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SilverWook's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

You're a little late in expecting a reply from him...

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Tyrphanax's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

adywan said:

Tyrphanax said:

We'll have Ady give you one in post.

 

Ooooh, Matron.

Winkyface.

Last edited on December 2, 2012 at 4:11 AM by Tyrphanax

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SilverWook's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

If you had bothered to read his reply that you've quoted in the body of your message, you'd know...

Where were you in '77?
SilverWook's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

Actors tend to burst into flame, and are expensive to replace.

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Ric Olie's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

SilverWook said:

Actors tend to burst into flame, and are expensive to replace.

What do you mean, "actors"?

skyjedi2005's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

adywan said:

Father Skywalker said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Father Skywalker said:

Episode 3 kicked some serious ass!!!!!
                    kiss my

fixed :)

please list at least 10 reasons why U hate star wars episode 3-the revenge of the sith.........

1- It's shit
2- It's Crap
3- It's garbage
4- Hayden Christensen
5- It's still Crap
6- "Noooooooooooooooooooooo"
7- Did i say it's crap?
8- "lost the will to live" (as most people did when they watched it)
9- Hayden's acting, or lack of it
10 - Once again, it's crap

Best list ever! and i agree Hayden was in some ways actually worse than in Clones. He gets more and more sullen and tries too hard to show intense emotion but just comes off as awkward and wooden.  Its like George said Now i want you to do that darker and faster and more intense.

There were claims made that Christensen got acting lessons before ROTS filming which i cannot believe, and it was on McCallum's advice.  The Same McCallum who thankfully has left Lucasfilm and will have zero to do with the sequel trilogy.Best news i have heard since Rick Berman was fired from star trek.

 

 

Last edited on December 2, 2012 at 10:04 AM by skyjedi2005

 "Always loved Vader's wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin's ghost. What a fucking shame." -Simon Pegg.

SilverWook's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

Father Skywalker said:

SilverWook said:

Actors tend to burst into flame, and are expensive to replace.

i dont understand what u r trying to say here........

Filming around real lava is very dangerous. Even the camera could melt.

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skyjedi2005's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

I always pictured the Lava duel to be like Mount Doom in Lord of the Rings book.  But The Jackson films came out first and gave a more satisfying effect than what was seen in Episode III ROTS.

 "Always loved Vader's wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin's ghost. What a fucking shame." -Simon Pegg.

Easterhay's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

Jackson made the same film three times over. What's so special about that?

And the lava in ROTS is real so are you saying that real lava isn't convincing? Apparently so.

I've not read about Hayden having acting lessons before ROTS - he had been an actor for some years prior to the film so I'm guessing he'd already had some formal training. I do know, though, that Hayden insisted on doing more takes in ROTS.

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CapableMetal's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

Father Skywalker said:

stop nitpicking over some silly stupid line of dialogue like "I don't like sand", and judge Hayden Christensen (aka Hay Chris) as an actor overall. I thought he was so godlike, just pure plain kickass and awesome!!!!!!

Why??? The Mustafar dialogue with his wife padme amidala was not only good, it was great!!!!!!!

As an actor overall (regarding other things he's in), I cannot judge because I've avoided his films like gonorrhea. However this is a Star Wars forum, so I'll keep my opinions to his 'acting' in the prequels: It's crap.

Watching his 'romance' scenes with Padme is like watching two slightly animate fence posts pretending (very badly) to love each other. There is little chemistry between them and everything seems forced. Both actors in the scene were terrible.

1990osu's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

Hayden and Natalie actually had amazingly good chemistry, but it was all between takes!

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CapableMetal's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

Father Skywalker said:

CapableMetal said:

Father Skywalker said:

stop nitpicking over some silly stupid line of dialogue like "I don't like sand", and judge Hayden Christensen (aka Hay Chris) as an actor overall. I thought he was so godlike, just pure plain kickass and awesome!!!!!!

Why??? The Mustafar dialogue with his wife padme amidala was not only good, it was great!!!!!!!

As an actor overall (regarding other things he's in), I cannot judge because I've avoided his films like gonorrhea. However this is a Star Wars forum, so I'll keep my opinions to his 'acting' in the prequels: It's crap.

Watching his 'romance' scenes with Padme is like watching two slightly animate fence posts pretending (very badly) to love each other. There is little chemistry between them and everything seems forced. Both actors in the scene were terrible.

what about on the mustafar scene with them????

