Yahoo says Phantom Menace is better than A New Hope

[ExileNZ]

What? Someone out there likes the prequel trilogy better than the originals? Oh no! Everyone run for your lives, the apocalypse is incoming! Run into your nearest bomb shelters, hide your kids, hide your wife! It is times like this we must stand strong as a people and face down our enemies!

Okay, that is the second freakiest avatar I've ever seen.

Now I should probably read your post...

Right, sarcasm. Um, carry on then.

 

[Pandabearparade]

Lucas said Greedo shot first... the thread was posted here somewhere but I don't care enough to look for it

Lucas is wrong. Watch the original footage, Han shot first.

 

[Loud Hawk]

I stopped reading after the writer blamed Bush... Even though the Phantom Menace was released in 1999.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

My personal favorite Star Wars was the Phantom Menace. Don't shoot me...

 

[DaSpoony]

V > IV > I > VI > III > II

In my personal opinion.

But yeah, the article is bunch of pretentious shit.

 

[TwiZtah]

Okay, yes, the Star Wars movies are good movies, but damn. The story isn't that good as some of you want to make it, and the fourth movie is with no doubt one of the most boring movies i've seen, frickin nothing happens.

 

[Arina Love]

i think they all the same original and new. Just popcorn flicks.

 

[Duffeknol]

A comprehensible story is simplistic and therefor not as good as a jumbled mess. Sure, yahoo, sure.

 

[Vhite]

And minister of finance of Kazakhstan thinks that Halo Wars was the best RTS of last decade.

I somehow just dont care about what yahoo thinks about movies or what someones grandma (who happens to be important person in toothpick industry) says about thermonuclear reaction.
It just seems a little random, you know? I dont want to bash on OP, but there has been few more of these around here lately and only thing about what someone important thinks about something else important while there is no connection, is gossip.

 

[Scarim Coral]

So when did Yahoo became a valid place for reviews/ discussion about media? Oh right, never! Yahoo is one of the last places I read for stuff like this.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Plot of the prequel trilogy:

A boy rises through the ranks of the Jedi, from simple slave, to one of the stronger practitioners of the Force, but his feeling betray him, and allow an in-Sidious evil to guide him onto a dark path, It's a tragic story, set around a backdrop of a galaxy slowly descending towards a war which seems to be the right path, but will eventually lead to destruction.

Plot of the 'original' trilogy:
Kid discovers he has super powers, gathers together a ragtag group of heroes in order to defeat the evil Empire and take down their top general, who happens to be DUN-DA-DUN! His own FATHER! And the princess is his sister! Together, they defeat the evil empire with the aid of the courageous rebels.

Yeah, prequels had a halfway-decent plot, while the 'original' trilogy reads like, oh, 90% of the jRPGs in existence.

Which just goes to show why acting and writing make such a huge difference in the quality of a movie, simple plot or not.
You don't need a super complex plot to have a great movie whereas a more complex plot does not guarantee a better movie. Especially not with the prequels god awful direction and writing. It is a shame because a few of the actors were decent, they just had to read that awful garbage.

 

[SirDeadly]

I enjoyed The Phantom Menace more than a New Hope. Hell, Jar Jar is my second favourite character behind Chewbaca! I was nine when Episode 1 came out in the movies and back then it was an awesome movie that held my interest far more than the original trilogy.

 

[Sylveria]

But those strengths are in the realm of combat coordination and graphics, NOT acting or plot, which is what Yahoo was praising.

Ah, yes, the hallowed acting and plot. Are we still talking about the same movie of which Alec Guiness himself said the lines they were forced to spout were silly and idiotic, and that he was saddened for the rest of his life that he was constantly associated with that dribble?

"It's the ship that completed the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs", oh yes, someone should have gotten an Academy Award for that one!

But the plot was still excellent and innovative! Well, no. The plot of a small rebellion rising up to defeat the big bad empire against all odds is only slightly less common as a literary device than "The villain dies". There was really nothing about the plot that wasn't standard, boring old cliché long before the movie was made.

Looking at A New Hope as a movie as opposed to some holy relic from ancient times that must be worshipped at all times, it isn't very good.

It's always amusing to read posts of people who are blatantly "I hate the originals cause they're popular and hating popular stuff makes me cool with the ipod crowd." People can't possibly have any other reasons for liking one set of films over the other, it HAS to be idol worship.

Yes, the story of space-jesus and his kart racing and the space-Chinese invading space-..somewhere cause of space-taxes is far more innovative cause SPACE. Well, it is innovative, it's complete nonsense, but I have to admit I've never seen it before or since. I wonder why that is....

"Misa say people gonna die!?" Now THAT is some Oscar caliber stuff.

 

[michael87cn]

I'm so tired of hearing people complain about Star Wars movies... go make your own if you're such a bunch of experts.

We could use some new scifi.