Get Over It!

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2002)

I'm so sick of people slagging off the two recent Star Wars movies, it's as if they expect a completely soul-changing experience. IT'S JUST A MOVIE!!!!!! All these people saying that TPM and ATOC 'don't have the depth and emotion of the original three', I'm sorry but the Star Wars films are (and always have been) the epitome of saturday afternoon popcorn-munching flicks. Don't get me wrong, I love the original trilogy, (any films that can contain some of the appalling lines that they had and still be enjoyable has gotta be good) but they weren't these deep, philosophical masterpieces that everyone seems to think they were. I think the obvious reason for the hatred being thrown at these recent prequels is that most people saw the original three when they were children, so they remember them as being fantastic, whereas now they're grownups and expecting these ones to be just as good, but they can't be because people are now seeing them from an adults point of view. Children at the moment love the new films, just like we loved the first trilogy. All you whining nerds out there, get over yourselves and get out more! They're George Lucas' films, he should know what's right.