Who thinks that the old star wars is better than the new star wars and why ?

Question

i thinks the old trilogy is better

Answer 1

I'm one of the few old farts out there who thinks it's a wash. We all look back so fondly on the old trilogy, but to be honest, it was almost identical to the new. Both of them featured:

--Best special effects of the day
--Horrible acting (Mark Hammill vs Christian Hayden)
--Worst. Dialog. Ever.

Don't get me wrong, I love both trilogies, but let's just take a moment and be honest with ourselves. Neither one is anything more than matinee fluff. Sure, it's the flashiest matinee fluff you've ever seen, but it's still matinee fluff.

Answer 2

I have been speculating this for quite some time. For more reasons than I can mention here, the original movies are much better. I believe that they have and will continue to stand the test of time and will stand better than the new ones, despite the fact that they belong together as a set. As a big fan I am pleased with how the new ones came out as a whole, but I have to say that George Lucas ruined his own work here, by doing everything in the new films. He should have let someone else direct the new films or at least II and III because he isn't that great of a director. Nor is he a great writer when it comes to dialog. These new movies had some of the worst spoken dialog I have ever had to endure in a movie. If it would have been anything other than Star Wars, I would have left the theater. He is a brilliant and creative master at story, characters, and setting, though names like Count Dooku and General Grievous has me wondering a little, but there is a time for letting someone else do some of the work. It would have made these new films more palatable. Still, the new movies are overall, pretty good and deserve to stand with the old ones, but I will forever say that the old ones are the best. Oh and it is so much more than matinee fluff!!!

Answer 3

I for one must be the ONLY one who prefers the new ones over the old ones, right? Well, that's just my opinion. I love the Separatists, so that's a major factor, be you got to think about it, what is more interested? More compelling? Is it Luke on Tatoooine or Grievous ordering his bodygurad droids to "Crush them! Make them suffer!" Is it the dramatic rescue on the Death Star of Princess Leia, or the way better rescue of Chacellor Palpatine on Grievous's ship, The Invisible Hand? Is it Yoda on Dagobah, or Yoda when he's versing Count Dooku? Is it Han Solo running though an astroid belt from TIE Fighters, or Obi Wan going through an astroid belt running from the Slave I. It really is just a matter of opinion, but my opinion is that 1-3 are far more interesting. And before the complaining starts, let me say that they SHOULD BE. Why? Because they were made AFTER the Triolgy, so therefore, better technology!

Answer 4

I kind of like them all. And I think I only feel more strongly for the old ones cause I was younger when I saw then and because I saw them first. It might have been different if I had seen them in the order from 1 to 6. What is really interesting to see though is that when you see the old ones after seeing the new ones again, you notice that the special effects they used on the old ones were pretty good. I mean, they didn't have such good computers and stuff back then, and still, you really believe you are flying through space with Luke, Han and Leia. I think they deserve a really big thumbs up for that.

Answer 5

The original was WAY better.

Why? Because Leigh Brakett re-wrote Empire Strikes Back and made it a better story than George could have ever hoped for.

Also, Empire IS the best one out of all the Star Wars movies.

Answer 6

I think that the three originals were a lot better. It seemed a bit more creative, like they didn't have too many extra rules to play with. Also, Ep. 2 was a LOT slower than any of the originals. Even Empire Strikes Back - which seemed a bit more info than action. But still. I still the think the original were better.

Answer 7

The first one (which I guess they now call Episode IV) was fairly entertaining. "The Empire Strikes Back" was okay, too. But I started nodding off during "Ewoks Gone Wild," and was bored to tears with the first of the prequels. That's it for me. Lucas was new news in 1977, but, in 2006, he's just another special effects geek who can't write human dialogue to save his life.

Answer 8

I think that it has a lot to do with timing. I was a kid when the first one came out, so I feel a kinship with it. Kids today can never know the experience because they probably watched the others first. We had to wait a long time to know the whole story.

Answer 9

I liked the older ones better too. Seems like the acting was better and the intesity of the story was higher. the new ones are all about special effects and the acting was very stiff, almost like they were reading cue cards, no passion or feeling.

Answer 10

I do! The old Star Wars just seemed realer, not some computerized movie. Maybe it was because I was a kid at the time.