Finaly got around to this eye candy. Well, the fx were sweet.
Stars? : Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman,Ian McDiarmid,Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee.
Plot?:Girl meets boy. They fall in Wuv. Eviloverlords make wedding plans a b***h. Much groovy mass destruction ensues.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
STUFF TO WATCH FOR!! :::
-------------------------------------------
....Credits....in....spaaaaace!
....Flying wing,groovy. Go boom.
....Senator Palpatine : When evil needs smoothness, he's yer man.
....Jar-Jar Binks! AAhhh!
....Anakin is develouping a healthy mad on at the universe.
....Passive sensors, R2....Active sensors warn the adversary...
....Hey, Obi Wan, 2 words,..Anti Gravity!
....When New York has a wet dream, it dreams of being Coresant.
....Seedy spacers sports bar.
....Wham,Bam, Goodby Zamm....
....Shut up, Jar-Jar..go talk to Wesley or somethin'....
....Teenage angst in a kid with a lightsaber is NOT good.
....Dex's Diner, where Alien Butt crack is more then a menu item. Ewwww....
....There are thousands of planets, Obi Wan, and there could be Two Kamino's...
....Mushy stuff...must fight urge...to snooze...zzzzzz..
....Yoda is good with kids, because he's the same hight as them...
....Kamino: Where haveing frog skin could be advantagious.
....Naboo...Pademe...pretty. Thats about it...
....Thanks, Exposision pipecleaner shaped person.
....Yeehaw! Ride that giant woodtick, Anakin!
....Telekinesis impresses the chicks.
....Jango and Boba Fett. Dirty deeds done NOT dirt cheap.
....Blade sliiiinging in the rain..blade sliiiinging in the rain...what a glorious feeling, i'm fighting, agine...
....Slave-1 has gatlings!
....Home made chaff....you'd think it'd come standard...
....Tatooine: where even Jedi get sand rashes.
....Bummer scene. So, mom is the movies sacrifical lamb...
....Yep. Thats how evil overlords get started. Good intentions gone bad.
....Obi Wan meets Count Dracula...i mean Dooku!
....And so, Jar-Jar Binks bolixes up the Republic. Sheesh.
....Flying R2! And, Robot Komedy...
....Man, the locust are thick this year....
....Obi Wan's looks just screams "Oh S#%T!"
....Mace Windu meets Jango Fett. Zap.
....Clone air cav!
....Clone Maser tanks!
....Dooku is too cool.
....Anakin has a hot head...and a hot arm...
....Flashing finger force fu!
....Yoda Vs. Dooku. Great Horny toads!
....Yoda, you coulda just pulled them to safety along the floor, then ya coulda gone after Dooku, but nooooo....
....Kid heals fast, but Amidala coulda sprung for a cooler prostesus.
....And, finaly(Yea)......I bet Palpaine is thinking "I'm gonna kick galatic ass!" right about now.
---------------- Flangepart says: Check it out. But, do like i did ...get the Library dvd.---
-----------------Great fight scenes, wonderful visuals....but, while Obi Wan , Jango, Dooku and most others were adiquate to good (Chris Lee STILL kicks keester).....That kid...those kids, actualy....(Sigh)...they just don't get it for me.
....George...George...what were you thinkin?-------------------------------------------------
--------------- OH, well....Back to you, Windu...ah, Andrew!----------------------------------
Until they got to the arena, this movie drove me totally nuts. About 60 minutes of lovelorn angst and him wanting her, but the princess was having none of it. Then, of course, she also insisted on wearing skin-tight dominatrix suits. That must have been to rub in the point of "you can't have it."
Once the arena scene started all was good. I enjoyed the movie from then on.
The first hour sucked, the second hour kicked mucho ass. We finally get to see a whole bunch of Jedi in action and what warfare looks like in the Star Wars universe. But...is it just me or did it take too long to get to the Clone Wars? The entire point of the prequels is to dramatize the war and we don't even see it until the third movie. I think just about every bit of plot in Episode 1 was pointless in the overall arc.
I just watched ATTACK OF THE CLONES again on the IMAX. They cut out about twenty minutes or so, most of it from the "romance" scenes. On the plus side, they're shorter. On the down side they make even less sense. They should have just included a placard, silent-movie style, that says "And then Anakin and Padme fell in love. . ."
