Speaking of which, did anyone see the AJC article on Saturday, with a picture of a woman with a similar outfit? I tried to go find the pic on the AJC site, but couldn't. So I found this one instead.
Posted on 05/16/2005 1:18:49 PM PDT by Destro
If it is as bad as "Phantom Menace," everyone should save their money. That was probably the stupidest, most-boring movie ever.
That faux pas right there disqualifies his review if you ask me.
I thought what got you to the dark side was using your Jedi powers for your own selfish needs. The Force is sort of like the Chinese/Japanese "Chi". In martial arts they teach you not to use your force unless you have to. That you become seduced to the dark side of the Force when you try and and control the force rather than working with the force.
Hilarious, that was. Better than the movie, think I.
It's as though I sense a million souls, all crying out at once,...and then the lines at the cinema disappeared....
Also Star Wars (as was Indiana Jones) is a tribute to 30s and 40s movie westerns and matinee serials - which means simple stories and fast moving adventures.
The last two Star Wars seemed a failure because the bad guys were not clearly defined - what was lacking in the first two Star Wars was a clear black hat wearing villian and it lacked martial combat action.
Also Star Wars (as was Indiana Jones) is a tribute to 30s and 40s movie westerns and matinee serials - which means simple stories and fast moving adventures.
The last two Star Wars seemed a failure because the bad guys were not clearly defined - what was lacking in the first two Star Wars was a clear black hat wearing villian and it lacked death defying action.
Well Anakin/Darth Vader, as a bad guy, isn't clearly defined viewing the whole series a whole.
Speaking of which, did anyone see the AJC article on Saturday, with a picture of a woman with a similar outfit? I tried to go find the pic on the AJC site, but couldn't. So I found this one instead.
"Aren't you a little busty to be a stormtrooper?"
A perfect example of just how generally unimaginative and insular Hollywood has been. You find these incredible movies which are nearly perfect and others which are just embarassingly bad.
In the new one the id would win. An the love affair would be Lesbian. If Lucas is the pinnacle then you can see how far the fall off has been.
It was everything a good sf movie should be. It gave some eye-candy and all, but even more, it sparked the imagination and sense of wonder.
And then we were right back into visible wires and black and white and set backdrops with visible seams, and hokey plots, for another twenty years or so....
Dan
Natalie Portman, hot she is.
George Lucas, wine he makes.
Right. Or you'd have to see the naked swimming scene. FP was great both for what it showed, and for what it only suggested.
Dan
Lucas was quoted recently with..."I'm glad to be leaving this behind" or words to that effect. Maybe he'll do a shark movie next ;)
It was a wonderful movie and grabbed me from the beginning as a 10 or 11 year old in a little Arkansas town. Now it can't even support a movie theater so the people travel to a larger city generally Monroe, La. But when I saw that movie I was flying through space in that saucer and scared crapless. No monster is ever more frightening than the Unseen One.
Another fantastic one. But it was precisely the story which made it great unlike Star Wars. There was not one special effect in it worth the name all psychological development again unlike Star Wars. But that is unimportant to a neo-serialized mythology or serialized neo-mythology which you postulate.
Star Wars has the problem Wagner operas have for me, no humanity of interest. Interesting parts but doesn't hold together like a Spielberg movie.
Yep. I forget, is Dooku a bad guy? At first, I thought he was the only one to sense Palpatine's plan and act to raise an army to counter it, but evidently I missed some nuance that aligned him with the Sith. As you said, not clearly defined. For that matter, the picture of the Old Republic that Lucas presents in Episodes I & II looks more like a bunch of feuding Somali warlords than anything else. It's almost enough to make you cheer for the Empire.
There's something else missing from the prequels, too: *humor*. The Original Trilogy had Han Solo - a non-boring, non-tedious, non-Jedi character. His charm and humor helped balance out the heavy, serious Jedi component.
Now that I think about it Luke Skywalker in teh first Star Wars was kind of a whiny teenager in the first third of the movie but in the end he became a man and had a right of passage. I think I got it! That is why the first two modern moves were so off - because they did not have that growing up baptisim of fire moment from teenager to man that there was in Star Wars. I think that is why the original Star Wars blew up and hooked a generation.
I didn't pay to see the last two Star Wars, and I won't pay to see this one now, either. From what I can tell, the average Star Wars fan these days is about 7 years old, so Lucas revolving the whole deal around childbirth should go over well with his adoring fan base
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