What do you think the first line will be?
What do you think the first line will be?
What do you think the first line will be?
"Ah, yes. A Jedi's weapon, much like your father's."
What do you think the first line will be?
It was last seen in one if the Afternath books, sold to a bunch of cultists, but its unclear whether it is the genuine article.Who has Vaders lightsaber now?
Good assessment. In some cases, rewriting the dialogue actually doesn't fix things. For example, Jar Jar Binks is a flat out failure from beginning to end. This is apparent in EP2/3, where his presence is progressively phased out.
That's an ENTIRE MAIN CHARACTER that you flubbed, George. There's no rewriting that. It needed to be scrapped.
When you have an entire section of a film that needs to be scrapped, you've got a massive problem. You've got a conceptual problem (of course, some concepts are actually quite good, as you mentioned). Not to say I don't think there aren't fantastic aspects of the films, and you pointed them out above.
It's true. All of it.Anakin should never have been the main character of the PT. Obi-Wan should have.
What do you think the first line will be?
"Why are you here?"
What do you think the first line will be?
I actually think there's a good chance we'll be looking in on Kylo and Snoke before we get to Rey and Luke.
Anakin should never have been the main character of the PT. Obi-Wan should have.
The Prequel Trilogy shouldn't have been a three-part Anakin story imo
Would have worked much better doing a larger narrative about the Rise of the Empire, with Anakin becoming Vader being a part of it instead of the other way around.
I was thinking about this today. Every main saga movie begins with the crawl,and then we're in space and it either pans to something, or one or more ships enter the frame. I'm not sure how that would work if they were to pick up with Luke and Rey right where we left off in TFA, so I think the film will start with Kylo Ren meeting up with Snoke, probably on his flagship or something since that would be a very Star Wars way to introduce it.
I think a three part film about Anakin would still work, conceptually. It just so happens to turn out that the first movie was wasted.. and they started too young. He probably should have been a teen, young adult, then adult. Or just young adult/adult/adult.
This is a really good point. It's also not unprecedented to start the movie with the villains. I think ESB and RotJ both did that?
I've never found Anakin falling to the dark side to be as interesting as his redemption. The overcomplicated way the Prequels try to show his fall (he wasn't so much seduced by the dark side as he was tricked into it) belie how little there is behind it. Show him as a nice guy who was ambitious/power-hungry/obsessed with security or some other such ideological difference and leave it at that.
It really doesn't need more than a movie, because the OT wasn't about Vader, so giving us his entire life story only to move into a trilogy where he's not as prominent is a waste.
"Anakin is the chosen one" never made sense to me and it smacks of fan-backfilling because of his popularity.
I've never found Anakin falling to the dark side to be as interesting as his redemption. The overcomplicated way the Prequels try to show his fall (he wasn't so much seduced by the dark side as he was tricked into it) belie how little there is behind it. Show him as a nice guy who was ambitious/power-hungry/obsessed with security or some other such ideological difference and leave it at that.
It really doesn't need more than a movie, because the OT wasn't about Vader, so giving us his entire life story only to move into a trilogy where he's not as prominent is a waste.
"Anakin is the chosen one" never made sense to me and it smacks of fan-backfilling because of his popularity.
Vader wasn't redeemed. He made a redemptive act, but redeemed? Nah. Dude slaughtered children and killed millions. You don't get redeemed by deciding to not kill your own son.
The Force and the movie are dumb, then.The Force and the movie definitely thought he was redeemed.
Vader wasn't redeemed. He made a redemptive act, but redeemed? Nah. Dude slaughtered children and killed millions. You don't get redeemed by deciding to not kill your own son.
Vader wasn't redeemed. He made a redemptive act, but redeemed? Nah. Dude slaughtered children and killed millions. You don't get redeemed by deciding to not kill your own son.
The Prequel Trilogy shouldn't have been a three-part Anakin story imo
Would have worked much better doing a larger narrative about the Rise of the Empire, with Anakin becoming Vader being a part of it instead of the other way around.
Forget the younglings. Can't hold anything against Vader that comes from the fountain of the prequels' stupidity.Vader wasn't redeemed. He made a redemptive act, but redeemed? Nah. Dude slaughtered children and killed millions. You don't get redeemed by deciding to not kill your own son.
He slaughtered children.He didnt just not kill his son, he killed Palpatine. That's a pretty big deal, worthy of redemption no?
Vader was there every step of the way with Tarkin. I mean, I guess if you wanna be nitpicky, he was an accomplice to genocide. That's still really, really, really bad!I mean, I think the millions award goes to Tarkin.
There's still Alderaan though.Forget the younglings. Can't hold anything against Vader that comes from the fountain of the prequels' stupidity.
Vader wasn't redeemed. He made a redemptive act, but redeemed? Nah. Dude slaughtered children and killed millions. You don't get redeemed by deciding to not kill your own son.
He slaughtered children.
Vader was there every step of the way with Tarkin. I mean, I guess if you wanna be nitpicky, he was an accomplice to genocide. That's still really, really, really bad!
I mean, I think the millions award goes to Tarkin.
He didnt just not kill his son, he killed Palpatine. That's a pretty big deal, worthy of redemption no?
He slaughtered children.
I'm not sure I want to be part of the Star Wars universe if it takes that approach to morality.But he was redeemed as far as the Force was concerned right? At the end he appears as Anakin along with Yoda and Ben
The Force and the movie are dumb, then.
I'm not sure I want to be part of the Star Wars universe if it takes that approach to morality.
I think a three part film about Anakin would still work, conceptually. It just so happens to turn out that the first movie was wasted.. and they started too young. He probably should have been a teen, young adult, then adult. Or just young adult/adult/adult.
Honestly, I think Vader's final act works SO MUCH BETTER if he's not shown as a force ghost (Anakin).
That way.. we can see that he at least redeemed himself with one PERSON, but isn't completely forgiven for damn near a lifetime of being the baddie.
If nothing else, he gave his son an opportunity to be the GOOD guy, who he's always been.
Which is why this would've been pretty cool, I feel.
It shows us the Force never really forgave him and that even in death, his spirit is still fighting to not go back to the Dark side.
Thats the thing though. There isn't more to his turn simply because it wasn't well written.. wasn't fleshed out. If done right, you wouldn't feel like the films are wasting time. Instead, GL pretty much spent one film turning Anakin, so it FELT like the other two were wasted. But what if they weren't? What if Padme, Anakin, his struggle with the dark side, his anger, struggle with his failures and shortcomings, were spanned out over the course of three films ALONGSIDE all the cool world building and wars that we see on screen?
It could have been done, and Obi-Wan could still play a huge role as a main character in helping Anakin along his path yet eventually failing him.
Think one thing I did not like about the prequels and glad did not seemingly make it into the newest set of movies, is the Lightsaber fights. The prequels were all flourish and pizzaz but made me wonder why the hell were were spinning and twirling so much. One friend who is admittedly more a fan than me said "it's supposed to be the traditional way of light saber fencing" or some nonsense.
Compared to the current films where they seem... not down and dirty but an actual fight.