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08/27/2006: August Megaparty #27: Star Wars Tissues!

Born into a family with three much older moviegoing brothers, I was taught the ways of The Force from very early on. I used this so-called “Force” to make my parents buy me every Star Wars toy, game, doodad and gizmo I could find. Somehow, the official Star Wars tissue brand eluded me.

The Puffs Company hooked up with George and an Ugnaught to provide The Empire Strikes Back Puffs tissues, which were just your ordinary everyday Puffs tissues…in a cooler box. Actually, there were several ESB boxes available, depicting everything from a Dagobah scene to an AT-AT onslaught on Hoth. I guess you bought the Dagobah tissues when you had one of those really mindfuckingly contemplative flus, and the AT-AT attack box when you just had to viciously sneeze constantly.

Though unmentioned in the commercial from which the screengrabs above were taken, each box had a cutout character poster on the bottom. The posters were left uncolored — that task was left for any kids brave enough to try to color in laminated cardboard with a Crayola crayon. Shit don’t work, son.

While the television commercial is technically an ’80s ad, its motif is far more similar to the many Star Wars toy commercials of the ’70s, where the featured product was given a back-seat, so a kid with limited vocational skills could say more in thirty-seconds than John Moschitta Jr. ever did. In the case of the Puffs commercial, at least he’s sharing the wordcount with an actress playing his Maw, and later, with C-3P0 and R2-D2. No, really.

First, the mother stuff. She walks in, and the kid’s obviously sick, but he wants to play football, so he’s acting all bitchy about it. Mom knows just what to do. Yanking a box of Star Wars Puffs from thin air, the child accepts his fate gracefully, apparently believing that being stuck inside sick with a Star Wars tissue box is better than being outside playing with friends. It’s not that I don’t wholeheartedly agree, but it’s hard to imagine a kid who liked football shaking on a deal like this. The football kids were better than us, see.

Quickly losing himself in a sea of Star Wars, the kid’s bedroom turns into outer space, and C-3P0 and R2-D2 appear, evidently able to walk around outer space as if it had full gravity and a system of invisible sidewalks. The Droids never address our snot-ridden hero directly, making obvious the fact that we’re reusin’ some of that fancy green screen footage shot for the film here.

Returning to reality as his mother reenters the room, the child is now a huge proponent of having a cold, and he “can’t wait to sneeze again!”

Wait until he notices the cutout poster on the bottom of the box. Boy’s gonna piss himself.

Click here to watch the Star Wars Puffs Tissues commercial.

Wow! C3P0 and R2-D2 are kindof smug in that commercial, first off they totaly blow off even acknowledging that the kid exists, second, he’s a poor little sick kid who’s friends are outside waiting for him to come out, probably talking trash about him being a mama’s boy because she won’t let him out when he has a cold. Come on droids, where’s the love?

Wait; there was a tissue box with the greatest fictional vehicle of all time, the AT-AT, on it? Holy fuck, screw completing my vintage collection, Iâ€™m gonna start collecting Kleenex boxes and be the envy of all!

And I think it should be “May the puffs be with you” instead of what the commercial says.

And I think it’s funny that the kid isn’t even sick. He sounds fine. His eyes are ok and his nose isn’t a festering sarlacc pit of ooze.

Maybe he’s playing hooky from school? Let’s weigh the odds: Go to school and do all kinds of work that doesn’t really matter and that is stressful. Or: Stay home and get STAR WARS tissues in a freaking cool box? I think the force was with this kid when he made his choice.

Geez, I know it was before home video and all, but that kid is seriously hard up for beyond-the-movie material. His mother needs to go down to the 7-11 and get him an issue of Marvel’s Star Wars series.

Colored pencil is the way to go, am I right? That or Sharpies about the only thing gonna work on that shit.
I wish I’d had older siblings who would have introduced me to the Force. As it was I had to find it in my own time, so I missed out on a lot.
Attack of the Clones is on tonight (Anakin just went off on some sandpeople but I was watching Ricky and Stephen lose to My Name is Earl so I missed it :().

I wish my Puffs were laced with LSD, then I would look forward to sneezing also.