That's what I was talking about. It goes from being wooden to be over-acted, to being wooden. Maybe its the script, maybe its the poor development of their relationship from earlier in the PT, maybe its the lack of direction or the fact that Hayden Christensen is a poor actor in these movies (although its likely a combination of all of those things). It all seems forced, which ultimately stops me from finding it powerful or moving, as with so much of the PT.

I'm absolutely amazed to see that they had chemistry between takes because it didn't translate well across to the final films for some reason.

MathUser's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

I like Hayden Christenson in Episode 3. It must be the new hairstyle and suit but he just seems so much more appealing than he was in 2. I think Darth Maul is alright but it don't really save Episode 1 for me. I think Episode 1 is a snorefest. In episode 2 I like that they made that extended universe character Canon, that bounty hunter, whoever she was called.

 

Edit: If you wanna talk about bad acting in Star Wars you should talk about Luke in the OT. I think all his acting seems unatural. Not as bad as Hayden but not as good as the other guys in the OT either.

Last edited on December 2, 2012 at 5:31 PM by MathUser
FrederikOlsen's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

Ewan MacGregor. He's quite believable as a younger Sir Alec, and he's arguably the only actor in these films who can deliver Lucas' dialogue and make it sound convincing. His "You were my brother, Anakin! I loved you!"-speech also managed to be more moving than any of the scenes Hayden and Natalie share.

Ian McDiarmid. With reservations, because while he's a great actor, he turns into a cackling idiot in ROTS. When he's good, he's very good, though, and delightfully slimy. Like when he urges Anakin to kill Dooku. Still a far cry from his performance in ROTJ, though.

Darth Maul, if only appearance-wise. He still looks like a badass. Oh, how it seemed the Prequel Trilogy would get a memorable villain, its Darth Vader, so to speak. Until he got slashed in two after five minutes of fighting. Then we got an underused Christopher Lee and a robot with a funny accent and bronchitis instead. Shucks.

Jango Fett's costume. I love the colour scheme. I would've liked to have seen more of this character, though. Should've kept his face secret, though.

"Duel of the Fates", "Battle of the Heroes" and "Padme's Ruminations." Overall, John Williams' scores are not among his best work, and they're not certainly not up to the standards as the ones of the OT. Those three cues are excellent, however. Among the better pieces of the saga. The latter, especially, really caught me off-guard. The scene was also surprisingly good - why didn't we get more of that in the PT?

The "Order 66"-scene. This was the one scene where George showed he still had some skills as a director and editor. This scene has literally brought me to tears at times, and it's obviously not because I sympathise with our wooden couple Anakin and Padmé. It's a great down-to-business scene which is shot and edited wonderfully (it reminds me of Lucas' montage from "The Godfather"), and Williams' delivers a very haunting theme. Again, another scene that really worked. Hey, notice how both of these were wordless?

Last edited on December 2, 2012 at 5:29 PM by FrederikOlsen
Easterhay's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

Lucas once said of the Star Wars films that they're essentially silent movies. Maybe he should have taken that to its logical conclusion with the prequels? And I couldn't agree more about the Padme's Ruminations track and the Order 66 scene. It's the sequence with Ki Adi Mundi which gets me all choked up. The editing of the montage and Williams's lachrymose (I looked that word up!) score is so powerful. Strong meat indeed from Lucas.

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RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

I liked that the Jedi had strayed so far from their ideals. It would've been easy to keep them on the straight and narrow and portray them as victims but Lucas set up Yoda, Windu and most of the others as architects of their own destruction.

Love it or hate it, TPM changed how films are made. Usually movies would have "effects sequences". It was a new thing to have effects used in pretty much every shot as part of telling the story.

In advancing digital filmmaking so much, Lucas unintentionally set up an almost airtight counter argument for sticking with traditional film.

"There are heroes on both sides. Evil is everywhere." Ham-fisted but it gets the point across. It supports my argument about morality in Star Wars. I've never understood why people say it's filled clear cut good guys, clear cut bad guys and all that. It's maybe superficially true in ANH but Empire and Jedi blow that out of the water and the prequels continue the gray morality. Ultimately, the long term victories in Star Wars mostly come from compassion, self-sacrifice and love rather than force of arms, political ideology or whatever else.

All I really want is each film as it was originally seen and heard in theaters; no fixes, corrections, "improvements" or modifications necessary.

Easterhay's avatar
RE: What do you LIKE about the Prequels?

Yes. I think I'd rather my son grew up with a fictional hero like Luke Skywalker than the failure that is Anakin Skywalker - one reason at least for introducing Star Wars to kids via the OT.

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