there are some neat visuals in episode ii. i like that rainy clone-maker planet and that harryhausen monster gladiator arena toward the end.
but yeah, the movies are garbage.
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
This thread is depressing me. I've been living in an OG bubble with my precious memories and was unaware of the extent to which Lucas had totally ruined everything.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
2 has some bigger peaks than 1 imo but the valleys are abysmally deep
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
love scenes between two of the most wooden actors in cinema history in ep. II
― pj, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
yes the clone-maker planet or whatever in II, that's pretty great. everything else i guess is pretty horrible.
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i like this picture, because vader is all "NOOOOO" but the emperor is all, "dude, yesssss!!!!"
http://i330.photobucket.com/albums/l436/elc1247/darth_vader_nooo.jpg
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess all i am saying is that even tho the romantic scenes in 2 are some of the worst ever committed to film, they advance the overall story--more than could be said about anything that happens in 1.
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i liked the wookie planet, was that 3? it has some crazy name like kashhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyykkkkkk
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
not sure if portman is less embarrassing in the star wars prequels or in garden state
― kiddie rabies: attacked by brats (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
wasn't the original Anakin - as in, the one revealed at the end of Jedi - British?
maybe being British is just indistinguishable from being half-robot and not having had sun on your skin in decades
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
that's what i call pod racing!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Thought Hayden was pretty good in Shattered Glass, and have liked Portman in some things. I hear that Lucas didn't exactly do a lot of takes, or give notes, or etc.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't mind dude in shattered glass but he was a toolbar in Jumper and I have yet to see his Dylan
― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
lucas is a closet bressonian
― velko, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i will never get tired of complaining about these movies
its a way of life
― Bizarro Morbius (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
May the farce be with you...
― Gark M (snoball), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDCjIjsZp_Y
― schwantz, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I mean: "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."
― Detroit Metal City (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
immortal dialogue imo
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
christensen is great in shattered glass but he's supposed to be playing unlikeable
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
whereas anakin should have SEDUCED the audience with his charms before turning bad... you really should have been onboard with him for like 2.5 of the movies
― Cowardly G. Soundgarden (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
that would have been awesome. rip childhood :(
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
he never "turned bad," though, he just sort of had a tantrum and then eventually fell in some lava
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
um he slaughtered an entire school full of jedi
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i think another problem was starting anakin's story when he was a child, i think that all we needed to see was maybe some flashback to him being born and then flash-forward to him as a young adult, skipping all the other shit.
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
he might as well have huffed off to his bedroom, slammed the door, and then come out Vader the next morning
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― Keith, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I find it hard to blame the actors in these fucking movies at all. Yeah Christensen might be a shitty actor (though I'll echo the praise for his performance in Shattered Glass) but Lucas just obviously did not give a shit about the human performances.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
This isn't nineties, but I ate this a couple of times as a kid, making faces a lot like the one below:
http://www.thestencil.com/archives/images/cthreeps%20pic.jpg
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
it was like when butters turned into professor chaos
― "he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost - haha Que I mean despite the attempt at a drawn-out exposition filled seduction of Anakin to the dark side, he generally just seemed like he got pissy and decided to be bad, there was nothing even resembling like a tragic and conflict-filled change of character
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I find it hard to blame the actors in these fucking movies at all. Yeah Christensen might be a shitty actor (though I'll echo the praise for his performance in Shattered Glass) but Lucas just obviously did not give a shit about the human performances
^^^^ Although it does make me wonder if the rumors about the Tom Stoppard polish on Episode Three are true. What good was it if none of the actors knew how to deliver the dialogue?
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha "C-3POs -- the breakfast that's both effeminate and contains metal"
― nabisco, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
"i'll try spinning, that's a neat trick!"
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
think another problem was starting anakin's story when he was a child, i think that all we needed to see was maybe some flashback to him being born and then flash-forward to him as a young adult, skipping all the other shit.
the prequels are a really good cautionary tale for when you're writing something, be it a novel or a movie script. if you've got some backstory that explains how characters got the way they were, either make it brief or incorporate it into the story. or drop it. don't go back into the past and show us darth vader hitting puberty.
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
btw shakey's c&p upthread had me dying
http://www.dlisted.com/files/EP2-8_22.jpg
"Please note that utility data for the entire campus is also included. This was the only data made available with the application, and in order to accurately estimate and verify savings, individual building meter data will need to be obtained from the campus."
― velko, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i would love to see the meter data on natalie portman's individual building
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
lolll
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
lol I am the only person here who doesn't hate these movies
― suddenly, everything was dark and smelly (HI DERE), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
stoppard polish rumor, gimme a fuckin break
― goole, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.fvaathletics.org/mo/Media/thispartysover.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
btw can i just
― Kashyyyk Goood Frriieends (goole), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Was Anakin's little friend in Ep. 1 actually Greedo? Because if so, then that.
― Grip Tape And Some Wikked Trucks (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Nah.
hahahahha ned!
― north sea jazz dit weekend (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
topnotch caption
had it with this motherfuckin utility data on this motherfuckin etc.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.portfolio.com/images/feeds/blogs/15-darth-vader-hand-large.jpg
"Join me, and together we will collect the individual building meter data!"
― I am moving on baby, I am moving on (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link