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LotR or Attack of the Clones? YOU can vote, too! ;)
Eh, I was never too much of a SW fan anyways.  Still, everything should stay where it belongs.

 

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Originally posted by Thunder:
Yeah, the whole film should've recieved far more credit than it got. However it may have relied to heavily on effects to disguise acting...

Yeah, the movie isn't that bad, Jar Jar is annoying, but nowere near as bad Jake Lloyd.
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True, Ja Ja gave it to much of a "kids feel" where the sarcastic banter between C3PO and R2D2 was both entertaining and adult at the same time (it didn't matter that young children couldn't understand it, and that was the whole beauty of it).

However Venom also has a point - Star Wars should have massive fleet battles in all it's episodes, thats why it's called Star Wars and not Land Wars. The Naboo/Droid fleet was impressive but lost some of it's touch since we had to listen to Anakins pathetic whining as he learn't how to fly the starfighter. Now I know he's a Jedi etc... and should be good at flying but there was none of the comradeship between the Naboo against the evil Droid ships as there was with the Rebels against the Imperials - it all felt much more human when we had that going on.

That said - there was a land battle on Hoth as well as on Naboo, but what have we here? Ja Ja Binks wandering around being stupid and accidentally saving the day - Blatently something to keep the kids entertained, I was hoping for a gritty fight between the under-equiped Gungans and the Imperial like presence of the Droid army - but was instead put through the various antics of everyones most hated alien ever.

Little things like that made a potentially excellent film just "average" since it relied to heavily on effects and not on good acting. None of the charachters were really developed (except perhaps Quigon Jin (sp?)). Whereas in 4/5/6 there was a tight nit between the actors who all had real charachter (Han Solo anyone?) hell, even Princess Leia managed some feeling in her acting, whereas Queen Amidala in all her guises was really rather wooden and overly regal considering her age and the situation she was in.

But I'm going on, I could pick holes in the films for a long time but I really don't think I should - I've said my piece, for now  

 

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Originally posted by Setekh:
You can say that again. I would watch any SW movie if only for the lightsaber duels.  

Bah! Lightsaber duels are annoying.. they sound like frikin dustbusters...

 

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LOL, thats so funny! dustbusters! HA!
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LOL, thats so funny! dustbusters! HA!
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Just like in Spaceballs.  

Oh, and Thunder - you hit the nail right on the head.  



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w00t! Battle of Endor!  
EDIT: Endor, not Endo...

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Originally posted by venom2506:
Nah. I didn't like it. Plus I go to see a star wars movie for the kick a$$ space scenes ( Death star trench, asteroid field hunting, battle of endor). nothing like that in TPM, just a small skirmish at the end.
AotC seems better for that tho.


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