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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] Nim: I'm with you on the look of TESB. While ANH certainly had a look that was unique to SciFi at the time, the movie just looked [i]cleaner[/i] than the others, where ANH felt grainier and ROTJ felt cartoonish. (The camoflage smocks I thought were pathetic even as a 6-year-old.) And I think part of the reason I like it better has something to do with what Jason just said: we see a competent force user in TESB. Now, that user is evil, but I always found it refreshing to see competence (almost) win the day and not a magic-Jedi-proton-torpedo taking out a planetoid. As for a chock-full-of-midichlorians-Luke, I would say that that isn't impossible to write well, it's just much harder. And it requires a good grasp for making something metaphysical understandable and inspiring. To quote a reviewer of ROTS, Lucas plays with archetypes the way normal people push checkers across a board. It's fun to do because it's [i]your[/i] movie, but it doesn't paint a coherent picture. I'll leaven that statement with one little feature from AOTC I thought was masterful: the way Qui-Gon used the force to "legally" get Anakin off Tatooine. That's the kind of subtlety you have to employ in conjunction with well-orchestrated and busy fight scenes. There is one movie (haven't read the book yet) that I thought got much closer to doing a young-protagonist-chock-full-of-expertise battle of wills better. [URL=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245844]The Count of Monte Cristo[/URL]. I always watched that movie thinking Jim Caviezal acted not too far off of how I would have liked Luke to have acted post "Dark Empire": balanced perspective and willing to use the force for something more aggressive than deflecting laser bolts. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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