QUOTE (jxw @ Mar 29 2004, 12:52 PM)
Cheers. I'm a bit disappointed that nobody has managed to come up with any others, although there was some good criticism of the seven scenes I did like from two whole films. That tells a sad story in itself.
Guys,
You are all nuts. You are trying to look for the "good parts" of a truly horrible pair of movies. I was amused by Mac's comment about division in the anti-Civilian ranks, but that's the way of things, isn't it? I go away to work for a while, and you turn on one another!
(smile quietly)
For me there was, and I am being honest, not one single moment in TPM that was any good at all. I went in only a little trepidatious, and I squirmed and winced for the entire nine-hour run of it. The lightsaber duel eveyone loved was just some great music and a load of shitty crosscutting. I will never get that part of my life back, and frankly, I don't want it.
I imagine AOTC is far worse. I am amazed evey time I hear a new thing about it; this forum has been remarkale for eavesdropping tidbits of awful awful movie. I could never have imagined it. It's as thought Lucas watch MANOS : HANDS OF FATE and said "I can do better than that."
I disagree that Darth Maul could have been made a better character. I disagree that Darth Maul was a character at all. Chewbacca was a better character, and he did not have a single line. But along the way, we got some sense of character from him, even if it was simplistic "he good guy, he like good things." Darth Maul was a circus freak. Even Jason in the Friday 13 films made a more interesting villain.
I really disagree that there was any way to make Aniking work as a cute little kid. That was just stupid. Obi-Wan was supposed to meet him when he was already a great pilot. Couldn't we have had a kind of Han Solo Jedi?
I still say the prequels would have been better if theye were more like Samurai films and less like MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE.
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).