List of Star Wars DVD reviews starting with W

Product: Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
Rating: 3/5

Hmmmmm...

Picked up the box set last weekend. I was an avid Star Wars fan and I gotta say, my jaw hit the ground when I watched "Return of the Jedi." When they changed the music scene in Jabba's Palace to this really bad, made for Saturday morning cartoony replacement scene. It was like it was an exercise on "how can we make cool CGIs???" When they put in Christian Hayden or whatever his name is, to replace the original actor in the "ghost scene" and when they changed the scenes at the end during the celebration. It was really obvious. Plus the music was horrible.

I will say however, that the movies do look better after been cleaned up. Some of the things were hokey though. When Greedo shot first-pause it right before and play it in VERY slow motion. You see Han's head flick to his right to avoid the shot-it almost looked like an amateur did some kind of horrible photoshop animation with a cut and paste of his head!

Luckily, I do have the VHS versions. If I ever want to watch the last 3 episodes again, I'd watch the first 2 on DVD and the last one on VHS.

The saving grace was Empire Strikes Back, which could pass off as a fairly modern made movie. Luckily, of the 3, that was my favorite one.

Product: Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Full Screen Edition)
Rating: 5/5

EXCELLENT

This is an excellent movie, with incredible special effects and great background information on a world we were thrown into in A New Hope. Reading the reviews of all the people that are bashing this movie makes me sick. Episode 1 is not so much about action, but about the beginning of a story that will answer all our questions we have about the Star Wars Universe. This is exactly why Lucas made Episode 4 first, he knew that people would not accept a slow starting movie series, so he pushed everyone into the action of A New Hope. Take this movie for what it is, an incredible journey into a galaxy far far away. Who can watch this movie and not be excited about the next two. Only complaint, no DVD.

Product: Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Full Screen Edition)
Rating: 2/5

Far superior to Ep2, but still awful.

Well, the first Star Wars film in over 20 years and it turned out to be rubbish. My expectations shattered in 2 hours. Actually no make 45 mins after Jar Jar Binks appears. First, the good points. Neeson is pretty good in this and rather convincing as a thoughtful older Jedi. Palpatine is good too and subtle in his creepy role.The effects for the most part are well done, more convincing than in Ep2 actually. But everything looks too new and shiny. A problem that has yet to be solved with CGI. The ships in the originals are MUCH more convincing. They look used.Emmmm....now some of the bad points. As already mentioned, Jar Jar Binks. Well, single handedly, almost, this absolutely AWFUL character ruined what would have been an average first installment to the new trilogy. He must have been thought up when George [was not well], because I cannot imagine anyone with any kind of writing skills or imagination finding this stupid clunky, idiot being remotely funny. In fact the Gugan's as a whole were a terrible idea. But its indicative of how George Lucas's mind works. Take the Ewoks in ROTJ for example. Originally Endor was a planet of Wookies, but Georgy Porgy changed it to little teddy bears. Why? MONEY. He knew that they would be a hit with stupid people and kids. Therefore generating money. Ewok was a household name, but its not mentioned once in the entire film. Obviously Lucas hoped to replicate this in Ep1.......and FAILED miserably. JAR JAR BINKS IS NOT FUNNY. He also does not deserve to be in any film, never mind a StarWars movie.Ewan McGregor....well, hes ok. He tries hard to be a young Alec Guinness, but unfortunately I just cannot see him bringing out any of Ben Kenobi in the film.That bloody kid! Oh my God. When I first saw the poster I thought that maybe he'd be good. He looked moody and with the shadow of Vader behind him, I thought that the new trilogy would be a gloomy and grim affair, WHICH IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN. But instead Lucas decided to make a kiddies film, with a kiddy star! This child is onscreen TOO MUCH....FAR TOO MUCH. I just wanted to slap him. And that pod race.....com'on he's a child....I don't care if he's got Jedi reflexes. Its just way too hard to suspend my disbelief.Portman is beautiful, but like Jar Jar doesn't belong in a Star Wars film, but for different reasons. She just looks bored by the whole affair, like she is in Ep2. And that stupid "twist" of her being replaced by her handmaiden.....what?The "droids". "Roger, Roger" indeed. They are brutal, unconvincing and absolute no threat whatsoever. George has chosen to make the enemy a useless army of Microsoft™ bug ridden foul ups. Can anyone imagine an army of these idotic machines actually winning any battle?All in all, if this had been directed by somebody else, with a tighter script and an actually threatening "menace" then it would have been an ok introduction to the new trilogy. But as it stands, it is not worth buying. Juat so it doesn't interfer with the original trilogy.I wonder if George could go back in 20 years and edit out the Jar Jar Binks scenes, like he did with the original Star Wars, only in reverse. Instead of putting in an awful representation of a character (Jabba the Hut), he could take one out and improve the film immensely.Tony

Product: Star Wars - Episode II, Attack of the Clones (Full Screen Edition)
Rating: 5/5

Astounding

This movie is not only a more than worthy entry into the Star Wars saga, it represents nothing less than the very future of Cinema.This is a movie that you MUST see as Lucas intended; on a massive screen with digital sound... but even more importantly, in a theatre that is projecting it digitally.The visual images in Attack Of The Clones, when projected digitally, are awe inspiring. The colors are so incredibly rich and the detail is breathtaking. It's like watching real events through a window, almost like being there. With digital projection there is no juddery movement when the camera pans, and there are none of the imperfections that come with film such as dust and scratches on the print etc. All that is there is a crystal clean, amazingly vibrant image.As for the movie itself. It pretty much rocks. Sure some of the acting is wooden, and the script is a little lifeless sometimes but that really doesn't detract from the story itself, plus there are so many things that make up for the "minuses" that you almost don't notice the so called flaws.This is a dark movie, far darker than Empire Strikes Back and it's actually quite chilling to see Anakin begin his descent into the dark side. ATOC is thrilling, exciting and stunning to watch and the action scenes are easily the best ever in the series. This is just what Star Wars should be. Fantastic Entertainment!

Product: Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
Rating: 1/5

Star Wars is THEMAN!?

As they say in my homeland, Mucho Beuno. Harrison Ford es gooda Directoreo. Me like gooda filmo. Mucho, Mucho, gooda

THEMAN!? aka Jimbo the Grate

List of Star Wars DVD reviews starting with W

TopSellers at Amazon - Action and Adventure movie DVD disks

TopSellers at Amazon - Comedy movie DVD disks

TopSellers at Amazon - Sci-Fi and Fantasy movie DVD disks

Top 10 yahoo news about Star Wars

Valid XHTML and CSS

Most popular searches about Star Wars