Tarm: He forgot the part where Jedi Knights went from cool mystical samurai sort of warriors into magical magic wielding superhero kung fu demigods that can jump to the moon magicians. Sometimes it felt like watching the bastard child of a crappy Marvel heroes CGI feast movie and a fantasy magician wars one.

Nirth: I'm 23 and I watched the original trilogy when I was about 10 right before episode 1 was released I think, maybe a year or so. I have always liked the original trilogy but I did enjoy the newer ones as well as we got some extensive lore to what actually happened before episode 4.

What I don't like about the original trilogy is the empire. It's a soulless antagonist with nothing to reach for, like the equivalent of the nazis during world war 2. I prefer the man behind the curtain hence the focus on the emperor and how he rose to power as opposed to his little project to take over the galaxy. Then again the movies is about the adventure so I suspect when I was younger I was just caught up in the magic and ran with it.

tinyE: Mace did some pretty strait forward ass kicking at the end of E2. No gymnastics there, just strait forward decapitation.

Red_Avatar: You may disagree with I agree with him to some degree. The original trilogy was for young adults and adults, the prequel trilogy was for kids as well - it's this kids part that bugged me a lot personally. I found Star Wars very scary and fascinating at the same time as a kid. The prequels don't have that feeling (I tested this theory on my nephew who LOVES the prequels but finds the original series too scary to watch - he's 6 - so I consider this a FACT).

There's many many problems with the prequels though:

- some poorly picked actors throughout made worse by wooden acting (partially caused by the 3D scenery which limited interaction a great deal)

- Anakin as a child was just a brat. There's a reason a lot of movies with kids acting, are disliked because of the kid.

- a lack of real proper comedy (and I don't mean the retarded slap stick Jar Jar-pleasekilleme-Binks caused) - C3PO was still funny but the other actors couldn't be funny if their lives depended on it. Yes, Luke sucked at being funny as well, but Han Solo and Leia + C3PO were gold together. There's nowhere near anything like this in the prequels.

- a horrible horrible horrible HORRIBLE horrible HORRIIBBBBBBBLE love story between Anakin and Padme. I mean, it's "retch inducing" it's so bad with CGI apples flying about the place. Dear LORD that was bad and painful to watch. Thank GOD the original trilogy had nothing like that.

- and to end it with the worst sin of all sins: they turned Anakin in a bitchy bratty cunty emo fuckwit. In the original trilogy it sounded like he was this amazingly cool guy who fought valiantly for the light side but in the end fell to the dark side. The actual story is so horribly laid out, until this moment I've never managed to watch more than half the 3rd movie. I physically can't, it's that painful to see how George Lucas is taking a massive dump over all our expectations.

So yes, the "new" trilogy is pretty horrible. It has nothing to do with rose tinted glasses and all to do with us having to fill in the blanks for many years by ourselves. We could only imagine what the Clone Wars were, what Anakin did to fall to the dark side. I want to bet not a single person imagined such a lame and poorly executed explanation - except for George Lucas *facepalms*

babark: I'm mostly just a fan of the original trilogy, but also many of the books and games.

I've heard that the coolest way to enjoy all of them, for someone who's never seen the movies is:
4,5,1,2,3,6

And new ones are coming out next-next year! Directed by J. J. Abrams, though, so I'm a bit suspicious.

Red_Avatar: <snip because it's a long post>

s23021536: Regardless of what anyone thinks about the two trilogies, there is a great deal to be thankful for: we got some downright awesome games out of them:
KOTOR 1&2 ( Bastila Shan <3 )
X-wing
Rogue squadron
Jedi Knight II : Jedi Outcast
Dark forces
Galactic battlegrounds - TinyE likes it it seems
Star wars episode 1 racer - Man we really need another one of these
Star Wars Empire at War - actually very very cool

Tarm: That probably started happening after some months with daily shovel headbanging. :P

wpegg: I think I'd call that the "Narrative temporal order".

I think the thing about the original trilogy is that most people who love it, watched as kids. If you watch it young then the bad bits get smoothed over, and you get caught up in the magic. Most people that I know that dislike it have tried watching it when in their teens or older, and of course by then are too skeptical to get carried away.

This is similarly why there was little chance the prequels could ever please both child and adult alike (they opted for children, which is probably the smarter move).

s23021536: Regardless of what anyone thinks about the two trilogies, there is a great deal to be thankful for: we got some downright awesome games out of them:
KOTOR 1&2 ( Bastila Shan <3 )
X-wing
Rogue squadron
Jedi Knight II : Jedi Outcast
Dark forces
Galactic battlegrounds - TinyE likes it it seems
Star wars episode 1 racer - Man we really need another one of these
Star Wars Empire at War - actually very very cool

dr.zli: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMPM0-k40G8