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LOL Clint! I think Radio Shack made today a national holiday....
Just saw it (yes, I'm a SW geek too!), loved it! And you'll be happy to know that Jar Jar speaks a grand total of 0 lines.
And the acting, IMO, wasn't that bad (Ian McDirmid was awesome). All Anakin/Padme scenes cut right as they were about to get annoying. Less dialogue, more action. Better for all!
-Tom
My review from another site:
ITS AS BAD IF NOT WORSE THAN THE OTHER PREQUELS.
Incredibly stale script making even great actors delivering it still impossible to take seriously. I thought I was watching a school play, there was genuine laughter in the theater several times. Important things were happening and I didnt care. Characters were changing and I didnt care. All the dialougue is so god dam stale and sterile. How can you get into a story delivered in such a way??
I kept waiting for it to start to get good like everyone said. It never does.
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The final scene with Vader breaking free and yelling NOOOOO like some 60's Robot was funny at best.
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I like how they start reverting back to the 70's ship interiors towards the end to tie it all together. Riiiight.
Lucas is 3-3 in a 6 film franchise. I dont remember anything about the other 2 prequels for the same reasons I wont remember this one. Stale boring visually stunning crap.
Oh its sure pretty though. Amazing art direction as always. The best. And whats with the "Spielberg Cried" news story bullshit? Did Lucas ask him for a favor? If he cried its because he finally realized that Lucas lost the ability to tell a story after ROTJ.
Sorry for the hostility. I *just* got back from this.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ May 21, 2005 03:08 AM: Message edited by: Steve Holmes ]</font>
Good review Steve. I hated the original and NEVER will get this fighting with a light wand stuff...NEVER. To each their own...SW's has made 9 BILLION in merchandising over the series of films. That in itself is Star Worthy...may the Force be with Walmart!
The original Star Wars kicked ass. Lucas' ego got the best of him since the first three (The REAL Star Wars movies) and the rest is history. I do like how Ewan McGregor plays Obi-Wan in these, though. Can't polish a turd, but at least he tried [img]tongue.gif[/img]
I grew up watching "The Outer Limits" "One Step Beyond" "The Twilight Zone" on TV, in B & W. When Star Trek in Color came out, it was great, but not as effective as serious Sci-Fi B & W. BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
THAT, was real Sci-Fi. Star Wars is great but leaves little to the imagination where the real adventure lies.
BTW, if any of you drummers read (books that is), check out a series of books called "Dune" by Frank Herbert. They were written back in 59' I believe. By far, the best science fiction you'll ever read. It's very challanging reading. It'll take some effort to get through the first half of the first book because it's based in a completely different reality that you have to learn, similar to "Lord of the Rings" (Dune came out the same year). But Dune is much more Sci Fi treachery and starkness and much less fairy tale.
Anyway, there's my 2 cents.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ May 21, 2005 11:56 AM: Message edited by: Henry II ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If it's truly that bad, then Spielberg cried because his percentage points will be nil compared to what Lucas is getting off of Speilberg's films.Quote:
And whats with the "Spielberg Cried" news story bullshit? Did Lucas ask him for a favor? If he cried its because he finally realized that Lucas lost the ability to tell a story after ROTJ.
It's odd to think that "A.I." made money though. [img]eek.gif[/img]
Did Lucas write this one? If so, I may wait for it to show up on Charter On Demand.
just saw it on opening night and i must say that it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. i actually liked it ALOT! i hated episode I and II. the third really ties in the first 2 episodes with the last three pretty darned well. i'm actually going to see it again! to my understanding, lucas had someone co-direct and co-write the script this time around. with that said, my favorite is still is EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. i thought l. kasdan's screenplay was the best out of all the star wars series. i think most everyone here will enjoy the movie.
Cool. Thanks for the mini review of sorts, Tom. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
Check this out: http://space.about.com/od/budget/a/taxingtrekkie.htm
As if Alabama doesn't have enough problems, we're branded with the monikers of racism, the Mullet, and now the ones who started a science fiction tax. Great. [img]eek.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ May 21, 2005 12:17 AM: Message edited by: Clintuplet ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">WOW...not as bad as you thought. What does that say about a fan entering the theater?Quote:
just saw it on opening night and i must say that it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be.
Star Wars bites broken tom mounts! I also never got this movie. I loved the Twlight Zone, but this stuff is lousy. The original Planet of the Apes was killer. I'm not into all the space stuff.
As for Dune with Sting, that was TOTO playing the soundtrack!
Not only do we have official Drum Geeks, but now also SWG's... [img]tongue.gif[/img]
I'm a spoilsport...anymore [at least for the last 15 yrs or so], I wait until flicks come out on rental DVD b4 I watch...Hollywierd gets enough $support from the rest of ya's, they don't need my hard-earned! [img]tongue.gif[/img] I loved the SW trilogy [1st 3 when i was younger, but i don't get all the craze-fuss anymore...I save that for the kiddies to have at!
I'm with the "Dune Theory" - more real grit & less imaginary fairy tale fluff...[like the real world?!] /;c) I never read the book[s], but I remember the movie way back...but I was young & had to get past the "post-SWs action boredom principle" to truly appreciate the headiness of Dune, TMov....
SWs is fun action stuff, cool, but not to be 'gotten' too crazed about.
Star Trek the orig TV series was a great show, way ahead of its time in theme[s], despite the slightly hammy acting & ever so occasional contrivedness [is that a word?], even by today's standards [or maybe not!]
Oh, WTH, blast 'em w a photon torpedo, zap 'em w a phasor, & hack 'em w a light sabre, yo! And zip around in those nifty little spacecraft like the "average teen-to-late-20s-year-old male driver!" /;cp
Colayoda...Obi Wan Kenwoodbe...Chambacca the Poogie...the Sheelah-Ewoks...Art-2 Blake-E...Darth Vater / Darth Virgil...Luke Skyweckler...Hass Solo...Jimbo the Hut...Jo Jo Binks...C Tri Lok Go / C Por Car O...
...May the Fours be with you...
On a Side Note...do you folks realize, if the femme singer Shakira married a famous Japanese drummer, she'd be Shakira Jimbo...just a thought. [img]confused.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ May 21, 2005 05:25 PM: Message edited by: got_a_matchgrip? ]</font>