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Funny thing is the dialogue is an improvement.
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It's a movie that falls apart if I think about it for a minute, but its easily the most watchable of the prequels if I just let it wash over me. MacGregor is genuinely good as Obi-Wan in it as well.I enjoy Revenge of the Sith. Some stuff in it is pure gold. The dialogue is so bad it is good. Sam Jackson is particularly good, almost like he forgot to act. 'I am going to end this once and for all" followed by "He's too dangerous to be left alive!"
Allegedly, they started filming from the first draft script. And if you watch the dvd extras, it becomes apparent that Lucas is surrounded by yes men.Absolutely! I love Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan. I hope he shows up in The Rise of Skywalker as a ghost. I actually think almost everybody in the cast was just hamstrung by the dialogue. Oh my lord, why didn't George just ask Kasdan to rewrite his scripts for the prequels? I think Natalie Portman was dreadful in Attack of the Clones. She was worse than Hayden for me. Their scene with her wearing that BDSM-lite outfit was dreadful.
"Anakin, don't look at me like that even though I'm wearing this seductive outfit! We can't be together. Remember those Jedi vows you took? Anakin?"
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Portman definitely has talent, but she really seems to phone it in for movies that she feels are beneath her.The thing is Portman has been excellent elsewhere. It is a matter of terrible dialogue (Ford complained about the shitty dialogue in the original SW) and direction.
The thing is Portman has been excellent elsewhere. It is a matter of terrible dialogue (Ford complained about the shitty dialogue in the original SW) and direction.
Honestly she seems to act the same in every film I've ever seen her in. I think it's a case of people being blinded by good looks and not noticing there's not much else there.Portman definitely has talent, but she really seems to phone it in for movies that she feels are beneath her.
Honestly she seems to act the same in every film I've ever seen her in. I think it's a case of people being blinded by good looks and not noticing there's not much else there.
I'm still not casting her in A Clockwork Condition no matter how hard you lobby for it!Not every actor is a chameleon or needs to be I think. Ewan McGregor is an actor I initially disliked as he seemed to be the same person in every film but then he gave a very good performance in Greenwood’s The Pillow Book and has grown a lot from there.
I thought Portman was excellent in The Black Swan and Jackie.
TIL Peter Mayhew's first role was in Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
The Star Wars film I want to see now that Disney has acquired Fox...
Who is writing/directing it, do we have any news on that?I believe it is a trilogy.
Who is writing/directing it, do we have any news on that?
It's being made by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the people behind the Game of Thrones TV series.Who is writing/directing it, do we have any news on that?
The writers from Game of Thrones I think.
Oh, oh dear. After the butchery that was the Night King... Yeah, Star Wars is not in good hands...It's being made by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the people behind the Game of Thrones TV series.
It's being made by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the people behind the Game of Thrones TV series.
I found the Night King to have been reduced from apocalyptic threat to filler episode. But that's just my take.That could be good. Of course, I had no problem with how the Night King was handled.
Right, because the real threat in something based on A Song of Ice and Fire could never be the high concept one...Most of the high fantasy elements in Game of Thrones felt like filler. Zombies? Wizards? Dragons? Who cares when you've got brutal rape torture betrayals going on with humans
I speak for myself only: the high concept threat was a lot less visceral and disturbing to me than Theon's torture, wedding massacres and Sansa's traumas. Yikes, seeing frost zombies and dragons was a relief, actually. GoT felt like a horror movie at many times to me, and not because of CGI monsters and magic.Right, because the real threat in something based on A Song of Ice and Fire could never be the high concept one...