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felis_ultharusI have just seen Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.
Brilliant visuals -- quite possibly the most visually stunning movie ever made. Between Hayden Christensen and all the technogadgets and landscapes, it's dizzying to look at.
Great story -- your average Hollywood action movie is on long paean to fascism. It's nice to see one that goes the other direction. There were all the elements of Aristotelian tragedy, there, too.
Almost half the actors could act -- they even seem to have given a few lessons to Christensen, though sadly not to Portman.
The dialogue -- Lucas should have contracted out for the dialogue. Or maybe he did contract out to the zombie of Ed Wood, I'm not sure.
Seriously, 20 years down the road, they're going to digitally remaster and upgrade the special effects, and leave dozens of unintentionally funny lines intact. What I want to see is the series scripturally remastered -- keep Lucas on the special effects, give him control over the overall story, and hand the dialogue to someone who can handle it.
Brilliant visuals -- quite possibly the most visually stunning movie ever made. Between Hayden Christensen and all the technogadgets and landscapes, it's dizzying to look at.
Great story -- your average Hollywood action movie is on long paean to fascism. It's nice to see one that goes the other direction. There were all the elements of Aristotelian tragedy, there, too.
Almost half the actors could act -- they even seem to have given a few lessons to Christensen, though sadly not to Portman.
The dialogue -- Lucas should have contracted out for the dialogue. Or maybe he did contract out to the zombie of Ed Wood, I'm not sure.
Seriously, 20 years down the road, they're going to digitally remaster and upgrade the special effects, and leave dozens of unintentionally funny lines intact. What I want to see is the series scripturally remastered -- keep Lucas on the special effects, give him control over the overall story, and hand the dialogue to someone who can handle it.
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Date: 2005-05-27 09:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-28 03:21 am (UTC)#1 is universally acknowledged as awful. #2 as mediocre, but not nearly as bad. #3 is very good except for the dialogue.
#2 is actually worth seeing just for watching Yoda in a lightsabre battle. Where Lucas really sucks in #2 (and to a lesser degree, #3) is in writing romantic dialogue. It doesn't help that Nathalie Portman seems to forget how to act between the first and second movie.
I read one article arguing that the romantic scenes were deliberately bad because Lucas was making fun of standard Hollywood movies. I'm not entirely sure if I give him that much credit, but I guess it's a possibility.
One of the things that really saves the last two movies is Ewan MacGregor. He pretty much carries the second movie on his shoulders, and really shines in the third.