7, 2014 at 4:01 pm
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      Dude,

      I hate to break it to you but Harrison Ford didn’t care much for star wars. He wouldn’t be back if the script wasn’t solid. How many times have we seen people like Ford and Hamil say the script is fantastic? I promise ya. The script is solid. The question is can the actors pull it off. I don’t want tired lethargic Harrison Ford, I want excitable, angsty, Ford.

  • July 6, 2014 at 10:27 pm
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    I think those who grew up with the OT has to still temper expectations, but this is still good news. The ST will not match the OT because the OT is special in so many ways, BUT it can succeed in sitting next to the OT to form a good 6 movie saga. I can see a battle years from now between 4-9 SW fans arguing with 1-6 SW fans declaring what is the real SW Saga. The PT will stick out like a sore thumb if The ST uses real sets & locations.

    • July 6, 2014 at 11:20 pm
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      I agree as excited as this news makes me I just remind myself of the prequels. It’s a good calming method.

      All I really want is a top notch story with likable characters. If they can manage that…I’ll borrow the top commenters opinion. It’ll be something we haven’t had since 1983.

    • July 8, 2014 at 1:54 am
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      Hardly.

      It really seems that so many people have simply no idea how either the PT and even more strangely the OT were madee.

      The number of miniatures, models, fully built sets, matte paintings and just about everything else you can think of used for the PT dwarfs the OT many times over.

      This is fact.

      The people who delude themselves that they can tell the difference between CG and “practical” is astounding as over and over again they completely fail to realize how much of what they saw in the PT was “real” ie not CG. They also think they cam tell the difference between film and digital. They also probably think VII is going to be made on film. It won’t. It’ll be shot on film but it won’t be made on film.

      So many people are going to be terribly disappointed with this movie because it’s going to be made the same way movies today are made. That is digitally and with plenty of CG likely far more than the PT used simply because 10 years on it’s that much more advanced.

      The PR campaign they are promoting (and cleverly through Smith) is pushing this “eal world” idea. KS would no doubt to shocked to learn that the OT GASP! used green and blue screen and GASP! so did JJ on the Trek movies and GASP! so he will do again on these movies. If they don’t there will be no movies.

      Smith gives away his position “Honestly dude, you’re doing it. You’re making my childhood again. You’re doing our Star Wars.”

      So once again it’s the same old. Give me my childhood back which is fine but that’s what it is.

      The point is Lucas didn’t need to do those movies with the PT because he had done them. If he had done things the easy way I wonder if even that would have satisfied those who seem to never be satisfied.

  • July 6, 2014 at 11:15 pm
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    please stop with the PT bashing already.

  • July 6, 2014 at 11:17 pm
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    This guy is annoying. The way he turns his nose up at CGI and his over usage of the phrase “my childhood.”

    • July 7, 2014 at 3:28 am
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      He’s said on multiple occasions that he loves the Prequels, just not in the same way as the Originals.

    • July 7, 2014 at 8:20 pm
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      I agree. What is wrong with CGI?
      I will never understand people that hate CGI and PT.

  • July 6, 2014 at 11:18 pm
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    Oh man… I was one of the guys that thought he only saw sets. He got to see much more than that. This sounds even more amazing.

    I’d be lying if I said my hype level didn’t climb by 50%. Keep in mind it was already hovering at 200%.

  • July 7, 2014 at 12:33 am
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    Yeah, and then you see the cast and you realize this will be the Star Wars Episode 7: Tatooine Hills 90210. With so many young good looking actors, of course with gender and ethnic properly represented….you can hide behind words like racist or machist, but it´s all BS, you know the real thing is just to be politically correct..

    • July 7, 2014 at 12:49 am
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      As I saw one elder white male write on a response page of a political website, the term politically correct is a phrase used to excuse someone’s public racist remarks. A bigot tosses that term around to deflect any criticism that is to follow of his/hers prejudiced comments. As that elderly gentlemen wrote back in his day it was considered to be respectful when you did not resort to such talk. Now folks want to dismiss such notions as political correctness in order to justify their own racism.

      • July 7, 2014 at 1:41 am
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        Thank you.

        These days, throwing the phrase “politically correct” around tends to come across in a very similar vein to “I’m not a racist, BUT…”

        Personally, I couldn’t give two shits whether the Episode VII cast is all male, all female or a balance somewhere in between. As long as the story is good and the characters are interesting, that’s what matters.

  • July 7, 2014 at 12:36 am
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    PT bashing again. This is annoying.

    I adore prequel trilogy. I love all 6 movies.

    I was very excited because of SW 7. But now I lose my interest more and more with every PT bashing.

    It seems as whole marketing for SW 7 is based on PT bashing. It feels like SW 7 will be an exact copy of OT and that they will ignore PT.

    I do not want that. I want movie that will connect PT and OT more closely together, not this.

    But I’am more disappointed with every new news about SW 7.

    Dear JJ Abrams…. for alot of pepole, fans ( especially those new, that grow up watching PT ), PT is just as important like OT for old fans.

    Do not forget about us.

    • July 7, 2014 at 12:51 am
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      Actually if you listen to the entire interview he shows respect to the PT.

    • July 7, 2014 at 1:04 am
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      In a way though… they will be. No matter how much they try to emulate the OT the new shine will come through.

      You have to remember… there really isn’t anything they can carry over from the PT anyway. It’s set roughly 60 to 70 years after it.

      So what do you expect? Jar Jar? Clones? It’s hard for anything to really cameo from the PT aside from planets and species.

      In a way it’s a whole new world for all of us outside of the returning heroes. None of us know what happened in the 35 years post the 2nd death star.

    • July 7, 2014 at 1:17 am
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      As for PT bashing, the PT fans forget how disrespected the OT has been for the past 15 years: Lucas never releasing the OOT fully remastered and saying it doesn’t exist anymore. Or using green screen & CGI for most of the PT so it looks nothing like the OT except Tatooine. How about Padme dying at childbirth contradicting Leia in ROTJ. Lucas could have made the PT fit the OT and we wouldn’t have any of these discussions leading up to the ST, instead he tried to mess with the OT Special Editions to fit with the PT.

