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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Stupid (Lightweight it is)
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| June 6, 2005
| Don Feder
Posted on 06/06/2005 11:32:51 AM PDT by quidnunc
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To: OXENinFLA
I hit "view replies" because I KNEW somebody would post that. Well done!
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posted on
06/06/2005 12:53:29 PM PDT
by
T.Smith
To: WildHorseCrash
He simply can't write worth a damn, and it shows. Being a conservative, usually means being an optimist. Episodes 4-6 were uplifting victories while 1-3 were dark tragedies which is probably why you liked 4-6 better.
82
posted on
06/06/2005 12:53:47 PM PDT
by
staytrue
To: PA Engineer
Jeez, it's GOTTA suck, if AvP is better.
For posterity, I reprint here in its entirety Xena's Guy's review of Alien vs. Predator:
The cool: seeing the alien and the predator together on the big screen.
The crap: everything else.
83
posted on
06/06/2005 12:54:53 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(End women's suffrage! Hasn't the country suffered enough?)
To: jjbrouwer
I'd stay away from Jar Jar then. He doesn't seem too real - or very manly. I was hoping he would be killed off in the 2nd movie ...
Cinderella Man looked very good in the previews. Do you think it lived up to them ? I did like Beyond the Sea, strangely enough, because it was about a real person and showed some of his flaws.
To: colorado tanker
I went to see it with my son this weekend (he'd seen it already, and humored Mom). The dialogue had some splinters sticking out of it, but I tried to ignore it.
The bald-faced attempts to slam W were just embarrassing, and met with stone silence in the theatre - no little "yeah"s or anything. Just dropped right into the punch bowl.
I did get a kick out of the little Rainman droids in the beginning who said "OW!" and "Uh Oh!"
85
posted on
06/06/2005 12:55:36 PM PDT
by
bootless
(Never Forget - And Never Again)
Comment #86 Removed by Moderator
To: No Blue States
The first bootleg movie I ever watched and the price was right, $0.00 and I was a Star War fan.
To: Lightfinger
88
posted on
06/06/2005 1:04:32 PM PDT
by
ClearBlueSky
(Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
To: Mr. Jeeves
Lucas doesn't understand evil, but Ian McDiarmid sure does. He didn't have a great script to work with and Anakin's rationale for converting may have seemed weak, but McDiarmid delivered the best Star Wars performance since Harrison Ford in Episode IV. And you can't blame him for the silly laughter while the Emperor was fighting Yoda. ;)
I wholeheartedly agree. Episode III was as much the Emperor's story as it was Vader's. And Ian had one of the two great performances in the film (the other being Ewan). You can tell he had a lot of fun with the role--especially with the parts where Palpatine was pretending to be compassionate--acting on top of acting. He also laughed it up after the declaration of royalty and during the fight with Yoda. Definately can't blame him for enjoying the fruition of well-laid plans.
89
posted on
06/06/2005 1:05:20 PM PDT
by
Cyclopean Squid
(Time is a wonderful teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its pupils. --Hector Berlioz)
To: BurbankKarl
When Obi Wan diced up Aniken at the end all I could think of was :
"It's only a flesh wound"
And "None shall pass"
90
posted on
06/06/2005 1:05:38 PM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
Comment #91 Removed by Moderator
To: MarkL
He's a liberal. They don't recognize evil, except possibly for pro-lifers and other conservatives... My guess is Lucas is conservative. His movies are about absolute good and evil and are not very nuanced. Also, eventually, individuals defeat and evil government. And in real life I think he adopted something like 30 kids.
92
posted on
06/06/2005 1:07:11 PM PDT
by
staytrue
To: PA Engineer
re:Ditto. After the movie my 12 year old daughter commented that even Alien vs. Predator was better.
the original 4 part comic was even better.
93
posted on
06/06/2005 1:10:43 PM PDT
by
tomakaze
(Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.)
To: tscislaw
So you're saying the Death Star is like the big dig tunnel project in Boston?
94
posted on
06/06/2005 1:13:54 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: fish hawk
Princess: "I love you"Solo: "I know"
That was the peak. From then on the dialog stinks.
Yup. And that line wasn't even in the script; it was Harrison Ford's ad lib.
To: A Ruckus of Dogs
I agree the dialogue needed work but Ewan McGregor did fine with it. Anikin and Padme didn't. Well, McGregor is a better actor. But he also had much better material to work with. For one, he didn't have any inane love scenes that were just dead. The guy who portrayed the emperor did a great job, too (with the exception of that maniacal laugh), but here, too, he was given something meaty to work with.
To: ClearBlueSky
Nothing since '92? Not terribly active, I'd say.
97
posted on
06/06/2005 1:25:43 PM PDT
by
T.Smith
To: hugoball
This was a great movie. Lucas did just about everything right. The stories of episodes I and II needed to be told in order to set this movie up. Lucas is dealing with archetypes and the historical parallels are general themes that are only partially comparable to any particular case. Anakin goes through the heroic cycle almost step by step. As far as a reference to Richard III, the scene where Anakin holds the lightsabre to Palpatines's neck is right from that play. It's no surprise, however, that the neocons do not like this movie.
98
posted on
06/06/2005 1:26:02 PM PDT
by
ValenB4
("Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets." - Isaac Asimov)
To: staytrue
Being a conservative, usually means being an optimist. Episodes 4-6 were uplifting victories while 1-3 were dark tragedies which is probably why you liked 4-6 better. Actually, the "uplifting" parts of the series were some of the parts I liked the least. They were too forced. I like the dark parts of the story, probably because these are the more dramatic portions of the series. "Empire" especially. I liked a lot of the eps. 2 and 3 dealing with Anikan becoming Vader because it had the same dark edge to it.
I enjoyed the original "Star Wars", but Lucas kind of made the Empire tough, and Han Solo really was (originally) a bad guy. Parts of "Jedi" were dark, but too much was muppets and teddy bears. "Phantom Menace" was a waste, because it was all fluffy and cotton candy.
To: All
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posted on
06/06/2005 1:26:33 PM PDT
by
Your Nightmare
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