EMPIRE! It is considered the second best movie sequel of all time after The Godfather: Part II
My Opinion: From a cinematic standpoint EMPIRE was far superior, because it had better acting, screenplay, cinematography, deeper lyrics, more relevent charactars, and a much more believable and not so corny love story.
Leai: I love you.
Han: I know. <-----------That has got to be the most pimp line in the entire saga! Anyone disagree??????
ROTS had 21st century computer-generated effects going for it. That's all.
You could've said anything before that statement, made the greatest argument in favor of ANYTHING before that. Then, as soon as I read it, you lost all credibility in my eyes.
In comparison to ESB, that statement stands. ROTS was a tyte action flick that connected the PT to the OT, but is nothing campared to ESB. I lost all credibility in yer eyes nigga???? That's koo, but what I said stands.
Easily empire strikes back it is better directed has more evil stuff and you find out something more shocking than anakin turning evil and slaughtering younglings. Yeah the obi wan anakin fight is better than the luke & vader fight.
And that's where you lose even more. Damn. Here's why it doesn't stand. You can think EBS is the better movie. That's fine. But to say that the only thing that ROTS had was better effects makes me think you either didn't see the movie or you're just trying too hard to make a point. You're pissing on an entire movie for no good reason. ROTS had so many emotional scenes that had nothing to do with CG. You're going to disregard the emotional depth of Order 66? The end of the duel? Padme and Anakin's connection across Coruscant? That's just a few things you seem to not have noticed or cared about judging by your statement. I'm not telling you to change your mind & name ROTS as the better of the two films. I'm telling you not to dismiss ROTS as just a CGI fieldtrip.
It wasn't a CGI field trip as much as say, Attack Of The Clones, but the CGI did come damn close to spoiling a few of the scenes emotional impact.
In ESB, everything takes place in rather barren or simple environments, and the only things doing anything as such, are the main characters, and so there's a maximum deliverance of the character.
In ROTS, however, I felt myself getting lost in the visuals. Take Order 66. We see Aayla Secura getting gunned down, but my eye kept wanderring over to the Willy Wonka playground she was surrounded in. Plo Koons death was completely pointless and their deaths were ESTABLISHING SHOTS of where they were. This meant everyone had to watch a character and try and get a grip with whatever environment they were in. It was fast and visual orientated, latching onto a character and caring for them is hard. I cared a helluva lot more for Biggs or Dak.
And to be honest, when the Obi-Wan and Anakin fight moved over to the lava river (especially when Anankin rode a tiny droid about a metre at most away over searring hot lava) it just reminded me of a video game. He didn't burn when directly over the lava but was grilled just by lying near it on a bank? ROTS did a few things that really tried to distract me, and I had to concentrate to actually focus on the characters. Oh well, still both good movies, but ROTS wasn't even as good as A New Hope. The beastly transformation of Darth Vader and the countless deaths seem to make everyone automatically rabidly fall in love with an OK movie.
Last edited by Red Superfly on Aug 11th, 2005 at 11:15 AM
1. Imperial Walkers
2. Snow Troopers
3. Han and Chewie
4. Han and Leia
5. Vader taking Luke to lightsaber school
6. Yoda
7. Boba Fett (does so very little - yet still seemed feckin' cool...that's why he remained popular until GL unceremoniously dumped him in a worm)
8. The Imperial March theme
9. Super Star Destroyer (how big is that thing?)
10. Overall pacing and lighting...
11. Dialogue and humor
12. A tight script
Favorite Scene- Vader: "You are beaten! Don't make me destroy you..."
And in that mustafar fight when they were swinging on those cables and clashing sabers it looked like scene out of a cheap 50's buckaneer
flick. vs = Ani and Obi
Aug 11th, 2005 07:55 AM
Easily empire strikes back it is better directed has more evil stuff and you find out something more shocking than anakin turning evil and slaughtering younglings. Yeah the obi wan anakin fight is better than the luke & vader fight.
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