What I told you was true, from a certain point of view.

Oct 20, 2016 11:16 PM

UncomfortableTruths

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All credit goes to John Venzon who made the video I used to make this.

I highly recommend you watch it, because it is an amazing editing job and is so much better with the audio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN74bOubUug

Edit: He also made an edit of the first four films, re-telling the story from Obi-Wan's perspective.
Check it out!
https://vimeo.com/113241421

YOU WERE MY BROTHER ANAKIN. WE HOE-HUNTED TOGETHER.

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this gave me a laughing fit after a bad anxiety day. thank you.

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"YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE! IT WAS SAID YOU WOULD DESTROY THE SITH NOT JOIN THEM!!!" -Obi Wan probably

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"My username"- Palpatine probably

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I helped by cutting off his limbs though

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Underrated comment

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Obi-wan's got that thousand yard stare

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I've noticed that a lot of shows on Hulu and Netflix uses alternative theme music on shows. Like Married With Children. Ruins it a little.

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What does that have to do with his statement?

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I'm always impressed by the entire story line. I think Star wars is the only series I've ever truly truly been a fan of. Not that you asked

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So what do YOU think of the Star Wars series?

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Haha! Thanks

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49 times, we fought that beast... Your old man and me. It had a chicken head with duck feet, with a woman's face too.

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Aww that's rad!

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Every day I worry all day, about what's waiting in the bushes of love.

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ROFL.

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Something's waiting in the bushes for us

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...haaaan....ha...haaaaaaaan....haaaaaan....

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You sir/ma'am, deserve to be at the top.

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and it was watin in the bushes for us. it riped off you dads face he was screaming something awful.

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in fact there was this huge mess i had to change the floors. A: "the floors?" you see his blood had draind into the boards i had to change..

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.. them but we all got a chicken duck-women thing wating for us.

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bla bla bla bla

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Obi: hold be when i open like a flower... hold me right..(eco).. i ain't had to bake for a girl in a long time... a long time.

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Then it ripped off your dad's face. He was screaming something awful. In fact there was this huge mess, And I had to change the floors.

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The floors?

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You see, his blood, it drained into the boards, and I had to change 'em.

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Nrat

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Damn it - I *JUST* got the Seagulls song out of my head and now it's popped right back in there.

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Rocking, rocking now rolling. Down to the beach I'm strolling. Then the seagulls poke at my head NOT FUN! I said seagulls, hm, stop-it-now..

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https://youtu.be/RySHDUU2juM

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Thank you....

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That was epic.

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If I wasn't already going to favorite this post, I certainly am now.

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not the future.

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This is far better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08G1y2622r8

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wow

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McGregor and adding so much to Kenobi's personal journey is the greatest/only decent thing to come out of the prequels

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How? What? Personal journey? Oh, right, all the stuff that happened off screen. Good job, George! (rolls eyes)

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Yeah, actually. Perhaps I should say 'what we can assume about Kenobis persona journey...'

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If i found a Genie i'd wish for three more movies starring Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan,

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Dude, I used to hate on the prequels but it hit me recently just how fudging awesome Maul, pod race, music, Qui-Gon vs council, droids are.

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It got overplayed in a few places but Duel of the Fates is one of the better pieces of cinema music in a few decades

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Agreed. The choreography most certainly changed dueling in cinemas forever as well.

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I think all fighting in cinema. Everything is so much more flowing now, after the 90's 'MAN PUNCH' style

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If Anakin played Halo, he would've known not to jump in the middle of a fight. Easy target

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Put yourself in Obi-Wan's position; This right here is fucking character development. Star Wars is an epic space opera. Nuff said.

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That Leftovers soundtrack gets me every damn time ????

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It's been said that only 3 people knew that Vader was Luke's father until the end of empire but in these scenes it alludes to it.

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Say what you want about the prequel trilogy. I liked it.

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Anakin and Obi-Wan both died on Mustafar. Vader and Ben were the shells that left the planet

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A Chuck gif?! This made my night. Time to binge watch some more before Nov. 1st! (dear Netflix, please don't do this to me. I love Chuck.)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Big Mike!

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

the story of the prequals were solid and great - it was just bogged down by cheese and cgi. Also, GEORGE NEVER DIRECT A FUCKING FILM AGAIN

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He can direct fine, as long as he has input from good people who challenge his bad creative decisions.

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Yeah I think the prequels were a good story terribly executed, episode 7 was a really dull story well executed...