Also, the transfer was far from perfect. There is pixelization and "jaggies" evident in quite a few of the scenes. I thought the CGI was pretty good, but apparently it's not good enough to be broadcast eight stories tall.
I still haven't seen it, but every time I see Christopher Lee's character mentioned, I can't help thinking "Count Dooky".
I re-watched it a few days ago on DVD and I enjoyed it much more than the first time. True, the love story is still a bit annoying, but the constant changes of tone (from sci-fi to western, and then to peplum) kept me interested. And then there's that incredible ammount of eye candy... I am still sceptical about how good Lucas is as a director, since most of the work is done by the CGI team, but I have to admit I am really looking forward for Episode III.
I saw it last night for the first time (it being the first Star Wars movie I have not seen in a theater) and can say I thought it KICKED ASS!
And my wife bought me a Count Dooku action figure for Christmas, how cool is that!
I am so the nerd! :)
Andrew wrote:
>
> Once the arena scene started all was good. I enjoyed the
> movie from then on.
Things perked up for me as soon as Christopher Lee showed up. The man is a god!
BTW, Flangepart. Your review was better than the movie!
This movie wasn't even watchable until about 90 minutes or so into it. Yoda vs. Christopher Lee is pretty much all this film has going for it. Star Wars is officially dead if Hayden Christiansen or any of the other leads (besides Lee of course) reprise their role. Includes some of the most nausiating dialogue ever to appear in non-soap opera.
Lucas should have stopped at Empire and called it a career.
Dang, looks like i struck a nerve.
Yeah, this one is NOT one of my favorites.
Good stuff? Obi Wan, Dex (When they zoomed in on his diner, i expected Dot Matrix to be waiting tables), Jango, Count Dooku (I'm with johnL on that. Lord Tyrannus has a lot more zing to it,), and of corse. a p**sed off Yoda.
Bad stuff? Um....gargelsnarff......how many ways can you say "Dangerious teen angst " with out getting redundant? At least Jar-Jar took to heart the motto "Silence is golden". Though he still bolixed up the Republic!
OH!. My Friend Stephenie told me to look for a gag on the dvd. Seems the video fx crew hated the "Giant Woodticks", as i call the "Cows" Anakin plays with on Naboo, and inserted them in a space fight scene. I gotta find that!
Am i getting better at these reviews? I try...believe me i try!
how many ways can you say "Dangerious teen angst " with out getting redundant?
The partI found unbelievable was that Obi-Wan and the council let Anakin get that far off the deep end.
Am i getting better at these reviews? I try...believe me i try
Scale back on the "Stuff To Watch For" in favor of some sort of plot synopsis. I find I don't read your reviews unless I've actually seen the movie. That many 'in jokes' about the movie without at least a cursory understanding of the storyline doesn't work well. With Andrew's reviews, the "STWF" comes after a good plaot summary so you mentally are trying to fit the imagery into the plot and it's humorous. Devoid of a storyline for context, the STWF just makes one go 'huh?'
I don't think SW ever achieved any level of cinematic greatness beyond being entertaining movies. Ep. 1 left a sour aftertaste, but I got into Ep. 2. I like the story and the characters a lot more and Christopher Lee rocked, I even kinda liked the dialogue. At least the part where Annakin tells Padme he wasted an entire village, men, women, and children and tearfully says "I'm a Jedi, I'm supposed to be better than this." Why I liked that, I don't know...and the stadium monsters rocked!!!
I'll see the next one, then again I'd see the next Friday the 13th sequel, so what does that say about my taste - other than I don't appear to have any! :-)
I'm pretty much with Chadzilla on this one, although I think STAR WARS does achieve greatness. Not by being great movies, though. STAR WARS is more of a phenomenon in and of itself. I don't know how to explain it. It's just STAR WARS.
I really liked EPISODE II, though. In fact, it made me realize how much I disliked the previous film. It pretty much had me gripped from beginning to end. Well, except for the romance scenes, which even I can't save. But when those big ships at the end start taking off and the Imperial March makes its appearance, that was a great moment.