Registered: May 2003
Location: Sailing the seas of cheese.
Sweet! I just scored a sneak peak to the clone wars movie. I'll be seeing it tomorrow morning at 10:30am, I'll post my thoughts as soon as I'm back from seeing it.
Registered: May 2003
Location: Sailing the seas of cheese.
So, I saw the Clone Wars movie today, and I really liked it a lot. When it ended, most people in the theater clapped. It was a good solid adventure flick. The animation didn't take long to get used to, I thought it was very well done. At first I wasn't sure about the wood carved look of the characters, but it turned out to be really cool. The central characters are Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. Ahsoka becomes Anakin's apprentice, and right off the bat they begin their nonstop journey fighting against the evil plots of Count Dooku and his cohort Asajj Ventress.
Okay, spoiler time:
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Dooku kidnaps Jabba the Hutt's son, a little baby Hutt the size of a basketball. Dooku tries to frame the Jedi for the kidnapping in order to keep the Jedi from accessing the trade routes that Jabba controls. Anakin and Ahsoka save Jabba's son and nickname him 'Stinky'. Anakin nicknames Ahsoka 'Snips.' As you might guess, there is a lot of humor to this movie. The battle droids are constantly saying and doing stupid things. At one point someone says, "Do you think we're outnumbered?" And a battle droid actually starts counting all the Storm Troopers before he gets blasted. There is a really cool character, Jabba's Uncle, his name is Xero The Hutt, I think that's how it's spelled, pronounced 'Zero.' He runs a seedy night club on that Coruscant planet, I think, and he's a slimy evil cat, much like the character Doc Hopper in The Original Muppet Movie, voice and all. The movie is very female character oriented. Ahsoka and Asajj Ventress steal most of the show during the lightsabre battles, and Padme, who isn't in the movie all that much til the end, does a little reconnaissance work on her own. The coolest of the Storm Trooper family were these Scouts with urban camo armor and helmets, pretty damn cool. Also, it was weird seeing the film open up with the Warner Bros. logo, and there was no long written prologue that drifts out into space, there was a voice over instead. The movie moves nicely, there is no focus on the love story between Padme and Anakin, it's just all out action with very well timed and written plot points.
All in all, I thought it was awesome. The voices of the characters were also done very well, they did not sound all that different from the movies, especially Yoda. Sam Jackson and Christopher Lee sounded great as well. So, anyway, yeah good stuff.
Registered: May 2003
Location: Sailing the seas of cheese.
Yeah, I work for an NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, we get passes to movies all the time. Usually they put them out on the news desk for us to grab, first come first serve, but for some reason the lady who put them out had them in her drawer. She had a bunch, so I grabbed one and a co-worker of mine and I went Saturday morning. Most of the time the passes we get are for showings where the local newspaper and magazine critics show up and sit in their designated areas.
One thing that was interesting was the security at the theater making sure no one was sneaking in cameras. They asked us to leave our cell phones in our cars, then they used those hand held metal detector wands to search us. It was like being at the airport.
Probably going to take my little sister to see it this weekend - I think she's more excited about it than I am! She's been talking about Star Wars nearly non-stop for the past three days. It's adorable.
Aug 5th, 2008 11:02 AM