      • July 7, 2014 at 2:45 am
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        I love CGI. And I love look of PT more than OT.

        CGI is future. With practical effect is impossible to achieve the same things as with CGI.

        Forcing practical effectS is like forcing VHS over BD, analog TV over digital, candles over electricity ect.

        CGI is new tehnology and it is better than practical effects.

        And practical effects where used in PT to a large degree also, but in combination with CGI.

        I love all alien worlds and environments in PT. They look better and more alien than OT worlds and environments.

        I hope that ST will have look more simmilar to PT than ST.

        • July 7, 2014 at 7:26 am
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          Yeah, I guess if you like totally retarded looking aliens.

          • July 7, 2014 at 8:24 pm
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            OT has retarded and fake-toy looking aliens.
            PT aliens look waaaaaay more real.

          • July 7, 2014 at 9:37 pm
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            “This is getting out of hand… Now there are TWO of them!”

        • July 7, 2014 at 3:06 pm
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          Learn to speak English, then your opinion might matter.

          Only kidding, you’d still be totally, embarrassingly wrong even with impeccable grammar and spelling.

          • July 7, 2014 at 8:26 pm
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            Shut up and be nice.

            Your opinion means nothing. We do not live in the stone age.

      • July 7, 2014 at 8:25 am
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        Leia knowing of her mother’s emotions is due to her latent Force Sensitivity – after all, she is the daughter of one of the most powerful Jedi in history.

        Also, if you notice her after her birth, you can see that she does look at her mother (who is crying).

        This doesn’t contradict the Original Trilogy, it’s just more esoteric and subtle than most things in Star Wars.

        • July 7, 2014 at 10:31 am
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          It’s not a campaign banishing the PT, it’s a campaign tributing the OT. As for what you say about CGI vs practical effects is BS. CGI is a tool, it’s not the hand of God who descends to Earth to purify filmmaking. If you think this (http://www.star-wars.pl/grafika/2008/lip/kamino.jpg) looks better than this (http://www.lebonbon.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Luke-dagobah-%C2%A9%E2%80%94DR-le-bonbon.jpeg), then we really have different sensibilities. The importance is STORYTELLING. Practical effects were used in the OT for storytelling reasons. CGI in the PT was over-used and they were lucky to have Dave Filoni and The Clone Wars to try to fix all plot holes.

          • July 7, 2014 at 8:32 pm
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            I disagree.

            Both practical effects and CGI are tools. And both are there because of story telling.

            But CGI is more advanced tools. It is better.
            With CGI only sky is a limit.

            PT has used CGI to create alien world and environment that would have been impossible to create with practical effects.

            90% of OT VFX looks funny now.

        • July 7, 2014 at 8:27 pm
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          I agree

    • July 7, 2014 at 1:24 am
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      For the vast majority of people, the prequel trilogy is garbage (myself included). The movies are total poop and while you may like them (or have convinced yourself that you do), it doesn’t chnage the fact that you are a very small minority and I would also hazard a guess – a total fanboy. The PT are indefensible except to small kids who don’t know any better.

      • July 7, 2014 at 2:35 am
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        For the vast majority of people PT is great.

        Real Star wars fans love all 6 movies.

        PT bashing people are not fans of star wars, and they are not majority.

        They are just vocal minority.

        I love PT, and I’am not any kid.

        • July 7, 2014 at 7:28 am
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          Lolz @ the “vocal” majority. Ever talked to a 3rd party about the prequels?

          • July 7, 2014 at 8:36 pm
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            Yes vocal minority. Average fans adore PT. And all PT movies were very successful, and they are very successful and popular now too.

        • July 7, 2014 at 10:42 am
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          I can assure you, you’re wrong. This is based on persoanl experience and anytime someone mentions the PT- they don’t have positive things to say. The PT is notoriously bad. Maybe the group of people you interact with feel that way, but the majority hate it. They’re not good movies.
          To say that real star wars fans love all the movies is nonsense. The two trilogies are completely different to each other in tone, writing and characters. It’s like saying to a LOTR fan that if they don’t like the hobbit movies, they’re not a fan of the books. It’s a logical fallacy. So I suggest you don’t say that to someone intelligent in public, as you will look a little silly.

          • July 7, 2014 at 8:44 pm
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            That is definitely not true. Majority of all fans loves every movie in both PT and OT.

            Only minority that grow up watching OT, hates PT. And really they love OT just because they grow up watching them.

            If PT movies were released before OT, they would love them and hate OT movies.

            PT movies where both financially and critically successful.

            EP III has better reviews and score on Metacritic and Rotten tomatoes than EP VI.

            So it seems that you hang around with strange people.

          • July 7, 2014 at 9:34 pm
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            For god’s sake, anon, where have you been since ’99? The PT got terrible reviews from several groups of movie-goers. The majority of Star Wars fans wanted to burn theaters to the ground in their outrage. I have absolutely no idea what’s leading you to continue this argument, besides your obviously out-of-wack sense of judgement. We understand you enjoyed the PT and that lots of people did, but the fact is that the majority of Star Wars fans who were old enough at the time to accurately form their own opinions either hated the PT or just didn’t enjoy it as much as the OT. Just get over it already…

        • July 7, 2014 at 9:50 pm
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          Dude, the majority of Star Wars fans are over the age of 10. Meaning they majority of Star Wars fans don’t like the prequels. I myself grew up with the prequels, but once my brain matured, I realized they are
          crappy movies with terrible plot, acting, dialogue, and direction.
          You clearly are a kid, as the it is evident by they way you write, how narrow minded you are, and how flawed you logic is. Because according to you, you have to like all movies in a series to be a true fan of it. So by your logic I am not a Jaws fan

          • July 7, 2014 at 10:11 pm
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            AAbove coment continued- (jaws 3 or 4) or an Indiana Jones fan (Crystal Skull) or a Jurassic park fan (JP 3) or a Batman fan (Batman and Robin, TDKR) or a Spider man fan (Spider Man 3, ASM 2) or Xmen fan (X Men 3, Wolverine Origins) or Marvel Cinematic Universe fan (Iron Man 3) or even a Star Wars fan (Ep I-III).
            your logic is flawed and idiotic.

