Favorite Star Wars movie ?

[moviegirl210]

My favorite is definitely Revenge of the Sith but I do like each and every one of them. I am tired of people complaining about how the actors suck. Just sit back and enjoy the special effects !

[FilmBuff33172]

My favorite is definitely Revenge of the Sith but I do like each and every one of them. I am tired of people complaining about how the actors suck. Just sit back and enjoy the special effects !

I've been a fan of Star Wars since 1977, so I'm probably never going to be objective about these films.

To answer the question honestly, I don't have a favorite Episode. It's one big 12-hour movie, just as The Lord of the Rings is one big 9 or 12-hour (depending on whether or not you have the Extended Edition DVDs) movie. I might be nostalgically attached more to the Luke Skywalker half of the saga, but it's one coherent storyline.

[leedug]

I've been a fan of Star Wars since 1977, so I'm probably never going to be objective about these films.

To answer the question honestly, I don't have a favorite Episode. It's one big 12-hour movie, just as The Lord of the Rings is one big 9 or 12-hour (depending on whether or not you have the Extended Edition DVDs) movie. I might be nostalgically attached more to the Luke Skywalker half of the saga, but it's one coherent storyline.

While it is one coherent storyline, some chapters of the story were made better than the others. For example, "Attack of the Clones" was one of the weaker chapters, as far as the movies are concerned. So breaking up the "chapters" so to speak, my favorite Star Wars film would hands down be "Return of the Jedi".

[festciv]

While it is one coherent storyline, some chapters of the story were made better than the others. For example, "Attack of the Clones" was one of the weaker chapters, as far as the movies are concerned. So breaking up the "chapters" so to speak, my favorite Star Wars film would hands down be "Return of the Jedi".

Oh, that's so true. I like them all myself, but I do think The Empire Strikes Back is the most interesting and best-written.

[led210]

Oh, that's so true. I like them all myself, but I do think The Empire Strikes Back is the most interesting and best-written.

Sorry if I offend anyone, but I don't like any of them at all. I think the Star Wars movies are derivative, simplistic, and not very well-done in anything except maybe the music.

[soysauce]

My favorite is definitely Revenge of the Sith but I do like each and every one of them. I am tired of people complaining about how the actors suck. Just sit back and enjoy the special effects !

To address the main issue/question: I like them all, but I tend to watch the original (Episode IV: A New Hope, as it now stands) more often. It's not necessarily the best - I think The Empire Strikes Back is a bit better and Revenge of the Sith is equally good to A New Hope - but I think I'm partial to it because it was the original.

As to the complaints/critiques/disses: The Star Wars films are not meant to be highbrow art or philosophically deep, and George Lucas isn't trying to be anything more than a storyteller with a modern-day myth. The tone and flavor of these flicks is derived from Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials from the '30s and '40s, and those didn't feature John Barrymore or Humphey Bogart in the cast or John Ford at the director's chair.

[at4101]

Sorry if I offend anyone, but I don't like any of them at all. I think the Star Wars movies are derivative, simplistic, and not very well-done in anything except maybe the music.

Ah, they are just for fun if you ask me. There are too many people that take this film so seriously and critique everything from the plot to the acting. It really bothered me when so many people were putting down Jake Lloyd. It's not like he is gonna win an Oscar for his performance, but he did a decent job. Most of all, he's just a kid. Back off people.

[simonfan05]

Ah, they are just for fun if you ask me. There are too many people that take this film so seriously and critique everything from the plot to the acting. It really bothered me when so many people were putting down Jake Lloyd. It's not like he is gonna win an Oscar for his performance, but he did a decent job. Most of all, he's just a kid. Back off people.

Hi at4101:

I think much of the bashing of the Star Wars movies is unfair, as well. As another poster mentioned, these movies were intended to be just for escapist fun; that some fan boys look on the Classic Trilogy almost with a religious zeal and then criticize George Lucas for "inflicting" upon them a Messiah-like Anakin Skywalker and Jar Jar Binks and saying CGI takes away from the "reality" of the series....it's just silly.

As Lucas himself points out in the director's commentary to Return of the Jedi: "How can a digital character be less 'real' than a rubber puppet?"

[DVDlover]

Ah, they are just for fun if you ask me. There are too many people that take this film so seriously and critique everything from the plot to the acting. It really bothered me when so many people were putting down Jake Lloyd. It's not like he is gonna win an Oscar for his performance, but he did a decent job. Most of all, he's just a kid. Back off people.

I once heard Bill Moyers, LBJ's press secretary and now a well-known TV commentator and writer, say this about Star Wars:

"Timing is everything in art. You bring out Star Wars too early and it's Buck Rogers. You bring it out too late and it doesn't fit our imaginations. You bring it out just as the war in Vietnam is ending and America feels uncertain of itself, and the old stories have died, and you bring it out at that time and suddenly, it's a new game. Plus it's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun to watch Star Wars"

[simonfan05]

I once heard Bill Moyers, LBJ's press secretary and now a well-known TV commentator and writer, say this about Star Wars:

"Timing is everything in art. You bring out Star Wars too early and it's Buck Rogers. You bring it out too late and it doesn't fit our imaginations. You bring it out just as the war in Vietnam is ending and America feels uncertain of itself, and the old stories have died, and you bring it out at that time and suddenly, it's a new game. Plus it's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun to watch Star Wars"


Moyers has that right. The time was right for Star Wars and yes, it's a lot of fun to watch. That's why I like it.

[Intrill]

It's because the acting sucks bad. I'm not a fan boy or anything so I am not gonna argue about the technicalities or any of that crap, but the acting is just pathetic in almost every Star Wars film I have seen, and to me that ruins alot of the movie.

[soysauce]

It's because the acting sucks bad. I'm not a fan boy or anything so I am not gonna argue about the technicalities or any of that crap, but the acting is just pathetic in almost every Star Wars film I have seen, and to me that ruins alot of the movie.


Hey, to each his/her own.

I am, perhaps, not a devoted fan; I don't even have any of the merchandise, but (to me) the movies aren't really all that bad.

And I've seen worse acting than that in movies like I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.

[movieflicker]

I don't have a favorite star wars movie.. but i really like the revenge of the sith.. i like the way how anakin turned into darth vader.