I was a Star Wars geek, even up to Episode II, I maintained hope, only to have it ripped away yet again. But Lucas won't get my dollars for Episode III even if everyone else in the world tells me its worth it. I'll wait until it comes out on DVD, borrow it from a friend and burn it.
Why won't I see it?
-I'll have two kids under the age of 3...about the only way we'll convince the sitters to watch both of them for a few hours is if I'm mortally wounded and need to go to the ER
-somehow, I think they'll conveniantly neglet to tell us how R2-D2 suddenly stops BEING ABLE TO FLY in Episode 4, or how Obiwan ("I don't seem to remember ever owning a droid", Episode 4) develops amnesia and forgets who R2D2 is
-Lucas replaced old Anakin with Hayden Christiansen in Return of the Jedi. Up until that time I could buy the whole "This is how I wanted the movies shot in the first place" (except maybe Greedo shooting first), but give me a break. If Hayden is there, might as well take out Alec Guiness and put in Ewan. Hell, while your at it, put in a younger version of Yoda before he turned green and shrivelled up
-yes, the acting in the original trilogy was just as bad as the acting in the new trilogy, but the actors at least had CHEMISTRY in the original.
-face it, save for 60 seconds of Yoda kicking ass, Episode II was BORING
-Count Dooku is the lamest Star Wars villain to date
-Lucas is stubborn, and when he gets criticized, he does more of what he's criticized for as if he's trying unsuccessfully to prove people wrong...take refusing to get out of the directors chair, or the insistence to continue including Jar Jar
-generations from now, kids are going to watch the series in numerical order, not in the order of release. The original series will lose its magic when they already know Darth Vader is Luke's father and Luke and Leia are sisters. Not to mention, they'll wonder why the special effects get so lousy from Episode 4 onwards, but the movies get better. Then many will wonder why they even bothered to go to 6 movies when the first 2 were so lame
There's probably more, more I should try and get some sleep, and hopefully most of you have better things to do than read my rantings
