Grevious was a lot stronger in the cartoon for the same reason Mace Windu was a lot stronger in the cartoon... it was a cartoon. It was exaggerated, stylized SW.
Episode III was a cartoon too. A computer-animated cartoon, but a cartoon none the less. Episode III was exaggerated. The way the CG characters move was unrealistic and unconvincing. As DJ said, the prequel trilogy was tragically aimed at kids. For example, the annoyingly pathetic droid armies... why give battle droids lame dialogue? Why even have them talk on an audible frequency when they could do it between themselves yet be unheard by others? And why are they programmed to be wimps? They shudder and run and say "uh oh" when they're about to die. And while Ewan McGregor was an excellent actor (and a near perfect match to portray Sir Alec Guiness), when he fights the droids... it's just terrible. He doesn't pause or hesitate, he just rushes through, hacks each one of the 1,000,000 droids he kills once, and they fall apart. Thats the kind of mindless repetition that Doom marketed, but Star Wars? Even the soundtrack was weaker. In Episode V, the soundtrack was so great... every scene had a great original peace. The Battle of Hoth is so great, and I've listened to it so much that I have it entirely memorized, all fourteen minutes and forty-eight seconds of it! And in TESB, the soundtrack is in harmony with every scene of the movie. When we first see Vader on Bespin, all of a sudden, there's a crescendo--Chewbacca howls, and Han draws his blaster only to be thwarted. Then a cascade of stormteoopers---REAL PEOPLE--spring the trap and come in from behind. NOW if that'd been done today, Bespin would've been an overly elaborate page ripped out of a coloring book, and there would've been 30 identical Jango Fetts instead of stormtroopers. And just to amuse the 5-year olds in the audience, there would've been some gay battle droids tripping over things and falling apart as though they were made of porcelain--all to the laughter of the audience. The droids are so ridiculous, that without even trying, Jar Jar Binks killed like five by accident in Episode I! Do you fear those, or roll your eyes at them? Now contrast those to the very-real, ominous stormtroopers from the old trilogy. In ANH, there's great trumpeting fanfare when Luke clashes with the stormtroopers on the Death Star; it enthralls you and brings you into the movie. At the Battle of Endor, you care when the Liberty blows up, because you sympathize with the Alliance. In Episode III, who gives a fuck about the clones? It's just eyecandy. No deep, engrossing emotion. There was very, very little humor in IV-VI... and what there was, was geared towards a generally wide audience. Example: That's because droids don't pull arms out of sockets when they lose. Wookies are known to do that... and Chewbacca leans back, all suave-like. That was funny. By contrast, the constant jokes and visual gags (like in Episode III, when diminuitive underdog R2D2 quity inexplicably yet handily takes on and defeats battledroids with an oil slick and then ignites them with his cute little afterburners,) are dumb. Episodes I-III simply weren't as deep or well-made for many reasons.
He HAD NO ARMS. They shackled the ARMS they GAVE him. They could have just turned them off. They purposefully made him look like Frankenstein's monster there.
I noticed this too. They strapped him down after they added his arms. More brilliant filmmaking by Lucas there.
To the attention of the great and omnipotent OBI and Great Rumbler, who rather than argue a single one of my valid points can only crack two-bit sarcasm:
Titanic WAS a great movie. Any movie combining the skills of James Cameron and James Horner cannot be anything less than amazing. Terminator II, perhaps you've heard of it? Oh--but George Lucas didn't make that one, and there's virtually not CG in it---so you wouldn't be interested in that crappy, old-fashioned thing.
Wow, she really picked up a lot about her mother in those, what, first 3 seconds of life?
LOL--check and mate, DJ!
I also love how OB1 ATTEMPTED to explain that, but failing miserably, he just shoves his hands into his pockets, stares at the ground, and mumbles how we're just stupid nitpickers. I just wanted to discuss what I didn't like about the movie with people here, but leave it to OBI to walk into the thread, look around, slap around some witless banter, and then declare that his time is too important to bother rebuking the very valid drawbacks of the very imperfect prequel trilogy. Things never change here.