Not a fan of the new films myself, like the clone wars cartoons and comics though. The only parts I watch are scenes with the clones. Those there troopers tickle my fancy with them white armor, I reckon Iâ€™m a fool for a man in uniform.

Wow, the days when kids were blown away by tissue boxes. He needed a Game Boy, bad.

14th yo. Tissue boxes would be better if they had Noa from Ewoks: The Battle For Endor on them. Now I will propose to Wilford Brimley.

Poop I want to apologize for last night and the whole week previous. I didn’t need to be that big of a prick, but I was. I can’t make you believe me, but I can show you I’m sincere by not doing it again. Same to you, Matt. Thanks for playing Papa Midnight to mine and Poop’s, Constantine and Balthazar.

I’ve been wanting to say the following for a while. And maybe you’ll enjoy ribbing me back

It’s only fair:

I’ve never really been a huge fan of the originals. I mean we’re given 3 movies worth of brilliant character development for Anakin, and then its cut short. We’re denied the character we’ve been focusing on throughout Eps. I-III.

I mean is it too much to have Darth crying on Grand Moff Tarkin’s shoulder? Something. We don’t get any great monologues about his regret over not being able to let go, and consequently losing Padme. No watching archived security footage of her longingly. Anakin is so awesomely emo and then boom. I know there is a long stretch of time between Ep. III and IV, but c’mon you know us emo kids, we complain til the death!

Back in those days I had no videogames to spare me from my sick days. I did manage to snag the 13 in black and white TV from my sisters on those rare occasions. And I once got a new go-bot (yes my family is cheap) when I got the chicken pox. Did any of you guys ever get special treatment\traditions on your sick days?

The only thing I ever got of note while sick was a lovely burn scar when I was in 4th grade. But I did get Legos when I started high school, so let the healing begin!

Urg, I wish I had some tissues with the Force in them. Allergies are on the verge of making my eyes actually pop out of my head, begging to be scrubbed with steel wool to kill the itch. I am watery eyed! Yum!

I always got coloring books when I got sick. They were usually Star Wars or Batman related.

My doctor’s office happened to be right next to a video store, so sometimes if I was pretty sick and my parents felt really sorry for me they’d let me rent a video game. That was pretty awesome.

Okay, I’ll bite. I don’t think there’s a need for further development of Anakin’s character in the original Trilogy because at the end of Episode III, he’s already demonstrated to us his complete transformation to the Dark Side. There is no human side left to stare wistfully at momentos or reminisce or whatever. At the end of Sith, we see him resigned/dedicated to his position of total servitude to Palpatine. Which is where we pick up in New Hope, and which is what makes Luke’s faith in him so incredible to everyone else, and why it’s such a triumphant moment when Anakin finally embraces that last shred of humanity he’s been hiding from even himself.
(kb, were you watching? The Office did win, they were all looking incredibly adorable, and we even got a shot of Ricky and Stephen looking prosh. Arrested Development really got shafted though.)

That’s a fair enough take Squee. I can see where you’re coming from. What about the much-maligned NOOOOOOooooOOOOO? That occured after his “reconstruction”. I understand that he would eventually accept what his actions have ultimately done to HIM, and that he’s more or less at the beck and call of Palpatine; hey what else is he gonna do? But I don’t buy that he wouldn’t constantly relive the pain he experienced, and caused Padme. And he probably does, we just don’t really get to see it in IV-VI. Clamming up doesn’t help anyone.

Though I guess it did help him come off as the the embodiment of all evil, etc., etc., etc. However, that impression is much easier to get if you see the originals before the prequels. After seeing the prequels, he does become much more pitiable in what little glimpses we get into how others percieve him (e.g., the whole adherence to a bygone religion flack they give him).

I guess I just wanted to see the aforementioned suffering outright. Although it is kinda hard to slit your wrists when they’re mechanical

one time when i was sick, my mom got me a box of kleenex with the muppets on it. (though perhaps not as cool as an AT AT, but) i seriously loved it. it had animal looking like he was screaming on it.

