Subj : Re: Episode III
To   : Gryphon
From : Finnigann
Date : Tue May 24 2005 10:16 pm

-=> With interpidation and the MAGIC of QWK Mail Gryphon wrote to Angus Mcleod
<=-

 Gr> 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.

 Gr> Having gotten the first three on DVD last september, I had a

 You must mean the first three released episodes. Ep III was just opened
 at the theaters this week

Order of release:
IV  A New Hope
V   Empire Strikes Back
VI  Return of the Jedi

 Gr> chance to catch up and watch them again.  I can safely say that
 Gr> #III has got the best acting in it by FAR.  I mean, if you are
 Gr> looking for good acting, why are you looking to the ST franchise

 Yes the First Star Wars installment was spectacular. But it was all
 down hill from there.



 Gr> at all?  I think there's a reason you don't see Mark Hamil in a
 Gr> lot of movies.  You see way too much of Carrie fischer, and
 Gr> Harrison Ford's acting style leaves much to be desired.  Ewan
 Gr> McGreggor and Natalie Portman are much better actors than what
 Gr> they gave for this movie. Maybe it would have been much better if
 Gr> Peter Jackson had done it.

 I hope they are. Ewan McGreggor did an outstanding job. Far over
 shawdowing Hayden Christensen.

 Liam Neeson also played a major role in the first ep.

The Star Wars saga fails (if you feel that it does at all) for one
reason, and one reason only. Lucas wasn't up to the task of writing the
final piece of the puzzle. Or even perhaps the last pieces of the story.
                
In my opinion:

Lucas should have told what everyone already knew. Namely that Anikin
becomes Vader. He should have put that right up front. It wasn't the
big surprise-shocker ending that the movie sets us up for.

I think that they could have filled us in on some of the events that
happened after the twins birth. (Luke and Leia)

Perhaps in ep II the seeds could have been better laid with the death of
Anikin's mother, and the rage felt by a young boy dealing with such a
loss.

Could have but didn't.

Ep IV alludes to many possible story lines. These could have been filled
out in III

Could have but didn't.

Lucas could have improved the continuity from IV backwards to III.

Could have but didn't.

This could have been the crowning jewel in the Star Wars saga, but it
wasn't.



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