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LemmingLord
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2/18 7:15pm
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TK-421-
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2/19 8:46am
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TPM opening night for sure before all the disappointment and negativity would destroy Star Wars forever.
Obi-Chron posted:
Indeed, with the Maul elevator twin-saber revealed that the 'menace' was 'phantom' no more! Sheer delight coursed through my veins for what was sure to follow.
And sho-nuff, the ensuing duel did not disappoint. It ranks among the very best in the saga, exceeded (depending upon one's point of view) only by the 'had to happen' Mustafar duel.
I thought the Mustafar throw down was a huge let down.The Sid and Yoda duel was better.
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SoonerSean
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2/19 5:23pm
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I'll never forget taking a day off to go and stand in line for TPM tickets. Our local multiplex is built on the side of a large shopping mall and the line extended FOREVER. We all sat there... freaks/geeks/normal folks... visiting about SW and talking about what to expect. Then the line started moving and we finally got our tickets.
A few days later we showed up for the midnight showing and it was neat to see all those folks again.
Then when the "A long time ago..." came up the place went absolutely bonkers. Still to this day the most applause, cheering, human emotion I've seen in a movie theater.
I hit the midnight shows for ATOC and ROTS and none of them compared to that first showing of TPM in terms of excitement... plus the multiplex figured out how to sell the tickets better and there was never that giant line again to spend the day talking to new people. So even though the theaters remained packed for the latter films... seeing TPM at midnight was one of the major highlights of my SW viewing... and I'm old enough that I saw ANH when it first came out and was at opening day for ESB and ROTJ. 
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sith_rising
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2/19 5:27pm
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I remember the laughter after the "we will watch your career with great interest" line in TPM. It was a midnight showing, packed full of fans, so everyone in the theater got it. There were also some good chuckles after the "why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?" line in AOTC.
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Obi-Chron
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2/19 6:21pm
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TK-421- posted:
TPM opening night for sure before all the disappointment and negativity would destroy Star Wars forever.
Obi-Chron posted:
Indeed, with the Maul elevator twin-saber revealed that the 'menace' was 'phantom' no more! Sheer delight coursed through my veins for what was sure to follow.
And sho-nuff, the ensuing duel did not disappoint. It ranks among the very best in the saga, exceeded (depending upon one's point of view) only by the 'had to happen' Mustafar duel.
I thought the Mustafar throw down was a huge let down.The Sid and Yoda duel was better.
I don't agree with the Mustafar duel being a 'huge' letdown. It had its flaws, especially with how the duel ended -- the whole "high ground" thing and all.
The Yoda vs. Sids duel was every bit as pre-determined, since both Yoda and Sids live to appear in the OT, yet its meaning was only significantly amplified by its being interspersed with furious Mustafar action. We all knew how Mustafar 'had' to end, but the duel of the masters interwoven with the duel of the fates added some additional excitement to the whole PT climax.
So, TK-421, I concede that the Mustafar duel cannot emotionally be viewed outside of the context of Yoda's duel with Sids, an unexpected and delightful treat. But Mustafar led to Vader becoming purely evil, more machine than man. It led to Padme's death. It was what Lucas had in the back of his mind for over two decades.
I did not expect the immolation scene -- totally tragic in a mythological, moral and humanistic sense. Yoda's defeat was a noble defeat. He accepts defeat and then retreats. Vader survives, then storms back with a vengeance. Nice to finally witness why he's such a helmeted hellion!
I proclaimed my favorite moment in a post above -- the Space Opera. But others elicited top-scale responses from yours truly. All light saber duels fall in this category.
Another fave moment is Padme's rumination scene. Very touching and nicely done. I didn't think Lucas was capable of ever showing the true feelings experienced between Anakin and Padme. IMO, this is the 'only' scene that comes close -- and oh, so close it comes. Sweet agony!
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SithStarSlayer
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2/19 7:22pm
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I hate to follow such an eloquent post with a touch of humor, but for some weird reason... with my pragmatical state of mind I found the following to be one of the funniest one-liners that I have ever read on these boards:"TPM opening night for sure before all the disappointment and negativity would destroy Star Wars forever." I guess what makes it funny to me is that it kindof reads like: "As bad as TPM was; and exhillirating to view in the theater after the SW-drought, it was all down hill from there."