When I was sick as a kid I usually got a Mad or Cracked Magazine as a little special treat. I think my own tissue box with Muppets, Star Wars or something would have been a sweet get-well bonus instead of a half empty boring blah Kleenex box.

On another note, my mom worked at my elementary school so I always got my make-up work while I was still at home sneezing away. That really sucked.

That’s a new one to me. You are definitely right about the lack of pizzaz in that ad. If most commericals are guilty of being over the top, that one is guilty of only being suitable for coma patients.
Looks like there was a big response to the whole GB 2 discussion. Maybe that could be one of your Halloween articles if you are running low on material??? X-E proudly presents a defense of Ghostbusters II only with a much better title.

I can only imagine how many of these were used not for nose blowing, but for cleaning up after a slave-Leia fantasy.

Knegative,just to clear this up,the reason Vader doesn’t seem at all like the same person as he is in the prequels is because George Lucas wrote the prequels 20 years later,and didn’t really give a shit about if they matched up with the originals or not.

When I messed up my knee on several occasions, I got a mess of beanie babies, which started my rabid collecting of them….unfortunatley i never made much off them, but they werec ool to have at the time…..I would usually get ice pops or ice cream when i was sick….

OH! I missed the end of the emmy’s. I did see Steve Carell lose. Well, I’m glad for the win they did get.

Now, on topic. I have only in the last couple years watched eps. 1, 2, & 3. I am anxious to see the older ones, I suppose I should get on that, so I can get whatever conversations happen here on the blog.

Kid Nicky: Niiiiiice. So is it then just an issue of how you prefer your Vader? I’ll take mine, wooden, overserious, and exceedingly human (i.e., blinded by love-induced greed and a frailty that belied his extraordinary power and ambition). But I already said that

I don’t know about the prequels. I think we really could have done without them. The biggest thing that bugged me is how after licensing his universe out to dozens of writers over the years as long as it was making him more delicious filthy lucre, he completely kicked the entire Extended Universe in the nads. To me, it would have made more sense to pick out a storyline from a couple decades down the road and make three movies out of that. With the additional bonus that we get to see our original beloved characters all growed up. And it doesn’t destroy the entire character arc of the original trilogy.

But hey, who am I to complain? At least the new trilogy managed to fuse Natalie Portman with Star Wars. A more potent favor has never been done for nerdkind. Then again, Lucas gave absolutely every character, setting, or household appliance from the original trilogy a cameo in the prequels (he was afraid we were going to forget where we were, I suppose) and he can’t find a flimsy pretext to stick her in a golden bikini? For shame, George. For shame.

Manimal: I’ve always liked Ghostbusters 2, and one of my friends stands by his opinion that it’s the best to this day.

I wish I could’ve been the one to kick the entire Extended Universe in the nads.

Fair points all, particularly that about the EU/gold bikini. My take on the infamous NoooOOooOOooo was that it was his final moment of humanity, up until the time he betrays Palpatine anyway. Having emotions and attachment were what cost Anakin everything, so he obliterated all of them (except those the fed the Dark Side, i.e. anger and ambition) when he became Darth Vader.
Oh well kb, there’s always repeats. Thanks to the wonders of technology I just watched it again myself and it’s still freakishly adorable.

When I had the chickenpox in’77, my mother got me C3-P0 and R2-D2 action figures. To this day, she can tell me how much they cost. I guess $6.00 was a lot of money back then, but my friends had tons of the stuff. Sandy Buechino had every single toy, including the Death Star playset.

Mom always got up “Push-Ups” when we were sick, and I have always associated them with being sick. My wife even buys them for me when I’m sick now.

Every time I think I’ve seen everything “Star Wars” there is to see…Matt throws us something new and odd and different like this. I’d love to see Star Puffs. I mean, it’s got to be at least as cool as the “Cars” Kleenex boxes I’ve seen in the Acme, probably cooler.

Here’s a survey question — how many of you were actually alive when the first trilogy was released? If so, what is your opinion of the second trilogy?

As for “what more could an emo kid ask for?” I dunno. I’m listened to real emo and punk rawk for a long time and I’ve never seen any connection between them and Star Wars.

