Star Wars

[andrewducker]

The title of the final Star Wars movie has been announced, making them (in order)

1. The Phantom Menace


2. Attack of the Clones


3. Revenge of the Sith


4. A New Hope


5. The Empire Strikes Back


6. Return of the Jedi

Which reads like chapter headings of a saturday morning adventure series.  Which is just perfect.  A New Hope never really worked for me before, but it now makes perfect sense in context.

As a note - I liked the first film except for the attempts at comedy, which spoil it a fair amount for me.  I like the second film pretty much end-to-end. 

I love the way that the arc-plot starts behind the scenes in the first movie and that so far the Jedi have been furthering the plans of the Sith.

Comments

YAY YAY YAY!!

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

It's PERFECT that it be called Revenge of the Sith because VI was called "Revenge of the Jedi" but then Lucus said WAIT revenge is NOT the way of the Jedi so it had to be called "Return of the Jedi."

so......YAY!!!

(It's fun to be a big geek.)

Re: YAY YAY YAY!!

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Didn't Lucas get fined over that?

Re: YAY YAY YAY!!

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

fined? For changing his mind and redoing all the posters?

I dunno -- I just know that our local theater had an original "Revenge of the Jedi" poster which quickly became worth millions.........

Re: YAY YAY YAY!!

[derumi.livejournal.com]

This is just something I remember reading or hearing when I was a kid. I don't know who in the movie industry would or could enact such a fine. The way little kids' minds and memory works, it could just be someone was demanding a fine. Coming in after two hit movies, the name change was pretty big news.

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

What do the Sith want revenge for? I thought they wiped themselves out...

With you on the messy politics in 1 & 2. That's always fun. Wish they hadn't bothered with the JarJar pratfalls in 1 and the criminally awful CG 3PO comedy (straight out of that Droids cartoon) in 2.

One thing the prequels needed was a down to earth character to ground it all, like Mal from Firefly or -gasp- Han. Hardly a new argument, but it's so true.

Revenge?

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Maybe A Jedi once called the Sith leader's mum a slapper, I dunno. I hope George has taken some ideas out of the Clone Wars cartoon cause, frankly, it pisses all over Eps 1 & 2.

[trav28.livejournal.com]

it does have a nice symmetary to it. I wish Lucas would go way back and do the original sith wars that occurred millenia before the OT (Original Trilogy).