All 6 Star Wars Movies

[dpg4zombie]

My Fiancé agreed to watch all 6 Star Wars movies with me this last weekend. We are getting married June 19th and have been together for 4 years. During our relationship i have given her endless crap for never seeing any of them. So last weekend out of the blue she said " I want to watch the movies " She actually enjoyed them. I think she was interested in the political aspect of them since she's a poli sci major. What are your ladies thoughts on the movies?

[kaplin42]

Originally Posted by GoChiefs

Read Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command by Timothy Zahn.

That is the "Thrawn series," wherein the New Republic mops up the remnants of the Empire following ROTJ. Ripping good yarn.

Avoid New Jedi Order trash.

Anything by Kevin J. Anderson (Jedi Academy series) is passable. Darksaber is pretty entertaining, so are Tales from Jabbas Palace and Tales of the Bounty Hunters...and Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina.

I personally love the Boba Fett trilogy by KW Jeter....lots of cool crimeworld stuff going on, explains how Fett survived the Sarlacc, etc.

Oh, and Shadows of the Empire is pretty awesome. Set between ESB and ROTJ. Xizor is incredibly cool.

Michael A. Stackpole writes pretty good stuff, too. Mostly about X-Wing pilots, I think.

Thanks man!

[Swanman]

Originally Posted by kaplin42

Now my interest is peeked. What is a good series of the "Expanded Star Wars Universe". I have heard tale of episodes 7-9? Whats the Thrawn Series, or the Jedi Academy (other than an awesome video game).

Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


To add, I think with a lot of the Star Wars the Old Republic story lines could make excellent movies as well. And it provides a way to break away from the Skywalker characters / story lines.

I have read 40-50 Star Wars books. As everyone else says, the Thrawn trilogy rules. Here are some others:

Darth Bane Trilogy - set way before the movies, like a thousand years
X-Wing Series - 9 part series featuring Wedge Antilles that starts soon after Jedi and goes alll the way up through the timeline of the Thrawn trilogy (the books actually intersect at one point)
Republic Commando series - takes place during the Clone Wars and shows the human side of a number of clones, great books. All written by Karen Traviss, who is less heavy on the sci fi stuff and heavier on the human interactions

Some other one-off books that I liked - Allegiance, Outbound Flight, Survivors Quest, Darth Maul-Shadow Hunter, Medstar 1 and 2

[Hammock Parties]

No problem. If you like comic books, pick up the Dark Empire graphic novel. Must read. Dark Empire II is OK.

[Mile High Mania]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I cried through all of the prequels.

It was difficult watching one of my favorite movie trilogies be violently gang-raped.

I don't know if you've seen this, but you would love it... you have to watch all 7, it will take about an hour. Greatness.

[kaplin42]

Originally Posted by GoChiefs

No problem. If you like comic books, pick up the Dark Empire graphic novel. Must read. Dark Empire II is OK.

Was more thinking of books on CD. I love listening to books while sitting in traffic on the way to / from work.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by kaplin42

Was more thinking of books on CD. I love listening to books while sitting in traffic on the way to / from work.

Even better:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...eculativeficti

[kysirsoze]

I think that Lucas has so much money and power at this point that he is incapable of making a good film. IMO the only reason the original trilogy was good, was because he had talented people checking him constantly and a studio looking over his shoulder. With the new trilogy, he got everything he wanted and they were horrible. ROTS was an improvement but still lacked soul or really any interesting conflict since the first two didn't do anything to make me care about anyone involved.

[bowener]

Originally Posted by bane_58

My wife likes them all.She cried when Padme died.....

I cried, but because of Hayden Christensen's acting.

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by GoChiefs

Even better:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...eculativeficti

Weird. I was digging through some old shit a couple weeks back and found old abridged versions of Dark Empire and Dark Empire 2 on cassette, about to convert them to mp3. Along with all 13 parts of the (awesome) original BBC radio play of The Lord of the Rings.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by kysirsoze

I think that Lucas has so much money and power at this point that he is incapable of making a good film. IMO the only reason the original trilogy was good, was because he had talented people checking him constantly and a studio looking over his shoulder.

He didn't have a studio "looking" over his shoulder. Star Wars was independently financed by Lucas from his profits from "American Graffiti".

As a matter of fact, he literally saved 20th Century Fox from extinction.

Originally Posted by kysirsoze

With the new trilogy, he got everything he wanted and they were horrible. ROTS was an improvement but still lacked soul or really any interesting conflict since the first two didn't do anything to make me care about anyone involved.

I like "TPM" quite a bit. Where he screwed up was casting Hayden Christensen and listening to internet chatter, resulting in a horrible "Attack of the Clones". ROTS was better but would have been far better with a different actor as Anakin.

If DiCaprio wouldn't have demanded creative input, he would have made an amazing Anakin, even with the same script.

FWIW, the voice actors in the Clone Wars series are better than any of the actors (save Liam Neeson and maybe Ewan) from the movies.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I like "TPM" quite a bit. Where he screwed up was casting Hayden Christensen and listening to internet chatter, resulting in a horrible "Attack of the Clones". ROTS was better but would have been far better with a different actor as Anakin.

If DiCaprio wouldn't have demanded creative input, he would have made an amazing Anakin, even with the same script.

FWIW, the voice actors in the Clone Wars series are better than any of the actors (save Liam Neeson and maybe Ewan) from the movies.

Agreed. I like TPM as well and Episode III was really strong overall except for Hayden.

AOTC, was the weakest....too much exposition/love story in the middle.....but the Obi-Wan/Jango Fett and Jedi Vs. Count Dooku fighting was cool.

HOnestly, I think Lucas was slightly flawed...Im not a big fan of going backwards with backstory and filling in the gaps for every single character.

I would have prefered a story set after the original movies.

[Silock]

I think my wife loves Star Wars more than I do.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by dpg4zombie

My Fiancé agreed to watch all 6 Star Wars movies with me this last weekend. We are getting married June 19th and have been together for 4 years. During our relationship i have given her endless crap for never seeing any of them. So last weekend out of the blue she said " I want to watch the movies " She actually enjoyed them. I think she was interested in the political aspect of them since she's a poli sci major. What are your ladies thoughts on the movies?

That's a quality woman right there.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

He didn't have a studio "looking" over his shoulder. Star Wars was independently financed by Lucas from his profits from "American Graffiti".

As a matter of fact, he literally saved 20th Century Fox from extinction.

This.

Where he screwed up was casting Hayden Christensen. ROTS was better but would have been far better with a different actor as Anakin.

This.

If DiCaprio wouldn't have demanded creative input, he would have made an amazing Anakin, even with the same script.

Dear ****ing God NO.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by ROR

Dear ****ing God NO.

You don't like DiCaprio as an actor?

The dude was tits in Gangs of New York and The Departed.