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get-it-out-of-me!
MemberOvomorphJul-31-2012 2:59 AMAn iconic movie from the 1970s burnished decades later with three prequels to flesh out the original story more. The Alien series? Nope, Star Wars.
Now I'm not into Star Wars (it was a bit dewy-eyed and optimistic for me but I watch them if they're on the telly if I happen upon them and I've got naff all else to do) but I remember the reactions to the original prequel Episode One. It divided opinion in much the same way as Prometheus has.
In the latter two prequels the critical praise got better as the story connected more with the original series of films and I think (if there are to be two more prequels to this series) that might be the way it goes here.
I hope there are two more that wind their way round to being more conventionally-relevant to the 1979 original because around the time of the Star Wars prequels I felt a bit left out because I wasn't really into the films.
Though it is probably safe to say that with movies in this series you probably won't have promotions on cereal boxes like you had with George Lucas' films!