          • July 7, 2014 at 11:34 pm
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            Really that is your argument?! Really?!

            So everyone who love PT are 10 years old?! Or stupid?!

            That is great example of OT nostalgic fanatics, and their logic.

            No we are not kids, and we love all 6 movies. We are real SW fans.

            I’am 30 years old, far from kid. Plus I’am biologist, so I’am not stupid as well.

            And nostalgia blindes you young padawan learner….

            There is many of us, and our number is higher every year grandpa…

          • July 8, 2014 at 12:21 am
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            Will someone give this kid a lollipop so he can shut his trap already?
            It’s easy to post under several aliases, isn’t it? What a great way to make it seem like you’re the majority here…

          • July 8, 2014 at 2:57 am
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            Dude did you not read what I wrote. I grew up with all the films. I’m 15, half your age if your telling the truth (which I don’t believe you are). I have nostalgia for all the films even the prequels! But that doesn’t blind my judgement in any way. I still love the originals as I did as child, I don’t like the prequels as I did as a child. So if the prequels are so great and nostalgia is what’s blinding prequel haters, why don’t I still like them? I have nostalgia for both, so why don’t I like the PT now that I’m older?
            Here what I think is your problem and many PT defenders problem is. You think that people who don’t like the prequels are just heaters. They just hate and don’t have anything to back it up. This is not true at all. In fact every Star Wars fan wanted to like the prequels. Why would someone want to hate something for no reason? That wouldn’t make any sense. Most people actually wanted to like it so much, they convinced themselves they did like it. My friend (39 years old) said he saw Phantom Menace 10 times before he ever thought “this might not actually be that great”. This explains the more than generous reviews for the prequels and even Indiana Jones 4. This is commonly referred to as “drinking the Kool-Aid”.
            So now that ive established that people don’t just hate things for no reason or nostalgia for the OT doesn’t make them randomly hate them, lets move on to the reasons why people don’t like the PT. 1) the acting 2) boring characters 3) terrible dialogue 4) nothing makes any sense 5) the unreasonable amount of CG.
            The only one I will go into is the CG one, the rest I will link you to a review. Now I am not a CG hater. I actually think Phantom Meanace used CG very well for the most part. In fact PM used the single most model shots out of any film in history. The reason people get up set with the CG in the prequels is that in the later 2 films, it feels like that is all that is on the screen. It feels lazy because instead of building a set and giving the actors and environment they can react to, GL just strung a bunch of green screens together. I mean not even one clone trooper was a real costume/person (and you can tell, especially when they aren’t wearing their helmets). How hard could it have possibly been to do that. That whole battle on Geninosis looks so cartoony and awful. The human eye can detect CG very quickly if its not mixed properly with real things. The Rancor scene in RotJ looks more real than any of the CG in the PT because it was real. In my opinion the only effects that don’t quite hold up from the original trilogy are the stop motion ones.
            Its kinda sad when take a simple talking scene from each of the trilogies and the one from 30 years ago looks better because they aren’t standing in front of a green screen (well and because there’s better acting).

            I didn’t recommend this review to you in the first place because I thought you were 9. But if your telling the truth, you should be able to handle some of the language. This review is a deep 9 part analysis of the phantom menace and goes into great detail about (mostly) negatives and positives of the film while being extremely hilarious and entertaining even if you don’t agree with him. So just watch the whole thing and then try to talk to me about unreasonable hate. Here’s the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

    • July 7, 2014 at 2:27 am
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      Thank you. Finally another fan of the Prequels just like me who considers the entire saga to be I-IX and not just IV-IX. Are the Prequels better than the Originals who am I to say, but it makes me mad when they are just dismissed as being terrible when they are so much more to so many people.

      • July 7, 2014 at 3:04 am
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        Real Star wars fan love all 6 movies.

        These PT bashing people are not real SW fans. They are just nostalgic. OT is reminiscent of the childhood for them.

        They do not care for SW, not really. For them no other SW film will be good beside OT ( childhood ) .

        They will hate ST too. Just wait and see.

        And they are faaaar from majority.

        Average fans do not care for all these things, they just love Star wars. All Star wars movie saga.

      • July 7, 2014 at 3:33 am
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        I completely agree, I don’t think I’ll ever understand why the prequels are so hated. I personally thought they were fantastic and, in my opinion, really added and expanded on a lot in the universe. I don’t think the vast majority hates the prequels either, I just think people are overly critical of them simply because it’s Star Wars. But that’s just my opinion, what do I know.

        • July 7, 2014 at 12:09 pm
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          CGi alone did not drag the PT down. It doesn’t matter what tools you use to make a movie as long as you use them well. There are plenty of CGI heavy movies that are good to great as well as rubbish ones. I appreciate that GL tried to push the boundries with TPM incorporating a full CG supporting character but the character was just poorly written and annoyingly characterised. In fact you could almost remove him from TPM completely and it would barely make a difference to the story, it seems the only reason for his inclusion is ‘hey..look what we can do now with CGi’. The aesthetic look of the movies would not attract the vitriol they do if they told a great story well…..but they didn’t.

          • July 7, 2014 at 8:49 pm
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            I disagree. You may hate Jar Jar, but he was integral part of EP I. And he was important for the story.

            And in my opinion he was no less irritating that Ewoks from EP VI.

            And C3PO.

          • July 7, 2014 at 10:48 pm
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            I haven’t seen a single comment made by one of these annoying, PT obsessed fans that isn’t anonymous…

        • July 7, 2014 at 9:00 pm
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          Watch the scene in EP2 where Anakin rides a puffed up bug. Watch the acting. Hear the lines. Then continue with the fireplace scene. Listen. Watch the set decor. Take note of the acting.

          Even the worst scene in the OT outshines this crap. No, there is no majority that likes the PT except on theforce.net where you two must hang out. The prequels aren’t just bad, they are atrocious.

