Always remember: It's a story, FFC was trying to tell a story. Not a GF I.1 with different characters in a different time.

George Lucas was also trying to tell a story, not making a prequel trilogy that was exactly like the original trilogy.

But people are right when they say GF I is a better movie than GF III. Acting, and especially the plot-developping ... was worse in GF III.

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See, we can act as smart as we want, but at the end of the day, we still follow a guy who fucks himself with kebab skewers.