Post by Kazuya_UK on May 19, 2005 18:00:10 GMT -5
I'm not a big fan of the newer ones. Menace was ass for the most part, clones was actually pretty decent (especially for the action near the end), but it got ruined by being far too long and having some terrible acting at times... Hayden Christensen was so wooden it was unreal (the only time he really showed any emotion was when he said the "I killed them all" thing), and again, the love story aspect could have been so much better had the acting and script been improved... I don't know what it is about Lucas's direction that makes good actors look bad... I mean jeez, Natalie Portman is a pretty good actress but even she was poor for thr most part imho. As I say it could have been so much better than it was, I think it was only worth watching for the action scenes, which were quite spectacular.
Oh, and one other thing that REALLY irritates me, that friend of mine pointed out. It's ridiculous the way they have tried to tie all the loose ends of the films up, What I mean is that they made it so all the Stormtroopers were clones of Bobas Fett's dad, Jango, they made it so that Anakin was the one who created C3PO, stuff like that. And the whole "Anakin was conceived naturally" (like Jesus) thing was just insane. I think most people out there could have come up with a much more tasteful way of doing it, and one that didn't leave quite as many plotholes
Episode III does look badass though. It's still most likely got horrid acting (then again the acting in 4-6 looks bad now), but action wise it should be awesome, plus it is a whole lot darker, which is good. Some people I have spoken to (and whose opinion I respect) said they enjoyed it a lot, so I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy it too.
There is apparently a decent copy of the film floating about, and although I'd be tempted to watch that, I'd rather wait until next week and go see it on the big screen. I can't enjoy stuff properly on the small screen when I see them the first time, especially if it's this type of movie.
Kaz
Oh, and one other thing that REALLY irritates me, that friend of mine pointed out. It's ridiculous the way they have tried to tie all the loose ends of the films up, What I mean is that they made it so all the Stormtroopers were clones of Bobas Fett's dad, Jango, they made it so that Anakin was the one who created C3PO, stuff like that. And the whole "Anakin was conceived naturally" (like Jesus) thing was just insane. I think most people out there could have come up with a much more tasteful way of doing it, and one that didn't leave quite as many plotholes
Episode III does look badass though. It's still most likely got horrid acting (then again the acting in 4-6 looks bad now
), but action wise it should be awesome, plus it is a whole lot darker, which is good. Some people I have spoken to (and whose opinion I respect) said they enjoyed it a lot, so I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy it too.There is apparently a decent copy of the film floating about, and although I'd be tempted to watch that, I'd rather wait until next week and go see it on the big screen. I can't enjoy stuff properly on the small screen when I see them the first time, especially if it's this type of movie.
Kaz