Episode III was a cartoon too. A computer-animated cartoon, but a cartoon none the less. Episode III was exaggerated. The way the CG characters move was unrealistic and unconvincing. As DJ said, the prequel trilogy was tragically aimed at kids. For example, the annoyingly pathetic droid armies... why give battle droids lame dialogue? Why even have them talk on an audible frequency when they could do it between themselves yet be unheard by others? And why are they programmed to be wimps? They shudder and run and say "uh oh" when they're about to die. And while Ewan McGregor was an excellent actor (and a near perfect match to portray Sir Alec Guiness), when he fights the droids... it's just terrible. He doesn't pause or hesitate, he just rushes through, hacks each one of the 1,000,000 droids he kills once, and they fall apart. Thats the kind of mindless repetition that Doom marketed, but Star Wars? Even the soundtrack was weaker. In Episode V, the soundtrack was so great... every scene had a great original peace. The Battle of Hoth is so great, and I've listened to it so much that I have it entirely memorized, all fourteen minutes and forty-eight seconds of it! And in TESB, the soundtrack is in harmony with every scene of the movie. When we first see Vader on Bespin, all of a sudden, there's a crescendo--Chewbacca howls, and Han draws his blaster only to be thwarted. Then a cascade of stormteoopers---REAL PEOPLE--spring the trap and come in from behind. NOW if that'd been done today, Bespin would've been an overly elaborate page ripped out of a coloring book, and there would've been 30 identical Jango Fetts instead of stormtroopers. And just to amuse the 5-year olds in the audience, there would've been some gay battle droids tripping over things and falling apart as though they were made of porcelain--all to the laughter of the audience. The droids are so ridiculous, that without even trying, Jar Jar Binks killed like five by accident in Episode I! Do you fear those, or roll your eyes at them? Now contrast those to the very-real, ominous stormtroopers from the old trilogy. In ANH, there's great trumpeting fanfare when Luke clashes with the stormtroopers on the Death Star; it enthralls you and brings you into the movie. At the Battle of Endor, you care when the Liberty blows up, because you sympathize with the Alliance. In Episode III, who gives a fuck about the clones? It's just eyecandy. No deep, engrossing emotion. There was very, very little humor in IV-VI... and what there was, was geared towards a generally wide audience. Example: That's because droids don't pull arms out of sockets when they lose. Wookies are known to do that... and Chewbacca leans back, all suave-like. That was funny. By contrast, the constant jokes and visual gags (like in Episode III, when diminuitive underdog R2D2 quity inexplicably yet handily takes on and defeats battledroids with an oil slick and then ignites them with his cute little afterburners,) are dumb. Episodes I-III simply weren't as deep or well-made for many reasons.
He HAD NO ARMS. They shackled the ARMS they GAVE him. They could have just turned them off. They purposefully made him look like Frankenstein's monster there.
I noticed this too. They strapped him down after they added his arms. More brilliant filmmaking by Lucas there.
To the attention of the great and omnipotent OBI and Great Rumbler, who rather than argue a single one of my valid points can only crack two-bit sarcasm:
Titanic WAS a great movie. Any movie combining the skills of James Cameron and James Horner cannot be anything less than amazing. Terminator II, perhaps you've heard of it? Oh--but George Lucas didn't make that one, and there's virtually not CG in it---so you wouldn't be interested in that crappy, old-fashioned thing.
Wow, she really picked up a lot about her mother in those, what, first 3 seconds of life?
LOL--check and mate, DJ!
I also love how OB1 ATTEMPTED to explain that, but failing miserably, he just shoves his hands into his pockets, stares at the ground, and mumbles how we're just stupid nitpickers. I just wanted to discuss what I didn't like about the movie with people here, but leave it to OBI to walk into the thread, look around, slap around some witless banter, and then declare that his time is too important to bother rebuking the very valid drawbacks of the very imperfect prequel trilogy. Things never change here.
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