Episode III
May. 25th, 2005 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_tectonicSaw Episode III tonight. We had a dozen people show up, yay! I liked the movie. There was some clunky acting and awful dialogue (mostly near the beginning, mostly centering on Anakin & Padme), but the pretty pretty effects and settings were all over the movie, and all the fight scenes were action-riffic and fun to watch, and it was a Star Wars movie.
The last chunk of the movie was all about symmetry and echoes and reflections of other bits elsewhere, which I thought was pretty neat (if cheesy in spots). The movie sort of felt a little bit compressed -- like there were reactions and developments that would have felt more natural if they could have unfolded over a minute or two of screentime, rather than 20 seconds, but that would have made the movie far, far too long.
Oh, and Ewan MacGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi is freakin' HAWT. (My boyfriends are gonna hassle me for saying it, but he is.)
The last chunk of the movie was all about symmetry and echoes and reflections of other bits elsewhere, which I thought was pretty neat (if cheesy in spots). The movie sort of felt a little bit compressed -- like there were reactions and developments that would have felt more natural if they could have unfolded over a minute or two of screentime, rather than 20 seconds, but that would have made the movie far, far too long.
Oh, and Ewan MacGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi is freakin' HAWT. (My boyfriends are gonna hassle me for saying it, but he is.)
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Date: 2005-05-25 12:40 am (UTC)The movie was strange to me -- more special effects than plot, and maybe I'm too old and misremember the original start of the series... I do think that the original Star Wars certainly used all the special effects it could at that time, but I think it had more plot to use the FX. Episode III was not a bad movie in my view, but the story is just "yeah, whatever". If it was described as "boy gets girl pregnant, joins the bad gang and then makes her die of disgust, leaving the twins to almost total strangers to raise while he wrecks the neighborhood" it wouldn't get so much attention or money. *Granted*, that might not be a nice/fair description, even if it's very close to "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again." (which was the description for The Wizard of Oz in a Marin County newspaper). ;-)
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Date: 2005-05-25 06:25 am (UTC)--G