AOTC - Longest SW Film To Date

well, I like the idea of aotc being so long.
so I have more of annie! 😄
I mean if the movie is really good you won't realize it's so long.
happened to me when I first watched pearl harbour. the second time I nearly fell asleep.

what bout the news that lucas plans to make some scenes for the old trilogy like bringing bail organa in to anh?
then they could also cut padmé into ep6...

Originally posted by DarthKris
what bout the news that lucas plans to make some scenes for the old trilogy like bringing bail organa in to anh?
then they could also cut padmé into ep6...

Originally posted by Ushgarak
I don;t mind it being split two ways- say, a sabre fight and a battle. But in TPM you had the Queen AND the Gungans AND the space battle AND the sabre fight! A directing nightmare.

I suspect the Geonosis battle will be much better.

And in what way was this technique different from ROTJ?

It wasn't, as I clearly said, so please read more carefully in future . It was bad in both films.

It wasn't clearly stated in that post. ROTJ went back and forth to 3 different battles, just as TPM did.

It was clearly stated several posts before when I started discussing the topic.

Read before you post, Helmet.

It isn't a directing nightmare. Think before you post.

The Gungan battle was all cg, what directing did Lucas have to do. He never said action or cut in that sequence or the space battle. Maybe an editing challenge, but certainly not a directing nightmare.

Yes it is. George Lucas' digitial editing of the film after the event is retroactive directing, as is talked about on the TPM DVD. As director, GL had the ultimate responsbility for the way these events were shown.

I am thinking just fine, Helmet. You, on the other hand, need to be a bit more careful with posting in future.

It is all layed out on storyboards. It isn't that difficult. You are trying to make something out of nothing.

and you are not??????????

No, I'm not. It was your comment.

How exactly was he not going to have all of those things going on at once. He wrote it that way, it isn't like it was a surprise to him along the way.

I don't believe I am. The way those sequences were put together was nowhere near as effective as the way the battle sequences in the first two films were handled. These things NEED concentration, not to be split.

In TPM, the split is increasingly pointless because two of the fights were not even necessary. Amidala's attempt to capture the Viceroy was entirely pointless because once the control ship was destroyed he would have been defenceless. That whole capture attempt could have been dropped.

And the sabre fight had no relevance to the main battle either. That could have happened AFTER the battle, and been coincentrated on.

AOTC is different. All the fighting in it will seem far more continuous, from what I can tell.

What 2 battles were pointless. The main battle, the space battle that ends the main battle. The capture of the bad guy, or the duel?

You can't have them shown separately from beginning to end, because they are all going on at once. Do you not realize this.

You do realize that all 4 of these sequences have major impacts on AOTC, right? Or haven't you thought about it.

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Amidala's attempt to capture the Viceroy was entirely pointless because once the control ship was destroyed he would have been defenceless. That whole capture attempt could have been dropped.

Yes, Helmet, I HAVE thought about it while you, AGAIN did not even read my post properly!

In case you didn't know, the capture of the Viceroy leads to the Nute's planned assasination attempts in AOTC. So yes, that part of TPM was important. Any more ridiculous comments.

Any more ridiculous comments

She STILL would have captured him, you twerp! Just the whole fight leading up to it was a waste of time! Gee! READ what I say! I said he would have been left defenceless!

How would she have captured him if she never went after him. Them going to get the Viceroy was the most important part of the battle. Everything else was a diversion.

Understand, twerp?

Jesus! You really ARE dense! With his whole army disabled, what could he have POSSIBLY done? They would have just walked up to him and he would have had no choice other than to surrender.

Filmatically speaking, adding this extra, pointless battle scene to the end of TPM was a waste of time.