Having now seen all six Star Wars movies, I can confidently assert that the entire franchise is rubbish. My biggest gripe is with the depiction of The Force, that innate energy that moves within all things, that power that animates all - that overlooked, underutilized skill that logically renders about 60% of the film superfluous. This error is at its worst in the new (old) trilogy of Episodes I through III, where Jedi powers were at their peak due to several generations of reasonable numbers of Jedi having advanced the arts. If, in the old trilogy, Darth Vader can stop laser blasts with his hands, why do we have all this light saber twirling in the new? (Obvious answer: it looks "cool".) How do "ray shields" contain two Jedi? How do the Jedi wave doors open and so forth, but they can't command an elevator to rise without a three-foot utility droid? Further, the Jedi, who are positioned as "good" and obviously to be venerated, are rife with hypocrisy and inconsistency: Mace Windu states the Palpatine is "too dangerous to live," in direct opposition to "the Jedi Way," as Anakin challenges him; they urge - nay, mandate - an absence of attachment and emotion, yet consistently instruct the young Jedi to "use his feelings"; they place Anakin on the Council, but refuse to make him a Master - acquiescing yet refeusing the Chancellor's manipulations, playing into his hand in the manipulation of young Skywalker - and they couldn't detect any of this with the Force? (I can't resist drawing parallels between the Jedi's repression of attachment leading to the creation of Darth Vader and the near-destruction of the order and the Catholic priesthood's similarly disastrous consequences. Surplus repression of natural instincts is not discipline; it's dangerous.) Stylistically, the three new films adhere to conventions that worked for the original (largely because it was a low-budget "B" feature), but grate against the sensibilities of the contemporary viewer - such as the variety of stupid wipes employed for scene transitions and the frenzied character movement and pacing (like an episode of the Adam West Batman TV series). At the end of the day, Star Wars is an exercise in the creation of classic, campy kitsch; the subsequent marketing of a boatload of crap nobody needs; and the destruction of the romance of all through exceedingly bad filmmaking. Grade: Meh

star wars sucks.

let the rate--; from all the uber gamedev geeks commence [rolleyes]

Quote:Original post by PnP Bios
Where does all this B movie crap come in?

Episode IV. It was low-budget; it went over budget; allegedly the original final edit was lost in a taxi, requiring a re-edit; it wasn't exactly spectacular looking; it didn't have the studio backing of an "A" feature ("'B' movie" actually means the film was intended to supplement an "'A' feature," from when going to the movies was an all-day affair and involved lots of double features; the term discarded other connotations, leaving "low-budget" only, after the general demise of the double feature)... Episodes V and VI were not B movies because IV had been so wildly, and unexpectedly, successful from a financial point of view.

...Just pointing that Vader can't deflect blaster shots with his hands, just with armor shielded prosthetic arms. The force is supposed to only allow his to predict where the blasts hit, there was light saber reflecting on the first (IV-VI) movies.