Jesse Walker | January 23, 2009
This is clearly better than any of the original movies.
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This is the funniest online video I've seen in years. I love how her goofy narration is done in the giant text like in the original movies.
My recent favorite: Vader Sessions, in which Darth Vader's scenes are redubbed with James Earl Jones lines from other movies. Brilliant.
Oh, posh. The first 2.667 movies (I mean the real first 2.667 movies) were quite entertaining. The last three are no longer canon. In fact, it turns out that Darth Vader wasn't Luke's dad. He was just lying. 'Cause he's evil!
*scratchs head in befuddlement*
You sure about that, Pro Lib? Clicky.
Yes, I'm sure. Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back were all kinds of good, and The Return of the Jedi was good except for the Ewoks. I'm a sucker for redemption stories, too, so I like ROTJ perhaps more than I should.
Pro Lib,
The "most powerful" jedi knight and Padme? Makes sense. Padme and
some senate clerk? Unlikely. I prefer stories where redemption is
impossible. The characters must simply move on and adapt.
Anakin, most powerful? Despite the stilted dialogue otherwise, Yoda, Samuel L. Jackson, Kenobi, and probably others were obviously more powerful. Likely little Luke, too.
This really shows how inept Lucas was in the prequels. The Emperor was also clearly inferior to Mace Windu and Yoda, and he admitted to being less powerful than Anakin, who was less powerful than those I set out above. Seems to me like the Jedi would've never lost to these losers.
If I recall correctly, my cognomen never needed any "DeathStar" contraption. He had such a command of the force he could cause suns to go nova. Clearly, the emperor was a joke and Vader was a badass till the prequeals shed light on his wimpiness.
Oh, yeah, your namesake was a badass of the highest order.
As for Vader, I don't recognize the last three movies, so he's
still a tough dude in my book. If it weren't for Shattered
Glass, I wouldn't recognize his youthful portrayer's
existence, either.
Indeed. Though I personally cannot acknowlegde Lucas's blunders. Whole thing is ruined for me now.
The third movie is much better if you can visualize the Ewoks dying by the thousands. Though they would of been much better like this instead of like this. Nub nub motherfuckers.
I remember standing in line to see the original Star
Wars for the first time (circa spring 1978) when the guy
before me in line turned around.
"This," he said, "is my seventeenth time seeing this move."
"This," I said, "is my girlfriend."
Have a good weekend...
I was 10 when Star Wars came out, so girls weren't an issue. I saw it 10 times. I had a date for ROTJ, though, which I saw maybe twice at the theater. The second time without a distracting date ☺
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