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AICN Skewers "The Clone Wars"
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And apparently your spelling/comprehension abilities.
AICN is a site run by fanboys. Reading the talkbalks also make you lose half of you IQ.
And apparently your spelling/comprehension abilities.
I feel like your post is missing something... a verb perhaps?
AICN is a site run by fanboys. Reading the talkbalks also make you lose half of you IQ.
And apparently your spelling/comprehension abilities.
I feel like your post is missing something... a verb perhaps?
Starting a sentence with "and"?
I let that slide because it seemed like a "FYP" sort of thing.
I'm not quite as down on the prequel trilogy as that 1st reviewer is. However, I still wonder why they're doing this movie now. Why are they doing a prequel to one of the prequel movies? It just feels like the wrong time to hash through more of the Clone Wars when there's a lot of other stuff in the Star Wars universe that we could be exploring. What about those gigantic wars between the Jedi & the Sith 1000 years earlier? What about that TV series they keep promising us that fills in the 18 year gap between Revenge of the Sith & A New Hope? What about the further adventures of Luke, Han, & Leia post-Return of the Jedi? I mean, if you're going to replace the actors anyway for the animated stuff, might as well go back to the classic characters.
As far as I'm concerned, the Clone Wars story ended with Revenge of the Sith. I see few reasons to go back to it.
As far as I'm concerned, the Clone Wars story ended with Revenge of the Sith. I see few reasons to go back to it.
Not sure why they just don't do a cartoon with Luke, Leia, and Han. Isn't that what pretty much every fan wants to see?
Hey most people like ROTJ.
There are a couple of reviews up at Rotten Tomatoes, but not enough to give it a score yet. Some positive (some of these guardedly so), some negative.
Edit: At 3 positive and 2 negative, it's since resolved itself into a tenative 60%. I guess we'll see whether or not it slips drastically from that, or improves.
Edit: At 3 positive and 2 negative, it's since resolved itself into a tenative 60%. I guess we'll see whether or not it slips drastically from that, or improves.
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I wonder if Lucas' lawyers will have those reviews taken down too?
Absolutely. Some of my favorite shows are children shows and some of my favorite movies are children movies. Children should not equate unsophisticated or dumbed down.
Wasn't Star Wars made for kids or is that more revisionist history?
That's irrelevant. We're talking about the quality of this movie not the quality of the original movies.
I will probably go see it. I guess I am one of the few people that apparently liked the prequel trilogy. Yes, I like the original better but I still like the prequels. I think a lot of the complaints that people make about the prequels is because they look at the originals through rose colored glasses and they had hyped up the movies in their minds.
I have watched the animated Clone Wars and it was alright but its story elements and progression were just too quick. I might like the movie though.
As far as the Hutts, I have seen worse done with them. In the EU stories, they introduced Jabba's father and he had dreadlocks. So, a female Hutt with tattoos probably will not phase me. Afterall, Jabba himself did have a tattoo. It was a small symbol of his family lineage that was just below his wrist.
I have watched the animated Clone Wars and it was alright but its story elements and progression were just too quick. I might like the movie though.
As far as the Hutts, I have seen worse done with them. In the EU stories, they introduced Jabba's father and he had dreadlocks. So, a female Hutt with tattoos probably will not phase me. Afterall, Jabba himself did have a tattoo. It was a small symbol of his family lineage that was just below his wrist.
Though I'd be the first to admit Star Was has (and always had) storytelling issues. This isn't one of them:
I'll wait to see it decide if I find the girl annoying or not.
Sharr
If it were, historical fiction wouldn't be a genre all unto itself. Why tell a story about Lincoln? Everyone knows he gets shot in the back of the head after all.
I'll wait to see it decide if I find the girl annoying or not.
Sharr
I've never bought into that. It's got some pretty "severe" themes and imagery in it for it being "for kids" Unless having losing your adoptive parents to a fire (and seeing their skeletons), watching an entire planet get blown up and seeing a man coldly kill people are all "kid" things. There's very little (in my mind) that would suggest that Star Wars is "for kids" that argument is hurt even more when ESB is thrown in because that has even darker tones.
"For teenagers" is far more likely. But something happened to Lucas between ESB and ROTJ where Star Wars went more towards "for kids" with the inclusion of the Ewoks but even then it has a certain touch of "darkness" to interest teens and adults.
Okay fine. Lucas can't write good stories or characters people care about to save his life. The only thing he's good at is special effects and merchandising. Star Wars will stink until, somehow, some noble soul stages a palace coup and takes over. What I don't get is....
I'd have more faith in them finding good actors for recasting - yes, even for Han - than I would in them coming up with good stories for the characters (barring the aforementioned palace coup).
But I dispute the notion that seeing characters do things earlier in their lives is inherently boring. If that's the case, Star Trek XI is doomed to go down in flames, and somehow I don't think it will. Good characters and a strong storyline goes a long way. The fact that we know how several of the characters die does nothing to make the TOS characters less compelling.
Can't Lucas hire a Director of Political Correctness or something to vet characters/voice acting concepts to avoid the yucky racist overtones that are continually getting into his work?
Not a cartoon. Just recast the characters.
I'd have more faith in them finding good actors for recasting - yes, even for Han - than I would in them coming up with good stories for the characters (barring the aforementioned palace coup).
But I dispute the notion that seeing characters do things earlier in their lives is inherently boring. If that's the case, Star Trek XI is doomed to go down in flames, and somehow I don't think it will. Good characters and a strong storyline goes a long way. The fact that we know how several of the characters die does nothing to make the TOS characters less compelling.
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