That's true, everyone knows that the true greats of sci-fi movies are Ice Pirates and Zardoz.

No, Twilight is much better than the prequels...

It's a matter of expectations.  I expected Twilight to be utter shit, and was pleasantly surprised that I didn't have to go kill myself by the time my relatives finished subjecting me to it.

I will chime in and say that, your a brainwashed zombie of plinketts because you would have never said that if he hadnt. You used his exact phrase. How do we know that those are even your own opinions? Plinkett could have sent you one of his mind controlling pizza rolls. We cannot trust you.

Clarify.

No. 90% of the time they are taking cover, and the gungas are using hand held shields at their front line so thats why they arent instantly decimated by the droids if thats what you were talking about.

Except the whole point of the battle was so that they could send in people to actually go disable the droids in the first place. It was a distraction. FYI I corrected you where you said clones.

Also, I could just as easily say all the Star Wars movies are geared toward little kids as much as any of the prequels.

For starters...if it's going to be actually GOOD it won't have muppets in it.

Don't feed Yoda after midnight...and FFS don't get him wet....

I saw the original Star Wars on opening night in 1977, when I was 26.  As a single film, it was definitely groundbreaking in terms of its technical achievements, and the spaceship battles were more audience-engaging than anything previously seen at the time.  Lucas had no idea the film would be as popular as it was, hoping only to make back the money spent and maybe a small profit.  20th Century Fox supposedly expected it to fail, though they did spend money on posters and a special program booklet that were sold in the theaters.  None of the talk about sequels, intricate backstory, etc., appeared until after the film's success.

The original film was a reworking of the old Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials, along with other sci-fi influences Lucas had absorbed.  The basic story was fairly preposterous, and the main characters were all archtypes-- callow youth, charming rogue, beautiful princess.  Vader was apparently allowed to survive because he was felt to be the most enigmatic character, but there were no plans on what to do with him next.

  But for me, the whole saga went downhill with Return of the Jedi.  The Ewoks were an obvious marketing concept geared to the kiddies, but at least a lot of little people got some work.  Death Star II blown up at the end-- yawn, saw it two films before.  Emperor gets thrown into power core-- Vader's motivations were never well explored and the action itself bordered on deus ex machina as a way to save Luke's ass.  Plus the fall into the power core itself had some subpar bluescreen work.

First off, if you are already stooping to calling people names over STAR WARS, you need to either get over Star Wars or get over yourself.  Who's the brainwashed person here?   I'm not the one here making a flipping movie all personal.   Second, I readily admit, I would have said nothing at all about Star Wars had this thread not come up.   It's called replying to a thread.  Sue me.   And third, I don't even know who plinkett is.   I agreed with other posters that the prequels sucked, but the old 3 were very good.   If that is a truth you can't handle, you need to smile and get over it.   It's a movie that has Lego sets named after it.

Kids' 'Cowboys in Space'....hey Cisco....hey Pancho....

If you want a 'the best' battle scene...how about the crashing of the dropship in Aliens?

Even had a battle slogan that wasn't twee..... "We Endanger Species" ...

The movies did...not the book though....for the latter was more TerraNova [the game - not the recent TV series].

For ground-breaking "S/F" [social] that inspired a swag of imitators..... Mad Max.  Successfull?  Budget $300,000  current returns... $300,000,000.

No CGI in those 'battle' sequences either.....just fair-dinkum live stuntwork...

Variations of the phrase "hold a candle to" have existed since at least the 17th century, so I doubt Mr Plinkett can claim exclusive title to it.

Source: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/183700.html

I however have successfully filed for a copyright with the United States government. Woot!

Seriously though, the space scenes were both cool and flawed. From a technical point of view, they managed to smooth out the mechanics and do incredible maneuvers (Millenium Falcon flipping and rolling) that hadn't been seen before. We wouldn't see anything Lucas envied until UFO came out.

From a sensible point of view, it was crap. The fighters moved like they were in an atmosphere. The Death Star (ANH) didn't need to go around the dumb planet, just shoot it out of the way. Why attack the Death Star (RotJ) from the angle that the gun is pointing? Why are we seeing them attack the same thing again?!? And who built the unshielded reactor that explodes so easily?!?!

It was a movie for shits and giggles. That's all there is to it. Prequels were pretty much same ballpark.

Yes, I hate movies that treat their audiences like idiots and/or children.

That rules out just about everything after Jaws. Which thankfully includes everything by Adam Sandler.