Anakin the BEST Element Anakin owns
#1
Posted 20 November 2003 - 07:50 PM
#2
Posted 20 November 2003 - 08:12 PM
If I recall correctly, the Keanu Reeves acts better than the dude. (In movies like Point Break and the Martix, other characters have to say what they see Keanu's character as acting like, because the audience can't tell.) Although, I admit, it often wasn't his fault, but the fault of the script Lucas gave him.
EDIT: You're right, that is interesting how Anakin wants to stop people from dying and thinks he can, but the bad lines take precedence over the good.
#3
Posted 21 November 2003 - 07:57 AM
See the whole story at:
TFN Coverage
Original Q & A Session
I have no problem with "style" but it's got to help the story telling, not detract from it.
#4
Posted 21 November 2003 - 09:43 AM
That makes me so angry I can't even explain it. I can feel my blood boiling as I write this. This is such a load of crap. Lucas has always taken the "I told you so" approach to his movies. "I was always planning to do prequels." "I always intended to do this." "I wrote the prequels in 1975 when I wrote the first movie."
It's a bunch of crap. The man who changed Han Solo's character completely would NOT have intentionally made brother and sister kiss if he knew they were to be siblings. Unless he has some sort of strange hierarchy of sin in which incest is fine and killing (even in self defense) is bad.
That brings me to the next point in that interview:
There he goes again. Lying his fool head off. How could that be an editing error? How? In what way could they have forgotten or screwed that up? Greedo was NOT supposed to shoot first! There is no possible explanation for how he could have possibly missed if he'd shot first. He was sitting two feet in front of Han Solo. There's only one possible way he could have missed and that is best explained in this amazing short story by my friend and fellow Brother Redcloud, Jacques.
The Passions of Greedo
Since Lucas doesn't have a leg to stand on in the defense of the whole Greedo shooting first blunder he may resort to eventually using Jacques's story as the official explanation.
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#5
Posted 21 November 2003 - 04:09 PM
That link njamilla posted included an article about the original trilogy on DVD. Many proposed changes. All simple cleanups I figure, whatever. I don't think thery're necessary, and of coourse they affect the film as a piece of cinema history, but go ahead. And I guess while you're at it, fix Luke's hair so he doesn't look so 70s.
But here's what slew me, and it's in keeping with some things we've been discussing here and elsewhere, on the notion of STAR WARS as myth, and more specifically, on the notion of how Lucas is trying to turn STAR WARS into myth, now after the fact, as though to show how smart he is, when it's obvious he's doing it after the fact and so it's not smart at all but sad. Anyway, according to the rumour, Anikin's new last words are to be "It is finished." I don't know if that's just evil gossip or not, but God damn, I really hope it's true. I will pee my pants if that is true.
Mike.
#6
Posted 21 November 2003 - 07:59 PM
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#7
Posted 22 November 2003 - 10:07 AM
Based upon his reviews in his new movie, and previous gigs before Ep2, Hayden Christianson is regarded as a very good actor. However, when you are forced to recite dialogue that is written on an 8-yr old level, Lawrence Olivier would sound corny.
#8
Posted 22 November 2003 - 04:19 PM
#9
Posted 22 November 2003 - 08:11 PM
Consider STAR WARS as a film on its own. Han starts out as a self-centred rogue, the type who would shoot a guy under the table just to get the drop on him. By the end of the film he's decided to say "screw the reward" and actually takes his chances flying back to face the Death Star. Lucky for him, the gun towers weren't focused on him.
In the special ed, Greedo shoots first. This makes Han the sort of guy who won't shoot unless he's shot at. Dumb dumb dumb. Not only is it stupid to make Greedo such a bad shot, but it's stupid also to make Han nice at the beginning since then he has no arc.
Mike.
#11
Posted 23 November 2003 - 08:10 AM
You think Han's all out for himself, and then he shows up at the end. Doesn't Luke think he's too small to make a change in the universe? Han too. And he works as a great foil to palace bred Leia.
#13
Posted 23 November 2003 - 05:26 PM
Yes. You just know he's gonna be in there as a kid or something. He'll probably run into Chewbacca in a super embarrassing scene that makes youw ant to curl up and die.
Ooh, I just thought of something that would be so bad it would overshadow everything else we've seen so far. Are you ready... ?
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A CGI Chewbacca!!
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#14
Posted 23 November 2003 - 06:16 PM
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A CGI Chewbacca!!
You are a bad, bad man. Don't you realise that Lucas may be trawling these forums looking for more suitably lame ideas to stick into the next film.
Well actually, we know he's not as we've established he's basically lazy so there is probably someone else trawling for him.
<sigh> It's gonna hurt. I just know it's gonna hurt...
Yoda
#15
Posted 26 November 2003 - 11:46 PM
That would be sooooo bad for so many reasons!
Almost sounds like he's pinched a line from "Jesus Christ Superstar"!
Excuse me while I puke.....