UdoKier
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Fri May-20-05 03:11 PM
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Highlights/Lowlights of the new STAR WARS flick |
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The new installment is certainly the best of the prequels and is probably a bit better than "Return of the Jedi", IMO. Anyway...
Highlights:
"Jar Jar" has ZERO dialogue, and zero story involvement.
Christiansen's acting as Anikin is slightly improved over the last installment.
A fairly good depiction of Anikin's seduction by the dark side & Palpatine.
Palpatine gets plenty of screen time, he helps hold the film together.
Anikin's transformation into the Vader we know at the end was pretty harrowing and well done.
A few nice nods to Episode 4, like the cameo of Peter Cushing's character, General Tarkin.
Lowlights:
An opening battle sequence so frenetic and video-gamey that you can't tell what the hell is going on half the time.
For some reason, in this episode, R2D2 is unbelievably agile - jumping and bouncing and flying. How the hell did he get to be such a slow, clumsy clunker in Ep 4?
Some of the most laughably bad diologue ever Ani: "You look so beautiful" Padme: "That's because you love me". Ani: No, it's because YOU love ME."
and Ani: "If you're not with me, you're my enemy!" (obvious,much?)
But overall, it's an enjoyable, but long, 2hr 26 min. movie.
Have fun!
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Fri May-20-05 03:18 PM
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1. Yeah, you pretty much nailed it. |
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This film also had more humor, believe it or not, than the first two prequels. Yoda throwing the huge Imperial guards against the wall with the Force was a riot.
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Fri May-20-05 03:22 PM
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2. you nailed it beautifully-except for the vader part |
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i couldn't handle: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
heh. i laugh remembering that image. :rofl:
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Fri May-20-05 03:25 PM
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3. That was Ani's final petulant outburst... |
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Before becoming a REAL badass.
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Fri May-20-05 03:58 PM
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5. Vader's "NOOOO" was haunting, and entirely apropos |
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Fans just don't understand that the Vader of Episode III is not the tyro we see in the classic trilogy: he is a scorched 23 year old in a casket suit who thinks he just murdered his beloved (Palpatine's grin at telling this lie is one of the film's most memorable images). And his gestures were gloriously melodramatic. I also see a nice parallel to Luke's "NOOOO" in ESB.
It was brazen of Lucas not to give the fans what they wanted--a bad-ass Vader; what we are presented with instead is a black-suited Gollum.
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Fri May-20-05 03:44 PM
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4. I loved that opening battle sequence |
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It was hard to follow, but for me that was part of the enjoyment.
I didn't think the dialogue was that bad, i.e. there was nothing that was cringe-inducing, like the Padme/Anakin scenes in Clones.
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