SW: Attack of the clones
Nov. 16th, 2002 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockWatched Star Wars II, finally.
It was abismal. About the same dreary level of filmmaking as Episode I, and less enjoyable w/ Ewan McGregor having that long hair & beard (still loved his acent, thoguh). Still, Obi-Wan was the best thing about the movie. Well, Yoda too. I agree with everyone else-- the movie sucked, the Yoda fight was cool. The film got better on the whole as it got further on... I liked the clone parts, and the arena rescue/escape/battle at the end, with the monsters and then the droids. And Samuel L Jackson was pretty kick-ass. The movie got better when they had less talking.
At the end, when we find out that Yoda trained Dooku, and Dooku trained Qui-Gon, and Qui-Gon trained Obi-Wan, and Obi-Wan is training Anakin-- it was like the scene from BtVS's 'Beneath You', where worm-food Nancy asked who has slept with who, already. Like a big, bad soap opera, almost incestuous, if its possible to have incestuousness without any acutal sexual connotation, but just the implied badness of inter-family relationships. A bit much, already. Can't a Jedi be powerful and villanous withOUT having been trained by or having trained one of the heroic and powerful Jedi and thus created or been created by his own arch enemy-- all within a little Lucas clique of "We're the strongest in the galaxy" club.
I was severely unimpressed with Anakin. He's an arrogant, selfish brat. And frankly, I didn't from moment one buy into the Amidala/Anakin romance. Sure, his crush was believable, but Padme was way too cool for him, way too woman for him, and way more mature. She behaved like an adult; he behaved like a 15 year old, and a mean one.
I can imagine her sleeping with him, but love--- no way. She'd get bored of being with someone so much her junior. And I mean junior in maturity level, not age. The age thing doesn't bother me, it's the fact that Anakin acted like a surly child throughout most of the movie. And that scene on Tattoine where he confessed to have slaughtered an entier village of creatures weaker than him-- seeing him throw things and rage like that, it should have been a BIG clue in to Padme that "this is not a person you want to be emotionally involved with, as he is prone to rages and acts of mass, deadly violence." Her character seemed too smart not to see that. So, when she said "I love you"--- it left me dry and skeptical. Was taht supposed to be a secret marriage ceremony, in the end?
But, I liked her clothing. That rainbow-pastel dress, from when they first kissed? Pretty. Like one of the princess dresses I always imagined as a little girl. And the yellow gown from their "frollicking in the fields like young lovers"? Absolutely gorgeous. Completely, utterly gorgeous.
ATTENTION!
I've decided I know what I want from the next movie!!
I want them to drop the Anakin/Vader line completely; he's boring.
Make it a movie entirely about Palpatine's creation of the Empire, and the the valiant deeds of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, legendary Jedi and hero of The Clone Wars, to oppose him and save the Republic--- efforts which then fail in a tragic, Shakespearean scale, after which he goes into hiding to have an intense, passionate, adult romance with Padme, until she dies from a viscious attack by (Yes, AGAIN) the sand-people, and poor Obi-Wan is left alone to raise his twin children, the later princess Leia and the strongest Jedi knight in all history-- Luke.
Bet you all like my way better, ne?
Here's a my droid identity:
That's me, super-cool cyborg assassin!
It was abismal. About the same dreary level of filmmaking as Episode I, and less enjoyable w/ Ewan McGregor having that long hair & beard (still loved his acent, thoguh). Still, Obi-Wan was the best thing about the movie. Well, Yoda too. I agree with everyone else-- the movie sucked, the Yoda fight was cool. The film got better on the whole as it got further on... I liked the clone parts, and the arena rescue/escape/battle at the end, with the monsters and then the droids. And Samuel L Jackson was pretty kick-ass. The movie got better when they had less talking.
At the end, when we find out that Yoda trained Dooku, and Dooku trained Qui-Gon, and Qui-Gon trained Obi-Wan, and Obi-Wan is training Anakin-- it was like the scene from BtVS's 'Beneath You', where worm-food Nancy asked who has slept with who, already. Like a big, bad soap opera, almost incestuous, if its possible to have incestuousness without any acutal sexual connotation, but just the implied badness of inter-family relationships. A bit much, already. Can't a Jedi be powerful and villanous withOUT having been trained by or having trained one of the heroic and powerful Jedi and thus created or been created by his own arch enemy-- all within a little Lucas clique of "We're the strongest in the galaxy" club.
I was severely unimpressed with Anakin. He's an arrogant, selfish brat. And frankly, I didn't from moment one buy into the Amidala/Anakin romance. Sure, his crush was believable, but Padme was way too cool for him, way too woman for him, and way more mature. She behaved like an adult; he behaved like a 15 year old, and a mean one.
I can imagine her sleeping with him, but love--- no way. She'd get bored of being with someone so much her junior. And I mean junior in maturity level, not age. The age thing doesn't bother me, it's the fact that Anakin acted like a surly child throughout most of the movie. And that scene on Tattoine where he confessed to have slaughtered an entier village of creatures weaker than him-- seeing him throw things and rage like that, it should have been a BIG clue in to Padme that "this is not a person you want to be emotionally involved with, as he is prone to rages and acts of mass, deadly violence." Her character seemed too smart not to see that. So, when she said "I love you"--- it left me dry and skeptical. Was taht supposed to be a secret marriage ceremony, in the end?
But, I liked her clothing. That rainbow-pastel dress, from when they first kissed? Pretty. Like one of the princess dresses I always imagined as a little girl. And the yellow gown from their "frollicking in the fields like young lovers"? Absolutely gorgeous. Completely, utterly gorgeous.
ATTENTION!
I've decided I know what I want from the next movie!!
I want them to drop the Anakin/Vader line completely; he's boring.
Make it a movie entirely about Palpatine's creation of the Empire, and the the valiant deeds of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, legendary Jedi and hero of The Clone Wars, to oppose him and save the Republic--- efforts which then fail in a tragic, Shakespearean scale, after which he goes into hiding to have an intense, passionate, adult romance with Padme, until she dies from a viscious attack by (Yes, AGAIN) the sand-people, and poor Obi-Wan is left alone to raise his twin children, the later princess Leia and the strongest Jedi knight in all history-- Luke.
Bet you all like my way better, ne?
Here's a my droid identity:
That's me, super-cool cyborg assassin!
