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WARNING... THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS...

Now that due warning has been given, who's seen it and what do they think?
Here's my reflections and review...

The good.... wonderful special effects, Yoda kicks butt (even if he looks a little too computer generated) a marvelous feathered lizard (if anyone is breeding those please contact me, I'll pay full market price ), the guy who plays Anakin has taken some acting lessons and along with Ewan McGregor makes for some verrrry nice eye candy.

The bad.... Plot is very weak in points, and dialogue is unintentionally very, very funny in a few places.

The ugly.... SPOILERS mostly here... Padme (an intergalactic and supposedly capable politician) squeaks feeble cliches while her beloved gradually turns to the dark side. (ye gods, ya think she'd at least slap him once) Obi Wan leaves the evil/on fire Anakin for dead, a thing both dumba** and cruel to do, totally out of character. Padme keels over before Princess Leia's old enough to vaguely remember her as she does in the original trilogy, and Anakin's turning to the dark side is a wee bit premature and overboard.

On the positive side, the first Darth Vader breath sent shivers up my spine and that lizard was awesome.
Sorry if I've ticked off any fervent fans. I have the utmost respect for the original trilogy. And did I mention I love that lizard?
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Thank you for starting this thread. That provides me with the opportunity to release some of the sentiment I connect with the Star Wars movies.
I was born in 1957 and enthusiastic about science fiction since I was a child of 10.
As of this age I badgered my parents when a science fiction movie was on tv or in the cinema to allow me to see it.
Special effects have been mostly a bad joke at that time (you have seen the strings on which the cardbord space ships were hauled over the screen *LOL*). Okay, this is a little bit exaggerated, but special effects were really bad most of the time, but through the pink glasses of enthusiasm I didn't care.

And then: 1977.

The first Star Wars movie! I was completely stunned. Paralized. Mouth, eyes and ears wide open. These special effects!
A quantum leap? More than that! It was like showing an aviation enthusiast who has never seen anyting else than biplanes a Phantom F4 fighting with MIGs.
I sat in the cinema and prayed that this movie would never end.
But it did, and so I went to the cinema again the next day aand the day after.
Needless to say that I haven't missed one of the 6 Star Wars movies.

And now, 28 years later, the circle is closed. The questions from 1977 are answered now (for instance, how Darth Vader became Darth Vader). I have waited 28 years for that answer. I was clutched by a feeling of sentiment when I saw the last Star Wars movie on Thursday. The circle is closed now... Forever.

Weak parts in dialogues? Star Wars is a fairy tale. I don't expect profound dialogues.
Some lapses in logic? I forgive George Lucas. His gift to the community of Science fiction enthusiasts is beyond every criticism.

Looking back I feel gratitude. I am grateful that I was born in 1957 and grew up with bad special effects in Science fiction movies.

This provided me with the most exiting cinema experience one can have. Never again I have experienced something similar.

And I pity the younger generation. You have been deprived of such an experience because you have grown up with excellent special effects.

I feel sorry for you that you will never have a similar experience.

Hermann
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I saw the STAR WRS movie with close friends.

We all came out with the same take on it.

LOUSY acting(But you knew that would be that way)

A rather WEAK story line

But the special effects!!!

And the bad guy was truly bad....

I agree with Hermann in that our society, at least the younger people in our society have grown up with such a POLISHED Hi-Tech vewrsion of special effects and the movies that if you look at 1980-1990 movies they seem almost mundane.

Luckily I am not among those people. I have seen the low tech 70's and even before that. I have an appreciation for the special effects of this new millenium.

STAR WARS? WAs nice to see Darth Vadar breath and his "becoming" of same.

I liked the movie for what it was. STAR WARS.

Sincerely,

Fred Albury