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It's no secret that I have a deep and heart-fealt loathing for the Star Wars films but I have to admit to having a complete and utter obssesion with the Lego Star Wars computer game.

We've got it on the Wii and I've palying it fairly obsessivly since we got it. I've completed all the main levels in terms of just playing them straight and now need to go back and collect all the cannisters and get True Jedi status on just over half of them. I've not done most of the bonus levels either and still have to buy the Emporer and the ghosts of Obi Wan, Anakin and Yoda.

ow though I need to work out how to unlock the Bounty Hunter levels and Indiana Jones as a playable character. Anyone know how you do those? Most everything else I've worked out what I'm doing but I assumed the Bounty Hunter levels would become available once you finished all the regular levels but they're still locked. I'm guessing Indy becomes available once you've got all the other playable characters as well since I've not seen anything that would seem liekly otherwise.

This is the first I've heard of it. Now, I don't like the films either (okay, I liked them when I was twelve, but not anymore) but I do like the early years of the comic strip (Russ Manning followed by Archie Goodwin & Al Williamson) and a few of the comic books (especially Dark Empire -- the return of Boba Fett is a classic scene; come to think of it, I've often wished that Boba Fett killed all the other characters.) After many pleasureable moments reading your witty and brutally honest critiques of other pop culture artifacts, I'd be interested to know the specifics of your loathing for the Star Wars films.

It's pretty much everything about tehm that I hate (apart from the some of the designs and the effects which I have to admit are rather good). A lot of it is down to personal taste rather than anything else but I think the dialogue for the most part is clunky and cliched, the acting is fairly appaling (with the exception of Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford who both seem to be phoning in their performances but still act everyone else off the screens), the stories are generally pretty dull for action adventure films and the directing is plodding at best.

Now I should say I've onyl seen a few minutes of the new ones but they seemed even worse than the original three if anything. Even the designs aren't up to the ones in the first three and the effects are laid on with a trowel seemingly only because there is mroe they could do with them this time. The first three just bore me (we went to see one of them when the re-released them ten years ago or whenever it was and I fell asleep halfway through because I was so bored). I don't feel any emotional involvement with any of the characters and it feels like they could have squished all three films into one and maybe just about had a decent story rather than lots of the same thign done on different planets with different terrains.

C3-P0 and Luke are two of the most annoying characters ever brought to screen, apart from Vadr all the villains are pretty dull, the whole ewoks beating technologically advanced Stormtroopers is stupid in the extreme (even given the whole 'they knwo the terrain better' arguement) and generally they're full of plot holes that you could drive a truck through.

The odd thing is I can sort of vaguely see why people like them. I also can't deny the impact that they've had ont eh way that films are made (especially sci-fi and big budget action adventure films). At then end of the day though I think Lucas is one of the most unbelievably over-reated film makers ever and the films themselves aren't classics by any standards in my book.

not that i like to rant about it or anything....

Bev, i brought that game for my neice for X-mas when i got her a Nintendo DS (trying to get her into Star Wars) and she seemed to be enjoying it so far. i haven't spoken to her since new years day but i remember her saying she told me she finished the episode 1 part of the game.