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And I guess the originals are an okay story done pretty damn well

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I get a lot of hate for this: I'm not a huge fan of Hayden's acting, but I didnt think it was too bad. Anakin is SUPPOSED to be young/whiny

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And emotionally stunted

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He's an average actor who was given a fairly bad set of scripts. So the result was... not great.

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His acting was great when he didn't have to Speak, more proof that the writing was meh

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... good enough to get me through the Phantom Edit, I'll concede.

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The problem isn't really with Christensen, it's that the characterisation is just garbage. Can't work with "I hate sand etc"

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Agreed. As a Star Wars junkie, I also always wish that his motivation was more clearly shown as "I think the Jedi are wrong and corrupt." /2

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Because it kind of came across as "You're angsty, so just join the dark side and kill these children." "Mm, yeah okay I guess."

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I really enjoyed the prequels, as much as the originals

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Not to mention the fact that Anakin has little to no real redeeming qualities in AOTC or ROTS.

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Glorious.

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Proof that the Jedi were warrior 'munks.

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+1, well played

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The only way to watch the movies is the machete order.

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I like the abridged machete order: 4, 5, a fan edit that merges 2 and 3 into a single movie with boring stuff cut out, then 6.

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I don't understand the appeal behind machete order. It's too jarring to jump from PT to OT. Best order is 456456456, repeat forever.

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you need to link this

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4,5,2,3,6... I think.

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I am teaching this to my kids. (srsly)

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and you need to link this, too! :p

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Machete order makes no sense and jumps around too much trying to be clever. Just watch in order of release, skip 1 and 2 if you like

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Machete order includes Eps II, the worst one. I say never watch 1 or 2.

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Good lord. That was well done. I got a little choked up...i never really thought about how fresh that is in Obi-wan's memory.

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This post wasn't a comedy? Yikes.

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You're not alone.

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Why? Anakin and Obi-Wan constantly complained about how much they disliked and didn't trust each other for ALL of AOTC. Friends? Ha!

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The images were thought provoking.. but the video is more powerful. I teared up, not gonna lie.

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Why? Anakin was a creepy, self-absorbed, murderous psychopath long before he officially became Vader. Basically got what was coming to him

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Yes, But (and what should've been the focus of the prequels) he was like a Son to Obi Wan, when Anakin fell to the dark side he destroyed >

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> the Jedi, but Obi Wan felt like it was his responsibility, like he should've seen it coming, it's like a Brother who's using drugs, you >

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> keep ignoring the darkness until eventually you can't anymore, and pushing them away for their own good feels like cutting out your heart

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Not that fresh, how old is Luke like 15 or 20?

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Most people say either 19 or 20 at the start of A New Hope

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This is horrifying *dies laughing*

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Oh my god how have I never seen this?! seriously lost it at *sad beep*

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Was hoping someone would post this

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It would have been, like, 20+ years ago. Not sure fresh is the right word. Then again, there are some scars we never quite recover from.

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CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE : John Venzon, ACE https://vimeo.com/113241421

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I look at it as obi wans perspective. Also the acting though, to be able to connect movies that didn't exsist yet just by his expressions.

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That's a really cool way to think about it

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And that's why Alec Guinness is a legend.

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Sir Alec Guinness to you

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No, you lose the title when you die.

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Well I hope that's not true lol

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It's called Soviet Montage Theory. Take any 2 shots, edit them together, and a person will read in whatever they want. It doesn't take much

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I got a little toked up.

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The way Sir Alec told the story, it is as if he knew what happened in Episode 3. As if he was the same actor portraying young Obi Wan.

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Well, except for that claim Anakin was ever a good friend. But sure, whatever.

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He was great at this part. To bad he thought star wars and scifi was a sham

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" ... new rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper – and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable."

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Proof that music really makes a video: exhibit A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYud9sZ91Mc&feature=share

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The prequels would have been amazing with a solid writer and director. The story isn't bad. It just wasn't told right.

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Right, the put the Focus on Anakin and Padme, when it should've been on Obi Wan and Anakin, if we don't see them as Brothers and friends >

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> then Anakin's fall doesn't have the emotional weight it could've

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How exactly was the story not told right?

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The focus on romance (badly written) and downplaying the stubbornness of the Jedi for staters. Also too much distracting CGI.