          Does that mean I’m not a true fan? I’ve only loved Star Wars since 1983 so you tell me. The PT certainly is not true to Star Wars. It is a disaster. Will always be regarded an epic fail. And there are hundreds of reasons for this, and none of them are “childhood”. Your comments make me happy that Ep7 is going to be TRUE Star Wars (truer than the PT at least)

          • July 7, 2014 at 11:42 pm
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            Yes I watched all 6 movies, and they are all great. We have bad acting and bad moments in all 6 movies.

            But they are all great. PT movies are great. Especially EP III, with EP V the best SW movie.

          • July 8, 2014 at 12:11 am
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            Will someone give this kid a lollipop so can shut his trap already?
            It’s easy to post under several aliases, isn’t it? What a great way to make it seem like you’re the majority here…

          • July 8, 2014 at 1:22 am
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            @ And in my opinion he was no less irritating that Ewoks from EP VI.

            Please refer to Simon Peg:

            “Jar Jar makes the Ewoks look like fucking shaft!”

          • July 9, 2014 at 2:28 am
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            I’ve seen it many times. It’s great because it does EXACTLY what it’s supposed to do. You just don’t like it. Fine but it was executed as well as anything ever has been in Star Wars.

  • July 7, 2014 at 12:44 am
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    So exciting!

  • July 7, 2014 at 1:30 am
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    Problem here is my fear is they will sacrifice a good story & script just to fulfill the nostalgia feeling for the OT fanatics. So far all the rumors sound completely ridiculous

  • July 7, 2014 at 1:48 am
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    The OT and the PT alike have effects sequences that fail to convince. I watched _Attack of the Clones_ on TV a couple of weeks ago, and it was positively disturbing to see how badly some of the CGI had aged. Some of the CGI aliens look flat and utterly unconvincing. The 1977 Cantina aliens were more “realistic”. (All right, so maybe we were looking at actors in glorified Halloween masks, but they were at least three-dimensional.)

    To be fair, the OT has its own share of sometimes-inferior matte paitings that are occasionally WORSE than the bad CGI of later decades. From the first time I saw _Return of the Jedi_ I winced at the sequence near the beginning where Vader’s shuttle flies towards the docking bay of the Death Star II. That docking bay was SO obviously a flat painting.

    As long as you create fake “reality” with a computer or indeed a paintbrush, the time will come when the result looks dated and fails to convince an ever more sophisticated audience.

    But with an actual set, or even well-made 3D models, it is different. REAL IS REAL, and will still look real even a hundred years from now.

    Sometimes it is worth going the extra mile. JJ is making a movie that to some people will be a new addition to a sacred canon. This is a film that will be watched, religiously, for decades to come. It must be made to be able to withstand the most throrough scrutiny imaginable.

    If an effect still looks real no matter how hard you look at it, it can likely withstand the test of time (as most of Kubric’s _2001_ demonstrates — made in the sixties, it actually does not look silly in the century it is set in). I hope JJ takes the time to look really hard.

    • July 7, 2014 at 2:15 am
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      There’s a reason why prequel trilogy did not win any Oscars for visual effects. Episode 3 didn’t even get a nomination.

      • July 7, 2014 at 2:52 am
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        Because they had huge competition.

        PT has great VFX even now 15, 12, and 9 years later.

        OT did not had any competition.

        • July 7, 2014 at 4:11 am
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          For a film that is practically one big visual effect and has a Star Wars in the title to not even get a nomination says a lot. Competition you mentioned aged a lot better – first Matrix or The Lord of the Rings movies.

          • July 7, 2014 at 8:51 pm
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            Not really. PT has better VFX than many new movies.

          • July 7, 2014 at 9:22 pm
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            This Anon has way too much time to kiss the PT’s ass on fan forums… Sooner or later you too will become bored with the constant use of CGI in film.

    • July 7, 2014 at 2:56 am
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      I do not care if something is real, if something is real 3-D object if looks bad.

      CGI can look better than any practical effect.

      To put nostalgia aside, everything in OT looks fake. More fake than anything CGI in PT.

    • July 9, 2014 at 2:40 am
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      Real isn’t real. It’s all fake and if you can convince yourself that the fake of the OT is more real than the fake of the PT then that’s for you alone.

      The thing is thought that I can only laugh in total knowledge of the people that will rip all the fake CG of the PT knowing that they are ripping the EXACT same thing that is in the OT only done far better due to the improvement in technology.

      These are the same peole who don’t seem to realize that nothing in the PT is designed wrong. They just don’t like it. It’s not what they wanted it to be.

      How about watching the movies in HD rather than the generally lousy TV broadcasts?

      I saw TPM for the 3D release and it still stands up to the best work of now. Since I doubt you liked it in the first place why would you change now?

  • July 7, 2014 at 3:55 am
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    Hey look, it’s that guy who thought the Prequels were awesome.

    • July 7, 2014 at 8:35 am
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      Hey look, it’s a guy that thinks that absolutely everyone hates the Prequel Trilogy. What a rare specimen.

  • July 7, 2014 at 5:08 am
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    I truly believe that everyone involved with the film are handling it the way we Star Wars fans would ourselves. I am so enjoying the wait for this movie.

    I honestly feel we will finally be taken back to that galaxy far, far away.
    We’ve got Harrison Ford returning as Han Solo. Peter Mayhew returns as Chewbacca.
    As well as the MILLENNIUM FALCON returning for at least one more adventure.

    Star Wars Episode 7 will be the Event Film of our life times!

  • July 7, 2014 at 5:39 am
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    To me the OT will ALWAYS be far superior to the PT…but I STILL enjoy the PT. I don’t agree with the hate the PT gets. I tend to agree with most of the actual individual criticisms (I get it, I really do), but people are FAR too dramatic about their disdain for those films. I guess I can understand complaints about I and II, but III was fantastic. I also love how suddenly people gloss over how horrible the Ewoks were and how a lot of the Endor sequences drag the movie. If you really want to hold Star Wars to a super high standard, then PT haters should admit that Jedi had some real problems and start considering only IV and V the be all end all.

    I like watching all six movies in a row when I do marathons now, and I’m 40 and grew up with Star Wars BEING my childhood.

