SPOILERS? MAYBE. JUST THOUGHT I WOULD WARN YAjaredchildersMay 19 2005, 19:12:42 UTC
Fabulous acting by McGregor and McDiarmind
Agreed.
and better than the last two movies acting by Christensen and Portman.
So what? It's still PAINFUL to watch them on screen together.
A powerful confrontation between Mace Windu and the Emperor
Nah, I didn't care because I didn't really know who the fuck Mace Windu was and why I should care what happened to him. Remember when there used to be just a handful of characters and we got to know them all? I know this about him from the past three movies: he's good with a saber, he talks a bunch in the council, he's suspicious of Anakin. Oh yeah, and he's a bad mutha fucka.
Also, the very contrived story about the change in appearance: lame. Very contrived, as if Lucas had to really stretch to explain away the way he looked in Episode VI.
Yoda is very easy to sympathize with
Frank Oz was great, but the CGI still sucked. On a related note, I didn't particulary like James Earl Jones in this, but it may have just been the direction.
The dialogue was ridiculous as always. The story was too much about tying up every little insignificant detail than offering an original and intersting chapter of the saga. This probably satisfied the saber-bearing geeks and the OCD crowd, but left me cold. The CGI creatures were lousy. Space ships looked cool, but they're obviously easier to do convincingly. Never did we really explore what the difference between the dark and light sides were. Palpatine was right when he said that the Sith and Jedi were much the same. One difference that I did notice was that Sith Lords do tend to shoot more lightning out of their fingers than Jedi. I suppose that's a bad thing. I guess Anakin gave a brief explanation of a philosophical difference, but that was quickly glossed over so that we could get to some more VROOM-KSHHHH, KSHHHH!!!!!!!!!
The music, as you observed, was lacking, but I think that was for the above reason.
The training part, as you mentioned, was another of the contrived loose end-tying that I really thought was silly. I've forgotten a lot of what I didn't like. I'll tell you again after I see it again. Yes, I'll probably see it again.
Re: SPOILERS? MAYBE. JUST THOUGHT I WOULD WARN YAyobachi2003May 19 2005, 19:54:03 UTC
The dialogue was ridiculous as always. The story was too much about tying up every little insignificant detail than offering an original and intersting chapter of the saga. This probably satisfied the saber-bearing geeks and the OCD crowd
They're pathetically easy to please. If this is the case I guess I have no reason to see it.
I thought that the 1st spiderman was mediocre for same type of reasons(I didn't bother to see the second one) but the comic book fan geekdom that it was great. I thought it was just lame, very predictiable, very kidish, and not very well thought out plot.
Agreed.
and better than the last two movies acting by Christensen and Portman.
So what? It's still PAINFUL to watch them on screen together.
A powerful confrontation between Mace Windu and the Emperor
Nah, I didn't care because I didn't really know who the fuck Mace Windu was and why I should care what happened to him. Remember when there used to be just a handful of characters and we got to know them all? I know this about him from the past three movies: he's good with a saber, he talks a bunch in the council, he's suspicious of Anakin. Oh yeah, and he's a bad mutha fucka.
Also, the very contrived story about the change in appearance: lame. Very contrived, as if Lucas had to really stretch to explain away the way he looked in Episode VI.
Yoda is very easy to sympathize with
Frank Oz was great, but the CGI still sucked. On a related note, I didn't particulary like James Earl Jones in this, but it may have just been the direction.
The dialogue was ridiculous as always. The story was too much about tying up every little insignificant detail than offering an original and intersting chapter of the saga. This probably satisfied the saber-bearing geeks and the OCD crowd, but left me cold. The CGI creatures were lousy. Space ships looked cool, but they're obviously easier to do convincingly. Never did we really explore what the difference between the dark and light sides were. Palpatine was right when he said that the Sith and Jedi were much the same. One difference that I did notice was that Sith Lords do tend to shoot more lightning out of their fingers than Jedi. I suppose that's a bad thing. I guess Anakin gave a brief explanation of a philosophical difference, but that was quickly glossed over so that we could get to some more VROOM-KSHHHH, KSHHHH!!!!!!!!!
The music, as you observed, was lacking, but I think that was for the above reason.
The training part, as you mentioned, was another of the contrived loose end-tying that I really thought was silly. I've forgotten a lot of what I didn't like. I'll tell you again after I see it again. Yes, I'll probably see it again.
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They're pathetically easy to please. If this is the case I guess I have no reason to see it.
I thought that the 1st spiderman was mediocre for same type of reasons(I didn't bother to see the second one) but the comic book fan geekdom that it was great. I thought it was just lame, very predictiable, very kidish, and not very well thought out plot.
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