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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!"
 
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!"
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.
 
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.
 
Ewan McGregor as Sir Alec Guinness was the only thing I liked in the bits I saw of Episodes I through III. I'd probably watch him if they got a good writer for a Ben Kenobi movie. Ben Kenobi was my 2nd favorite character in Star Wars.
 
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.
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.

Which explains a lot if you ask me.
 
"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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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.
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.

Lucas desperately needs dialogue help (although that scene was easily the nadir of the Prequels as far as dialogue went), and he's not really an actor's director. The ones who work best with him tend to be either unique talents like Ford, or those with stage training. I sometimes think he missed his era--he might have been a much better silent film director.
 
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.
 
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.

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.
 
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.
I'm still not casting her in A Clockwork Condition no matter how hard you lobby for it! :clown:
 
You know what's really tragic: I am not sure why exactly, but I think I enjoyed the 2nd and 3rd prequel more than TFA and TLJ...! :weep:
 
Nothing wrong with that.

Sometimes I enjoy Revenge of the Sith more than Return of the Jedi. Depends on my mood.
 
I’ve heard Harrison Ford is in the next movie. We’ll see.
 
Star Wars is dead as a setting and thus as a franchise as long as TLJ exists. It breaks the setting by ignoring the universal rules that Disney haven't tossed out.
 
I’ll play along for now. What rules did they break? I know they ruined a lot of fanfic out there about how it was supposed to happen.
 
It's being made by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the people behind the Game of Thrones TV series.

That could be good. Of course, I had no problem with how the Night King was handled.
 
That could be good. Of course, I had no problem with how the Night King was handled.
I found the Night King to have been reduced from apocalyptic threat to filler episode. But that's just my take.
 
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
 
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
Right, because the real threat in something based on A Song of Ice and Fire could never be the high concept one...
 
Right, because the real threat in something based on A Song of Ice and Fire could never be the high concept one...
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.
 
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