Bitching about Star Wars

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Bitching about Star Wars

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

I saw the opener last night at Midnight. The force was really strong in that one!

-- Edited by NateO at 21:29, 2005-05-19

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I just got back.

It was great.

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

Yep, the Force-O-Meter was maxing out in that one.

Aodan · Teiam Member

I haven't seen it yet, I'm going to wait until I can hit a mid-week matinee or something - but from what I was hearing it wasn't as good as ESB, but it was WAY better than PM, and AotC.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Yeah. I'd go with that assessment. The only thing it was lacking was that witty repartee between Han Solo and Leia. If they'd managed that it would pobably have been at least as cool as ESB.

Yoda kicks arse. Again. Oh yeah.

Lite · **I'm lite... and I'm fantastic!**

Nooooo00ooo000ooooooo (etc)

My friends have desided they are dragging me kicking and screaming to this movie... Quick! Can anyone come up with some good excuses i can use?
Wont someone save meee!

Dont.. want to go.... *sniff*

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Yes you do!

This *is* the movie you're looking for.

Short Santa · **For entertainment purposes only!**

Did you fall in love with any of the characters DDV?

and PLEASE stop looking at my tits.

-- Edited by Short Santa at 17:04, 2005-05-20

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

quote:
Originally posted by: Lite
"Dont.. want to go.... *sniff*"

Yes, you do!

Lite · **I'm lite... and I'm fantastic!**

Hrm.. but it carrys on from another movie right ? I havnt seen the last one so i'll have no idea whatas going on....or the one before that....

But nevermind! I've perswaded my friends to pay for me! Muahaha! So I dotn care if its not good! and f i'm bored I can just sleep.. or something.

Prehaps you could give me the vagy idea whats going on before i see it though? would be helpful!

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Ok...

There's a bunch of super heoes call the Jedi Knights who go round righting wrongs, led by a little green muppet called Kermi... no... Miss Pi... no... YODA, who is very cool and backwards he speaks. Obviously they have an arch-nemesis called Darth Sidious.

The jedi knights find little Anakin Skywalker, an irritating little boy who happens to have super jedi powers so they take him on and train him to be even more irritating.

Darth Sidious starts a war and tried to corrupt Anakin. The movie starts with a grown up Anakin and his mate Obi Wan rescuing the kidnapped Chancellor from the bad guys. That's all you need to know.

Lite · **I'm lite... and I'm fantastic!**

Hrn... I saw this movie last night then. I completely failed to see why it was 'great'

I didnt think it was very interesting at all... The acting was wooden at best.. the only guy who was remotly good was the evil Chancellor (i liked his teath). The fights seans gave me a headacke.. over use of shakey-cam anyone? The cam was moving about so mcuh all you could see was the blur of blue lights... If they are going to do that.. whats the point of makign the actors train to use swords for 3 months....

Also many things made no sence.. which was very annoying...

The sence of traveling, distences and time was completly stupid. Anakin says good bye to his wife before setting off to a big flaming planet type.. theres no real sign of her pregent... one day passes and suddently shes got a massive lump on her tummy? o_O So i quite natrualy assumed that it takes a while to travel in space... then when the Chancellor went to the planet it took him what... ? 30 mins top probally less......

I'm also interested to know why the Chancellor felt the need to melt during a fight for no aprarnet reson.. Hes quite happly throwing massive lumps of steel at people but making alittle lightening melts him? o_O Also during a later fight the lighting had no effect at all on his aprence... does this mean he wanted to look scary and melted? Hmpf.. i'm probally thinking to much but stuff like that annoys me no end!

But the worse thing about it was the amasingly cheesey things... one of most note when Darth Vador steps forward and utters the worse line in cinima i've ever seen. NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! This had me laughing out very loud.. which was probally not entended.... probally got me some dirty looks to the back of my head too!

I would give it..... 3 out of 10

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I didn't think the steadicam stuff was over used.

If you think the time/space thing was askew in this one, try watching the Empire Strikes Back. but we don't care, cos it's Star Wars! And I thought Ewan did ok as Obi-Wan this time round. Mostly.

As for Palpatine's melty face thing - take a look at this thread on my big brother's sci-fi forum. Prepare for brain melting nerdiness. If you really want to see Geek, take a look at some of the other threads there!