    I now look forward to the day (or weekend) that I can enjoy watching episodes I-IX in marathons at home with my son.

    • July 7, 2014 at 2:48 pm
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      @Big Daddy Dave:

      You are 100% correct. Star Wars/A New Hope and Empire are the only truly great Star Wars Films, the rest have their great moments, and have their bad moments.

      I think the reason Jedi gets less criticism from the fans, is simply its only one average movie of the trilogy, so as Meat Loaf would say, “Two out of three aint bad!”

      The Prequels have 3 average movies with great parts and really bad parts, so when you watch them as a whole, you are conflicted on whether they are good films or bad films. You have a great scene like Padme/Anakin staring out at each other on Coruscant with that haunting music by John Williams, then 5 minutes later you have a horrible scene where Anakin turns to the darkside in less then 10 seconds. Thats the problem with the Prequels in a nutshell.

      I am 41 years old, so we grew up in the same era, and I still watch all 6 movies. But the OT (or atleast Star Wars and Empire) hold up so much better these days then Jedi and The Prequels.

      Now the question is: What level will the Sequel Trilogy be? Star Wars/Empire quality or Jedi/Prequels quality?

      • July 7, 2014 at 5:33 pm
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        I’m 42 so we are all in the same range. I pride myself that I have some objectivity here. I saw only “A New Hope” as a child (on TV, in the early eighties), though from the hype I had long thought of Star Wars as the ultimate in science fiction. (Now I know that it is actually space opera fantasy.) My ca. 10-year-old self literally counted the hours until the broadcast would begin and I would finally get to SEE one of these fabled movies, and as far as I recall, the film actually delivered the goods for me.

        The rest of the trilogy I watched on video as a (very) young adult, and later I saw the prequels in theaters when I was around 30.

        Since I _mostly_ came to the Star Wars phenomenon at a reasonably mature age, I neither worship the originals nor hate the prequels. To the extent one can be “objective” about this, Sith (III) and Empire (V) have the best stories. A New Hope (IV) is primarily good fun, and gets the foundation into place. Jedi (VI) is inconsistent in style; if only the whole thing could have matched Luke’s final trial before the throne of the Emperor (and if only Luke had been seen to REALLY STRUGGLE before he finally rejects the siren call of the Dark Side — he throws down that light saber rather too easily and casually, I should say).

        Episode I is one enormous chuck of eye candy, and can to some extent be enjoyed as such, but from the first viewing I wondered: “Why, o WHY couldn’t they take one tenth of a percent from the FX budget and use the money to hire a competent script writer?” I thought the ludicrous accents (Jar-Jar, the Trade Federation guys) were way over the top. The “reconciliation” between the humans and the Gungans on silly-named Naboo is dumb (“maybe wesa will be friends”, indeed), and the ensuing battle is a cute little children-friendly war that is woefully lacking in any real tension and seriousness. And ten-year-old Anakin saves the day simply by pushing a long array of wrong buttons. Meh!

        Episode II is at least aiming for a stronger story, but the “romantic” scenes includes dialogue that actually makes you feel sorry for the poor, poor actors who are doomed to utter this cr*p (“you sit inside my very soul, tormenting me … the kiss should not have been, and I fear that kiss will become a scar …” I am admittedly quoting from memory here, but I don’t feel particularly inclined to endure the torment of checking if the quotes are accurate.)

        Then comes episode III, which especially in its second half does to some extent redeem the Prequel Trilogy. Some dumb dialogue could have been fixed, but otherwise there is very little wrong with the entire Mustafar sequence, unquestionably the best saber duel in any of the six movies. (However, fallen Anakin should have taunted Obi-Wan with a line to the effect that one day, he will give his child his lightsaber and tell him that this is the blade that killed the great Obi-Wan Kenobi. In this way, Obi-Wan’s later remark to Luke — “your father wanted you to have this” — could suddenly be recognized as a dark personal joke. As the movies stand, it is simply a lie.)

        So there you are: My “objective”, adult assessment of the hexalogy so far. Ha ha.

  • July 7, 2014 at 6:15 am
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    PT bashing? Listen prequel kids, imagine you had to wait another 10+ years or so for epVII, and then you hated it. You wanted to love it, but it went against everything you thought star wars to be. Besides the fact countless critics can point out it’s endless narrative, visual and acting flaws… Hell it starwars I can forgive and look past so much. The Darth Maul fight was epic! …but meaningless, he was just a bad guy cause his saber was red. I could go on, but we were here first, long before star wars was cool, before the internet, and the prequels let us down big time, but we are still here so show a lil respect?

    • July 7, 2014 at 8:57 pm
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      It is your problem. Most of us love PT.

      And they are great SW movies. And er are not kids.

      You will hate SW 7 too. You will never get more OT.

      • July 7, 2014 at 10:50 pm
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        Most of us aren’t children…

        • July 7, 2014 at 11:54 pm
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          That is true grandpa. It is time for new generation to take over.

          • July 8, 2014 at 12:19 am
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            Will someone give this kid a lollipop so he can shut his trap already?
            It’s easy to post under several aliases, isn’t it? What a great way to make it seem like you’re the majority here…

          • July 8, 2014 at 2:42 am
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            (The above Pomojema is a fake, I’m the real one.)

            Account impersonation is looked down upon, you know. I don’t appreciate someone putting words into my mouth, so to speak.

            Also, I can confirm that I’m not using any other aliases on this site.

          • July 14, 2014 at 5:00 am
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            The above 2 pomojema are fake, I’m the real one and the prequels are terrible.

  • July 7, 2014 at 7:31 am
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    The problem the PT was that they were prequels. As such between movies, Lucas interviews, and Lucasfilm statements in magazine articles, we had clear and concise expectations from official sources of what to expect and these were not met and no wonder because Lucas threw out his original notes! I think there is an inherent problem with the notion of prequels at all since you are limiting your creativity to fit what came before. Lucas clearly ran into that wall and just said “The heck with it, I’m making my movies the way I want even if it means I contradict myself.” But now these are sequels. The sky’s the limit. All Abrams has to do is match the world, the style the tone (all evidence is that he has). The story is a given that it will be good because action/adventure is about as simple a genre to write as anything a professional writer has to create. The acting performances will be better for sure since Abrams will care more about that then Lucas ever did so that’s another plus going for these movies. John Williams is back so it’s reasonable to expect that the other fifty percent of what made Star Wars great (the music and sound fx) will be in tact. The only real worry for me is Doug Chiang designing the concepts so the exciting environments and ships might be a little too boring like the PT designs were. But whatever, there is cause to be optimistic about these new movies actually being good Star Wars movies.

