Haven't felt moved to post, but suddenly, I do, Star Wars edition

[erisiansaint]

So, I just finished watching the prequel Star Wars trilogy, all three movies in two days. 

1) So.  Much.  Potential.  If only George had gotten someone whose job is to craft words to write the script.  And maybe change the plotline a bit so it isn't /quite/ so heavy handed.

2)  Too much fucking racism, even though he clearly didn't think it was.  He was wrong.

3) Natalie Portman is a HELL of an actress.  Hayden Christiansen is good, too.  Neither of these two people could overcome their total lack of chemistry, nor could they overcome that dialogue.  James Earl Jones (at the end of the third) couldn't overcome the dialogue.

I was going to move onto the original trilogy, but frankly, I need to give emo, white Skywalker boys a break for a bit, even if I do have a major thing for Luke. 

Comments

[siliconshaman]

I've said before, and will say again... it was a great story idea, that was seriously screwed up by whatever committee of hack writers they got doing the script.

George had a brilliant idea... forty years ago. [he's had the outlines for all nine movies that long.]

[erisiansaint]

It's just SAD. The actors did what they could with what they were given, script- and directing-wise, but honestly, wooden is exactly the word for it, it's AWFUL.

[siliconshaman]

To echo a criticism that Noel Coward once said. "It was both good and original... unfortunately what was good was not original, and what was original was not good."

and having watched the actors in other things, yeah.. they did their best but that just elevated it to the level of only slightly dire. Natalie Portman wrung every last drop of character out of the script, and the dialogue could only be described as 'weak'... as for Hayden Christensen, well, he wasn't up to the task. His performance is best described as an incoherent hot mess.

Even Christopher Lee couldn't save it, despite his best effort. I mean, he was upstaged by a CGI muppet!