They’re big budget independent movies basically. Nowadays we realize how special that was.

We get it, this came out when you were 7.

You’re fucking high…

​@@jnnx Times go fast. 😮

Maybe the 4 hour cut was. The story is great, but the story beats feel rushed. Episode 2 spent a lot of time building up Anakin Skywalker as a misguided yet sympathetic young idealist. The beginning of 3 developed him into a tortured hero, far more concerned with what's right and fair than most Jedi. Nothing about the story prepares the viewer to accept that he's capable of murdering the younglings he's been training alongside other Jedi for years. I get that Lucas needed to shock the audience with Vader's willingness to do some terrible things, things which Anakin could and would never have done. But watching events unfold within the context of Anakin's progressively more horrible moral compromises would've made the whole presentation much more believable, in my opinion.

@@mickeyconnor830 The sand people sequence sells me that he could do something like it but worse, again.

I see you are a man of culture

@@ibrahimkevinlagosarias3986 🗿🍷 another man of culture I see

Yeah, I put it in my top movies. It was indescribable seeing it in theaters as a kid, a young teen who grew up with these movies since I was born. Just, knowing that you're seeing the conclusion of this story, Like, I couldn't believe I was actually there, it was surreal, literally.

Nope, I guess it makes sense now knowing that dooku was the one that set up the clone army.

Justice to the jedi?

People always act like George explicitly says who won the duel, but I find his words vague enough where it's still up for debate. Personally, I always thought Mace won, but George says, "Mace overpowering Palpatine" (suggesting that Mace won) but he also says Palpatine pretends to be weak. (suggesting that Mace maybe didn't actually beat him) Thoughts?

@@natem9080 I agree. This isn't hard confirmation either way. I think you can make a case for both.

I take this as Mace truly won the lightsaber duel, however, Sidious was holding back from using his full force powers.

@@Rathadude Windu legitimately won the sword fight which Lucas clearly confirms in this video by saying Windu overpowered Sidious before Sidious used his lightning. Based on the novel, which Lucas has said is canon, Sidious's lightning would have killed Windu if Sidious wouldn't have stopped and pretended to be weak, so that proves Sidious>Windu

@CahyaTroy That's how I interpreted the fight as well. I think you can come to that conclusion just off the film itself. However, I'm curious about where you saw George say the novel was canon because my understanding is that some of the details in the novel contradict those of the film.

you are incorrect

If you think Star Wars was saved in the edit or something like that you are media illiterate

​@Munedawg the thing about that whole narrative is just trying to take away from Lucas himself. Every movie is saved in the editing room. That narrative is just Lucas bashing. Every film is a collaborative effort. I like how every film has editors but only George as a writer/director supposedly does not deserve credit because?? Yeah he did nothing, everyone else deserves credit except him lmao what a joke and people fell for it

And, as he said explicitly during the filming of American Graffiti, he "directs from the editor's chair". @@AvatarJian

@@AvatarJian​​⁠It’s more about how he treated her afterwards… not all films have editing Wives that you fall out with and then you change the film later so you can remove her ownership of the editing.