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Y'know, usually we moan about lack of continuity.
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"Nothing will stop it from being a financial windfall for Lucas (it being the last of the SW movies nad all) but that does'nt mean it'll be a good movie by any standards."
I'm just saying that, as far as causes for a movie's wind- or downfall go, haircuts aren't exactly the most determinative.
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I know. In the grand scheme, it does'nt irritate me near as much as say, Star Wars being revised so Greedo fires first in ultra jerky-fast motion. It's just one more little thing wearing the luster off my childhood's favorite movies.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: For the record, I really liked the second half of TPM and Loved the first half of AOTC...
OH YES! SOMEONE ELSE! Me too!!
2nd half of TPM is fine and I only like the first half of AOTC... everyone else adores the second half of AOTC - but it is SOOOoo CORNY!
It's just c-r-a-p
"It looks as though this battle can't be won on who has more knowledge of the Force - let's decided this with the light sabre" - GROAN! The first truely corny line of the 21st century!?!
Pity it had to be Christopher Lee who said it.
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Well thank goodness Lee has the Saruman character in LOTR. I think that he will be remembered for this character, Dracula, and Francisco Scaramanga, not Count Dookuu.
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Nah... Dooku IS Saruman, and vice versa... the characters are carbon copies of each other
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Nah, the rolley-eyes aren't really distinctly sarcastic they're more like "duh that was obvious" or "you are so stupid but I'm not going to say you are"...
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But they are. Look at them. Both are magicians from a trusted order of same who have secretly gone bad and allied themselves to the supreme evil in town. That Jackson (and ultimately Tolkien) displayed a certain amount of basic competance with their version doesn't change the essential nature of the characters.
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AOTC's second half just bored me to death. Jedi's going down to chicken looking droids. Toyfare Magazine did a nice parody that said "Wow, it's just like Gladiator!....wait, it's exactly like Gladiator!!!" Jedi were supposed to be real badasses and not just jerks with swords, The skeleton army from Army of Darkness fought far better than the bulk of the Jedi's in that arena. Based on a comparison of lightsabre duels from TPM and AOTC, I'd say that Obi-Wan and Darth Sideous would've easily taken out every sorry force user from AOTC by skill alone. ....and don't get be started on the mad muppet moving in fast forward! Mabye yoda will have a '70's fro in the new movie.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: ....and don't get be started on the mad muppet moving in fast forward! Mabye yoda will have a '70's fro in the new movie.
OMG! Yes! Again, someone else who agrees with me about the absurdity of Yoda in the fight seen. It was so obvious they sped his movements up so the audience's eye couldn't linger on the CGI creation for too long.
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I was really hoping Yoda'd just be his usual slow self and drop a starship on his enemies.
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