6th June 2005, 1:17 AM
I know! You know, for all the slow build up they did, and I have to say they did a great job on the slow build up part, the final execution well... it should have been slower.
Say what you will. Say they had to prevent the movie from being 5 hours long, whatever. That doesn't excuse it. They might as well have just ended it a little before the turn and made a 4th movie. They could have you know. They could have decided to renumber the last 3 movies and make it a 7 part saga. I wouldn't be complaining if he had to, and he probably did, in order to really do a good job with that.
As for the whole "he had no choice at that point and took the only path he saw" thing, well I actually said that already. My comment if I recall was that has all the maturity we would expect from angst boy. Maybe that was the point, that evil is, in the end, a bunch of childish selfish brats who can't think past their noses. If that's the case, bravo. You made me lose all respect for the empire in the last 3 movies.
And a final note I think is worth repeating considering what I've been saying.
I think it's important to say that I LIKE Star Wars. I like the series, and eventually, when this thing is released on DVD, my friends and I may take the time to watch the whole saga from start to finish (including Clone Wars). At such a time maybe that's what it'll take to see the true genius at work or something. But as it stands, putting together the past movies from my fractured memory of them, and the current ones, well, I must say they all pretty much seem the same in quality to me. That much I agree with OB1 about. They are good movies, well done and I can get into the whole thing well enough, BUT, they are not great, and I just decided to point out why I think they aren't great. I think that in 100 years no one will have any idea what Star Wars is. I don't think this is one of those movies that will stand the test of time. Most movies won't. For example, no one here remember "Heat" I suspect, and that was what, 15 years ago? Star Wars is fun, and some parts were pretty nice. Parts of it really got the point across. But, it's not awe inspiring. That's all I'm saying.
Oh and, if your only exuse for them not really thinking of a good way to end that last battle is they didn't want to take up too much time so they phoned it in... well... (And yes, I don't see a problem with him getting the rest of his limbs removed. It's just that the moment should have been a lot more... momentous. I mean, OB1 shouldn't have even MENTIONED the high ground, first off, second off, no slow motion, or maybe a flashback to Anakin's youth and some scenes like that with orcastral "ooohs" in the background and THEN that part? No doves flying by (and bursting into flames)?
On the other hand, I saw Spiderman 2 the other day. THAT was a good movie.
Say what you will. Say they had to prevent the movie from being 5 hours long, whatever. That doesn't excuse it. They might as well have just ended it a little before the turn and made a 4th movie. They could have you know. They could have decided to renumber the last 3 movies and make it a 7 part saga. I wouldn't be complaining if he had to, and he probably did, in order to really do a good job with that.
As for the whole "he had no choice at that point and took the only path he saw" thing, well I actually said that already. My comment if I recall was that has all the maturity we would expect from angst boy. Maybe that was the point, that evil is, in the end, a bunch of childish selfish brats who can't think past their noses. If that's the case, bravo. You made me lose all respect for the empire in the last 3 movies.
And a final note I think is worth repeating considering what I've been saying.
I think it's important to say that I LIKE Star Wars. I like the series, and eventually, when this thing is released on DVD, my friends and I may take the time to watch the whole saga from start to finish (including Clone Wars). At such a time maybe that's what it'll take to see the true genius at work or something. But as it stands, putting together the past movies from my fractured memory of them, and the current ones, well, I must say they all pretty much seem the same in quality to me. That much I agree with OB1 about. They are good movies, well done and I can get into the whole thing well enough, BUT, they are not great, and I just decided to point out why I think they aren't great. I think that in 100 years no one will have any idea what Star Wars is. I don't think this is one of those movies that will stand the test of time. Most movies won't. For example, no one here remember "Heat" I suspect, and that was what, 15 years ago? Star Wars is fun, and some parts were pretty nice. Parts of it really got the point across. But, it's not awe inspiring. That's all I'm saying.
Oh and, if your only exuse for them not really thinking of a good way to end that last battle is they didn't want to take up too much time so they phoned it in... well... (And yes, I don't see a problem with him getting the rest of his limbs removed. It's just that the moment should have been a lot more... momentous. I mean, OB1 shouldn't have even MENTIONED the high ground, first off, second off, no slow motion, or maybe a flashback to Anakin's youth and some scenes like that with orcastral "ooohs" in the background and THEN that part? No doves flying by (and bursting into flames)?
On the other hand, I saw Spiderman 2 the other day. THAT was a good movie.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)