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2/19 9:04pm
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Opening night for TPM. There was an applause eruption at the 20th Century Fox Fanfare and then utter silence as "A long time ago . . ." appeared. It's only about two seconds or so after that fades before the blast of the main title, but it seemed like an eternity and the entire audience seemed to be holding a collective breath, and then the first Star Wars movie in 16 years finally began.
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2/20 5:03am
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Another thing i remember was during ROTS some guy shouted out "Is there a doctor in here?".
Someone else said "yes i'm a Doctor" Then the first guys says "**** great movie isn't it"
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Go-Mer-Tonic
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2/20 8:35am
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The best thing that happened while watching all of the PT films for me was I enjoyed them all without having any hangups.
They all turned out better than I could have hoped for.
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AnakinSucks
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2/20 9:40am
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Yoda disposing of the Sith Lord's guards.
Amusing.
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Obi-Chron
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2/20 6:34pm
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Go-Mer-Tonic posted:
The best thing that happened while watching all of the PT films for me was I enjoyed them all without having any hangups.
They all turned out better than I could have hoped for.
Glad you liked it. Many feel as you do. Alas, I am not among them.
First viewings of PT films elicit a forgiving expectation, followed by subdued satisfaction that later manifests a need for a more focused and logical analysis. Subsequent viewings expose logical faults and plot discontinuities, story succession irregularities and violations of existing SW canon.
Repeated viewings break through the last vestiges of positive emotions experienced in the first theater experience, compounding the faults exposed by disassociated and disconnected plot points more complex than the bubble chamber diagram of the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
The beauty of the OT was its simplicity and purity -- one's hopes versus one's destiny, good versus evil, father versus son, failure versus redemption. By comparison the PT is a carnival ride full of cheap thrills footnoted in the last half of the last film by the tragic fall of Anakin Skywalker.
Yes, TPM begins in classic SW serial style. And yes, the subtext of the final montage in ROTS elicits hope, "A New Hope" that effectively emphasizes the style and simplicity embodied in the OT, along with the sacred SW message: 'bad guys never win!'
But sandwiched in-between the TPM opening and the end of ROTS is a stale diet of special effects pablum full of the staccato of empty dialog and sterile emotions. We see, we hear, but we do not feel nor do we understand.
Now we are about to be 'treated' to a new and improved Clone Wars cartoon -- a movie, no less, which launches a vaunted new TV series. Why? What have we missed? More importantly, why aren't such cartoons necessary for the periods between ANH and TESB, or between TESB and ROTJ?
Why? Because the OT is pure, whole and true.
The PT? I'd argue these three films were 90% marketing and 10% message/meaning. Lucas fell to the dark side, no longer the siren of the underdog, the champion of an underlying social message.
That's just my opinion! What's yours?
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SithStarSlayer
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2/20 7:16pm
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You have said what I could not put into words.
I have deleted a few responses that didn't cut the mustard.
I'm glad I didn't post them.
"Repeated viewings break through the last vestiges of positive emotions experienced in the first theater experience, compounding the faults exposed by disassociated and disconnected plot points more complex than the bubble chamber diagram of the CERN Large Hadron Collider."
Can I paste that on my bio?
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Go-Mer-Tonic
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2/20 11:11pm
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I like how the prequels challenged us to think beyond simple black and white. It sort of pulls the viewer back conceptually to a point where they can see the bigger picture. It goes beyond right and wrong into the realm of perspective.
It's a lot to ask of an audience, and as someone who is growing weary of the "simplicity" of modern Hollywood fare, I found it to be a refreshing change of pace.
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BobaFrank
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2/20 11:21pm
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TPM. I spent 25 hours in line to get tickets. We showed up for the midnight showing, me, my fam, and friends, 12 in all. I work for the fire department and an idiot actually started smoking right before the movie started. I showed my badge. Told him to put it out, which he did, and went back to watching the opening trailers. I loved TPM from beginning to end even if my fam and friends hated Jar Jar.
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MasterEric
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2/20 11:54pm
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Go-Mer-Tonic posted:
I like how the prequels challenged us to think beyond simple black and white. It sort of pulls the viewer back conceptually to a point where they can see the bigger picture. It goes beyond right and wrong into the realm of perspective.
It's a lot to ask of an audience, and as someone who is growing weary of the "simplicity" of modern Hollywood fare, I found it to be a refreshing change of pace.
 Oh, bravo. Those are just about my thoughts exactly. The Originals are black and white, its easy to see who's bad and who is good, the Prequels are all about the grey.
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