Originally posted by: Mielr
I feel the same way. None of the space battles/races in the PT drew me in the way the OT battles/chases did. I knew it was over when I saw the race scene in TPM- it was totally flat to me. I had no idea about where they were going, who was winning, etc. It was just a confusing blur of CGI and sound effects and there was absolutely no suspense in the editing. The same goes for the end battle in TPM, and the opening scene in AOTC (or was that ROTS?
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But the battle scenes in the OT totally sucked me in. I felt like I was IN the movies. I'll never forget when I saw ROTJ for the first time on opening day, how everyone in the audience ducked when the speederbikes had that near-miss with the fallen tree trunk.
I feel the same way. None of the space battles/races in the PT drew me in the way the OT battles/chases did. I knew it was over when I saw the race scene in TPM- it was totally flat to me. I had no idea about where they were going, who was winning, etc. It was just a confusing blur of CGI and sound effects and there was absolutely no suspense in the editing. The same goes for the end battle in TPM, and the opening scene in AOTC (or was that ROTS?
).But the battle scenes in the OT totally sucked me in. I felt like I was IN the movies. I'll never forget when I saw ROTJ for the first time on opening day, how everyone in the audience ducked when the speederbikes had that near-miss with the fallen tree trunk.
I agree that the OT space battles were light years better then the PT space battles, but in the end doesn't it come down to the characters, and that has always been my contention as to the PT's biggest flaw.
Think of the podrace and little Anakin, does anyone really care if he wins or not? Did anyone of us really gravitate to that character? And this has nothing to do with whether we wanted Anakin to be 10 or 20 in TPM, the character, or the characters in general in the PT really don't lend the audience any chance of caring about them.
Does anyone of us really care what happened to Padme/Anakin when they are in the Geonosis arena in AOTC? Think of the OT when Han & Leia are flying through the asteroid field, or Luke going down the trench to blow up the death star, or even Luke/Leia on the speeder bikes in ROTJ on Endor. Sure those scenes were well done, but when you watch a movie, you can't just watch it cause of the plot and cause it is 3 more SW movies of how everyone got to Episode IV, there has to be some connection with the characters.
Characters, Characters, Characters, that is the biggest flaw of the PT.