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The romance plot is essential because it ends with the birth of Luke and leia, it was however, badly written, clingy, and creepy at times

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Essential, absolutely. But it was poorly done and overly focused on. And since Han and Leia was done perfectly, it's baffling.

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Watch the animated Clone Wars series. I'm serious, it's as if the prequels were done properly.

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Revenge of the sith is a real and good starwars movie and no one will change my mind

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Nah, they needed a better overall creative team on the script. In the prequels Lucas wrote everything himself, which is why he failed.

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I liked the third one and count it but one and two no they don't exist

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Well Darth Maul's fight exists.

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Eh they were okay

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The way I see it, the prequels had lots of good decisions in them, but just as many bad ones

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I laughed way too hard at this

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1: what defines "laughing too hard" 2: what's so funny as to merits a laugh?

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I admit that I kind of live for Yoda fighting Dooku. That shit was legit.

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So many people hate on that scene "he was supposed to be the greatest fighter and all he does is jump around" yeah! Because he's 2 feet tall

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He has no reach compared to his opponent. So he jumps around to utilize speed and disorient

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As it was comment referred to in my family, the CGI cocaine gopher fight.

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I don't like the prequels. They're rushed and unpolished, and the plot holes are everywhere.

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That's fair. Everyone gets their opinion!

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he's making a joking reference. see: anakin's opinion of sand

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ha nice one brah

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From Obi-Wan's side, it was phenomenally done. (I also really like Iwan McGregor). It was Anakin's side that fell flat and ruined it all.

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Had my first job at an F.Y.E. around when Episode 1 came out. My manager had a son, named it Anakin... poor kid. Wonder how much he hates it

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Pretty great. He just needs the right script/director. I kind of hope for him to force ghost bitchslap Kylo at some point TBH.

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I hated his acting, it was coarse, and it got everywhere

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I... Just take the damn upvote.

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*Ewan.

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Thank you

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Yup. Check out belated media on YouTube. He re wrote the series with animated storyboards from ob1 point of view. It's amazing.

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This^

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George Lucas ruined Anakin's character

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thats why i hope soooooooo much that the solo obi-wan movies disney wants to do, that they bring back mcGregor (who has said he would)

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I'm sure that Hayden isn't a terrible actor, because he's been good at other stuff. Plus the part with the younglings and final fight were

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It was the mushy romance that he couldn't do well, and a lot of that is on Lucas for not knowing how to write romance

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Hayden did anger really well. It was the whiny baby moments that ruined it.

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It's funny because those moments didn't ruin it with Luke. We didn't want Vader to be whiny though.

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Well honestly no actor could have saved those terrible lines and direction. Wasn't really his fault.

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I kinda would really want to see a fight between 1 Jedi Knight and 30 toddlers with lightsabers. It would be worth seeing 30 children die.

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Natalie Portman is fantastic too, but their love story was just so cringily written - 'you're breaking me heart Ani!'

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Their relationship was rushed in the second movie and was a goddamn travesty. Anakin was basically a creeper the whole time, and clearly...

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My* hahahaha she was not a pirate aha

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You're tearing me apart, Annie! Oh, hai Obi Wan.

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I always felt that if you wanted to see good stories about Anakin, "Star Wars The Clone Wars" does it justice pretty well, they had a...

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... good handle at showing his reckless yet compassionate nature, and how his compassion could be used against him to slowly turn him to...

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I can see that. I love the prequels, but i wish for the same things most others want: no midichlorians, darth maul to have a bigger role etc

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Is it too soon to redo these?

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They bring Maul back in the animated Clone Wars series. It's bitchin as hell.

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I think that's why people started doing the "Machete Order", losing Darth Maul is an acceptable trade off to losing the rest of the Ep I

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Whats the issue with midichlorians?

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It makes the Force feel less mysterious and ethereal.

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I really don't hate them either. Especially II & III. Feel like it became cool to hate them, you know?

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100% agreed. I think that ep 3 will always be my favorite...probably due in large part to the 'you were my brother' scene.

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That's probably the best scene of the entire movie right there. Calm, collected Obi-Wan finally breaking loose and crying over his friend.

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And Yoda and Palpatine beating the shit out of each other. Don't forget that.

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Alec Guinness, giving life and depth to a movie 25 years before it's conception.

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If only George could have made a movie that lived up to it

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Indeed sir, indeed.

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haha, he should meet Harrison Ford then.

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He... Did.... ?

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The irony being that he detested Star Wars.

