Well, My mate got me the advanced screening ticket, and I just got back from watching it.
FUCKEN AWESOME!!!
Darth Vader v Obi-wan Kenobi = Brilliant
Yoda v Darth Sidious = Brilliant
There's some good, funny parts, especially when Yoda walks into wear Sidious is, and just takes out those two guards instantly, FUUCK!~!!!
Damn the end where Sidious tells Vader that he killed Padme, god damn VADER IS COOL!!!!
Well, he's been my favourite character from Star Wars.
I'm going in just a few hours. I've been really cynical about the whole thing for awhile but now that I'm in the last few hours the fanboy in me is coming out... I am genuinely excited.
I've already read the novelization (good story, but I felt the author did a poor job) and watched my brother play through the PS2 game. Hopefully I wont be disappointed tonight. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]
yeah the author did do a bad job with it but it got the general idea across and it sounds awsome i have to wait til this weekend though because i have exams all week [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]
Just got back from seeing it. By far the best prequel. Had a few scenes with choppy dialogue... and in the end I really didn't care what happened to Padme (she might as well have just been a prop.). I felt they did a pretty good job of portraying the bond between Anakin and Obi-Wan; Good enough that I actually cared about how their duel played out, even though I already knew what would happen.
Yoda: Pimpin', that is all you need know.
Good stuff, folks.. I needs to get to bed now. Friggin' midnight showtimes.
booked my ticket for saturday, last saturday. would have gone last night but i have a big exam tomorrow so was busy revising. looking forward to it so much, and me and a mate are watching all 5 on friday afternoon & evening in preparation.
Just got back from seeing it - clearly the best prequel. Some of the dialogue was crappy, but that's just because Lucas can't write a script. Even so, the faults were so minor and the action/story so compelling that I didn't really care about the bad things, I was enjoying myself way too much.
Fantastic overall. I love how it slots in nicely and fits perfectly with the start of ep IV.
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when I say it's a schpadoinkle day
I don't remember the start of episode IV, is that the first of the old ones?
Yeah, it is noob, I mean Krb.
I loved it, the bad parts mean nothing overall from the movie.
Just saw it today and it was amazing, still some of the CG bothered me a little bit (though for the most part it worked well) and the big 'noooooooooooooo' was totally cheesy, besides that it was cool, the only one of the prequels that I actually liked (though to be fair I actually liked the novelisations of the first two to a certain extent). The fights were all cool, plus there was some pretty funny bits like R2 shocking the robots hand, then it boots him over, as well as the bit with yoda and the guards.
I loved it. Best of the 3 prequels.
There was some wooden dialog but I am suprised to say that Hayden Christensen's acting wasn't the worse, it was Natalie Portman's. The CG in the movie was better than any movie I have seen, and that is saying a lot.
There are two things in the movie that I think they could have improved on, and that is the Kashyyyk battle scenes and General Grevious scenes.
Very solid film. Check my blog entry on it for a summary of my thoughts.
I thought the CG was just jaw-dropping. I mean, it was far beyond the stage of "hey, that CG looks really good"; a lot of the time it actually looked real and it was difficult to tell the difference. For example, in a few of the battle scenes that had tanks rolling around, it looked like they'd built a real vehicle. Amazing stuff.
Is it because they put real time lighting over the top of it once it's animated? I don't know much about CG and how it's produced.
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when I say it's a schpadoinkle day
i don't think you can do that. But lucas has always done a pretty decent job...
The Yoda Sideous fight in the senate auditorium WAS BEAUTIFUL...
but i think the funniest scene was R2 starting the fire...
they also should have gotten peter mayhew back for chewbacca... the new one doesn't sit right, i dunno why.
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Peter Mayhew DID play Chewbacca.Originally posted by: Konoha Rek
i don't think you can do that. But lucas has always done a pretty decent job...
The Yoda Sideous fight in the senate auditorium WAS BEAUTIFUL...
but i think the funniest scene was R2 starting the fire...
they also should have gotten peter mayhew back for chewbacca... the new one doesn't sit right, i dunno why.