Klatubaradanikto- You must have been sick in â€™78 because the first Star Wars figures werenâ€™t released until then. Yup, they didnâ€™t have Star Wars toys the year the movie came out, not even for Christmas.

In regards to the prequels, sure the acting sucked but another key was the pacing. What happened in episode 1? They introduced the main characters and Palpatine was elected chancellor. It wasnâ€™t until the very end of episode two that things started to get shakinâ€™ on a galactic scale with the first battle of the clone wars. Now, Iâ€™m gonna share a secret with ya all. Iâ€™m still in high school, but that aint my fabulous secret, I want to remake the prequels when Iâ€™m all growed up, that or become a fire truck. I know itâ€™ll probably never happen but I could always get into comics and do one of them infinities versions of the prequels, but I digress. If I had my way I would mix the events of ep 2 with those of ep1, leaving more room for character development and cool fight scenes in my ep 2. Ep 3 would follow pretty much the same path that it did. All that and I wouldnâ€™t shit on the expanded universe; I would totally have AT-PTâ€™s stepping on small furred animals. That and good actingâ€¦ Also I would have it link up with the original trilogy better. Sorry if my grammar sucked, Iâ€™m half asleep. That and Iâ€™m totally naked, what does that do for ya?

And in regards to LemurCatâ€™s survey, I wasnâ€™t alive when they were released but I was brought up with the films on vhs. Theyâ€™re my favorite films, but the prequels, see previous, sexy post.

I saw the Original New Hope in the theater. The new stuff don’t quite acheive the same charm level the old stuff did. Like Mortal Kombat, the farther along it went, the less it was being done just for fun, and the less fun it got. In a world where people can die by poodle, why did Star Wars start to take itself so seriously?

I actually like my Star Wars serious but the reason I love A New Hope so much is because it was just there with crazy aliens and princesses and space ships, it was an adventure full of fun.

I think I’m the only person alive who at least respects Ep’s I, II, and III for what they were designed to do. Of the three of them, III got shit on the least, but by III, there was a full scale galactic war going on, and war is ALWAYS more interesting then the politics leading up to it. Sure, there was some craptacular moment in Episode II (he tells the woman he loves that she is not like sand???? WTF!!!), but there were some crappy whiney moments in the originals as well (IV, V, VI).

“But I was gonna go to Taschi Station and pick up some POWER CONVERTERS”…..damn it Luke, be a bigger winey ass PLEASE. Your career depends on it.

Second of all, there were no Characters in the prequal movies nearly as cool as Han Solo and Chewie.

Also keep in mind, when the first movie came out, it was considered groundbreaking in the Sci-Fi genre….now a days we are drowing in a sea of Sci-Fi in the theatre as well as on TV.

Like Mortal Kombat, the farther along it went, the less it was being done just for fun, and the less fun it got.

I don’t know about that. That series in a much better place now than it was 10 years ago.

When I was sick I usually got to pick out a small toy (stuffed animal/my little pony) for the doctors trip or a book. If illness progressed, then my parents would rent me videos or a video game. For colds/bronchitis my mom would make homemade chicken soup and bring me cups of hot tea with cinnamon, nutmeg, honey, and either orange or apple juice in it.

Wow, doho actually understood my sentence! I usually make sense only to myself, in a Yogi Berra kind of way.

I need to find ads, TV episodes, and other visual media from 1979 or thereabouts. As Star Wars began its’ initial steamroll onto the pop culture scene, a lot of people got, tor tried to get, a piece of the far, far away galactic action. Lucas had to sue some british company for thier paraffin ads using a ‘Droid named Cheap-Heatio. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups used a desert planet, alien saloon, and Han Solo-type in one of their “You got Chocolate in my Peanut Butter!” ads. Not to mention how it helped bring about renewed interest in Space Battleship Yamato and when Gundam arrived on the air, it had “Beam Sabers”. It was the Golden Age of Coat-Tail merchandising.

When I was sick I would get nothing! My Mom would never feel bad for me, no matter how sick I was. I think it was because I always wanted to be sick so I did’nt have to go to school, so even if I felt the slightest bit off I would try to stay home. When I really was sick my Mom would make me feel guilty because I was going to fall behind on my school work, and she would send me back to school before I was fully feeling better. I’m still bitter about it.

