So, at LAST I get to see Episode 3 (WARNING: SPOILERS!!!)
Posted on 2005.05.26 at 14:20
I'll have to watch it again, as I was bracing for disappointment so blindly, I literally missed crucial points in the film. I do remember that I found the second half of the film to my liking, but some of the same 'prompting' for dialogue seen in Episode 2 was still there.
I remember the following about the film:
Droids are to fight scenes as aluminum foil is to a cookout. They just waded through them like they were nothing. "Obi Wan, Destroyers!" "Meh, spin your lightsaber. They can't defend against it. It's nothing." (peow peow pa-peow....)
Mace got PUNKED! Samuel J. needs to stick to movies where he's allowed to say 'Mother Fucker'.
Tattooine has been used WAY too much in this entire series of films. For something that was originally illustrated as 'the middle of nowhere and nothing' it proved to be a planet that was visited far too often. What the hell happened to Alderaan? Or any of the other systems described? Pfeh. The imagery of the vast reaches of space completely ruined by the lack of ability to choose another planet to tell the story.
The Crimson Guard of the Emperor has yet to be shown as half as intimidating as they looked in ROTJ. Will a TV show really demonstrate the impressive content that we want to see? I think not. For that matter, the Fett Family was obviously written as a running joke, and not seen as any true threat. Only meant to die in really fucked-up ways.
The fact that an entire planet is volcanic is not entirely implausible, but the concept that people can exist on it is. True, it was dominated by droids, but....Anakin should have suffered far more debilitating problems from just breathing the atmosphere than he did even before suffering his accident. Have you ever been within a block of hot tar for new asphalt? I rest my case.
The droids in the fighter battle in the beginning were...okay, but an obvious hack from the squiddies in the Matrix, and therefore scored negative points in the beginning. Star Wars was the place to go for unseen weird stuff when I was a kid. Or so I thought, til I saw the Orliephants in Lord of the Rings. Then I realized Lucas was just a Hack. He got away with it, but he's a hack nonetheless.
It was funny that they just...wiped Threepio's memory to remain consistent with the storyline, and...basically no other reason.
Padme was killed by a Force Choke. That's fucked up.
There was no point to having Yoda already having known Chewbacca. They never met again in the sequels. I'd have felt better if Chewie were 'The baby wookie'.
Anakin could have finished it all if he just killed Palpatine. "(Fzzzzzht!) So you're the Sith Lord! Die, bitch!" "Anakin wait!! The sequels...!" (WHZZHT!! FSSSSHT!!)
I'll admit, Hayden did better in this one. He got to do the 'Vader Walk' that got him the job in the first place.
Directive 66 was just...Wrong. Utterly wrong.
All in all, I'll feel better when I can own the LAST DVD, and watch all six.
I remember the following about the film:
Droids are to fight scenes as aluminum foil is to a cookout. They just waded through them like they were nothing. "Obi Wan, Destroyers!" "Meh, spin your lightsaber. They can't defend against it. It's nothing." (peow peow pa-peow....)
Mace got PUNKED! Samuel J. needs to stick to movies where he's allowed to say 'Mother Fucker'.
Tattooine has been used WAY too much in this entire series of films. For something that was originally illustrated as 'the middle of nowhere and nothing' it proved to be a planet that was visited far too often. What the hell happened to Alderaan? Or any of the other systems described? Pfeh. The imagery of the vast reaches of space completely ruined by the lack of ability to choose another planet to tell the story.
The Crimson Guard of the Emperor has yet to be shown as half as intimidating as they looked in ROTJ. Will a TV show really demonstrate the impressive content that we want to see? I think not. For that matter, the Fett Family was obviously written as a running joke, and not seen as any true threat. Only meant to die in really fucked-up ways.
The fact that an entire planet is volcanic is not entirely implausible, but the concept that people can exist on it is. True, it was dominated by droids, but....Anakin should have suffered far more debilitating problems from just breathing the atmosphere than he did even before suffering his accident. Have you ever been within a block of hot tar for new asphalt? I rest my case.
The droids in the fighter battle in the beginning were...okay, but an obvious hack from the squiddies in the Matrix, and therefore scored negative points in the beginning. Star Wars was the place to go for unseen weird stuff when I was a kid. Or so I thought, til I saw the Orliephants in Lord of the Rings. Then I realized Lucas was just a Hack. He got away with it, but he's a hack nonetheless.
It was funny that they just...wiped Threepio's memory to remain consistent with the storyline, and...basically no other reason.
Padme was killed by a Force Choke. That's fucked up.
There was no point to having Yoda already having known Chewbacca. They never met again in the sequels. I'd have felt better if Chewie were 'The baby wookie'.
Anakin could have finished it all if he just killed Palpatine. "(Fzzzzzht!) So you're the Sith Lord! Die, bitch!" "Anakin wait!! The sequels...!" (WHZZHT!! FSSSSHT!!)
I'll admit, Hayden did better in this one. He got to do the 'Vader Walk' that got him the job in the first place.
Directive 66 was just...Wrong. Utterly wrong.
All in all, I'll feel better when I can own the LAST DVD, and watch all six.