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Star Wars: Why All the Clamor?

I always found it odd that so many people worshipped a series of movies that were, in the end, not all that good to begin with. I'll never understand the adoration given to Lucas either, since he's done very little in his career OUTSIDE of Star Wars.

The negative reviews from Rottentomatoes.com (STAR WARS:REVENGE OF THE SITH)
ROLLING STONE
ONE GUY'S OPINION
FILM FORCE
SEAN THE MOVIE GUY
STEVE RHODES REVIEWS

I do think that, overall, the one reviewer was right- to love these movies, you have to have drank the kool aid and put on blinders. The fanboys will love it, because they've been brainwashed to love anything with the name "Star Wars" on it, no matter how much a pile of crap it is. Personally, I cannot even begin to understand the phenomena. I do think that John Williams' downright famous score from the film series has done a lot to make this such a well known and well-loved enterprise. Even with that said, I still just do not get it.

They're just not that good. I saw all of them besides the previous one (I sat thru the first prequel and wanted to shoot myself- the bad writing, the awful plotlines, the first prequel was little more than that weird 'race' with the annoying little kid and a few battle scenes thrown in! Along with some confusing dialogue that made little sense and a storyline that made even less sense.) Then, you have the one with the Ewoks, and well- that was just bad, bad, and even badder. MAYBE you could say the original film and the other one (the one without the annoying little beasts- aka ewoks) were truly decent (maybe even good?) films, but that's about it if you ask me. It's just amazing how the whole Star Wars thing caught on, and it turned into near worship of the series and Lucas himself- I've even heard numerous die hard fans talk about how bad the last 2 films were and how Sith better be PERFECT to make up for it- heck, even the positive reviews written on Sith bash the other 2 prequels, and some even say that this is the best of the prequels, but that's not saying much (ouch!)

So, why then the cultural phenomena? Why this series of films and not another? Maybe we'll never know...I happen to think it's a good question, tho.

LOL: "clammer"

Star Wars on the half-shell?

Surely you meant "clambor," yes?

actually, its "clamber"

Clamber as in climbing?

Huh?

Lucas has done much more than star wars. The Indiana Jones movies were great. What Lucas has really set himself up for was special effects, which industrial light and magic still dominates in. The origional star wars was a special effects masterpeice and it leapt ahead sci-fi skills a whole generation.