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   "John Whelan"  wrote in message   
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   > Your Name wrote:   
   > > > > Little has changed there either. Sir Alec Guiness or Harrison Ford   
   called   
   > > > > the original movie something like a load of mumbo jumbo and expected   
   it to   
   > > > > be a flop.   
   > > >   
   > > > Perhaps they had some point, even then.  But are you trying to prove   
   > > > that ALL the films are utter crap, by ANY standard??  If not, then   
   > > > what's your point?   
   > >   
   > > The point is that the Original Trilogy and Prequel Trilogy aren't really   
   > > that much different ... most of the "problems" are simply caused by   
   > > people's change in perspective.   
   >   
   > Well then, you are saying something very different from what Alec   
   > Guinness was saying.  He never saw the prequel trilogy, and therefore   
   > never made the comparison you are making now.   
      
   Oh dear, here we go again needing to "explain" everything 95 times.  :-(   
      
   Someone (maybe you) said the acting, directing, etc. was bad in the   
   Prequels, well Alec Guiness and Harrison Ford (amoung others) said exactly   
   the same thing about th original movie(s).   
      
      
      
   > In any event, I have my own opinion.  And if my opinions were caused   
   > by my "perspective" changing, it must have changed at around the time   
   > of RoTJ, over 20 years ago.  Or perhaps the movies really are kinda   
   > different, and I just don't like the last batch.   
      
   Witht the obvious exception of CGI instead of models, very little has really   
   changed at all.   
      
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