I said everybody in AOTC came off false. The literal truth is that not everybody did, but most characters did. Anakin and Padme came off utterly insincere and false. Kenobi came off like a pretentious poser. Yoda came off false, as he generally does in the prequels. Mace Windu generally doesn't come off genuine much anywhere in the prequels. Jango does not ring true as a character and nor does Baby Boba. The cloner aliens came off false. Bail Organa comes off like a moral-posing poser. Watto and Dex, being cartoon characters in a supposedly live-action Star wars film, do not come off real. Shmi didn't come off very real in TPM and comes off less real here. Zam Wessel didn't come off as much of anything. Daddy Lars is the only distinctly genuine character I can think of in the film. Owen and Beru don't come off as much of anything. I suppose 3PO and R2 are ok, but it's not like they stand out as especially genuine or false, they just run through an unoriginal routine. Dooku comes off like a pretentious poser, but maybe he's supposed to. Similarly Palpatine isn't supposed to come off genuine. These two coming off false, however appropriate, doesn't help in a film where most other characters come off false. The separatist aliens certainly don't ring true, and nor do the various jedi who appear. The jedi librarian Jocasta Nu comes off like a poser. You'd be hard put to find much in the way of genuine characters in this film. So loosely speaking it can be said that "everybody comes off false". It may be an exaggerration in the strictest sense, but it's not much of one. Hardly huge hyperbole that needs pointing out.
Post #378540
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- Vaderisnothayden
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- Our Fault, Not George's?
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- 22-Sep-2009, 1:44 PM