Yeah but if he had been facing certain death then he'd have clearly implied a moral high ground. But he didn't... The man was definitely going on about the art of Jedi fighting.
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Seriously guys 
This is clearly the least retarded thing being discussed in this thread.
I might use that high ground line on the wife in our next argument. If anything it'll confuse her for long enough that I can escape to the garage.
Yeah but Vader survived and then stabbed him into magically disappearing in a later episode, so it could be argued that he was facing certain death.
Also this would make the end of Attack of the CLones even more silly, as all the jedi jumped down into the arena, when they could have just carried on standing above it, maintaining the high ground.
Also Yoda would be the shittest jedi ever.
It's probably why Vader opted for extra long legs at the doctors. No fecker was getting him on height ever again.
Yeah but Obi Wan didn't have a blinking crystal ball. How on earth would he've known that he was going to magically disappear on one depressing day on the Death Star? Also if Lucas wasn't such literalist why didn't he call the Death Star something like...The Paradise Motel? (which after a quick search is the name of a shit Aussie rock band...).
Precisely.
Belrownze.
That's not a star, it's a shit Aussie rock band. Nah, I think Lucas got that one right.
It's real name was actually the Moral Death Star
That's a good idea, next fight I'll just climb on the sofa and look down to her and tell her I have the high ground as well. Thank you Star Wars.
The least you do is seed it back somewhere, and have someone with the "high ground" beat someone earlier in the film, to establish it. Otherwise he might as well say anything. "You can't win, I've just put on the purple socks of death"
The worst thing about the High Ground nonsense (apart from how shit it is) is that for the 10 minutes that preceeded it, we watched Obi Wan and Anakin have a fight which included battling across varying different levels of height...
Just jump slightly closer to him, and run up the side of the hill. No tekkers.
It's forgivable if someone is directing someone elses script and the visions just haven't meshed (JUST, it still needs seeding. And to be consistent with every other battle in every other film) but since it's all George, I have absolutely no idea why he thinks this is a sensible.
I might have to watch the third one sooner then next week at this rate... I need to examine it's nonsense further.
I hope the new movie shows the origins of the Sarlacc monster. I think he gets a bad rap and could be explored further. I'd also like to know how a carnivorous slug got into that asteroid in ESB.
Just jump slightly closer to him, and run up the side of the hill. No tekkers.
It's forgivable if someone is directing someone elses script and the visions just haven't meshed (JUST, it still needs seeding. And to be consistent with every other battle in every other film) but since it's all George, I have absolutely no idea why he thinks this is a sensible.
Why is Star Trek happening in the backround of this picture?
It's been a long while, but
yeah that sticks out for me as well. In the good movie they're flying up out of freezer tubes and doing wicked Jedi-judo-flips up and down stairs.To be fair though, being higher up he was further away from the lava. And he did wind up pushing him into lava, IIRC. I'm sure I remember lava. Come to think of it, why didn't they just throw lava at each other like Vader did in the good movie when he launched all those Empire boxes and pipes at Luke before he broke the news and cut the arm off.
Because he didn't have the high ground, therefore he was defeated. It was evident the next logical step was a) surrender or b) get your legs cut off.
Darth Maul had the high ground. Only explanation is that he didn't die and is playing the long game, waiting for higher ground.
If Lucas was cleverer he'd have had a bit earlier in the film where Anakin was teaching younglings and he talked about high ground.
Those are great. noodleDid any of you see the ill-fated Star Wars Holiday Spectacular? They showed it here in Portland a little while ago. An absolute train wreck. Leia sings. Psychodelia. An animated sequence. Art Carney. Chewbacca's repulsive family. Bea Arthur sings some more. It's a got a little of everything except acting.
Star Wars Episode 2 is the best, because that's the one where Anakin is all like "sand is fecking shit. You're not sand though, I like you," and for some reason Padme doesn't just leave him there and then.
Also because Christopher Lee is in it.
Also because Christopher Lee is in it.
Noodle has just made my night seeing those.
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Those three prequels had some awful writing. Bits that stick out in my mind from the third one are the high ground thing, Anakin saying "From my point of view the Jedi are evil" in the middle of the big fight scene and a really awful bit of dialogue between Anakin and Natalie Portman where they're wondering if she's beautiful because she's in love or because he loves her.
Also, why do they make such a big deal about Anakin bringing balance to the force? They don't even know about the bad guys, do they? As far as they knows the force is fine, so what do they think the prophecy is about?
Also, why do they make such a big deal about Anakin bringing balance to the force? They don't even know about the bad guys, do they? As far as they knows the force is fine, so what do they think the prophecy is about?
NoodleAll three of the prequels are dreadful, I actually find it hard to rate one as better or worse than another. There's so many things wrong with them, but Red Letter Media basically made all of the points AN made plus more.
The high ground thing was the stupidest line in the history of movies. The Anakin vs Obi-wan fight was on its way to singlehandedly justifying the existence of the prequel trilogy through sheer awesomeness, and then boom Lucas ruins it all with five words. Ugh.
All three of the prequels are dreadful, I actually find it hard to rate one as better or worse than another. There's so many things wrong with them, but Red Letter Media basically made all of the points AN made plus more.
Plinkett's reviews are infinitely better than the prequels. They're all about 1.5 hrs long and I've watched them more than I have the prequels. It's not difficult when I've watched the prequels maybe twice each.
Yeah, what does that mean? Shouldn't it mean there's an equal amount of evil people to good people? Why would they want that? And if they do, shouldn't the film start with loads of evil people ruling the world/galaxy/universe/givesafeck and him "restoring balance" by inspiring the good to rise up. Rather than a lot of good people sitting around doing jack diddly shit and him inspiring a lot of evil people to rise up. Which tbf is technically restoring balance, but then if that was the prophecy then.....why are they....what?
Maybe the bad guys are in really high places and therefore have the high ground so despite not being that numerous they're bringing unbalance to the Force?
Maybe bringing balance to the force means levelling the ground all across the galaxy.
Missed this, excellent!
Really they should've just all moved to Netherlands when you think about it.
@ Noodle. Come on we're talking about Lucas...he loves making things up as he goes along. He always does literal.
Why did the Jawa get dizzy??
He felt lightheaded....
He felt lightheaded....