Over the weekend, I got sent links to at least three or four articles declaring the Episodes I-III superior to the original trilogy for various reasons. You’re inclination is to click and read, wondering what could possibly possess a person to take such an idiotic position, but in reality you already answered with your click. Sometimes the conventional wisdom is just correct. That’s why I prefer to post this trailer from ScreenJunkies, the honest version of the trailer for the Episode I 3D re-release.
“From the million dollar jowels of George Lucas, comes the chance to RELIVE the biggest letdown in movie history. IN 3D! Starring Oskar Schindler as Jesus! This February, George Lucas defiles your childhood for the second time in a third dimension!”
Yep, that about covers it. At this point, the only argument I’m willing to entertain about Star Wars is whether Episode I or II is the crappiest. And who looks better with lady hair, Ewan MacGregor or Liam Neeson.
[via ScreenJunkies]
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I don’t remember any anti-semitic undertones in Episode II so, yes, that is the worst one
Seriously the only good thing to come out of Episode II is me when I saw Portman in that skin tight white outfit.
Episode I certainly hurt the worst, because we were naively expecting something good. By the time Episode II came out, we knew better.
As to which is actually worse, it’s a toss-up.
The funny thing is, back when they came out, with every new release the critics kept saying “ok so THIS is the good one now” and people just kept buying it.
Hey, by they got to Episode III, that movie was almost as good as Return Of The Jedi.
I didn’t realize Watto was a movie producer.
Wake me up when they bring us The Ewok Adventure in 3D.
Star Wars?
Never heard of it.
Episode II is the worst. Episode I had a lot of good ideas, they were just executed poorly. Episode II had few good ideas and the acting somehow got worse.
I hear they digitally inserted Liam Neeson screaming “NOOOOOOO” as he gets stabbed to remove any confusion as to whether he does or does not want to get stabbed with a light saber.
I snuck a bunch of booze into the theater for episode 2 and still left before it was over. therefore it is the worst.
The biggest revelation in Episode II is that Obi-Wan once rocked a righteous and perfectly coiffed mullet. Visionary, to put it mildly.
I recall how in the run up to ep 1′s release how I strove to avoid everything about it; commercials, grocery store displays, toys, previews, everything, so as not to corrupt what I thought would be an awe inspiring spectacle. I realized as I was laughing at a particularly absurd shot during the underwater monster chase thing that I was a fucking rube.
they should get wolverine to be in star wars because his claws will be light sabers. 3D light saber claws.
An ad for “Boobs like Jabba” at the end of that trailer…ugh. That’d be corny for a 9 year old to say, but to make a whole video out of it…double ugh.
Episode I had Darth Maul and podracing, Episode II had sexy Natalie Portman. It’s very close.
I’m sure the next special edition will have Neeson taping beer bottles to his knuckles and telling Darth Maul, “Come at me bro!”
True story: While on Vacation this last weekend I met Natalie Portman in an elevator. Also true story: I will pay money to see this movie ever again.
i don’t understand the hate, this is easily the best star wars movie currently in 3D
I think Neeson pulls off the lady hair better. He’s just got a better knack for improvisational comedy.
So much potential for COTW!
The next episode will reveal that Obi-Wan is actually a pedophile!
Jar Jar Binks represents everything that is wrong with movies. He’s an obvious attempt at merchandising, and at appeasing people’s fuckstick kids with silliness in a venue where they don’t belong in the first place (much like the Cats and Dogs byline “the Revenge of Kitty Galore,” nobody who is old enough to get that joke thinks you are clever for sneaking around the word “pussy.”). Therefore, episode 1 is worst.
People forget that George Lucas was coming off of American Grafitti, so he was on this nostalgia kick. He wanted to create a sci-fi movie with the feel of a “Flash Gordon” serial. In those old serials, they would always start off with a recap. “Episode IV” was an arbitrary choice, just to make it feel like you were watching a serial.
Yes, there was other stuff he wrote, but the reason it never made the first movie was because it was awful and didn’t work. Episodes I – III are literally discarded rough drafts that didn’t work. Or, as Lucas calls it now, the “mythology.”