    • July 7, 2014 at 7:46 am
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      I too am worried about Doug Chiang… but at the same time I’m not. He’s a huge McQuarrie fan and some of his designs were really cool. like the clone troop drop ships. I think the more boring designs were due to Lucas’s uninspired vision for Prequel spacecraft. His general instruction was that he wanted 50’s throwback for the Naboo, and OT hints for the founding of the Empire… topped off with bad CGI. He oversaw even the most minute details of the designs, I think all that Chiang needs is good direction and we will be fine. Keep in mind McQuarrie didn’t design everything we saw in OT, and a lot of things were improved upon from his sketches. But yeah I hope for the best ship designs we’ve ever seen 🙂

      • July 7, 2014 at 9:58 am
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        To me, the drop ships are too much like war choppers so, like the queen’s ships, were too one for one earth like and hence boring. The Federation Landing ship was decent as were the STAPs and vulture droids. But decent is the best grade I can give them. From Shadows of the Empire on, I have yet to see anything from him that really hit the mark of balancing familiarity with originality like Joe Johnston and Ralph McQuarrie did. And just as Star Wars was more then George Lucas so were it’s designs more then Ralph McQuarrie. Hopefully there will be some new but equally inspiring visionaries working on this as well.

  • July 7, 2014 at 7:39 am
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    The OT represents high quality creative excellence. Craftsmanship and detail in effects, models, costumes, music and – held together by a cast with chemistry and a story we don’t know where it leads. The PT also had excellent costume making and music, but the ship design and trooper design was not iconic. Nor was the casts chemistry strong. Nor was the story unknown. And the directing and story telling wasn’t as strong. As someone in the creative industries I still respect the OT for what it pulled off. Lucas again aimed for new things in the ST but didn’t pull it off as well. The films are just not crafted films with pace editing and acting working correctly. I respect bits of the ST – sound design, music etc. but not the films as a whole. As someone who held the starwars films as the pinnacle of well made fantasy adventure movies, I was heartbroken by the PT. I think those who love the OT love the fact that at the time these were the best in effects by far, linked with a likeable cast and story. It’s not about PT hate for me, it’s about making something that is very high quality. Disney know high quality will bring more fans. So I have hope for the ST.

    • July 7, 2014 at 8:04 pm
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      Well said indeed! I agree 100%

    • July 7, 2014 at 9:03 pm
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      Nope. Really?! I mean really?! OT has great effects even now?!

      Nope…….. OT VFX were great back then, but now they are funny and fake looking. PT has better effects. And PT had competition.

      When PT was kicking around, there was many and many movies with great VFX. Great VFX is standard now.

      In time of OT, that was something new.

      But OT VFX aged pretty bad. They are funny and fake looking now.

      • July 7, 2014 at 9:27 pm
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        Your argument couldn’t be so invalid, Anon.

      • July 8, 2014 at 12:35 am
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        And just because you keep saying “It is great!” doesn’t actually make it objectively great. These rose colored glasses have apparently been surgically grafted on to this Anon’s face such that they cannot be removed.

  • July 7, 2014 at 7:40 am
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    Ehh let the Prequel people complain, they are just mad because Kevin Smith confirmed their worst fears: that there will be real stuff in the movie. It’s not enough that there’s a Mo cap character… they want everything to be fake like in all the other Hollywood blockbusters. Heaven forbid if there’s one realistic looking movie to be released! If we have just one film with realistic visuals then we will all die! Only a select few OT snobs will survive such an atrocity, all because *one* film isn’t CGI’d to death.

    • July 7, 2014 at 9:06 pm
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      Practical effects are also fake toys. What is your point?

      Both CGI and practical effects are fake. But CGI is more convincing.

      • July 7, 2014 at 9:24 pm
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        Your horribly biased opinionated comments are sickening us all. Please just cut it out for everyone’s benefit.

        • July 8, 2014 at 1:29 am
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          @ “But CGI is more convincing.”

          lolz whatever dude who thinks Yoda’s walking stick looked better fake and CGI’d as opposed to a real, free, stick that could have been picked up from off the ground (from like, anywhere).

  • July 7, 2014 at 9:49 am
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    The OT will always be better than the PT because of story telling. Plus the special effects to me was better than the PT. Watching the OT felt real. Watching PT was like watching a video game. The OT had great adventures. The PT made you fall asleep. The OT made you love the characters. The OT made you get headaches with too much Anakin/Padme romance. The puppet Yoda in OT was far more better than that dam CGI Yoda. Is the PT fans hearing me on this ?……

    • July 7, 2014 at 9:08 pm
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      If PT was like video game, OT was like muppet show.

      PT has way better VFX than OT.

      • July 7, 2014 at 9:44 pm
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        The only logical conclusion I can come to about the ridiculous statements made by this Anon is that he/she must be a troll.

        Muppet show was amazing.

        • July 7, 2014 at 11:36 pm
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          Muppet lover you are troll.
          We love CGI and PT reconciled with it.

          • July 8, 2014 at 12:17 am
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            Will someone give this kid a lollipop so can shut his trap already?
            It’s easy to post under several aliases, isn’t it? What a great way to make it seem like you’re the majority here…

  • July 7, 2014 at 2:34 pm
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    The FX debate between the PT and OT would be pretty much a non issue if the PT were great films like the OT.

    • July 7, 2014 at 9:10 pm
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      PT are great movies, and better than OT.

      • July 7, 2014 at 9:19 pm
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        So just because you don’t feel like enough people agree with your opinion you choose to repost it everywhere?
        How very logical of you…

        • July 7, 2014 at 11:18 pm
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          Hmm, everywhere?

