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How did George Lucas come up with the gall to name a scary villain who wants to violently kill you MAUL, and name a loner protagonist SOLO, and name a fighter pilot SKYWALKER? Why did they stop there? Why Darth Vader and not EVIL ELECTRIC SWORD DAD?

Clearly that person doesn't know what Darth Vader means.


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Tried to watch w my 11yo son. Made about 5 minutes in where the wookies start watching TV or whatever. OMG.
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Tried to watch w my 11yo son. Made about 5 minutes in where the wookies start watching TV or whatever. OMG.

Follow it up with the damn spin-off cartoon about the Ewoks.

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Hmm.

Dark father?  Dutch?


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Clearly that person doesn't know what Darth Vader means.

Hmm.

Dark father?  Dutch?

Dutch/German it's very close to Dark Father.

Although, Lucas says it's just a coincidence, and he didn't know that DV was Luke's father at the time he named him.


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Although, Lucas says it's just a coincidence, and he didn't know that DV was Luke's father at the time he named him.

Lucas needs to go back to ripping off old Japanese films and stfu.


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My latest view on Star Wars is that Lucas got lucky. He combined the chocolate of WWII air combat movies with the peanut-butter of Kurosawa samurai films, and it turned out to be pretty tasty. Add into that the fact that visually it was parsecs ahead of any other sci-fi films of the time (*cough*Logan's Run*cough*), and top it off with great sound design, and bam.

The prequels are just godawful.
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I don't know about lucky.  He convinced me he had talent after Star Wars, American Graffiti, and Indiana Jones.  I'll grant you he needed loads of help to turn the bookends of that list into mega-franchises.  His talents failed to progress beyond a certain sophomore level and his highly explosive, frenetic creative fuel ran out.  Twice as bright, half as long and all that.  He just went way, way above "twice."

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My latest view on Star Wars is that Lucas got lucky. He combined the chocolate of WWII air combat movies with the peanut-butter of Kurosawa samurai films, and it turned out to be pretty tasty. Add into that the fact that visually it was parsecs ahead of any other sci-fi films of the time (*cough*Logan's Run*cough*), and top it off with great sound design, and bam.

The prequels are just godawful.

I first said he got lucky on November 21, 2010.

http://www.dtman.com/cgi-bin/ib3/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=7;t=10670


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He was M. Night before M. Night

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Tried to watch w my 11yo son. Made about 5 minutes in where the wookies start watching TV or whatever. OMG.

It's awful.  We skipped ahead, still bad, but my 5 you wants to keep watching.

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