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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] To claw this thing roughly back on topic. Several of my flatmates have only just gotten into Star Wars this year, so we've watched the films a couple of times. One thing I found interesting was that on first viewing they thought that Jedi was stinking horse shit, but that Episode 1 was really cool. On second viewing, Jedi shot up in their opinions (partly because we were talking through a lot of Jabba's palace), and TPM shot right down. The problem for me with episode 1 is that is large parts seem gratuatious. The Pod Race scene was really cool the first time. I loved it. On about te 5th viewing though, at home, it gets a bit dull. There's far too much wandering about with no tension, no humour at all, horrible forward referencing "What is it's name?" "R2-D" m'lady" "What's that name again, I forgot?", and it just drags. The final fight is cool. First time, everyone thought it was the best one. Second time, they preferred Jedi. Why? Because it meant something. The lightsabre fight at the end of TPM was glorified dancing. Ot looked spectacular, but it didn't produce much emotion. Compared to Luke hammering down on Vadar at the end of Jedi, which lacked almost any form of grace, but but had bucketsfull of passion. For me, the fight at the end of AOTC marred these two aspects together well. We had the anger and emotion of the later fights, but still the skill of Darth Maul. And whereas all the SFX sequences in TPM seem too long (the Planet Core sequence never ends), they are too short in AOTC, which is far better. In TPM, Annakin would have done his two lightsabre bit for about 10 minutes, rather than the brief time he actually did it here. And sure, the humour was corny, but this is Star Wars. It was funny corny. "I'm beside myself" is Threepio's second best line ever (after "Of course I've looked better). And Yoda = class. Simple as that. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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