What wasn't? The pacing was bad, the dialogue was bad, the plotting was bad, and the acting was bad. Three out of four were directly Lucas' fault, and the fourth can probably be partially blamed on his poor direction as well.

I mean, the film features one of the clumsiest renditions of a romance ever, to the point that I'm surprised Lucas is actually married. That alone is enough to condemn the movie.

Wait. This is news to me. I thought he's been forever single and because of that he adopted kids. He's married?

"Tomorrow" is here! What's the announcement?

Ditto to all the above. Regarding the acting, he had a solid cast. Even Hayden Christensen is a fine actor who apparently surprised critics with the movie 'Shattered Glass'. He had people like Natalie Portman, Ewan Mcgregor and Christopher Lee. Only a incompetant director like Lucas can give them crappy direction. (Remember the old trilogy? "Faster, more intense" was his constant direction.) Not to mention it must have be REALLY hard to act infront of blue screen 99% of the time

While the cast of LOTR can sit on top of Edoras and FEEL the movie, the cast of Star Wars are playing pretend with a dungeon master who has no idea what the hell he's talking about, while surrounded by green.

Lucas needs to stop MAKING the movies and let someone ELSE take over.

So what is this big announcement?

I guess it was a bogus rumor. Nothing was announced. LOL. Or maybe he's waiting until the end of the "Celebration IV" event.

I heard reports that he's making two TV series. One will be Star Wars from the end of Episode III to the beginning of Episode IV. There is a lot of time in between those two titles so it doesn't seem like a bad idea. I just wonder how well it will turn out. The other TV series is a big question to me. I figured he would have made an announcement regarding Indy 4.

One is a "continuation" of the Clone Wars cartoon, except done in CGI. This one is actually being made as we speak, probably for a release early next year.

The live action series that will take place between the prequels and original trilogy has only just started pre-production (Rick McCallum stated that he sat down with Lucas only in the last two weeks to start putting the whole thing together, probably only to fix a budget), and is slated for 2009/2010.

And this is all old news. So this big announcement could be nothing.

Agreed; and as atrocious as EP. II was, I was more personally offended by Ep. III.

koji

EPIII could have been more believably realistic with the fighting, I mean you had a CG'ed character fighting a real dude and some of the spin moves the real dudes did looked so visually fake and badly timed. My example of this is I mean come on now ~_~.

EpII got a lot of flak, guess I'm glad I didn't buy it. :o

What the hell does Lucas have against LOTR?

How many of you hated Episode II based on the romance? I mean, I'm with you on the bad dialogue and all but a lot of that shit was necessary. And what if he could write great romantic dialogue? Would that excite you Deni? Would it be like the Titanic all over again? =O

And come on, Clone Wars was fun and all but the little dialogue it did have was crap. It didn't even have most (if any?) of the original voice actors. The ONLY reason it's generally well received around here is that it resembles anime, something the majority of us here love.

I don't know, I guess I can look beyond the many fuckups Lucas has made on these prequels because I just take the entire story as the hero cycle Anakin was created to follow. I mean, Lucas damn near followed Campbell word for word on that cycle, and the man considers Lucas one of his best students. So, yeah, I realize Lucas has gotten a lot older and fucks up a ton, but I know what story and message he's trying to put forth and I appreciate him for that. Even if he's a fuckup.=O

Lucas took what was, essentially a great homespun yarn (culled together from many other sources, of course) that never took itself so seriously (Han Solo was a great foil in that regard), and turned it into a bunch of pretentious drivel in a poorly scripted/filmed package.
To his credit though, the prequels made LOTS of money.

koji

Believability. In a Star Wars movie? What the fuck do you want, Robert Aldrich? Either you're utterly stupid or you don't understand the subject matter.

My point was EPIII had bad visuals. :o

As opposed to the realism of a puppet or Spider-Man swinging through the city? Get off your soapbox.

Maybe he'll announce that he's doing a prequel to Howard the Duck.

koji

Well to be fair, I was going to use spider man as a comparison, but you got me there.

Well if there still is a big announcement to be made my bet is either on Indiana Jones four or Star Wars going to Blu-ray/HD-DVD.

So was there no announcement? Not even theforce.net is reporting anything. You'd think if something just came from Lucas' mouth, people would be all over it.

EDIT: It wouldn't be Indiana Jones 4 because that's old news too. If anything, it probably would be an announcement of the films being re-released yet again in a new format.

Star Wars Blu-Ray re-re-re-re-release. The end.

Actually I have a better answer.

Compared to the fight scenes in Episode I and all the fight scenes in the original trilogy, the poor visually quality of the fights(minus the Count Dooku, Anakin vs Obi fight) in EPIII were done pretty badly. That is my opinion. One that will not change. I also do not share the displeasurement of Lucas' ability to direct. My opinion of him is a nuetral one, neither good or bad.

Really? I thought the lightsaber fights in III were pretty much the best of the six... With the exception of the awesome exchange Obi Wan and Maul have after Qui Gon gets taken out. I thought the Dooku one at the beginning was awesome, and the other two (Mace vs. Palpatine, Yoda vs. Palpatine) had factors going against them from the start but in the end wrapped up nicely.

The lightsaber exchange that really pissed me off was Anakin vs. Dooku in Ep. II.

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koji

How would that be a "big" announcement? Every shit is going to Blu-Ray/HD-DVD these days.

You rage against the machine about as hardcore as a kitten with a ball of yarn. Did you happen to read what you just wrote? "This is how it is - but this is the exception!"

No one cares what you think about the fights, because your opinion is neither educated nor intelligently written. Just because you have one doesn't make it valid. Next, I expect you to try and tell me the invasion of Inchon was a bad idea...

One would liken you to speaking to a wall but I think I'd get something better from the wall.