No worries about spoilers… I mean we all know how this movie ends, right? Anyway, I had a low expectation for this particular movie, given Episodes I and II – I was pretty much happy with how it played out. A lot of things were tied together (including a few lose ties in V and VI!) but for the most part, it was what I expected… just with better special effects than my mind usually imagines + a few one liners that were actually funny.
And from the previewes, I now want to see The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe – before today, I was skeptical about it being in Disney’s hands and I’m still unsure that there will be seven movies before it’s done – and wouldn’t mind seeing Fantastic Four, The Longest Yard and Batman Begins (which I would have been eager to see were it not for four Batman movies and three different Batman cartoons over the last 25 years – the dark knight should take some time off soon!)
I’m sorta jealous of the kids that are just getting to be Old Enough to see the double trilogy… it would have to rock, seeing I – VI for the first time, in that order.
Yes. A movie with space men who get (or have the potential to) the hot space women and fight eachother with wierd bright colored swords and can take thier hands and go *poof* you’re dead would appeal to you manly men of computer geekdom. *Ponders being princess Leah for halloween*
The Lion, The Witch etc. was my favorite story as a kid. Well, one of them. It was definately up there though. You do know Randy, if Disney has it, there will be Phil Collins…you understand this, right? Please say you understand this.
Great. Now I won’t sleep tonight. Ach!
As far as seeing them in order: don’t you think all the foreshadowing and all the tension of watching Anakin grow into Vader during I-III would be lost if you hadn’t already seen IV-VI? And the whole bit about being Luke’s father would be spoiled, too, wouldn’t it?
Maybe. I mean it’s sorta hairy. I liked the fact that they dropped you into the middle of an unknown universe in IV and said “go” with a storyline. You KNEW there was a backstory but you didn’t know what it was until the end of VI. Sorta like how LotR worked. But I also think that I-III would set up the story of IV-VI in an even better light, so you trade the foreshadowing for a rich experience. Or I and II suck so bad that it makes III-V stand out even more and VI act like an iffy epilogue :)
Batman begins was fan-dam-tastic, despite all the previous movies. Come on, his new vehicle is a cross between a hummer and a tank. How flippin’ cool is that?! ;)