          There is many people here posting, not just one person.
          PT is loved by many, OT fanatics must come to terms with that.

          • July 8, 2014 at 12:07 am
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            I’m not convinced. What’s more believable is one person posting from several computers. The PT is hated more than it’s loved. That’s just simple fact.

        • July 7, 2014 at 11:51 pm
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          Wow just wow.
          So in your fairytale world only one person in the world love PT.
          And OT without any flaws. Hahaha yes right.

          I can not wait for ST, you will hate these movies so bad. OT fans will never love anything than OT.

          • July 8, 2014 at 12:16 am
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            Will someone give this kid a lollipop so can shut his trap already?
            It’s easy to post under several aliases, isn’t it? What a great way to make it seem like you’re the majority here…

          • July 8, 2014 at 1:38 am
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            Man you prequel people are amusing, it feels like I’m watching Fox news with the absence of consistency. I love how you guys are the ones telling OT people that they aren’t “real fans”, now you tell us that we’ll hate the sequels even though Abrams has obviously done everything in his power to make these films as un-prequel like as possible? Love him or hate him, Kevin Smith has spoken, they are going with the OT approach.

          • July 8, 2014 at 4:51 pm
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            Thank you Aras!

        • July 7, 2014 at 11:19 pm
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          And your point is?

          • July 8, 2014 at 3:25 am
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            Did you watch it? And by watch it, I mean all 7 parts not just part one .

  • July 7, 2014 at 4:58 pm
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    I’m a big fan of the big guy and understand where he’s coming from; he’s just overwhelmed with excitement seeing sets and practical effects, being an OT kid himself. Just to be clear: the PT did use quite a lot of sets and practical effects. Maybe not as many as the OT, but Lucas wanted to achieve a good balance between CGI and practical effects which we can all plainly see was an unaccomplished goal. The PT was drowned in CGI just as every 21st century sci-fi has been. This next installment will display how far practical effects have truly come within the past 2 decades or so. We’ll soon find that these techniques have become so highly developed, modern CGI will seem like original XBOX graphics in comparison. There’s no way in hell that this movie will not blow all of us away in one way or another.

  • July 7, 2014 at 10:22 pm
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    I can’t stand the argument that the OT love is based on nostalgia and the PT hate is also based on the same.

    No. Just no. The PT hate is based on them being awful. Take Star Wars out of the equation and evaluate them on their own. They are just bad movies… it has nothing to do with Star Wars.

    It’s seriously Twilight grade acting and plotting.

    All that aside I’m not saying you can’t or shouldn’t enjoy the PT. I’m just saying on a basic almost common sense scale… the PT was just poorly executed. The OT has it’s fair share of flaws as well but it’s still on a whole other level when it comes to story and characters.

    • July 7, 2014 at 11:16 pm
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      Nope PT are not awful, not more than OT.

      Nostalgia is the one and only reason.

      • July 8, 2014 at 12:31 am
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        That’s a terrible argument. You’re basically saying that we are incapable of removing our bias. As if there even was any.

        I’m only 30 years old. I saw the OT when I was 10… and the PT when I was 15. Is that really such a vast game changer?

        Character development alone…Ugh I don’t know why I waste my time.

        Some movies stand the test of time because they are simply good. Ever see 12 Anger Men? It’s amazing even to this day. Nostalgia sure as hell wasn’t making me think that.

        • July 8, 2014 at 3:59 pm
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          For new kids Original trilogy is bad, they love prequel movies.

          Sequel trilogy will be flop if they try to emulate that old OT look. New kids want prequel look.

      • July 8, 2014 at 2:20 pm
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        “Nope PT are not awful, not more than OT.

        Nostalgia is the one and only reason.”

        If you love the PT, GREAT. But to equate it with the OT in terms of overall quality is mind-boggling denial.

        • July 8, 2014 at 3:55 pm
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          Quality of all 6 films is about the same. Both trilogies have one great movie, one good movie and one average movie.

          Prequel trilogy had the misfortune to be filmed after OT many years later, and that is it.

    • July 7, 2014 at 11:47 pm
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      PT haters hate PT because they are old now. They are not young anymore.
      OT reminds them of childhood.

      OT movies are not better than PT movies. They are all the same. Trashy SF fun.

      • July 8, 2014 at 12:15 am
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        Will someone give this kid a lollipop so can shut his trap already?
        It’s easy to post under several aliases, isn’t it? What a great way to make it seem like you’re the majority here…

        • July 8, 2014 at 3:34 pm
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          You are speaking about something you do KID?!

    • July 8, 2014 at 12:05 am
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      There’s no swaying the opinion of an irrational, infant-minded person who can just barely conjure up enough mental capacity to operate a computer. We might as well just give up the fight

      • July 8, 2014 at 2:39 am
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        Because whenever someone posts something you don’t agree with, they are automatically mentally inferior to you. Yeah, no.

    • July 8, 2014 at 1:41 am
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      That would work if Hayden could actually pull off being scary.

      • July 8, 2014 at 2:25 pm
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        I think Lord Vader is hitting on me – what do I do?

  • July 8, 2014 at 12:30 am
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    To whomever is posting all of this PT-loving bullcrap, your poor English is giving you away. Posting under different aliases will not help your relentless trolling. We understand that there is a population of the world that loves the prequels (no matter how small it might be), but that doesn’t mean we have to be reminded of this every single time someone posts an opinionated comment about how they believe the OT is better. None of us are convinced that you’re a thirty year-old biologist. If you were, I’m sure you’d have much better things to do with your time than post this garbage time after time under different names. Yes, it’s humorous and yes we all still believe you’re a child on summer vacation that can’t think of a better way to waste time. Have a lollipop.

    • July 8, 2014 at 3:46 pm
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      Sorry but calling all people who love all 6 movies or PT stupid or same person is actually stupid. Maybe all these bashing posts are made by same person.

      You have to come to terms with the fact that most fans ( shocking ) love all six films. Haters are a minority and they always were.

      • July 8, 2014 at 4:40 pm
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        You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. I’ll just leave it at that.

