Aotc Reviews By Forum Members

OK, despite some other views on posting reviews on AOTC, I still feel this is the very place to discuss AOTC and therefore I started this thread.

queeq's review:

I saw it last night and one thing was very clear: a lot better than TPM. The plot is very good, though I doubt non-SW fans grasp the extent of the plot yet because of the wayt it's been told.
The Clones are wonderful and the fighting Yoda very enjoyable. Lee is outstanding as Dooku, too bad he had so little screentime. The film has lovely subtleties (like Dooku being very tired after fighting Anakin), in the fights it was clear (despite all the chaos and mayhem) who the baddies and goodies are. So well done there this time again. I love the clones, they are a lot cooler than the Stormtroopers we are familiar with.
Portman looks beautiful, Anakin looks very cool (I like the dark clothes and the already very Vader-like style of his robe) and Ewan rocks.

Now the downsides:
I think the story lingers too long to get exciting, that is probably what some people call boring. The last hour is great though, but the first lingers and lingers a bit, causing us to loose OB1's detective story a bit.
The love story is not very convincing. I found many scenes accceptable, but the fireplace scene is absolutely horrible. For me it's problematic that GL combines a whining and complaining Anakin with the love scene... it's just not very convincing why...oh...why Padme falls in love with him. The successions of scenes of pretty choppy here and there. The Love Pledge right before the Arena scene is pretty good though.
I dig the CGI Yoda, but I do find GL has been overextending his CGI again. The water on Kamino looks very fake, so do many animations of jumping or falling characters. Anakin on the Shaak's back is almost a disgrace: not only is the scene a bit awkward but it looks terrible too. But also the CGI people have been modified jumps and falls throughout the movie and it shows. The apple eating scene with Padme also looks fake when she takes a bite...
THe Kaminoans look beautiful, but it's very cartoonish though.
The Clones looks excellent though and the attack ships are lovely. I also very much like the detachable hyperdrive engines of the Jedi starfighter.

It's nice to see the heroes separated again so we have simultaneous storylines. THe only thing is that when Anakin's on Tatooine, OB1's on Geonosis. And when there's a wipe from Anakin speeding to find his mother there's this wipe to a rock and only when it tilts all the way down I realised we were not on Tatooine anymore. They looked very much alike.

In general I find two major errors: the love story takes too long and is unconvincing. The stay on Naboo was just too much of a side track and the scene with Queen Jamilia and the democracy-nonsens said there quite superfluous. It worked in the book, but not here. It'd had been wiser if GL had made them fall in love enroute to Naboo where Anakin would have had a few dreams of his mother. That's caused him to change to another ship or something to travel to Tatooine, or take the ship immediately from Naboo to Tatooine. We didn't need all that. It would have sped things up.
The other error is that I find it very troubling that the Sidious-Palpy connection is STILL not made. If it had been clear from the beginning then the film would have had much more tension, the viewer would realise the Jedi are walking unknowingly into a huge trap. That still has to wait until EpIII. GL is breaking major suspense laws here.

A few more comments: I find it a bit too much inside information on the whole. I really missed the Jocasta-Nu Dooku speech and one or more scenes about Dooku. And just teh showing of the Death Star as ultimate weapon could have had more explanation. The threat would be be experienced bigger when you realise the have the technology to destroy ENTIRE PLANETS and that that's going to Sidious who is also now the Chancellor with emergency powers... All that emotion and tension is lost. I think it's very bad that viewers have to wiat till EpIII (two movies!! () to find out who Sidious is. SW fans already know and non-fans have no clue what's going on and seem not to care much either, thus maing the film a bit boring.
So it's suffering from the same problems as TPM: basically a good story but told in such a way with too many subtleties that a lot of the story eludes non-fans.

Nevertheless, I will be seeing it next weekm, because let's face it: there is a LOT to see!! 😄

I need to see it again to get all the parts clear , first time out what can I say besides extremly dissapointed. First feeling is that it is by far the worst SW movie and epIII cannot go anywhere but to the better. AND YET AGAIN I WAS BUGGED BY ANAKIN
IN TPM it was the "are you an angel" in AOTC it was"It is all Obi-Wans fault" bad bad bad acting if acting at all. 🙁 🙁
On a dice I`ll give it a two under doubt and then I am nice and gives credit for that it is after all SW

TRue. I'm not sure if I am really disappointed. I liked the second half better than all of TPM, but the first half.... well.
Hayden does allright here and there, but it's consistent all over. It works at some places and at others it just doesn't. He's good with the sabre though.

All the lightsabre battles were great. Dooku thought he was gonna lay Obi Wan right out with the force lightning and Obi Wan didn't flinch. Cool !

And we had dialogue during the fight!!!! YIPPEEEEEEEEEE.

I think thats always important. Then you can get a better idea of their feelings. Looked to me like that little bit of Force Lightning that Dooku used on Anakin hit him a lot harder than the Emporer hammering on Luke for 20 minutes. Luke snapped right back.

But he wasn't slammed into a rock wall.

Point taken. Luke just fell over some garbage cans.

😂

But Dooku was a lot more powerful than what I expected. I was impressed. Wish Lee would have had more screen time. And a good fight with Windu.

Lee was great and so was SLJ and Ewan, Natalie well maybe she was supposed to be kind of cold, like women sometimes are 😉 😄 😎 . Never happened to me though 😛

I agree. They should have introduced him and his reputation earlier in the movie. The moment he came on, the atmosphere of the movie changed.

That I will agree with.

You're too good to be true.

I've talked to some sw-fans who can't stop talking about what a genius GL is, after watching AOTC. Come wednesday I'll see if it's that good.

You have to wait till wednesday? You should count your blessings! 😄

You'll love it mah.

the first part is realy not good at all.......i must say that i wasn't quite as i expected. Some of the dialogues were compleetly childish...especialy some of obi's replies like: i hate it when he does this... 😉
Anakin...well.......he's god damn evil......already.
P.S. for the first time in sw...i felt sorry for watto.......i liked him before...this time he was...i dunno...respectfull....The atmosphere in Tatooine changed..it was sad...( well...we know why...not spoiling anything) I still like Padme a lot...but the acting was not that impressive...same 'bout Hayden.

You big moaner, queeq! I thought the understated Death Star reference was spot on. I think it would have been criminally clumsy to also say "Oh yeah, did you know this thing can blow up planets as well?" A reference like that would have ruined it!

Absolutely!

I loved it. It did start out a little slow, but Padme's quote, "I've dead a little every day since you came back," was beautiful. And then there was Yoda. As soon as his cane was heard clicking around the corner after Dooku cut off Anakin's arm the entire audience went wild because we knew exactly what was coming. I loved it when he caught the force lightning and when he pulled out his lightsaber so confidently and somber just the way a Jedi master would've I went nuts. Lucasfilm turned something that could've been comical and unbelievable and made it amazing. My friends and I are still talking about it. As for Hayden's acting I think that could've been better but he's gorgeous in this movie so I'll forgive him. Obi-wan has always been my favorite charachter and he stayed true to form in this movie. Thank goodness for Ewan McGregor. The Death Star made a friend of mine get this look of elation on his face and he could hardly keep from jumpin up and down.

One question. Why did Luke get a flesh hand and Anakin got a gold hand?

Well, aside from any comments about relative technologies...

...let's not forget tht Anakin has hardly had time to get a full job done. He either got that on Geonosis or Naboo; it miught even be an emergency job.