And when you consider that ROTS was definitely the best in the series for my money, it boggles the mind.
I think SW is so infuriating because there are moments when it is really good, and then something happens that is so teeth-grindingly amateur and retarded that you just want to storm out in a rage. If it were consistently shit, you could just get over it and carry on with your life.
The bottom line is that it should have been written by someone else and the actors should have been directed by someone else. The visual elements are great, the writing is atrocious and getting worse instead of better. I suspect that Lucas has real problems with emotions, either writing or filming them, but has fantastic story ideas and in terms of visuals is a genius, no question. To have problems with people showing emotions is an enormous impediment when the whole film depends on people being led by their emotions.
I agree that Anakin's fall is unbelievable (it's like, literally, "You're under arrest!" to "Yeah, sure, I'll murder cute kids for you!" in about two minutes of screen time.) But I could have put up with that because my expectations were so low anyway, if it weren't for the final scene with Darth Vader, and the "Noooooooo" and the fucking *dry ice* wafting about and Haydn Christensen wriggling his skinny body about awkwardly in that fucking enormous suit.
I don't know what happened there. It was so ill-judged. It was like Lucas decided:
"Whoops! This movie looks like it's working on some level! Quickly, undermine everything we achieved in the climax!"
"Noooooooooooo!"
"Whew, that's better. Wow. That was a close one."
This is the problem with doing everything yourself, particularly if you haven't directed anything for the last 20 years, and you can afford to make movies independently. You don't have studio suits to stand behind you and tell you what to do. This is normally perceived as a good thing. Clearly however, it's a double-edged sword since anyone with any way to lean on Lucas would have had that scene cut.
The Mystery of Star Wars
I think SW is so infuriating because there are moments when it is really good, and then something happens that is so teeth-grindingly amateur and retarded that you just want to storm out in a rage. If it were consistently shit, you could just get over it and carry on with your life.
The bottom line is that it should have been written by someone else and the actors should have been directed by someone else. The visual elements are great, the writing is atrocious and getting worse instead of better. I suspect that Lucas has real problems with emotions, either writing or filming them, but has fantastic story ideas and in terms of visuals is a genius, no question. To have problems with people showing emotions is an enormous impediment when the whole film depends on people being led by their emotions.
I agree that Anakin's fall is unbelievable (it's like, literally, "You're under arrest!" to "Yeah, sure, I'll murder cute kids for you!" in about two minutes of screen time.) But I could have put up with that because my expectations were so low anyway, if it weren't for the final scene with Darth Vader, and the "Noooooooo" and the fucking *dry ice* wafting about and Haydn Christensen wriggling his skinny body about awkwardly in that fucking enormous suit.
I don't know what happened there. It was so ill-judged. It was like Lucas decided:
"Whoops! This movie looks like it's working on some level! Quickly, undermine everything we achieved in the climax!"
"Noooooooooooo!"
"Whew, that's better. Wow. That was a close one."
This is the problem with doing everything yourself, particularly if you haven't directed anything for the last 20 years, and you can afford to make movies independently. You don't have studio suits to stand behind you and tell you what to do. This is normally perceived as a good thing. Clearly however, it's a double-edged sword since anyone with any way to lean on Lucas would have had that scene cut.