2nd November 2004, 11:53 AM
That doesn't make it any less laughable.
But hey I get it, I know that's the style. It just makes me laugh at how nerdy fantasy buffs think the LotR movies have such great dialogue and that SW's is lame. SW is doing the same thing LotR is doing: fitting to a certain style. With LotR it's over-dramatic British-accented fantasy talk, in SW it's a mixture of classic 40's and 50's cinema (think Cary Grant, Bogart, etc.) and Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon-style talk. You have to stick to whatever style you're doing in order for it to work. For instance, neither LotR nor SW would work with natural, modern dialogue. It would seem even more silly.
You know, people in the future will see it for what it is. Every idiot today thinks they're an expert movie critic thanks to behind-the-scenes documentaries and plain old cynicism, but when that gets old and audiences start to become a real audiences again, SW will be understood by the general public.
But hey I get it, I know that's the style. It just makes me laugh at how nerdy fantasy buffs think the LotR movies have such great dialogue and that SW's is lame. SW is doing the same thing LotR is doing: fitting to a certain style. With LotR it's over-dramatic British-accented fantasy talk, in SW it's a mixture of classic 40's and 50's cinema (think Cary Grant, Bogart, etc.) and Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon-style talk. You have to stick to whatever style you're doing in order for it to work. For instance, neither LotR nor SW would work with natural, modern dialogue. It would seem even more silly.
You know, people in the future will see it for what it is. Every idiot today thinks they're an expert movie critic thanks to behind-the-scenes documentaries and plain old cynicism, but when that gets old and audiences start to become a real audiences again, SW will be understood by the general public.