I was alive when Ep 4 came out, but I didn’t go see it immediately (being as I was 1 year old). However, the first time I saw Star Wars I couldn’t have been older than 4 or 5, and I went with my mom and brother to see it at the drive-in by our house. That’s probably one of my earliest childhood memories.

LemurCat, I still prefer the OT over the second trilogy (Ep 1-3). I’ve seen the OT hundres of times, and it will always have a special place. The special effects and the awesome lightsaber duels in Eps 1-3 deserve a nod, but the on-screen chemistry was just never there.

Darth Poop, I have a dream…and that dream takes place on the one year anniversary of the death of George Lucas…it goes something like this…

I’m sitting in a movie theater, watching previews…the screen goes black, the lights go out. Silence. Darkness. Suddenly….
BAM!!! STAR WARS appears on the screen, the audience is blasted with that oh-so-familiar sweet John Williams tune. Scenes from the Original Trilogy flash across the screen. Between each scene, it reads…
“A long time ago”
“In a galaxy far far away”
“You were taken into the midst of war”
“Rebels fighting an unstoppable empire”
“You saw heroes rise”
“…heroes fall”
“You saw scoundrels”
“princesses”
“droids”
“bounty hunters”
“and the Dark Lord”
“You wondered, how did it all begin?”
[Now the scenes change...images from Episodes 1-3: Jar-Jar Binks, a whining annakin..."Love me like you did on Naboo" line deliveries, etc.]
The screen goes dark…silence….wait for it…wait for it…
Black Screen….fade in the text…
“That’s how it could have happened…”
…text fades out…
Change over to
“Star Wars…the REAL Episodes 1-3…Coming this fall…”
fade out text…

So much to discuss…
1. Sorry I pissed everyone off with my critique of GB II. I had no idea I would stir up so much fervor and now I feel kinda bad.

2. Kid Nicky said it best: Lucas pretends that he had it all mapped out but the whole Luke/Leia lovestory turned incestuous (was it really that hard to make a new character if a twin is needed??) proves that theory wrong. He made it up as he went along and there a subsequent holes deluxe in the story.
3. I have only read some of the expanded universe so I am not an expert but I will say that he should not have let anyone make up stories about his universe, licensing or not. I am kinda in the Gary Larson camp on that one in that if it is my intellectual property, it is best being regulated by me. Selfish? Maybe but it least there is some continuity/protection.
4. Born in ‘79 so I was alive for ESB but just barely. Remember seeing ROTJ in the theater and having a ROTJ Christmas in ‘83.
5. Darth Poop, I’ve been saying that since Episode I came out. NOTHING HAPPENS in PHANTOM MENACE. We’ve only got 6.5 hours to cover almost 30 years, let’s go already!!

I was born after the fact, but not horribly long (1982). I originally saw Ep. IV-VI on VHS and then in the theatre during the re-releases. I inexplicably watched Ep. II on HBO without every having seen Ep. I. Yeah, I’m weird like that, but I enjoyed it immensely. It was like “wow, the universe from Star Wars, but with a guy who’s struggling with love, loss, power, and responsibility”. I was all over that.

Then I read about the “creating Darth Vader scene” in the preview of Ep. III in my local paper and was like “I gotta see that!”. So I bought Ep. I, which is in all honesty really really bad. Except for the goodbye scene. That tears me a new one, everytime. But II and III are just golden and I still watch them on a regular basis.

Maybe its my lack of experience with the originals (I just bought them a couple weeks ago) and maybe its my love for Hayden blinding me. See also, Shattered Glass and Life As A House. Two stellar movies.

