QUOTE (snaithbert @ May 23 2005, 03:24 AM)
I felt absolutely no connection to these characters, couldn't care whether they lived or died.
That's Lucas' biggest downfall.
He had the special effects, he had the brand name, he had the built in story.
But he didn't have the talent to create characters that people could connect with.
And the end result is that you just don't care what happens to them.
You feel no fear when they're in danger, no elation when they survive.
I barely knew the people on that screen, to me they were like people I've seen around but never been introduced to.
Snaith said it all really, there is no soul to these movies, and back on topic a bit.. a lot of this is because it's very hard for us as humans to relate to robots. 3PO and R2 have special places with us as they showed human'esque sides in the OT when the other droids didn't, they were all just scenery. Now every robot has a quirk, a nervous twitch, a silly comment. It's as if the robot builders of the SW galaxy had a phase where comedy was far far more important to them than function, even in a droid built to fight!
It really boils down to GL's obsession with visual effects over storyline, something he once said himself (back in the early 80's) was a mistake made by "other" film makers. How the mighty have fallen.