Posted on 12/02/2013 3:34:04 PM PST by EveningStar
It must be said: In October 2012, Star Wars fans felt a great disturbance in the Force. Disney — no need to explain why this is gobsmackingly horrible — announced that it was going to insult the collective intelligence, sensibility, and good taste of everyone in America and the English-speaking world by welcoming George Lucas to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and making another Star Wars trilogy. So obviously I tried out for it.
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Watched it again yesterday on SyFy. Was impressed with the lighting on the characters in some of the scenes. Looked up on IMDB to see who the director was. Irvin Kershner had an interesting CV http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449984/?ref_=tt_ov_dr.
His handling of Carrie Fischer is particularly notable. He got a deeper performance out of her in ESB than in any of the other films, and he made her natural beauty (she was a modestly good looker back in the day) really shine.
I thought the bad guys were mocking Chinese people with those accents.
But the BIGGEST thing wrong was the change of the Force from a spiritual phenomena to a biological one. Having Anakin be the product of immaculate conception was enormously offensive.
Almost as bad as Star Trek TNG.
“Return of the Jedi” looks and feels like a Muppet movie.
Yeah, that was the biggest disgrace. Instead of a group of people honing their skill through study and meditation, now they’re a bunch of genetic elitist snobs.
Over half of the last three movies was just people sitting and talking or walking and talking. It was like watching a soap opera with random CGI action sprinkled in.
Definitely! Kershner was completely responsible for the artistic imprint on that film. He also changed up the script (which Lucas absolutely hated, ergo, he heavy-handedly took control of ROTJ, and with no voices of editing advice [like the first], it became what it did.)
A stroke of genius, that. It really makes the story work. I think the Coen brothers are doing some of the finest filmmaking... ever.
ep 6 began the downfall. ewoks suck democrats.
the last three sucked even more. the acting was incredibly bad. stonish, monotonic, impassive line delivery. look at the first two films. the actors were,ah,... ahem.....ACTING!!!!!! they were three-dimensional characters.
ewoks - lighten the movie to keep from scaring kiddies and making it to ‘dark’.
backfired.
metachlorians == jumping the shark.
basically your powers were just random biological luck.
Or how about the ethics of discovering a bunch people specifically grown and trained to fight in wars, and then simply using them to fight your war.
I mean, what was the plan there anyhow? It was some rebel Jedi who ordered them grown, based on a template from an assassin who was known to be working for the bad guys, as far as I can recall.
Freegards
Then who was the Emperor Palpatine?
Obi wan was needed in the third one.
That, and more balilika music....
Zither. It needed more Zither.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jN1treRKQ
the licensing rights alone for the existing movies was worth 10 times that price.
if you liked star wars (a new hope) read the original source, the lensman series, by smith, hard to find now, but well worth the effort
I’m with you — though the fuzzball problem with RoTJ could have been fixed by creating the impression that there were 50 to 100 times as many Ewoks as Lucas’s filming made it seem and having the take mass casualties as they nonetheless slowly won the ground war on Endor. Literally the whole forest should have been moving with the little fuzzballs, and each blast from the walkers should have taken out dozens. Maybe Disney can reshoot the Battle of Endor sequence and fix the problem by inserting lots of CGI Ewoks and Ewok carnage. (^_^)
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