Episode III might not suck...

[Plakespear]

Just saw the trailer for Revenge of the Sith at starwars.com . Looks like it might not suck as bad as Phantom Menace or Clones. the CGI Yoda still blows, but there's a whole army of wookies, which restores my hope that there will be a scene where Chewbacca kicks the crap out of Jar Jar Binks.

[doofdoof]

How awesome do the wookies look!

It's good to see some truly evil characters in this one. That is what the TPM and AOTC were missing (apart from a lack of Jar Jar, children and a good director)

[Jumper Bones]

It's funny, after the first Star Wars movie, George Lucas swore off directing until the ends of the earth.

Then the prequels come along, he's sucky, and won't relinquish the reins.

Hmmmm.

I am a huge Star Wars fan, and am eagerly awaiting this film, good or bad. Say what you will, but I even liked the past two prequels (for what they were, anyway).

The onus is on George now though, there is a distinct feeling or emotion missing from the prequels that was in the first three films (sense of death or danger, I guess). He's gonna have to pull it off in this one, this one can't be a kid's movie like the last few were.

[doofdoof]

Agree entirely Jumper Bones.

I still can't stand how poorly directed the final scenes of TPM were. The lightsaber fight with Darth Maul was *SO* stop-start. George finally managed to bring the emotion to boiling point when Qui-Gon died, and Obi-Wan screams "NO!", but then he cuts away to some boring space battle before finally returning to the climax.

I just don't understand why he did it himself, he has so many options! You only have to look at Alfonso Cuaron's Harry Potter movie to see what a massive difference a director can make.