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The other irony is that he agreed to 2% of the take instead of being paid. THAT is guinness...er...genius.

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He was the original pretentious Star Wars fan.

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A good actor won't judge a film, even if it isn't their ideal roll. He didn't despise it as I understand it. He merely didn't care for it.

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I believe he said SW was "fairytale rubbish", and that it wouldn't do well.

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He just couldn't help being a great actor

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Fun Fact: he got paid in slightly over 2% of the film's profits. Dude made out like a bandit.

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He might have hated it, but he picked up the ball and ran with it. Fair play to him.

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This is why I want so badly to have an obi-wan film. There is so much about him to be shared

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Have you ever read the Jedi apprentice books? They are aimed at younger (12-14yo) readers, but they give obi wan an amazing backstory

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They're pretty amazing imo. Just gave the whole series to my 11yo cousin and right after that he named his hamster Obi-Wan

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The prequels should have focused on him, like the OT focused on Luke and the overarching story between the two was about Anakin/Vader.

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The prequels should've focused on Anakin as they did; they just shouldn't have sucked.

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They didn't focus on Anakin. They didn't have a focus. That's part of the reason why they were worse.

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Ooo membah Obi-wan?

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The Legends book Kenobi is one of the best star wars books.

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I hope it explains why everyone suddenly got disco haircuts after Revenge of the Sith.

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Rogue wan

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He probably didn't do anything between Episodes III-IV though.

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Pretty sure he did a lot. For one, he would want to keep tabs on Leia as he wanted to get the twins back together in time. >

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> He no doubt hoped that there were other Jedi survivors, as well.

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I think a comic series showed that he kept tabs on Luke and his family while he grew up.

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Yeah, there's a really good single issue arc where Luke finds Obi Wan's journal and it goes through a story of him protecting a tiny Luke

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Damn. Where was the person who edited that video when they were making the prequels

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN74bOubUug Video is here for added fun

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Probably still in middle school tbh

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Topher Grace supposedly did a good edit of them that hasn't been released.

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??? Sauce?

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On youtube, called the phantom edit, its pretty good imo

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To be fair the issue with the prequels was down in the writing and letting Lucas do it without restricting forces.

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Editing was the least of the prequels' problems.

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George Lucas fired him.

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Member Chewbacca???

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Probably with your mom.

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And thus, George Lucas' username was revealed.

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Oh, gosh. They're already building the sets. I need to start writing this thing. [The next day] The Phantom Menace first draft ready.

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For how much people hate the prequels, they did a lot more for the star wars universe than the original trilogy did.

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I dont hate the prequels. I hate the writers and director of the prequels.

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So George Lucas and George Lucas?

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Bingo. He had a great story and then he balls it up with shitty dialogue, terrible writing, and terrible directing.

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At least he's working on personal projects like salad unboxing these days.

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No offense intended, but your statement , if you believe it is true, only shows you were not around between 1977 and 1983.

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I think it shows how nostalgic people are for a movie they usually see when they're kids.

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Ya, like Jester Dexsters 50's diner. What a wonderful and memorable addition to the Star Wars Universe.

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Yep, that one example, and not the numerous expansions of alien races and planets beyond "Guy in reptile suit and vacuum cleaner we built"

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Yes like the hilarious Jar Jar Binks, the clever Nute Gunray, the spectacular Fode and Beed pod racer announcers, all great additions.

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The pod racer announcers were so I don't know what you're talking

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I sure am glad George engaged in "universe building" instead of writing a coherent and exciting script!

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Not all of it good.

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Neither was the OT either though. But at least neither of them were as bad as the Expanded Universe

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I'll have to take your word about the Expanded Universe, I just know that I enjoy the OT whenever it's on TV.

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The expanded universe did a lot of good by giving names to things and expanding on concepts presented in the OT. There were also problems. 1

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The slave girl who gotten eaten by the Rancor was a Twi'lek so nearly all Twi'leks became slaves or former slaves. 4

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There's a dog Jedi Master

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They would often take a character from the movie with a unique position, look, or character and expand it to the whole race. 2

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Boba Fett was a Mandalorian and a bounty hunter/warrior. So all Mandalorians became bounty hunters and warriors. 3

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Every one knows the prequels were bad, but Ewan McGregor was a jewel in those movies. Terrific

10 years ago | Likes 368 Dislikes 7

Cant believe I'm saying this, but I now yearn for the care & quality of the prequels. Ep 7 was a steaming pile.