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Overall I thought it was the best of the prequals. Although there are all kinds of issues that really nagged me throughout. First of all WTF was George smoking when he cast Christian Hayden as Anakin? Same goes for Nadalie Portman as Padme. Either they both are really bad actors or lucus isn't very good at handling dialogue. There are just some painful scenes between the two and I can't stop but think that there must be at least hundreds of other people who are far more qualified. The animated Anikan in the clone wars animated shorts has more emotion. Hell get the kid who plays Harry Potter or even some of the forum members here could do a better job with delivering dialogue then Mr. Hayden does.
Also what was the point of even mentioning qui gon jin towards the end of the movie? I was really excited about seeing him come back for a brief final scene in his ghostly etheral form like we've seen in the original trilogy. I'm guessing that George decided to cut the scene at the last mintue, hopefully we'll see it in an unrated directors cut when the film comes to DVD. Although I most applaud lucus for practically every scene with yoda. He probably gave the best performance in the film. I really just loved the scenes where you could see his poor little heart being wretched out as the clone troopers executed order 66. I think that yoda will be up there with Gullum as one of the best performances ever given by a CGI character. Political undertones were also very nice and forboding. If anything this prequal trilogy was less about the rise of darth vader and more so the political machinations and creation of the empire. It was Papatines trilogy, since he was the one orchestrating everything behind the scenes. Although the whole thing about him kidnapping himself in the beginning of the film was just dumb no matter how you look at it.
It's not the actors. The two of them are fine actors in their own right - it's Lucas. He's too arrogant to get help with the writing of the screenplay, eps V and VI were much better because he had help. I personally thought Hayden Christensen was perfectly cast - he had the right look in relation to Jake Lloyd and Mark Hamill, and I thought he had a real evil aura about him and good screen presence.
True, Natalie Portman was kind of shit in this movie, but she can only work with the material that she's given. Other movies she's done she's given fantastic performances. It's a pity Lucas dragged her down with him.
The part with Qui-Gon Jinn at the end was to introduce the concept of talking to those close to you who have died so that it could be done with Obi-Wan in ep V. A good way to suggest that it can be done so it's not a complete shock in the later movie. Also, in the novelisation of this movie (I haven't read it) apparently Qui-Gon talks to Obi-Wan briefly, and it obviously wasn't part of the final movie cut.
I personally think Palpatine's kidnapping wasn't dumb at all, it was a clever ploy to remove himself from all possible suspicion and accusation. If anything, it was probably a trap to either kill Obi-Wan and Annakin, or allow an opportunity for Annakin to be manipulated by Palpatine. I have no idea why you think it was so dumb.
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when I say it's a schpadoinkle day
i actually liked this movie alot. before taking my seat i was sceptical and thought, well i gotta see this one anyway. but when i got up from my seat it was a diffrent story.
first of all i think this movie really made Vader the best character in all the movies, the others are either completly good or bad. in this one vader seems something in between.
As for the scenes with portman and christensen(sp?) its clearly the sucky dialog, lucas can't write a dialog between two people that love each other appearently. The first time i noticed was the first scene at the balcony between portman and christensen. it just plain sucked, who would talk like that? there were some other bits here and there that sounded really bad to. I felt that christensen was the perfect choice for anakin, he seemed so evil yet wanted to help the people he loved at all cost, and he wasnt a whiny pussy like he was in ep II. I loved the scene where Vader screams, it marks the end to anakin and the begining of vader, the transformation is complete.
One thing that bothered me tho was how easy all the jedi's was shot down, especially the council members should be able to do a little more than get suprised when they get a shot in the neck. windu went down pretty fast to, it felt a little rushed at the end when they had to close it up. ewan mcgregor did a good job in this one, he got closer to how alec guiness handled the role in the old movies.
am i the only one who reacted at the clone guys name? cody? wtf is that? i just cant take that name seriously.
all in all i think it was a great movie and it tied the lose strings up pretty good. i would like to see re-makes on the old movies for some reason, with new actors and fixed enviroments and such. i just dont like hamill as luke and carrie fisher as leia.
i cant wait to see it tonight.
Just saw it last night. Pretty good overall, except for the dialogue, which sucked (I'm still laughing at some of those parts like "Your breaking my heart, Anakin!"...Really???) Well, as said by most, those two fights were excellent with Yoda, Darth Sidious, and Anakin, Obi-wan. R2 and Yoda rock!
"You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways."
this movie did good acting as the main storyliner. Other movies such as "Matrix Reloaded" sucked as storyliners, soo boring, lucas did good job by encorperating action into this mainly storyline movie.
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