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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Or then Qui-Gon's Jedi powers don't include Driving @ Insane Speeds 101, while Obi-Wan's (and Anakin's) do. Or then the padawan is simply always supposed to drive. And polish the shoes. As for the hairdos, I'm all for a 70s look in a movie that wants to "recapture the magic". The overwhelming reason T3 is such a flop is because it is a 2000s eye-candy movie trying to act out a 1980s paranoia/dystopia plot. It's visually completely wrong. Flashy convertibles, impeccaple hairdos and colorful flat-display computers filmed from flattering angles don't cut it. Flashy convertibles, impeccable hairdos and colorful flat-display computers filmed from unflattering angles, thrashed for good, portrayed as uncool and expendable... Now that would work, as in T1. Cameron at least tried with T2. Those rotating computer graphics, mobile phones etc. were not "showcased" even though they were hot at the time. (And the guns were real, and had correctly sized magazines!) Lucas shouldn't stop at hairdos, though. 1970s camera angles; harsh lighting; "American night" and true darkness only instead of the "real night" shots enabled by modern film types; long lenses with objects between the target and the camera; targets off-center... All that should still work just fine. SW is a nostalgia piece first and foremost, not cutting-edge sci-fi. (And even cutting-edge sci-fi looks best when it's "non-modern" visually. "Modern" is just another word for "utterly outdated in a year", after all. "Old" is the word for "something that didn't completely disappear in a year".) Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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