Bingowings said:

Darth Venal said:

Bingowings said:
Christopher Lee appeared to give an uncharacteristically flat performance and he is theatrically trained, worked a lot on radio and has worked well on other green screen heavy films.

Maybe he gave a good performance that was massaged to death in the editing or not very well photographed (we don't have all the footage so it's impossible to tell).

Well, he only really has one scene where he's talking with another actor at length, when Obi Wan is strung up. The rest of his scenes are either against CG characters or just odd lines with no real structure in the middle of action scenes. I think his class still shows out in the scene with McGregor. Other than that, he doesn't really register much because his character is totally undeveloped. In the Lord of the Rings movies, he does at least act with real actors in all his scenes, and pretty good ones at that.

There were more scenes with Dooku, some of which have never seen the light of day and even a good performance can be made to look flat by bad camera work and sloppy editing. I would really love to see all the footage most of the actors are really talented and some are used to acting with minimal or no scenery. Lee's story readings (no scenery, no other actors) are also often brilliant so I find it hard to believe that green screenery is entirely to blame.

I am really going to bite my tongue here because Ben Burtt is such an amazing artist. He created classic sounds and everything in all the SW films, all of them.

BUT......the AOTC's final act was a complete **** up. I don't know who butchered the score in the third act and buried it in the final mix, but it was a complete shambles in the film's final act. Whole portions of William's original score were replaced with retreads from TPM....when you could hear them.

But I don't blame Burtt. He's not the one who made the final call on that.

edit Lest I sound too hard on Burtt(which is not my intent at all), I loved Wall E. He helped make that film the gem it is. I'm so glad he's at Pixar now.