Star Bores

/me doesn't agree.

I didn't think you would.

I don't agree either. While I didn't think the movie was excellent, It was entertaining and as good as I think possible when you consider all the elements that had to be worked in for the next installment. I will say that I'm not crazy about Hayden Christansen's (sp?) acting.

The horrifying thing is, after seeing it yesterday, I have to see it's the best of a bad bunch....at least it didn't have fluffy-aliens-for-kids'-entertainment and that Binks thing wasn't around too much....we'', he WAS, but it could have been worse...
The place-crappy-game-promo-cutshot-here was better 'hidden', too..

Female 'lead' lost dorky hair-do soon enough...but pearly-white-teethed clean-cut American college-boy hero becomes evil Dark-Lager IS just a 'tad' far-fetched.

Clever use of 'Once Were Warriors' lead as the subject that was cloned....

LucasFilm should now be called LucasDigital.....but the CGI was pretty darn good.

The story telling seems to have matured a little over all these years....

He was the single most disappointing character, followed closely by Amidala (can't remember the actresses name). That these two would fall in love is nonsense. They have all the passion of wet tissue paper. Early in the movie Amidala says thet she will always think of Anakin as the little boy she met on Tatooine, and throughout the movie he proves he hasn't progressed much since then. I haven't seen that much pouting since Zoolander.

/me thinks I'll be lazy and not correct his own typos....

/me anxiously awaits the release of "Clones" on DVD so he can borrow it from his son who is sure to buy it...

Do not underestimate the power of the darkside... >

Hum... Judging by the amount of bad comments I read about it so far, I guess I'll wait to rent the DVD when it comes out.
I guess my next night out at the movies will be when LOTR 2 comes out.

BTW how much are the movies down in the States? Is it prohibitive as they are up here? 11$ to 13$, depending on the theater you go to. Adding all the expenses (baby sitter, food & drinks, tickets, etc.) you can easily end up with a 60$ night out. To me, movies as become a "special occasion" not a casual night at the movies like it used to be back when tickets were 2$. I carefully choose what I go see, and generally limit it to 1 or 2 movies per year.

Most people like Ep 2.

I use the site IMDB.COM because you get tens of thousands of votes and it's usually quite reliable. Anything under a 7 on there I tend to shy away from.

Phantom Menace got like a 6.7, Episode 2 an 8.1. So it's clearly liked better than episode 1.

I've heard nothing but good things about it. The special effects get better each time and it sounds like the characters in this one have a bit more 'character' than the last two. I'd be willing to go see it but I'm like paxx when it comes to what it costs to go see a movie.

Well, going for my second viewing of AOTC tonight...

I liked it, but IMHO it is not as good as Lord of the Rings:FOTR

This will be the first Star Wars movie I will not see more than once. It was disappointing, especially after PM. For a romance that supposed to bring down an intergalactic republic, it was tepid at best.

Oh and the thought of anyone voting for anything Jar Jar Binks proposed is funny: "Meesa want to give all da power to him" Please.

I'd have to agree that LOTR:FOTR was better than ATOC. I loved the mythic/moral weight that LOTR has.

LOTR is the epic Star Wars aspires to be, its not even close.

I agree that the acting sucked. I saw episode 2, Spiderman, and LOTR in a two day span (vacation - no kids!). I'd love to see episode 2 again though - only because the computer generated graphics were stunning. They did some absolutely amazing things there.

I liked all 3 with LOTR being the best. Spiderman/Ep2 were both really good too.

Ep2's problem is the bad acting/poor directing. But the story, effects, and action more than made up for it for me.

You should check out the graphic novelization of it. It really shows how good it really could have been. The actor who played Anakin really blew it and Lucas's direting really made things bad. But the story is very solid. Possibly the best Star Wars story yet in terms of fitting together.

Consider:
Star Wars:
Why didn't the death star just blow up the planet that the rebel base was orbiting (rebel base was a moon orbiting a planet). Pretty big plot hole.

Empire Strikes Back.
Great movie but not much story.

ROTJ:
ARRGH. Pain. Doesn't make any sense. So many problems. Ewoks, lack of point to Luke facing Vader (death star going up regardless thanks to Lando). Rebel fleet STILL wiped out imperial fleet! There so many problems.

Phantom Menace:
Suspension of disbelief too high at the end of young Anakin luckily getting in there and blowing up the droid ship.

But Episode 2 actually works. No glaring plot holes. Solid story. Only real problem is bad acting (TERRIBLE acting) and poor directing/editing (Lucas must have the attention span of a gnat the way he cuts between different subplots).

Don't get me wrong, the movie could have been great, but what is a movie if the main characters are bland and unsympathetic? All during the movie I was waiting for that moment when I felt for the starcrossed lovers, never happened. In the end I really didn't care what happened to them.

As far as Chritiansen and Portman are concerned, this may be the first time that somebody's career was actually hurt by their performance in a Star Wars movie.

Oh...Star Wars is just like an Arnie movie....you don't go for the characterizations....the direction....the editing....you go for the ACTION...and in Clones the action was CGI with some of the best sequences around....I spent most of my time going 'wow'.
Sad thing is I went 'wow' a lot in 2001...and that was a very long time ago....and there was no CGI in that...

Very good point Jafo! I too still "wow" a lot during 2001: A Space Odyssey and have done so each & every time I've seen it... although back in the sixties (in Cinerama Super 70mm) it was more like, "Hey, wooow... far out, man"!

Although on an entirely different level, Star Wars is, however, still great fun (and great business for the local Aussie film industry). But kids really should see "2001" once they get over the six second attention span stage!

/me assumes most of the above catagory would already have become bored with this three paragraph post!!

/me thinks that if all movie critics wrote critiques as well (and funny) as jcg, she might actually take time to read them *s*


I think I'll also wait till it comes out on video. I never liked sitting in a dark crowded room with a bunch of strangers. Till then I'll just stay entertained by everyone else's opinions. *s*

I just finished reading an article where Dave Prowse (Darth Vador in the first 3 movies) was criticizing the new Star Wars.
He claims that the new SW movies lost that Star Wars magic that the first 3 had. He says also that the acting in Episode 2 is terrible and that Attack of the Clones depends too much on the special effects and not enough on the scenario. He declared to tha San Francisco Examiner that "part of the interpretation was rather insipid. I think that it's what you get when you rely too much on the blue background." (I'm translating here, I read the article in French). He also added "I think that the original Star Wars was a very basic movie, with victory of Good against Evil, relationship between the protagonists and a bad guy. People remember the caracters such as Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, and not as Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher or Mark Hamill. Today, people talk more about Ewan McGregor or Liam Neeson for the first one, [...] It lost its magic."

I haven't seen the second one yet. But going by Episode 1, I tend to agree.
Note: I saw the trailer on TV, and if I go just by that, I will never even rent it. I just hope it's better than the trailer made it look. I REALLY HATE puns in movies, such as "I hate when he does that" after Skywalker jumps off a flying car... Actually, if it weren't for that line in the movie trailer, I probably would have gone to see it already.

Patric...it's worth seeing just for the 'blue-screen' bits....you could ignore the dialogue and just enjoy the CGI....just like Final Fantasy...