A guy who’s struggling with love, loss, power, and responsibility BADLY (i.e., realistically). So we know we’re talking about Anakin and not Luke

I’ll say that first, I was one when ROTJ came out, but I do remember being really excited when my family got our first VCR a little later and my aunt got us the trilogy on video. I sat down one day and watched them all the way through for the first time when I was about 3 or 4. One really really scaring memory that is burned into my brain was how I couldn’t eat pimento cheese up until a few years ago. Because on the day that I watched the original Star Wars all the way through, my mom made me a pimento cheese sandwich and poofy cheetoes for lunch, she gave it too my, seriously, at the exact moment that Han slices open the Taun-Taun to keep Luke from Freezing. All I could think about was “wow, cheetoes look like guts” and “my sandwich is squishy, like guts”

As for getting sick and special treatment, when I was about 2 or 3 I got really bad food poisoning, hospital trip and everything. Long story short, my parents, aunts, and grandparents followed it up just about every Heman figure on the market at the time. Can’t say I enjoyed the food poisoning, but those figures pretty much defined me for about 3 years.

Wow, that’s some fancy … Puffs box? Sorry, even if they are Puffs brand, any tissue like that is still a kleenex.

I agree, that kid basically gets flipped off my R2 and C3PO. Ha! And it’s funny that they just fade to oblivion behind them as they enter the picture.

I was just alive when the very first one came out, but my parents shipped me over to my Grandma’s house while they took my brother to go see it. I do remember seeing the 2nd one at the theater, but I was sick (and could’ve used some damn Puffs!) and fell asleep through alot of it. When the Tie Fighters came streaking through space, it woke me up and I started screaming because it scared me.

Wait, I’ve got it! That kid is REALLY sick! He must have a fever of 108 and be hallucinating due to the fever and a bad reaction to a cold medicine that was banned afterwards. I bet he isn’t even really in bed, and his mom probably just handed him some juice and crackers, only he thinks it’s a box of tissues with Star Wars on it, and then that he’s in space. His mom should get him to the hospital now.

My dad was totally into Star Wars, but since my mom didn’t like it I was left out of the Star Wars loop until I was about 18 years old. Same with Indiana Jones, Princess Bride, Monty Python…I missed out on a bunch of movies because of my mom’s lack of imagination. At least I had Unico.
Somehow I got to see Space Balls…I’m sure there must have been Space Balls: The Tissue Box around somewhere.

LemurCat: I’m an old timer, I saw all three of the original movies in the theater, where they should be viewed for that matter. Star Wars will always have a special place in my heart, that and the fact that I saw it 17 times when I was 8.
To me Empire Strikes back will always be the best of the original trilogy, with Return of the Jedi coming in last place of the three.

For the “New” movies, to be honest I’d rather stab my eyes out than watch the new movies. I’m sorry but Lucas should have sprung for a few ghost writers and to do it up right. If it was any other film franchise the first prequel would have been the last and only the special effects saved it.

Then again, I must be missing something because my kid loves them. Should have banned them like I did Barney.

I believe that the only original trilogy film that Lucas actually wrote the dialogue for and directed was A New Hope; he was credited as the writer of the story, not the screen play with ESB and ROTJ.

I just checked it out and the screen play of ROTJ was credited to Lucas AND Lawrence Kasdan.

Let us not forget that Lucas did not direct ESB or ROTJ either.
Look, the guy is a good story teller and great with visuals. It is just he cannot direct actors to save his life.

Manimal, I said that two posts above yours. I know, I know, I am your hero and you wish that you had boobs like these massive man-boobs of mine, but please, think of the children. Wait, what the hell is this post about?

And I didn’t mean to sound like an ass in my first post, I just want some credit, because I’m so lonely…

“Faster & more intense” was what the actors claimed Lucas said over and over while directing Ep IV. However, I like my boobs “faster & more intense” too.

I was just barely alive for Ep IV. Dad saw it shortly before I was born and wanted to name me Obi-Wan Kenobi Holmes. Thank God Mom prevailed. I’d go by Ken, but being a Ken in the 80s was probably equally as bad as being Obi.

I’ve not been posting a lot lately because I’ve been working a TON of overtime. Fortunately that’s coming to an end as of this weekend. YES! No more working OT for half (or less) of my normal wage. I hate being salaried.

Which brings me to my burning question. All of a sudden I have a four day weekend coming up. I also have a decent amount of money because I haven’t had time to spend it. Where the hell should I go?

