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Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

Honestly, what did you think of it?

AJRimmer · Joined: 31 Jan 2004

I would have liked it a lot more if that General Grevous Droid didn't cough throughout all his lines. For Gods sake why couldn't someone get him a glass of water
I would have prefered Jar Jar to that.

And where the hell was Han Solo?
George missed a great opportunity to stick a ten year old Han in there somewhere.
We get a young Darth, a young Chewbacca, a young Boba Fett, even a young Grand Moff Tarkin at the end, so why not a young Han Solo??!!
Thats just wrong, and stupid.

He also could have put in a young Lando. Could be wrong but I don't think there were any black kids in the movie.

And the Ewoks, we needed some Ewoks in there killing stormtroopers with sticks and logs.

Loved the new music John Williams wrote, the spaceships were cool too.

Next up George is going to make the prequel prequel trilogy.
We will be introduced to Palpatine when he is a nice sweet 6 year old kid.
Thats gonna be just great!
The effects will I'm sure be amazzzing!!

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

i too couldn't understand why a droid was coughing. Do they even breathe? eat?

A lot of the critics fault it for a "wooden dialogue" and i'd have to say they are right. it's a fine movie but I really wish Lucas would have had someone else write the lines.

Konundrum · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Boston

Grievous was previously human (hence the real eyes and heart) but had deteriorated to his present state.

It wasn't without cheese, but overall, I think it did a pretty decent job of wrapping things up. I give it a B.

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

I've caught part of the cartoon series on Cartoon Network. Grievous was part alien. He's supposed to be sort of a proto-type of the technology used on Vader. I wish they would've played that up more, rather than just showing eyes and a heart.

I was reading up on the movie on imdb.com, and saw a lot of the rants about plot holes, inconsistencies, or whatever. That's all true, but I voted for "I loved it."

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Alias · Joined: 24 Jan 2003

It was actually darker than I had expected. Which was good.

My only regret is still with that first prequel. Why did it have to suck so bad?

gmat · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

Don't believe the hype. It was just OK, certainly better than the previous two movies. Hardly a classic though. Lucas can not do 'dialogue'.

SarcasmKills · Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

Eunoia · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject:

According to imdb.com, it's a go.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0367882/

There's not much there, other than that it supposedly has a 2006 release date.

Eunoia · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:34 pm Post subject:

...and to get this thing back on track...

I posted this in another thread, but might as well add it here, too:

Beware of some minor spoilers.

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The wooden / cheesy dialogue has already been discussed, so I'll just move on.

First of all, the special effects. They were good. Quite good, in fact, but I think they just went too far overboard. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do it. The space battle scenes, the planet city (Coruscant?), the light sabre battle scenes, the high-speed chases (Ep. I/II/III), all the other battle scenes... they're all just overwhelming. There's way too much stuff going on to be able to stay focused on what's really going on. CG graphics have come a long way, but there are still too many times when I find myself thinking, man, they could've used a model for that shot.

The next thing is the scene when the four Jedi masters go to arrest the chancellor. Palpatine jumps up, and bang, before you know it, two of the masters - who were already holding their light sabres out and ready to rumble - are dead. The first one didn't even flinch, the second one put up the weakest of resistance before being skewered -c'mon, these are Jedi MASTERS here!

Somewhat related to that first gripe, I'm all in favour of "suspension of disbelief", but a lot of stuff in these prequels just goes just a little too far. Pod racers flying at 600 MPH 6 feet above the ground through narrow twisty canyons? I don't care how much Force you've got, I just don't buy it. Again, the battle scenes. Obi Wan gets knocked off that cliff and falls, what, 20, 30 stories, into a lake, and just... swims away. The elevator scene, when they're basically free-falling and just happen to flip themselves through the open door. R-i-i-i-g-h-t.

Still, I thought it was a pretty good movie - not great, mind you. Just wish that all the CG had been toned down a little.

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

stumptown · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 3:42 am Post subject:

I heard many years ago that Lucas was filming a Raiders sequel where Indy goes on a trek with the son that he had with that hotty from the first movie. Supposedly, they go in search of Noah's Ark. I heard that years ago on Mark & Brian's KLOS morning show from someone who was working on the set. The guy went so far as to say that the screenplay was printed on a certain shade of red that photocopiers couldn't distinguish from background and print, thereby rendering a black copy.