For anyone who actually thinks the prequels are good AT ALL, I beg you to please, please watch this in its entirety.
YouTube - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review (Part 1 of 7)
George, I beg you...stop this stupid ****. You have already RUINED Star Wars. Please stop.
It's one person's personal opinion of the movie. People should be free to agree or disagree with him. It's shouldn't be mandatory that everyone in the planet must agree with this YouTube critic. While I detest Jar Jar Binks as much as everyone else, I don't agree with the majority of things as to what this self proclaimed critic on Star Wars has to say. (Also, why does this critic find it necessary to use four letter words frequently? I have to ask..What movies has this guy created...besides being famous for being a profanity laced overnight movie critic on YouTube?)
Remember when the 1st Star Wars movie came out back in 1977, many of the major movie critics trashed it, and some didn't think it would last long in the box office.
Here's a sample of the 1977 reviews of the 1st Star Wars from the Movie Critics back then:
1. Pauline Kael -The New Yorker:
"There’s no breather in the picture, no lyricism; the only attempt at beauty is in the double sunset."
2. Jonathan Rosenbaum -Chicago Reader
"None of these characters has any depth, and they're all treated like the fanciful props and settings."
3. Peter Keough-Boston Phoenix:
"Star Wars is a junkyard of cinematic gimcracks not unlike the Jawas' heap of purloined, discarded, barely functioning droids."
4. Stanley Kauffmann-The New Republic:
"His [Lucas's] work here seems less inventive than in THX 1138."
3D, Shmee Dee! I say, poop-can the prequels. 2 or 3d! As if the Special Editions weren't bad enough, we had to be bludgeoned with prequels. I agree with Chris (fettpride)..."focus on what MADE him in the first place for a change". Re-release the original trilogy in theaters it's original form. If it's about introducing Star Wars to a new generation, young children will be just as thrilled as us old folks were when we saw Star Wars in 1978. I saw the darn thing 38 times in theaters. No sneaking either. I bought a ticket each time! I'd do it again!
If we show it in the theatres today with the original unaltered 1977 version, the young children may watch it but many of the tweens or teenagers won't. While we love the original unaltered version for nostalgic reasons, many of teenagers today are going to see the original 1977 unaltered version as outdated, laughable and corny. I saw middle school & high school kids laughing, and criticizing as to how bad the special effects were when they saw Star Wars in it's original unaltered form, and not the Special Edition version. (When one girl saw the original unaltered version of the lightsaber duel between Darth Vader and Obi Wan Kenobi, she said that it was "The lamest fight ever".)