Darth Vader's scream of anguish was pants. I agree. It made me laugh too.

bonniepirateanne · Date: May 23, 2005

saw it last night. aweeeesome.

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

I give it a 3 as well, 3/3.5.

Beware the Sith!!!.

-- Edited by NateO at 19:02, 2005-05-23

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Keeping it in the Star Wars thread:

Also... apparently Hayden Christiansen wants to quit acting. Quit acting? When did he start?

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Aodan · Teiam Member

quote:
Originally posted by: ddvmor
"Keeping it in the Star Wars thread:

Also... apparently Hayden Christiansen wants to quit acting. Quit acting? When did he start? "

He's been "acting" since 1993. If you believe IMDB anyway.

Maybe he's been reading what everyone has been saying about him.

-- Edited by Aodan at 23:40, 2005-05-26

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I have to admit that his performance was probably more down to the awful dialogue he was having to spout than his actual ability. Having not seen him in anything else, it's difficult to say wether he's a decent actor or not.

According to some of the amazon eeviews for Shattered Glass and Life as a House, he's ain't that bad!

-- Edited by ddvmor at 08:10, 2005-05-27

Aodan · Teiam Member

I suppose you are right - they wouldn't have hired him if he was that bad.. if you just look at the others cast around him they're all fairly big names, and usually very good actors - save Ms. Portman, but I have my own issues with her. It looked like a struggle for all of them, so I'd guess a "newbie" actor would have a little more trouble.

One thing I've learned is that you don't go to a StarWars movie for the dialogue.

I'll be totally honest - the only reason I sat through I and II was because Ewan was in them.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

quote:
Originally posted by: Aodan
"I'll be totally honest - the only reason I sat through I and II was because Ewan was in them. "

And for the flashing lights and big bangs and stuff. Woohoo!

bonniepirateanne · Date: May 27, 2005

i thought hayden was pretty good

Sketti · Bored Member

Star Wars sucked!!! I was totally disappointed. The special effects were great but the story line and acting were, well let’s just say, Hollywood needs to stick to entertainment and leave the politics to the politicians. First they ruined the Sopranos and now Star Wars. I just hope they keep there mitts off of Lord of the Rings (The best movie ever made).

Ok I'm done now.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

The movie has certainly divided the Star Wars fans, although I think at least everyone has reached the consensus that it sucked less monkeys than the previous ones.

As for Lord of the Rings - never a truer word has been spoken. There's just nothing at all wrong with those movies. They're so cool!

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

Well.... i thought it was pretty good and quite watchable - as for TLOTR - really should get round to seeing 3... or maybe I have - hard to tell...

bonniepirateanne · Date: May 29, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Sketti
" I just hope they keep there mitts off of Lord of the Rings (The best movie ever made).
"

.. but..isn't LOTR.. like.. a modern day movie? (yes i know it was taken from a cool tolkien book yada yada) so they didn't ruin that? ok so it was filmed in new zealand .. but then star wars was filmed in australia.. what am i missing?

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

bonniepirateanne wrote:

quote: Originally posted by: Sketti" I just hope they keep there mitts off of Lord of the Rings (The best movie ever made). " .. but..isn't LOTR.. like.. a modern day movie? (yes i know it was taken from a cool tolkien book yada yada) so they didn't ruin that? ok so it was filmed in new zealand .. but then star wars was filmed in australia.. what am i missing?

I think thats because Middle earth doesnt exist and we cant really film on other planets yet... ?

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jun 2, 2005

you've never been to middle earth? i was there just last week..

i was just really trying to figure out what they could conceiveably do or why they would do whatever it is to ruin lotr really.. i was confused by the comment is all, my bad

(and i didnt think star wars was that bad either hehe)

BrianS · Still Number One

The only thing about LOTR I did not like was they left out a few semi-important parts from the books. For example, in the third movie, the Steward of Gondor is crazy, but they don't bother to tell you he is crazy because he had one of those Plantir stones (magic crystal ball thing) and Sauron was making him insane by showing him all sorts of awful stuff in it. Granted I have not seen the ones with the extended scenes so I don't know if these scenes are there but if they are going to make a 9 hour movie, an extra 30 minutes of scenes aren't going to matter.