Ok, is anyone really surprised that this is getting awful reviews? When I first read about it, I thought, hm, maybe this is going to be good. But then I saw a preview and knew immediately that Georgie's gone even further in the wrong direction, continuing the downward spiral that began with Jar Jar Binks and was only momentarily halted by the release of Episode III.
I've heard people say things like "Well, the original Star Wars was made for kids too, and it has the same silly humor as Episode I & II. You people that grew up in the 70s and saw it when you were kids just romanticized it and ignored all the dumb parts." Um, no. Watching all of the episodes again as an adult didn't change the fact that Yoda was incredibly Zen, voiced by Frank Oz, and his only supposedly annoying characteristic is transposing his sentences. And you're comparing that to the fart jokes in Episode I? And Jar Jar Binks was voiced by...who? And was his speech pattern really necessary? Oh, and let's not forget Hayden Christensen's extremely wooden performance in Episode II, which after seeing Episode III I would have to blame almost entirely on the director. Yes, I mean Georgie.
Spielberg has managed to become more relevant as he ages; Lucas has managed to sink into more and more idiocy, for...what? I don't really see how he thinks that this schlock is going to make more money than the earlier, better stuff.
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