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What's wrong with "A Newer Hope" specifically? (except for the fact that it's a copy of IV) Oh, and that they use the falcon like a hammer 1

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, and somehow Poe survives all day in a desert and Finn recognizes him while he's whizzing by at mach whatever. And suddenly everyone can 2

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use a lightsaber effectively, and the hyper-spatial weapon was visible. (Define faster-than-light) And after designing and losing two 3

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Death Stars, they never put a fucking circuit breaker in the design of a plantetary-scale weapon. Not one? Really? And a janitor flunky 4

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What makes them somewhat watchable is when you realize that Obi and Padme had a secret love affair and Luke and Leia are actually his kids..

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He's a brilliant actor but always seems to get roles in shocking films. I don't get it

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not everyone! I greatly enjoy the prequels, and they birthed the clone wars series which has some of the best Star Wars stuff ever.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

He made Obi-wan my favorite Jedi of all time

10 years ago | Likes 84 Dislikes 1

A diamond in the ruff

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Yeah I kind of liked the swashbuckling McGreggor better than shuffling Sir Guinness.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You also have to acknowledge how much he looks like the original Ben. Perfectly cast.

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I enjoyed the movies except jar-jar and anakin. If they used better actors for anakin and left out jar-jar then they would have been great.

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I've seen Christensen in other movies and he wasn't bad. It was honestly just the dialogue that was terrible.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This. The dialog was awful for everyone, but better actors (like McGregor) minimized it for their parts. Christensen wasnt skilled enough to

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Hayden was fine. No one can make lines about sand sound good.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Unconfirmed he had a voice cameo in Force Awakens, during Rey's vision. :o

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Actually he did confirm it, his voice and Alec's voice was mashed together saying "Rey"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was when Alec said afraid the cut it down to say Rey, really cool stuff

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

nnnniiice. I just love how McGregor was kinda "meh" about the new films leading up to the release, that sly fox!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He seemed rather "meh" about E7 even after its release. At least on The Graham Norton Show

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Maybe he's just meh. I've visited Scotland, they can be very meh. Oh well, still 5/7 would bang.

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Eh, 3 was a decent flick.

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The book made me realize all the potential the third one missed out on. Couldn't appreciate it after that

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One of the biggest problems was that rush of an ending. They could have cut out a lot of filler so they could make it less messy.

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If you're a motherfucking queen you don't go off dying of broken hearts and shit. Your people need you goddamit. All I've to say about that.

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She wasn't the Queen at that point. She was a Senator. :P

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Well, that changes everything.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Yeah, it actually does.

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Palpatine drained her life force to save Anakin.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Is that canon or just a theory?

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Biggest problem with 3 is the boring fight at the end and the way it ends right before ANH but with 20 years to spare

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Eh, I thought the fight was alright. Little goofy, though, especially the legs getting cut off part feeling a bit forced.

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It was just way overdone IMO, 20 minutes of flipping around and dancing over lava when a more grounded battle would have had serious tension

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Lol, I think that's a matter of preference. The hardcore Star Wars fans were probably flipping their $#!%.

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Well it ended right before ANH because there was shit going on on Tatooine during that time. It's like space New Mexico.

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Not sure what you mean. I'm just pointing out how weird it is that the droids just sit around on the Tantive etc

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

boring fight...? You're kidding right

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Nope, it went way over the top and got tiresome, especially considering we knew the outcome already

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Still salty about how much of a pushover they made Gen Greivous tho

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And Plo koon he was epic.

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He's part of the holy trinity of cool looking characters that do absolutely nothing: General Grievous, Boba Fetta, Captain Phasma

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Oh man, you're right, one per trilogy. Although Grievous was super legit in the 2003 Clone Wars cartoon, and Fett in the EU.

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In case anyone hasn't seen - rare footage of Grievous being a badass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIj7gIDFDe4

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I love the old ones, don't mind the prequels. But in all honesty, I thought they developed characters well and explained the back story too

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I do like the prequels a lot actually even with there faults but I feel like if I say that I'll get maliciously attacked so I refrain.

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I think the prequels were telling a much more ambitious story and failed because it was much harder to do. I respect the ambition though.

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This, the prequels are like trying to explain the apocalypse, all it's destructive and terrible beauty beyond the description of mortal men

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Apocalypse? I don't think the Galactic Empire was that awful. Humans just had racial superiority.

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And what replaced it was even worse.

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