If this discussion went from Star Wars tissues to more intense man-boobs in a matter of 70 posts…then count me out of this blog. (and that’s sayin’ something)

Ha! Naming a child after Star Wars might be just a touch excessive, though I did name my dog Obi-Wan Kenobean. And yes, that is an AKC recognized hypen. And yes, you can see adorable pictures by clicking my name.
Cheap-Heatio is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard of. Wouldn’t that be protected as parody? Maybe it’s different across the pond.

Well, I was going for non-gender specific “faster & more intense” boobs. I’m a straight guy, but I know there’s got to be at least a few folks here who are either female or gay.

Actually, now that I think about it, I wonder if I wanted my own man-boobs “faster & more intense” or if I was saying I prefer to go “faster & more intense” with someone else’s? Aw, screw it. This has degenerated into naughty territory and it’s all Darth Poop’s fault. Matt should institute a “no shoes, no shirt, no posting” rule.

And Knegative, it IS wrong that you find that “Hello Vader” person cute. Frankly it’s like seeing Abraham Lincoln in a dress or Will Ferrell in a drama- just wrong.

Course, if it’s a chick in there then maybe she’s into being “faster & more intense.”

I was born in 1983, so I didn’t see the OT in theatre. However, I did see the special editions in theatres.

I watched the OT HUNDREDS of times on VHS. It will always hold a special place in my heart.

Episode I: Boring character development. Not a bad movie, but Jar Jar kind of ruined it, and the whole “midichlorians” thing was completely unecessary. It’s the worst of ALL the movies, IMO

Episode II: Intriguing story, good Action, YODA FIGHTS, etc. It’s a pretty good movie. Some have complained about how Whiney Darth is, but looking back after seeing all 6 movies, I think it fits his character. Luke was Whiney, too.

Episode III: though there is some really REALLY lame Dialogue (Lucas should be forbidden from writing Love scenes forever), This is my favourite of the prequels. I find it pretty emotionally powerful, and think it’s the best of the prequels. I would even say that it’s better in some aspects than ANH or RotJ.

Bottom line: Part I was a necessary evil to introduce the characters. Part II was more like what Star Wars should be. Part III was simply Awesome save for some bad dialogue. If the Prequels were never made, it wouldn’t be a tragedy…but I’d still rather have them than not.

My problem with 2 was actually the editing of the film. Arranged a bit better, get rid of this, bring this back and you would’ve had a movie that felt closer to 3 than 1.

spaz307-Hey, donâ€™t blame me, blame Fox, he made me do it. And the actors didnâ€™t just claim he did it, he actually said it while being interviewed for that 4th DVD that came with the original trilogy DVDs.

Invader Norbert- Why be ye not posting until Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!!! Jesus, I’ve been double and triple posting the crap out of this blog!

It’s okay Poop. You’re in your element. If Matt ever brings up the Matrix, I’ll be the same way.

My favorite part is that the kid can’t even pronounce R2-D2 correctly. If you listen closely he says “Wow! C3PO R2-Doo-2!”

Yeah, and he’s reading cue cards while he’s doing it. That or he has Tourettes.

Morgan: I am the Muhammad Ali of the gaming world!
Adam: Do you have Parkinson’s yet?

The prequels were just bad. :) I can watch them and love them, but they’re just…bad. TPM didn’t need to be made at all, really. They could’ve slowed the pace of the AOTC era and been served far better. We didn’t need to see Anakin as a little boy to know that he was a good little boy — as much as Hayden is blasted for his performance, I think they should’ve started with him in the role and had the slow burn. As we saw him, Adult Anakin was “pure” for approximately 45 minutes.

Plus, for all the time they had to map out how the prequels would tie to the original trilogy, I can’t believe it all came off feeling so…retrofitted. Padme’s death, in particular. What? She’s dead? From what? From being upset? Or was it from the two second Anakin choke hold? I hope not, cuz girl survived a four story drop out of a fucking plane in the previous movie.

I freaking hate the prequels. Everything about them. The cartoonish looking cgi, the ships, the characters, Jar Jar, the story. I could go on….

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