Originally posted by: COThen jump to ROTJ, and it is alien-fest. Now if you do an alien or creature right like Yoda or Jabba, it can come as cool as hell, and gives that richness to the movies. But ROTJ is littered with so many aliens in jabbas palace, and then you have the Ewoks, and then you even have aliens on the rebellion now!
Sorry for the tangent, but I thought the RotJ alienfest was a nifty way to add something new to the mix ... i.e, aliens everywhere. It was the color palette (very lush) and the wall-to-wall aliens that gave Return of the Jedi its own style, separate from the other two films. I think the alien-fest was one of its greatest assets ... and, because of that, I'm one of the few who didn't even hate the Ewoks!
But I'll wholeheartedly agree that non-humans have a hard-time delivering a credible performance. It's the reason I hate Darth Vader as the villain in The Empire Strikes Back. You can have all the James Earl fantasic voice in the world, but the character has absolutely NO facial expression. I found him laughable and utterly unable to carry an entire movie as the heavy. (Back in his rightful position as supporting villain in RotJ - - as he was in Star Wars - - I found Vader much easier to swallow.)
Ok, um end of tangent ... Now back to your regularly scheduled thread ripping the P.T. a new, ahem old one.
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