xhonzi said:
What do you mean by "complete"? Because I, for one, feel that it is too short. I would like to see more of Kane's life. I feel like he gets old too fast and even so, we don't get to see more than a few moments from each phase of his life. I would love to see more of Xanadu, both the building of it and the completed structure.
And I can't say I follow you to 'energetic' either. If energetic were a category, I think the Fred film would have won something. Fred Movie Trailer
By complete I mean that every aspect in both creative elements and production is absolutely spot on. There is not a wrong note anywhere, even down to the bad dubbing of Kane's butler. I could write out some critical theory onto how that was a dramatic stroke of genius, but I won't. ;) If there was more of Charlie's life depicted then he wouldn't be as much of an enigma, and the storyline would start to drag. Those giant leaps in time burned through every writing convention held.
The energy comes from it's boldness imo.
Okay...LMS is The Phantom Menace. The "hate prequel" thread made me do it!
As I've said before, it stands on its own as a movie. Coming back to it after several years and after RLM's lauded review (which is almost entirely correct.) it still works. In fact, I think on TPM George finally made the space adventure he wanted to because he was able to tie more things into the idea of a space opera. This is what began to creep into ROTJ and what made that film seem tired and anticlimactic.
And I've found that Jar-Jar never really bothered me. I can't explain it, but I don't hate the character or the stupid scenes meant for "humor". He works in the context of the space serial the movie is. In fact, I didn't really think about much of anything critical during the film-just found myself actually watching an adventure serial with a good soundmix and way too much CGI that sticks out like a sore thumb. Especially now, some 12 years on, it has become painfully obvious that the 97SE was just a trial run to see if the effects worked.
Only in TPM do any actors, dialogue or scenes carry something remotely like weight. The 35mm adds more life to the proceedings, especially when there is no computer enhancement. This can be laughed at, but the difference is clear. you don't need things flying around the background when two people are talking inside a house. Remember how we all hung onto every word coming from crazy old Ben in his hut? Nothing but simple dialogue and two people reacting off each other.
This humanity that began to seep away in ROTJ and is only so present in TPM is all but gone in Clones. By Sith it had been completely eradicated.
So, I enjoyed TPM for the most part, taking it for what it was. And I hate everything the Prequels stand for. I love paradoxes. The more I think about it though, I start to beat myself up for thinking this.
I did a slight jump by the time the end credits came. Somehow one always forgets this is supposed to be Star Wars.
BTW, this is all based on Ady's Theatrical cut without that awful coloring, stupid additions and edits. This is what I saw theatrically with that groundbreaking first 5.1EX soundtrack.
3 goddamn midichlorians out of 4 why the hell didn't they send more than just two Jedi back to Naboo when a war was supposed to be breaking out?
Oh...and balls.
