Originally posted by chinabing
TPM was fantastic and AOTC was spectacular. If you're going to complain about bad acting, might as well not watch the entire saga. They did not stink, got it? Movies that stink include "Chronicles of Riddick" and "Doom," those are truly terrible movies.
nowhere in my post did i say that everyone else should share my views.
its just the way i see it. got it?
Originally posted by chinabing
TPM was fantastic and AOTC was spectacular. If you're going to complain about bad acting, might as well not watch the entire saga. They did not stink, got it? Movies that stink include "Chronicles of Riddick" and "Doom," those are truly terrible movies.
😖leep: Oh hear we go again...
TPM and AOTC were both rubbish films with only small glimmers of what they are supposed to prequel. Complaining? No. I was just saying aloud the realisation that good acting in Star Wars is virtually non-exhistent. But then who would watch Star Wars for the acting anyway?
Lucas' inability to realise that the movie going audiences opinions of CGI were slowly changing caused his over reliance on the damn stuff. This in turn was the reason why TPM sucked. Having real actors that cannot act is better than having CGI actors that cannot act. When over relying on CGI Lucas seemed to neglect the script and narrative of both films, making them some of the most transcendent pieces of crap to ever grace cinemas. However they both seemed to make millions of dollars so I suppose the film does not have to be generally good to make money.
And as for 'Chronicles of Riddick' and 'Doom', I half expect them to be on your 'all-time favourite movies' list if you liked TPM and AOTC...
blushing.... i luved them all. AOTC is the SW film that got me to love SW.
I liked it all lot better than TPM, bcuz TPM was just boring at the beginning. I da-no, I just couldnt get into the movie the 1st few times i saw it.
The only thing I hate out of Preguels is that damn DIALOG. the dialog KILLED the movies, to me.
And here we go again, too . . .
Everyone is entitled of course to his or her own views, I never said they weren't. But I'll disagree vehemently when people start talkin' smack about TPM and AOTC. In no way were they awful movies. Awful movies as I have explained before, are such as Riddick and Doom. Sure there are awkward moments in the first two prequels, and clunky dialogue. That doesn't mean they stink. I didn't say they were perfect, I said they don't stink. That is two different things.
The pod race in TPM was the most exciting piece of filmdom that year, besting anything in the GAP-commercial--sorry I mean "The Matrix." Then the final battles in the movie's climax, absolutely thrilling. And plenty of heart in the middle of the film. And AOTC was a more nuanced piece, but that's what it's supposed to do, show Anakin & Padme falling in love. Lucas became under fire for showing Anakin being awkward. Well, duh, the character was supposed to be awkward at love! And again, another spectacular climax, capping off AOTC's rollercoaster ride with the Yoda/Dooku battle. Just thrilling.
I don't know why people hate them so much, they must love hating things more just because it's easy to be cynical. I'm willing to take the good with the bad, and the good far outweighs the bad in TPM and AOTC.
Hmm. I think you are misunderstanding me here.
These films are bad. That is a fact. you can like them or dislike them as much as you like but nothing can beat the fact that Lucas wasted 6 or so years on both.
The Pod-racing scene is far from exhilarating. In fact when you see the little verson of Vader, scourge of the Jedi Order, in a race of which his future wife and two Jedi depend on him winning, you can expect him to win. Thus creating a tiresome scene that drags on and on in a formula spread too thinely in cinema already.
I have no problem with Anakin and Padme falling in love - but seriously it could have been orchestrated much better than this clunky attempt.