      • July 9, 2014 at 3:20 am
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        As you continue to change your name, it becomes even more painfully obvious we are dealing with one person posting the same argument over and over and over. You rudimentary grasp of the English language gives you away, as has been mentioned before.

  • July 8, 2014 at 3:01 am
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    I’ll say this: regardless of the CGI, it could have all been fixed rather easily. 1. Give us a solid protagonist. The Prequel trilogy should have been the story of Obi-Wan. He should have been the “Luke.” 2. Hire someone better than Hayden to play Anakin. We shouldn’t have been surprised though, this fits in with Licas’ prior castings with the petulant young Luke and the young Indiana Jones.

    • July 8, 2014 at 3:04 am
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      And. I’ll add this, a major reason many of you don’t like the PT story is because you KNEW the outcome….so at no point that Vader tried to build tension (which as a standalone may have worked) we all knew what was going to be the end result. That’s one reason I think that the ST has a real shot at being great…we simply dont’t know ANYTHING, let alone the end result.

      • July 8, 2014 at 6:33 am
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        The story of how the greatest Jedi Knight betrayed his love and order for power… systematically hunting down the remnants and finally facing down his old master in a duel to the death…

        Yeah it could have been amazing… even knowing the outcome.

      • July 8, 2014 at 2:31 pm
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        “And. I’ll add this, a major reason many of you don’t like the PT story is because you KNEW the outcome.”

        Nope. At least not for me. Despite knowing the outcome, I was greatly curious and excited to see HOW it would all go down. Man, it could’ve been some exciting and emotional stuff!

        However, while it was certainly dramatic in places, it ended up being a larger-than-life “Meh”.

    • July 8, 2014 at 3:40 pm
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      Hayden was great as Anakin. And PT is great as it is.

      • July 8, 2014 at 4:45 pm
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        “Hayden was great as Anakin”
        You win the award for being the only person in history to ever say this.

        • July 8, 2014 at 6:05 pm
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          He was nominated for Saturn Award – Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival – Male Revelation, Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor ect.. all for the role of Anakin in SW..

          Obviously he/she is not the only person who thinks so.
          I like his to. He was better actor than Mark Hamill.

          • July 8, 2014 at 6:53 pm
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            Your position is not even arguable. The fact that you’re very clearly posting under different aliases to procure an illusion of support is beyond laughable.
            Hayden’s few nominations are evidence that his performance was well below standard and therefore not suitable for Star Wars. While Hamill was whiny in the first film, his character development was so much more well-portrayed than that of Hayden. If you honestly think that an actor with almost no facial expression, no believable emotional turmoil to hook the audiences attention is worthy of praise, your opinion has no worth in my eyes. With that being said you might as well stop posting this junk because you’re not supporting a cause of any kind. The ST’s return to practical effects will make the prequels look like a children’s public access show.

          • July 8, 2014 at 7:05 pm
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            I agree.
            Mark Hamill was the worst actor in all 6 movies.
            I love Luke. But his acting was bad. I hope he is better actor now.

            Hayden was good. And he was nominated several times for the role of Anakin. An he has shown in a lot of non-star wars movies how great actor he is.

          • July 8, 2014 at 7:07 pm
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            So you’ve decided to post as anonymous again, eh? I wonder what identity you’ll claim next time 😉

          • July 8, 2014 at 7:19 pm
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            ”Why Wing?” dude you are annoying. You are literally attacking every person who likes PT.
            Other people have different tastes and opinions, reconciled with that. world does not revolve around you, your opinions and your taste.

          • July 8, 2014 at 7:26 pm
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            “Annoying” because I’m calling you out on all of your ridiculous claims? Yeah, that’s what I’d expect you to say…

          • July 8, 2014 at 7:31 pm
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            ”Why Wing?” dude, get a life and learn to
            accept different opinions.

  • July 8, 2014 at 6:19 pm
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    I will never understand the hatred towards prequel movies and Hayden.
    These people are not real star wars fans, they are just trolls.

    • July 8, 2014 at 6:55 pm
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      Silly goose.

  • July 8, 2014 at 6:37 pm
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    I wonder how Deadpool would handle all of these prequel disputes…

  • July 8, 2014 at 7:10 pm
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    This ”Why Wing?” person is such a troll and annoying.
    Put him in SW 7, and we will get more annoying character than all Ewoks and Jar Jar combined.

    I can not wait for SW 7. I hope SW 7 will be combination of both PT and OT. love all these movies.

  • July 8, 2014 at 7:28 pm
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    PT vs OT again…. annoying..

    They are all films of the same series, they are not competition to each other. They complement each other.

    These stupid bashing needs to stop, from both sides.
    In these situations I’m ashamed that I’ am SW fan. 🙁

  • July 8, 2014 at 7:29 pm
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    I hear that the major plot line of the ST revolves around the aftermath of Episode VI. The radiation and falling debris from the Death Star left Endor uninhabitable and the Ewoks fled to Naboo where they bred with the Gungans and became highly force sensitive. This “Gungwok” will be Serkis’ character and will become Luke’s first apprentice, eventually becoming the dominant character in the series.

    • July 8, 2014 at 7:32 pm
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      “Gungwok” Hahaha. Every Star Wars fan’s worst nightmare. It’d make a fantastic fan-horror flick.

    • July 9, 2014 at 12:32 am
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      To defuse a situation… that has to be one of the funniest things I’ve heard. A Gunwok. Perfect. Absolutely perfect.

      I think that’s something PT and OT fans can laugh over together =D

  • July 8, 2014 at 7:36 pm
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    That would be perfect part for ”Why Wing?” in SW 7.

    SW 7: Rise of the ”Why Wing?” from Gungwok

    • July 8, 2014 at 7:41 pm
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      “Get a life” eh?
      To quote Mallrats:
      “You should learn to heed your own advice.”

  • July 8, 2014 at 8:04 pm
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    Haters gonna hate. We should not be irritated with that, just ignore.

  • July 9, 2014 at 3:06 am
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    You poor anon douchebag. Anyone with any artistic integrity can tell you those prequels were a sad joke. If your gonna use multiple accounts try not to talk like a 4 year old with each of them

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