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starwars

azzeaterazzeater Member Posts: 187 ✭✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
Anybody see that starwars movie? I was thinking of going to see it but it looks like it has too much computer graphics. I still haven't seen that one they made a ear or two ago. I'm not a T.V. watcher

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  • TheguncounterkidTheguncounterkid Member Posts: 224 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    see it, love it, see it again, love it more..repeat if necessary.
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here is my thumbnail review that I sent to a friend a couple of weeks ago:

    I give it 2.5 stars. It could have had three but for a couple of bad points. First the good points.

    The basic plot fits well with the overall Star Wars universe. It explains where a bunch of things came from in the later episodes. There were no big goofs like "midi-chloreans" (or however one spells it). There were some good action scenes in it as we would expect from a Star Wars movie. The Clone and Battle Droid factories were well done. It was sort of fun to see what Yoda would do in a light saber duel, but some people might not appreciate that part.

    It was gratifying to me that I predicted Anniken (sp?) Skywalker would first let in the dark side because something bad would happen to his mother and he'd go berserk avenging her. Bingo!

    Now the bad points.

    The acting was wooden. I never felt that the actors really believed in their roles, with the exception of the guy who played Anniken (sp?) Skywalker. Some reviewers said Christopher Lee was good, I disagree. I don't think he was convincing in Clones as a fallen Jedi -- and BTW I don't think he was convincing in FoTR as the fallen Istari (wizard), Saruman. In fact, he played both roles about the same. That makes two recent movies he's partly spoiled for me. Natalie Portman (Padme Amidala, mother to be of Luke and Leia) apparently doesn't dig SF and it showed. Talk about wooden acting! She looks good, that's about it. Note to script writers: If your female lead is saying to the male lead that they just can't become involved, then drags him (alone) to one romantic setting after another, you've got to put some dialog in there that reveals how her heart is saying one thing but her brain another. Otherwise, it just doesn't make sense.

    Then there was Jar-Jar Binks. Mercifully, his presence in the movie was small, but of course he is the one who introduces the bill in the Senate giving "temporary" power to the evil-emperor-to-be, Chancellor Palpatine.

    I probably misspelled some of the Star Wars names, but you know who I mean.
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  • .250Savage.250Savage Member Posts: 812 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I must confess, episode 1 left me totally cold, but there were story points that had to be told (or at least that's the defense Lucas offers). So far as episode 2, there was still (to my eye) too much of a tendancy to use computer grafics FX in place of story, which I think is a definite temptation of this technology. And yes, the acting was WAY wooden, with none of the "charm" of episodes 4,5,and 6, and none of the character interaction which made it so much fun. Someone needs to tell Hollyweird that while 16-somethings are pleasing to the eye, they don't have much in the way of personality yet.

    Threads were tied up, but in an almost clumsy fashion. C3PO worked at Uncle Owens' water farm shortly after his assembly? Why wasn't that brought up in Star Wars (episode 4) when he came there a second time? It's not like a 'droid would forget. Or was this an almost desperate attempt to link the two movies?

    Certainly, it's worth seeing, don't get me wrong, but catch the matinee where it doesn't cost so much. Does it have the same "kick" as the origionals? Not hardly. I understand "Spiderman" beat it out in first-week sales, and I can't say I thought too much of that movie, either.

    I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.--Voltaire~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~

    Edited by - .250Savage on 06/09/2002 22:15:49
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  • gunphreakgunphreak Member Posts: 1,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This is what I think about AotC. It surprises me, too, that R2D2 and C3PO did not compute that about working on the Lars' Establishment, seeing as how they were both there. I can see the drive for Boba Fett to annihilate the Jedis later in the 3rd movie. Anakin and Padme, how sweet, but yet Yoda is not aware of this?? And how about that Yoda? The nastiest of the Jedis, unarguably. There is a reason why he is the Jedi Master. Not even the Emperor can hold a torch to him.

    I would personally like to see "Shadows of the Empire" become a movie, myself. The book was pretty good.

    Death to Tyrants!!!

    -Gunphreak
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