Subj : Re: Episode III
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Gryphon
Date : Tue May 24 2005 11:13 am

On 05-23-05, Angus Mcleod said...
 
AM> Okay, just back from watching it.
AM> 
AM> Tremendous, sweeping city-scapes and planet-scapes.  Extensive, highly 
AM> detailed shots of space fleets and ground-pounding armies.  Alien 
AM> architecture of uber-gothic scope.
AM> 
AM> Tedious, artificial dialigue.  Appalling acting from Anakin/Vader, even 
AM> worse than Episode II, if you can believe it -- here's hoping he gets the 
AM> Pinnochio award at the next Oscars, nobody else could be more wooden.  
AM> Impossible-to-believe plot devices, that depend upon the stupidity of 
AM> *everyone*for them to work.
AM> 
AM> Enormous reliance on special effects can not redeem this movie.  It is 
AM> bad.  Or shall I be kind and say it simply wasn't good?  If you have 
AM> watched the other five episodes, you will want to watch this, just so you 
AM> can say you've seenthem all.  

Having gotten the first three on DVD last september, I had a chance to catch
up and watch them again.  I can safely say that #III has got the best acting
in it by FAR.  I mean, if you are looking for good acting, why are you
looking to the ST franchise at all?  I think there's a reason you don't see
Mark Hamil in a lot of movies.  You see way too much of Carrie fischer, and
Harrison Ford's acting style leaves much to be desired.  Ewan McGreggor and
Natalie Portman are much better actors than what they gave for this movie.
Maybe it would have been much better if Peter Jackson had done it.

AM> One silver lining:  That jive-talkin', shuckin' and dancin', dredlock- 
AM> wearin', rastafarian arsehole "Jah-Jah Binks" never showed up that I 
AM> noticed.  

He was in padme's funeral procession.  Had no lines (thank gawd)

Gryphon, aka Darryl Perry
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