We totally ripped on the film throughout. -- I think you're right, though. It's frustrating because when it's good, it's REALLY good, and when it's bad, it's ABYSMAL. I mean, embarrassingly bad, where you feel mortified for the actors on-screen. Seriously -- if Ewan McGregor hadn't been in it, I probably wouldn't have bothered watching it again.
The casting is awful -- Haydn Christensen is just... no. He's just not Anakin Skywalker. The fellow who's Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins would've been a better Anakin, IMO. He conveys that struggle with darkness far better than HC. HC conveys no emotion whatsoever. At all. Ever. His only redeeming quality is that he can walk like a badass.
Anakin was just so damned annoying. And the political bullshit was so convoluted that most of the time I ignored it, nodding and smiling. And the fall. MYGOD THE FALL. Anti-climactic much? God.
And words cannot express how sorry I feel for James Earl Jones. Honestly. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Poor man.
AGH. And the FUCKING RIDICULOUS Frankenstein'esque scene with Darth Vader breaking off the table. OH MY GOD. HATE IT. I closed my eyes; it was too embarrassing to watch.
But yes, that is the big problem with doing it all yourself AND having the money to do it. In one of the documentaries he said he talked a lot of things over with Steven Spielberg, and I'm sorry, but if Spielberg honestly and truly likes ROTS, I would have to lose a great deal of respect for him. That is a man who excels at conveying emotion on-screen. I would love to get inside his head and find out what he really thinks of ROTS.
Re: The Mystery of Star Wars
The casting is awful -- Haydn Christensen is just... no. He's just not Anakin Skywalker. The fellow who's Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins would've been a better Anakin, IMO. He conveys that struggle with darkness far better than HC. HC conveys no emotion whatsoever. At all. Ever. His only redeeming quality is that he can walk like a badass.
Anakin was just so damned annoying. And the political bullshit was so convoluted that most of the time I ignored it, nodding and smiling. And the fall. MYGOD THE FALL. Anti-climactic much? God.
And words cannot express how sorry I feel for James Earl Jones. Honestly. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Poor man.
AGH. And the FUCKING RIDICULOUS Frankenstein'esque scene with Darth Vader breaking off the table. OH MY GOD. HATE IT. I closed my eyes; it was too embarrassing to watch.
But yes, that is the big problem with doing it all yourself AND having the money to do it. In one of the documentaries he said he talked a lot of things over with Steven Spielberg, and I'm sorry, but if Spielberg honestly and truly likes ROTS, I would have to lose a great deal of respect for him. That is a man who excels at conveying emotion on-screen. I would love to get inside his head and find out what he really thinks of ROTS.